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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
THE FRANs-1sTHM1AN CANAL.

The New York Tribune has had one of
its intelligent correspondents at Panama
and thereabouts for some time studying
the question Of interocean waterways
and investigating the condition of the
work on the Panama and Nicaragua
canals. His observations led him to the
conclusion that the completion of both
canals depends upon the facility with
which the requisite capital can be OBJ
tanned. He adds:
What is needed is an American policy
respecting these canals. At Panama
there is a strong probability that an
English syndicate viii ultimately IN
dertake the completion Of the canal after
the French have abandoned the field.
The United States can anticipate Euro
pean attempts to finish that waterway,
and subsequently to control the diplo-
matte action Of the Columbian govern
ment. This can be done directly or in
directly. The Panama canal can be fin
ished by an American syndicate with
the sanction of the Columbian govern
ment; or the Nicaragua canal can be
taken up in earnest, adequately support
ed with capital and pushed to a speedy
completion. No English or French syn
dictate will undertake work at the 18th
mus if determined effort be made by
the Americans at Nicaragua to provide
interOceanic communication for the
commerce Of the world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
THE RIGHT DIVINE.

Almost every day brings additional ev.
idence that the car is weakening and is
thinking seriously of giving Russia a
constitution and parliament, thus trans
forming the government from an abso-
lutte to limited monarchy. This high
minded and intelligent monarch is not
giving his subjects these rights because
he is enamored of the principles Of free
government, but simply because the nj
hilists have made his life a burden to
him. His reign, unreheved by any
achievement. has been to his people an
absolute incubus. It took him an extra
ordinary time to summon up sufficient
courage to be crowned, and if he has
ever occupied himself with any import
ant public work, it has escaped the at
tention of the modern historian and
journalist.
All through his glorious reign he has
been principally occupied in lodging
bombs in Russia and plotting to create
dissensions in the Danubian principai-
ties, while, in his spare time, he has been
shipping political prisoners to Siberia.
In his life and actions, therefore, af-
forced TO the world the most impressive
illustration which has ever been offered
to the public, of that grand royal theory,
known as 1.-The right divine Of kings to
govern wrong"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| Frisco Is one town that Is figuring a good
deal on the ChOctaw road.
Kingfisher has a scandal, and it is al
| most as exciting as a shooting scrape.
Congressman Perkins saws Oklahoma
will have legislation before it is year old.
The Oklahoma town site cases reopened
| Wednesday morning at the Guthrie land
! Office.
Guthrie has had and investigation of the
| city recorders books, and they know just
as much as they did before.
It is a tussle between the potato plants
| and the green peas in Oklahoma at present
! to see which will be the higher.
If there has been a harder worker than
! Father Scallon in Oklahoma the last year
| the people would like to see him.
Another gambling outfit has left the
| city" is an item that is seen in the Okla
| homa City papers, now, every day.
If Saltwater does not have the biggest
celebration on the 22nd. some Of the towns
viii have TO get move on them"
Kingfisher would not be surprised If it
soon had in operation flour mill with
capacity of fifty barrels of -four per day.
Vinita has a population of 1,O6O and
valuation of $40. 800. The population con
sists of 637 Indians, % whites and 136
negroes.
The Atchison Globe is mean enough TO
say that Things are so duh in Oklahoma
that the people are holding temperance
meetings as means Of diversion"
If we are to know man by his works.
the best poet who has appeared in Okla
hoDa, writes To the Oklahoma City Times
under the penname of Como Blade. -
\ Wellington man lived in Oklahoma
thirty four days without washing his face.
Kansas Is bound 70 introduce some Of her
aesthetic notions in the new country.
The northern fellows in Oklahoma who
never had anv experience with cotton. and
who have planted some are anxinUsly
watching Tor it 70 push through the soil
Mrs. Mary Grandson has filed her inten-
ton 70 make final proof on her cisIm on
May -, She Is the first 70 have have her
notice published in the vicinity Of Guthrie.
The case Of the United States vs. Capt.
Couch has been postponed until the -5th.
There : great danger. il j reported. that
the next the boomer VIII appear VIII be be
fore Heaven : chancery.
The Guthrie News calls attention 70 the
fact that in less than one year $1,000 set-
tiers in twentieth part Of the Indian
territory have accom- lsshed more than
10000 Indians had done II the whole In
dian territory during the past generation
Beaver Advocate: \ yesterday morning
the sun rose bright and clear, and The
softly-siE1iu- zephyr gently wafte1 from
the meadows the sweet ue4odlUs trlll G.
the lark-but thunder whats the uses
Within a half-hour the wind had whizled
into TIE north and ears and noSErlis we're
soon filed with dust and grave thaI yTFspI
by is ETe4t clouds and. taken ~ y hose tbe
day VAS one q tie dlFtiest. dEst5est-
ulaane~g failures in the way Of ygezsfe sFe
ever slw ia this country
Oklahoma City Times: ECTy few people
have any s1ea q the immen=e uuTt-r q
fruit and Grrzatl enfsI tTEe7 nat haTe oesa
- ont u Oklahoma THIS spring 1here
bas already hem enough trees ~ ont II
Oklahoma City 20 give II, II tST yaaZS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

Miss Kate Shelly, the Iowa heroine
who saved the lives of train load of
people by crawling on her hands and
knees one dark, tempestuous night and
stopping a train in front of a destroyed
bridge, is selling her own pictures in
hopes to raise money enough to save her
extremely humble home from the grip
of a mortgage which is about to open its
alligator jaws and take it in. 1t is ex-
tremely humiliating that this lady whom
poets have sung and orators praised
should be compelled to overcome her
modesty thus. 1t is said the railroad
company, that she saved probably a
quarter Of million dollars by her brave
act, has never so much as paid Aher a
ha'penay.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

the title of Forest City. The farmers, too.
have not been slow TO realize the value OF
tree planting, and all over the country
trees have been planted IN abundance.
One farmer has set out an orchard of ten
acres Ii has already been proved in the
Chickasaw nation and near Fort Reno that
this is an excellent fruit producing coun-
try, and it is certain that those who are
wise enough to plant orchards now, viii
in few years reap the reward of their
wisdom and industry. In the nation,
peaches, apples, grapes, and all kinds OF
small fruits have been grown in great
abundance. and as fine quality as were ever
produced under the sun. There is 10 rea-
son why the same can not be done IN Okla
homa, where the soil and climate are
equally as favorable.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

Mr. J. r. Mead, in his last letter to the
EAGLE From Wichita to Helena" spoke
of the large numbers of cattle that he saw
lying dead along the railroad in Idaho,
the result of the severe winter and scare
ity of food for live stock. What contrast
the scene presents as compared with the
farms and ranches of Kansas, where ali
kinds Of live stock passed through the
winter without really suffering a day
from extreme cold and without going
hungry for food a single hour. 1t is
a strange infatuation indeed, that will
impel a homeseeker to that bleak and
cherries quarter when they can place
themselves so pleasantly and proftably
in this peculiarly favored state and sec
tiOn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

A remarkable case was the one Just
decided in Indiana, in which a viii made
on Sunday was contested on the ground
that it was unlawful for a man to en-
gage in his usual business on that day.
VIII making, distasteful to most persons,
has grown to be the pet dissipation Of
some oddities; but even the most persist
ent makers Of wills and revokers Of codi-
ellis have not thought of making such
preparation for death the business of
their life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
DISCUSSING Tomatoes.

- Joseph Herald
Kansas no longer enjoys the honor Of
exclusive cyclones. Since those gay and
festive sweepers have transferred their
abode 10 kentucky and Ohio we are
treated 10 all sorts Of preventives. But
II takes a Louisville man 10 advance the
latest theory. He has invented a cyclone
protector which be claims viii save suffi-
cleut life and property 10 offset the in
convenience of carrying around on ones
person an electric battery and appara tIs
weighing IN the neighborhood Of so
pounds. 1t has been suggested that.
should the invention prove popular. SO
ciety. in a storm. would tinkle with a
thousand bells. while a small cannon 10
accompany the outfit would discharge
itself into the fUnnel-Shaped cloud. The
electrician also suggests 10 the rich and
opulent, a cyclone collar which might be
portable and not over-bulkv.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Ralrs Of ne Rebellion.

Frgz, tse E41zss Cz-sf
4 Kansas City popar states thar > r-lsn
N 5sl.z1ur h4s an interest nzrellr = tbs
way. IN the shape q a pllots,raph ~ ban
Andersen. the nOtoriorIs Mlsolfri buzh-
-z 'ssarEr. taken snon after hs vsrs killed.
We nave cory II the sane TlaotogTaph.
gwen us bT 5aTnes A. PICKETT. who Uas
thea operating ia that part - the eotEn-
tTr ~ is" capacity - q aort - q drt@o-
tive. aD1 ~ 40 vras vrith ono Il the PARTS
~ Fur-Eflt - AEdarsfu aud gFas rzfsssr.G
~ me scene shortly after ths kiHing Va
ha7r alz7 anottrr pair q Interesting
retaa. beng q p.art ~ The osgtgt Il a.
ArEaEzssas bH1si5ss h4cksT. Tfaey are o1s
n tiaoes Inu1onae home made kuisss.
almost Two feef i0ng. made from q large
ts@. aE-d ose q the high. reaks.i. sAazlci.-
hrIrlrnet t1ft honre-urads pfuigrtloo,
tEs1 aEeTs largely worn during ne war.
] flsy uerP g1ssa - "a ~ Egv. ~ T.
fIzrsieu~r. Chaplain - toe kansaa i1th.
sTi1o sad - took them from tn parsou
q 3 dead tleh y hackrr lr Ark8asasa.
$ il.t ads - ths infeTrsf u tbs fasct tIaGt
81 ~ rsturn tTIp g. he army. after IA
So hcuss durIuE ssllarh b. gave ~ theas
tEsras. Er. CARRIER Was Kidd b. b.lsh-
a-<ers lu iee massacre 20 Timber HI
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

When Speaker Reed was asked what
he thought OF the proposition to run him
for the presidency; he answered: They
might do worse, and I think they will"
The point in this that posters the Demo
Gratis the most is the expression, ''and [
think they WILL" whether he meant
they viii DO worse or ''they viii run
him for the presidency" The name Of
Tom Reed is a very nemesis to the De-
nOCraCV,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

The department of agriculture warns
the people OF Kansas against attempting
to make sugar west OF Medicine Lodge
and north OF Wichita. as such territory
Is outside Of the sugar belt and can pro
duce nothing but failures. The solici-
tude of the department for the welfare
of Kansas farmers Is fully appreciated.
but the chances are that Kansas farmers
viii learn the department something
about sugar making. a. well As some
other things if that industry isn't handi-
capped 30 death by fostering" legisIa-
ton
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
WANT THE LAW AMENDED.

y mass meeting of the citizens of Win
field was held Thursday night to take
action looking to securing an amend
ment to the state law in relation to the
crime Of abortion. The meeting was in
| spired by the recent occurrences in that
! county, wherein death resulted from the
practice of that crime upon the person
Of young unmarried woman by a
physician of that town. as is alleged
Resolutions embodyIng the following
points We're presented and adopted
said resolutions to be presented to Sena-
tor King with the request that they be
incorporated into our state laws, at the
meeting of the next session of legislature:
Any physician or other person. who
shall produce an abortion upon a woman
! under eigteen. without first procuring
the consent. in writing, of her parents.
II living, and if either or both parents be
dead. then the consent Of three respect
able women who are mothers. where
such abortion results in death shall be
guilty of murder in the first degree.
! The same provision Is also made to apply
where the woman Is over the age of
eighteen. except the consent OF the
parents l. NOT required. Where q
physician or other person finds a woman
who has committed or attempted to com
INIT such an act, and within one hour
thereafter fails 20 report the same to the
mayor of the city. or Justice OF the peace
If not in the CITY. and the woman dies.
the person 50 neglecting 10 notify such
officials. shall be gully of murder in the
first degree.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

A Baltimore man has engaged cleo
tricity as waiter at the dining table.
He has a small car or basket that travels
on a railway around the table after it is
supplied with food in the buffers pantry.
The invention is said to do its work adj
mirabIy. It does not annoy the diner
with questions, does not spill the soup
down his back and, above all, never
glares at him for a fee. This electrical
waiter viii supply long felt want.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

The Newton Republican asks: What
las become of Judge FOSTER Win Major
Hudson make q careful search with the
ladei before reporting Times.
The trouble with that proceeding Just
at this time would seem to be that the
ladle Is in the hands Of the United States
grand jury. and they have been directed
by the court TO search the turene for the
party of the second part.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

The railway postal clerks met in
Chicago Thursday and decided that they
were p aging for the mail service and not
the people. There is one good thing for
the mail clerk, however-he doesn't have
to remain in service after his party has
leen -defeate1.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
The Eagle in Oklahoma.

From the Guthrie Capitals report of a carnival
The Wichita EAGLE, by Miss Myrtle
Meadows. was most admirably brought
before the audience. The EAGLES thrice
familiar scream could almost be heard.
From the Guthrie News.
Miss Myrtle Meadows leaned upon the
banner of the Wichita EAGLE, and in its
behalf extended to the audience a most
friendly greeting and pledge Of eternal
fidelity 10 Guthrie and Oklahoma. The
EAGLE had in Miss Myrtle very pretty
and attractive exponent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

The Mckinley bill don't seem to meet
the views Of all the Kansas press. The
Atchison Champion rises in its place to
assert that the sooner reciprocal COM
mercial relations are established with
Mexico by the removal of the duty from
the tluX ore Of that country the better it
il viii be for Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

The country seems to be about as far
from an agreement on the tariff question
rs 1t has ever been. 1t begins to appear
that General Hancock was not far from
sizing it up according to the popular
estimate when he said 1t is local ques-
ton. The Fftv-first congress may pass
tariff measure. but it looks somewhat
doubtful Just now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

Several Of It's contemporaries are zeal
Gus Of the New York World that they
are ridiculing its interview with ingalls,
and the accompanying photographs.
Senator ingalls, Is a public man and his
utterances command national attention.
Ills ad,airers. and they are numerous
throughout the land. were pleased 10 see
the characteristic positions in which
these were delivered, and if by an inven-
ton the World sees fit to please its read
ers it Is nobody's business but that
papers and ridicule from other sheets
can be traced to but one source-lealousy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

lIurat Halstead believes people would
be better off if they didn't drink any
thing. not even water. This Is probably
one of Mr.. Halstead's non-partisan ideas
of which we were recently informed he
would be { he author.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

Fill up the fertile quarter sections of
southern Kansas counties with thrifty,
energetic farmers and it viii speedily
surpass in beauty and bounty the famed
garden spots of earth. That is what the
Immigration Bureau and aUXiliaries are
working for right now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

1t looks more and more ike the exiled
ex-emperor Of Brazil VIII have to be
recalled to restore the tranquility and
confidence arlong the people. President
Dem Pedro is still at least a possibility.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Here's a Pretty Howdy-do.

from the a Z. NtWs,
It is hard to blame ex-President Cleve-
land for losing his temper under the bru-
tai attacks the New York Sun has made
upon him. 1t is an outrage that a dis
tinguished man an ex-president should
be bounded as Mr.. Cleveland has been
bounded by the Sun, but he has certainly
made a great mistake in forgetting him
self so far as to handy epithets with Mr..
Dana. 1t is foolish to throw a handful
of mud when the other fellow has mud
machine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

Shakespeare was something of an agri-
culturalists himself. He says in one of
his plays which may now be appro-
priately quoted:
Now It's the spring and weeds are shall
low-rOOted
Suffer them, and they'll o'ergrow the
garden
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

The Ro oBs county Alliance has de-
cided that senators and representatives
must pay their own railroad fare or walk
Many Of the Alliances propositions have
been utopian and visionary, but this
Iast-it ! = TOO rn71cbl
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
PLACED HIN WRONG.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.

To the Editor OF the Eagie
If Edwin Cowles were alive today it
would be great sport to hear him repudi-
ate your reference to him as the editor
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Let it be
known that Edwin COwles was the editor
of the Cleveland Leader and that all the
power Of his great mind was directed
against the political heresies OF the Plain
Dealer. E Fl. MORSE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

The Atchison Champion unreservedly
declares that ''there viii he more politi-
cal than crop diversiticaJion ia Kansas
this year" This arch rebel is within
the bailiwick of the Leavenworth Times
political censor. to whom the assevera-
ton is referred for proper disciplinary
proceedings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
a Curious Fact il Statistics.

From THE NeF YORK Trsbgua-
4 curious fact in statistics Of popula-
ton IL the greater number Il people
Whose age X expressed IN decImsls Of ten.
For instance. IN the last census II Rhode
Island there were more than twice a.
many people 80 wears old - there were
people - wears old. So. s2sin. 1t vsa-
shown IN the last census that there were
IN a ceTtaIn county z,1sJ people - years
old. 1900 Il wears old and 1900 -
wears old. The fact X q striking iliustra-
ton OF the general fondness u people
for round numbers. a man who = - or
81 years Of age Is quite apt q call hIrn-
self 81: and in a similar Csc q woman
VIII call herself 50 OF -.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
APOLITICAL ANOMALY.

From the New York Star.
When the Democrats of Tennessee
nominated Robert L. Taylor for governor
the Republicans nominated his brother,
Alfred A. TAYLOR The Taylor family
own the town of Taylorville, in East
Tennessee, and the differences in the
family for an interesting chapter in the
political history of the country. The
contest betwsen the two Taylor brothers
for the governorship was one of the
most interesting and unique in the history
of this country. They conducted it in
good humOr, and the result was attained
with a perfect self-respect for them
both. They were musically inclined and
when they held their meetings Robert.
who was elected governor, would play
the fiddle for the edification of the crowd
add then make his speech, while Alfred
would play the flute before he shot off
his rhetoric. While the campaign was
aggressive, it was good natured. Once
some Democratic editor made an i'll
natured attack on Alfred Taylor, the
Republican nominee. and his Democratic
brother, who was opposing him, de-
manded that the editor apologize or
fight. The editor apolOgized, and no
body ever INDUCED in any personalities
as between the two brothers during the
rest of the campaign. 1t was not safe.
SO they fought the battle out in their
own crude and singular fashion, striking
each other hard blows upon political
questions, but standing together to the
death when any one attacked the in
tegrity of either.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

1t is pleasing to note that the voice of
the kicker has died away in the distance
without a trenlor of reverberation and is
no more heard in this propinquity-
everybody is mp and moving for the
growth Of Wichita and prosperity of
KoDuas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
What NeZt2

From Al FT0Hauc6-
4 distinguished electrician in Phila-
delphia has utilized the phOnograph in a
novel and sentimental way. His wife
and children 70 whom he Is tenderiv at
flashed. are in Europe. but before going
he had their voices preserved in several
phonetic cylinders. Every night he puts
the cylinders in and starts the phono-
graph and not only hears the loving part
ing messages Of his wife but the pretty
childish song his little daughters loved
TO sing him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Kansas Knocked Out.

from inc GTtaJ btuu Ilt1IsItI
Kansas has been knocked out by Ohio,
Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana In the
matter of cyclones. She seldom allows
one of these states that is only one-fOurth
her size to "do her up" but she must ac-
knowledge the corn this time. But we
are ready to wager that Kansas will pro-
duce more wheat this season than all the
four states named.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
They Have Our Sympathy.

From the Salina Republican.
There never has been year when the
people of Kansas We're as hopeful as they
are this year. Everything points to big
crop and reports indicate that OtherstateS
will not be so blessed. While it is scarce
ly the proper thing to rejoice at others
misfortune, we should not be expected to
weep. They are abundantly able to do
their own Weepin0
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Now is the Time to Yell.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
We are not kicking on the whole tariff
system; we simply want some of it.
When the Mckinley bill raises scores of
items, in the interest of eastern manu-
faCturers, and a tax that never existed
before is placed on us, while everybody
expected a reduction, it is now time to
yell bloody murder, for after the next
election there may not be enough Of US
left to yell anything, Now Is the time
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

The railroad rate wars, both freight
and passenger. is growing in intensity
day by day despite the make-believe
efforts Of the managers to adjust differ
enCes. But notwithstanding all this
they all report unusual business prosper