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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
FACTS FOR FRUIT GROWERS.

II In very importau. In ss.siag oct trees
20 frz The soil
WATxRtx8 Ia dry roo.s erzs.s the sgrfAos
AID does lot reich the roots
Ir frozen roo.s are thswed IA oczpsc.1y
pressed rncaic7s earth, .ks tree cay Be zsfs
20 1--we.
PL-N trees thrive best on . socssvkss
heavy sol, though they csn D. grcvr lso
on light sandy locst.oas-
The sroznto 81 raAnsrirg CT t1tressisg
nEss vary with the vsgcr Of tie trses,
young trees should grow two CT teree s-es
yearly, sEd bear.sa ofs .oc; CO t1cre-
5TrpI the 6sE.z:s q ycz: Market snd
make . specially CO sscs varieties - Iss
MARIE. fzTors, scps.yiag every dezar1
In ria way tie bes: pssea cay b rez:-
led
All fruit trees VII bs te.es,td eys
wash CT sc>ss ksr6- A Rszloa oS s.rra,
soap sz1s, 70 vtsea . tesspocseui Of osr-
bo.c .c.a 70 s4ect, n exca..eci seruA
he lark re;i Eni sr2xy no waza Eherx..y.
Arsess;asee of stgA:ssn ssef a,sx. ga
war "a ac-r of gruss1 can ccnsxs. - .r,~..
A. fear fec: srxrt 4 - rax.:s eae b a.. "a
al acre. 40 sss foos scarl "a acre VII
Contain 6. 10 rAs1.A
TEE high wtsas sszks ycznx ,rees 60
Tere!Y. sot Z tss grorsa 4 ysrx ~ ~,
;rens are is&s.s 70 Be eiowa creY A s.sxs
ssozsd Be used fer hc.essz yo-nx srees ia
a iss SIMMER ssasoa ep>ra, Or su.u u
,ssss become s.Ely rre,ea
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
PLENTY OF WATER AHEAD,

From the Garden City Herald.
A letter received from Leadville, Colo
RADIO, near the Arkansas river, states that
there is more snow in the Rocky noun
tains than was ever seen before for this
season of the year 1t has been quite
cool SO far this summer and the snow mas
not melted any yet. He predicts that
when it does begin to melt the Arkansas
river will be higher than it has been
known in the last twenty years. He
says the snow is seven feet deep in many
places on the level and one hundred and
fifty to five hundred in the gorges. A
German who was seen in Cimarron yes
terday corroborates this letter by saying
there is much snow in the mountains,
which will come down by and by and
there will be plenty of water in the
river"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
STATISTICAL GlsANlRGS.

II 10 estimated that in ten years 244
brakemen have been killed, In Iowa alone,
by the pin and link coupler and the hand
brake.
orr Of 10000 people VINO cross the Attain
tic from New York 10 Liverpool the loss Of
life is not as great as among 10000 who
travel between New York and Pittsburgh
by rail-.
TALL oaks from little acrons grow. The
collection of duties at the port of New York
In the first year beginning August ), 1859.
were $3.50, OBS 50. and for the year ending
December 81, 1855, the duties paid amounted
10 $40, $50, Oo035.
TIE population Of Canada Is about 5000.
600, and that country pays thirteen Cabinet
officers eros, 600 q year. The United States,
with population Of 60,c0o,0oo, pays her
eight Cabinet officers &C., 900 year.
TIE army Of tho United States foots up a
grand total of . To5 beings, officers and
men. costing the Government yearly s3.-
0O0,oO0 The cost Of the actual rank and
file represent sum Of s. So. eoo The Off
GERS, who form about N per cent Of tho
army. receive over % per cent Of the pay.
WELLS, FAEoo & Co. reports the products
Of gold, silver and copper for 1875 IN tho
Pacific States and Territories, Mexico and
British Columbia rs SlI4, ,592 against
slo4, e45, $50 Ia 1857. Montana produced ts2,-
$40, 900 agains. s25. As. z75 in 1887 Colorado,
s28, rs 500 against So, 293. 0o1 California.
s12, 0e3, $Ss against sl5. &C., S2a Nevada. ei2.-
800, eos against sl0, %, 453. The amounts of
the metals In l5ss were a. follows: God,
Sc. 4es, o52; silver, s54 s4s, 40; copper, tls,-
25l, 40; lead, Gil. %, co.
THE estimate Of the average yearly
product Of wine IN the various wine-pro-
ducing countries Of Europe f. "a follows,
the figures representing hec.oliters Of
twenty-five gallons each: France, l5.0o.-
GO; Italy, G,sss 900; Spain, 25.ooo,m;
Austria Hungary, 100000; Portugal, -
ooo, 600; Greece, 2,1oo, 90: Germany, 2,1so,-
900, Southern Russia, 100000; Bxi.ssr.
land, !, 2s0. 90; serv.a, 10000: Euroysan
Turkey, coo, 900; Roamania, 20, rs Tzzs
.hs total wine produced In Europe fairly
may be estimated 50 rs. ca. sas hec.oli,ers,
equal 70 about 2, ~, 10000 gallons. which.
At six bottles 70 The gallon, 10 1854. 90, 900
bottles. or about four dozen bottles CT wine
70 each inhabi;ant OF Europe.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
RELIEVED OF A SNAKE.
a Reptile Tsken from tho Stomach OF a
Portsmouth fS. H.l Woman.

Reptile Taken from tho Stomach OF q
Portsmouth fS. B.l Woman.
A Biddeford (Me.) correspondent writes
that for the past two years and a half Mrs.
Frank Kenney, Of Portsmouth, n. H, has
been terrible sufferer from some disorder
of the stomach. The trouble, whatever il
was, had grown worse, and notwithstand.
ing that the patient has been under the
treatment OF some OF the most eminent ply.
siciaps OF New England, no relief was az.
forded her.
Mrs. Kenney has insisted from the first
that some living creature was IN her ston.
ach, and her suderings dated from August
1856, when, while at campmee;ing at Al
ston Bay, she drank from q brook and re-
allied that she had swallowed some reptile
Her horrible suierings converted her rela,
tives and friends 70 her own belief as &C
their source, but none Of the physicians
who treated her would allow that IL was
possible for the human stomach 70 contain
living thing, and their treatment was for
cancer and other ordinary stomach troubles,
and the patients suGer.ngs grew worse al
the time
She insisted that the thing moved within
her; that IL bit and Kissed, and even the
physicians allowed that there was an unao.
couutable disturbance in her stomach, un.
like any thing which had ever before come
TO their sttsnHon-
She was finally induced 70 come TO this
city AID place herself under the treatment
Of Saco doctor. Finding that she wac
getting 10 benefit from his treatment, she
consulted physician Of Biddefo-d, and be
unlike tie others, after en examination, c.
ctded that the patients idea was correct.
and that there was reptile IL her stomach.
a few dsys ago be determined 70 make
frzl efforts for relief of his patient, and ,
from ore Eonday evening unta FRIDAY
morning net particle II food nor even
swallow Ct waiAr had passed key lips. |
Thursday nlgn. be administered sczce ksaa !
Of dose Che declines % say wsstl a.a FIJI /
day morning he took from tie patient Q I
small ughicolsrea snake In inches icsx. /
Shorty after taxing tbs final eose, grs- |
keoIey went almost i1to oc1v1ls.ozs, aa5 /
Tor about &C hc1r II was tloagh. tie errr /
s:nsnistersd wculd prcTs fs.ai 70 her,
rather thsn tbsny t.s.g Tia. Eight be Ia her /
stomach
Severaireps.aele witnesses were pyesez..
and The reptile has siacs teen seea By hza-
dreds-
Leading dcctors soof .; The s.cry.
Mrs.. Ke1.ey I'D The ecrrespazds,t that
however strange re case Esy se>- 70 TIE
p1elic CT tie nssicz. prp.ssstea. TIER.
cold ret ia tie least corss i..zs tie srzkn
had been II Ter s.szsca Sizes to opsrs
tea STE has rzps1iy recovered
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
THE OLD AND TIE NEW WAY.
Fourth Weekly Report OF the Expert
mental Silk Station.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

To the Editor Of the Eagle,
For nearly 1900 years one annual
brood of two and one half ounces of silk
worm eggs, numbering nearly 100, 900
has been grown by one person or family
in China. In the spring they hatch out
in about three days and the first week
they are fed of mulberry leaves some
Is pounds, the second week 80 pounds.
the third week $50 pounds, the fourth
week 500 pounds. the fifth week
1900 pounds This last weeks
labor, or more propably the
the last day, when they have to gather
and feed 500 pounds of leaves. repre-
sents the limit of successful silk culture
for the year throughout the great silk
harvests of the world representing the
value of 500 when sold or the clothing
or the family when woven into clothes.
In making this estimate have allowed
l,OOo cocoons 70 the pound of silk and 81
a pound for the raw silk, a very fair es-
innate 10 cover all contingencies
BY succession of broods under nv
new plan one person can take and care
for one ounce of eggs each week, num-
berlng 10000, and deyoting one half
their time for twenty weeks raise SOC, 600
silk worms, representing 500 pounds Of
silk. Under the old plan you feed an
average of 543 pounds of leaves each
week 10 feed 100, 600 in five weeks. By
my plan with eight times the product,
you feed an average of 1855 pounds
week, a little over one-hai the
limit Of their last week. Now
If you viii double this and
feed little more than they do the last
week, or three ifths Of what they feed
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
z. NJ. Q. a.
state Bible School in Camp Marion
Kansas.

The State Bible school of the Young
Mems Christian Association of Kansas,
will be held in camp at Marion, June II
to p. The grove where the tents will be
pitched is well located, being but a few
blocks from the Y NJ. c. A. building.
and is almost entirely surrounded by the
Cottonwood river, making it beautiful
place for summer outing.
Rev. James ii. Brookes, D. D., of st.
Louis, who as bible student and in
structor, has few equals in the world,
has been engaged as instructor. The
camp will be under military discip-
line, Captain w. j. Harrod, of McPher-
son, commanding. Pastors, Chistian
young men, members of Young Mems
Christian associations and others, are
cordially invited to attend.
A commissary department will fur
nish hard tack" beans and other deli
cacies, at club rates. The citizens of
Marion will supply tents free, and are
sparing no pains to make the beautiful
grove convenient and attractive.
The necessary expense will be very
light and large attendance is expected.
For full particulars regarding railroad
rates, ETC., address W. r. Johnston, Y.
NJ. c. A. Topeka, Kan.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
THE PACKING RECORD.

AS the summer pork packing season adj
vances a continued liberal marketing of
hogs is shown, particularly in western
cities. The Price Current says that west
ern packing operations for the week repre-
sent 10000 hogs against 245, 600 the pre-
ceeding week, and 1916. 900 for corresponding
time last year. From March l the total is
100000 against 1.S90,O00 year ago-in-
crease, $4,000 hogs. The quality is all
that can be desired, as rule. The fol-
lowing is the summer packing record from
March to date:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
FROM LABOR'S FIELDS.

BEAUTIFUL modern houses near London
rent for 800 per year.
SILK weavers TO go to New York are ad-
vertised for in Switzerland.
AN Ohio bin makes railroads pay damages
to employees hurt while at work.
THE Mt Olive Qn) Coal Company pro-
poses to increase its capital 10 81, 900, 600.
RICHMOND CMe) shoe men are out be-
cause they refuse TO leave their unions.
CESTRALIA, Ill. IS to have another mine
The mines Of New Mexico are restricting
output.
NEW York letter carriers have asked the
mayor to try to have the eight-hour law en-
forced.
A CHARLOTTESVILLE, (Va) xoolen mill is
making ZOO suits for the letter carriers of
Philadelphia
Or the leo Higgins carpet weavers who
struck at New York, two-thirds now have
employment
NASHVILLE colored roustabouts struck for
an advance-20 TO - cents per hour. Con-
ylcts were hired
TIE new railroad coal rates IN Kansas are
on an average about 10 per cent. less than
the old rates, same distances.
Born houses Of the Massachusetts Legis-
iature have voted down bill to make eigh.
hours daS's work for State, city, town and
county employees
AN Englishnan has made toy containins
400 animals and men. They are all put In
motion By a windmill turned by the current
from burning candles
BCFykLo painters have Won their demand
for recognition OF their union aud nine
hours. Men working during the strike paid
the union q cents day.
JAxEs wHTTz, Of jacksonville, Pa, has
Just purchased 900 acres Of coal land near
Alpsyile, Pa The purchase Is made for q
syndicate, which proposes tie opening Of
immense mines at that place-
SAN FxAScrsoo's Is the bigses. shipyari
Ii the country, having water frontage of
1,oso feet BY 100 deep, being &C large as
the Cranp AID Roach yards tosetaer. Oar
6rst silsteel vessel vas made there -
TEE New Yer. hoEsesmiths got their
scale signed L abol.shes psece-worx.
makes nine hc-rs 6sy, rives double tine
for legal holidays and the and half tine
for tie FIRST foar hours OF cverwogk AID
double pay thereafter
HArsEvuI1 ffndl nalIeable ircn works
stcve-sop fn.saers have beer cat from so
per thousand to So. about 81 per DAY
holders from g per hundred to e. 81 TIE
force has also been CIT, ard boys are al
mems work -Four hundred zz~< lad iae-r
wares re1ured !
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
THE QUESTION OF INTENT IN PRO-
HIBITION.

A decision rendered by the supreme
court of Alabama on Friday In the case
Carl VS.. the state, presents a new point
under the prohibition law. The defend
ant was indicted for selling DR.. Hale's
Elixir Cinchona bitters, manufactured
in the city by Druggist Hale. The evil
dence on the part of the state tended to
prove that the decOction contained spirit
uous liquors sufficient to make it intox-
lcating in its ordinary use as beverage,
and that it was frequently sold and used
In Escambia county as beverage, more
since the enactment of local law pro-
hibiting the sale of spirituous liquors in
that county, and that it was sold by the
defendant more as a beverage than as a
medicine. The testimony offered by the
defendant on the contrary tended to
prove that the elixir contained 20 per
cent of proof spirits, or only enough to
prevent it from fermentation and no
more; that is was manufactured in good
faith as a medicine, and that it was a
valuable tonic and stimulant and not an
intoxicant in its ordinary use; that it
contained banks and herbs of known
and medicinal qualities, and was sold in
good faith as medicine and not as a
beverage.
Judge Somerville, delivering the opin-
ion of the court, said that the purpose of
prohibition is to promote the cause of
temperance and prevent the evil of
drunkenness. and that the evil intended
to be remedied is the use of intoxicating
liquors as beverage rather than as an
ingredient Of medicine and articles for
the toilet or for culinary purposes, and
that the object of the law in this partic-
ular must be kept in view in its interpre-
tation. Following like decisions in Kan-
sas, Massachusetts, and Mississippi, the
court holds that the mere presence of al
cohol in decoction does not bring it
within the prohibition of the statute, for
such a constitution would prohibit the
sale of camphor, cologne, and all alco-
holic tinctures and medicines, and would
prevent druggists from using spurious
liquors in the bona fide compromising of
drugs and medicines. These articles are
not within the limits of the prohibition
laws. Whether cordials and bitters come
within the statute is a question of fact
in each particular csse. If the decoction
contains spurious liquors in sufficient
quantitity to intoxicate, and is sold for
beverage, the jury should convict. But
if it is sold in good faith only as medi-
cine, they should acquit.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
gh aa1itha Daily gaele guesday gaorine ay e. 1sse

the last day, which can easily be done
with Usage, which are not picked leaf at
a time, as mulberry leaves are, but
gathered in whole clusters on twigs-
you can raise 1,600 pounds Of silk a sea-
son. This gathering of 80 pounds of
Usage leaves a day would be fun for a
Kansas boy with a sickle and go-cart
on an usage hedge.
One hundred pounds of Usage orange
leaves consists Of ten of water, thirty
i've pounds of fibre, twenty pounds of
sugar and thirtv-fve pounds of resinous
gum. The water furnishes the circulat-
ing fluid to get rid OF the woody fibre
and the sugar is the real food to elimin-
ate the silk from the gum. If you were
to compound a suitable food for silk
culture you could not improve on Usage
orange; it is much superior to mulberry
which has too little water and too much
woody fibre and the proportion of gum
to sugar is too small and the
later in the season the more
out of proportion it becomes,
while the Usage orange improves as the
season advances.
l verify believe Usage orange was made
for summer silk culture in Kansas. l
have counted the eggs in an ounce of
the umbrian, large yellow variety of
the Italian silk worm, and find "a, 712,
with S72 broken and bad eggs, leaving
81, $40 good ones, which l have divided
into 1000 lots and am making careful
estimate of the Usage leaves eaten and
the silk to be produced therefrom.
That interesting and sublime operation
of winding these bright RAYS of Kansas
into golden balls by the hand
of instinct through the blind silk worm
can now be seen at the silk station by all
lovers of nature. 1t has been called spin
ming silk; to spin is to twist and draw
out. These threads like rays of light are
curved, bent and wound into loops, but
not twisted as you will see.
II. E. BIDWELL,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28

room to lounge, or walk about, or sit; a
delightful breeze, warmed by the sun
and cooled by the waters; lovely scenery
whose beauties you have time to feast
your eyes on until its charms are photo
graphed on the tablets of your memory;
the engines below throbbing with con-
scious power and the great chimneys
pouring, high in the air, great volume
Of smoke; the waters ahead .rippled by
the wind and behind rippled into white
foam and long waves by the immense
paddle wheels-how incomparably supe-
rior, except in the one element Of speed,
IS steamboat journey to trip by rail.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28

That President Harrison has failed to
come up to the expectations of some of
the more zeaIous-for-place members of
his own party cannot be denied. But
one thing is certain about the appoint
ments to official position made by him so
far, and that is they are not made in
such haste as to be repented of at leis-
ure. 1t seems to be pretty well conceded
on all sides that Mr. Harrison will act
slowly in displacing an office holder
against whom there has been no charge
made, simply to accommodate the de-
mands of the office seeker. The presi-
dent has stated that where protests are
made against any applicant for posi-
ton that he will give due weight to
such and determine as far from the in
formation as possible just what truth
there is in them. When one considers
the enormous patronage within the pres
idents hands and the tremendous amount
of labor entailed in such determination
as the above, it makes possible the in
Quiry whether the presidential office is
not more one of labor rather than honor
and emoluments.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
WICHITA'S SUCCESS THE STATES
VEAL

The EAGLE commends the following
brief statement from the Salina Repub-
ican to the coterie Of short-sighted kick
ers against Kansas own best interests
who would join an alien town and the
railroads that are trying to kick up a
senseless muss over the matter men
toned. The statement is brief, but it
covers the case and the argument is
simply ungetoverable:
''On June 4th the railroad commission
ers will have rehearing of the case
granting Wichita Missouri river freight
rates. The fight of Wichita is the fight
of every city in Kansas. The growth of
Wichita will help other cities. Kansas
cannot afford to send everything she
raises to Kansas City. There never
can be very great cities built
without these freight rates. By
overcoming great difficulties, Wichita
has managed to come to the front as a
point. 1t is much better
to have big wholesaleing city in Kan
sas, no matter where located, than to
send all our surplus to Kansas City. 1t
is to be sincerely hoped that Wichita's
case will remain as first decided by the
board of commissioners"
How different such expressions as the
are from some we have read
in papers published in other and would
be rival towns. Salina is live, growing,
young city and aspires to be-
come to northwestern Kansas, in a
at least, what Wichita is to the
southern half of the state and conting-
uous territory. Yet Salina knows that |
Wichita's success in the freight rate con-
test now pending necessarily involves
her own success in making that point
of a distributing center 1t is
not necessary to state that Wichita will |
-ejoice at Salinas success in her aspira-
ions.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28

Salina aspires to rival Lexington, Ky.
The Republican says "there have been
about three dozen carloads of fine horses
shipped from Salina in the past year.
Then Salina women appear upon the
stage, and one darsen't say they are not
equal to the most noted Kentucky bellies.
If this embraced all the requisites to ce-
lebrity Salinas claim to preferment
would not only be recognizable but re-
cognized instanter. But the third charm.
not the. east in tie trio of inspirations,
to-wit, its famed bourbon. the blue grass
metropolis leaves our Kansas rival
well, at disadvantage, unless she could
match this last with suthin' else. Obser-
walton is directed toward Salina for the
time.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28
TIE ONLY WHOLESALE POINT IN
KANSAS

The question of railway determinations
against Kansas City is creating a great
deal of talk In Kansas City, Kan, and il is
probable the matter viii be discussed in
all its phazes at meeting of the board of
trade on Monday evening. The PRINCIPAL
question, however, which will be consid
cred Is the existing rates given Wichita
and southern Kansas points by reason of
differeutialS allowed the lines south of the
city. This is the first time that the board
of trade has paid any attention TO railroad
rates and the members announce them
selves willing to aid any movement which
will tend TO improve the business of both
cities at the mouth of the kaw.-kansas
City Times.
Um, yes. Kansas City being Mis-
souri, town and the railroads having
been built through Kansas enterprise,
and the state board of commission of
railways happening TO belong to Kansas.
Kansas City is constrained to acknowl-
edge the existence of Kansas City, Kan
sas, which she wants TO use as a club to
break Wichita's back. Go on with your
Missouri river basis and your Missouri
city board of trade racket We have
bailiwick of our own out here to care
for and we are going to care for it. If
the railroads can't get enough money
out of freights except by crushing the
only wholesale point in Kansas, let the
railroads put up the rates on Kansas
City. Wichita viii not seriously object.
The new rates TO Wichita are not too
low for the railroads, its the rates they
have been giving Kansas City which
cuts so into their revenues. The rail-
roads probably don't know that, but
their arrangements would know a great
deal that they don't know if they would
read the EAGLE more closely.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28

Topeka is quarreling over her unfnish-
ed sewer system, which was started
months and months ago. Wichita's sew
er system, comprising sixty-eight miles
of outlet, mains and laterals was not let
till last fall and it would be safe to bet
that the entire system will be in before
Topeka gets through with her present
sewer suits and Quarrels.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-28

Some newspapers express fears that
the purchase Of the Masac mining prop
erty in Lower California, by the Chinese
Six companies, is only a means Of colon
izatlon there for the purpose Of running
the Mongolians over the border into the
United States. There seems to be no
reason to believe that such is the inten-
ton, or if it is, that it could not be read
lily frustrated by ordinary vigilance of
Uncle Sam, upon the border.