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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
CHEAP HOG WASH.

The Windy Wonder seems gone on its
gale The Times, under a head, Facts
About Kansas City" publishes long
list of interests, enterprises and resources.
public and private, and Kansas City S
rank in connection with each. A Gin
cinnati banker takes up the list and re-
vises it by the most reliable statistical
data obtainable and puts new head to
ii and RENTS the work to the editor of
the Eagle. lie corrects the heading as
follows: "Many Lies and Some Facts
About Kansas City \ place red with
hog blood, black with the misdeeds of its
constituencies real-estate agents and
green with envy of other towns; a place
Of more downright gail and unadulter-
ated egotism to the square inch than any
other city in the western hemisphere.
Our correspondent puts it little
strong IN his title page, rs will be OBJ
served, but when it comes TO the figures
Haunted by the Windy Wonder OF the
Wild West he Is no slCuch. Every item
is taken up and those which are correct
are so marked, and they are few: those
which are mere gUesSeS and impossible
of veriiication so marked: these of purely
wind and Imagination, so marked. and
those found 10 be false by the test of Off
cial reports ami statistics, he enters op-
posite the word. lie Nine of the most
important claims or assertions made in
this circular, reproduced in the Times
for the information OF the bankers con-
vention, are by TINS banker marked lie, I"
three doubtful. five misrepresentation or
stated so as TO be misleading and several
gross eXaggerations. The Windy Wonder
IS too far away from Wichita, however,
and has had suffered too much in the
collapse of her boom for the EAGLE to
reproduce the overwhelming evidence of
the fraud and inlpudence contained IN
the circular mentioned, we, in fact, re-
fering TO the matter. at all. only in the
hope that our friends at the Kaw's
mouth may in the future show a more
decent regard for the claim of intelli-
geuce made by the American public,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

about IT, "BIIt he referred me TO YOU re-
joined the advertiser. II can't break the
scale, replied the manager We'll, is there
any one about who could lower ratesf'
queried the man of patent nostrums. moi
unless it be father of the chapel and you
will find him pretty tough customer to
move" put In the head of the business do
partment. Il don't care whether he Is
Browns, Jones' or Chapels father, just so
can get about five minutes conversation with
him, and place my contract for tho Never
Failing Cure All Remedies" well, you
can go up into the composing room and
tackle him. but, as | said. you will have
hard time to change him from any Of his no.
tons Good day." Bat scarcely had the
latter words been uttered ere the manager
found himself alone
Breathless, after climb Of four flights OF
stairs, the eager young pill representative
put his head in the composing room and re-
marked that "he wanted the chapel man."
and an elderly compoSitor, who looked as
though he were just recovering from a pro-
tracted spree, was pointed out 20 MIN as tho
parsonage. With an air that betokened bust
ness, and that strictly, the new conner APP
preached the father Of the chapel, who was Just
asked him if he was Chapel Being assured
that such was the case, the young man, with
out more ado, announced that the scale OF
prices was too high, AMI must be lowered.
Thinking that the manager had sent up a
fresh representative 10 work up the redHc-
ton Of their wages, Chapel decided TO make
short work Of the matter, and so informed
the young man tlat there was no use of talk
ing for reduction, FOR the boys would strike,
aud he further int.mAted that he migbs
throw down stairs any one who should talk
about cutting the scale. Wishing % avoid
violence, the patent medicine man returned
10 the Office and made a contract at full rates,
re:narking that for ecce7Itrieity and bull.
headedness that Old Nan Chapel came a little
ahead Of any ore he had ever run across on
the matter OF sticking to scales
HORACE DuNARs
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
CHE aueta Daily gayle griday orning septber ~ 1885,

A brick chimney fiue is the exception
not the rule at Guthrie.
The city council chamber is the principal
place Of amusement at Guthrie.
It is not necessary to eat s'gamey" veni
son at Guthrie unless you want to.
Logs are now being brought to Guthris
and are being converted into lumber by
the saw mill.
Women will be allowed to vote accord
ing to the charter as provided by the West
Guthrie convention.
The most attractive and unique class OF
goods in Oklahoma is the legion Of over
coats, being brought to light.
A gentleman living five miles west and
two and half miles north travelled six
teen miles to get into Guthrie yesterday,
the roads are SO bad.
State Herald: Chowee Jake, one of the
clever Pawnees, called at the Office this
morning and told us all about the boys OF
his tribe He ate ali of our watermelon
and then a collection of ten cents was
raised among the printers for him. He
carries a very line testimonial from c. A.
Mckenzie. clerk of the agency. He prom
ised to call again.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
INDIANS IN KANSAS.
Topeka Democrat.

Topeka Democrat.
The annual report upon the..affaIrs of
the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha
agency in this state has been submitted
to the department by the United States
Indian agent, John Blair. in charge at
that point. 1t is dated August 10, and
covers the period of the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1889. Five tribes are EN-
braced in this agency, the number at
present on the reservation being as fol-
lows: Prairie band of Pottawatomies,
Az: kickapoos, 227; Iowas, 166: Sacs and
Foxes of Missouri, Il: Chippewas and
Christians, 20; total, 9S3.
The agent explains that besides those
enumerated, about goo Pottawatomies
are residing In Wisconsin.
Il am of the opinion" he SAYS. ''that
that these people should be required TO
return to their reservation and remain
there. AS it Is there is very much time
and money wasted in useless visiting.
and / have observed that the northern
Indians, whether on the reservation Tor
the purpose of visit or permanent resi-
dence. are inclined to be troublesome and
insubordiu ate.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
AN INSULT AND A GAG.

Wichita would have, many months
| since, gone before the interstate railway
commissioners with the Pacific freight
rate, especially with the sugar rate, but
for the knowledge that no ruling had
yet been made knocking out the water
way claim which is ever set up In de-
fense by the representatives OF the rail-
roads; SO a different line was pursued.
But firm at Humboldt made the COM
plant in due form, and the answer ex-
pected from the railroads was put in, i.
g. that the rate from the Pacific ocean to
the Missouri river was not made over
land, but forced by the waterway rate.
We don't know how the honor
able commission accept such
racket, but is an insult to average
American intelligence. Even were the
all important elements Of time and delay
eliminated. and should the roads put up
the rate twenty-five or fifty or even a
hundred per cent, sugar would not be
shipped from San Francisco to Missouri
river points by water. So far as the job
Ding dealer along the Missouri river
Is concerned fogs and dews ere just as
good for navigable purposes as the Mis-
souri, river. The claim that the water
rate fixes the rate to Missouri river
points is claim that does not rise to the
dignity of a gag. If the Missouri river
was thousand feet deep from its head
to its mouth and there was not
a single transcontinental railroad in
operation, California fruits could never
find market in single Missouri river
town, except in some preserved or canned
condition. Before Missouri river job
Der could receive consignment of sugar
from San Francisco by water his admin
istrator would have settled up his estate
and himself been forgotten. But this
species Of biubber and pretence is put
forward by railways and considered by
United States commission. We are
aware that part waterway and part rail
route are figured on in fixing these bas-
ing lines. yet after all, the rail portion of
the route was in the first place fixed
by some combination of sup
posed possibilities. The
most competent authority, the highest
engineer experts have, within very few
years, declared the Arkansas river navi-
gable to Wichita. and congress in all its
wisdom made appropriations year after
year to improve it, but that fact did not
render the river any more OF a naviga-
bic stream than is the Missouri today,
nor should it afford a pretense for bas-
Great is humbug which finds its best
elucidation in the interstate commerce
law, its truest exponent in the commits
sion created to enforce the law.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

mercial union at least into more init
mate and mutually beneficial trade rela-
tons than has ever existed heretofore:
but unless the present condition of af-
fairs between the United States and
Mexico. as set out in the foregoing, can
be changed and the recently developed
comfy restored, the members of the con-
gress named cannot but feel at a loss
how to proceed or what to suggest to
bring about the desired contamination,
the object of their mission.
We trust, as we believe, that it is only
necessary, to remove the present embar-
rassment. that the matter be presented
to Secretary Window in its true light.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27


Slowly, my brother. During our some
what brief and breezy career with the quill
we have tried hard to preserve our eQui-
poise, and surely our esteemed friend
should not get off his base line. The
EAGLE is matchless bird and sitting on a
decayed limb of former day elm in the
valley of the Arkansas, is an object of de-
light, yet it has lost none of its claws, and
may 1t keep every feather in its strong and
useful wings.-kansas City Gazette.
We have only two kinds of elms in
this valley, one the ordinary red-elm and
the other the p well, its the kind of
which clubs are constructed, The
EAGLE never equipoised nor did any
other base line thing off, or from the
''former day" vanity to which You refer.
However, we go slo- 7ill the breezy
career of our brother las "a chance to
blow over
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Some of the Ups and Downs Of the Adj
vertisinc Agent

Some of the Ups and Downs Of the Adj
vertisinc Agent
SPECIAL CorTespondeace.I
NEW YORK. Sept The work Of solicit
ing advertising ard the placing Of contracts
for such is generally considered Of serious
nature, OF a strictly business type, but, Ike
everything else, it has is funny side, which.
however. Is often difficult 70 discern. To
some of the hard working and frequently ua-
successful solicitors the huH1or may not b
very APPARENT, hut there are times when il
will crop out. and this when il is least looked
for. As be il everywhere, the advertising
solicitor l. often q victim Of Mistaken iie1ti-
ty, but with shre7vd tact be generally makes
eli that can be out % such Sigh. errors Il
il. however. frequently ire ease that be get
the wors. q other peoples naizznders:aad-
inEs and fr,ls his cup Ct y0y dashed % pasces.
am; especially when il Is discovered taas, in
sseasi OF being tSe TsGht chap, he Is tie other
fellow
i successful example of beng the co-rsc.
r.erspu was tha1 q AL advertising scae-.s-
who was selecting CARTS for s1ss ness di-ec-
tory e. thai was 10 ocruyy a prominent poss-
tie-. II a Boszon hotel, but which IN reality
would No doasst, be hung Il seine obscGre
and out q tha wsy NOOK being really zt,rsA
80 TIE a9fveTtaser shout i've c.utz Ter square
yard wf1IIe r COS. hI-n SO PER square foot 70
occupy It's sygaee sslia ais sznoEseexaeut
After DAYS work In which nothing crowned
tAs sch@1.sr1s e-o-rs. bat eout4aDe1 failures.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
A Change OF Sentiment.

Miss Mabeils Hairless reading lettrT,--
Why, mamma, this letter L. from Cousir
Frei, and be says that Uncle David Whyts
is dead
nrz Hartless-He -. chr Well, les q
small loss. Tee stingiest cid skinfin. on
earth ! never could endure the man
Aabelle-Bat, mamma. Just Iisten-hs had
his life insured for $40. 900 In our favori
Mrs. Hartless-He did !. can't be-siear.
good old soaI that ae was I Away, knew
he was kind az heart Ten thousand dofIarsl
We must 20 into mourning at once i-Drakss
Magazine
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

Secretary Rusk declared to everybody
he met everywhere he went in Kansas.
and since he left it, that the state had
proved to him a glorious surprise, and
we believe he meant what he said and
are glad to know it. No state in the
union has greater interest in the de-
partment of our national industries over
which he presides than this, and if he
Will give us fair chance and reasonable
encouragement to our important inter-
asts in that line, including sugar and
silk, we will let the offices go and say
nothing about it.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
Casual Conversations.

From the n y. Merchant Traveller.
Mr.. Bonham, travelling salesman-I
have been travelling in different states
for twelve years, but Kansas is the best
state | have ever seen. The people are
50 full Of energy and enthusiasm, and
the business men sell twice as many
goods as in any other state of equal
population. This year the crops are
tremendous. l have repeatedly talked
with farmers who are threshing out
wheat that averages more than fifty
bushels to the acre. As am something
of a judge of crops, l know they are not
telling fairy tales, Kansas IS undoubt-
eddy the best state in the union.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
'rwere a Surprise all Around.

L-aNEelCS 4CAEl24
The surprising delay IN the appoint
ment of a pension commissioner has
given a fickering hope 10 the s., coo ma
Jority, and three Kansas men are talked
of IN connection with the appointment
Congressman Morrill,, Captain Henry
Booth, ard General \. 3. Campbell are
the moths. although II is reported that
Morrill, has declared for Captain Booth.
If Kansas should get the place, certain
Kansas City newspapers inclined to be
funny al Kansas i'll luck with the
administration. viii sing In a minor keY.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

The New York Sun calls Wichita the
ssOxford of Kansas" probably because
they kill few dozen steers down there
every day-k. c. star.
And as George Martin maintains that
beef, and not fish, makes brains, we can
see nothing in the Suns declaration IN
consistent with the Star notion. How
ever. Wichita has more universities, col
leges and academies and schools than
packing plants and butcher shops.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

The police OF Kansas city were given
orders the other day to suppress the Sal
walton Army, whereupon the Emporla
Republican INDUCES in the following,
which has the penetration of bolt from
Sinai:
Kansas City has suppressed the Saliva
ton Army because il WIS too rowdy. Inc
saloonkeepcrs and gamblers were greatly
ANNOYED in their business by the unseemly
condllct of this noisy organization.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

The Marion Globe is murmuring some
thing about cereal palace in 1S90.-Wich-
TIA EAGLE.
Yes. and it will be one of the finest ex-
hibitions of the products of Marion
county and the Fourth congressional
district ever displayed. Will the es-
teerned EAGLE lend its valuable assistance?
Marion Globe.
The EAGLE has never failed to lend its
influence to any worthy enterprise that
had for its object the development OF an
interest in the state, or any portion
thereof, and it will not go back on It's
record at this late day.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
Carlo Accounted For.

Gcorge-Did poor little Carlo have a pink
ribbon around his neck when you lost hint
Ciara-Yes, yes, the poor little dear; have
you seen hiuf
George-No, not exactly-but here Il a
pink ribbon in tnis fTankfurtar-Epoch.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

To our Kansas exchanges: Wouldnt
1t be kind o decent to let up for few
DAYS on Southern barbarities:" at least
until the Butler county incident drops
out of pubic gaze? To our notion 1t
would be hard to discover greater bru-
tality practiced anywhere. En-:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Georges Beefng Accounted for.

0eOIStS bSt1LS ACCONluteO tut
George w. Martin believes that beef,
not fish, is the proper brain food. ''It
fish," says George, sis good brain food,
why doesn't the Atlantic seaboard grow
some intellectual giants? Beef, we insist,
is the best brain food; therefore brethren
and here we are
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

Kansas brags much Of her schools and
of the high order OF her general lntelil-
gence, but all the same her entire con-
gressional delegation lacked sufficient
intelligence TO stop the administration IN
appointing a way down Massachusetts
Yankee to the head of an educational
institution located in Kansas. When the
Massachusetts man gets things into
shape wouldn't it be good idea to send
somebody else other than Indians to his
school-the Kansas delegation for IN
stance to begin with.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
Respect for Greeley.

Augusta (Ga} Chronicle.
The south viii not object to the monu-
ment to Horace Greeley. He was a
courageous and open enemy. He was
for the under dog in every fight. Horace
Greeley never hit man while he was
down. When the war was over he
poured oil into the wounds of the south
and extended the hand of friendship and
protection to our fallen chieftain, Jetfer-
son Davis.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
Can't Stick.
No.4 s1t-Sa
From the Kansas City Gazette.

From the Kansas City Gazette
Seventy-fve bushels of corn to the
acre means plenty of pork and beef; it
means meal in the barrel and oil in the
cruise: it means lard for the housewife
in abundance, fresh eggs every day and
fat hens for the pot in winter; 1T means
rich milk and yellow butter; it means a
feast of fat things and the farm will get
SO greasy that the mortgage can't stick.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
Limbs and Feet of American Women.

Limbs and Feet of American Women.
| Bah in Courier-Journal.
| The western leg varies: it has been
seen as perfect as that of the Venus de
| Milo and it has been seen as unshapely
as lead pencil. think the worst come
| from Chicago, where there is tendency
to straight up-and- and
the long narrow foot; Chicago women,
according to statistics, prefer the stock
ing known as raw silk, which is neither
pretty nor cheap. The combination OF
cheap and nasty is sometimes forgiven,
but not of costly and hideous. The St.
Louis girl is very well shaped, but like
the Kentucky one she has an inclination
to be a little gay in the matter of stock
ings ard really one can hardly blame
her. The red silk stocking and the red
shoe are SO coQuettish. The Nile green
silk worn with patent-leather slipper
has sort of fetching way that Is too
attractive to be ignored. The New
Orleans women have handsome legs and
small! feet. They dress them usually in
black. but they indulge iii little French
caprices that are as seductive as these
charming women themselves. You are
seeing the daintiest of New Orleans
women: you happen TO glance down,
you think you see something glitter, you
look more closely, you put in your
monocle and stare again, and 1t suddenly
dawns upon you that above the little
slipper with its tiny rosette the stocking
is heavily seeded with sparkling jet
beads; then you notice how high the in
step Is: how small the ankle, and then
and then-well, and then you draw your
own conclusions. The Baltimore girl
has a beautiful foot. She can walk over
the water line and she scorns anybody
who wears a shoe larger than number
two, but her beauty ceases at the foot
and ankle. Her Quaker sister in Phila-
deIphia is better endowed by nature,
eeen If she does wear a number three
and has been known 70 put on a number
four.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

That was a smart bit OF rebellion in
Pratt county the other day, when the q. A.
II. bows attended the reunion, etc.-Ela-
poria News
Yet the News is one Of the papers that
has for weeks been calling for some evil
dence of the rebellion, declaring that the
ground for such talk was untenabie.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
Evening Up on the East.

From the Philadelphia Record.
A convention is to be held at Topeka,
Kansas, on October 1, at which a thous-
and delegates from western states will
begin to put in shape the movement for
a deep harbor on the coast of Texas. An
array of statistics has been given to show
that while the sum expended by the gov
eminent for public improvements in the
states east of the Mississippi river from
1889 to 1866 amounts to $11.SS for each
inhabitant, estimating the population in
1886 at 60 million. in the states or terri
tories west of the same river the total
appropriation has only been $2.S3 per
capita. The west, therefore, demands
that this discrepancy be ''evened up be-
fore any further appropriations shall be
made for the East The next congress
is likely to be asked to sanction expendi-
lures that would have paralyzed the
legislators of half a century ago with
terror and alright.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

The annual convention of the Chris
tan church of Kansas is now IN session
in Topeka, having convened "Wednesday.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
The Day just Ds0un.

Aunt Maris-W hat, crving 70 earIy, Tom
myi Have you been whipped already tails
morning.
Tommy-No II. Just got up-Tirne
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma City Is cooling OF, as il were.
The popular wa,ch-Suard in Oklahoma
Is Slx-Shnarer
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-05-24

Bishop Potter, one of the speak.
ers at tire Centennial celebration
in New York, in the course of one
of the slrnngest discourses Of the
occasion, said
The conception of the national
government as a huge machine, ex.
istIng mainly Tor The purpose OF re-
wardlng partisan serYice-this was
a conception 81 alien To the charac-
ter and conduct Of Washington
and his associates that il seems
grotesque even 10 speak OF il. 1t
would be interesting 10 imagine the
first President OF the United States
confronted with some one who had
ventured To approach him upon
the basis of what are now com
monty known as practical politics. ,
But the conception is impossible.
The traits which in him shown pre-
eminent, as our own Irving has de-
seribed them-'irmness, sagacity.
an immovable juttice, courage hat
never faitered, and most of all.
truth that disdained all artifices'-.
these are characteristics in her
leaders OF which the nation was
never IN more dire need than now.'
And now the good Bishop Is &C
cused of an untlmely attack upon
the President and his party, and
the question naturally arises why
it is not supposed to be a reflection
upon Mr.. Cleveland, who was pres
ent, aud the Democratic paTtyE