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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
CAN'T AND SHAN'T.

The Topeka Capital jubitantly declares
that the hypocracy of the Resubmis-
sionists has at best been laid bare in that
throughout the state they hailed withun-
disguised pleasure the decision of the
Supreme court in the case of original
packages. Well, if that amt funny.
Did Major Joe Hudson expect the state
headquarters of the Resubmissionists to
be hung in Grape and all its members to
wall and howl over a decision that suited
them to a dot? The only difference be-
tween the Resubmissionists and the Su-
preme court touching the sale of liquors
is the "Reminiscences declare that you
cant prohibit it, while the Supreme
coutt simply says you "shan't."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
SKINNER.

Ex-Governor Click says he doesn't want
to be governor of Kansas again. Mr..
Click has given utterance TO some very
popular expressions of late.
There is still a Democrat in the post
Office at Leavenworth. However, he will
soon be ousted. But the penitentiary will
continue still under the ban.
An article appears in the press headed
Governor Humphreys Record" 1t only
takes up half a column. The governor
must feel the modesty of his eulogist.
At nine o'clock sharp, Friday morning,
May the tw%enty-third, Governor Hum
phry will be in the state house at Topeka
and he viii remain a while. This can be
depended upon.
Eli G.. Nadeau settled in Pottowattomie
county with the Pottowattomie Indians
fifty-one years ago. One does not have to
be thus early a settler to be a knicker-
booker in Shawnee county.
Thomas county, Kansas, has a Farmers
Alliance numbering 600 members. The
total vote of that county does not exceed
1000. So, it seems, the four hundred of
Thomas county are probably politicians.
Next Tuesday the Republican committee
of the Fourth congressional district meets
at Emporia. Harrison Kelley has not
started from Washington. His supporters
still have hopes of nominating him.
The old song about the shattered we'd
ding ringlet is now substituted in Kansas
for the Wont go home till morning"
the finale of stag parties. Changed, it
runs: THE package now is broken, etc.
A great fuss was made in Kansas re-
Gently over prohibiting boys from smoking
cigarettes, but the insurance companies
have not considered it enough of a success
to lower the rates on barns and hay lofts.
There are those who claim to know that
Sam Peters will run for congress again
and that his announcement some time
since that he would not, should not be re
lied upon. Nh. Peters himself can answer
this best.
Frank MacLennan in a resume of the
Foster-Hudson difficulty and resubmission
says of the latter that major Hudson was
apparently against it." This provision
in Mr.. McLennan's statement indicates
that occasionally 'fraternal health" is in
dulged in in Topeka.
Prof. F. H. Snow in his weather report
for April says: THE month was warm
and cloudy, with frequent rainfalls, al
though the total precipitation was slight
ly below the average. The entire rainfall
for the four months of 1890 now completed
has been 6.7S inches, which is LIS inches
below the average for the same months in
the preceding twenty-five years. The hard
frost of the 1st did no damage to fruit
buds. The last light frost of spring oc-
Cured on the 10th of April. A few snow
flakes appeared on the I'd. The highest
wind velocity was sixty miles an hour
from 2 to 4 p. m. on the 18th. The total
run of wind was 1879 miles, which is 2O9
miles above the April average. The
weather throughout the month was high
ly favorable to crops"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
AUXILIARIES TO MATERIAL GREAT
NESS.

Commerce and manufactures are aux
iliary one to the other and invariably go
hand in hand. As has been often stated
in these columns, great commercial cen
tiers are also great manufacturing centers,
and vice versa: in other words one nat
urally comes by reasOn of the other. And
while these are in a manner dependant
one upon the other, both are immeasur-
ably augmented in importance and profit
ableness by proximity to the field to be
supplied. In the west the consumers of
manufactures land these embrace the
bulk of the articles of commerce. are the
farmers, those engaged in the varied ag-
r|icultural pursuits. But while the man
ufacturer and the merchant are depend
ant upon the others mainly for business,
the dependence is mutual. The concen-
tration of capital andlabor brings to such
common center rich men and working
men. and in due time this process begetS
a great city. In the vicinity of such q
city the farmer l~uxUriates. With a hun
dred thousand or five hundred
thousand mouths to feed at his
very door, the demand for the perishabIe
things he produces is never falling. The
farmer thus situated is never depressed.
Money flows into such a center, such a
city, as we have described from every
direction. Ghe distance from which it IS
drawn being only circumscribed by its
ability to supply the demands made upon
it and the facilities for reaching the
trade for its manufactured products and
general merchandise. and in times of
agricultural depression, whatever the
us may be, the farmer always gets
the highest price and a ready market.
Such a city, except only in population
and in this only for the immediate
present and perhaps brief future-is
Wichita. and such farmers r those who
are luckily situated in the garden coun-
try contiguous and accessible to the city
which Is by odds the greatest trade
metropolis of the state and great south
west. But grand as both city and
country now are, both are in reality but
in the beginning of what they VIII be IN
a few short years as inevitably as that
time and season shall last.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
OUTLINES.

1t looks as though Guthrie will get a
governor before a street railway.
If Congressman Perkins, of Kansas, has
an enemy in Oklahoma, nobody knows it.
There are no McGinty's in Hennessey as
the Hibernian accent of the name might
suggest.
After all Oklahoma did not have long to
wait for its government. 1t might have
been worse.
Where is that Guthrie man who was to
give the new governor a suit of clothes-is
he on hand?
Two hundred Kansas editors are soon to
visit Oklahoma. They will meet lots Of
friends down there.
The floods on Deep Fork were very
heavy last week and did considerable dam
age in some sections.
There have been several washouts in the
vicinity of Edmond during the last ten
days owing to the unprecedented heavy
rains.
Cimarron City has preaching every
Sunday now. This shows that it is only a
question of time until the Wednesday
night prayer meeting shall have become
indigenous to that locality.
Says the Edmond Sun: What becomes
of the wild Strawberries that we ought 10
have in Oklahoma If he doesn't get that
secretaryship, it is dollars to %doughnuts
that Milt Reynolds Will come back to
Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
A HISTORICAL
a Man Who Had Much to Do With an
Interest That Shaped Wichita's
DESTINY,

A few mornings since the EAGLE re-
ferred to a photograph, in its possession,
Of Wichita in 1870, at which time the
city was composed of some half dozen
primitive business palaces constructed of
clapbOards, etc. Yesterday another and
a still more antiquated picture reached
us. In all the historical sketches written
of the early times of this section the
name of an individual ever occurs of
whom but few know anything. The
great southwestern cattle trail, reaching
from Corpus Christi, on the gulf, and
from the Rio Grande, in Texas, to the
Union Pacific road, crossing the river at
the present site Of this city, was named
for him. The little stream running
through the eastern limits of the city
bears his name. There IS much Of TO
nance that clusters about the life and
character Of the man that few addresses
or speeches or sketches Of the early days
are thought to be complete that do not
contain some allusiOn to the stalwart
trader Of whose real life and history
but little seems known. The Hons.
William G~reifenstein J. R. Mead and
William Matthewson, were, as Indian
traders and frOntiersmen, personally ac-
quainted with him, but few, if any
others Of the present inhabitants, ever
saw Jesse Chisholm whose nose name Is
so unalterably and continuously linked
with this city, a name which is pro-
nOunced many times every day by our
citizens. Milo B. Kellogg, formerly Of
this city, now of Fresno, California, was
in his employ or was connected with E.
H. Durfee & Co., Indian traders. who
were located at this point previous to the
extinction of the Indian title, found
among his old papers the other day
probably the only picture of the border
celebrity in existence, which he send. us
with the accompanying letter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
AN ARKANSAS VALLEY SHEEP
W

There seems little doubt that the live
stock interests of this country are again
coming to the front and that the farmer
will be in the lead. The great wild
ranches are being abandoned and the
cattle barons are disappearing. Unques-
tionably the great Arkansas valley will
prosper and grow rich. There is no finer
stock country in the world.
The following instanCe-and we think
it wOnderful-came to our knowledge yes
terday, and through a banker who def
nitely knew all of the facts: Mr.. Howard
Rogers, living near this city, eight
months ago put twenty-seven hundred
dollars ($2, ZOO into sheep. He fed them
a little less than one thousand dollars
81, 600 worth of grain and hay and salt.
After clipping from their backs eighteen
hundred dollars $1,000 worth of wool
he sold the entire herd the past week for
four thousand three hundred dollars.
Here is a profit of S 2,400 on a total in
vestment of 50, 700 for sheep and $1,000
worth of feed inside of eight months.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
JESSE CHISHOLM,

Jesse Chisholm was a Cherokee half
blood, so-called, but practically white.
He married his wife at Cado. She was
a Seminole woman, and pretty. He
came to this section as a trader in 1865.
In 1866 he built a trading post on the
North Canadian, and died in 1868 at the
Comanche Indian camp, being IS or 20
years old. These facts we learn from
William Mathewson and William Grief
f~enstein, who knew him as a trader ten
years or more. Mr.. Kellogg's letter ex-
plains the rest, as follows:
FRESNO CITY, Cal, April 26, 1890.
Hon. NJ. NJ. Murdoch, Wichita, Kansas:
DEAR SIR take pleasure in presenting
you with q photograph of a man whom |
knew well in his life time, being that of
Jessie Chisholm, which picture was out of
a lot of = dozen taken in L~eavenworth,
Kansas, in 1867, which l understood, at the
time, was the first he had taken, and as he
died soon after, they are probably the only
ones in existence. Chisholm creek and
Chisholm trail were named after him.
While like most of the Indian traders of
the southwest in those DAYS Chisholm was
comparatively poor, but being a man that
was considered strictly honest and a
shrewd trader, he enjoyed an unlimited
credit, and as he had a rare faculty of get
ting along with the Indians and as his
principal trading was done with the Chey-
ennes, Arapahoes, Comanches and Kiowas,
who handled their furs better than any
other tribes on the plains. Jessie CHS
hOlm'S buffalo robes were always in de-
mand. The writing up of the early his
tory of that country would be incomplete
without him on the list. Hon. VIM.
Grieffenstein, James r. Mead, or VIM.
Nathewson will either of them recognize
the picture. Yours truly,
NJ y KETTOcr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

Regarding the probable effect of infia-
ton, conservative operators say that it
will not do to presume that because the
government proposes to manufacture
dollars by the wholesale that all there is
to be done is to make application for
them. 1t is apprehended that specula-
ton will receive an unhealthy impetus
and viii be carried possibly to an ex-
treme which in time will result 1 disas-
ter; but no one will anticipate trouble
until it arrives, and with the
sentiment now prevailing, some brokets
would welcome a disturbance in values
in preference to the lethargy to which
they have been subjected.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
THE STATE TEMPERANCE UNION.

The annual meeting of the State Tenn
perance Union occurs in Topeka the 10Th
of this month, full particulars Of which
are are published elsewhere. Temper
ance organizations, with their moral
teachings and ~inculcations, in beating
whisky and in building up impregnable
character, is worth more, a hundred
times, than all the iron-clad and humili-
ating prohibition statuary enactments
I'VE dreamed of by intolerant fanata-
cism. One is a moral suasion, coming
within the domain of home and church
influences, purifying and enobling man
hood, the other but a penal threat, backed
by servile ~officiousness and a policeman's
club and which never lifts man by ought
of inspiration, but, upon the other hand,
either cowes him into brute like submits
sion or stimulates and arouses his antag-
OniSm.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
The Western View.

FROM The Omaha Republican
When the silver demonetizing comprO-
mise bill IN up in the house, Blame,
of Missouri. viii offer 10 amend by sub
stituting a free coinage measure. Bland
Is right. He is Of the ablest silver
coinage advocates in the nation, and al
though he Is a Democrat every western
Republican in congress should stand Dy
him. The compromise silver ball Is a
sell ont to Wall street and Republicans
who 20 with II will have 10 meet their
constituents on that subject before the
leaves fall. II they DO not want 70 90
with the leaves they had better not 90
with Wall street.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

his embonpoint transferred in all its leaf
lard obesity to its columns for the delec-
tation of its spare rib readers. This
porcina potentate of elephantine proper
lions and tenderloin rotundity, tipped
the beam at eight hundred and twenty
pounds and brought the sum Of $32.29, a
pretty round sum for a single shoat of
two years and eight months. He was
raised by Col. Bigford-a suggestive
name for a hog raiser-ofH Harper county.
The Aztec descendants of the Mexican
boarding house that tackles that subject
will be SUI enough "Greasers."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
KANSAS STATE TEMPERANCE UNION.

The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Kansas State Temperance Union will be
held at Representative hall. Topeka,
May Is and Is, beginning Thursday even
ing, May 10.
Each church, Sunday school, temper
ance society, or organization In sym
pathy with the cause, is entitled to three
delegates. These delegates should be
elected at once, and the names reported
to the secretary of union. All individ-
ual members of the union are entitled to
membership in the convention. The
constitution fixes the basis of representa-
ton, but our conventions have never
been exclusive. All friends of temper
ance are invited and urged TO attend
this convention.
The following railroads have agreed
upon a rate of one and one-third for the
round trip: Atchison, Topeka q Santa
Fe. Rock Island, Kansas City. Fort
Scott & Memphis. Missouri Pacific, St.
Joseph & Grand Island, Union Pacific,
Missouri, Kansas q Texas, St. Louis d
San Francisco.
All those attending should take re-
ceipts from the local agents Of the rail
roads over which they travel, which,
when endorsed BY the secretary Of the
union, viii entitle them 70 a return ticket
at one-third the usual fare.
Ministers are requested 10 announce
this meeting from their pulpits, and urge
their congregations TO attend.
Papers friendly To the cause are In
vited TO publish this call and give 1t edt-
torial endorsement.
This Will In many respects Be the most
important meeting in the history Of the
union. and it Is hoped that the attend
ance and interest vii be commensurate
with its importance.
JAMES 4. TROUTHAS. President.
THOMAS H. BAIS, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

The Kansas Farmer places the mort
gage Indebtedness of this state at $780,
600, 900; so per cent of which will be
paid off between now and the first of
January, 1891. This farm mortgage
business has been a great bugbear the
past year or two, but nobody is worrying
over it now, unless it be the holders who
are naturally solicitous as to what they
will do with the money they are receiv-
ing as the mortgage collaterals fall due
and are being Gifted" by their makers.
Unless a series of disasters should over
take Kansas she may be considered
pretty much done with the mortgage
business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

Mr.. Gould, in an interview at st. Louis
the other day, described the amazing
growth of the cities of Texas. Good for
the Texas cities. Had the great mag
nate visited this state he would have dis
covered the same conditions, only in &C
centuated form, existing here, and can
dor would have compelled such a dec
laration. But maybe that is why he
didn't come this last trip.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

L. S. Coffin, ex-railway commissioner
of Iowa, who has devoted several years
to the advocacy of safety appliances in
railroading, is now in Washington en-
deavoring to ecure congressional legis-
lation on that subject. AT the sugges-
ton of Mr.. Coffin the Iowa legislature
has passed an act requiring railroads in
that state to place automatic couplings
on all cars before the first of January,
1895. Such a law ought to be made of
universal application, and probably will
no
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

Intolerance has e marked the domi-
nant prohibition wing of the Re
publican party in Kansas. The
organs Of that element are now.
all md~ustriously finging siurs and
inuendus at the supreme bench Of the
United States, and indulgingin insulting
i-nsinuatlons. Their chief mouth piece,
the attorney general Of Kansas, talks
about bred Scott decisions, thus init
mating another rebellion The days Of
~fire-eaters. fantasies and mcorrigibles
are rapidly disappearing from the calen-
dar Of American politics, and the way
some of these Kansas papers and polite
ians are talking Is simply Illuminating.
Six judges, three Republicans and three
Democrats. simply approved the doctrine
laid down by Chief Justice Marshall .
half century ago that the RICH; TO i'm
port carries with il and Necessarily i'm
plies the right 10 sell the thing imported.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

Captain Cowden is before congress
lobbying a bill for an outlet for the food
waters Of the Mississippi river. The
proposition Is to make a ditch from the
river, ten miles below New Orleans, to
Lake Borgne, lying east of the river. and
which IS really q bay leading out to the
Gulf of Mexico. That ditch would
eventually become the river channel.
destroy the usefulness Of Captain Eads'
jetties and the navigation Of the MiSsi>-
sippi river would become impossible:
The railroads are asmuch afraid Of water
navigation as the money power is Of legal
tender treasury notes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

The Buenos Ayres Standard of a recent
date says that 1.-The immigration figures
for last month show an alarming falling
off, not only as compared with those of
the month of December, but even in
comparison with those of the year 1889.
There's nothing strange about that, how
ever; the tide of emigration is just
turned this way and Kansas is going to
receive the major portion of those who
go homeSeeking this year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
7o-T- s5ns 80 You Out

D y. Hovell. la Hayr-rs YozaE Pe0gs
1 VIII whisper here to the yoang peo-
pie. that somehow. SON u late. "a sns
do overtake us. and insist on beIng PAID
for. That Is not the b-t reason for hot
SHINING. bat il l. well - knOw i. and e.
believe Il ia our at. a. we4 a. cur
thoughts You viii find people who will
tell you that things only happen ~ ard
50. Il may - oniy /. know thai . ogood
thing ever happened 20 happen - Ee
when / had done wrong
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

The New Orleans Times-Democrat and
the Daily States of the same city have
for some time been unceasing in their
attacks upon Governor Nichols. The
Daily States has been particularly bitter,
calling him "a resurrected dummy,
whom neither the walls of drowning
people, nor the terrible wal of the un-
chained elements could ever rouse" 1t
is instructive to note, however, that the
Daily States is friend, and Governor
Nichols an enemy, of the Louisiana lot
terry company, and that the abuse which
has been showered upon the governor
commenced with his refusal to accepts
check from the lottery company on the
eve of legislation respecting its charter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

no city among all the centers of popula-
ton named in this article that has as
great and grand future as awaits Wich-
tia, which future thus measured will find
rivalship only in that of the Importance
of the cities constituting the greater sea-
ports of the continent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

There are three men in the Oregon
state prison, each of whom cut off a hand
to avoid work. Mr.. BeIlamy ought nov
to suggest some way of preventing this
from becoming a handles race, when
everybody works for the government,
according to his idea.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

Paul B. Du Chaillu, the famous Afri-
can explorer, is in London and not in
good health. Civilization doesn't seem
to agree with these African explorers.
Emin Pasha, be it remembered, when
away from his accustomed wilds,
couldn't stand up on account of pain
or perhaps, it was only champagne. As
for their compeer, Henry NJ. Stanley
well, it's enough to say he is an Ameri-
CON
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04
BIG A STEPS.

From the p Dorado Rep1bncaA
Samuel 4. Clifford. Of Clifford town
ship, was in town Friday. He sold his
steers IN Chicago last week tie had
one hundred and eight They averaged
fourteen hundred and slxfy-six pounds
each end he received four dollars and
seventy cents per hundred for them or
~sixtyeight dollars and ninety cents per
head. He Is entirely satisfied with the
result Of his winters feeding. His hogs
were sold in Wichita
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

What is to hinder the Topeka Capital
and Journal from impeaching the judges
of the supreme court of the United
States. Kellogg would gladly conduct
the case and Barney Kelly need only be
asked to preside and render judgment.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

Sergius E. Shevitch, Russian noble
man, socialist and editor-in-chief of the
New York Volk5 Zeitung, said lately in
support of a motion that Mayor Grant,
of New York, be requested to display the
red flag on the city hall IN May /, che
thought that if the Irish flag could fly
from the city hall on March Il the red
flag might fly on May l." Shevitch is
the socialist who figured IS the repre-
sentative of the socialists a few years ago
in a great debate with Henry George.
The Chicago Herald is the authority for
the report that his c~onfiscated estate in
Russia IS to be restored to him, and that
he will be invited TO return to that cOun-
Try. The possession of property viii I'M
questionably test TO the utmost his so
c~ialistic theories. and the chances are ten
TO one that he viii at once become con
sentative. Let him gohome at once and
carry the red flag with him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

The English language vas used in
framing a recent treaty between Russia
and China, but the foreigners belonging
to the western part of this country don't
seem to understand that English is the
human voice"