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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
BLAIR AND CHINA.

According to a correspondent of the
New York Sun, the Chinese residents of
New York are preparing mammoth Pc
tition to send to the Chinese minister at
Washington protesting against Senator
3 air as minister to China.
These indignant Chinese residents"
says this correspondent, twill demand of
the Chinese government to receive Sen
ator Blair in precisely the same manner
as he wished the United States to receive
the Cinnamon, and every one of them
that has any influence here will write to
his friends at home and the press of
China TO see to it that Mr.. Blair receives
his Just dues.
eff the Chinese minister at Washing
ton fails to fully inform the home gov
eminent of the true character OF the
newly appointed United States minister,
the Chinese merchants of the United
States will be asked to memorabilia the
Chinese emperor themselves by long
petition"
As this correspondent of the Sun is
Chinaman, he probably knows whereof
he talks, and Senator Blair would do
well to reconsider his mission. He
might not pass particularly agreeable
time in the Flowery kingdom; and, be-
sides, it would be better for the United
States to have no minister than such a
minister, so far as the use he will be under
such conditions is concerned.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
TELL THE TRUTH.
.e FL Dorado Republican.

| From the FL Dorado Republican.
A political circular, gotten up by the
leaders of the Peoples party, immediate
ly after the ad .,ournment of the late leg
| islature, contains a number of able
| bodied falsehoods which we propose tc
refute.
The senate revision committee reported
twenty bills which were introduced on
the first day Of the late session and were
numbered senate bill No. to senate bill
No 20, inclusive.
Twelve of these bills, reported by this
conn ittee, passed the senate, practically
without the change of the dotting of an
or the crossing of a t, as follows:
First-An act in relation to state Off
GERS and departments and the admin
lstration of state affairs; which includes
the state printing bill.
Second-An act to establish the salaries
of state officers, judges and officers of
the legislature.
Third-An act to provide free text
books to the public schools of the state.
Fourth-An act in relation to the state
penitentiary.
Fifth-An act providing for board of
public works and defining its duties.
Sixth-An act providing for the ap-
pointment of a state agent at Washing
ION.
Seventh-An act for the protection and
propagation of fish in the waters of the
state.
Eighth-An act fixing the fees and
salaries of the county officers of the state
which includes the reduction of legal fees
for all public printing.
Ninth-An act to create department
of agriculture. This was passed in con-
nection with the worlds fair appropria-
ton bill
Tenth-An act providing for the or
gsnization and regulation of banks.
Eleventh-An act in relation to assess
ment and taxation.
Twelfth--An act limiting the powers
of municipalities to create Indebtedness.
This senate revision report contained
22S pages in all. The senate considered
and passed 156 pages of this report.
The house of representatives passed
four of these bills, and they became laws
as follows.
An act providing for the organization
and regulation of banks.
An act providing for board of public
works.
An act to establish the salaries OF state
judges and officers of the legisla-
tuTe.
An act in relation to the penitentiary.
This political manifesto" of the Peo-
pies party claims that the house of rep
is the author of the bill for
the organization of banks.
The new banking law now upon the
statutes contains about ZOO words. and
is an exact reproduction of the senate re-
vision committees bank bill-section BY
section, line by line, word for word, as
it passed the senate, as senate bill No. 10.
The proof of this is absolute and over
Had the house Representatives passed
the bills reported by the senate revision
committee which were passed By the
senate, it would have saved to the people
of Kansas, in the way Of taxes, fees and
expenses, a million dollars annually.
And the fact that they did not pass
them. and did not even consider them.
cannot now be covered up by anv able
bodied lying of anybody. 1t always
pays best in the long run to tell the
truth,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
FARMERS AND THEIR HOGS.

Owing to alternate surplusages and
shortages, live stock, like grain and all
products, whether of the farm or of the
factory, are subject to the dominating
influence of supply and demand which
forces fluctuations in prices. For series
of months, often of years, because of
over production, every species of animal
food will command only prices for which
1T cannot be protitably produced, and
these prices hold until not only the extra
production ceases, but until tue surplus
is exhausted and there comes a demand
which cannot be fully supplied, when
prices begin and continue to advance
stimulating production until another
surplus is found to exist. Thus, for sew
eral years hogs, cattle and sheep have
been produced so largely in excess of
market demands as to render the breed
ing and raising of these ami
mails, except under the most
favorable conditions, improbable. But
the worlds markets are short now, the
consumption has overtaken the volume
of production and the prices of hogs and
cattle and sheep must tend upwards until
a surplus again finds no adequate con-
sumption. In the meantime more money
viii be made in raising these animals
than was lost during the era of depres-
sion.
Now is the time for the farmer in
the corn growing districts Of Kansas to
look out for his stock hogs, to preserve
their condition and increase their num-
Der. This is year in which no farmer
can afford to market two-dollar shoat.
that promises to lie worth fifteen to
thirty dollars as fully developed hog.
In addition to an exhausted surplus,
which must send prices up in the near
future to very profitable figure, there
is trouble brewing between three of the
great powers of Europe, which involves
the peace and prosperity of at least two
other smaller powers. Preparations for
a great war have been steadily going for
ward for long time and the statesmen
of the world are convinced that a great
European war is only a question of a few
months or year or two at most. Every
farmer understands what that would
mean for all that an American farm pro-
duceS, especially in the line of meats
South Kansas spre-eminently a hog
country, from every point of view.
therefore our farmers are not only ad-
vised. but they ought TO see it for them
selves, that it is the part of wisdom 10
save, preserve and increase the number
of their stock hogs; that it is the poorest
economy, not only, but short-sighted, to
throw mere undeveloped pigs upon the
market to be sacrificed at an Improbable
price. Make the biggest corn crop pos
Siole and increase the number of pigs
with all dispatch, for there is going TO be
big money and great profit in the Kan
sas hog in the near future.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
KANSAS FRUITS.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
One Of your correspondents suggested,
a few days ago, to cut off frosted grape
wood to develope the secondary buds SO
as to secure partial crop of grapes. l
have better way than that: mulch the
ground over the roots with straw or
litter to keep the vines in check until
the danger of frost is passed. 1t have
practiced this with all kinds of fruit.
There is one thing ! wish to call the
fruit growers attention to in Kansas.
When you buy apple trees, examine the
roots carefully: if they have knots or
punches on the roots, discard them,
they contain rootlice and will multiply
SO as to choke up the circulation OF the
sap in the roots. to the great damage Of
the tree.
Taking Kansas all in all it is one of the
finest fruit growing countries in the
United States. l know an orchard not
far from here that makes more money
than all the rest of the farm, one year
with another. 1t contains a variety of
fruits, one-half Of which alternately
bears each year. 1t contains apples,
peaches, pears, plums and cherries, and
the fruit cannot be surpassed in any
other state.
If more attention was given to fruit
culture it would be of great advantage
to the people of Kansas. 3.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

Plumb fingers in Washington. All the
delegation has come home except the
junior senator. II is suspected that he
hangs back so that he can appear In the
state with broad hrimmed straw hat on.
In all his eastern speeches, Jerry Simp-
son takes particular pains to refer to the
Statue of Liberty. The cause of this par
tiality is explained. It Twill be remembered
that Bartholdis chef d'oewver has no
shoes on.
Senator PETER declared before crowd OF
eastern people the other day that he had
raised his beard without the aid OF the
Mckinley bill This is the reason, proba-
bly,, that the country hasn't heard from
him for the past two weeks.
1t will probably be fatal 70 ingalls,
chances with the Alliance if it should be-
come generally known, that since he COM
menced farming at his home place near
Atchison. he has written TO the agrl-
cultural department asking them TO send
him package of Irish potato seeds.
D. w. Wilder has been cited to appear
before Judge Guthrie of Topeka. TO purge
himself of contempt of court. 1t Is claimed
that his revocation of the latest wild
cat insurance company WAS N violation OF
an order of court. Mr.. Wilder claims that
the order was not served on him for an
hour after he had revoked the Charter,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
GALE.
MUNICIPAL FIGHTS.

The Enporia Republican is pursuing
the same course as the EAGLE with refer
ence to the municipal fight up there,
which is mere personal scramble. At
Topeka they claim nominated tickets,
but the fight has degenerated into a
personal squabble and some Of the papers
are giving individuals Hail Columbia.
And SO also goes the fight over at Leav-
enworth. A public journal that lends
itself to an individual or personal fight
has everything to lose and nothing to
gain beyond the possible triumph of an
hour, which triumph must be at the ex
pense of its future usefulness and of the
future confidence in it by the public.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
SUNFLOWER SKINNER.

| There is only one paper in Kansas that
calls them the LADY voters.
The Topeka Capital still believes that J.
]. ingalls, interview was an outre view.
| The worst thing about the italian
rumpus SO far is the pun on the Italian
minister's name
1t will only be little while until the AL
lance will have to issue a manifesto ex-
planning Dan Anthony.
If John Anderson wants to do the pop
ular thing, he should take Sam Wood to
Soudan with him as clerk.
The Italian war, if it should stop now,
could hardly be as big failure as the
Coffeytille dynamite affair.
Botts-What is the matter with that
joke?
Watts-It has been cracked.
Mrs Lease does not carry trunk around
with her when she travels. She has, how
ever, an Alliance grip, along.
Dan Voorhees, has come out against
Cleveland. Everything tends to switch j.
j. ingalls, into the Democratic ranks.
the state senate begins to draw pay again
1t is said that Botkin will be acquitted.
There is a farmer in Dickinson county
named "Go-to-bed Fem" He probably
has little boy named III list y'r self"
We will probably hear moro about
single tacks in the Topeka Journal when
young Mr.. MacLennan gets to teething.
The railroad passes of the legislators ex-
pired April /. But then, most of them
have learned how to request trip passes.
There are nearly two thousand Kansas
citizens in Florence But they are not
afraid of the Dagoes. This is Florence,
Kansas.
1t is remarked that the Levenworth
Times is very stupid, just at present
But after a little it will make choice of
sides between the McGrath and Vincent
fight, and then go off like sky rocket.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05


The April number of Romance, the
magazine of the New York Story Club,
contains nineteen complete stories, all of
great interest. Among the writers in
this number are Honore de Balzac. Guy
de Maupassant, Henry Cleveland Wood,
Robert G. Denig, Opie P. Read and Miss
N. E. Terrence. The opening story is
by Balzac, and, besides being a master
piece, it is noteworthy as the only one in
which the great Frenchman deals with
animal as distinguished from human life.
The price of Romance is only % cents a
number, or s. a year, and specimen
number will be sent on application for 10
cents by the publisher. Address the New
York Story Club, 80 E. Twenty-third
street, New Nork.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

The people of Boston are in the deep
est depths of humiliation. Their claims
to culture" have been rebuked by a
committee of the Legislature of their
state, which has just reported that a
marble bust in the state house which for
nigh one hundred years has been labeled
Samuel Adams" is really the counter
felt presentment of the Father of His
Country" Herein may be found the
secret of the Arkansas legislatures ac-
ton In exchanging Father Georges pic
ture in the hail of the house for one of
JEFF Davis, about which there is so far
no controversy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
For the Eagle,
PISAGUA.

LNoTE:-A young woman was running from the
doomed town, with beautiful baby boy in her
arms, when shell fell beside her, She turned as
70 protect her child. AS she lay. torn, mangied and
accents. then lay down on her breast and went 10
'leep.-LaSt weeks dispatches from the CHILEAN
war
Unholy war with all its pains and Ills
Has. with its blood red banner, stained
The walls, the streets and towering hills
Of fair Pissgua; and with shell and shot
From rebel 'Esmeralda. hewn down thousands
In its fierce onslaught.
Unholy carnagel in its train of woe
Fond brethren seek each others lives;
And mothers prayers and voices, go
Pleading aloud 'bove conflicts din and strife;
Twas then from "Blancos side the grape came
Crushing out sweet life.
Unhoy strife, where people OF one race
And name and country. wildly seek
The blood OF friends-and madly face
Shrieking cannon, which with deadly showers
OF burning fiery hail. spreads desolation
Ger her hills and towers.
Look! look as up the steep that mother fees:
Her rosy boy clasped 10 her heart;
With paiiDg lips and cheek, she sees
The flying shell at hand; "Oh God" she cries.
Protect my child" she turns; the lad is saved;
She, grooming, sinks and dies,
When viii it cease-this grasping greed tor gain,
This toll for what is not our own
This strife fer that which brings but pain?
When will the angel with his pen. record:
THERE'S peace Oh earth, good will doth reign
supreme;
AL men love the Lord"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The townsite commissioners ara nearly
through with MulhalI.
The street sprinkler at Guthrie has just
been dug out Of a dust heap.
There isn't town in Oklahoma that
does not claim to be gateway.
The Indians at Fort Darlington have
begun their ghost dances again.
The Lexington Leader is the alliterative
title of the latest paper in Oklahoma
fiddle Winks has just struck Hennessey.
1t has been dead i'll the east for year.
This is a great spring for plover in Okla
homa. They are killed by the hundreds
John Three Sixteen" is the name of a
new paper established at Finita, Indian
Territory.
The only people in Oklahoma who seem
to thirst for war are the editors Of the
newspapers.
Hennessey has new mill that will COM
mence to grind Immediately the new
wheat is in.
The Weaver who is talked of as the AL
lance presidential candidate tried to get a
claim in Oklahoma at Its opening, and
failed.
Last Wednesday was the windiest day
that has ever been seen in Oklahoma
Buildings were blown down in several
towns
Oklahoma will not get to see President
Harrison on his next trip either. The
president is not as proud OF Oklahoma as
he should be.
Charles F. Waldron, Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma, as vice president, and j. A.
Overstreet, of Kingfisher. Oklahoma.
superintendent of territorial board OF
health; to date from April /, 1891.
Governor Steele has recommended that
wheat sown last fall and oats sown and
corn planted prior to March q, 1891, shall
be considered improvements and the own
er be allowed to harvest the same when
the lands are awarded others than the
present occupant of the land.
c. S. Vredenburg, Hennessey, Oklahoma;
d. A. Peoples, Guthrie, Oklahoma; G. +.
Dean, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; J. S.
Nicholson, FL Reno, Oklahoma, and NJ. N.
Jenney, Saltwater, Oklahoma, as mem
bers of the territorial board of dental ex-
aminers; to date from April 1, 1891.
The governor has made the following
appointments: Harry p. Clark, Guthrie.
Ok, adjntant general of the territory
militia, with the rank of colonel; d. w.
Marquart, Norman, Ok, inspector general,
with the rank of colonel; Calvin Leach,
Oklahoma City, Ok, and Harry Barnes,
Guthrie. Ok, aides-de camp, with the
rank of captain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

Gen. Booth, who is trying TO recen-
crate the world, thinks he can even
manage the American tramp. He pro-
poses TO start IN New York an establish
ment that viii furnish to the tramp a
supper, bed and breakfast for eight
cents. But the price he expects to work
out of the recipient by making him do
Its equivalent in some kind of labor.
Almost any tramp would probably be
willing to do eight cents worth of work
day the year around for his living. but
the trouble would be that no sooner
would the institution get fairly started
than up would go the cry that Booth
was taking work away from industrious
mechanics and giving it 10 tramps.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

The international monetary conference
called to meet in Washington, adjourned
after two or three informal meetings
without accomplishing anything, or
really trying TO. The reason assigned is
that it was evident that the conferees
could not agree upon basis of union on
the question of an international coin. but
where or what the disagreement con-
sisted of Is no told. 1t is an open secret,
however, that the Wall street influence
was not friendly 70 the undertaking.
and that was enough to thwart the eff
fort without any other opposition.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

An impression has obtained that Rep
reSentative Crisp has in some way en-
tered into an alliance with the Hill
Tammany following in the interest of
his candidacy for the speakership of the
next congress. If there Is any truth in
the statement we may expect an Inter
view" with the Georgia statesman pretty
soon anent the Hill anti-free trade
screed. Mr.. Crisp is too smart not 10
know that they who are against the Hill
idea are more than they that are for il.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

A good tin pan that used to cost quar-
ter can now be had for four cents. That's
how the Mckinley bill is taxing the life
out of the people.-Emporia Republican.
If the Mckinley bill is likewise charge
able with the deterioration in the quality
of the tin of today as compared with that
we used TO get-and there isn't much
room to doubt that it Is-then the con-
sumers fail TO see the benefit of the
reduction in price. 1t is fact that the
20 cent tin pans Wore and lasted months
where the pan of today lasts days.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

How magnanimous it is of the sugar
trust that it consents to give the con-
sumers of that necessary article as much
as half OF tn production in the price of it
caused by the removal OF the tariff of
two cents pound. Really that grant is
more than was expected, and it will of
course have the desired effect, that is,
to cause the people to feel grateful to
the combine, and cease opposing it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05
Power OF the Press :

FROM The Atlanta Constitution.
Sooner or later the newspapers down
any man who attempts to fight them. OF
stand alone without their support. Two
years ago Bismarck held newspa pers in
utter scorn. Now, after trying to per
suade the Tageblatt TO spouse his cause.
he has purchased it for 10, 600 marks in
order TO control its policy. Ii Bismarck
had not been too stubborn 70 learn a few
needed lessons from the press he would
not have been hurled from power in his
old age. When public man viii neither
use the press nor Se informed oy it his
downfall Is only a QUESTION OF time
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

DR.. Roger wants to be reinstated as
Indian agent at Pine Ridge from which
position he was lately removed. There
is a powerful opposition to him, both in
Washington and at Pine Ridge, and
there is little show for his reappoint-
ment. The recent trouble up there mas
been openly charged to his account, and
if he was in any way blameworthy for
that distressing and disastrous occur
renee he would certainly be an unsafe
person to be again charged with so grave
responsibility.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

Representative Caruth, of Kentucky,
went to his home to tell the Democracy
that Cleveland had killed himself as a
candidate, but he says, in an interview
published in the Washington Post, that
the people of Kentucky laughed such an
idea to scorn, and that it was useless to
argue with them. 1t is clear that Mr..
Caruth had otread the Courier-Journal:
If he had he never would have made
such a mistake. Kentucky is Cleveland's
special preserved, Joe Blackburn not
withstanding.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

The Rev. Iri Hicks, the weather
prophet, has taken advantage of the
dull season to commit himself to a wife.
If he is as clever at diagnosing woman
character as he is at progressing the
weather, marriage in this case will not
be failure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

Contrary to promises and predictions
the condition of business throughout the
country has not been as active up to the
present time as anticipated, according to
Dun's last review. The disappointment
is not accounted for, though better times
are forecasted for the near future. 1t is
hoped that the last effort will be more
c1ccaScful
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

The Memphis papers say that Bill Nye
needs an audible voice and more ANNA
ton in order to make a success as a lee
turer. He has a voice suited to a par
lcr, and bald head altogether unsuited
TO it. His voice strays off and gets lost,
while his head remains provokingly con-
spicuous. Mr.. Nye should expose his
voice more and his head less.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

1t is the opinion of number of lead
ing Democrats that Cleveland's anti-free-
coinage views will let him out of the list
of presidential possibilities. Maybe so.
But how about David B. Hills anti-free-
trade notions in the same connection:
Oh, there's just stacks of fun ahead.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

Every soldier, every admirer of Gen.
Sherman, ought TO send for copy of the
"Chaperone," the new and magnificent
poetry, descriptions, music, andsoforth
Of the obsequies of the conquered hero
surpass anything of the character ever
attempted in America. Twenty five
cents per copy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

Gen. Albert Pike who died in Wash
ington Friday, was for many years the
worlds head of the Masonic fraternity
and its Oldest patron of distinction. His
remains are accorded the very rare
honor of being placed in state in the
court room of the United States supreme
co11rt