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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-10

The steamship State OF California
broke her shaft while at Sea on her
last trip from Portland to San Fran
cisco, and for several days great anxiety
prevailed as to her fate. The first Of
ficer finally reached shore and in a
dispatch to the agents at San Fran
cisco, relieved the stress of mind.
Tugs we're A., opef dispatched for her
relief. II"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-10

PuRDY's proposition in the House to
suspend the salaries Of members and
employees during recess Of the Legisla-
ture, met with no second and fell to
the table with q dull thud,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-10

PoRTLAND's wholesale jobbery trade
for809; according to the Oreyoniau,
amounted to $1l8 100000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-10

The Tacoma Lfdger has donned
new dren which greatly improves its
appearance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-10
Let the Future Decide.

Governor Ferry says il will Dec Impossible for
him 10 present IA special message 10 the L"@is
lAturc on the financial condition 90 the state on
count Of The gross inaccuracies in the Terri
iuIial Amliinr.. 70 -n-I.-L nrtlsnM
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-10

VA SAA0OOSCNSt4VS0 W06
taken up by special order. The bill
was ordered back to the engrossing
committee for engrossing.
The House communicated the Sem
ate that it had passed q joint resolu-
ton for the formation of = joint com.
mittee TO be composed of members
from Spokane Falls, Seattle and Ia.
coma, to take action upon the crea-
ton of new charters Of these cities.
On motion OF Drum the resolution
was adopted.
Landes then moved to adjourn until
l 80 O'clock tomorrow, which was
carried.
The House met at 10 A. NJ. but as no
quorum was present, adjourned to 2
p. NJ.
At that hour, House met and pro-
ceeded to business.
The following bills were introduced
By Rutter, to regulate the ventila-
ton of mines and to govern the ap-
pointment of coal mine inspector.
By Oliphant, relating to building,
AOeshS oiu saving AhotItut1OuS.
BY Evans, to secure creditors a lust
division of the estates of insolvent
debtors when assignments have been
made for the benefit of creditors: re-
ferred.
By Clark, to regulate savings banks
referred
BY Geoghegan, to define trespass ON
the public lands and provide penalties
therefor; referred to Judiciary COM
mittee.
By Megler, to create a fish commits
sion.
By Rotch, to prevent bank officers
receiving moneys on deposit when in
q failing condition.
BY Morse, to authorize County Com
m'ssioners to issue bonds for, roads !;
read second time and referred to
committes on Roads and Highways.
Morse introtiuced,a resolution pro-
viding for the ERECTION of n chaplain
on the 9Th inst. at a salary of $3.50
per day.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-10

On mOtlOn, tile Senate then adj
journed until ! 80 P. NJ, tomorrow.
House met at the usual hour, and
after the preliminaries of opening,
proceeded to elect Mrs. G. w. Culver,
of Olympia, Assistant Journal Clerk.
The House then went into a COM
mittee of the whole to consider Cooks
local option liquor bill, but arose with
out action than q Recommendation
that the bill be referred to the COM
mittee on Privileges and Elections.
Considerable time was consumed in
discussion of the matter of election of
Chaplain. Petitions for and remon-
strances against were presented and
read. Finally vote was taken and
the House decided to elect such of.
ficer, the vote standing 81 to 26.
On motion of Clarke, a committee
of three was appointed to select a
candidate from the most needy of the
cloth for the position. Clarke, Geohe-
gand and Morse were appointed.
Messrs. Clark and Brown favored
Rev. Mr.. Langdon, of the NJ. E. church.
GeOhegan recommended Rev. Mr.
Buck, of the Episcopal church.
The majority report of the commit
tee elected tie vote, and the Speaker
gave the casting vote and declared the
recommendation carried. A vote was
then taken and Langdon received 80
votes and was declared elected; Buck
6, DAILY 5, Damon 3 and Lee 3.
This contest caused much acri-
monious debate, and the House was
very evenly devided as to legality as
well as the propriety of electing
Chaplain, 1t is claimed that Con-
stitutional inhibition will render the
attempt abortive and that the OBJ
ponentsof the measure intend to pro-
test against the payment of the per
diem on that ground.
The following bills were introduced:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
sHEoL BROKE LOOSE IN GEORGIA

The political sea down in Georgia j:
not so calm Just now as it has appeared
to be some time. In fact a storm i:
brewing and the chop seas produced by
the first fretful gust from the gathering
storm portend a disturbance of the ele
ments that is likely to do great violence,
The Democrats fiattered themselves
that thew had succeeded in towing the
Alliance sloop into their harbor and
that they would make it the flag ship Of
| their armada. But it seems that the
| sails of the big scow that were left set
for appearances and effects sake filled
with the contrary wind at an unexpected
moment and spite the craftiness of the
prize masters in charge the erratic vessel
has gone scudding before the wind and
muddying the water as it goes plough
ing along dragging anchor. To bring
the thing ashore it analyses like this:
Having yielded the Offices of governor,
L. S. senator and some others to the
Democrats, the Alliance of the Atlanta
district concluded that they wanted one
of their own number regardless OF past
party affiliations for representative IN
congress and they selected a sure enough
farmer from the rural portion Of the dis
trict as their candidate for that position.
This was accepted as an inexcusable af-
front to the capital city of Atlanta, the
political Mecca Of the state if not the en-
tire south, and one that was
not to be tolerated. Accordingly
there was a great stir aroused in
the city, a running to and fro, putting
of heads together, with the result Of
bringing forward Ex-Governor Rufus B.
Bullock as the fusion candidate Of the
Democrats and Republicans-shades of
Liberty Hal and the spirits of Toombs,
the CObbs, ct al, defend lis. Not that the
ex-governor is not Thoroughly compe-
tent man to represent the district, but
idea of Democrats endorsing him with
his reconstruction record still fresh in
their minds, and his later record of ex-
IRENE conservatism tantaliZe the Repub-
Iicans. presents a situation anomalous to
uniqueness.
The spectacle Of the Democrats join
ing with their implacable enemies, the
Republicans, to fight an erstwhile valued
and valuable ally presents a novel spec
tacle, and is pointed illustration of the
old saw that politics makes strange bed
fellows.
What effect this break of the Demo-
Gratis on the one hand with the Alliance
and fusion upon the other hand with the
Republicans will have upon the state
ticket already fixed up between the
Democrats and the Alliance; whether
it will cause a split all along the line and
nullify what has ceen done heretofore
remains to be seen. If so It's well.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
THE PLATFORM AND ITS CANDIDATE.

The funniest political paradox that has
yet been sprung in this city of political
anomalies is the fact of the Democrats
questioning the EAGLES endorsement of
the Dodge City platform, and the man
nominated there. The EAGLE has been
advocating each and every plank of that
platform, not a single exception. with
all the earnestness and all the wiidom at
its command for many months, some of
them for years. That platform, for the
most part, is but an honest reflex of the
sentiments entertained by the Republi-
can party of southwest Kansas, which
sentiments are as much due the express
sions and exceptional course of the EA-
GLE as any other single source, to say
the least.
As for its candidate, Colonel Halo
well, when any paper, or any speaker,
has succeeded in giving him more ear
nest, solid and comprehensive endorse
ment than that found in the EAGLE of
the morning after the nomination it will
be time enough TO question the EAGLES
position.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

Would it not be we'll for the high pro-
tectionist papers who so flippantly de
nominate all who do not subscribe unre-
servedly to their tariff dogmas as free
traders. to do a little missionary work
ito hum" before they asseverate: There
are two I. s. senators. several represent
atives in congress and any number of
representative party papers throughout
the country that do not endorse the Nc
Kinlev bin nor the principle upon which
it seems to be based. II may be that the
beam they think they see Is only a stran
of wool that some Interest" has stretch
ed across the the retina of their optics
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
HOW PROHIBITION PROHIBITS.

From the New York star.
1t has long been known that prohibit
ton does not prohibit. bat very few New
Workers know to what lengths liquor
sellers and LIQUOR drinkers go in those
states where total abstinence Is an in
tegral portion of the constitution and the
laws. Mr. J. c. Hawkins, of York
Beach. Me. who l. a frequent visitor 10
this city, gave a series of amusing Illus
trations of how the prohibition laws are
constantly violated in his native state.
1t would fill a book" he said, TO
narrate all the expedlents which have
been adopted BIZ the devotees Of the
wine cup down in the Pine Tree state.
One of the most original was the cocoa
nut trick. At one time this was carried
on upon a large scale. until the authOTi-
ties dropped upon 1t. i consisted IN
opening Cocoanuts. cleaning the interior
with water and chemicals. and
then refilling them with whisky
and other LIQUORS. The ewes. as
the holes in the shell are called. were
covered with a patent preparation They
were packed in barrels. with ordinary
cccoanuts filing the top ami bottom. 20
that IN case Of examination by the prohl-
bItlon spies Of blaine the barrel would
seem 10 b. legitimate IN the character q
It's contents. | don't know who invent
ed this ingenious scheme, but the credit
i claimed by a large liquor house n
Boston and another one IN New York.
The deception was found out on one Oc-
casion. when several OF the cocOanuts
were broken by rough handling. and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

their alcoholic contents escaped from
| the barrel. The entire consignment was
confscated by the authorities, and the
cocoanuts broken and the contents per-
mitted to run n the streets. 1t was
| found in this seizure that eighty of one
hundred cocoanuts had thus been pre-
pared and filed with liquor. Another
ingenious device consisted in inserting
plugs in gas and water pipes, and filling
up the space between with strong drink.
Ordinary tubes would contain from one
to five gallons, according to the calibre.
1t could be transported with less danger
of loss than either demijohns or small
casks.
The same principle was applied to
bamboo both in the form of canes, fishing
rods and household furniture. 1t was
also put in lead and tin pipes. Another
odd expedient was developed by the
farmers, who defied the temperance au-
thorlties for many years by following
out the yokeS of their oxen, and filling
those clumsy pieces of wood with enough
liquor to last month. This trick was
exposed by the breaking of a yoke which
had been filed with old bourbon in the
presence of the temperance cOnStableS of
the township. In fact. there is no device
known to the ingenuity of man that hasn't
been used in evading the prohibition laws.
This war against liquor has built
up one singular industry. The
staunch seagoing boats, gen
orally schooners-start from Ports
mouth, Boston, Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, with cargoes of liquor, and
patrol the Maine coast, going so far as to
enter the harbor, and even sail up the
great rivers, on whose shores there is a
large population. They display a flag.
or other sign that is known to their Gus
toners. who row or sail out to meet
them: but confine all their business
transactions to the main deck. BY EN-
ploying proper clearance papers they
escape the jurisdiction of the state, and
can only be interfered with by the fed
eral authorities. As the national law
recognizes liquor selling as legitimate
indurtry, the revenue boats never inter
fere with these liquor-selling vessels,
which, as a result, do a very profitable
bISiuaSc
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
THE IRISH COUNTY CLERK.

From the X C. Journal
The candidacy Of Ben Pagan. the
Irish county clerk, for auditor of state
of Kansas, meets the approval and en-
dorsment of every one here. He carried
a knapsack and gun during the war,
starved ii. he rebel prison pen at Tyler,
Texas, for over seven months, and after
the war came to Ellsworth county. took
a homertead and broke prairie with an
OK team-which he was given the use Of
for their feed. he being too poor 10 pur-
chase them or a span of horses. lie was
a staunch Republican, and the party will
not find a man more worthy. competent.
or popular to I'LL the office for which he
is "A candidate. He Is an active. hard
working G.. 4. r. man, very popular
among his comrades everywhere, and
has already received many letters from
prominent Republicans In different parts
of the state, pIedging him their support.
several of whom were IN the rebel prison
pen with him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
AN IMPORTANT KANSAS INDUSTRY.

From the Topeka Democrat.
The castor bean industry Is one that
paws the Kansas producer generally a.
we'll a. any of the staple products.
In 1884 Kansas had 1906 acres in cas-
tor beans. raised 50 1S3 bushels. and the
crop brought Sl3J44 The WELD was
about g. bushels per acre. and the price
was 81 80 per busbei. unusually high
The crop averaged $13 per acre.
In 1887 Kansas had the extraordinary
acreage Of 1892 in castor bans and
raised 40J AS bushels. 81 bushels pr
acre. The price paid was low. 90 cents
a bushei. and the total Weld was worth
but SG4.9 39. or - 10 per acre. This.
however, was doing as well as corn or
wheat
In1sss the acreage fell 81 per cent. 70
14.77S acres. The yield was -. J,f3
bushels. So bushels per acre and the price
was 81 bushel. $50 PER acre.
Last year the acreage went up ~ 81
rs and the yield was 7.521. worth
500 80, the price advancing 30 SI-S0
per bUshel. The yield per acre was Q
bushels. worth SlI70 Wheat yielded
in the same year Sl5 per acre, and corn
but $50.
In these four years the Weld pr acre
never variesl over ] bushels. the follow
ing being the figures. % bushels, "a
bushels. 81 bushels and 2 bushels. The
lowest price per bushei was - cents and
the average price Was $3.50. The aver
age value per acre Of the castor beans
crop OF Kansas l. about sill.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
Cost Of shaving in New York.

Lots Of meTs get shaved ia New York in
the eve and ten cent barber shops who
would not care TO have the fact generally
known. Their reasons are good ones. The
Cscap shops uptown are mainly in the
hands q Italians who are swift aud good
shavers, aud they are open from ia the
morning Till 10 or u at night The shops
are located on Third, Second, Eighth znd
Ninth avenues, and II mans beard is
strong and bis face not particularly tender
be can get shaved rapidly and comfortably
for Ave or ten esnts. No tip n expected
At the hotel barber shops in the upper part
Of the city the process Il getting shaved is
rather al involved one The shave costs
twenty cents. the barrier always expects "a
he tipped dime and tho brush boy. who
j. usually assiduous and persistent, strug.
gles for anything IN the way ~ change that
happens % b lying around loose To men
who shave every day this expense Ia Of i'm
portance--Sew ICrk World
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

jefferson was the first purchaser of
Louisiana, the lottery men were the next.
We suppose the state viii be raffleld off
neXt.-Brazil, Ind, Enterprise.
And it may be noted in connection
with this. that Mr.. jefferson Is the only
public man of this country who ever
publicly advocated the legitimacy Of the
lottery business. Nh. Jefferson wrote a
long essay in favor of lotteries, in which
he argued that every kind of business in
the world was mere game of chance:
that when the farmer planted a crop Of
any kind, the result was As uncertain as
the drawing of lottery. He maintained.
IN the strongest terms. that there was
nothing unchriStian or immoral in the
the lottery business. Mr.. jefferson was
the founder of the Democratic party and
Louisiana is a Democratic state. and why
should 1t not follow Mr.. jefferson :
teaching that there is nothing wrong or
demoralizing in the lottery?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

The LeavenwOrth Times declares that
the Atchison Champions explanation of
the latter's change of tactics on the
tariff question is but the utterance of
one who desires the defeat of the Repub-
lican party. On the contrary the Cham
pion asserts that its change is made in
view of the changed condition of ma
tional affairs as touching the material
interests of the west: that the change is
made, in fact. to prevent the defeat of
the party as far as it can contribute to
that end by its influence. Nobody can
question the Champions sincerity, how
ever much it may be criticised from the
standpoint of expediency.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

4 miser having lost zoo promised go
reward 10 any one who should bring II 20
him 4 poor man found and restored IL %
the Tniser. and demanded tb- reward, bat
the old man, IN order o. basfle him. alleged
there WIS GilO fn thu bag when be lot IT,
Che poor man. however, Vas advised %
sue for the money, and when the c~ss
came on to be tried IL appeared that The
seal lad not been broken, nor the bag
ripped, and the judge E4id % the defend
ants counsel. The bag yOu lost had Eil0
in II, you ssyf'
Yes. cir
''TEea,' sad the judge. according 70
the evidence given IN court. this cannct bs
your MONEY. for here IL only 400, there
fore the plaintiff mast keep u Until the
true owner aypears.
Ferdiet Eccord.HgIy, with casts. LIN
don rs BIls
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

Louisville is also very much disap-
pointed with the latest development con
nected with the census returns. She has
been claiming all along that estimates
indicated that her population would ap-
proximate $4,000. Now, however, ac-
cording to the partially completed fig
ures of Superintendent Porter it bids
fair to amount to only about 155, 900.
The disappointment felt by Louisville is
just as great as that felt by Kansas City,
Mo-, over its shortage though the actual
loss nor percentage are as great i'll the
former as in the latter place. Kansas
City claimed 5000 and upwards, and
only gets 49,. 1000.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
DEGENERATE SOUTHERN REPUBLI-
CANS.

The American, of Lake Charles, LOuisi-
ana, reproduces the EAGLES criticism
of the Louisiana legislature in granting
the chance of a new life to the New
Orleans lottery swindle, and answers
it in column editorial wherein it is de-
clared that the lottery company was
chartered in 1868 by Republican legis
lature, a Republican governor signing
the bill. A Democratic legislature in
1879 tried to pass a bill repeating the
charter but every Republican member
opposed it save three. The late effort to
recharter was supported by every Re-
publican member The American con-
cludes with: 'Now, if Murdoch. will
take care of his Republican friends in
1.-The south we can knock the lottery
company higher that the famous kite
''owned by the historic Gilroy."
We plead our inability to take care of
any such an outfit, as we also plead
establishment at the declarations of the
American touching the obhquy of south
ern Republicans. But the offense is no
less because committed by Republicans.
The American concludes with the I'M
que STONED observation:
If the lottery should be chartered-which
we believe will not be dOne-we, rs state,
will be owned and run by the company in
its interest. The lottery company would
have the funds to carry all elections, die
tate the men who should be governors,
legislators and all the subordinate officers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
Kansas Poducts in the South.

From the Kansas 9th journal.
1.-The writer of this was in Atlanta,
Ga, a few days ago. He took a ride
over the different electric and dummy
RAILROADS of that thrifty southern city.
He was surprised to lnarn that Kansas
City capitalists and Kansas City engin-
GERS had given that city its principal fa-
cilities for rapid transit. At the differ
ent hotels in Alabama, Tennessee,
Georgia and South Carolina, Kansas beef
is served daily. At the livery and feed
stables in these states most of the grain
used is from Kansas. Even at the dis
tilleries in the mountains of North Caro-
lima the traveller will find, if he investi-
gates, that the whiskey is nearly all
made of Kansas corn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

Regarding the statement Of the ST.
Louis and San Francisco company, it is
said that until more information is fnn-
ished as to the manner in which the
Frisco accounts are prepared, it is i'm
possible to say whether or not the state
ment is favorable. If the fixed charges
for the first half of 1890 are in equal
proportion to the full years charges,
then it is not unlikely that the latter half
of the year, with its always better earn
ings, will yield enough net income to
not only offset the deficit to June 30, but
in addition to cover the full Z per cent
on the first preference stock.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

known newspaper 10 make. Under
the management of John \. Martin it
was a most ardent advocate of the Re-
publican high tariff policy. To look or
lean toward free trade was regarded as
treason. Today the paper founded by
Colonel Martin marches under the lily
white banner of freetrade. II acknOwl-
edges today that the Republican policy
of protection has made he east rich but
pauperizes the west. and it demands that
we obtain. just as quickly as possible,
the ''freest trade with all its attendant
benefits" Ii doesn't mince its words in
its fierce denunciation of the unjust and
unholy policy il has heretofore advocate
and defended. IL marches right into the
camp where Cleveland Carlisle and Mills
and the Democracy dwell, and all the
bridges behind il are burning and totter-
ing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05
Got Us Down Fine.

From the Kansas CIV Gazetts.
In the speech Of Judge Reed nominal
ing J. r. Hallowell for congress, appears
the following:
He halls not from the head waters Of the raging
Kaw,
But from the Peerless Princess Of the Plains lovely
Wichita.
1t Is the tireless, unceasing, always to
the front, brilliant and daring enthusi-
a,m of the boys of the Peerless Princess
that makes lovely Wichita. Can't we
have some esprit de corps for Kansas
CITY. KAN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-05

When Senator Vest was discussing the
tariff bill before the senate one day las,
week. the lead schedule being under con
sideration. he favored a reduction Of the
duty on that article in all its forms. not
withStanding, as be admitted, his state is
the largest lead-producinE one in the
Union. That shows the sort of represen-
tative of the interests of his people the
Missouri alleged statesman Is When
senator Plumb was discussing the same
bill, the oil schedule being IN hand. he
offered an amendment 10 the pending
clause providing for material increase
OF the duty on castor oil. IN the interest
of the producers Of the castor bean. from
which the oil Is made, of his state. And
that shows the kind OF statesman Mr.
Plumb Is; one in favor Of the interests Of
his PEOPLE first.