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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
WESTERN ROMANCE.

Anent the reported discovery of gold
in the Oklahoma country, mentioned II
our dispatches this morning, the follow
ing romantic, not to say Nlulhattonian
story taken from the New York Herald,
told by its Cheyenne correspondent, Civ
ing an account of the finding of the dead
bodies of eight Mexican goldhunters at
the mouth of the old San Salvador mine
in northern Wyoming, which hasn't been
worked by anybody since 1877 will be
read with interest:
The men were recognized as belonging
to party which passed through Chey-
enne last fall, under the lead of one Don
Miguel Martinez. The Heralds TO.
mancer says:
Martinez carried chart, very old and
traced on parchment, which, he said,
was two hundred years old and was
made by an ancestor of his in the seven
teenth century. The chart had been
lost for years, but recently turned up.
The original Martinez was at the head of
band of Spanish gold hunters who
were working rich mine somewhere in
this part Of the country. The miners
quarreled, and finally their divi-
sion resulted in the abandonment
CT the the mine, though it was rich in
the precious metal. Martinez was
wounded and unable to reach his native
land. He died on the way there, and
with his blood traced the chart which
was to be a legacy to his children and
make them all rich. A faithful friend
delivered the document. There is rea-
son to think that the people whom Mar
tinez and his party found in possession
have taken the map and gone off to To-
cate the ancient mine The fact that
the horses and tools OF Martinez and his
men were taken and that the jewelry
and some money were not removed from
their bodies seems to prove this,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

survey for this road is now being made
from Cotfevville TO Arkansas City, and
grading will commence ID this direction
in short time.
The little village OF Bushong. on tbs
Missouri Pacific, twenty-five miles west
Of Usage City, has several cases Of small
box. One death is reported there on
Tuesday, and two women who have the
disease are no. expected 10 live. The
trains do not stop there and the town Is
quarantined.
Chas. Beeler shipped a carload OF
horses TO Philadelphia. PennsyivSris,
TINS week. From the livery ready sale
which Kansas horses find IN the eastern
markets il strikes rs that our farmers
might add considerable 70 their incomes
oy making more Of a specially. Of colt
breeding. -KiIzsiey Mercury.
State Agent Crawford claims 49,
oes. 81 As his fees for prosecuting claims
O, Kansas against the United States, ard
Rerresentative McAfse hes introduced q
bill providing for the payment Of that
amount. The sum named n 10 pr cent
If the amount Of the ciai ras collected
for the state during tbs The fiscal year
ending June ~, 1883 aud $50.
Cedar township, the extreme south
east township Of Cowlsy county. sends
up tough sensation Sheriff Cocno-
brought in s. A sIainkle "wednesday
evening. charged with having repsass<aty
rzvished his i2-yeaE-asd step danght~r
Sninkie i sad 20 have coerced the gf-i
hv abiecs fear. for ten months past using
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
BE TIER THAN OKLAHOMA.
KINGSLEY, KAN, Feb. II, 1SS

KINGSLEY, KAN, Feb. II, 1889.
To the Editor OF the Daily Eagle.
Fine weather and it has been the
mildest winter here we ever saw. Stock
is doing well and wheat is magnificent.
You may open your Oklahoma country
as soon as you wish, as no one will leave
Edwards county to go there, for we have
had two or three parties prospect it and
they report it not near as. good a country
as this county However, there will be
an immense rush there from the poor
eastern states and the cold northern, but
we are going to stay at home and raise a
big crop to feed them on when they get
out this fall.
Petitions 20 the president are being
circulated here. and generally signed,
for the pardon of VIM. Wood, sentenced
to be hung with another party named
Miller. for the murder of john Hantz,
in the Indian Territory in the fail of 81.
Circumstances are somewhat against
Woods, but the people here generally
think him innocent ana a victim Of cir
cumstances, as his reputation was good
here.
huHlOIs are tAlat TIE y. i. q >. r. IT,
R. Will make changes in their divisions
soon, as follows: From all the
Missouri river points 10 Topeka; Topeka
TO Newton: Newton 10 klnsley, and
kinsley to Coolidge, with shops to re-
main at Nicaerson.
kinsley wants the Missouri Pacific
from luka finished SO as 10 have direct
line 10 Wichita, and we don't think
Wichita can grow much larger until
you get that finished. 1t is a line that
would pay more than expenses as dull as
the times are. as all our stock, etc, now
goes 10 Kansas City, which ought 10 go
and would If we had this line, direct TO
Wichita. About thirty-fIye car loads OF
hogs and forty cars OF cattle have been
shipped from Kinsley tins winter, also a
vast amount OF butter. eggs, exc, but
none OF it went 10 Wichita on account
of not being a direct route, and We are
ready to DO our part 70 have II COM
pleted to kinsiey. s.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
REIH,

The EAGLE would call the attention of
it's colored friends to an article in this
issue, taken from the Emporia News, on
the subject of co-education. 1t contains
a point or two that evidently has escaped
the attention of the advocates of that
policy whether colored or not The real
point of interest to the colored people
involved in the question is that touching
the future of their race in the matter of
advancement to and public recognition
in the professions, particularly that of
teaching in the public schools and other
institutions of learning. In this view of
the question, and it is not one Of senti-
ment, the true interests of the colored
people would be best served by having
their children educated in schools sepa-
rate from the whites, fact that their
true friends recognize and they them
selves must admit.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
116 TO 100 MAIN STREET.

{ her As brute and Threatening her life
il she didn't keep mum. - ~lRfsii
I Courier.
The bill tina; empowers critics s5d
townships TO vote bonds TO aid "a tEe de-
velopn1snt Of manufacture Of stisar from
sorgbuD. provides that csties d The SO
end class may vote go. 600 and ,hose of
/ the third class and townships nay vote
$4,000. Thess bonds NAV he donated
or given IN exchange for stock IL also
provides that factories estab4lstssa iof
this purpose shall 10 exempt from taxa
ton anti 1926
About al the Kansas corn - Tar
shipped has found D,srxsi "a the sosih
at Memphis, MoAiie. Atlanta ard other
points. TIE prices are ffoln tfzsss %
four cents per bushsI sboTe the 81. Louss
market, while tia frslgh; rates are about
the same. Nearly al the corn shspYsd
from Paoia has gone souih. and ffss extra
three or foSI- csn:s recssTed nzakss an
srvra-sshle increase IL she rsTsn1s from
our farms Miami Republican,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
IS IT A MISTAKE?

From the Empora News.
The negroes of Leavenworth have
thanked Alfred Fairfax in set Of reso-
| lutions for the stand he took in the legis-
| lature In behalf of co-educatuon of blacks
and whites in the same schools.
That is all right. So long as the ne
groes know what they want and speak
out about it. they will have the public
ear, and maintain the respect of their
fellow men. If they prefer to have their
children educated side by side with
those of their white neighbor5. they are
fully justified in making their wishes
known. and backing them up as well as
they know how.
| In having a member of their own
race in the legislature TO do battle for
them. they are particularly fortunate
and deserve to be congratulated.
Yet we think there Is one point that
| they have not considered in connection
with the education of their children,
about which they manifest 50 much in
terest. We allude to the training and
educating of negro school teachers.
| There are very few or none in thestate.
| Onlv one attended the state teachers
association. lately held in Topeka Why
is IT sos Nav il net be because there are
so few colored schools IN which they
may teach: Unless there are such
schools there can be no colored teach
ers. And as long as they insist on Co
education they can not expect 10 have
them.
They nav be turned out by our Nor
NAL school and university entirely quail
fed to teach, but will have to go to u is
sour or elsewhere to find colored schools
In which to use their talents and make a
name and reputation.
But a short tine ago was held at Mis-
souri's capital state association of col
ored teachers, and q very respectable
body it was, too. Were there such a
condition of things IN that state IS IN
! this. such an association would be i'm
possible. Colored schools are necessary
/ TO make colored teachers Without the
one there cannot be the other.
AS long as co-educarion is insisted on
and carried ont, there viii be but few
colored schools with the unsuitable result
OF no c-lored teachers. II cur colored
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
CRIPPLED UNION SOLDIERS.
ALLEGAN, KAN, Feb. 10, 1889.

GENERAL ORDER NO. 3.
We order that all our members and all
soldiers hire no attorney to attend to
their pension claims hereafter. as we find
that the attorney got $500, $40 of the
boys money in the year 1888, while it
should not have cost them over $50, 252,
and this would have saved them S549, 26S,
which they need worse than the attor-
neys. Read article 5, section of the
Crippled Union Soldiers association by
laws, which is as follows: The lieuten-
ant general commanding shall prosecute
all claims for pension or increase for pen
sion before the pension department and
before congress for all of the members
of this association free of charge, ex-
cept for stamps and blanks, which shall
not exceed one dollar for each applica-
ton.
Ali soldiers are requested to write to
his senator, uting him to pass the bill
cutting off all attorney fees for pension
claims.
By order of :, JAS. A. UNDERWOOD,
Lieut.. Gen. Com. G. U, S. A. of the
=. S.
A. J. HAY, Adjutant General.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
KANSAS KOLLARY.

The knights of Pytbias of Osage coun-
ty will celebrate the silver anniversary
Of that organization, in Usage City,
next Tuesday.
Salt is said - be sure pop prevent
alive as well as exterminator of bed bugs.
We always believed that Kansas would
afford remedy for that Indigenous pest,
and, 10.
Usage City may he little slow. bat
the Free Press declares that she viii get
there, when her canning factory, s0r-
ghum mills, ochre brick plant, and iron
foundry are IN full blast
Winfield il tortured BIZ the occurrence
of a case Of infanticide in the town and
of a rape case IN the country, both per
petrators. one negro and the other a
| white man. being now in the county jail
at that place.
The Kansas City Star makes fun Of a
western Kansas paper for speaking Of a
church "quire." The criticised has the
laugh on the critic. however. according
TO Webster. for that authority says
''quire- IS good
Up to Tuesday evening ssventy-one
had Joined the Methodist church at
Nicksrson. fifty-four on probation and
seventeen ty letter. This Is good show
ing. II Is thought that the number will
reach one hundred before the revival
closes.
The citizens Of Cofeyvilie ara feeling
iubilanf over the near completion OK the
Valley Route railroad 70 that place. TIE
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

The Democratic workers in West Virgin
ia send word TO officers of the house at
Washington that both the delayed cer;ifi-
Gates from that state will be Democratic.
This will cause the clerks roll for the or
ganlzation TO stand 165 Republicans to $50
Democrats. This majority of five, how
ever, will not often represent the
strength OF the Republican side. 1t is so
near quorum. which is t63, that if at
any time more than two of the Republi-
cans are absent with or without pairs,
the Democrats can block or defeat any
legislation TO which they are opposed
by refraining from voting and making
the point of no quorum. It is very rare
that either side is able TO hold ali of its
members or all but two. But for the
important work of the next session the
Republicans vii. be obliged TO have all
but two of their members continuously
present. The Democratic leaders are
already congratulating themselves upon
the ease with which they can defeat Re
publican measures. The Democrats can
be absent as much as they ike, or if
only one remained to call for a quorum
all party legislation could be defeated.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

As was expected the proposition to
change the name of Kansas City, Kan
sas. to Wyandotte, which was sub
mitted to the legislature by Jake Ad-
mire, brought the Gazette TO its feet in
stanter with vehement protest. What
we object to, says the Gazette, and what
any other town would object TO, is to
have a row about name forced upon us.
And they seem to forget that the name
Kansas City, kensas, covers a conaohda-
ton of three or four small burgs. and
that the name Wyandotte covers only
one-third of the area Of such consolida-
ton. Evidently the proposition was
meant to tantalize George Martin: if so
The people of the whole stat,obiect to the
time of that body rs being frittered away
at their expense.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

Every attempt SO far made by the Par
nell prosecution to establish the truth
fulness of the allegations laid against
him have not only failed, but has furn-
ished additional proof that it is persecu-
ton for the opinions sake and aimed as
a blow at the cause and people the great
leader SO coursgeously and ably defends.
The prosecution was organized to con-
vict and that will probably be the out
come of the matter, but guilt will not
be established in the estimation of fair
minded people anywhere, and every such
conviction but serves to strengthen the
Irish cause in the sympathies of the civ
ilized world, even in unvelenting, vim
dictive England. The fellow LeCaron,
the last to testify in behalf OF the prose-
cution before the Parnell commission, is
proven by abundant and unmistakable
evidence in this country to be an exceed
ingly foul bird, who, if he had his
deserts, would be serving a life term in
some state prison.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

The letter of Senator Plumb to the
state legislature. and through that body
to the people of the state, is dignifed
acknowledgment of the high honor con-
ferred upon MIN by the state in return
ing him without opposition or dissent for
third time to the senate Of the United
States. 1t also contains an exceedingly
ronsiderate and polite declination of the
additional honor the state would do him
In securing for him q position in the
cabinet of President Harrison. While
the state of Kansas would delight TO see
Mr. Plumb exalted to the highest station
In the land, recognizing as it does his
eminent fitness for the responsible duties
thereof, still there is feeling of we'll
nigh universal satisfaction, not to say
qualification, at this last decision of orr
junior senator. Al appreciate and feel
the force of the reasons SO delicately vet
30 pointedly assigned by him why it is
better for him to remain where he is
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

The assertions of Senators Morgan and
Gray that Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Bayard
wanted the British extradition treaty
ratified ruffies the Boston Pilots temper.
Either these senators have been misin-
formed, says our plain-spoken Demo
cratic contemporary, or they have lied
about the matter, or ''some one very
near the administration" lied to the Pilot
before the presidential election. Ger
tain information was supplied secretly
to respecta BILE Democratic papers-the
P ilot for one. In another paragraph the
some one is named and the nature of
the secret campaign material which he
furnished indicated. "When we know
for truth that Secretary Bayard indorsed
the British eXtradition treaty." remarks
the Boston Irish-American newspaper,
1--WE shall haye something to say about
information charging Republican sena-
tors with inserting the political clauses
supplied directly by Mr.. Bayard during
the campaign
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
Don't Say ''Parkay."

Louisville Commercial,
The pronunciation Of the word ''par-
ouetteA it vogue in Louisville is rather
sad commentry on the ''culchah" Of
the people here. If you go to the box
Office of theater and ask for two seats
in the parquette, sounding the st.
the seller looks at you inquiringly, and
after a moment says: ooh. yes, all the
seats in the paraguay are taken" and you
feel crushed. As matter of fact there
is no authority for such pronunciation
as commonly heard. Etc" certainly
spells get" and not lay" in English, as
well as in French. from which language
the word is bodily taken. People who
possess nothing more than a snattering
of French know that let" in that Ian
guage is pronounced "ay," and they
falsely think that the same is true Of
sette." liz other cities the word is prop
erly called, and the ticket sellers OF the
various theaters here should lead the re-
form and call the parquette the par
nuette.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

The following is from letter written
by Noble Prentis ard expresses the sentl-
Uuents Of the EAGLE.
The senate took the back track in
passing bill changing the age of con-
sent in this state from Is to II years
There is provision, if the girl is of
good repute" that the age shall be IS.
but this provision is practically nuliity.
1t seems to me that this is travelling in
the opposite direction from the best SEN
timent of the world, This nineteenth
century believes in the protection of
womanhood by law. Such bills as these
under discussion tend to remand society
to the old-fashioned protection of the
shot gun. There are reasons, which no
body cares to discuss in cold print, why
the age of consent should be kept at IS,
and none why it should be lowered to
-. 1t is to be hoped that the house will
not concur in an such opening of the
gate to seducers and PROGRESSES.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

brethren are satisfied with that condition
Of things, all right. They are the doc
tors, and are taking course that will
make the condition perpetual
We think it mistake because, as a
stepping-stone to something else, the
school room is most excellent vantage
ground and the best school of prepare
ton. More struggling and ambitious
men have arisen from the school room
than from any other field of labor.
Colored schools in Missouri have given
that state a most respectable and infiu-
entail body of colored teachers and pro-
fessors which is credit to their race.
There is no good reason why Kansas,
with its negro population, may not have
similar body of teachers, if it will go
the right way about securing it.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
For the Eagle.
MOZART.

No tombstone marks the sacred spot
Where thy dear dust by earth was caught;
A pauper's grave the sequel,
The very grandeur Of thy soul
Made this life bitter goal.
For which thou vert unequal
In sheer idlesse we linger long
Where all is life and Joy. and song,
But pain, life's sad refiner,
Stamped thy genius with glow.
That happiness could never know;
Probed thy heart TIL it struck cord
That Quivered till thy soul had poured
On earth its last sweet minor.
The thrilling notes thou now unfurled
Were felt not by a tardy world.
TIL thy dead hopes had drifted
Past earthly woe, past earthly love.
Where Christ and angels there above,
Recompense the gifted.
Heaven all angered with an earth
That would pot recognize the worth
OF thy grand tedeum,
Caught thee with the wondrous strain,
Half finished on thy lips of pain
Thy last sad requiem.
And now this earth would give her power
To bring thee back one precious hour,
MAT the rest be given.
But, ali that requiem is heard
By angels, and its pathos stir'd
The battiements Of Heaven.
Il
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

The Boston Journal hears from Wash
ington that the friends of the river and
harbor bill and of the Oklahoma bill are
disturbed now by fears that those meas
,lres may be wrecked, within sight OF
port as it were, by running upon the
submerged reef known as the pocket
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

1t will doubtless be a great relief to
The anxious and alarmed people of the
fsthmus to learn that the governments
of this and other countries propose to
look after such of their citizens or sub
jects as shall be thrown out of employ
ment by the stoppage of work on the
Panama canal, and not leave them to
shift for themselves in a strange land
where there is no other work for them
20 earn an honest living.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

The agriculturalist Of the Kansas City
Gazette thinks this is bad winter on the
wheat crop, That crop may be very
hardy one, he says, but like the children
in the little trundle bed, it needs some
blankets and counterpanes or it will come
out in the spring with the chillblain
sure. Whatever its condition up in that
latitude, all the wheat needs down here
is little more rain and it don't seem to
be suffering for that.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

Monsignor Preston, of New York, in
forms the newspapers that an eccleslas-
teal trial was never refused DR.. Nc
Givnu, the doctor never having asked 1t
that Cardinal Simeoni has not proposed
to reopen the doctors case; and that he
himself did not interfere on recent oc-
casion, as alleged. TO prevent the doctor
friend and classmate, Bishop Moore, of
Florida, from officiating in New York
cburcb
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16

Now that Memphis is actually build
ing a bridge across the Mississippi river,
end Matches has charter for one, New
Orleans begins TO think she wants a
bridge too,-not so much because she
feels any pressing need for it now as be-
cause with an increase of her trade with
Texas, Mexico and the Pacific slope it
would be handy thing TO have on the
premises, and because she dislikes to
have the smaller up-river towns get the
start of her. The Times-Democrat
which warmly advocates the project,
thinks That vigorous agitation now will
mean u bridge in, say, 1895.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
Honesty That Begins at Home.

Springfield Republican.
The Democratic complaints of partisan
tactics on the part of the Republicans
would make better impression upon the
public if their own skirts were a little
cleaner. For two years Dlr. Smalls, Of
South Carolina, has been seeking de-
cision upon his claim to the seat of Mr..
Elliott, who represents the Seventh con-
gressional district of that state. AL
though the election is still III doubt,
Elliott has been allowed to hold the
seat. On Tuesday last the case was
called up, but Mr.. Randall succeeded in
crowding Smalls to the wall again by
marshaling the solid party vote against a
consideration of the case. The treat
ment of the colored Republican for two
years past has been unfair and unmanly,
and yet the Democratic press has been
for weeks exhausting their vocabulary
in denouncing the alleged plot to count
out Democrats the moment the new
house is organized.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-16
The Animus Of the Thing.


FFUM lNt UdZtIIo.
The Lawrence Tribune strikes the
right lead in the quotation below. There
are several Kansas cities which are jeal-
Gus of THE KANSAS CITY which is Kan
sas City, Kansas, west of the state line
This scheme is move TO steal from us
the laurels won since consolidation was
effected:
IF the two schemes which are on foot
to change the names of the two cities at
the Kaw's mouth to Centropohs and
Wyandotte should succeed there will be
glittering opportunity for Topeka to
grasp the persimmons and hereafter be
known as The Kansas City.