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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-17
Thursday, April, g.

Two bills occupied the attention Of the
state senate during the greater part of the
morning session yesterday. The first was
Senator McHale's anti-tights bill. which
was passed by the rousing majority Of 81
to II.
During the committee reports of the
morning the bill fixing the salaries of the
city officials of St. Paul was reported back
and passed under suspension of the rules.
The afternoon was spent on general or
ders with Senator Mayo in the chair.
Senator Sevatson made strong argum ent
for his bill fixing the liability of common
carriers and providing that railroads must
furnish cars tor shipment of grain, shall
weigh and receipt for the same and be re-
sponsible for the delivery OF full weight
Qess slight percentage lor natural waste),
and providing penalties Tor enforcement.
practical and Senator Crandall agreed with
him, but Mr.. Sevatson carried his point,
and the bill was recommended Tor passage.
HOUSE
The committee on leapportionmentm made
q report unanimously recommending Sem
ator Craig's bill providing TOR the division
of the state into seven congressional dis
tricte, to pass.
The committee on banks and banking re-
ported to indefinitely postpone two bills
relating to usury and interest.
Mr.. Feig asked to have his bill, n. F.
1855, relating to the adulteration of coffee
and honey, recalled from the judiciary COM
mittee and placed on general orders claim
ing that his bill was being withheld by the
committee.
The railroad committee reported back
the anti-scalpers' bill without recommends
ton.
Senator McHales anti-tights bill reached
the house during the afternoon, and after
being read Mr.. Wilson moved that it be re-
terred to the committee on printing.
The calendar was then AIKEN up, and, there
being forty bills thereon. it occupied the re-
naming part OF the afternoon session. The
most important of the bills passed was Mr..
Trips bill, H. F. al, to prevent crimes
been pretty well discussed and amended
and it passed with but little discussion
Mr.. Longs bill, H. F. 6sS to establish the
hours on public works by making eight
hours constitute days labor, was passed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
BILL NYE'S NEW WORK.

The announcement that Edgar Will
lam Nye is preparing to dip his pen in a
new ink and turn his manipulation of
the English language into a new vein, is
at this time really like the coming of
some restorative benediction. Nobody.
except an Englishman, will deny that
Nye has genius, but nobody who has
faithfully and in a contrite spirit read
each weekly letter, one after the other,
can deny that no man ever made such a
pack-horse of his genius. That Bill Nye
has style which is as variegated and
unlimited as a kaleidoscope, and that
during his career he has depicted many
a character. limned many a scene and
twisted the hnguistical possibilities of
our language "out of sight" no one who
peculiarly American, mostly ephemeral
and superficial, but none the less ex-
cruciaring. He has written many funny
things, and in his earlier writings there
were no exceptions. But to watch
the average reader begin to
read one of Nyes Sunday letters at pres
ent with a broad articipatory grin and
see this contract instead of expand as the
reader gets further into the fun, is a
sight nothing short of pitiable
The new departure for the humorist,
while not promising openly as much. is
silently indicative that he viii set his
humor in silent background of reading
matter which will be more acceptable.
because it promises nothing and disap-
points none as to humor He will con
tribute to the Century during the coming
year a series of articles descriptive of his
experiences in different parts of America
and IN various capacities. lie calls them
his "Autibiographies. and the first one.
The Autobiography OF a Justice of the
Peace, viii appear in the November
Century. 1t is understood that Mr.. Nvs
has not drawn so largely as is usual
with him upon his powers of invention.
but has endeavored 10 present a series of
pictures of American life which will both
amuse and instruct.
There Is no doubt that Nve can be
funny If he takes time TO il. and these
promise 10 be superior articles. Bill
Nye's trouble is that he attempts too
much. He Is funny. certainly. But he
is not when he tries to be.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
UNCLE SANS CROPS.
From the Atchison Champion.

From the Atchison Champion.
The United States will gather this year
more plentiful crops than, IN all proba-
biiitv. have been known before in this
country. From the great northwest.
with its immense wheat fields. from the
Pacific coast, from the central west. IN
Guiding Kansas aud Nebraska, and from
the south down 10 Texas, the grain crops
are the largest ever produced. The yield
will not vary much from $50, 900, 900
busheis.of wheat, 1900 000, 900 bushels
corr. about CSC. 900, 900 bushels of oats and
over 100. O00. 900 bushels of other grains,
making an aggregate of $500. 000, 900
bushels, or fully / 900, 00O, 900 more than
in 1890
This increase Of /, 600. Oo0, 900 bushels is
equal 70 LOCO, 900 car loads Of 5000
pounds each. Nearly All other crops
promise the same abundant yield, rice,
sugar, tobacco. fruits, vegetables. hay,
sorghum. fax, alfalfa and broom corn all
adding immensely 10 the profits Of farm
ers. Cotton alone Of all the big crops
will fail short OF 1890, but this will be
an advantage as the Weld last year was
too large for the demand.
With all this enormous production Of
grain. ii Is probable thar good prices will
be maintained because OF the scarcity n
Europe. aud 80 American far Dsrs will
receive more money this year for their
crops than ever before. This paenom-
enal prosperity Is certain u tax the &c
sources Of the railroads Ok the country 70
an extent not vet realized. for the hand
ling Of the immense crops. AID the bush
ness which they Will necessarIly develop,
added 10 the regular traffic q the COIN
try. will certainly require al their
present rolling stock and al the add
tionaI rolling stock lley vii b@ likely y
secuIe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
KANSAS AND BLAINE.

The following special dispatch to the
Cincinnati Enquirer from Akron, o.,
explains itself and it will probably be
endorsed as truthful statement of the
Kansas situation by a great many Re
publicans. The dispatch reads:
Governor Lyman L. Humphrey of
Kansas, who has delivered several
speeches in Ohio this fall, is spending a
few days with relatives here.
In speaking today of Blaine's presi-
dency he said: so far as Kansas is con-
cerned, he is the only man in the race.
Republicans will not hear of any other
candidate and if nominated Kansas will
give him a majority of 10000. / may
say; too, that l find Republicans every
where through the west of one mind on
the subject. We want Blaine and we
are bound to have him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
Drawing Carr Up Hill.

The track of the Rainier Avenue Elec-
trio railway has been completed down
Washington street as far as Third, and
cars are now regularly running to
Eighth. The compensation weights for
taking the cars up the steep incline be-
tween Fifth and Eighth streets are in
place. Upon trial the continuance has
worked successfully, and cars will be
running up and down in few days.
The arrangement is very ingenious
one. The regular track is standard
gauge; inside of it and two or three feet
below the street level is a second track
of two feet gauge. On this runs a truck
loaded with lead so as TO weigh between
FIVE and six tons. This lower track is
covered over and nothing of it is seen
from the street When the truck is at
the bottom of the hill a cable to which
it is attached runs on pulleys to the top,
and there turns over big concealed
wheel out to the side of the track.
A car coming down the hill takes the
end of the cable, and the weight of the
descending car, together with the cleo
trio power, draws the heavy truck uR-
derneath up the 16b per cent. grade to
the top of the hill. When the car re-
turns the truck is at the top of the hill
As soon as the car is attached to the end
of the cable. then at the bottom. the
truck is released, and its weight as it
runs down draws the car up The cable
pulled ont at the top of the hill as the
car comes down runs in a narrow slot
just inside Of the track on the north side
of the street.-Seattle Post lntellgencer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
OUT UPON IT,

The Chicago Tribune is of the opinion
that one of the two vacancies on the board
OF Interstate commerce commissioners
should be filled by some citizen living west
of the Missouri river. That, of course,
means some kansan, because, with all due
Difference to the citizens of the other states
lying west Of the big unclarified, Kansas is
in better shape to furnish a competent
commissioner than any other state
Atchison Champion.
But you fail to state the strongest
reasonl Kansas originates double the
traffic of any Of the transmissouri states,
despite which fact the present commits
sion never made a decision, touching her
traffic, in which they did not discrimi-
nate against her commerce and against
her trade centers.
If there never had been any interstate
law passed Kansas would have had one
million more inhabitants today and
every town and city in the state would
have been larger and richer.
When that law went into effect
Wichita had Missouri river rate on all
carload lots and but for that law she
NOuiu nave hau my IIOuSdnu duuIIIOA-
al people today and also been a great
Kansas grain market with the Gulf,
Memphis, st. Louis and Chicago in COM
petition for her pure Kansas grades of
wheat and corn.
The Interstate law was drafted for
the sole purpose of enabling railroad
corporations to issue additional water
stock and to pay dividends on the same.
1t is, professedly an anti-pool law, but it
is a gigantic legally-constructed and
officially protected pool measure in the
interest of seaboard and river centers,
and nothing else.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
THE ALLIANCE LEADERSHIP.

Livingston, the great Alliance light
and leader, who preceded Polk originally
in organizing the Kansas Alliance, but
who as rebel stands no higher than
Polk, being crowded to the wall while
making speech in Atlanta the other
day acknowledged that'while he believed
in the sub-treasury scheme he was still a
Democrat, first, last and all the time.
He boosted that he had voted the Demo
cratic ticket with Republican bayonets
confronting him, and he didn't propose
to have his Democracy criticised by
school boys. And Polk, Livingston's
colleague, is just such another Alliance
leader,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
polio. station Pharmacr.

While was in the Eldridge street po-
lice station the other afternoon a man
came in with his hands on his stomach
and pain expression in his face.
Give IN me cholera medicine" be
said to the yeant IN despairing tones.
The sergeant took bottle from the
locker behind the desk and called the
doorman, who administered q doss Of
the stuff 10 the patient he went out
apparently relieved.
Il didn't know you ran pharmacy"
said 20 the sergeant, who explained
that in the summer the police in some
of the station houses keep on hand chol-
era mixture furnished By the commits
sioners Of charities and correction for
the relief of suffering humanity too poor
70 patronize a drug store.-New York
Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
TIE OLD DEMoGoeUE.

In 1888, when the Galloway mortgage
circular created such indignation in
Kansas, Senator Peffer-then only plain
Mr.. Peffer-was writing editorials for
the Topeka Capital. On Sept. %, 1888,
there appeared in the Capital one of Mr..
PETERS articles, from which the follow
ing is an extract;
Figures won't lie.' Not il you let
them alone, but in the hands of an adroit
demagogue we have known figures 10
tell lies of the most towering character.
The masses of the people, busily engaged
in pursuing bread and butter have not
time to analyZe any statement made by
INSCRIPTIONS politicians, more especially
If the statement is largely made up fig
ures. Hence if some oily and WHY stump
orator informs public meeting that the
mortgages in the state amount TO $780,
600, or whatever the sum may be, many
unthinking persons accept the statement
as correct, solemnly repeat to their
neighbors, and lament over the valley of
financial humiliation into which the state
has been cast by a reckless and corrupt
party. Demagogue Galloway, in send
ing out his confidential mortgage circu-
lar, rather hastily assumed that he could
reckon upon the fact that nobody takes
the trouble to dIsprove the accuracy of
figures taken from county record books.
We have already proved that the mort
cages on record do not and cannot show
the Indebtedness of our people In fact
it would be impossible without searching
every vault and desk in the state, public
and private, TO ascertain the aggregate
of mortgages on the property of this or
o,1u Ofh I n H., hot
mortgages on lands and lots are usually
paid in inStallments, and it is among the
probabilities that any county that the
mortgage of $500 today represents but
800 Indebtedness. This is so apparent
that proof is unnecessary. Everybody
can furnish proof from his own or his
neighbours experience.
"Often the mortgage is an unmixed
good. young man comes into the
state with 500 in cash. He finds prop
city worth 81 500. He pays $500 down
and gives a mortgage for the balance.
That is to say, he gives a mortgage on
property which he does not own. The
demagogue would tell the people that
the 81 900 still owing on the property
was an indication of financial depression.
On the contrary every such mortgage is
clear gain to acOmmunity or to a state.
That young man is year by year improv-
ing his land and is thus added to the
wealth of the community. His objoc-
tive point Is to get full possession of the
land, and that point by the help of mus
Gle and grit, he will reach. The history
of this young man is the history of
thousands of stalwart Kansas citizens.
They prospered, they are prospecting:
and all the demagogical Galloways in
the universe cannot prove to them the
contrary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25

Henry Labouchore is correct in saving.
IN reference TO the Mckinley law. that
the principles of political economy are
not of universal application. The emil
nent British statesman and free trader
admits that he would be a protectionist
If he were an American, while the incl
tSent American protectionist will as
freely concede that he would he a tariff
for-revenue-only man if he were a resi-
sent of Great Britain. The question Of
free trade or protection is q matter OF
expediency purely, and each country
must decide for itself which system il
viii adopt, and in this decision its natural
resources and the needs, tastes and cap
abilities of its people must be taken into
the account
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
Hyde & Humble Sta Go.
ia North Main.
DOING HIS DUTY.
His Orders We're from tho snPerintssd-
ent. and He Meant Business

His Orders We're from tho Snpsrintend-
emit. and He Meant business.
During a strike on one Of the eastern
roads they had 10 pick up anybody they
could to man what trains had 70 be run
The engineers and conductors on the fast
trains stood by the company, but the brake
men were out. The superintendent hired
one big bulky fellow. who gave bis name
as BOscome, 10 &C: a. brakeman on the
Chicago limited.
''Now, boss" he said 70 the superintend-
ent, you just tell me what 70 do and you
bet your boots rll do 10. Do you want any
strikers killed."
mo. no Dor't you NEEDLE with them
unless they NEEDLE with you. You Wont
have very much % do unless something
goes wrong with the train. Then you help
a. much "a You can and do what the con
ductor tells you 10
And II things go smooth, what do do
them"
Just shout the name Of the stations"
When the Chicago limited started out as
Q O'Clock that night Boscome was on ono
Of the sleeperz Everybody was in his
berth trying 20 Eet % sleep. when BOsoOms
put his head iu the door and yelled.
"Brenton's Corners
80 de Iaud. cried the porter, aghast,
'you mussent call de names out In q sleep
ing cab"
You tend 20 your blackin boots and
don't interfere with me I'm dom my
duty and don't you furget IL. b"
People put their heads out from between
curtains and wanted to know what lunatic
was abroad The sleeping car conductor
expOsru lated with BosoOme. bat every time
a lot 81 lights flashed past the new brake
man yelled "MuRgin's =. junction" or what
ever name was NEXT on his list. The train
conductor at last came along aud said DO
would put Boscome on. but the staiWATt
brakeman asked him 20 try 10 on II bs
thought be could do H.
Il ain't got nuthin agin you. conduo."
said Boscome. but I'm a doin what thg
superintendent told me 70 do. and you bsl
I'm goin 20 obey orders SuEgsn's Cross
ing"
The conductor pulled the bellrops and
the train slowed MP
Anything wrong with the train. con
due" asked B0scome aDJiOusly.
Yes The sirbgake's on FIRE You run
back there about q rod and you'll End q
bucket Of water beside the track. Bring 10
20 ne"
A the train started up sgsin the oonduo-
tor shouted % BOsoOme, who wa trying "a
catch mp;
Next time you get on . train ion IA
what the conductor tells you 70. Quit run
ming after "a: you cant catch the limited.
Tramp back and report % tbs superlntsnd.
snt "-Dstrois Free Pres&
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
And so Polk got out of Kansas. TIL,

And SO Polk got out of Kansas. The
atmosphere of the commonwealth whose
soil was REDEEMED by the blood of the
martyred sons of Old John Brow mis- not
a congenial one in which to reflect over
former fortunes imposed upon union sol
diers in rebel prisons. After Polk gets
safely on the south side of Mason-Dixon
we expect to hear of some startling Sc
cret threats against his life or other
equally absured canard. Polk was just
as safe in Kansas as in his own homo ex-
cent from his conscience
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25

The quantity of the writings Of the
late Marshal Won Moltke is unexpected
ly large. a portion Of the papers Is Of
purely military interest. II consists Of
reports and strategical observations on
the campaigns in which Moltke com
manded These are to be issued by
Messrs. Mittler g. Son, of Berlin, and
English editions will be published by
Messrs. Osgood, of London. But tho
late marshal also left sort of autobiog-
raphy, comprising twenty-nine diaries
which cover almost the whole Of his
military career. and are replete with
notes on all the events in which the
great soldier was in a way mixed up.
These diaries give vivid illustration Of
Moltke's character, and were originally in
tended for the perusal Of his family only.
But it has been decided 10 publish them,
and they are TO appear first as serials in
a German periodical and in an English
illustrated journal. Afterward they viii
be issued in book form. -London Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
KNIGHT OF THE soRRoWFUL FIGURE

An old time Republican farmer who
has read every issue of the EAGLE for
seventeen years writes us a private note
saying that he does not desire to stop his
paper but that he is personally very
sorry for our attitude towards the third
party. The thing is entirely mutual.
His sorrow can be no more poignant
than our own that any Kansas Republic
can should ever have become the fol-
lower of a man whose only marks of
distinction are his whiskers and a certain
lugribrious roll of the eye, both accen-
tuated by such a calamitous howl as
would have given Dante pointers in his
composition of the Inferno, TO say moth
ing of such an old time Republican
about the founder of a party whose
political prestige at his southern home
seems to hinge on the facility with which
he as rebel officer ordered defencelesS
Union prisoners shot.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
They are Paying Up.

From the New y OK sun.
The Alliance farmers OF Kansas have
not taken the advice that was given
them 10 repudiate their mortgage in
debtednesS. but are paying 1t up a. fast
as they get the money tor their crops.
The statistics recently collected on the
subject are encouraging 10 all holders Of
farm mortgages and pleasing 10 every
body who believes in tie honesty and
honor of the farmers Of the country. Il
Is a sound policy that the Kansas farm
ers are pursuing in this respect. ana ii
VIII rebound TO theiT advantage al once
aud hereafter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
ACKNOWLEDGE THE CORN.

From the Emporia Republican.
In his Emporia speech Senator PETER
said that the Republican league addresses
called him wandering vagabond, and
that it hurt him. The language of the
league address is: ''The wandering vag-
abond5 who have joined the Alliance for
political purposes only, and who are
trying TO make living by the sweat of
their Jaws" Why does Senator PETER
think that this refers to him? Did he
join the Alliane ''for political purposes
only" and is he trying 10 make a liv-
ing by the sweat of his jaws
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25

A half fare round trip ticket can be
purchased for the Wichita fair at anv
station in Kansas, in Oklahoma and
along the Missouri, Nebraska or Colorado
border lines. To no fair held in the state
was ever such a concession made bv the
western passenger association. Reason
why: big crowds can always be counted
on when Wichita is in the ring.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25

Not few Sedgwick county Democrats
are chagrined over the denouement that
the man whom both the Alliance and
Democrats refused to nominate. or to
even consider his name, has outwitted
the whole outfit, and who is, in the event
of Democratic victory, to. be practi
caIly, and,toail intent and purposes, sher-
iff after all
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25

The exhibition of the holy coat will
end on Oct. 4. The number of pilgrims
who have viewed the coat already ex-
coed the total number of those who
viewed it in the exhibition of 1914, and
the total number in this exhibition will
probably reach ?, 600. 900.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
AN OLD-TIMER.
= Abilene Reflector.

From this Abilene Reflector.
c. Wood Davis is not alone good
economist. He made the first passenger
and time schedule west of the Missouri
river and was one of the leading officers
of the old Kansas Pacific for years. He
was close friend of Fremont and is as
familiar with railroads as with farming.
He is no calamityite.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25

Consul Waller has not given up his
Job. The palatable meats and the lus-
cious fruits sent to him by the African
regal beauty Ravanarola upon his arriv-
al, charmed his soul. However, as a
rule. President Harrison can use his con-
sulships twice at least, if he insists on
sending a Kansas man too far from his
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25
Jerry Jumps the Game.

From the Hutchinson News
Jerry Simpson felt his disappointment
SO keeny at the size of yesterdays
crowd that he sneaked out of town with
out filling the appointment made for
him at the fair grounds at night. Just
before train time some one at the depot
asked him if he did not intend to speak
here tonight. 'Speak h-lI" exclaimed
Jerry, there's nobody to speak to"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25

The present tariff law is shutting Ca
madam products out of the Uuited States.
1t is a lucky thing for Jerry Simpson
that he left the Dominion before the pas
sage of the Mckinley bill which is prac-
tically prohibitory of all foreign green
DrOducts