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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-03
CAPITAL CHATTER.
The Public Debt Statement
to Date.
NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE.
Rivers, HarbOrs and Waterways
constitutional Amendments
Other Matters.

WASHINGTON, January 2.-The Presi-
dent has signed the act granting to the
Citrous Water Company right of way
across the Panago Indian reservation
in Mancopa County, Arizona Territory.
The United States steamer Richmond
will probably sail to-day from Norfolk,
for Montevideo, where she will relieve
the Swatana as flagship of the south
Atlantic squadron. The Swatana will,
proceed to China.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-03
The following debt statement was
issued to-day:

The following Geot statement was
issued to-day:
Interest bearing debt, prin cipal
and interest. ..-.-.-...--.-..-.$ goZ,U9l ,99o
Debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity, princi-
pal and interest. -. -. 225O,S7S
Debt bearing no inierest........ 7Sl,0l5,790
tetest.. ..'.-...,e.f............. 1855, 1868, 27S
Total debt, less available cash
items. ............ 1,194,698. 522
Net cash in Treasury ............ 60636. 264
January i, 1859. ............... 1884 O62, 25S
December i, 1855. ...,....:..... 11T 47s S5S
month. ,.......'............... 1922 sos
1855. ....,..e.................... S1,522,S9S
Total cash in Treasury as
account .......-...... 6l5,557O77
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-03
For RENT.

A FINE OFFICE SUITE IN THE herald
"A Building. Apply at this office
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-03

ONE SHAREHOLDERS GRAYHoUND.
" Owner can obta n same By proving
and paying expenses
WILLIAM HARDING, =
979 Second Street
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
HE breaches FOR PELF.

A preacher named King up at Hutch.
inson, on Thanksgiving day. returned
thanks. in his sermon because we are a
Christian nation, but said little further
on that cloud was lowering over ou1
own beloved state, the cloud of resub-
mission. Among other things this
preacher said: God pity Murdoch. :"
If He has seen the half of the thousand
mean things said of us during the past
two weeks He doubtless does, but the
chances are that He pities King good
deal more. If Christianity hinges on
prohibition then Christianity must have
poor show in this country where only
two states out of forty-odd have it in
their constitutions, and where several
other states within SIX months have ut
terly and Overwhelmingly repudiated it..
But is not Mr.. King crank and also a
hypocrite? Was there any sin in SUBJ
uniting prohibition to the people of Kan
sas in the first place? If there was not,
where is the sin now of submitting the
same question again?
We would dread to live in a commun-
ity made up of such men as this Rev.
King or in a community that could
sympathize with such bigotry and
hypocracy as he deals in.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
PROHIBITION FIGURES.

To the editor of the Capital.
WICHITA. Kan, November 26-I notice
that you reproduce Judge Fosters argu-
ment in regard to resubmission. / am
surprised at the judges argument as
have all along regarded him as a very fair
minded man and one of unusual inteili-
gence. but when he draws the prison rolls
on US he shows his insincerity, as Judge
Foster has actual and personal knowledge
of where nearly one-third or nearly quite
that number of criminals in this state in
the penltentlary from another state aud
that too from Il court over which be pre-
sides, as there is not term of court held
in this city by him that he does not gather
into the folds of the Kansas penirentiary
not to say anything about the many crimi-
nails that come from the territory and
plead guilty. The last term was not so
very prolific, but be furnished some dozen
criminals at the short term of two weeks.
AS we boys used to say. Judge Foster don't
'tote fair" and he does so wilfully. Yours
respectfully, E. E. ENOCH
This campaign is to be long one, may
be tedious, certainly hot, in which all
the pauper and prison statistics will
have to be gone over again and again.
But it will be better for both sides to
stick to the truth. The figures given by
and were used by Senator Ingalls, in his
Forum article to show that crime had
diminished.
The Capitals correspondent says one
third the prisoners were from the out
side and that dozen such were sent
from Wichita in two weeks, this fall
Judge Fosters letter names the years
1885, 1888, and 1889. Now on the first
day Of January 1885 there was not
single prisoner in the pennitentiary from
the Indian territory, not one. On the
first day of January 1888 there were just
six persons from the territory. On the
first day of January 1889 there were just
twenty-four. And at this time there
are just thirteen, all told. Instead of
dozen at the last term there were just six
''sent up and no more. Talk about
"toteing fair" indeed.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
SOME RAILROAD STATISTICS.

A recent compilation Of railroad stats
tics shows that there are at the present
time in the United States, 49,. 900 miles
of constantly used railway. Last year
over 45,000.00o people and 600, coo, 900
tons of freight were transported: in the
doing of which q million of employes
were actively engaged, 10000 locomo-
tlves. 2l.0o0 passenger cars. 1000 bag
gage cars and 100000 freight cars
were brought into requisition for the
service of peripatic Americans. The
amount of capital annually invested in
the construction and equipment of new
roads and rolling stock-a sum entirely
apart from the expenditures for repairs,
aggregates in round numbers the an
parently fabulous amount of eight billion
dollars. The cost of labor, supplies, etc.
is alone above six billion dollars Der an
mum. Who shall say liz the face of this
that King Midas. whose magic touch
turned al things into gold. was but a
myth, and the incalculable wealth of
those splendid sovereigns in the fairy
books only a pleasing fable. The railroad
magnate of today is far more opulent
and powerful parsonage than any half
dozen of your kingly Crosus's Of olden
times.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
IT IS ENTERPRISE.

The Kansas City Times is an enter
prising concern. 1t is now sending out
into Kansas special train every Sun
day morning with its Sunday issue,
which train reaches forty odd cities and
towns in the Missouri and Kaw valleys
in run of less than two hundred miles,
or to about the center of the state. The
train leaves Kansas City at S:45 a. M,
and the last town is reached between
and o'clock, or communities contain
ing two hundred thousand Kansas peo-
pie are reached before breakfast. The
EAGLE will do the same thing for the
Arkansas valley and its tributaries before
it is as old as the Times, or Wichita is as
old as Kansas CITY,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND FROGS

The Parsons Journal recites an Incl
dent that it alleges occurred in that place
a day or two ago which with slight
amendation covers the case at issue so
cleverly that we reproduce it herewith.
1t is like this:
IAN old farmer, being in city restau.
rant, observed the proprietor purchasing
frogs. This was new idea to the far
mer who had never heard of frogs being
sold and he was much surprised to learn
that the demand was greater than the
supply at $3.50 per dozen. The restau-
rant keeper informed that he would buy
all the frogs he could get at that price
and the old farmer at once agreed to de-
liver him hundred dozen. A few DAYS
afterwards he presented himself at the
restaurant with two dozen frogs and
when asked by the proprietor where the
balance of the hundred dozen were, he
replied he could not furnish them, He
said he had large pond in his pasture
that he always supposed was full of
frogs. In fact from the croaking and
noise made by them he did not think
there could be less than a million, but
on draining the pond he was astonished
to find that it did not contain more than
two dozen. He said he did not suppose
that two dozen frogs could make as
much noise as those fellows had been
making.
The Observation-Disclosures in the state
of Kansas reminds US of the old farmers
frogs. From the noise they make one
would think that there was nothing but
Observation-Disclosures in the state. when
the fact is there are but few in compare
son with the quiet masses. The ants
are doing most of the talking.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
AN INCIDENT OF THE RAIL.
The Brave Act of an Engineer Who Re-
membered His Own Little Girl.

We went winding up the mountains, our
massive engine drawing us up the curving
grades without an apparent effort. We had
crossed an iron bridge and made curve, at
the end of which another was in sight wind
ing to the left, and short distance from the
track cottage home stood in the shadow of
the hills. Looking past it to point just
beyond, which was visible from my side of
the engine, | saw-and / excitediy exclaimed:
"a child on the track"
At the exclamation John sprang from his
seat. One glance down the track and lis face
became pallid A child-3 years old, per-
haps-stood midway between the rails and
not 100 yards from the engine. | looked from
John to the child 1t stood facing us, clap
ping its little hands as it was wont to do
from its mothers arms, peraaps, at the pass
ing of the cars. In another instant l was
thrown forward-almost pitching through
the glass window in front. At the same mo-
ment heard a scream, a wornans voice, and
with arms aloft and face paraly1ed with ter
ror the mother stood upon the steps Of her
cottage We were nearer the ciiiid-it was
not twenty yards from the engine, which,
under the pressure Of the air brake, was
humping and jclting furiously- looked for
John, his seat was vacant; again ahead; the
pilot was within twenty feet of the child, the
train still in motion, too rapidly to be check
ed before reaching It'll i shut my eyes, my
heart stood still Again the mothers heart
rending scream, and / opened nv eyes 70 sec
the child tossed several feet in the air. Ny
head swan as / averted my eyes, and fan
cied l heard the crushing q the little form
by the row slowly revolving wheels, when in
husky tones l heard a mans voice utter:
Thank Godr'
opened my eyes, and standing upon the
plot was John Akers, holding in his arms
the child. its face wreathed in smiles. The
engine was now at a standstiil From the
cottage the father came with blancsed face
and trembling steps The child In merry
accent called out, Want 70 ride, papaF
He took his baby from John Akers' extended
hands, and, folding her In his arms, sank
down on the earth beside the track
John clambered back to his perch, and
sounded the whistle The passenger booked
out Of the window, wondering what had oc-
Cured A trembling hand drew the lever,
which started the engine, putting and hisMng
until lie was going At full speed again. /
looked toward John-kis blue eyes were On
the track ahead, bot they were dimrDsd-
Tears were On his cheeks, az he perhaps
thought Of what would have been his feelings
IL lis own little girl hsd been The one On tbs
track Not a word did either q rs speak
until az Chriztianburg, On TIE top Of tbs
Aueghanias, 1850 feet above the level the
train stopped As started 70 leave tie En-
zine. turned ard grasped Johns hand
''You did a brave thing, Josn-a noble
act
Twas the air brake" be rsodes.ly ard
b,nshingiy replsd: - twas tbs air braks ts.s
Old :t.'-Phiiadeipais Item
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

A parry of New England capitalists
are planning prospecting tour of the
west and southwest, and Kansas City Is
kicking itself all over the hills there
about for squandering that 81, 900 on "a
lot of junketing South American greas-
ers'' a snort time ago. With its present
diminishing trade and threatened gem
eral commercial collapse, it is probably a
lucky thing for that town that the afore-
mentioned lot of greasers came along
and exhausted its entertainment fund.
1t would but add 10 the calamities that
seem to environ the Hill city for the
party first mentioned to visit 1t just now
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

Since the announcement that the Cali
fornia Athletic club would make the
purse for the winner of the proposed
Sullivan-Jackson mill $50, 900 has been
repudiated by the spokesman for the
club. who states that instead the club
would not pay thirtyfive cents. it is
stated that the Boston bruiser has en-
phasized his disgust by renewing the
announcement of his candidacy for a
seat IN congress at the hands of the
Democracy. In the classic language of
his party John L. declares that ".he no
like niger much nohow.n
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
KANSAS FED CATTLE.

The Topeka Capital of Sunday saws:
The live stock sanitary commission
which was III session yesterday received
a report from the Inspector at Kansas
City to the effect that about 10000 head
of stockers and feeders have been ship
ped out OF Kansas City markets during
the past year to Kansas cattlemen for
the purpose of fattening. These cattle
come principally from Colorado, New
Mexico and the Panhandle John T.
White, one of the members of the com
mission, said to a Capital reporter yes
terdav: I'm addition to the 20, 90 head
shipped out OF Kansas City, we estimate
that u, 600 head were shipped direct TO
Kansas cattlemen and did not go through
Kansas City. This would make 10, 900
head which are to be fed on Kansas corn
this winter. But the farmer can make
no money in fattening cattle with beef
at the present low price. Neither viii II
pay to ship his corn TO the markets a:
the present low price for corn i farmer
who Is Obliged TO haul his corn seven or
eight miles can nos make day wages and
might as well leave his corn in the held
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

suffering dreadful homage 20 the power Ok
natures constituted lords" Man il preemi-
nent among tina bsscs~s ..ias~ls Of s~-,.
Not content with satisfying his luxurious
appetite, this most ferocious, ingenious aud
implacable of the carnivora. who rcvels in
flesh and blood with gluttonless glee, also
makes a sport Of tho destruction Of life.
When he wants day off-a day Of pleasure
and recreation-he goes forth TO the woods,
and, with the eager ierceness OF the hyena,
watches for his prey.
The savage beasts Of the jungle only de-
stroy life when hunger or fear drives them
to it, but man, the image Of his maker, kills
for sport-fcr the mere qualification II affords
him to take life. IL animals have souls, AZ
many good and wise men believe, what must
the departed spirits Of the slaughtered ho~ss
think of the proud princes Of creation who
stalk ran,ant amid the blood and grosns
and agony OF their fellow creatures
tawney Pal Spirit.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

No, we viii not go Squirrel hunting this
year We have been rejecting on shs r.A:-
ter ard have concluded tia. tie destruction
Of happy, tE-Doceot b-ez soo0ld nos 10 70
garc,a sport Tie LITTLE hearts tsss beas
benessa tbs vsivst coats Of the gay asd fristy
deniz<1s Of the forest are Just - sssnsptssse
20 Joy and p~in and terror q tsose that threb
within our own breasts Taey are al Gods
creatures. snd have . rixtt &c he. hh~sty
and tie pursuit of ksrptsess How few 9.
us think q tie tezss Of staz@nas Of szsrasls
TIA: ms<t de daily :sAs usaa may live. Aan-
TIE area cevoursr, tie nyurderozzs ard re-
usOraeless tyraut.
Tlss whole earth iaboSs and "a IN vsosenne
became 81 hss cr0e.:iez. AID frcns toe ax-fzai-
t1eatre c. sez;lDent r2sa-s tsere sossE<.s u
szscsz .G - b.aa. Of Ca w4-s aS1 g.1ygsss
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

The Des Moines Register the leading
Republican organ Of Iowa, has a prop
osition looking to the solution of the
prohibition question which is novel, in
asmuch as it proposes to reverse the ac-
ton of local option as it exists In most
states. 1t proposes that prohibition re-
main the law of Iowa and that counties
be allowed to grant licenses to sell
liquor at rate fixed by the state when
ever the citizens of said counties shall so
decide by vote.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

Kansas City is congratulating herself
upon the wise discretion @ she displayed
in DESERVING the sinking ship OF base ball
organizations that seem to be on the
verge of collapse. In view of the status
OF the Cowboys while in the league the
present prospect is no doubt highly en-
jeyable to X. C., though she should not
deceive herself with the notion that the
Western League in which her club has
found an asylum will have carte blanche
TO the championship or a monopoly of
the sport another season. The recalci-
trant managers and obstreperous players
viii all come into line harmoniously be-
fore the season opens.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
That Sounds More Like It,
OH the Lesvenworth sun.

From the Leavenworth sun.
A good deal of sympathy is misapplied
TO Mrs. Hannah Southworth, who killed
Pettus of New York. The fact is, the
secret was an open one amongst Mrs.
Southworth's family that she was being
supported by Pettus on account of their
filthy relations, and because Pettus wear
led of her and stopped the regular annu-
ity, she, at once, come to a conclusion
that wrong should be atoned for, con-
seQuently her recreant lover was shot TO
death. All sympathy is wasted on the
pair and Mrs: Southworth should either
be hung or placed in the laundry depart
ment of a penitentiary for appropriate
purpose of washing d,rty linen.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

The discussion of the proposition to re-
move the remains of General Grant from
their present resting place in New York
city to the National cemetery at Airing
ton, Va, has prompted the association
that has in charge the monument move
ment in that city to bestir themselves for
the moment. The committee of expert
architects appointed by the Monument
Association to select the five best de-
signs submitted, have finally come to a
decision and made their report. The
first prize of 81 500 has been awarded to
the design the dimensions of which are
two hundred and fifteen feet in height.
with base twenty-five feet square. An
immense and richly ornamented funeral
earn is to surmount the entire structure
The material to be used in the construc-
ton of the colossal pile is granite. 1t
may be reasonably doubted just now,
though, whether the consideration of the
kind and cost of material to be used is a
point which shall ever be reached by the
building committee. But this report will
put an estoppel to the proposition to re-
move the remains, and this is as much
as the report was probably designed to
accomplish.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

The circumstance of the granting a
restricted suffrage by the provisional
government of Brazil. the privilege be-
ing conferred only upon those who can
read and write, may work out all
right If it is designed to serve as stimu-
ius to the people to qualify themselves
for the duties as well as the privileges of
citizenship and participation in the
affairs of government; but it looks like
the substitution of an aristocratic for a
monarchial form of government.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

The most potential combine yet con-
summated in this country is now in pro-
cess of organizing, and it will prove the
death OF all others, else we mistake its
power. We refer to the farmers aili-
ance. Forced to take action by the sys-
tematic determinations against them
they will revolutionize present methods
before they cease their warfare. And
there is little doubt that the railroads
will play them a good second.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
any particul;

Seven hundred thousand people have
taken up their residence in Kansas since
the prohibition amendment was adopted.
They probably came to see if it would ruin
the state.-State Journal.
And haven't they the right to express
their conclusions through the ballot box:
If they are satisfied they will say so, and
if they are not they are going to say SO,
sooner or later.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

With Atchison standing confessed that
she has been full of joints, and with Rev.
II. H. Russell's experimental experience
in Kansas City, Kansas, Wichita can
hardly be criticised hereafter in the
claim that the prohibitory law has been
as well enforced here as in the other
larger cities of the state.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

The electric wire would seem to have
superseded the defective fue, gasoline
stove, etcetera, as the handy vehicle for
starting wholesale confiagrations, but
quick and effective as it is the kicking
cow and lantern still hold the scinch
when it comes to the magnitude of the
flames sweep in American cities.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

The Emporia Republican says that
Judge Perkins is out with denial of
his Wichita interview. Perkins may
have been credited with more than one
interview il Wichita, but If the EAGLE
interview is meant, we say most en-
phatically that Judge Perkins has not
denied it and that he will not deny it in
any particular.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

Charley Finch, formerly southern
Kansas boy, who has of late been editing
the Lawrence Tribune, has accepted a
place on the editorial staff of the Kansas
City Globe. Kansas City seems capable
of absorbing anything Kansas has except
her office holders.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
EVANGELIST NOT a MoURNER
rom the Kansas City Star.

1t is comforting to know that although
Marsh Murdoch has backslidden be
knows the difference between the safety
and peace within the fold and the snares
and the dangers which beset the wan
derer who treads in ''bv and forbidden
paths Some arrow of conviction Will
yet touch his heart. and he will be going
forward to the Republican mourners
bench IN less than year. Don't WORRY
about Marsh; he'll be saved.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

The floating of the $50, $1,000 in
bonds of the Santa Fe system, the
mortgage covering which is now being
recorded in this state, will put quietus
to the periodic gossip about that system
passing into the hands of Jay Gould.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
The Farmers Combine.

rom the AtchlSon PhtrlOt.
There are 100000 farmers In the
United States. OF this number at lie asst
1000, 900 are now organized in various
associations, having essentially the same
end in view, the improvement of the
condition of the agricultural class. A
movement is now on foot. as many
readers know, to consolidate all these as
sociations and extend them so as to
eventually include in one body, having
one definite aim, not less than 4, 900, 900
farmers,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03

The Grand Army veterans of Boston
have begun operations along the line of
politics by rendering to Commander
Russell A. Alger bouncing big recep-
ton. General Alger is looking forward
to something, and great many of his
friends think they see the same thing he
does
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
On Mars Hill.

From the Chicago Tribune.
In emulation of the Apostle Paul the
Rev, T. De Witt Talmage has preached a
sermon while standing on the summit of
Mars Hill, Athens. Ii he will now go to
Cesarea, have himself arrested for
preaching the gospel and make defense
as eloquent as that of Paul before Agrip-
pa, Brother Talmage's fame will rest on
foundation that will stand through all
ages.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
I,,.ayrceabIk So.

Hospital Physician docking into the anbu-
lance)-The man is dead His skull has been
fractured, and his face is beaten TO a pulp.
Where did you find him,
Officer 7.o0l-At the surprise party down
the street, scr.
who was surprised, did you sayf'
'sThe corpse, tink. sor !'-Bozton Times.