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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
THE PRESIDENTS PRECAUTION FOR
SECRECY.
a Washington Letter.

Washington Letter.
The care with which the presidents
message is guarded is extraordinary be-
cause the message has an extraordinary
news value to newspapers. Any one of
the big dailies would give anywhere
from $500 to 200 for a copy of the
message in advance of its delivery in
congress, and there are plenty of dis
honest men in the government service
who would not scruple to commit bur
glary to obtain a copy of it. Some parts
of the message usually leak out in adj
vance through the incautious converse
ton of men whom the president has
consulted about it. 1t is very hard for a
man with an interesting piece of news
like that to keep from talking about it
with friend, and if that friend be a
man in public life he usually has so @
journalistic friend TO whom he goes al
most Immediately with the information
But these petty leaks are of no great
consequence, since they do not involve
the publication verbatim of any portion
Of the message. 1t would be a great dis
courtesy to congress for the president to
give for publication in advance of its de-
livery any part of the message.
1t is not his fault if an enterprising
newspaper gets hold of its surreptitiously;
but it embarrasSes him a great deal and
therefore extraordinary precautions are
taken each year to protect this important
document. The messenger who takes
the printed copies 10 New York is an old
and trusted employee Of the executive
Office. The printers at the government
printing office who set the meter up are
sworn TO secrecy, and the forms which
contain the parts Of the message are
locked up every night In the
big steel vaults. TO which only
two men have the KEY. Besides this. a
close watch Is kept on the printers to see
that no one Of them takes a proof of any
Of the matter for his own use and no one
printer is allowed TO have access at any
time 10 all Of the parts OF the message.
Even with these precautions, there has
been a leak in the printing Office once or
twice in the past, and President Harri-
son year ago seriously considered the
ACCESSIBILITY of having the necessary
copies OF the message made at the
White house, and of keeping Il out OF
the printing Office until il had been de
livered 70 congress. He determined 10
have II printed. however. and he did not
have occasion to regret this determine
ton. ~ no part OF the message leaked
out before the time set for Its pubilct-
ton
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

The Paducah Standard heads its river
column with thisscriptural excerpt taken
from First John, iii 90: "And this is
His commandment: That we should be-
lieve on the name of His Son, Jesus
Christ, and love one another, as He gave
us commandment" What an abiding
influence the precepts and examples of
those worthy old mariners, Commodore
Joe Fowler, Jim Hendricks, Sam
Hughes, Dorse Smedley, ct al, has had
upon the denizens Of that erstwhile ia
NOUS old wood yard. There is no esti-
mating the after effects and influence for
good of an orderly walk and Cody con-
yersatiOn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
NO MISTAKE SHOULD BE MADE.

From the st. Joe News.
No one man has done more for Kansas
than Senator Ingalls,. Few men have
the zeal, earnestness, courage and talent
of the senior Kansas senator. He may
have been wrong sometimes in his long
public career, but right or wrong, he
has ever been for Kansas and the west,
as he sees things. He has made a place
in American politics and craftsmanship,
and has maintained his pos ton at the
head of the column, fighting openly and
well for the right. as he understood it,
and often against big odds. Ingalls, is a
student-as well of men and nature as of
books. He is broad minded, yet parti-
san, jealous yet not dOgmatic. He is a
leader, aud few men have presided over
the senate with more ability or greater
dignity. He reflected honor upon his
party and credit upon his state and the
west
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
A. KATZ.

When passing please step in and ask to
see our new stock of fine writing papers. We
think we have selected the incest line to be
found in New York and Boston markets. We
have them in one and two quire boxes in all
shapes, sizes and designs. Our fine station
cry department we pay special attention, and
ladies desiring to keep up in correct styles of
society correspondence would do we'll to call
on us. We keep the very latest in calling
cards, regrets and invitations, and take orders
for engraving at reasonable rates.
Don't forget our wall paper and picture
moulding sale continues until Dec. 1, only.
The Hyde & Humble Starry Go.
ia North Main Street.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

Senator Morrill, is credited with saving
that the Farmers league is destined 10
break up the Republican party at the
north and the Democratic party at the
south. BY pronouncing his opinion
against the league, he probably hopes to
to stay its onward march by bringing on
dissension in its ranks. II he had said
that the Farmers league was destined to
break up the rings in both parties, he
would have got it nearer right. There
Is small clique Of bosses in every state
that have run both parties so long that
they imagine they own them. In the
case Of party long in power, the bosses
have come 10 think they own the state.
In view OF the situation the true and
patriotic citizen finds little in the recent
partial success OF the league to cause
serious regret
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
RETURNS FROM ALL BUT ONE
COUNTY.

Official returns from all the counties
in the state but Logan have been receiv-
ed at the Office of the secretary of state.
On those received the vote on lieutenant
governor and secretary of state are the
only ones yet tabulated in full These
show the vote for Felt TO he ,6S6 and
for Shinn IL, 1896, giving Felt plurality
of 1890. Higgins, for secretary of state,
received 1861. while Osborne's vote
was 116, 292, plurality for Higgins Of
4,35j.
In all the counties but five Kellogg re-
ceiyed 11S,4S7 and Ives I54,2 S6, Ives
majority being 80. 100.
Hovey's plurality over Foster, for au-
ditor, is $3.50.
The vote on chief justice is: Horton
1865, Rghtmire 107,0l9, Nicholson
40. 722.
For treasurer, Stover's plurality over
Biddle is 6,S32.
The returns on representatives have not
yet been tabulated.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

There is one retired statesman G. down
in kentucky who promises to be held in
as high reverence as is old General Jack.
son by the old school Democrats o. the
backwoods deestrictS. This later-day
celebrity is Oscar Turner. a rich old
codger, who demagogued his way into
congress from the First Kentucky dis
trict (which he delighted to characterize
as the "Gib-er-alter deestrick of Democ-
racy') at the time the Granger craze
swept over the country. That was some
fifteen years ago; but we see from a To-
cal paper that Turner's faithful followers
Of that time are still voting for him for
congress, though he has been a back
number for ten years. BY the way,
Turner is the fellow who dug up the IA
nous speech delivered by Marshall, of
Illinois, forty years before, on the tariff
and its effects upon everything the
farmer touched and used.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

Marsh Murdoch, of the Wichita EAGLE,
appears TO be taking the late defeat quite
easily. Well, he can afford TO If any body
can, for he saw what was coming some
months ago and warned his deluded breth-
rem, but the party leaders would not heed.
Another break or two of this kind and
Marsh will be the biggest man in the Re
publican party in Kansas. His foresight
entities him to that place now.-Coldwater
Review.
But the party leaders say that there
was no such warning, and the party
leaders are all big men of wisdom, that
there was no such foresight, consequent
ly no hindsight; and the party leaders
are all sagacious men who know what
ought TO be said and who never fail to
say it themselves, what must be said.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

From the tornado of mishaps, which
seem to embrace about everything on
the calender-that have been sweeping a
large portion of the earth's surface, in
Guiding the water, the past week, the
pessimist might conclude that the old
thing was about ready to enter the bow
vows. But it is not; this is only peri
odical recurrence of such things that
must needs be, but the end is not yet,
the aboriginees' expected coming of the
Messiah and Mrs. Quimby's predicted
grand finale, notwithstanding.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

A solid whack at cleo is given by the
new Vermont law, which prohibits the
manufacture of "any article in imita-
ton or semblance of natural butter or
cheese" unless colored pink, and the use
of oleo at any public eating house is also
prohibited unless it is colored pink.
Heavy penalties are imposed for viola
ting the law. Butter is defined as ''the
product usually known by that name,
and which is manufactured exclusively
from milk or cream or both, and with or
without salt or coloring matter" This
is a righteous law.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

The newest republic on the western
hemisphere, Baby Brazil, is the first 10
respond to Secretary Blaine's invitation
20 make reciprocity treaty with the
United States. Brazil is willing, there
fore Secretary Blaine viii have a treaty
ready when congress meets. providing
for the admission of sugar, hides aud
coffee free Of duty, by the United States,
and placing sush American exports as
-four. lard, pork and farm implements
on the Brazilian freslist. II Is almost
certain that within two years. IL Blaine 5
reciprocity plan shall be given proper
scope, the United States shall have ami
cable and advantageous trade relations
established with the countries Of South
America and with Canada and Cuba.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

The three grangers in the Illinois legis-
lature elected by the Farmers Mutual
Benefit association have it in their power
10 elect a United States senator who
shall be a Democrat or a Republican, or
TO create a deadlock with a candidate of
their own. The membership of the leg
islature is composed of 101 Democrats,
100 Republicans and the three granger
members. If the latter hang together.
and they swear by the-great eternal they
will never surrender, they will be able
to force the election of an independent
10 the senate, and it is more than prob
able that he would be a mugwump
Democrat, This is the way the old
thing usually works.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
CITY and Country Health.

From the New York World.
Statistics do not show greater Ion
gevity in the country than in the city,
and if we exclude infant mortality from
the account the exact reverse is true.
Moreover, among these jewellers in the
city VINO are able to live relatively as
well as country people do, the general
health is unquestionably better. Beyond
the limits of squalid poverty, the food,
clothing and housing of city people in
modern times are all better in ma ked
degree than in the country, and the
cooking is immeasurably superior.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
Cost of Operating a Mule.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
Col. Joseph a. Walker, after an alb
sence of two months spent in the east
and west, returned to the city yesterday.
While absent Col. Walker made a thor
ough investigation of the use of cleo
tricity for propelling street railway cars.
at is contended," he said, "that it can
be operated at costof 10 cents per mile,
but l contend that it costs - cents
whereas we operate the mule at a cost OF
a fraction over 5 cents per mile"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

Tennyson has reached the conclusion
in his old age that sit wisest IN man TO
do his work in the world as quietly and
as well as he can, without much needing
the praise or dispraise." He would have
reached it long ago had he been a news
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

Mid the current discussion pf presi-
dental possibilities a Chicago agricul-
tural paper names Secretary Rusk on be-
half of the farmers of the country. We
opine that the suggestion will not arouse
a sentiment in Uncle Jerry's favor Of
boom proportions. He hasn't got snap
enough to suit the farmers:-he's too
slow for them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

They now call General Rice the
sweet singer Of Fort Scott. If this don't
make Gene Ware change his resolve to
leave the state and remain by the Mar
melton we shall conclude the muses. have
indeed abandoned the erstwhile poet
laureate. Sweet singer of Fort Scott,
indeed! The old basso profundo.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
AETer Report 'er.

Mrs Henry Ward Bsscher relates ar
incident in which Brooklyn reporter
dId not, a. shs thinks. treat her fairly 10
al interview. Shs has treasured X up
against reporters N general, and when
0ue called or Ter recsntly 20 lnqu Irs
when. Ia her opinion " the happl--t
hour IN w0mans life. shs replied
The hour before reporters were ai-
vented
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
Poetry Gone 70 seed

From tbs LeSs<vi lie Hsraid-DenocraL
The Golden Gate saws; a poetic cor
respondent speaks Of the earth as a drop
Of preparation from the chin OF God.
That is poetic Imagery gone TO seed. We
shall HeNr have some one speaking Of the
mountains As bunion on the Ieel ot the
Deity. Or the Colorado canyons a.
dimples in His cheek.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
paper man

Some person who has been quietly pur-
suing a vein Of political investigation, an
nounces that no man who makes a tariff
can ever be president, and cites Hamll-
ton, Calhoun, Clay, Walker and Morrill,.
That disposes of Mckinley. Blaine new
er made tariff
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

The Republican organs do not appear
to catch on to the EAGLES suggestion OF
Frank Doster as an Alliance candidate
for the u. S. Senate, and, for that mat
ter, the Alliance is little slow itself IN
approaching his peculiar claims and lit
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

Parnelrs love for the Irish people is all
right, but he should not have concen-
trated so much of it on single female
representative of the race, however beau
tiful her face, bearing the suggestive
name of OShea.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
Mjl|I}fs a9le
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.
NJ. M. MURDOCH. EdItor.

If the work of the Indian Treaty COM
mission is found to be all right, congress
at the incoming session, will undoubt-
edly take the necessary steps to open
up all the lands treated for.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

The Credit Review, banking and
railroad journal of Chicago, says: Exam
sas has made some wonderful gains in
material wealth In the last decade.
Great as has been the growth of the
agricultural interest-the value of live
stock for instance having increased So
per cent and the value of farm products
So per .ceut-great as has been the
agricultural increase the industrial gain
is at far more rapid pace. The amount
invested in manufactures was a little
over eleven million dollars in 1880, while
in 1890 the sum had grown to over
twenty-nine million, gain of 159 per
cent. The assessed valuation of property
in the state shows a gain 116 per cent"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
The Free Delivery System.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Shortly after o'clock the other night
large delivery wagon belonging to a
millinery house drove up to the door of
a hotel in this city, and the driver dis
mounted with a small parcel in his hand.
This, together with a bill made out to a
lady guest, he handed to the clerk, who
viewed with the inscription with gasp.
1t read: -Four needles, four cents.
Anything else?" gueried the clerk, as
soon as he recovered his breath. mo,
that's ALL"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
Senator Plumb will leave Emporia t

Senator Plumb will leave Emporia to
20 to New York next week. Mrs.
Plumb's health is still precarious, and
the oldest son is suffering from a severe
nervous trouble He is % years of age
and is a very bright young man. Sena-
tor Plumb will put him under the care
of the very best physicians of New York
city. Another son viii be placed in coll
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
A Pertinen, Reioinder.

From the kansas CRY CARTE
The Arkansas City Traveller thinks
that Blaine can never get the Republican
nomination. because his mouth viii
conspire against him II Blaines
mouth had been listened to We wouldn't
have been in the present dismal hole.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
Philadelphia Store
UNLOADING SALE!

We haze incur warehouse immense line
Goods which expect open and put salem
Our store still crowded TO overlooking with regular
Stock and to make fora proper display Hodad
goods, we VIII begin Monday morning GRAND UNLOAD
ING SALE
We must sell the goods and to do this quickly we will
make prices TO make them CO.
Our 50cent lannes will be sold a 35 cents
Our 80 %
All our Dress goods will be cut fully % per in this
grand unloading sale
Our 1000 Blankets will be sold 75O
Our7 90 Blankets will be soldat 90.
Ours 90 Blankets reduced o 3 so
The largest cut in prices will be made in Cloak and
Wrap Dedartment."
All our Wraps reduced fully SO per cent
Handsome Jackets will be sOdat which
rapidly atS5 90 Plush at lowest prices known
An immense line of Misses and chldrens wraps on hand
They must be closed out We the spae they occupy
Underwear gloves mitts knit goods every thing reduced
for the next ten days only
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

Mr.. B. w. Vedder. locomotive en-
gineer, tells the following Kansas story
in the st. Louis Globe-Democrat:
When the Kansas Pacific was first
opened the Indians were very hostile,
and there was constant fear hat they
would wreck the trains. That they did
not Is due to their ignorance of the iron
horse and the best methods of destroying
1t. One of my firemen had an expert
ence with the Cheyennes that he will
never forget. He was ON the road near
Fort Wallace, when he saw that the In
dians had cut the telegraph wife, and
knew that he might look out for squalls.
They were never satisfied with simply
cutting the wire, but chopped it into
inch pieces with their tomahawks to eff
fectually stop the mysterious messages.
As the train came near large patch of
sunfiowerS, which grew on both sides of
the track, over 100 Indians rose up,
stretched strong rope across the track,
braced themselves and prepared to re-
ceive the shock of the locomotive. As
was afterward learned, they had taken
rawhide strips, braided them together,
and, with force of fifty at each end of
the rope, thought that they would be
able to stop the train. The instant the
locomotive struck the rope the air was
full of Indians. They were thrown in
all directions. Some were lerked clear
across the train, and more than dozen
were killed or seriously injured. This
was the last attempt made for years to
stop the trains.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19

Coos county in Oregon was named
after Coos county in New Hampshire,
and both were named from passage in
the Bible which says that the people
went down 70 Coos. the land of pines.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
Speaker Reeds Favorite Poem.

From the New York Sun
A poem, the first line of which is ''Ev-
erything pleased my neighbor JIM" is
printed by number of our esteemed
contemporaries in the west 1t is said to
be the favorite poem of the Hon. Thomas
Bracket Reed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
Inventor of the LOCOMOTIVES Cab.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
One would hardly suppose that loco
motive cab had to be invented, it Is so
obaiously useful, but the dea tn of John
Scotti. an old Baltimore and Ohio en-
gineer, who first devised cab for the
protection Of the engineer and fireman
from the weather, is a reminder that the
earl er locomotives had no cabs, and that
English locomotives are still built with
ont them
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-19
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Halls From Where He Plsases.

When asked what state he halls from,
Our sole reply shall be: "He halls from
where he pleases, And his name is j. G.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
A WILD RIDE.

Passengers on an Express Have u Scnsa.
tion-An Engineer Lockcdin Mad Fire.
mans Arms "A Thrilling Story of u Hair
Breadth Escape from Death.
EVANSVILLE, Wis, July 16.--Tho
passengers on the Chicago and North.
mcete--> e..rrnes had wild ride yes
terday while struggle for life and
death was going on between the fire
man and engineer. On the floor oi
the locomotive cab lay Engineer
Steve Hobotting, powcrlcss in the
grasp Of a maniac. The insane man.
his face blackencd by coal dust, his
clothing stripped from his body. in
the life and death struggle, brandish
ed Il wrench, which he had clutchcd
from the engineers tool box. Botl
his arms were in the grasp of the dc
spairing man beneath him. but the
men on the depot platform at Cly
man, one OF the towns through which
the train passed, could sec that he
had nearly freed himself, and that
III another moment, unless some hcl,
should come, the murdcrous blow ot
the wretch would fall.
The maniac was Fireman G. l.
Hastings. Near Watcrtown he had
stepped from the cab to the tcndc,
to cool off. He did not return, and
Engineer Hotetting reached back
from his scat, pulled aside the cab
curtain, and looked out As the cur
tain moved aside Hastings bounded
III from the tender and clutchcd the
engineer about the neck, and threw
him headlong to the swaying foot
board. There the two struggled as
the train dashed on Mt full rate of
speed
The engine left without fresh fuel,
was slowly losing steam, but rushed
on ut Il rate that could mean nothing
less than n fearful tragedy at the first
switch.
AS the train swept past Clyman
without stopping the passengers and
train crew realized that something
was wrong, and II party hurried for
ward. Writhing and struggling
among the blocks of coal on the ten
der, they saw the engineer md his
maniac assailant The latter was
QSeEpowered and taken to the bag
gage car. A moment after he fttin-
ted. Consciousness did not return
until twelve lo,rshad elapsed The
hot weather J.. gwen as the cause of
ms insanity, and there arc fears that
he cannot recover.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
a Wonderful Stone.

KINGSTON, Ga, July 14.-Mr John
McCraney, living gncar here, has found
a most wonderful stone. While
plowing on a sandbar i'll the Etowah
river, he saw something shining
with the most brilliant of lights just
to one side of him. Ho stopped his
plow and went to pick it up. It.was
clear white stone, the size of an
egg, rejecting in one way all the col
ors of the rainbow. Turning it over
the colors took on the character of a
spirit level, following each other up
through the centre of the rock till all
were gathered in one end Mr.. Nc
Criney has been offered ~, 200 for it
but refused it. He will take it to
Atlanta to have it tested. 1t may be
Il diamond. 1t cmits n perfectly
white light i'll the dark