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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
GLORIOUS KANSAS.

Hon. Benjamin F. Simpson, one of the
commissioners of the supreme court
made an address at an old settlers re-
union in Miami county at which time he
made the following truthful but re-
markable statement concerning Kansas
| in the war:
kansas furnished 20,661 volunteer
soldiers during the war, and all except
| lib enlisted for three years. or during
the war. The general government called
! on Kansas during the war for 1881
men, and the state furnished 20,661, or
nearly double the number called for.
The state of Kansas furnished nine full
regiments and one battery before the
close of the year 1861. In the year 1869
four full regiments and a battery were
put into the field. During the years
1868 and 1864 five full regiments and a
battery were organized and were
actually engaged. At the election
held in the fall of 1860 at
which Lincoln was elected presi-
dent, the total vote of the state
was about 1900. The state contribut-
ed to the cause of an imperishable union
nearly 1000 more soldiers than it had
voters at the commencement OF the war.
1.-The story might stop here and leave
the glorious young commonwealth
crowned with leaflets OF undying glory,
but we can add another flower to the
immortal wreath. In 1867 the Provost
Marshal general of the army made re-
port showing the proportion of soldiers
killed in battle per thousand men from
each loyal state. Kansas heads the list
with 81. Oh per cent, Vermont ranks Sec
ond with So. % and Massachusetts third,
with 47.76. General Fry commenting on
this notable record says: Kansas shows
the highest battle mortality of the table.
The same singularly mortal disposition
that induced about half of the able-bod-
led men of the state to enter the army,
may be supposed to have increased their
exposure to the casualties of battle after
they were in the service"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
BEING WIPED OUT.

Almost daily additional evidence of the
inherent solidity of the stats of Kansas is
furnished The latest is the statement by
the reliable commercial agency of K. e.
Dun & Co. that in four months, ending
Sept. l, about 2615 per cent. of the mort
gage debts on farms in Kansas, or about
SO 900, 900 had been paid. Kansas is all
right. The next four months, with the
big crops which have been grown aud the
high prices which will be secured, will
make an even better showing than the
past four months.-Albauy q. " Even
ing Journal
1t is not for the interest of the state as
whole that her present individual IN
debtedness should be wiped out in year
or two at the rate of her full debt-paying
capacity. Such policy would mean
hard times for not only the man who
had exhausted all his ready reserves but
for everybody else The individual
should in his prosperity initiate the gen.
eral government and the great corpora
tons by liquidating a per cent. and
extending the balance at a lower
rate of interest Twenty three mortgages
were released by a single money loaning
firm in this city, in one day, last week.
Such an aggregate for year, which if
kept up, would take nine million dollars
out of Sedgwick county. That would
not be wise economy on the whole.
Fund your balances" that is, pay what
you conveniently can and secure lower
rate of interest on the remainder, Is the
policy which will leave the individual
and the community both uncramped
and prosperous. There is no good reason
against doing business on borrowed cap
itaI so long as the amount borrowed is
not greater than can be proftably en-
ployed. Borrowed capital developed
made, Kansas; and but for which twenty
years hence wouldn't have found as
great commonwealth as is here today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| District court convened at Guthrie YES
! terdAy.
Oklahoma laid out an addition a week
ago today.
Tecumseh has paper called the Shaw
nee Herald.
The highest lots in Chandler are not OF
top the bluffs.
Frank Greer says the townsite of Chand-
Ter is all right.
One of the eastern correspondents on the
ground spelled it 'Pshawnee.
Will q Democratic congress do anything
for Oklahoma? Wait aud see.
There is said to be plenty of water in
both Saclahoma and Pottlahoma.
The man who was the sooner at the
land Office was the one who got there.
Saclahoma and Pottlahoma counties
vii! only make more of that legislature.
When the race for the Cherokee outlet
comes of 1t will be strip for the strip"
Every claim for three miles around
Chandler has from three TO dozen claim
ants
There is at present great campaign of
education on desirable tourists going on in
Oklahoma
The candidates for the United States
senate in Oklahoma are the most ferveut
supporters OF statehood
J. V. Admire has purchased twenty
acres of land adjoining kingisher and will
build a fine residence thereon.
An Indian is in FL Reno for running off
wi another Indians squaw. II the In
dian was civilized be would let her go.
The government opened up on the set
tiers, and now some of the settlers open up
on the government. Tney believe in recl-
procity.
The Saltwater Gazette wonders il PTesi-
dent Harrison knew that "Septem Der"
and twenty contain the same num-
Der of letters
there and works will be away ahead OF the
man who rushes off at every opening TO
better his condition
At Stillw.ter the jailor went of in the
race TO get piece Of land, aud a crazy
man who was incarcerated there unlocked
the door and took vacation
The Guthrie Capital tells of man
whose hat blew of just as be was about to
stake claim. He ran after his hat, and
when he returned another mau had made
settlement on the place.
Guthrie Capital: An amusing sight last
night was 70 see two coiored mea starting
OAb IoNaA0 A~1nssloA Win EoA4 N1ft
loaded down with q trunk and lot of
provisions One was between the shafts
and the other pushing behind
Oklahoma Times-Journal: .JOs Paul.
son OF Hon. sam Paul Of the CElckAsa~
nation, IS again II trouble. He Is now "A
jail AT Paris, Tex, charged with the kill
ing of William Connors at Marietta last
week The Paul family Is always to the
front
Register Ollie says that there can be no
other towns IN the sac and Fox aud Iowa.
than Chandler, unLiI decided land can be !
obtained The law opened il 70 homestead !
settlement only. while the Pottawatomie /
lands were thrown oPea 70 homestead and 1
townsIte settlement
Ii is said that some OF the smart Indians /
have purposelv myEtified the survey By /
turning tie Corner stunes wrong side ID. /
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
Girls Bedford Hats.
ARCADE
w. j. WILSON, Manager.
Different WAY. of stopping bleeding cut.

A wine merchant said, my ceHarmen
have a funny way of stopping bleeding.
They think nothingO Of cut finger or hand.
or even Of large wound. They run 20 the
nearest spirit cask, or claret, if spirits are
not handy. and let a few drops fall on the
wound. IL acts as an immediate styptic.
Then big dusty old cobweb is taken from
the nearest bottle or corner Of bin and
elapped on tight over the cut or abrasion.
Cobwebs are splendid healing agents.
Sailors" said another man, ARE never
at a loss under such circumstances, their
favorite styptic at sea is a bit Of unraveled
tarred rope On land they will take the
quid Of tobacco from their mouth, or the
lining of their cap, and its effect Is aston
ishing. But have seen man wild drunk
after such a quid has been tied over a
wound. / suppose the nicotine gets into
the blood and acts a. an intOIicant."
"Carpenters." said another gentleman,
"if they cut themselves PICK up handful
Of fine shayiDgs and clap them on the
wound. and toiners swear By a dab Of glue.
but one Of the quaintest things / ever saw
used was by an old farmer up IN Chester
county He got his hand badly torn by
bit Of old wire fence. and IL biea consider
ably. Without a thought be stopped down
and dug up a handful Of soil, spat on IL
aud worked IL quickly into a paste. aud
laid IL on the wound aud bound It up with
his handkerchief Ia an astonishiugly
short tine be was az work again as IL moth
ing had happened. New York Recorder.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
BOB INGERsoLL ON SOUND MONEY

In 1877 the greenback craze, similar to
the Alliance fiat craze today, drew out
some able remarks from Colonel r. G.
Ingersoll on the difference between sound
money and fat. Though Colonel Inger-
soils speech was made fourteen years
ago, age doth not wither its vigor of
thought and felicity of expression. We
present herewith an abstract of his re-
marks:
have been told that during the war
we had plenty of money. l never saw
it. / lived years without seeing a dol
lar. | saw promises for dollars, but not
dollars. a greenback is no more a dol
lar, unless there is gold or silver dollar
behind it, than bill of fare is dinner.
We must have paper that represents
money issued by the government, and
behind every one of these dollars gold
or silver dollar to redeem IL, so that
every greenback under our flag can hon
estly lift up its hand and swear, Il know
that my Redeemer hveth." Money is a
| product of nature, and the government
can no more make ''flat" dollar than it
can make fiat star. l saw not long ago
a gold coin bearing the empress of the
Roman empire. The empire is dust and
over it has been thrown the mantle of OBJ
livion, but that gold coin today repre-
SCENTS real value everywhere in all civil
lied nations-is in fact as good as though
Julius Caesar were still riding at the
head of the Roman legions. Gold and
silver is product of nature. We have
to dig it square out of the ground. A
II l.
1t can't redeem cent by statute, nor pay
one farthing by all the legislation, reso-
buttons or declarations it may make.
Now, then, we have some men among us
who say the government can make mon
ey by Its simple sovereign impressed on
paper. If the government can
make money by its sovereig
impress upon paper. why should it col
lect taxes from the people? Why shouldn't
it Nuke all the money it wants, and take
the taxes out and give US the balance?
Who should it collect any none from
the people at all? If its sovereign
impress will make 81 bill, why wasn't
its sovereignty upon a 81 bill? Why noe
have $40 bills? But what is the use OF
wasting sovereignty upon $40 bills when
the same amount of sovereignty will
make a million dollar bill? If this can
be done why shouldn't our sovereign
government give US all one mil. ion dol
lar bill so every nah, woman and child
beneath our starry flag could at once be-
come millionaires? No, my friends, a
promise TO pay 81 is not dollar, no diff
ference if that promise is made bv the
greatest and most prosperous nation on
the globe. A promise is not a perform
ance,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
WORLD FAMOUS PACKERS.

From the Kansas Arts and Industries.
One of the most important of the in
dustrial interests of the state is the pack
ing business, which is best represented
by the plant of Francis Whitaker &
Sons, at Wichita. The plant and
grounds of this concern cover twenty
acres, and it is conceded to be the best
arranged and equipped establishment of
its kind west of Chicago. Every known
modern improvement in the packing
business is found in use here, and makes
possible the production of their superior
line of the ''Star" brand of sugar-cured
meats and breakfast bacon, which are
unsurpassed In any market. Their
brands of Strictly Pure Unadulterated
Lard" free from all doctoring, are
known throughout the world. The
firm of Francis Whitaker & Sons,
pork and beef packers, is one of the
oldest in the United States, being estab-
lished at st. Louis in 1848, and makes a
speciality of frst-class meats. The
Wichita plant was opened in August,
1889. The capacity of the establish
ment is $500 hogs and 200 cattle daily,
and their principal market of the Wich-
tia hams is Kansas, Colorado and Indian
Territory, and, notwithstanding the diff
fculties incident to the failures of crops
and scarcity of stock last year, gain of
SO per cent. in the business of the house
has already been shown. The success
full operation of this large plant is a
benefit both to stock raisers and the
great army of consumers in the state.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

The campaign of the missionaries
dispatched to the northwest by the Ma
tional League Democratic clubs was in
augurated by Congressman Bynum, OF
Indiana, at Spokane Falls, last Thursday.
1t was devoted entirely to a discussion
of the tariff. This last statement is the
only thing significant of what has become
to be generally understood will be the
policy of the Democratic party, that is,
to ignore the money question entirely
and make its fight on the one issue of
the tariff. But that is highly satisfac-
tory to the Republican party. With the
expansion of our trade and the lowering
of the cost to consumers of some of the
leading staple imported articles already
effected by the present tariff law the Re-
publican party has nothing to fear from
the people,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
THE FLORIDA sENAroRsH1p.

There is nothing for which the south
ron will sickle and contend as he
will for his official prerogatives. A dis.
patch from Tallahassee, Fla, states that
Secretary of State Crawford refuses to
attest the commission of ex-Congressman
Davidson, appointed by Governor Elem
ing to succeed Senator Call. Crawford
is an old line Wing and says the great
seal of the state of which he is custodian
shall never adorn any certificate for
Calls successor unless it be for Call him
self
The Florida supreme court will con-
vene Oct. IS and the governor will ap-
ply for mandamus to compel compli-
ance with the constitutional requirement
provided that the secretary of state shall
attest all commissions issued by the ex-
ecutive.
Many people in Tallahassee believe that
Secretary Crawford will go to Jail rather
than obey the mandate. if issued by the
supreme court, and the anti Call men
seem confident of forcing the secretary
to attest Davidson's appointment.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

A great many who oppose the Republi-
can ticket think that this is great and
important day for them, but it isn't. All
that is TO be done is to put up few men
for the Republicans to knock down, and
it makes but little difference who are Sc
lected as victims,-Salina Republican.
The foregoing is substantially correct
except as to numbers. In this portion
of the state there are not ''agreat many"
opposing the Republican ticket; on the
contrary. the great mass of the voters
are going to vote 1.-THE Republicans
solidly, and scores and hundreds of dis
gruntled Democrats and dissatisfied and
disappointed Alliance men.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
Fishing for Bass in Tree Tops.

From the FL Dorado Republican.
Commodore Murdoch and Judge Sluss
were out fishing last week for bass. Arriv-
ing here they took an Ell Dorado party
to row the boat and bait their hooks.
The second day out they struck Bradford's
mill on little Walnut When not fishing
under log they had their hooks in thesur-
rounding tree tops, which furnished lots
of exercise for the party who did the row
ing. Each however, caughta nice string
of bass. They stopped all night with Mr..
and Mrs. Withrow and requested the
writer to say through these columns that
they were most Hospitality entertained.
They put in the third day on the Main
Walnut south of Gordon on Purcell,
Brown and Hartenbower's places and
were fairly lucky. They spent the night
with Mr.. and Mrs. Maxwell. where they
had n most pleasant time. The only
trouble is they were too we'll entertained
and are liable to come back and give US
all more trouble. OF course there are a
good many bass left, even IN the holes
where they did their tallest fishing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
KANSAS AND RAILROADS
From the Atchison Pstrlel

From the Atchison Patriot.
1t may sound to old Kansans, as tale
that has been told, the statement that
the Sunfiower state has a mileage of
nearly niue thousand miles of railroad.
and that a station is within easy distance
OF almost every cultivated section of
land of this great commonwealth. But
to the new citizen, to him who has been
accustomed to the more conservative
methods and the slower processes of de-
velopment of the older states, such a
statement is marvellous. and were it not
fortified by indisputable evidences.
would be regarded as almost an improb-
able one.
Kansas, as a state, is but thirty wears
old. Within the lifetime of MANY of its
citizens Its fertile fields were but parts
OF boundless prairie, and the sites of its
teemlng cities and progressivet towns, the
camps OF Indians, and the busy high
ways of ITS populace the trails of buffa-
Ices. let, within that brief period.
within thirty fieeting years, most
marvellous and. magnificent system of
railroads has been built, system beside
which those OF many an eastern dynasty
sinks into significance.
just think Of it, Nearly 1000 miles of
railroad track within the boarders of
this young giant Of states, and the
whistle Of a locomotive within hearing
of almost every farm house, This is the
result OF Kansas ambition and energy.
and It Is the wonder of the world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
LITERARY NOTES.

One of the most important articles of
the month will be an article on James
Russell Lowell by Edward Everett Hale
in the October number of the New Eng
land Magazine. DR.. Hale is well known
to all the world as brilliant essayist,
and the close intimacy which existed be-
tween him and the poet gives a personal
interest to his article, which adds to its
attractiveness: A number of anecdotes
of Lowell are incorporated in the body of
the "reminiscences and criticism, and, re-
ceiving publicity now for the first time,
gives the article piquancy which it
could not otherwise possess. A fine por.
trait of Lowell in his study, taken just
before his death, forms the frontispiece
of the magazine
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
The Old Nincumpoop.
q IIpa ra,f1foau

From the Salina Republican
PETER has begun to gall under the GEN.
sure of the Kansas people. He loses his
temper and shows that he is an irritable
and egotistical donkey. Good heavens,
old man, why should we not censure
you? You have done more to kill the
credit of Kansas than any man who ever
lived in the state. You came upon us in
the form of a disastrous accident, and
now we have got to be disgraced by
your childishness for the next six years
in the United States senate. You talk
about giving you fair chance, when
you go out over the country stopping
immigration and damning the fair name
of a state that, but for yourself, would
be fairly respected. Bah! you are fussy
old rooster; brainless bearded joke on
an otherwise creditable age.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

From the Wichita Mirror.
1t didn't take Rufe Cone long to decide
what he was going to do. He appears to
be one of those creatures that Germany
is now admitting to its soil and little
thing like rejection by two conventions
doesn't in any way affect his purpose of
continuing to be sheriff of Sedgwick
county, even though he have to retain
the Office in the name of some one else
The people however have had enough of
Rufus Cone and his nepotic methods
and, (while Charley Mosbacher could
have got quite a respectable vote for the
shrievalty as Charley Mosbacher) Char
ley Mosbacher, the figurehead of Rufus
Cone; can command no support outside
of the bosses who are in the deal with
Rufus Cone, the man who set up the
pins and is TO furnish the sinews of war.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

Kansas City, Mo-, is about to play the
waking act in the Rip Van Wrinkle
drama it has been doing for some time.
The Times, anent the Priests of Pallas
event to lake place there right soon, de-
clares in the city expectation is being
aroused" This would be gratifying in
telligence to the friends of the city but
for the thought of what sad reflections
its dilapidated condition must produce
when it becomes fully awake.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29
Political Potpouri.

From the Anthony Republican.
The Democrats by accident nominated
DIR. c. S. Bell of Attica, a sterling Re-
publican, for coroner, at their receLt
convention. The convention seems to
have gotten mixed between two physi-
clans of similar names, one at Freeport
and the other at Attica. The Republi-
can at Attica wrote facetious letter to
the Enterprise, declining the nomination
and the Enterprise, instead of treating
the matter upon its merits, misinter-
preted the letter and gave the Republi.
can declining Democratic nomination
q severe securing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

1t is stated that Salvini's engagement
at the great auditorium in Chicago re-
Gently aggregated $4,000 And vet,
with such lavish expenditures as that for
an hours pleasure, the hog town has the
jowl to ask the government to give it
5000, 900 more on account of the Co.
lumbar exposition. Chicago evidently
gets its public spirited inspiration from
New York in its manipulation of the
Grant monument. The metropoli of the
east and west are great on promising
what they viii DO at other peoples ex,
pense.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

Once upon & midnight dresry
A detective formed theory
That q nan was being murdered In the street
a block below:
He could hear him loudly calling
As the wicked blows were falling.
And LIS keen detective instinct told h.z 81 he
wfsked to know.
By the sound bis ear detected
That the blows must b directed
By a nan % b.end compsexi0a wisn . blus ard
gersie eye.
Ard with legs little bz16ted.
Either rigkt or else isft handed.
And between foar feet SIX inches ssd Elk fees
fczr iRchez kigh-
So be calmly xAs and waited
tn the noise hAd al a5ated-
fhen he sereilsd ~ leiszre down tie street Ia
corpse 81 nose-
There he net wiGh Hrz Lear.
who He-ssa lad formed . tkeory.
Tor sAs szw the eehf s<E~ssz osDSSlsT's dox
An5 Grs4ys goat
-Des-v.. Free PrssA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

Japan threatens to Guido America in
the essentials of civilization. A Jan
named Takamine has discovered pro-
cess of distillatlon whereby he can get
half gallon whisky more out of Il bush.
el of grain than has been possible under
the old system. This announcement
will make the Kentucky bourbon maker
feel like he has lost something-to think
he might have half gallon more goods
out of all the corn, per bushel, he has
mashed Is enough TO sour him with the
world. However. the worm will die
not on that account.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

If the EAGLE can saw nothing vorsa
against Charley Mosbacher than that Rufe
Cone is bis friend it would better Keen
quiet.-Beaoon
Beacon knows that we have no desire
to say anything worse, nor could we
think of anything more to be regretted
than that Rufe Cone is either his friend
or is working for HIM. Nobody knows
this better than did the late Democratic
convention, unless it was the late Ali
ance convention, neither of which dared
touch him or even recognize his candi-
dacy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-29

With Congressman Mills keeping the
silver plank out of Governor Campbelrs
platform and the governor himself try
ing to convince the people that free coin
age is just what they want, things are
somewhat mixed in the Democratic
camp in Ohio. But Governor Mckinley
will straighten them out at the Novem-
Der round-up-in rows, with a neat
head-board at the end of each little
mound