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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
JOE ENGLISA's DANCING Ran ACT
The Adventures OF y Man Who Sat Dowa
Over oil Well to DO so.e Figuring.


Hoe Yesterday a large number Of prominent
G men from tine yarsas Il Ohio
Me1r telling their experiences in tbs oil fieids.
Tn, one that mostly attracted attention was u
contractor, HIS story was rs follows:
-. was about 20 years old when the oil ey.
he Uea lie s Of f0rT aas son
We lived on farm OF 40 acres. within two
Was s @ for any Of
until some o! tho oilmen from or City came
a"Wn ana Sp1 rg 9ro on the Days abou.
live v. drilled four wells. and ali very good
came in il ei two a5e bartsi tanks ia af fSu II
hour. and We io.t cons;iderAIIe oil because Of
however to, about SEQ barrels a. day. and kept
ws ' ous h ,s ss s,lsnI..
ea ysr rs that ever fol- e the 10; q man;
Ihe Il tanaonsh we'll was near BY. knowing |
in,o iii, !. derrick An empty enndy box whish
over hs sass hand and i"snsp.a
cse!ed in my own war to solve tho problem OF
petroleum production. In Iust about two min.
stnious rats and Win such tremeni"as force
that vas a,rled high into tho air. box and
i'll rhH1 WAS sysf so
iiitsS yioeraly hoay.nward .,,n,,. -,
.vrxgh, as q plumb line, WHAT rs more, I
o. shin.s Il Was impossibie to 80 , SO. Inc
spm -linE water was OF sufficient volume to en-
. SsT sae sea s III:
would ~, a ; eyer cs andi s.. oaary e
nv isgs M ward fhi. nut me In n peculiarly
unco H!orta Ne. yet singularly SAFE position. /
ns' s Hsa S.s rms ne E.d n
that position b,s tho ontpourins torrent,
SSn ea III iu II. ihn. rS,r feet
could 4nii me-. nj an Settled back about fifteen
feet, all the wnile N, Nntaininc the same nosi-
ton When cache '.n .,It shs at,
s the . water FH s:oppsd ihS eoiai was i%ls
thirty feet ir"m re gron no. ~ wan mIn2Snn6e
Sstsr played into into iha. BOX viii terrific iorss
r IN S AID falling :" The box ssionsd 6yths
con ;onti1n be woen the attrae ton Of Irayity
end q wac Tas aua which,
soon became numb from tho const WI pound-
- f Il 70 Roar rad AID tho squirting water soon at
and after llism cams the nssGhbors. "L' opera;
sos srh Shs sn hs5s wa S5
eoul mi see much Of them, and. Of course,
pain sssnsi to Rr" ' less, and The next in,,w
WAS in hed and IN a dreamy way saw tine
about. Tho well ceased flawing gradually,
@1 H Ssi Il. boz With A. nds
, rnselt 6nrdrn came down with It ara
% s Snit carts: az 'a' .s and
then INTO the house"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
COZ FIEEn's CAR sICKNEsS.
"A Mountain Journey by Rail Whicti Had
the Effect or IL Rough Sea Voyage.
From N, Gaicl9o DII'y 7ribUrs

From N, r,icrqo DI,,y 7ribur..
A tall man. with decidedly pale face. walked
into the Sherman House Yesterday and re-
anested the clerk to .iaGe bis name on the
twenty oth,r m.n who also looked as II life
wore burden to them
as 10 ssble." was the request made O! the clerk
by each one Of the guests.
aEe mo- wha' Is the
oh. but I'm glad TO DO irsre!" remarked tho
tall maj.
Tho man whom the clerk addressed as Gov
ernor was Joseph ". Fifer nt Srrincfeld. III.
Aud the mon with him were his and, and other
state officials who recently took Part in tne
memory o. Illinois soldiers Killed At Gettys-
burg. Pa. The OCCASION for the travellers, woo
Nd, J. c. Hyde said:
IT was The widest and fastest ride syor
the GoSernor sspeeay brc sG c az. lex.
haye been out "a tho Atlantic Ocean whoa he
waves were rolling pretty nigh. but ], wHs
from Tho capital 10 Cumb .riahd. During tho
irits UP tho mountains here werc two and
and the way the engineers made them lily
around tho mountains WAS . caution. he,
lieyo NE engineer knsw they had Illinois
him u. exciting ride as possible II they had
that object in view they succeeded. for Coy.
lney kent their heads ont II the car windows
during the Gren,er part Of the TRIP.
tNrry man WIN mo CpVernp y party when
the train rolled into Chicago tins morning had
a sevslc headache. bal taste in hi. mouth,
AMI u general FEELING 4 depression. The ride
o,er .hr ALCHEMY Mouhrsins is IL most de-
liGhtiu! one when the engineer does not have
10 make M los, time. Tho scenery Is grand,
ami can 10 eniornt under Ordinary circum-
stances. but when the engineer Ms TO make
NJ for lost time, as was the excute yesterday.
Gov. III ell. Treasurer Wilson Sscr tary Pear
son. aud others who were with the party. after
securing much needed rost and so ne med-
cal attention. summed w strenr'h enough to
be driven TO the Polk stree. depot in thu After
noon train, and they lett Tor Springfield over
the Wabash road.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
weather and Po,,,.ca, Prospects.
From u. mar E,nn.s-c ,o,nnaL

From ts mar K"nRe6ec J0'Endl
reporter ran across u very disconsoiato
man sian ling on n Wafer street corner yes or
day. He Is Highway Commissioner for ono OF
our large towns. He watched tue rain and at
last broke forth:
tell you what, this Is not right; there is
too much rain. It's running NY chances of
getting along any further in politics thought
! misni get inio tho LesislRturs some DAY, but
guess no. now, You SEQ am Comm ssionrr OF
hoads and highways in my town, This spring
they gave mo m APPROXIMATION hat was larger
u an usual ate u bitter light. L Was nut III to
~. IKE . reform IN the department. I've hon
EST, tried 70 Ia get tho roads In good. very
goot, condition, and then along would como
wnoo Ding old storm. and all my money Was
:" Bu, all the appropriation is gone now and
here v another biankety blank 9ld storm
the SOUP People know about It now. but next
year. when I'm up for Chairman Of the select
men. they'll, only remember that didn't do
any better TO- AL hey gave me than any Of the
others. They. say the roads 'ye oever been
1t Is this dashed dash. biankety black rain"
and he walked oil.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
SINGING SANDS.
Kansas People MySuH-d Until nesM"'e
was Traced 10 Its Source .

Tiom ts- rdHrGsp'ir Prer.
PIEDMoST. KIM. Sent s-One OF til , M ~
remarkable natlril cur!osities ever III ii ~ y
Hint Hills ntout live niles northwest ., tis
CITY long .eacn Of country in that 50, VI" .sl
With smSii nnr,irss o. lint inters, err ed ". y
SIN, la.:e. Io.ss: It !, nIisry barren .. In
it Is travelled only when the people arc in n
hurry. or it IL hard on man and beast.
san Ss we sso sps
lhe lremh!its con inued Tor several Gays. 4
{sw nisGs ne =" sSDns II r. the
HIS. Thought ,hey heard tne s'und OF music.
and go, W oteo sno WIS !a'inx at that tine
ca,lencr. but they "outd distinguish no tnns.
i nnd NOR, q the sound 81 an 'cI ,s"ian harp
SancSI MOI, Teiren;et they concluded that j,
WAS carried BY n peculiar condition OF the at
night the m,'sie cana again 9 G
was It that Mr.. .;swton could nistincnish the
1ar that @ G.aH ns s sana
storm. an tn. music iii! no. sonnd tor several
nlGnts NJ, .lwmr Then ca no q dry spell Of n
ting In front OF the non;O tic sweet trains
were heart again. only they were not so loud
as formerly aui appeared to DO ut much
creatar distance. As the dry weather cnn,in-
IsI The SQUADS lecaino louder and nearer
Al iase Il was de,ermiy,.a ,osolve the mys-
terry il possible, ami n marty OF Young people
rot on / for The Iliint ms determined to camp
ont nil night and 800 what IL was TINT caused
the sounds. The !lrSt u l.tt ti!oy rRmped about
came tusy ,;nicssd unw7. and soon the sweet
sounds were heard iain.y IN the direction OF
Sswton'a hoas,. They Thought NJ trs' that
trick was being played NpOn them by >ome ono
at Nowtcn's. hut 'he sam. stra.n coptinuot
with NJ variation OF Sr'cngth all RisEt long.
Then they Inov~i tno'r lamp nearor 10 the
edge OF the barron l.acc. .ani that night The
hundred yards ir"m tiioin rho sonnd did not
esen any lnulor vnan IThcn iiea'd AZ ihs io"ss
81 Newton. hut 1t wasc'carornnd mora distinct:
One OF the Harty Yertt out o investigate, and
az he was walking aboit the music suddenly
stopped He sto I'd stu 10y S"no ime. hus nor
a sound cstrc Tfea hs waket away. and had
gone but q ahcrt. ui.tnsea when no heart n.
stonpod again bnt IA 1s!teh on It started
un. Hs then marked the sand with stick and
went back TO ihs iont. Ne " NO mig thev IN
yastigatej the place wher, Yhest'ck had been
niacsd and found that II wa. almost gone AZ
The slot where it hal been riaerd tho sand
boiling. Ii BUNDLED ant works. IN conesatr.c
rubbing together OF the pnrtfrts during IN:
curious phenOmenn When /. ra'psa tho Wet
sand would emit no sound
Killed the Son ANA |ounics tn Father.
LOUISVILLE. Sept 12.-Near Rlchirond his
morning John Rowan and his son At ar'eiied
with Shelby Jet over the raymento. f"ot.
They got .their guns ami sh0i Dttt, II. r.
turneG the fire. ki!!ing the son and scrIet. Wy
wnnndIIG the iathsr Je.t Was arrested
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
Twentr.pouad Salmon for - Cent Apiece.
From N, p Vt Tnr,s~,a Mrninc E-oa.r

The present wonderful ran OF salmon has so
Rluttt-d the market that for some time these
silver-sided benut ss has" been selling nj five
cents auiece. but tho price took tumO,o yes-
terday and several Bshe rmen sOid boat load
OF fine salmon. weighing about twenty pounds
each. a. the pltifu price OF ono cent apiece.
the finest quality OF that excellent hsii. is the
lowest price perhaps that food fish ever sold
ior IN This or ANY other country. but salmon
to do with them.
It's estimated that enough FISH could 10
Fishermen say they can make biz money ~
selling salmon at II cent apiece to the Gamer.
One man caught fourteen with a gill hook at.
tNehed tn noe handle yesterday. and an
other mar claims to have found them In such
that he threw Them out with u pitchiork ard
SOON got fish enough to last for a month
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
scin.E ws,.ley by the Bubble.
from n. phitaa,iphta R,eo,l

There . a. peculiar person living in The
NeE VINO Is called Long JR,k." He walks
UP and down the street on SUNDAY. never get
tInS iar from home AMI usually has low DO :
POCKET. Jack has q side pocket into which q
e GU arops nieksl 4 he wants whiskey
VI r rSa Srn,s ne vents bottle Of besr.
eullar manner. JACK. who IL a tall man. looks
99wn upon ths dridker and sounts tho LII btJes.
Ihrer bubbles constitute a drink. and the
price ,xS<e cents. Seven bubbles can be had
70 - cents see a. nn down 70 the bottom Of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13

New YORK csntrai-only. rosie Offering thrsp great
limssa" trains tnsiw est every day IN ,hs yssr.-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
the REASON WHY

ouR 6ARuEyTs ARE METER MADE AND HAvE
MORE STYLE AyD FINISH. AND ARE so EASILY
DISTINGUISHED fRoM ORDINARY CrSToN,NApE
GLOWING, rs BECAUsE VIZ RAY PHYSICIANS
SALARIES To rRsTCLAss ARTISTS AND NR
CHANCES WHICH INsuREs Us Tue Btsr wols.
MANsHlf.
THE REASON WHY
WE CAS- TURN OFT GooD.rfTrISG wRLLMApR
CLOTHES AT arCH Low PRICES rs BECAUSE w
HAVE no LEAIs IN OUR BUSINESS WE SELL
AND buy FOR CASH. AND By AVOIDING The
CREDIT SYSTEM. OCg CUSTOM Frs PAY PaR
THEIR owS CLOTHES NOBODY ELsE'S.
THE REASON WHY
ctr RrsiNEss is so LARGE IS BECAUSE orr
METHOD ENABLES THE CUSTOMER TO GET ms
own SELECTION OF FABRIC FROM WIDE vARt
ETY., ASD THE GUARANTEE or AN ABSOLUTE FIJI
AT ABOUT THE SAME COST or RBADY.hApE
SUIT OUR ASSORTMENT FOR THE ENSUING FALL
aND WINTER SEASON Is MORE COMPLETE THAN
EVER AND OUR RANGES of 90ALS0 AND o2S 80
sulTlSGs COMPRISE TIiR MOST EXCLUSIVE ~
rECrs OBTAfNABLE ONLY ~ THE HIGHEST
TAILORING EsrARLtslrnESTs
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
The Kansas Farmer WIN Still be Edited
by PETER.

Topeka, January 29.-Judge PETER
will not resign the editorship of the
Kansas Farmer. His election as United
States senator will give the paper a
great boom with the farmers, and he
will use it to communicate with his con-
stituents. 1t is not thought that there
will be any changes whatever in the
management. The paper has been very
prosperous for the last two years, and
to have United States senator for its
leading editorial writer will not have a
tendency to lose it subscribers or adver-
Using patronage.
One of the strongest arguments urged
by the other candidates against Judge
PETER was that his health was bad and
that an early demise would result in the
appointment by Governor Humphrey OF
republican to succeed him, probably
Ingalls,. Judge PETER was confined to
his bed with a severe cold for few
weeks, and his opponents did not neg
lect to exaggerate the facts in connec-
ton with his illness. While not a
strong man, physically, Judge PETER
can stand the wear and tear of politi-
cal campaign or excessive mental strain
better than nine politicians in ten.
During the last campaign he made two
speeches a day for period covering
twice as much time as any other ALI.
ance speaker.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
Sultry Weather in Arkansas.

Life in the metropolitan cities, with
its subway explosions, elevated railway
accidents and theater fires, seems dull
and spiceless when one reads such let
tiers as the one from which the follow
ing is an extract. 1t was received a
few days ago from a correspondent in
the southwest, who says: Arkansas
is no place for people with weak nerves.
Early on the morning Of January 20,
two Missouri outlaws, the Shepard
brothers, shot two men dead in this
town. Same night one Shepard was
captured by an armed band of vigilantes
and the other was shot dead in his
tracks by a seventeen-year-old boy.
Think I'll emigrate to the United States
soon. Don't like such sultry days In
winter"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
NEWS ITEMS.

a leper is reported to be in Buffalo
county, Wis.
The national peoples party will hold
national convention at Cincinnati.
May l9.
A report from Omaha is to the effect
that the wheat crop is $1,000, 900 bushels
short of the estimate.
Salaries of the Jackson county, Mo-,
officials have been reduced about ID per
cent. by the county court.
H. F. Guthrie, receiver of the peo-
ple's bank at Atchison, has been asked
by the depositors to resign.
John Hand, of Webb City, Mo-, was
arrested and taken to Carthage for hav-
ing coins and moulds in his possession
Alexander Collier, of Keokuk, who
lost $l75, 900 by recent failure OF his
firm, died from the results of the shock.
Louis G. Mueller, an employee of the
st. Louis postotfice, is under arrest
charged with stealing money from let
tiers.
Mrs. M. S. Newcomb, OF Beatrice,
Neb., swallowed teaspoonful of car
bolic acid by mistake and may not re-
cover.
The silver pool Investigating commit
tee has promised Witness Diversity his
expenses if he will come to Washing
ton and testify.
G. P. Huntington has unloaded the
New York Star onto Frank A. Munsey,
after losing ST, 100000. The paper will
be issued as the Daily Continent.
Java advices report serious earth
quake in Batavia. The town of Joava
is in ruins and many Chinese were
killed. No Europeans were injured.
The famous bleeding nun of Patrodine
died on Wednesday at the convent of
the Conception, Guedalajuara. The
pope sent his blessings to her death
bed.
A small but fierce war is going on
among the mOuntaineers of West Va.
Both sides are heavily armed and des-
perate, and bloody blood will probably
flow.
Mrs. Long, of Bellaire, o., resented
the whipping of her daughter by a
school master in such forcible manner
that the teacher is in dangerous con-
ditiOn.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

Jessie Adamson, 10 years old, a sales
girl committed suicide by taking dose
of bromide of potassium at Mr.. Kings
boarding house, ia East 18th. street,
New York, early Tuesday morning.
She had been sick and on recovering
could find no work; pressed for board
she knew the time had come when she
must choose starvation or dishonor
This is but one of scores of instances
the press produces every day. Suicide
and drunkenness, despair and riot
such are the flowers that blossom on the
bed of Capitalism.-The Workman's
Advocate.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

A chemist says different classes OF
substances have been found to affect the
organs of taste in the following order:
Bitters, acids, saline substances, sweets
and alkalies. The taste nerves are
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
THE FARMERS.

not very encouraging to those cheerful
advocates of class legislation who have
been saying that the uprising of the
farmer, would quickly subside like an
ebullition of childish petulance. Their
predictions might have come true if the
evils of what the farmers, as class,
complain were at all bearable. The
jewellers in the country are vastly more
conservative than the town people. They
are slow to lay aside opinions long held,
or to change political Affections in
which they have been brought up. With
many of them political party is almost
like church, and they hold political
principles as a sacred creed. Once
thoroughly convinced of an error they
are slow to return to it. The floating
vote in the towns shifts easily from
party to party with each successive
election. When our friends in the
country change they change for keeps.
The fatal trouble with the Republi-
can politicians is this year of grace 1891
is thai they do not understand the
farmer. They do not believe he is in
earnest. They confidently expect that
after little more fretting and tuning
y he will fall into a penitential mood 40 to
the polls next time and vote to make
the Mckinley robber tariff perpetual,
approve the demonstration of silver,
the steamship subsidy swindle and all
the outrages of class legislation with
which the Republican party has oppress-
ed the agricultural producers to the
verge of ruin.
The farmers will do no such thing.
They are not only fully convinced that
they have been made the mud-sills OF
the Republican system of finance and
taxation, but they are getting nearer
all the time to correct understanding
of the proper means of relief. The up
country farmers in the South Carolina
Legislature did not retire WADE HAMP-
TON from the Senate because they had
ceased to honor him, but because he
had ceased to represent them in some
matters which they held vital to their
own interests. The Alliance men in
Kansas who sent the brilliant INGALLS,
to the rear simply gave him taste of
the most practical kind of political poll
tics; they defeated him because his
votes in the Senate were always against |
them and their interests. The farmers |
organizations throughout the West,
which have been declaring against the |
New England Force bill, have also
shown that they understand The game
of practical politics quite as well as does
Mr.. Lodge of Massachusetts or Mr..
Chandler of New Hampshire. They
adhere with true American patriotism,
to the principles of constitutional repre-
sentative government; but they also see
uery clearly that the force bill is aimed
to cripple the strongest allies of the
West in the fight against sectional
monopoly legislation.
In Missouri the farmers are showing
their good sense and their sound knowl-
edge of practical affairs by beginning to
unload the only palpable economic her.
esy that was sanctioned by the national
convention OF the Farmers and Labor
ers' Union at Ocala. Some of the local
unions adhere to the Ocala platform
without reservation, but the stronger
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

The membership of the Soldiers
Home is: Present, 2, 169; present and
absent, 1921.
Among the handsome and accomplish
ed ladies who are visiting at Topeka
this winter is the wife of Senator T. B.
Murdoch of Ell Dorado
MN. A. Haight, formerly county sur
veyor OF Cowley county, is now totally
blind. He has been granted pension
of S72 per month.
The Seneca Tribune predicts that the
next lower house of the Kansas legisla-
ture will not have Alliance members
enough in it to make q motion to ad-
iourn.
DR.. Diamond Dick" who has hawk
ed his patent medicines all over
the state, has set up an infrmary in
Leavenworth.
Atchison Globe: General Charles w.
Blair who received the votes of the Dem
ocrats of the Kansas legislature for sem
ator, is resident of the state of Mis-
souri, and railroad attorney.
The Harper Sentinel is authority for
the statement that in the north half OF
Harper county there are at least $780,
0O0 bushels of the wheat crop of 1890 not
yet marketed.
The Colby university of Waterville,
Me-. has presented copy Of Theodore
Parker's discourse on the Kansas-Neb-
raska question, delivered February Is,
1854 to the State Historical society.
The Leoti Western Kansdn says that
Wichita county, under irrigating ditch
es will produce one million bushels OF
wheat annually. A million bushels OF
wheat will irrigate large erea.
The Horse Protective association OF
southern Kansas has notified J. F. Ran
dolph, the secretary of the association,
that Joint convention will be held in
Arkansas City, February 9Th.
The Western HANSON, published at
Leoti, Wichita county, is only four
weeks old, but it is SO full of legal ads
that it had to issue supplement to hold
it's straight reading matter" A picnic
for its publisher.
Mrs. Jerry Simpson was with her hus-
band at Topeka during the senatorial
canvass. She is modest, sensible and
agreeable little woman, who is devoted
to her liege lord, and is proud of the
honors which have been shOwered upon
him.
The people of Winfield have made up
a purse of $500 with which to erect a
monument to the boy hero, James Nor
gan, who short time ago lost his life
in attempting to rescue young school
mate who had broken through the ice
while skating on Walnut river.
Colonel Harris, the ex-confederate,
who has became prominent during the
senatorial contest at Topeka, is coun-
try gentleman. He has beautiful
and possesses the largest private library
in the state. No one can talk with him
for five minutes without discovering
that he is lover of books.
Burlington NOnpareil: Considerable
land is beginning to change hands even
if it is in midwinter. BY spring we look
for land to advance in price all along
the line. There will never be another
such time to make paying investments
in real estate in Kansas as at the pres
ent time.
An Ohio man who has been lately buy.
ing lands said to representative of the
Arkansas City Dispatch that "specular
ton will never be as wild in western
lands as it has been in the past, but
those who buy now, while prices are at
the bottom, will make money, for rise
is sure to come with single good CROP
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

Men of the investigating and adven-
turous spirit never surrender. Scien-
lists have by no means abandoned the
attempt to reach the north pole. The
prospects are fair that another year
will see an expedition to the antartic re-
gions for purposes of exploration and
discovery. 1t is quite probable also that
our government will, during the COM
ing year, send out an expedition which
shall penetrate into the yet unknown
interior of our own territory of Alaska
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

Scarce money makes dear money, dear
money makes cheap labor. The people
elect the law makers and the law makers
makes money. 1t is as foolish to con-
tract the currency and make cheap labor
and dear money, as it would be to give
. monopoly of postage stamps to cor
u1t1ffon and then contractithe numbor
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
KANSAS NOTES.

The membership of the Soldiers
Home is: Present. 2, 1859; present and
absent, 1921.