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Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
REBEL RECRUITS.

We see that our old friend General
Rice will have to give way to Colonel
Cy. Leland in the matter of collector of
internal revenue for Kansas. We sup
pose if the EAGLES rebellion hadn't gone
into fall campaign quarters that the gen.
eral would feel like taking command of
at least two of our divisions with
whoop that would raise the hair on the
top of the head of the goddess of liberty
tiptoelng the dome of the national CAPT.
toll. By the way there is host of other
generals, colonies and majors lately de-
string to join our rebellion, but so many
of them smell like the old crowd which
awaits the threshing, that we hesitate.
Upon the whole we guess we will not
call for any officers just yet but keep on
with our noble and disinterested work of
recruiting private patriots.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
and its cities and towns as rapidly up to
their present standard OF excellence

anu us tItitS anu tOHUS us fdDiuiY up 10
their present standard OF excellence.
The neutral strip is able to aid the
needy. Although money is scarce, the
farmers have an abundance of the necessa-
ries of life. The honest tIilers of the So.
In the strip are generous people and will
take pleasure in donating few bushels Of
corn to their less FORUM ate brothers in
Kansas, Dakota. or elsewhere, who have
failed to raise "A crop the past season and
are now asking aid to carry them through
the winter.-Benton County Banner.
There are eight schools in successful
operation in Benton county, il we are cor
rectly informed Nothing can speak
higher of the character and disposition Of
our citizens. Conducting schools without
public money Is always accom- pa MED by
great inconveriencss and drawbacks, but
our people have kept them up during the
last three years with strong determine
ton TO educate their children regardless Of
inconvenience cast around them.-Bent ton
Banner.
Every wagon road leading TO Oklahoma
Is dotted with thousands of prairie schoon-
ers, loaded with homesteaders and their
household gods" The six mouths allowed
them 10 make settlement and begin con-
tlnuous residence has abont elapsed, and
the cases are rare where any man will let a
homestead in this beautiful farming coun-
try go by default. Last Tuesday the In
FAINT Oklahoma was six months old Young
only in time, old in experience: robust in
her magnificent improvements and strong
IN her brilliant prospects. An infant ia
age, giant in growth, the progidy Of
Amer!ca.-h iDgfsher News
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
THE ELDRIDGE ALLIANCE.
Mt. HOPE. Kan. Oct. so. 1889

Mt. HOPE. Kan. Oct so. 1889.
To Messrs. Harrison. Deming and Rutledge Of the
Eldrldge Alliance.
GENTLEMEN: Your communication is
at hand, and it gives me great pleasure
to assure you that should | be elected TO
the office of county commissioner | shall
use my utmost endeayors to prevent the
useless expenditure of a single dollar.
Beng farmer myself and heavy tax
payer, | know the Importance of econo-
my in every department. Since / came
into office 1t has been my aim and desire
above every other TO avoid the waste of
the public funds. But no man unfa-
miliar with the details of the county
business has any idea of the constant
drain there is on the county treasury.
Bridges and other public improvements
apparently keeps the public purse strings
constantly loose. | believe | can truth
fully say that since came into office
three years ago / have never given nv
vote or signature to the expenditure of a
single dollar not absolutely necessary or
imperativelv demanded,
| believe my official action is above
criticism except by the opposition partv
for political effect. 7. II. RANDALL.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
How to Construct Novel.

A Canoe township correspondent wants to
know how 20 write short love story.
Write il like ali the rest of them are written.
First, let your hero fan desperately IN love
with your heroine Then manage TO have
him struck on the head by a pilo driver or
something Of that sort After which be will
be carried in an insensible condition 10 the
residence II her whom his soul loyeth In
about three weeks he viii open lis eyes ard
exclaim; w here am lf'
And ;he heroine, who has been nursing
him all the while, viii answer In sweet, soft
tones You are here with me, Charley, and
| am 50 glad" Then be rapidly RECEIVERS a1d
they get married Yon can pat Ia the varia-
tons TO suit yourself, using either accident
or typhoid fever with which % PROSTATE
your hero But you must down him sorns-
how That IL mperative-Punxsutaw whey
Er,irit
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
ghe aiea Daily gaoIe ghusdau oruiug @ttober ST.

OF this country are concerned the COM
TO tins output of respectable grain monte
population which has swarmed on us In
the last decade.
The common gambler has no capital
and has bad reputation. His life brings
poverty on himself and disgrace to his
family. His victims are few and are to
blame for being caught. The gambler
dies unregretted, unwept and dishonored.
The grain monte man has capital, power.
influence. position, and the result of his
life IS injurious to that pursuit in life
which makes America the pre-eminent
nation of earth.
hob US of grain and stock and we are
paupers. Debase this industry and we
are nation of serfs; uplift it and we are
the most prosperous of all people. If
we are to have an American farmer
we must have compensation for labor
Slaves, peasants, serfs are the only
farming class, that can be made to toll
for others at wages or profits less than
the cost of crop-and the continuance
OF the option dealer will result in driving
Americans from the farm, aud filling
their places with an alien tenant class-a
class That will be brought here, not to be
citizens. or own land, but to exc out a
hvllhood-as tenants from one genera
ton to another.
II these things make no impression on
the public mind it will be because the
people who gain wealth by other pur-
sults--are Indifferent to the fate of the
American farmer and stock raiser and
because they are content to live. exist,
grow rich and die, surrounded by mass
of humanity from across the ocean who
have but one idea in life, bare living
and yet when the American ceases to
farm, and lands are titled by tenants,
the effects of this will effect all other
trade and business. To drive the option
dealer from options, forces the capital
engaged in, it, beyond the real visible
supply to engage in honest pursuits--and
results in benefit to the country at large.
1t is conceded that we must find some
means to check this growing evil. 1t is
limited if not asserted that the powers
granted to congress do not include the
power to regulate this phase of so-called
commerce, and that the power of the
state does not reach out beyond its ter
Iitorial limits.
If there is no law which protects, de-
tends and guards the agriculture of this
country there should be one. If no rem
edy is furnished, there is one Of two re-
suits as sure to follow as fate, viz: either
we must submit ana see agriculture
ruined, or unite and forcibly put the
knife to the root of this cancerons
growth.
1t may be said that this is the language
of demrgogue. If SO we will concede
it, yet we insist on the investigation of
the causes OF the depression in grain and
stock, and the application of remedy.
There is no wrong without remedy.
QUERIST.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

A queer aocidsnt happenst near town oss
night A gentleman hired . sadd.s bore Il
Bob Springfield 70 attend nigh, ssrvioes ~
Antioch church On arriving a. the church
near az old vel, which va. ioos~iy covered
With rotten boards. AID vtie5 sscsped els
notice 10 tie darkDe>~. During tia ss>sros
ihs horse. Ia moving aboat, stspyssi Epoa tss
frau covertag AID vas IrscspiiAs~d " TIA
bottom Of It's wei. 6lstaaes Il twenty fset
Here he lay, or ratcsr So a5,oa his haSncssa,
until near morning. ~bss By LEANS u 9 rops
and pulley be was resrset from Its very az
cosnfortAbis position Strargs % aAy. ~
animal, tbosEh lady brusssd, sussznsd "a
.srious iagurlsM-D=is0a Ca Cstiz~n-
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
PoInts on Kentucky Titles.

II man has been captain Ia the war,
i entitled 70 this promotion twen,y-four
years after the war closed The only men
proud To be called captain are the command
ers Of steambosts. the captains 81 fire oorn-
panies. the conductors Of railroad trains and
officers in the Salvation Army. Tho title a
major Is comparatively rare, and therefore
Is really more 81 distinction than colonel.
Only prominent people who have ksen actual
service wear the title; for inztauce. Mai
Ed Hughes and Maj j. WaxEington Wann
But still. II you cal major colonel, Be 70
rot likely % gs: mad at you. By Tia ot>srv-
anos q >e few rules have jot,ed down,
the stranger can get along IN Kentucky with
out eou-a.ftiag any serious breach Of 80
quette. -LouisT4lls Post
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

Il appears that the women Il View York
propose to take up the fight FOR tsl- prescrva-
ton Of the pablic schools from s~ctarisn cen
troll An Organization known as the Loysi
Women Of American Liberty has he-xs form
cd, based Cd the inca 9; opposing al 6ivissOn
n the sckocl funds and TIE governmental
support Il the ssctar3a1 schools, AID The in
dications ere that i VII becorse strong in
numbers as Il already h Il csLzsac.er When
the women take Up cassse il earnest ia sssc-
c-sscan &c pretty certainly ospeodsd upon
Frank Lezl.o's EerzyaSer
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

One Of the interesting women 0; Aroostook
county is Mrs. Emma Bull, OF M4piston. now
30 years old She moved into the garden Of
Maine when much Of II had not been eIpI0r-
d, and was one Of the first settlers on tie
Aroostook river. During the first three
months Of her stay she did not see another
woulan's face; then one day Sic caught sight
Of an Indian squaw padding down the river
IN canoe, singing as she rowed- Mr.. B9u
still declares that this rude song was the
sweetest music she ever heard 1t was the
tune Of coTnpsnionship. -Lewiston Journal.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
THE TERRITORY MUST BE OPENED.
Kansas City Times.

Kansas City Times.
The Washington dispatches all indicate
that the administration is getting tired of
having the Cherokees play fast and loose
with the government and that the interior
department is preparing to take radical
steps to open the strip to settlement. The
Times pointed out it the beginning of the
negotiations that the Cherokees had every
thing to gain and nothing to lose by SELL
ing their title to the government. 1t is
generally admitted now as the Times all
along contended, that the Cherokees' title
to the strip was not u proprietary one
and it is not at all improbable that
II the Indians do not awake to IA real
ization of the facts very soon and con-
sent to open the strip they will awake some
morning to find it opened without their
consent.
1t is very evident that Noble knows
what he is about when it comes to the
matter Of Indian titles and homeless
Americans. The cattle syndicate have
no rights to these lands, even conceding
them to be Indian lands, which the
government is bound to respect. The
Indians claim is respected, but the gov
those lands. and the peoples superior
right to them for cultivation, cannot be
gainsayed. The strip must be opened
from the Arkansas river west, and that
Immediately. The EAGLE has held out
for years that the Indian title was not a
fee simple, in any sense, only a treaty
right, good so long as neither side OBJ
jected, but that the Indian in attempt
ing to go into the open market with said
lands was liable to lose his treaty equity.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

American Notes and Queries hesnz asked
By correspondent trozn VIVA: language tie
word "kAngzroo8 GENES, replies: L: Is aid
that when Capt. Cook discovered AnssrAlia
be saw sos<ss Ct tie NATIVES "a tie ssscrs with
. dead animal II some soyt in their posses
sson. and SRI. sailors IN . li.ls boat % buy IL
q them Wien i came CT board nc szr Il
was sonstasng quite se-. - es sent tbs
sAisors back 70 inquire ia hama Tre sa4lo-s
asHed, but. rso. b.sng abe % FAKE the natives
undsrstss1. F-cssrsd tbs answer. Il dear
know" Or, II ths Australia language.
"ks1-gs-Soo." Tae sailors szpssosesd skis w@s
trs name @. the animal. and % reported T.
Ts1z the rAzns Of tss cursocs animal l. tss
>I-dantkosw.r-P LsdS~
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

According TO the French code Gen.
VIM. Malone, the Republican candidate
for governor of Virginia, is entitled to
double pension, being the father of two
sets of tIiplets. But as there is no such
provision of law. state or national. in
this country his party in the Old Domin-
ION propose to substitute the French re-
compense for such patriotic service to
his state and country with the highest
Official stat on within their:gift. i. e. gov
ernor of the state The formal presen-
tahon will take place through the ballot
box next Tuesday.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

Republicans by the score, in every
township and ward in the county, are
awakening to realization of the thin
subterfuge of the Democracy in this
campaign. That party don't dare to
even make the public claim that their
ticket holds comparison. They have
Just fiddled and drummed on one idea,
which sifted down turns out to be no
idea at all, only mere catch of which
two or three of their own nominees are
heartily ashamed
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The epithalamium lately pronounced
by Whoop Tomlinson over the Demo-
cratic and resubmissionist splice, seems
to have been a little 'er-what's that thew
word going the rounds: Oh! now we
have it, erotic.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The report that the city council of Wich-
tia has contracted with the new cooking
school at that place for the biscuit output,
for macadam purposes, is probably a
canard.-Emporia Republican.
Your ''probablys" would be more scat
tering were you confronted with the al
tentative of one of those same biscuits
or death by starvation. Publish all you
ever hear about Wichita, there not being
the slightest danger of running into a
canard, as half of the truth has never
been told yet
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The fire god seems to have it in for
the Kansas City packing houses. The
second one has had disastrous vista
ton within three months, Swift's and
Armour's. In the latter case the insur-
ance companies are the principal if not
sole sufferers: that is. if Armour is as
clever to his employs as Swift was, IN
keeping them on the pay roll during
their enforced temporary idleness.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The coinage of silver at the San Fran
cisco mint, which was suspended some
time ago because it was supposed that
the work could be done cheaper in the
east. is to be renewed. The coinage is
over a million in arrears and the capac-
ity of all the minis is required to keep
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The Huntingtons have disgraced
American citizenship. There is not only
prostitution, but the father pays millions
for the privilege of making his daughter
the victim, not the victim of an average
clean man, but of libertine of the herd,
a gambler who sustains his games by
fro,,l
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
To the Editor Of the Eagle

/ would like to say to the farmers of
southern Kansas that as they now have
two good packing houses at their very
doors and an abundance of cheap corn.
that now is the time TO raise all the pigs
they possibly can, and by converting
this surplus of cheap corn into pork they
will soon be able to lift the mortgages
from their farms. An OLD FARMER.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
grown.

The opposition of the Republican
nominees of Sedgwick county only hope
for success by alienation Republicans
from their own ticket, and are now en-
gagged in b!arneying, lying and begging
Republicans to prove false to their party
they have no other hope and dare not
defend the principles of their party.
Scratchers always regret their action.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

Mrs. Cleveland, it is said, is growing
handsomer than ever, remarks the Chi
cago News. Yet crusty old bachelor
named Hill is laboring under the delu-
sion that he is in the race for the presi-
dopry
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

This is year of big figures in the crop
world. There will be 500, 100000 bush
els of wheat. 1900, 100000 bushels of
corn, about 100000 bales of cotton,
TO say nothing of the large crops of oats
and potatoes. Taken in the aggregate
these are the largest crops we have ever
GROWN
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The Republicans who desire to turn
Sedgwick county and its immense IN
terests over into the hands of a nest of
Democratic lawyers and bosses are get
ting very hard to find.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
Hor ChroEss Iroa L. Md.

4 Norwegian engineer, Hszr o. Ossrr,
Cs.rsrsxns, has obtained s~n yssss pas~n:
Tex a nss process Tor tie rsxszsscezrS q
ehronss iroo. l. "a process vel rntxad
pros.o-tso1 q fssly y1,~s<1zsa chrome ere,
r,o~ssrst charcoal azd ar are kss.ed 70 r~3
Laz, IL c.osss ves<I. then allowed % eo1i,
ssd GnAI,y rsrne.:ss Ia cr-csels. togssksr
with . certain proyortaoa - vu!v~tssd lroa
Gre, powdered charcoal. eorax. ground giAa
snd eyassis q r->.@ss@zr2 Th~ properties
Of tss nssx 80 srs rz.z-sliT recs . 0zA~
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

If you are a Republican, stand by
your colors and you will have nothing
to be ashamed of after the election,
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The reelection of Arthur as chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS was the only thing the order could
do if it meant to maintain its organize
ton; not that his personality per Sc is
essential to it's existence, but the con-
dition of the feeling among the member
ship that would be betrayed by open
and formidable opposition to his admin
istration could not fail to prove disas-
trous to it. The Knights of Labor came
near stranding upon the same rock and
it has not fully recovered from the
shock. To save that organization mas
taxed the administrative ability OF Mr..
Powderly more severely than anything
else that has occurred in its history,
and the Brstherhood were wise in not
switching off the main line Of their
orders best interests by listening to the
wines of malcontents.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

waea E.5y ~.s szes, vs gave - CAeos.A.
wsxs So ..s c1-sse. sss crsss 70. csx.zr1A
was sss escxzs Nm. SO esnr< 70 c.ssor...
VIA Sc s&a ca-ssssz, 90 gar. sssz cAs-1s>
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

Thode Brown is doing noble work Of
which his friends may well feel proud.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The question of leasing the lands of
the Cherokee outlet, or Neutral strip as
it is known, by the cattle syndicate as
per their proposition to the Indians,
seems to be definitely and permanently
settled in the negative by the order of
ohe secretary of the interior to the cattle
men to vacate the said lands within a
specified time, and his letter of insure
tion to the commission appointed 10
negotiate with the Indians TO transfer
their claims TO the lands 10 the govern
ment. The secretary presents the ques-
ton i'll argumentative form for the
special benefit of the Indian, 10 impress
him with the fact that he can make no
contract or agreement with an indivId-
ual or private corporation that can posi-
bly, hold good as against the action of
the government in settling other friendly
tribes of Indians upon the lands in dis
pute at any time, according to the
specific terms of the treaty with the
Cherokees The matter is made so plain
that the Cherokees must see that they
are standing in their own light to offer
further opposition tn the propositions of
the government.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The Kansas City Times publishes with
out comment or criticism the EAGLES
editorial of Sunday in which it is held
that TO make resubmission a Democratic
issue is TO kill it, which publication
would seem 10 indicate that the Times
considers the doctrine sound and the ad-
vice worthy needing by its Democratic
readers in Kansas. Without reference
10 the different motives actuating the
numerous elements demanding reSub-
mission and 4 new constitution. there is
no question that either or both can be at
tanned only through the Republican
party in this state.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

1t would be a great injustice, the Atchi-
son Champion thinks, to exDel the cattle
men from the Cherokee strip after they
have contracted for it with the Indians.
The cattle men have long had notice that
the Cherokees could not lease their lands
without consent of the government, and
entered into the contract at their own risk.
If they have made a void contract with
their eyes open they could not complain
very much if they were ousted.-Emporia
Republican.
The cattle men leased with their eyes
wide open and knowing all the while that
the government, under the very last
treaty made, had the consent of the In
dams to cover the entire strip at their
pleasure with other Indians. The prin-
cipal reason why cattle men desire SO
much to hold their cattle on the strip is
not because there are not grazing
grounds all over the west, but because ID
the territory they escape state, county
and township taxation, thus being en-
abled to beat the Kansas farmer in COM
petition
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31

The decision of the state supreme
court sustaining the legality of an or
dinsnce passed by the city council of
Topeka requiring inspection of beef cat
tie before slaughter for local use as food
seems to present case wherein there is
a distinction without a difference,
and in effect makes a city
council superior in its leg
islative capacity, to the state legisla-
ture. Such acts passed by state legisla-
lures have uniformly and without ex-
ception, so far as we have seen or heard
been declare by both state and federal
courts as unconstitutional and void. If,
therefore, the legislature of a city may
do that that it is incompetent for state
legislature to do, it would seem that the
whole polity and system of local legisla
ton will have to be changed. Mean
while we presume those towns that have
been so clamorous for this restrictive,
not to say proscriptive, power will pro
coed to make the most of their newly
recognized prerogative.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
Brief Mention.

J~erseyville will issue $40, 600 in bonds for
the purpose of erecting a high-schOOl build
ing.
7. S.. Browder, the Oldest pioneer in Doug
las county, died near Murdoch, on Satur-
day, at the age of eighty-two.
Joseph Hartman, a young unmarried
while jumping off a moving train.
John Lampe, a Quincy saloon-keeper, on
Sunday, blew out his brains with a pistol.
He was suffering with delirium tremens.
A tramp was found dead at Paloma,
Sunday morning with a bullet wound In
his leg. He had a complete kit of burglars
tools on his person.
Bishop Seymour has issued a pastoral
letter to the clergy and laity of the diocese
of Springfield urging them to observe
W~ashington's centennial on April 30.
A. Tappan, a resident of East Dubuque,
who returned lately from Dakota, blew the
top Of his head off with q shotgun Sunday
morning. He was respondent over losses
in Dakota.
John M. Spain, Republican, received
eighteen majority for collector, at the re-
Chrisman. Democrat, however, thinks it
was illegal, and has asked for a recount and
investigation
An interesting and valuable relic of the
old Grant leather store in Galena, in the
currying-bench used in the establishment
at the time Captain y. s. Grant was en-
plOyed therein. before his entry into the
army during the rebellion, has been sent
from Galena to the G. A. r. post at
DUBUQUE.