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The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
SUGAR NOTES.
From the Medicine Lodge Index.

From the Medicine Lodge Index.
The frosts of the past two weeks have
killed the fodder on the sugar cane, and
while the cane weighs considerably less,
it increases the per cent. of sugar to the
ton of cane. The rains have kept the
percentage lower than was expected at
first, but it improves with every dry
day.
The big mill shipped car of sugar
last Thursday containing 10000 pounds.
This brings the total shipments TO date
up to 304, 700 pounds. There are $1,000
pounds of sugar on hand, in sacks, not
Included in the above figures. The mill
will probably turn out sugar much faster
for the next ten days than usual, as the
hot room is full of syrup, waiting for the
centrifugals. If the yaryan holds back
all the balance of the work, the centrlf-
ugals can continue TO run for several
days.
The molasses cistern, which is II feet
deep, 16 feet wide and 20 feet long, is
gradually filling with syrup which has
been through the centrifugals. 1t will
all be worked for ''second" sugar when
the cane crop is out of the way. No
''second" sugar has been made this year.
1t has been reported that the caue crop
is running short, and that the mill would
soon have to stop from lack of cane. Mr..
Hinman informs us that if the mill
should run steadily, night and day, it
could not exhaust the good cane IN less
than a month.
This mill will put in the alcohol pro-
cess next year, and with new multiple
effects, will break the record at sugar
making in Kansas.
The government experimental works
got through cutting cane Yesterday.
There is some splendid cane lef: on the
government farm, but the experiments
have all been made, and have turned out
more than satisfactory. Professor
Wiley left yesterday for Washington.
Professor Spencer will remain about
three weeks and see the syrup on hand
worked up for the second" sugar.
Then the machinery will be cleaned up
and the house closed. 1t is well settled
that the alcohol process Is bowling
success.
Next year few minor changes will be
made in the machinery, the building
will be somewhat improved, another
still put in, and experiments conducted
to make the most possible sugar at the
least possible cost.
The work at this mill is reduced to
such science that when a ton of cane
goes into one end of the mill it is known
within five pounds of how much sugar
and how much syrup will come out at
the other end We have examined the
syrup that is to be worked for second
sugar and think Professor Wiiey's esti-
mate under rather than over the mark.
Professor Wiley thinks that if 10 pounds
of first sugar can be made per ton of
cane, that second sugar will be a small
consideration. We think if thirty or
forty pounds of second sugar can be
made per ton of cane, and that after the
regular sugar season is over, it will
prove to be winning card in sugar
making.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The townsite of Tecumseh will be proved
up Nov II
The cotton gins in the Chickasaw nation
run all night.
The Chickasaw legislature failed to pass
the allotment bill.
The new country on the east is over a
month old already.
One of the first industries Tecumseh had
was Chinese laundry.
Work on the normal school building at
Edmond will commence at once.
The Edmond Presbyterian church is TO
be dedicated tomorrow morning.
What has become of the man who tried
TO discover gold in Oklahoma every ten
days?
"How is this for high?" yelled the man
who had selected cliff lot to his neighbor
in Chandler.
The new governor will probably be as
deadly with his veto in capital nights as
Governor Steele
Governor Steele NAV run for governor OF
Indiana Everybody has new story OF
what he Is going 70 do.
Oklahoma City is a great place for
Young men The community thinks ev-
erything of young men
1t is said that K. w. McAdam Of the
Ardmore Chieftain is going 70 marry a
native Chickasaw woman.
A Partisan sculptor is visiting in Hen
nessey. Oklahoma is great country for
people from all over the world
X. Brice, a tobacco merchant Of Buffalo.
" Y, predicts that Oklahoma will make
a great tobacco-growiDg country.
1t is reported that John Ollie has said
that he does not want the RovernOrship,
and would not accept it If rendered
Il would worry good many people now
il President Harrison should appoint
man for governor who is not from Indiana
The West Side agrees &c allot all the re-
naming Indians for the $500 left IN the
treasury. Now, how can Secretary Noble
object 10 thats
F Mitchell of Fl Reno was this week
awarded contracts 70 furnish, At tue fort,
200 cords OF wood, 3l5 tons Oh straw aud
iS0. 600 pounds Of oats.
Tecumseh and Chandler ara antago-
nistic, OF course TIE Tecumseh Herald
claims tina: persimmons and 'possuns can
be caught on the townsite OF ChRndisr--
The pewspaper men or the indian terri
tory are going TO get up separate organi-
Zation from the newspaper men OF OhlA-
noma This looks like strained effort.
The annual conference OF the ". z
church south for Oklahoma and the To-
dian territory meets IN Oklahoma Elty
Nov. 4. About go ministers and lay dele
gates are expected
There are good many people IN Okla
hornA who have a great respect for Gov
ernor Steele, and they viii probably zee 70
IL that one Of the new COUNTIES On tie west
IS named after him
Beaver Advocztsi Remember that tzo
years the last day Of this noath, We bad
the worst storm OF that winter, and one
Of the wetest. heaviest sucws ever Known
in this sectioa- Be prepared for snsrgso-
clsS-
Justice Is primitive n Beaver county.
Last week q man 1aned Benny Cole was
fined SO for stealing coz he coulGn Z
nav = and a. there WAS TO JalE tas Judge
ordered the sheriff % hold him Tea days
The sheriff di5n't care aboat feeding the
priscuer himself for tsn dzFs AID k.cksa
The guilty man wens scc. tree
Norman Transcript: II i 20 be regretted
that - many q the farmers End ls necss-
sary 70 keep tksir cAildrsa o1t q schosol %
rick cotton. but j - ExEsvtEssess .sct
that sueE - the Casa IA sczs q lie
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24

lish regard these accessions as inviola-
bic. The Chinese, too. have been ad-
vancing their posts unwarrantaoly To-
ward the west, until Russian forbear-
ance has ceased to be virtue. All this
has led to the sending forth of Russian
expedition charged with the duty OF
ascertaining the exact position OF the
entire Afghan frontier. A remarkable
fact in connection with this expedition Is
that it is mostly composed of CosSacks.
The opinion is now apt to prevail In
England that the government COM
mitted an error in not agreeing to the
Russian proposal for delimitation years
ago. An unknown boundary Is Russia 5
opportunity; and, though she may not as
yet have absorbed the Pamir plateau,
she will undoubtedly do SO if definite
boundary is not speedily agreed upon.
Russia's traditional policy is to act first
and negotiate afterward, and all other
powers having relations to her should by
this time have acquired an intimate
knowledge of her methods.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
SOME PERTINENT STRUCTURES.

Anent the Hoey defalcation the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch indites sort of lay
sermon which it publishes, and in which
it INDUCES in this bit Of punitive moral
ization:
The fact is that most private business
corporations are fictitious persons created
on purpose to eliminate the human con-
science and the individual accountability
of natural persons as thoroughly as posi-
BILE from business transactions. With no
bodies to punish, no souls to save, no
motive but greed, no purpose but ac-
ouisition, these monster creations, these
engines of plutoCracy, are not only cor
rupting courts and legislatures, but de-
m0ralizing social life with the machinery
OF vicarious and irresponsible power. They
are Systematically driving personal hon
esty fair dealing and fair competition out
of all the walks of business, and putting
most demoraliZing premium on the get
theren talents that are unrestralned 10y
any moral touch or sense of human sym
pathy 1t should surprise no one that
they are so often robbed by their high
salaried presidents, the trained lnstru-
ments of their own rapacity.
Applied to the class of interests and
subjects for which it was evidently
meant, the observations and declarations
are undeniably pertinent; but what
would the P.-D. do With the defaulting
state treasurers, and the political party
that has a monopoly on that sort of
thing? The question is certainly peril
nent.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

The appointments for meetings, under the
direction of the Republican Central Commlttet
of Sedgwick county, Kan, and the names OF
tbe sneakers. are as follows:
Valley Center, Wednesday, Oct. q, 1881, Col
J. r. HallOwel. -, ,oo, ~, 7
r Balloweli and H. NJ. StuTdevant. ~
Sscketts school house, Friday, Oct. 25, Iosl'
A. r. Museller. go, -, ~,
lowell. oo, r.,
Halloweli. A. r. Museller, O. q. Ecksteln;
Derby, Oct. %, q. w. G. Jones ana D. W.
Adams. - c.,
Union school house, Kechi township, Oct, "a,
Hon. o. HI. Bentley, Captain w. T. Burgess
Gem school house, East Park township, Oct.
2s George L. Douglas, A. Il. Museller
Mulvane, Oct. 3, Col. }. K. Halloween and >.
= oatTiiie, st Oct. %, J. E. Henley and S. NJ.
Tucker.
Waco school house, Salem township, Oct. 30,
W. L. Sturdevant and o. q. Eckstein.
Clearwater, Saturday, Oct 81, 1871, Col' J' H.
W. :. MORRIS, Chairman.
WI HAZEN, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
One Pure Baking Powder, &,
Like Telling a Secret.

story is told and is story over seventy
Der cent of all baking powders sold contain either
or ammonia and many Of these powders contain both Tbs
i'll effects upon the system Of food raised By alum
MA powders are dangerous because Of their Dsd
Character 1t would be less dangerous for the people
fatal at once then such food would be avoided bat e
baneful because imperepble fTst and sloS il Is
advances no less certain
Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder is declared By an
authorities as from alum ammonia any ether sduI
terant purity has been questioned and while II
does finer and better work costs At retail thaa
rnanv Of the adul;eTstsd = s!sEA
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
THE LATE MIsHAP ON THE ATLANTA A

Captain Phillip of the .. S. S. Atlanta,
in a report to the navy department on
the explosion of gas that caused the ac-
cident on the Atlanta says: 81 desire to
call the attention of the department to
the acts of the executive officer, Lieuten-
ant T. NJ. B. Mason, and the carpenter,
E. w. Craig, who fearlessly rushed into
the smoking compartment followed
closely by Cornelius Moran, master-at-
arms, John Krouberg, ships mate, and
Charles Gross, gunner's mate), who by
their cool judgment and decided action
with the appliances of the ship, located
the trouble and soon dispelledall anxiety
on the part of others, who were at their
stations for an emergency" Lieutenant
Mason reports that Ensigns Copehart
and Britain, by their action and cool
ness rendered him valuable assistance.
"In conclusion / desire here to state that
/ consider the Atlanta as ship the best
sea boat have ever been on board Of.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24

be for the benefit of the producers? If
the whole railroad system were under
one management, IS it not likely that
high rates would be charged In one To-
cality to make up for deficiency else
where? What carriers want is contin-
uing business with large profit. What
the people want is the hauling of their
produce at the lowest possible cost.
With all competition removed, which OF
the two parties would attain its desire:
The answer is easy. The railroad"
The suggestion of the plan, from the
source whence it comes, is half admis
sion that there is some ground and
reason for the demand that is made
from certain quarter for governmental
control of the railways; at least, the
same points are made in advocacy of that
policy as those quoted above, i. e., the
removal of competition and consequent
ly the reduction of operating expenses.
The plan is impractical, for the pur-
pose alleged, as the Champion clearly
shows, and can never be made to operate
to the satisfaction of the people. Of the
two schemes we are not certain but thai
the government control plan would he
less Objectionable, though it is SO full of
harmful objections that it is not to be
seriously considered as a policy to be
adopted by the government.
The consolidation scheme would re-
quire an enabling act to be passed by
before it could be inaugurated.
and as this could not be secured, nothing
can come of it beyond its discussion
among the endless volume of theories
touching the question of railroad manage
mnnt
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
A BIG CONCERN COMING.

1t is understood that the capital stock
of the Pullman Car company is to be in
creased from S25, 900, 900 to $50, 600, 600.
The object of the increase is said to be
entrance of the company into the busi-
ness of manufacturing street cars on an
extensive scale, and that it will operate
from some point in the southwest.
Wichita, by reason of her command
ing position in this territory, is the most
natural and desirable point for the loca-
ton of this new enterprise. Besides be-
ing the center of the richest and most
rapidly developing section of the coun-
try, she is surrounded by a number of
cities and towns that have street car
service, and their growth and develop
ment will necessarily demand further
extension and improvement of that in
dispensable service. And aside from all
this, the requirements of this city's ex-
tensive and extending system and equip
ment will of itself be an important con-
sideration in selecting location for the
the Pullman branch factory referred to-
Another item in the list is the fact that
Wichita already has a continent-wide
reputation as a car-building point.
through the Burton car works, long in
successful operation.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
HrHE ROOF OF THE WORLD. /"

From the washington Post.
The advance of Russian forces into the
vast Pamir table land which has aroused
the vigilant apprehension OF China and
England, and led the former TO call for
explanations from the government at st.
Petersburg, is sustained by very plausi-
bic justification. As is usual IN the
allegations of Russian diplomacy, 1t is
others that have been encroachIng on
Russian rights, and the aggressions of
the Muscovlte power have been rendered
necessary TO prevent that power from
becoming the victim of adverse circum-
stances, and TO keep others from occupy
ing a underground from which the
peace of Russia could be threatened.
To strengthen this view Of the case IL
is claimed that while Sir Edward Thorn
ton was British ambassador at ST. Peters
burg the Russian government proposed
10 England that a denarcation should
be made Of the entire frontier Of Afghan
istan, not only on the northwest, but
also on the north and northeast, 50 that
the territory OF Afghanistan should Be
definitely known and that there should
be no further Misunderstanding. The
British foreign Office. however, would
assent only TO a dslimItatlo2 of the
northwestern frontier. preferrIng, as the
Russians assert. 20 leave the north and
Northeastern limits indefinite, 50 that
the Amesr might extend his limits IL
those directions Sc be found opPor-
tunity. AS matter OF fact, the Ameer,
on one preteBse or another, has quietly
annexed vast districts 20 which
the Russians say hes had no right
and they complain thai tse Eng-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24

An Alliance speaker by the name of
E. H. Gillett, who halls from Des
Moines, Ia, while speaking at BelIeville,
Kan, the other day was ann yed by a
minstrel band which was playing for a
matinee in front of the opera house. He
stopped in his speech and said, "There
are enough plow boots in this audience
to kick that band out of town. where
upon the crowd made rush for the
band, destroying its instruments and
knocking several of the players down.
The sheriff arrived on the scene just in
time to save the building from the in
furiated crowd, which had in its excite
ment become wild mob. Gillett dis
cretely jumped the town.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
The Man and tho DigestIbrs Brick.

A familiar figure in the streets Of Lon
den few years ago was a certain colored
gentleman who, provided the bystanders
would subscribe the sum Of one shilling
promised 10 eat brick. | stopped te
watch him on several occasions, but never
saw him even attempt To eat a brick. lie
commenced the proceedings by producing
a large newspaper and laying IL open on
the ground He next took few bricks
out Of the pockets Of bis coat, and laid
them, together with his coat, on the paper
and then began long peroratlon on the
digestible properties Of the brick.
Whether bis audience subscribed the
necessary shilling or not. he still continued
10 speechify until the arrival Of my friend
In blue" put an end 20 the proceedings
and the brick eating gentleman. after care
fully picking up bis stock IN trade. togeth
er with the subscriptions Of his audience
and after "a lengthy argument with the 20,
hceman as 10 why be should be prevented
from getting an honest living. decamped.
Although, Of course this gentleman
never did actually eat a brick, or even .
small portion Of one. there are cases on
record Of people having eaten stones pieces
Of glass. knives. birds with their feathers
on. charcoal cloth Rad similar luxurieA.-
London Tit Bits.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24

The theater In Wheeling Was over a car
Rage makers shop. Il was bare. bleak,
whitewashed place. heated ia winter By
two stoves in the parquet and one IN the
gallery. One bitter night Ted CEdwin
BOOTH played Richard. When he went OF
for the Now is the winter Of our discOn
tent" speech be looked over the house, and
seeing nobody, came toward the promp
side and said 20 me. Where's the audi
enee. Benz" The few half frozen peopla
present were not visible because they wers
huddled about the three st0ves trying Il
keep warm.
! remember that the stage was 10 dirty
that wouldn't let Ted wear a new hft,
dollar robe that we had recently bouRhi
and that we set great store By. made
most of the costumes that be wore on that
tour myself After the performance
would SIT up for a couple Of hours in tbs
doubled beddsd room We always Occupied
and sew ike good one. while Ted sat By
smoking bis pipe. waxing the thread and
threading ny needles. We had % DO IL
for We could not afford - bay uardrobss
-IntervisT iu New York Ep1ch
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24

At many points along the sound, IN the
vicinity of Port Chester, good swimmers
can enjoy plunge from the rocks into
deep water and avoid the wading process.
which makes Coney island and Rockaway
unattractive for bathers who like TO know
that the sand is five fathoms beneath theiI
feet One would naturally suppose that
greater danger exists in deep water bath
ing places than where an ordinary sized
mar has to walk out the eighth Of mile
to submerge his shoulders but this is not
the fact, if the experience Of a landlord
who has kept hotel on the WestchesteT
shore of the sound for thirty years is TO De
trusted.
BLESS you" said he. I'VE don't have Q
drowning accident here once in five years.
You see. nobody but fool would jump of
those rocks unless he was a prime swim
mer, and when the fool comes along and
gets in there are always half dozen iel
lows there that are as much at home swim
ming as walking, and he's TO be hshed
out before be has time TO drown. But in
the surf at many places it's likely enough
that there won't be one good swimmer
among fifty
"But a greater danger than that Of
drowning lies IN all sorts OF sicknesses con
traced by staying too long in the sea. Ia
shallow water a man doesn't swim much,
and there is nothing 10 tire him. so be
often paddles about for more than an hour
but where be can't rest his feet on the bot
tom. and has TO swim all the while, be Is
pretty sure TO come out In a Quarter Of
that time He is fresh and warmed by his
exercise in one case and In the sther he is
faint and blue and sbivering. tell you.
the shadows take fifty lives for one ne
deeps take New York Sun
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-24
ANOTHER RAILWAY SCHEME.

In an article in recent number of the
North American Review Mr.. c. p. Hunt
ington makes plea for the consolidation
of all the railways in the United States.
An eastern journal, evidently railway
organ, few days ago supplemented Mr..
Huntington's plea with a long article
strongly favoring the consolidation plan
1t urges, as Mr.. Huntington does, that if
this were done rates for hauling could be
cheapened because less rolling stock
would be needed. As crops are marketed
in different sections at variable times Of
the year. the consolida tionists assert,
cars and locomotives could be transferred
from one section to another and expea ases
thereby reduced. A great number of
agents and agencies could be cut Off.
thus affecting another great saving, they
claim. The charging of less for s. long
than short haul would cease, they pre-
tend. There would be no competition.
and the shipper would benefit BY the
posi- bilitv of flexible rates, they say.
Discussing the proposition thus set
forth the Atchison Champion meets and,
10 the writer's mind, completely ex
plodes it in this brief but pointed way;
Now all this appears very plausible.
The producer will fail to see, however,
wherein the removal Of competition be-
tween lines will benefit him A monop-
oliStic concern, such as proposed. Is not
likely 10 lower prices. Rates might be
made flexible, but would the hexibility