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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-01-15
Advertised Letters.

The followingis alist of unclaimed letters re-
naming In the postoflce at Wellington, Ohio
Jan. 9, pO
Mrs. wiz Gratis. A. Hullinaer& 4 Co..
Mrs. Mary L. jenkins.
Persons calling for the above letters please
say advertised"
GEo. G. Bush, p. NJ.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-01-15
The Postomce.

The polls opened Saturday morning at
ten o'clock In the voting room in the
opera house; Asa Pratt was chosen clerk
and the same judges acting that were
selected in the call. j. p. Laundon, J. ].
Thomas, and ]. t. Haskell were candl-
dates. The vote resulted as follows:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
PROHIBITION AND soBRIErY.

Marsh Murdoch SAYS: 1.-THE truth is,
| Wichita is too sober to be lively" That
statement fits nearly every town, not only
! in Kansas but on the Missouri river Over
| 5000 vacant houses in Kansas City, NO.,
and old Wyandotte is cursed with per
cent taxes. All going to the dogs.-Leav-
enworth Times.
Oh, my dear Daniel, we hope its not so
bad as that, and all up and down the
Missouri river. Five thousand vacant
houses are a good many, and six per cent
taxes are too high to be healthy. As for
Wichita, she is just sober. Nothing
more serious troubles her we assure you.
To be sober in prohibition state may
not seem the normal thing to Leaven-
worth man, where prohibition is under
stood to be solely for the purpose of en-
couraging the gallon jug to the detri-
ment Of the bar goblet. But not so IN
Wichita. Here, true enough, sobriety
comes of prohibItion-that kind of pro-
hibition which prohibits the city from
collecting joint and equitable revenues.
Nothing will sober town up like cut
ting off her revenues, Daniel, and
this the prohibition law, you
must have observed most effectually
does, fact that your people seem not to
have gotten on to- And there are your
esteemed but deluded contemporaries,
George w. Martin and Jake K. Hudson,
both OF whom for years have been, and
rightly enough too, convinced that pro-
Ia
with these two, however, has been their
ignorance of how the old thing worked.
They think. Judging Of course from the
way they talk and not by the way they
drink, that prohibition makes a COM
munity sober by cutting off its whisky,
when in fact the stimulant, the cutting
off of which sobers them up, is the
"where-withal to pay" We had thought,
heretofore, that Colonel Anthony under
TODD this, and that he was but sarcastic
ally prodding the other fellows, the
while ingeniously trusting that they
were really in the full enjoy
ment Of that which Leaven-
worth has got, through the friendly
Offices of Gov. Humphrey, in such an
abundant and hopeless way. And
Wichita, Dear Colonel, has, in this score,
been sadly, if not wantonly, misunder-
stood. She was not for Resubmission
because she was short on the kind of
sobriety that is supposed to come of pro-
hibition. No gilded vestibule of perdi-
ton could supply drinks so cheaply as it
is sponged off of neighbors and intimi-
dated out of conveniently located
joint-keepers. If the average Wichita
fellow knows anything better than an
other, he knows that racket. With them
its not such profound dread of that
species or prevalent prohibition, so per-
sistently advocated, by Jake Hud-
son and George Martin, which you can
go to bed with and sleep off before morn
ing, but the other kind which superin-
induced the more serious soberness that
with such cold dignity is holding down
the average Kansas town with all the
quiet of the calm composure that charac-
teriZeS a dead corpse.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
PATRIOTIC OFFICE SEEKERS.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
There is a laudable ambition, proper
love of appreciation, and justifiable de-
sire for preferment which may lead men
to seek public office; for the desire to win
honor and distinction in serving the pub
lie creditably, is as natural and legiti-
mate as to succeed in any other vocation.
In every case the merit of the action is
deter mined by the motive.
That the office should always seek the
man is not necessarily true, for if this
principle prevailed it is doubtful if the
best man in many cases would be adj
vanced to places requiring the best exec
utive and legislative housekeeping in
view the fact that integrity of character
is of primary importance. While per-
sistent effort to obtain office. where the
compensation Is nominal, will be Justly
viewed with suspicion, and while it is a
deplorable fact that public offices are
often prostituted for private gain, and
that patriotism Is, in this age, at a low
ebb. still our country is by no means
destitute of men who are actua ed by
pure motives in public positions, and
served the people TO their advantage and
benefit would compensate them for the
sacrifice of time and labor which might
have now for themselves wealth if de-
voted TO any other avocation. There are
still many men, tried and true, for
whom many things have a higher value
than money, among which Is the main
tenance of their honor and integrity
and some such men aspire TO public life.
In a government like ours a sense of
continued injustice done the people, by
the government. viii bring to the front
capable. brave and determined men who
VIII lead the people Alright in the remedy
Of existing evils, and the accomplish
ment Of needed reforms. The people
viii have the sagacity To discriminate
between selfishneSs and patriotism, pre-
tense and sincerity, and subterfuge and
correct principle. q. ;. II.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

Educated Germans are not slow 10
take issue with the Emperor William
upon his recently declared opinions con-
corning education. Respect for consti-
tuted authority is too weak to keep them
from condemning theories that, if car
ried out, would make ignorant citizens
even if they created unthinking soldiers.
The emperor may be able TO have his
way for the present, but the agitation
that is now following his pronouncia-
mento will serve 10 weaken the force of
his position. He will find in the end
that he, no more than other men, can
permanently block the advance of popu-
lar intelligence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
THAT KANSAS LAND WAR.

The Boston Journal, New York Her
aid and many other eastern papers have
been misled into writing some very fool
ish editorials and into publishing some
glaring and outrageously false dispatches
concerning the little episode that oc-
CURED in Evans township. Kingman
county, in this state, an affair or move
ment which seemed to be the act of a
few growing out of their sympathy for
sick neighbor. Not satisfied with pub
fishing the exaggerated colorings and
misconceptions of these special cores
pondents of a single occurrence many of
these eastern papers, including the two
named have multiplied the incident by
three. The EAGLE gave a substantially
true account of the matter the next
morning, in local news item, as it APP
peared on its face, but not knowing the
incentive othe action did not state it.
However, the same morning that the
matter appeared in the EAGLE, exaggera-
ted and flaming specials appeared in the
columns of several western papers, from
which grew the threatening affairs subse-
quently burthening the columns of the
eastern press. 1t is probably unnecessary
to say the Alliance is not responsible for
what even did occur, and that there is
no threat or danger of a like occurrence
anywhere else in the state. Eastern
money-loaners must be both very timid
and especially very credulous to swallow
snch a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. story as the
Boston journals special.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

The contest in Ireland, touching the
leadership of the Irish National party,
seems to have been resolved into a fight
between Parnell and the clergy, and we
are inclined to agree with Mr.. Parnell
that if the priests are permitted to in
fuence the coming general election as
they did the late special election in Kill
kenny, hope for Ireland will be largely
lost sight of in the general disappoint-
ment that is sure to follow. 1t is a
sorry day for any people and country
when the church assumes to control its
politics and the state.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

The Democratic papers of the country
in quarreling over Hill and Cleveland
overlook the most available man in their
party for the race in 80, and he a south
ern man at that. John G.. Carlisle pos
Sc ses more elements of strength than
any man in that party, and is a better
representative American, and more the
statesman. The only mistake he ever
made, so far as his party is concerned.
was in leaving the house. He would not
only have been the next speaker but
would have saved his party innunlerable
humiliations which the great majority of
the next house will subject it to- With
John G. Carlisle as speaker the Republi-
can party would have been robbed of
whole train loads Of rich campaign thm-
der which now viii be theirs as sure
rs the good Lord spares the lives of
those who were elected last fall to repre-
sent the great unwashed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
MODEST HEROISM.

From the New York star.
On Sunday crowded train on the
Sixth Avenue Elevated road was run
ming wild" without engineer or fire.
man. While those employees were on
the platform to repair a break in the
machinery a slight collision threw open
the throttle valve, and the engine
started at great speed down the track,
dragging the uncontrolled train. The
trainmen were not successful IN reaching
the locomotive, which was rendered
comparatively inaccessible by being
coupled backward, and fatal disaster
was imminent.
Just then young passenger eibowed
his way TO the front platform, opened
the side gate, and. by a periious leap,
succeeded in reaching the front Of the
engine. Climbing back TO the cab" Of
the locomotive, he closed the throt-
tie. brought the train under
control. and then quietly returned
TO the car aud resumed his place
among the passengers. The act evinced
not merely courage and deKterity, but
quick comprehension of a desperate and
surprising situation
INQUIRY showed that this modest hero
was not a locomotive engineer or train
man, but one who had only an ordinary
and casual knowledge Of the operation Of
engine valves. He sought no notoriety
nor asked any reward II II had rested
with himself, the passengers would not
have known TO whom they were indebt-
ed for the safety Of life or limb, nor
the road for the preservation Of is prop
eTtv.
This daring but unobtrusive man Is
Frederick kricker. Of No ls2 West
Ninety-ninth street. IL ought TO he
taken for granted that the Manhattan
Elevated Railway company wiz Sc thai
Mr.. Kricker and ms household have sub
stantial reason to enjoy a very merry
Christmas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

An Arkansas Methodist conference has
suspended from his ministerial functions
Rev. n. B. Fizer, because he ran for gov
ernor of the state in the last campaign.
The parson failed OF election, and it
seems like double infliction to compel
him to lose both his pulpit and the gu
bernatorial chair. 1t is evident that the
Arkansas Methodists do not believe that
religion and politics 90 together. At
any rate they are less considerate down
there than they are in this state. 1t
seems to be kind o expected in these
parts for preachers to take a hand in
running politics, even to the extent of
running for Office.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

A Washington correspondent saws:
Senator Ingalls, asked for and obtained
two weeks leave Of absence Saturday.
and Yesterday he left for Kansas, where
he expects to remain until the Kansas
legislature decides who shall succeed
him in the senate. He takes with him
the good wishes of every Republican in
Washington from the president down 10
the humblest member Of the party, and
on every hand one hears the wish, some
times even from Democrats. that Kansas
may sec the wisdom of giving her brainy
son another term in the senate: a wish in
which most heartily join. as it would
be impossible for Kansas 10 elect a sena-
tor who would reflect more credit upon
the state than Mr., Ingalls, has done
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

Receipts of cotton at interior southern
points already exceed the entire crop of
last year. This information has had the
effect to depress the price of the staple
here, but the foreign demand for it and
the large sums Of gold that continue, and
will still continue for some time, to come
here from foreign countries, is an en-
couraging augurv for the maintenance
of the foreign trade balance in our favor,
despite the continued large importations
of foreign goods into this country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

The State board of railway commits
sioners have rendered 4 decision in which
they hold that where a second railroad
line Is the carrier of coal to a point or
points on its line, taken from another
line that receives the coal from the mine,
the second line should furnish its quota
Of the cars necessary 10 serve public de-
mand at such local points on its line.
From a standpoint Of equity this seems
altogether reasonable: SO much so that it
Is odd there should have been any con
lest over IL.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

1t is said that once Gen. Robt. L. Lee
refused $4,000 and a royalty to write a
southern history of the war. He did
not think it proper to write and publish
anything on the subject during his life
time. A number of such works have
been published, but SO far as we remem-
per none of them We're written 10y the
prominent military men on that side,
though several have written historical
sketches of certain military operations
ia which they were ENGAGED.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

While to frontiersmen it may be true
chat in such cases as that of Sitting Bull
''dead Indian is good Indian" there
seems to be ground for the inquiry into
the circumstance of the great Medicine
Mans death, called for by the resolution
Of representative Blanchard. The coun-
try has a right to know the whole truth
about the affair, and there can be no
better time than the present, when the
circumstances are fresh in the minds of
those who are familiar with them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

Lymphs promise to become the COM
mon panacea for human ills, if the pres
INT rate Of discoveries continues for a
time. a Michigan doctor, Shurley bv
name, comes bobbing up with the an
nouncement that he has discovered a
preparation that is just as good as
koch's, but he does not intend to tell
what the ingredients are. There is as
yet not so great a demand for Shurlev's
lymph as Koch's, although there is no
telling what may he the outcome of this
later announcement
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
KANSAS BOYS.
u the FL Dorado Republican.

From the FL Dorado Republican
The Kansas State university seems I,
give "A man a taste for travel and explor
alton. One of its former students. W
W. Davis, son of Congressman Davis, i
on a government expedition IN Alaska
another, w. H. Brown, is with a gov
eminent expedition III the heart of Al
RIGA; still another, Fred Funston, son o
Foghorn Funston, of the second district
is with government party exploring
the famous Death Valley in California
Prof. Dyche is in British Columbia col
lecting specimens, and four Kansas uni
versity boys are now students in German
universities.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

The Wichita EAGLE seems TO he search
ing around for the Kansas immigration
Bureau. 1t now appears that the Bureau
was started too soon But no seed is ever
wasted. Will things be ready for IL in the
spring? fhe reaction is coming sure
Kansas City Gazette.
The search has not proven barren of
results. The resident officer for this
city, who is principal banker, informs
Us that the amount of matter really sent
out last spring was enormous, and that
just as soon as the times seem propitious
she work will DO resumed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
EvervbodY Hopes So.

From the Colw3ch Courier
Geo. L. Douglas, representstive-elect
from Wichita, has prepared bili to put
a stop to the corrupt Use of money and
corrupt practices at elections. 1t Is to
he hoped that the measure proposed by
Mr. Douglass VIII do the work intended.
Prom the Burton Graphic
IL he can succeed in getting the 6il
passed Mr. Douglass will have accomp-
lished much toward purifying elections.
We hope he viii succeed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
KEEP OVER ALL TIE STOCK YOU
CAN.
From the 1--we stock Journal

From the 1--we stock Journal
After this stampede 10 sell off all the
cattle and hogs, old and young, regard
less Of price. we viii next fall experience
the fact that breeding stock viii be
wanted at high prices. Perhaps the
scrub cattle viii be got rid Of, is the only
consolation. The high price Of grain and
feed has induced farmars % sacrifice
their stock as though they thought the
world was coming 70 an end and there
would lie no further need for meat 70
eai. while in reality the demand Is In
cressing. both at home and throughout
the European countries, especially for
high-class beef and choice pork, and the
farmer who continues 70 breed all the
stock the farm viii carry and To grade
up and improve the quality VIII reap the
harvest when the tide changes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
that point.

The fellow that worked the scheme OF
naming the baby for various and sundry
United States senators, notifying them,
with proofs, Of the fact thereby drawing
from them donations of cash, ought TO
have been smart enough not to tackle a
newspaper man, land particularly one who
goes down only before straight flush
and an exhausted pile of chips. he
bite? Should say not.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

A Philadelphia Judge has decided that
a state may regulate the sale OF any
merchantable article within is borders,
but may not prohibit it, this being the
prerogative of congress only. That
sounds like common sense and conse-
quently good law, though it does not tally
with certain other learned judges on
that nOint
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

In the course of a furious attack on
what it calls 1.-The Free Silver Devil,
the Albany Evening Journal holds up to
the hate and scorn of all Republicans
Senator Preston b. Plumb, Of Kansas.
But the Journal only makes an exhibit
ton of its asslnity. 1t viii learn pretty
soon, if it RECEIVERS sufficiently from its
frenzy to see clearly. that the hated free
silver devil has become the head of the
true Republican following.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

A smart individual has discovered that
Pennsylvania laws condemn a man
guilty of profanity to pay fine OF 81
cents. What a pity the discovery WASH t
made six weeks ago, and further that 1T
obtained in a number of other states as
well. Kansas for instance; what a reple-
ton there would have been to public
treasures,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

The receipt, a short time ago, of a
letter in New York, through the foreign
mails, addressed TO Louis Danneberg,
America" and the hard time the postal
department had finding the person to
whom it was addressed, (Which blythe
way was done after about two week 5
consulting various city directories re-
wives the old story of the letter that
went round hunting the person to whom
it was addressed, thus:
Wood
John
Mass.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

And now comes the report that the
negroes in Missouri have plunged into
ghost dancing with fanatic enthusiasm
that rivals even the craze of the Indians.
They have a Messih of their own, it Is
said, and their religious revels take them
back to ancient savagery. If the thing
keeps on we may have all the semi-civil-
lied people on the continent going of
into this lugubrious business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

The printing for the state board OF
agriculture last year cost the people OF
Kansas $50, 1443S. The Lawrence Jour-
nal pertinently asks if the boards serv-
ices were worth that much to the state.
For private corporation, that Is not
amenable to any state law, the donation
is a pretty liberal one, it must be al
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
figures:

J. +. Willis. late candidate for gov
ernor, at present national Alliance lee
turer and prospective United States SEN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
They Disappear IN Pairs

Fr0-l U hAll.Ls LsIt 81
Gen. Benjamin +. Butler announces
his complete retirement from public life.
With ths Withdrawal Of Gen Butler
from politics and the death o. SITTING
Bull. two Of the most picturesque figures
IN American history disappear.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

The first Mississippi district. it will be
observed. cast about half as many votes
rs Kansas City. Kan. 1t requires in
Kansas go. 637 votes 70 elect an equal
number OF Congressman. Here are the
fsr-,,ra.1.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
VERY ONESIDED.

The Kansas Alliance fellows az Ocala
did nothing to break thu voting COM
hine down south. In the election OF
the 4th ult. in Mississippi seven members
Of congress were elected on a total vote
for congressman OF 81 .6l9. as follows:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

The total gold imports this year are
thus far O,S31.491 and exports S2O,-
LOG. 067.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

General Berdan, the distinguished
sharpshooter. proposes as the best solu-
ton of the bimetal problem, to make a
coin of silver worth % cents, in the
center of which he would bore hole
and insert a gold plug worth 10 cents.
The present silver dollar, the general
thinks, is too large and the gold dollar
too small; SO he compromises on plug
ged coin. He finds that the silver dollar
varies in value from day TO day, as bull
lion; but he says nothing about the varl-
alton in the value of bullion. 1t is hardly
probable that the Bsrdan idea will be
seriously considered, though it is equally
as feasible as most of the schemes that
have been proposed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-27

ator, all for and of Kansas, was in To-
peka Christmas day, and the Capital,
with its wanted enterprise, sent man
to interview him. And although the IN
terviewer found him in the best of spirits
and amiable as a cooling dove, the bare
mention of the name of the Capital al
fected him like Haunting red flag In the
face of mad bull: it made him paw the
earth and below out a string of en-
sonant adjectives equal to a Flanders
marine The Capital man caught what
few of the dis, MS, SIS, MS, BIS, SIS with
dashes between he could as they flew
like electric flashes from a street car
troller wheel on damp day, and print
ed them in his paper, but we failed to see
where he found any consolation In the
"iDferyiew."