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Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
Kanoas Good Enough.

Kansas City Gazetie-
May our right hand forget its cunning
and our tongue cleave TO the roof of our
mouth if we forget thee, Oh. Kansas.
Oklahoma may go and the Cherokee
Strip may come, but thou art our chief
Joy. Midway between oceans and half
way from lakes to gulf, thy situation Is
perfect. Blessed with a delightful eli
mate and fertile soil, thy children rest
in peace and confidence on thy bosom,
and having plenty of bread and to spare.
they are content. With school house
on every hill, church in every valley,
good society abounds on every side, and
we do not dream of other lands. With
limpid streams flowing into graceful
rivers, and grass growing at every turn
with the meadows filed with flowers, it
Is indeed land fioowing with milk and
honey.
With "a iIroads running up the valleys
or piercing the upland country, com
munication is easy and transportation
cheap Carrying the choicest articles Of
commerce 10 the denizens OF the interior
and returning with long train loads O.
cattle, hogs, sugar. coal and salt for the
citizens of the big towns, what more
could be added 70 make the Kansas peo-
pie happier or more prosperous:
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
Wheat in HeadA

Secretary Mohler of the state board
of agriculture, has received a small
sheaf of new wheat from a cor
respondent in Harper county.
which promises May harvest and big
one. The letter enclosing the sample
was written several days ago and says,
Sin three days of warm weather all May
wheat will be in head" and sin week
all varieties of wheat will be in head. :"
The writer says there never was such a
prospect for crops in that section, and
the indications are for yield of $50 per
cent as compared with other years.
Nearly all the grains and grasses indicate
over the standard of perfection-100.
Southern and southwestern Kansas will
make the rest of the state rustic this
year to keep even.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

| A change in time over the entire Santa
| Fe route will go into effect on May II,
the time card now being III course OF
preparation.
The Kansas State Fair associa ton,
under the present management, has de
cided not to hold fair at Topeka for
| the year 1889.
! The farmers of west and northwest
Morton comfy have organized Stock
Protective association to protect them
selves against theft.
AT Solomon, where they have been
fooling for twenty years with a salt vein
fifty or sixty feet below the surface, they
have struc it rich at 9l0 feet.
Rhubarb has made its appearance in
the Richfield market, the first new veg
etable of any nature so far, and the Re
publican says everybody is up and a
movin.
Topeka had sensational shooting
scrape Monday night. According TO the
Capitals account the victim was a
widow woman" There's nothing
strange about a woman figuring in 1t,
but it is usually ''widower man." or
some other sort, that catches the shot.
The collapse of a span of bridge at
Kansas City, Kan, Sunday, precipitated
seventy-fiye persons who were on the
bridge into the water below. Luckily
there was only three and half feet Of
water and no one was drowned, though
it took an hour TO get all out. 4 few
were bruised more or less, though none
seriously.
Solomon and Kanapolis are both
ahead OF Salina There is no use honey
coating words. Salina has been fool.
Her business men have let these two
cities get ahead of US. Are you not
ashamed. business men of Salina, II not.
YOU ought to be. Let Salina bore for
salt and establish plant, or forever take
q hack seat" Thus saith the Republican.
Now let the bold, outspoken Gazette
vouchsafe an observation.
The warrants have been issued by the
state auditor 20 the treasurer Of the
state board Of charities for the expenses
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
General Crop Report.

The following crop report will appear
in this week issue of the Farmers Re-
view: The prospects for the winter
wheat crop still continue FAVORABLE as a
rule. Correspondents in Ohio. Illinois,
Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and Wiscon-
sin report conditions improved since our
last report. In Indiana the average Of
condition remains about the same. Re-
lative to grams sown this spring reports
indicate an increase oyer the average
acreage usually sown to spring wheat in
Illinois, Nebraska and Dakota, but less
than the average in Iowa,
Wisconsin and Minnesota. More than
hiatt the reports from Illinois, Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Dakota mention the need of
rain. Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska
have been abundantly supplied in this
respect, and many counties in Iowa and
Michigan report heavy showers. Condi-
ton of winter wheat: Illinois, 100 per
cent. Ohio, 50; Indiana, % 10; Ken
lucky, SO; Missouri, 101; Kansas, 116:
Michigan, 90; Wisconsin, 90. Acreage
sown to spring wheat as compared with
an average: Illinois, 50; Iowa, 80; Kan
sas, 1913; Nebraska, 105; Wisconsin, IS:
Minnesota, ga: Dakota, 107.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

The occasion of Mondays and Tues
days demonstrations in New York city
and the occurrences incident thereto,
moves the Kansas City Gazette to re-
mark that President Harrison in 1892
will be the most distinguished partici-
pant in the greater international celebra-
ton of the discovery of America by
Christopher Columbus. The centennial
celebration of 1876 was great occasion,
the present one is equally great or
greater, but neither will compare with
that of 1892, in which Europe and Amer
lea will equally unite, and which will be
honored on the coasts of Asia and
Africa and in the civilized
isles of the Pacific. Three
years hence the United States,
Mexico, the West India Islands, with
Canada and the empire and the republics
of South America will compete with
Spain and Italy and England and France
in doing honor to the hero of 1892 and in
celebrating with the pageantry of fleets
and flags and crowns and senates and
peoples the successive steps in the great
event which doubled the size of the
world and unlocked the enterprise of
man in the subjugation of nature and
reformation of religion and government.
Not till the chief celebration Of all the
centuries is over will the centennial
cycle be ended. May the president live
tn coo IL
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
TIE CONDITIONS OF MANUFACT.
JJRING

URING
From the Boston Commercial Raiietin.
From advices that come 10 us from the
manufacturing sections of the country
we infer that business generally has
much better outlook than it had a few
months ago. The cotton industry GER
tainly seems to be gaining ground, and
many new mills are being erected in the
different states. Among the wooden
mills. however, a somewhat uneasy feel
ing exists, owing to production in
certain lines of goods, and the employees
in a number of mills have been put on
half-time, while other mills have tempo
rarily shut down altogether This Is es-
peciaDy true of the satinet industry and
To the l23 sets Of machinery pledged 70
cease running during July aud August
are now added a number OF sets running
on cassimeres that will prob
ably stop in June The boot and shoe
factories cannot as yet be said
to have generally begun work on fall
orders, but majority Of them are run
ming on full time. and orders for fall
goods are said 70 be placed quite lber-
aiIv.
The glass industry wears an improved
aspect and business seems 20 be recover.
ing from the depression noted few
weeks ago. Some Of the glass factories
which have been idle for long time are
again busy, and we note few instances
Of new factories being erected. The
iron mills are not as yet IN fully healih-
ful condition. and we are still hearing Of
cut-downs in wages and consequently of
strikes. The iron trade has. however,
certainly picked up considerably during
the last three months. AID the extreme
depression which existed during the
winter can be said 20 have disappeared.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
The Dressed Beef Industry.


Labor Commissioner Betton has sue
ceeded In exciting considerable interest
in the subject of the dressed beef in
dustry and its results SO far as they
affect the consumption of fresh meat in
the United States, which will come up
for discussion before the convention of
state labor commissioners at Hartford,
Conn, the latter part of June. A letter
was received yesterday from the Maine
commissioner, who says that since the
shipment of dressed beef instead of cat
tie on the hoof began, the consumption
i'll the Pine Tree state has largely in
creased, even ''the woodsmen" now eat
ing beef every day where they once in
dulged in that luxury but once week.
1t does not appear that the price is great
ly reduced on roasts and
steaks, but they seem to get
there in better shape or offer some other
strong attraction. Commissioner Betton
finds the prices reduced somewhat in
packing house towns since the new or
der of things, but there are several con-
ditlOns which act against radical re-
duction, the money realized on hides and
tallow no longer being one-half what it
formerly was. while everybody now calls
On the whole, it would appear that the
change on the methods of quarter of
century ago is an improvement, as prices
now are not materially different from
those of 1858 and are much lower in all
sections of the country than they have
been IN many years since the war.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
ABOUT TREE CULTURE.

The first Arbor dav was observed in
Nebraska seventeen years ago, when
100000 trees were planted. There are
now growing in the state 5000, 600
trees. In other states many millions of
trees have been planted and at the pres
ent time thirty-four states observe an
Arbor day. A hundred thousand acres
of valueless hunes on the Bay of Biscay
were planted with trees by Bremontier,
which now yield France an annual in
come of hundred and thirty thousand
francs. In the United States the destrnc-
ton of forests progressed so rapidly up
to thetime the work of replenishing
them by planting trees was begun that
serious apprehension was felt for the
future wood supply, but the alacrity
with which timber culture has been
taken up throughout the country has
banished all fear on that score.
Speaking of tree culture reminds us that
the cottonwood, so extensively used in
the west in planting groves, hedge wind
breaks, etc., mainly because it is most
accessible and of quick growth, promis-
es to become of great value. AS every
one knows who is at all familiar with
the tree its wood is light, though tough
and of very fine fiber, and when thor
oughly seasoned is susceptible of a very
high polish. These qualities make 1t
valuable and desirable for all kinds of
cabinet work and for inside finishings in
fine house work. For furniture it is
rapidly taking the place of walnut,
whichis very scarce and high-priced.
The destruction of native forests is,
therefore, being amply compensated for
in stimulating the comparatively new
industry of tree planting, thus not only
atfording profitable employment to
thousands of persons throughout the
country, but bringing into use large
quantities of timber hitherto regarded
as of value only as cord-wood or other
baser uses.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
For the EAGLE.
REFUSED.

As often when the waves are calmly sleeping
(The stars above their sparkling watches keeping,
And grim cliffs bending DER, like mourners weep
ingl,
The stealthy winds, mischief bent. come creeping
And rouse the winds by wild rebellion breathing,
And slow incite them, TILL with fury seething,
They beat the cliffs their snowy coronets wreathng
Hay-way to Heaven;
The crags strong, and with their bold foes bat
ting,
Present sturdy 'front.' and sent them rafting,
Back 10 their depts So giddy Rumor, tattling
About land,
Where no ones hand
(She said
Need turn the soil
Without this toll
The wheat its head
Would lift, and bread
Be freely given
Caused many men to rush wild as the sea
To Oklahoma. They strove manfully
Against the rocks Of hunger, pain and thirst
And poorer SOL but with their ranks reversed
Were forced again TO seek a better land
Where peace and plenty linger hand in hand
And III their depths 20 dwell are peacefully
More careful how they list TO Rumors cry.
'I'oyco."
Anru IN
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

Wichita has Missouri river freight rates, and
what Wichita has Topeka can, should and will get,
or there VIII be blood on the moon. Strike for the
rates.-Topeka Democrat,
Has Wichita Missouri river rates, and if
so how did she get them? That's what we
want to know.-Lawrence Journal.
Yes, Wichita has what is known in
commercial and freight transportation
parlance as Missouri river rates. She
procured the concession by proving to
the state board of railroad commission
ers that her commercial position and the
volume of her traffic entitled her to such
benefits. Any other city in the state can
secure the same advantage by making a
similar showing; but it takes that to
fetch il.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
Corn for Selling.

To the question, "What crops to SOW
to supply COWS with green food during
the summer while the pastures are dry
and useless" the following answer is
given by ". B. Pratt, of Steuben county.
n. Y, in the Rural New Yorker. He
says:
| SOW sweet corn if | have it, other
wise the common yellow field corn, in
three feet apart drill marks, at rate not
exceeding a half bushel per acre, on
strong, well MANFRED land, in close prox-
unity to a field to which the COWS will
ally SOW twice-once quite early, even
before planting field corn, aud again two
or three weeks later. The cultivator is
freely used during the season of growth
and some hand wedding and hoeing are
done if the land is foul. sow so much
ground that if drouth sets in early feel
free to draw on the crop before
1t reaches its best. If, on
the contrary, pasture keeps reasonably
fresh and abundant, and there is likely
to be an excess of the fodder corn, the
second sewing is resorted to as soon as
it has reached fair maturity, and the un-
fed part of the earlier crop is cut and
cured for the winter forage while the
weather is yet warm and dry A liberal
feed is dealt out to the cows each morn
ing after milking by throwing it over a
separating fence Immediately adjoining,
or from a single-horse wagon loaded up
the preceding evening if found conven-
lent. Light seeding. rich land and thor
ough cultivation gives greatest bulk and
weight, and the best feeding results are
gained after the glazing stage is reached.
With the occurrence of severe autumnal
frosts full feeding of pumpkins each
morning is esteemed oS much value.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

Well, well! has it come to this already:
that Kansas must furnish the east with
its educators, as well as contribute large
ly to its store of subsistence? 1t is but a
little while since one of our accomplished
college professors was called to fill a
prominent chair in one of the leading in
situations east, and now Prof. 2. ID.
Aldrich, of the Lawrence university, is
invited to a prominent station in the
Utica, n Y, university. Well, we still
have our Garfield left, alas.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
Women Love White.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution
Upon entering the world it is her first
robe. In white gown she is brought
for baptism. She says her prayers III
white, and kneels for confirmation in
spotless white She is married in white,
and after that she lives over the white
garment days of her her youth in the
robes she makes for her children, and
when her task is ended she folds her
white hands and lies down to sleep in a
shroud as white as her soul.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
KANSAS EOiLaRY.

James L King succeeded John Mile
BAN as postmaster at Topeka, Tuesday,
May /.
Another artesian well Is in operation
in Meade coanty-this time Sc the new
sugar mill
The western counties are planting 2
large acreage Of kaftir corn, milo maize,
and alfalfa
Oberlin Doesn't want the earth: but at
an altitude Of nearly 400 feet above
SEA ievea expects gas for lighting and
fuel.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
Feeding Farm Horses

A veterinary surgeon recommends
that those who have charge of horses,
especially farm horses, be taught that
the stomach of horse is not like the
rumen OF COW. mere receptacle for
food, but an essential organ of digestion
OF limited capacity, which does not need
to be crammed In order TO perform its
proper functions, and that it cannot be
50 treated without danger to the animal:
that the teeth of the horse are provided
for the purpose of mastlcating the food.
and that food which does not require
justification should be sparingly, if
ever used. He further recommends
that no horse be put to work immediste-
iy after a full meal, and where
a horse has done a heavy days
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

THE Kansas champion of anti-prohi-
ton Col. Tomlinson OF Topeka in
a two-column article in the New
York Sun of recent date claims the
credit for the defeat of the prohibitory
amendment to the state constitution in
Massachusetts at the late election. This
claim is now controverted by the an
nouncement that an old man recently
died near Boston, aged 107 years. Up
to the very day of his death he smoked
pipe constantly, drank three quarts of
ale day and boosted that he had gone
to bed drunk every night for the last
forty years and was so the night before
he died.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

The decrease in Kansas City's bank
clearings last week is accounted for.
The city has been put by the ears over
the brilliant exploits of its ball team,
supplemented by Joe Jefferson's inimit-
able Grip Van Wrinkle" and "Caleb
PIummer" as presented at the play
house. Kansas City, be it said to its
credit, don't usually do things by halves;
when she works she works, and when
she plays she plays-except ball.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
The Chicago Inter Ocean, in speaking

The Chicago Inter Ocean, in speaking
of the mad rush to Oklahoma. gives sta
tistics showing the amount of land open
for public entry in various states. 1t
puts down Ohio as having %, 5S2. 076
acres subject to such location, or lust
5,016 more than the total area of that
state. OF course the Inter Ocean has
dropped into clerical error However,
from the statistics given, Uncle Sam has
a good many farms to give away yet. 1t
is to be hoped in future, that more dis
erection will govern the giving away of
these public lands. and exacting therefor
the full terms required by the law.
Heretofore millions of acres of our finest
lands have been practically stolen bv
men through false representations and
false entries. Surely the government
never contemplated that single, or a
few individuals should ever come into
possession of such tracts of land as are
now held by certain individuals who
could be named if necessary, and which
were obtained largely by the desert land
act. Some of the choicest lands in this
state have been thus stolen under the
desert and the timber acts, through
dummy" claimants whose expenses
are paid by land grabbers. We hope the
new secretary of the interior will look
after all such fellows with sharp eve,
as he doubtless will from the promptness
with he has instituted investigation into
the alleged irregularities and frauds in
Oklahoma.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

The railway mail service is now under
the rules of the civil service, Conse-
quently it will be useless for those de-
string positions in that branch of the
public service to apply to congressman
or to present petitions or general recon-
mendations because these can do them
no good. They must stand upon their
own merits before an examining board.
Only two officers connected with the
railway postal service are exempt, the
general superintendent and his assistant.
Changes in all the others of the $500
places must be filled by examination,
promotion or transfer.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

Leavenworth scored one on Wichita Sun
day evening. Robert He nderson shot and
killed his stepfather Charles Baily because
Baily beat Baily's wife with a base ball
bat. 1t is now in order for Wichita to get
up very early in the morning with new
sensation to tie the score.-Topeka Capt.
tai.
Yes, but your town wouldn't or didn't
wait to see what Wichita would do about
the get-up-early-in-th act, but
went to work to capture the pennant, and
got it. by having widow woman shot
in the south side." and in the night time,
at that.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
They All Want Their,

FROM me a Z Dispatch
The citizens of Fort Scott have made
application to the board of railroad COM
missloners for hearing upon the sub
ject of jobbing rates for their CITY. such
as were recommended by the board OF
Wichita recently, and the board has set
Tuesday of this week for hearing the APP
plication at the office in Topeka.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

of the various charitable institutions
during March:
Deaf and dumb asylum, %, J76.s 5.
Insane asylum, Topeka, s., 1887.
Insane asylum, Ossawatomie, 81. $50, n
Soldiers orphans home, 81 ,27Y. 70.
Reform school, 81. 487 60
Topeka Democrat.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
Spanning the Time Since the Pilgrim:

Spanning the Time Since the Pilgrims.
From the Boston Advertiser.
That was most extraordinary remin-
iscence which the speaker Judge o. ".
Holmes) cited from a letter written by
the late Sidney Bartlett: Deacon
Spooner died in 1918, age 81. | saw
him and talked with him. He talked
with Elder Faunce, who talked with the
pilgrims, and is said to have pointed out
the rock" Only three lives, one OF them
but just passed away, between us and
the men of the Mayhower.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

The Emporia Republican thinks that
the way Col. Tomlinson defeats prohibi-
ton in the east is by exhibiting himself
rs an example of what prohibition does
Cor people in Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

Hon. Thomas Ryan leaves Washing
ton next Saturday and will come direct
to Topeka, where he will remain only
few days. 1t was expected that he
would return to the state in time to at
tend the Emporia convention yesterday
but he preferred, it seems, to not so
much as appear to take any part in the
selection of his successor. Mr.. Ryan
has enough patronage to dispense, how
ever, to make him an object of special
interest to quite number of clever
fellows.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02
Weather Crop Bulletin.

I. r. Jennings, assistant director of
the Kansas signal corps, makes the fol-
lowing weather service report for the
past week:
Precipitation-The rainfall has been
below the average in all counties except
Shawnee and Usage. Throughout the
larger part of the state no rain has fall
en-. A moderate thunder storm on the
23rd In the eastern counties. Heavy
dews have been a feature of the week
A light frost occurred on the morning of
the Goth in Riley, which extended into
the north and northeast lines of the state
but did no damage.
Results-Full advantage has been taken
of the fine opportunity for blowing
offered by the general absence of rain.
Corn planting has been yushed
vigorously forward, while the early
planted is being cultivated. The
seasonable temperature and the abund
ance of sunshine, with the large amount
of moisture IN the ground, have proved
eminenIly favorable for all growing
crops, yet in the northwest counties
shower is desirable for the gardens.
Wheat is two feet high in the southern
counties and has begun to head; it is a
foot high in the central counties. Rye
is heading in central and southern. APP
pies, peaches, cherries, pears and plums
are setting full. giving promise of an
abundance, while the small fruits are
equally as promising. Strawberries are
nearly ripe on the southern tier.
Chinch bugs have been unwelcomely
numerous this week, and especially SO
on the Goth. The high north wind of
the Goth proved veritable sand storm
south Of the great bend.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

The prospects are that Henry Willard
will be deposed as leading factor in the
Northern Pacific councils.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-02

A suicide and birth are two of the
evidences of the new civilization in Ok
loboma