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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
LABOR ON THE COAST:

The question Of a sufficient supply of
| labor on the Pacific coast has been grow
ing upon that section dating back to
within short time Of the passage of the
Chinese exclusion act by congress, until
it has become a serious one. Under the
operation of the exclusion law Chinese
laborers have disappeared from that sec
ton until many of the individual enter
prises are seriously crippled, if not
brought to standstill. To relieve this
condition a scheme has been put on foot
to transfer large numbers of negroes
from the south to California and other
coast states. 1t is believed that the
southern negro will be preferable to any
other class of labor that can be obtained,
and that the negro will be better salts
fled and consequently more contented
and reliable than any other race.
Senator Leland Stanford is the main
spring of the movement, and under his
auspices already two or three thousand
Afro-Americans have been brought to
settle in California. The movement is
only in its incipiency yet, however, for
arrangements have been made to draw
at least 10000 of the superfuous or dis
contented Senegambians from the Gulf
states before year is over, and colonize
them there.
The Rev. R. Benjamin, a prominent
and wealthy colored man of Frisco, is
StanfordS agent in this matter. The Oh
ject, Benjamin says, in importing
negroes is to supplant and take the place
of the Chinese, who are neither citizens
nor voters, whereas the negroes will be-
come both.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
a WORD ON ALLoTMENTs.

The people of Oklahoma have been
long suffering. but to their credit, no
very frenzied protests have been offered,
save by isolated and unrepresentative
citizens. But it is known fact, and
not merely the mushroom growth of a
| disposition to fault find, that the territory
is not being treated right III the matter
of aIlotments. The exigencies of this
case demand celebrity in keeping with
thoroughness. 1t may not be dillydally-
ing on the part of the agents, but the
fault is almost that. The Cheyenne and
Arapaboe allotting agents make about
four allotments day at present, and
as there are eight of them, this will ex-
tend the completion Of their labors away
into the winter months. Each agent is
allowed an able corps of assistants, and
it would in no wise overdo his energy Or
more than earn his salary which is eight
dollars day, if he would increase this
to six or seven or eight allotments day.
And if the eight agents should make
among them fifty alloments day, the
labor should be finished in sixty days at
most.
Reports, the truthfulness of which is
vouched for, are made frequently that
the agents in the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe country are taking their time"
This might be pardonable in a different
case, but it certainly is not here. The
fortunes of Oklahoma, the physical COM
fort and time of many settlers, the de-
mand of the people which is supreme,
urges an early completion of the allot-
ting labors. Most of the bitterness
against outside politicians in Oklahoma
would disappear, if the people can feel
that their time and their interests are
not being sacrificed by some man who
has no fortune in common with them
and whose chief desire is the product of
the government mint.
1T is a general demand from all over
the territory, which is a community Of
taut energy and tensioned progress, that
the work of the aliotting agents be
pushed along rapidly. If no other APP
peal can be received, it should be done
by the allottIng agents as representa-
tive5 of a Republican administration,
whose object it has always been to give
the people what they want.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

That an extraordinary amount q sd.
perstitlon still exists in some u tho az
-icultural coguties, particularly Ia tha
west u England has been demonstrated
10y circumstances which have come n
light in connection with the death II
Taunton oracle, who was known
throughout Somerset, Devon and Dorset
a. Billy the Piper" lie was for many
years looked upon as the Wizard q ths
West" and g large bundle q letters
which We're found in bis house reveal "a
al astonishing extent the cTedulity q
certain people IN thoae parts
Bily, who was Eeveuty-giK years 81
ago when be died, had lived in the sams
honzs for forty years lie commsnosd
life ~ hawking pipes, bat doubtless the
acquaintance be formed with country
folk while be was peregrinatiux with
tie humDls ''clays' opened his eyes %
their superstitlous beliefs and indeed
him % pose az past master u witch
craft and fortune telling. And u vas
not Only simple villagers VINO vTers
reckoued aEa0n2 Bliy.s clen-z Farm
e. ard svsll-to-do people frequently con.
suited hi11-ths former believing that
be could cat disease ont q their cz'tlsf
the latter regarding Rim - an Infsllibl9
asd il tns discovery AID punishment a
tkose VINO had done them wrorz. Co
sells Saturday Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

After careful examination into the
standing of the members who constitute
the company of the new Alliance morning
daily to be started in Topeka, one is led
to believe that the stockholders propose
to put in their brains against the State
Alliance money. Charters only cost 81
each. The amount of capital stock re-
ported by the company-if all paid up
and in the hands of the treasurer. $50, 600,
will not run daily paper as metropoli-
tan as the Topeka Capital one year.
However, if a few fellows can get to-
gether and spend a dollar for a charter
and get the farmers of this state while
on wave of prosperity to put up, that
is their business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

The volapukists have just finished their
annual convention. These believers in a
universal language have become much
more practical than they were at the
outset, and recognize the limitation of
their invention. Volapuk is now useful
in some slight degree as means of
written communication between people
speaking different tongues, especially in
commercial transactions; but that it will
ever supersede other languages the vola-
pukists themselves no longer contend.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

THE hardened looking wretch in this
sell, presume" said the fair caller with a
shudder. ''is some low thief"
''No, miss" answered the turnkey, hes
the desperate villain that killed his grand
mother"
why he is the one I'm looking forl
Poor, dear manP exclaimed the impulsive
young woman, I've brought you some
nice roast turkey and basket Of fruits. ~
Chicago Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

The Kansas calamity hooters are get
ting it on all sides. Farm property in
portions of the state has advanced one
third in value during the past few weeks
on account of the good crops. And not
only so, but fully 90 per cent of the in-
debtedne5s of the state Will be paid off
from the proceeds of this years bounti-
fuI harvest. You can't keep a thrifty,
industrious community down any more
than you can that kind of a man.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

1t appears that the promulgators of
dress reform knew what they were about
when they selected Chautauqua as the
spot upon which to send reform dresses
out upon an unenlightened world.
"Chautauqua" is descriptive term, and
1t means "a bag tied in the middle. "
There is something eminently felcitous
in the conjunction of "Chautauqua" and
the newly reformed species of whale
homeless dresses.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Col. Hellinem Cougar threatens to
follow Mckinley through Ohio and tear
his tariff arguments into tatters. The
colonel has been on tear ever since
prohibition was defeated in Nebraska
but she still holds her job. The same
party who paid for her services in the
Nebraska prohibition campaign, will put
up for her valuable services in the Ohio
tariff struggle. Before the colonel gets
through with it, however, she will find
her duplicity laid bare. Major Mckinley
Is something of a tearer, himself.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Besides the peregrinating PETER and
the restless Simpson and half a dozen
other wandering Alliance troubadors, a
Republican contingent is now booked
for campaign speeches in Ohio. The ex-
cellent reputation Kansas used TO pos
sess for staying at home and minding its
own business, has gone glimmering while
an unseemly passion of paroxyisms for
gadding has taken its place.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
ANTITRUST LEGISLATION.
From the Austin Statesman.

FROM the austin statesman.
The howl which went up a year age
for antitrust legislation was met by con
gress, which passed very stringent
measure The Sherman antitrust law
provides that every person who shall
make any contract, combination or con-
spiracy III restraint of trade or commerce
among any of the states shall be guilty
of misdemeanor and subject to fine OF
50, 900 or imprisonment for one year, or
both. Any person who monopOliZes or
attempts 10 secure q monopoly is guilty
of a misdemeanor. The property of all
corporations engaging in such trusts or
combinations shall be forfeited, and any
person who has been injured in his bust
ness by them may recover damages to
the extent of three times the injury
done, as well as costs of the suit and
reasonable attorneys fees.
This is about as stiff any measure of
the kind can well be, and yet. although
it has been in force for several months
the attorney general of the United States.
whose duty it is to institute proceedings,
has not made a move in the matter. 1t
is notorious that the Standard Oil COM
pany and the Sugar Trust have both
been closing factories and workshops by
agreement, which looks very much like
it was ''in restraint Of trade and COM
merce, yet not wheel of judicial ma
chinery has been turned. What seems
queerest of all, however, is that the indi-
viduals from whom the howl for this
legislation came and who have suffered
from the business policy pursued by
these great combinations do not make a
move to recoup themselves under the
provisions of this law.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

4 departure in obtaining extra draft
for furnaces on steamships without the
use q blowers or other deYices has been
successfully tired or the scot Of tas
Cape Iaail line. This vessel has been
furnished with snokestacks ] % feet higa
above tEs CRATES The increased draft
Is equivalent % = water pressure q
three-four1hs d AZ sach- Ire vszss. :
speed u nineteen knCts-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
Judge Fosters Condition.

From the Topeka Democrat
Assistant United States Attorney P. L.
Soper yesterday afternoon received let
ter from Judge Foster, dated Paris,
France, August ,.
When the letter was written the Judge
had been in Paris several days and he
states that he will remain in that city for
two weeks. Concerning his condition he
says that he is improving, but is not well.
He will return TO Kansas about October
l, but does not think he viii be able to
resume his court duties at that time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

The state department officials at Wash
ington laugh at the report that the
United States win pay SS0, 900 10 the
family of Gen. Barrundia, who was
killed by the authorities at a Guatema-
Ian port while on an American steamer.
The claim has not even been considered
by this government, and probably viii
not be, but that viii not prevent its bob
blng up on occasions for some time 10
come, TO the annoyance OF the depart
ment,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Jim Reeder, the fat, slick. diamond
pinned Ulysses Of the last legislature,
with a fondness for rounding out the
meliitiuous word Zen rapport long rap
roo on every occasion, is out with the
declaration that George T. Anthony is
greater man than ingalls,.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.
From the HagerstOwn Globe.


A writer in the Boston Globe has been
plying John Bardsley. the defaulting
but gentlemanly city treasurer of Phila-
delphia, who robbed the city of $1,000
600. Bardsley was sentenced to solitary
confinement for fifteen years at hard
labor. On entering the eastern penIten-
tiary of Pennsylvania the prisoner who
is sentenced to solitary confinement is
blindfOlded and marched around the
corridors, so that by no means may he
perceive by which direction he finally
goes to his cell of doom. He is bathed,
dressed in stripes and taken to the cell,
70 by IA feet, where for years he is to see
no human face and hear no human voice
but that of the keeper, who brings him
his food and his daily task of work, and
perhaps a word now and then from the
chaplain who stands at the corridor on
Sundays and breaches to invisible prison
ers in solitary cells.
Well, it is bad enough. There will not
be much pleasure in it, this living fifteen
years in such way. 1t is a question in
deed for the mere enjoyment of it
whether death would not be preferable
But it is not well for that reason to
grow sentimental and spend pity on the
man who robbed a city of $4,000, 600
that had been confided to his keeping by
his fellow citizens who trusted him as a
man and a gentleman. There is a ten
dency in this country to play fast and
loose with public funds generally, feel
ing somehow as if it was not stealing to
appropriate money belonging to the
state. If fifteen years of solitary con
finement at hard labor will recall to our
minds the fact that this is stealing, and
stealing of the meanest kind, then Bards-
ley will not have been put behind the
bars in vain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Mr.. Higgins IN his election Of an organ
10 further elucidate his views on theulti-
mate business Of prohibition. probably
presumed that Voice of New York Is the
voice Of the people. 1t has been so in
several presidential ventures.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

There is one habit that every few days
adds little to the aggregation Of stupen-
dous vacuity of wasted lung power and
flag of the brain tissue. and that Is the
trl-weekly interview of some Republican
politicians or other who claims 10 know
that the Alliance is busted.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Uncle jerry Rusk's rain-provoke COM
mission are missing a splendid opportu-
nifty to prove the practicability of the
new theory by not trying it just now in
this vicinity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

1t is a sad commentary on the dissolu-
ton of the monarchal form of govern
ment and system of peerage that the
newspaper correspondents can not be
persuaded that a man can be king and
have his wits.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Its exceedingly fortunate that the
Worlds fair committee has decided on
one admission fee for the whole exposi-
tlon. 1t Is essential that the affairs of
this fair should he strictly fair.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

1t is pleasing as well as amusing TO be-
hold the papers complimenting and
chucking Oklahoma under the chin.
when a year ago these selfsame organs
had nothing but approbium and ridicule
for the territory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

If President Harrison wants Blaine to
express himself on the presidential mat
ter, as is limited, the next thing will be a
seance with a cabinet manifestation On
the part Of the SECRETARY of srate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

1t got out on kansan travelling in
Texas recently that he was member Of
congress. Things looked blue for him
until he remarked apoIogetically that it
was Kansas City commercial congress.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

The Forum VIII undergo two changes
beginning with vol. xii, which is the
September number. The periodical will
be considerably enlarged. the enlarge
mont being warranted by its increased
patronage. The second change is in To-
cation; the offices have been moved TO
the new jackson building. 81 East Sew
enteenth street, New York.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Give the Kansas farmer two more
crops As good as the present one, writes
the secretary of the state board Of
agriculture. ''and they will be out Of
debt. And, lie might have added, the
Alliance party wlu bs out Of business,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

People of suspicious tendencies have
every reason in the world TO believe that
Mir. Miner, Higgins correspondent, is
preparing himself for a nominating con-
vention,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Do nc: D. angry + ibs ROSTERS swsksr
you az dzybTs4E Remember ia, u
you went % BID ., sunset you world -
wiling 70 ger NJ With The chickens. aa4
ROSTERS don't EtJp - co1a1eT Ezca
tEIEEA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
Hawthorne's Iridescent Dream

From the Charleston News and Courier
Julian Hawthorne contends that there
is time coming when speech will be
unnecessary. If that's so, Mr.. Hawthorne
would confer a great favor upon suffer
ing humanity by SO arranging events
that Mrs. Lease and that epoch could get
together "immejitly," if not sooner. But
as Dir. Hawthorne's statement is avowed-
" a part of work of fiction, there is ap-
parently little hope for us.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

No Kansas Alliance has ever issued 4
public opinion as regards James G.
Blaine. But as between Willie PETER
and Jim Blaine the thoraces of an s, 600
majority will regain their strength with
an electrical CELEBRITY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

1t is understood that John Davis is
preparing his maiden speech for the next
congress. The virginity of this effort
will only be surpassed by its verdancy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

The national Democratic party de-
serves credit in one matter and praise
without stint. 1t has quoted down on
Baby Mckee
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Emperor William in all probability
was not mad at first, but since he has
seen the attempts Of the newspapers to
make him out demented, he must be,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
a Meaningless Reform.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Dress reform is one of the great ne,
cessities of the age, but the line must be
drawn at the tailleSs shirt. 1t won't do.
A tailless shirt is not shirt. 1t is an
abortion, lame and impotent conclu-
sion, thing that starts out as If with a
well-defined purpose IN view and stops
ingloriously at some obscure half way
point. The tailless shirt is not called for.
Take it away"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

The German kings trouble is with cor
respondents. Queen Nictoria's family
trials spring from a ROYAL correspondent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

1t is almost possible during the month
of August IN Kansas to tell the time Of
day by looking at the thermometer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

It is very reasonable to surmise that
Emperor Williams sore kneecap is not
rendered any more painful by recourse
1a1-1upr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
LITERARY NOTES.

Harper's Young People for August
18th Will contain "A Few Remarks to
Young Lawn-Tennis Players" contrib
uted by Oliver 5. Campbell, the lawn
tennis champion of America.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

''AIrs. B., said James G.. Blaine at Bar
Harbor the other morning, "hand me
the daily papers, will you? Iwant to see
how I feel "
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Three fatalities in aerial expeditions
happened last Saturday. In these bal
loon manipulations, a great many
things besides rain. fall.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Sub-treasury is bothering the agricul-
tural interests of this country, and sub
sistence that Of Russia.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

Charles Dudley Warner has collected
and arranged a score or more IF those de-
iightful short essays with which he has
from time to time opened the Editor s
Drawer Of Harper's Magazine and Har-
per & Brothers will very soon publish the
same in a dainty volume entitled As We
We're Saying 1t viii he appropriately
illustrated by II. W. McNickar and
others.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
George L. Douglass for Governor.

From the Topeka Lance.
In its search for an available man for
its candidate for governor, next year,
the Republican party will find one in
Wichita who combines many elements
of strength, and who is well fitted for the
place-Mr George l.. Douglass, who rep
resented the Wichita district in the late
sitting of the legislature. and who prov
ed himself a strong fair and able man.
Mr.. Douglass would come very near unit
ing all the elements Of the Republican
party, his record being, 50 far as the
Lance can learn. above reproach. The
Republicans could go further and fair
worse than they will if Mr.. Douglass Is
selected, and will consent to become a
candidate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

A gifted correspondent assures us that
Nine. Adelina Patti is 81 years of age
There is no date at the head of the cor
respondents article.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
No Papers in the Future Life.

From the Inland Printer.
Our Australian correspondent saws
that recently some scandal was going
the rounds of Melbourne concerning the
management of the Salvation Army
Prison Gate Brigade Two of the great
journals were very severe in their com
ments upon the affair. and in retaliation
an army poet holds then up thus in a
verse of one of the popular hymns:
Over there, over there,
Over there. over there,
There will be no daily papers over there;
The devil cannot rage
Through the Argus and the Age
There viii be no daily papers over there.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
The Presidential Situation.
From the Omaha Republican.

from the OIlaDa htpAOlIcan-
'.Oi say Pat, if Cleveland is candi-
date for the PRESIDENCY he viii have a
Hill av a tonne av it, ''Yis. Moike, and
if Jim Blaine is a candidate. the son av
his grandfather will make it moighty
Har-ras-sin for him"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

The Kansas farmer is at present fluc-
tuating between the telegraph Office and
his wheat bin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Deenest Hole in the World,
he Memphis Appeai-Avalanche.

p
A Chicago man suggests that instead
of building the Eiffel tower on the expo
sition grounds that the deepest hole in
the world be dug. 1t could be utilized
in 1898 for the burial OF the Third party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19

GAS You Like 1t" is having a run at
Kansas City. Missourians as a rule like
ii straight with a sip Of settler.