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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29
CHARACTERISTIC AupAc1TY.

Few people are blessed, or cursed, with
the inordinate egotism which is the most
striking characteristic of Robert G.
Ingersoll, and which is continually max
ing its appearance at the very least
provocation.
Not 50 very long ago the Jewish
Chronicle, a paper published in New
York, prepared set of interrOgatories
which were mailed to many prominent
men throughout the country.
These interrogatories were at once
seized upon by Ingersol as affording him
an opportunity for most comprehensive
sermon to both Jews and Christians, in
which his many inaccuracies are only ex-
celled by the unparalleled conceit dis
played in his unasi1ed advice which ac-
companies the same.
While he paid high tribute to Jewish
character, and in the midst of his re-
Elections upon Christian character adj
mitted that he knew many Christians
who were admirable, he intimates that
if both Christians and Jews viii only re-
ject the teachings of those inspired
teachers in the Scriptures whom he calls
dead barbarians," they may eventually
hope to rise to the high plane upon
which he stands, the greatest buffoon of
the nineteenth century.
But Ingersoll is rapidly nearing the
end Of his course, and the enlightened
world, both Jew and Christian will
watch the end with no little interest,
whether he shall at last be able to wrap
the mantle of his conceit about him and
lie down as if to pleasant slumber, or
like his progenitors in belief, he shall as
he nears the confines Of the beyond, con-
fess that the notions he has entertained
and taught will do to live by but will not
do to die by.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29
LOUISIANA RICE.

The chances are that the rice indurtry
of Louisiana viii be in a measure re-
stricted in its extent by the action which
the legislature of the state viii be called
upon to take in the present session with
regard to the rice fumes.
The feeling in Louisiana concerning
these dangerous cuts in the levees has
found expression in the press, and it is
asserted that rice fumes are a constant
and threatening source of danger, too de-
structive and damaging to be longer
tolerated, after an experience with them.
Even if the rice industry depended on
Them" says the Times-DemOcrnt, sit
would be a grave question whether they
paid, and whether we did not lose more
through them than we make"
The effect of this restrictive legislation
will probably be apparent in the Caro-
inas and Georgia, in this respect, that as
heretofore the cheapness with which rice
has been cultivated in louisiana has ena-
bled the staple to be sold at prices which
have invariably forced down Carolina
rice, the cultivation of which is more ex-
pensive, the cultivators of the two sec
lions will be on par, if the Louisiana
legislature shall take action in the mat
ter of closing the fumes as indicated.
The cheap method employed to Louis
lana has been proved to be terrible ex-
pensive in the long run, and it is scarcely
probable, that it will be permitted any
longer.
In abiding to the probable action of
the legislature concerning this matter
the Times Democrat of New Orleans
says:
The people of Louisiana recognize that
the cultivation of rice is one of the i'm
portant industries Of the state. They wish
to encourage and increase it, but they can
not sacrifice millions of property annually
to do sO-and they will certainly not
sacrifice this unnecessarily for what Is a
great convenience and advantage to rice
planters, the rice fume, but is not abso-
lutely necessary for the cultivation of the
cereal. 1t may be somewhat more
troublesome and expensive to use pumps,
syphOnS or other means for obtaining
water for the rice fields, but if these win
save us from more creyasses, they viii
have to be adopted.
The area of rice in Louisiana will
probably be lessened by this action of
the legislature, and the rice will not be
hereafter thrown on the market quite as
hurriedly as it generally has been, to the
detriment of other rice producing Sec
tons in the south.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29
ANOTHER HARoR ON THE GULF OF
The Mouth of the Calcasieu River.

When all the states west of the MISS
sippi are looking anxiously for relief to
the agricultural interests, the question is
not how to produce more but how to get
rid of the productions of which that vast
country Is now capable. With corn and
oats worth about twenty cents per
bushel, and wheat. in many parts, worth
less than fifty cents. the thrifty, indus
trious farmer is driven to desperation in
his efforts, not to raise more, but to secure
reasonable prices for the great surplus
which every day accumulates and seeks
markets.
Where is our outlet? The increase of
other industrial pursuits alone at home
Is incapable of using the teemlng pro
ducts Of the soil of the great west. The
Atlantic cities from Baltimore to Boston,
including Philadelphia, New York and
numerous other ports, afford our only
outlet. while there is a coast 5000 miles
nearer 70 US, with sea frontage one
third larger than all this Atlantic
coast, lying idle for want of
appropriations from the government.
The interest of Kansas and Missouri
and what Is their interest is the interest
Of the whole northwest-is In securing
the nearest practicable route TO the gull.
Take down the map and draw a straight
line to the gulf, and the mouth of the
Calcasieu (Kal-ka-shu) river in Louisiana
is almost due south of Wichita at
the northernmost projection of the Gulf
of Mexico.
This part is a region so little known
that it has TIL very recently received no
attention. But already three railroad
corporations are looking anxiously to-
ward its development. The Kearney &
Gulf railroad, leading from northwest
Nebraska on a straight line through
Wichita, is claiming to have sufficient
backing to put it through; the Kansas
City, Fort Smith & Southwestern rail
way is in operation in that direction and
the ST. Paul, Watkins & Gulf rail
road has a construction engine at work
the tracklayers north of Lake
Charles, and sea vessels are entering the
mouth of that river laden with railroad
iron in prosecution of this enterprise.
This latter road contemplates continu-
Gus route from the gulf to Duluth, as
will be more plainly seen by reference
to this map.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

| Prof. Thomson, formerly of the Iowa Agri-
cultural college, have encouraged-per-
haps organized-a body of Iowa farm
ers, joined by Kansans and Pennsylvan-
ians, who are making their impress
upon that southern country until the
mayor of New Orleans has met them
with an address of welcome.
What did Senator ingalls, mean, when
he said in the photo-interview with the
New York World, ''the interests of the
west and the south are identical and they
should be unifed?" This opening up Of
the gulf is one Of the business PROPOSE
tons for the accomplishment of the
| destiny of the west and the south. Much
Of that interview was politics; but this
was business. 1t is no secret that Sena-
tor ingalls, favors this enterprise, as he
does all other modes by land and by
water of reaching the Gulf Of Mexico.
He but voices the sentiment of the peo-
pie of the north who now inhabit so
largely the valley of the Calcasieu, when
he says: These great communities, that
We're only separated by the system of
slavery have since its destruction been
alienated by factions that have eSuanged
them only to prey upon them, and to
maintain political supremacy by their
alienation. Unfriendly legislation has
imposed intolerable burdens upon their
energies; invidious Determinations have
been made against their products; I'M
just tariffs have repressed their indus
tries" Extremes meet. The mayor of
New Orleans in his address to these
northern people has uttered almost the
same ideas. All the material interests of
Kansas prompt to the opening of harbors
on the gulf-not one, but several, entic-
ing competition alike between these sew
eral ports and the arteries Of transporta-
ton leading to them and to the Atlantic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

Initiation is to be dreaded, but between
initiation and the present absolute insult
ficiency of the circulating medium there
is a wide latitude in which the golden
mean may be found. With territory
which by its extent and typographical
features makes a plentiful circulating
medium essential to prosperity, the
United States still has an average amount
Of money in circulation per capita small
er than many European states. 1t is to
remedy this obvious evil that the states
men and financiers in congress are bend
ing their best efforts, and, if the almost
universal demand of the country is heed
ed their efforts will be successful.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

the latest fad. You take a jug filed with
bug Juice and set it on the bank of the
river and when the fish comes ont on the
bank to get a swIpe At the contents OF the
jug you Kill him by talking ChoCtaw at
him. A few pulls at the jug viii enable
you 70 talk the Choctaw all right.
Oklahoma City Journal Sealed propos-
ais for furnishing the military eucamp-
ment at Oklahoma City with JD Cor'ls Of
hard wood, so cords OF soft wool and $50
tons Of bituminous coal will be- received by
the camp quartermaster up 10 May T. This
would indicate that the camp here VIII be
kept up. and as there Is no provision made
for supplies AT the camps a. Guthrie and
hiugfiaher 1t is thought those VIII be ban
doned Camp Oklahoma will therefore BE-
the only military post ia Oklahoma proper.
Among the Sac and Fox there are only
five whites. hcGkuk. the chief. and has
son, Charlie. each having educated white
wives. There are only FIVE -0lied lambs ia
the entire tribe. one out ~ every seven
can read and write, and Oue-kals n fucm
can speak English. They have mission
attended by thlrty-siE scholars, whsle %
has "a capacity for seventy-hye. They like
the white man and has methods. One
third Of the 20 men are farmers who plant
from ten % forty-fve acres mainly in
corn, wheat sud oats. Horses are
more numerous than cattle ana hpz4
dressing 49, pounds are Tal--rl and far
taasd exclusively On mast. THIS pork Is
far uorH sweeter than corn fed meat The
reservation has As 90 scTes ~ land. one
third q which is piow land acd the bal
a8ce forest. oue-half n which whea cleared
wal be subject 70 cultivation. T - forests
and streams are superior 10 those lu Okla
houa. the trves beng larger and the
streams having sand and stone bottoms
After the first spring thunder Gsxs are
bought up a. 81 ~ zach and invitations
are ISSUED 70 the dog feast Medicine
dances begIn in JEre aud The medicine
lodge makes mes3iclne IA secret for four
days aud then publicly intt.atT This j. =
secret and religious CTZ4nlzat I1u and
women are admitted - .1eTu b-.rzks1
TheJ g0r-Eip iss Gres.f Spirit. bat are I'M
able 70 tel "a BIO the Great -geaker t. For
one year after joining al seEelry AID
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

the same number-well, I'll say any
where that I've ever Travelled or lived,
they would find the Kansas people
ahead of the world, and / believe, too,
the most home abused. Their own COM
plants are doing them mere harm than
all outside reports. / am satisfied of
this, said he, because eastern houses are
repeating their visits here to more fully
substantiate the favorable reports given
them in answer TO special inquiries
which Is the basis for them fer future
operations. | see less evidence of hard
times In Kansas than any place go, and
the best dressed and fed lot of people.
Complaining has become a fashion and
it strikes me some of the Kansas people
struck a job lot of it and they don't miss
a chance to make a deal. They turn
their goods out without regard to taste,
style or fit. do not think | have heard
well grounded complaint. Do you see
that wheat heading out: / believe 1t VIII
yield forty bushels TO the acre, and see
the sights of corn, aud granarieS and
cribs of old grain, and fruit l am told Is
very promising. The Garden of Eden
wouldn't stand much of chance with
the man that would grumble at this
state. He would steal all the fruit and
kick the the bark off the tree because
apples didn't grow on the trunk. l shall
tell my people to stay in Kansas early
and late: that she promises more than
ano state 1 know Of. You will see a rush
of eastern houses for this country before
fall and of eastern people. too, when
they find the true condition Of things.
As l said before do not think the people
here nearly appreciate what they have
and look for the ones who are the first
to complain now to be the loudest in her
praise within another year, for your
fame must be known very soon.
II. G.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma City Is Just recovering from a
Trades carnival
The World wants to have It KihgfshsT
county or Admire county.
The Guthrie Capital published the Okla
homa bill in serial form.
Most 81 the editorials in Oklahoma ara
now written IN shirt sleeves.
Il is almost time for another daily paper
to he started al Oklahoma City.
The Cottonwood rIyer at Guthrie has
been higher than usual this spring.
The Norman Advance has again chang
81 hands. Il has done this more than any
other paper IN the territory.
There Is only one paper in Oklahoma
that speaks Of II a. Poor kausas.' and
that Is run By a Missourisn-
Mr.. Steele aud Mr.. die hsve been, r. IS
said, lifelong friends hitherto, bat they
both want 70 BE- governor now.
The Odd Fellows ceIebrated throu 9hout
Oklahoma Saturday. - did lots Of the fsl-
lows who were not Odd Fellows
The reporters and editors II Ersa;
many Oklahoma papers are taking TAca-
ton while the bill i being Published
i was an Oklahoma paper that pub
lished M startling news la-t week. thaz
james Gordon Bennett had been assassin
ats-d.
4 Guthrie u5an has written story and
had L copyrighted Writing . story = 3
god deal, bat copyrizh biting that = TOO
mglCn.
Among che fr-t thiugs 70 b. organized
n BklatsoEzzs Viii ~ Sn Insane ssy lurn.
and there ought 30 be 10 mistake zb0fIt
who should * pas lu Z.
After the Cheyeaus and AgarAhoe Ind
ans take their land III ssTeEsiGy tast reseE-
Fagson VIII st5ll le twice ~ large a. Okla
bona proper, hopefully remarks the King
fisher World
Chlckasay Enterg-sss. Jgx GshlEg 5
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

Regarding the agricultural situation
in England, Harapath's Journal, an eco
nOmic and commercial authority, says:
''The depression in wheat commenced in
1878, and has been gradually becoming
intense ever since, until within the last
few weeks the official average price for
England and Wales has been little in ex-
cess of 29s per quarter. The remarkable
depression which has now continued for
twelve years is due, first, to the exist
ence of long peace between the princi-
pal countries of the world; and secondly,
to the extraordinary facilities which now
exist for moving wheat from all the great
producing districts"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29
CALCAs1EU-wHERE is CALCAs1EU;

Z
This new port on the Gulf of Mexico
has been receiving a great deal of atten-
ton recently, and the inquiry has fire.
quently been, where's Calcasieu = (Kal-
ka-sheu.) 1t has been stated in many
Kansas newspapers that John Speer was
interested or, perhaps, we might more
properly say, in its interest, for we all
knew Speer couldn't spare the means
from his Finney county farming to open
harbor and build a railroad from the
gulf to the northern lakes. When he an
peared with his map Of the St.
Paul, Watkins & Gulf railroad. that
was a complete give away. Any reader
could see that j. b. Watkins. the banker
of Lawrence, Kansas, and Lake Charles,
Louisiana, was at the bottom of it: and
that was guarantee enough. Why didn't
he say SO? The name Of J. B. Watkins
Is known from the western plains to the
banking houses of England. His careful.
exact business habits are not better
known than his Iberality and fairness.
HIS methods are quiet and mobtrusive.
and while other places, as Galveston.
have been holding conventions. he has
been surveying railroad through the
pines of the south towards Wichita
and the northern lakes. and the time
is not far distant when the loco
motives for the gulf will wake up 81
Paul in competition with the 500 for
the trade of the Dakotas, and the yellow
grains of wheat and corn viii seek the
gulf instead of the Atlantic. and even
the mineral win 50 TO the Western Ar
kansas coal fields for smelling.
Where Is the CaIcasieu: 1t is at the
very northernmoSt peojection OF the gulf,
almost south from Wichita. in west
ern Louisiana. 1t Is time people would
begin to look up their maps in reference
to it. Even now while Watkins Is build
ing a railroad and running his ironiv
vessels up the CalcaSieu river. fiftv-five
miles 10 Lake Charles, additional YES
sells are being built at that point.
and his locomotives are making the
pineries resound where his track Law
erS are putting II down 10 reach the
grain fields of Kansas, the coal fields of
Akansas, the pines, cypress and oaks and
ash of louisiana forests. That Is what
we of Kansas want-the lumber and the
coal. and little rice and oranges. and
we VIII be ready TO load a string OF cars
from Kansas TO the gulf with corn and
wheat
What is this man doing: Knowing
that farming was the backbone of al!
enterprises, he and his brother-in-law.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29
What Makes EN- Rot.

From the Atchison Champion
The report Of the Kansas state hoard of
railroad commissioners states that the
total bonded Indebtedness Of the rail
roads OF this state reported for June 80.
1889. was SiS1 ,20I ,62l. and that the as
sesSed valuation for the roads for ISIS
was 2.S29. 664. The roads thus pav
taxes on So. SO, 664, while the people are
forced TO pay exorbitant freight and pas
senger rates In order 70 enable these cor
porauons 10 pay the interest on S4S7. POI =
62l. No wonder there are 500 Farmers
Alliances with total membership of
80. $50 IN this state. and that those who
DO not belong 70 the Alliance JOIN with
II IN one grand and long protest against
such munstrorS in Justice.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

The advantages of this Gulf opening
are numerous. 1t is 900 miles nearer to
the corn and wheat fields Of the west. 1t
is over a gradual incline of but about
one foot TO the mile from Kansas City to
the ocean, decline of less than two
feet from Wichita-and less than three
feet from Keaney, Neb., or Des Moines,
Iowa. Of course a uniform grade of
that moderate slope would be impractical
ble but it can be truthfully said that
there Is no country of the same length
on the continent where such a grade
would be so nearly practicable. Besides
diminishing the haul to an ocean outlet
it avoids the divides or the continent, in
Guiding the Allegheny mountains, with
their curvatures and resistance TO loco
motion.
1t meets and anticipates the demands
of trade which the deliberations of the
Pan-American congress, recently session,
are destined 10 develop. opening all the
South and Central American states,
Mexico and the West Indies for western
productions,
This route Is through an urideveloped
region of timber. coal and iron inesti-
mable in its value.
The route direct from Wichita to
the gulf passes through an almost
primeval forest of $50 miles, consisting
of the long-leaf pine, the best in the
United States for ornamental purposes,
such as wainscotting for banks. halls
and offices and finishing material for
railroad cars. the various oaks, ash
pecan, hickory. magnolia, white gum,
used for furniture and other varieties.
The coast has advantages over most
other harbors in being high land, ex
empt from overflow By storms. as Is wit
messed hy the fact that fire orange
groves flourish to the very verge Of the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29
Ward McAIlister, Jr.. son of Ward Nc

Ward McAllister, Jr., son of Ward Nc
Allister, the so-called leader of the fam
Gus -Four Hundred, is negotiating with
w. II. Fearing TO form with him part
nership in the wholesale wine and liquor
bushes. Nearly all the arrangements,
it is said. have been completed, and in a
little while they propose to open at "a
Broad street, New York. The Star
made some inquiries into the report and
says the friends of the Doncher-under-
stand Doncher-know McAllister were in
clined to think that such a step on the
part of his son viii cause his retirement
from the ranks of '|society." That's the
way with needless Young America. 1t
has no regard for the proprieties or con-
ventionalities when they stand in the
way Of their vulgar passion for money
getting.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

London Iron says that Frenchmen
are fully alive TO their interests in Africa
is demonstrated by a paper recently read
by N. George ROLAND, an eminent
French engineer, before the Academic
dies Sciences, In which he insists upon
the necessity Of constructing a railway
across Sahara. NJ. ROLAND says that it
is time for France TO make up her mind
as TO the part which she intends taking
in the economic conquest of the interior
of Africa In his paper he defines what
are the regions of the western and CEN
trail Soudan upon which French com
merce could reasonably reckon. his con
clusiOn being that nothing durable or
really useful could be effected in the
Soudan without the assistance of Algeria,
while, in order to take any effective ac-
ton in Algeria, that colony would need
be connected with the Soudan by means
81 . railway crossing the Sahara"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

Sergeant Dunn, of the signal service.
informs the public that a cool summer is
before us, basing his prediction upon the
average temperature for the year, which
has been about 30 degrees. Since the
date of the establishment of the weather
bureau the year 1910 was the coolest. the
average temperature being 1876 degrees.
Last year was the warmest. and the
average temperature was 53.5. II Ser
geant Dunn's prediction shall prove cor
rect the low temperature viii be some
thing of an offset To the ice famine of
the past winter. but it viii afford some
thing for the hoky-poky vendors to base
a demand upon for the sergeant's re
moval.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

The common laborer in this day re-
ceives about 80 per cent more than his
father did years ago, and there never
was time when he could purchase
more with his dollar than he can now.
This is a forceful illustration of the
idiom that the more we have the more
we want. BURT cannot he said to be a
discreditable characteristic. for without
the incentive 10 material betterment of
his condition, man would shortly lapse
into the state of the nomad and bar
barian.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-29

If the Manhattan banker, Purcell, shall
succeed in securing the 100000 damages
he is STING the mortgage company for that
caused his bank all the trouble it has ex-
perienced of late, he viii be able, proba-
by, to bring the broken ends together
and resume business at the old stand.