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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
THE FOURTH AT SEDGWICK.

To the Editor of the EAGLE.
went to Sedgwick City on the Fourth
and was surprised to see so large turn
out. An immense procession formed
about noon and went to the grove to
hear the address. / remained in town to
investigate fruit dryer which one of its
enterprising citizens, VIM. Finn, had re-
Gently erected. 1t was Williams evap-
orator, and originated just across the
road from where lived in Michigan, and
looked perfectly natural to me. 1t re-
minded me of the time my inventive
neighbor, John Williams, created it.
We had that season an unus-
ually large crop of peaches and
the excessive rains prevented us from
gathering and marketing the fruits, so
we had to resort to drying the surplus
to save it-and in that way the evapora-
tor was originated. 1t enables you to
dispose of an immense amount of fruit,
producing superior quality of evapora-
ted product which finds ready market
all over the world.
In preparing the fruit for drying, a
large number of girls are employed, so
that it is a desirable acquisition to
town, as well as a benefit to the farmers
in disposing of their surplus.
II. E. BIDwELL.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
WEB. WILDRR's MAGAZINE.

4 great many literary ventures in the
way of monthly magazines have been
made in the west, and a great majority
have never advanced out of the
venture grade. But if there is any,
thing virtuous in completeness, taste,
brightness, editorial ability. and typo
graphical attraction, Web Wilder's In
surance and Investors Magazine Will
escape the common fate.
A book of some twenty pages of ex-
cellent paper and clean large type with
full page portraits of several individuals,
among them Charles Francis Adams
and Eugence Ware. is further embel-
lished and passes excellence with the
addition of Mr.. Nilder's happy style and
his Judgment ia excerpts and selections.
He has bit of history, here; a scrap of
biography there; a scrip of philosophy,
a good word for his successor as insur-
anCe commissioner; a sound economic
article; an article on currency; inter
views with business men; and through
it all the vein and charm of cogent
decision. He warns his old friends in
this wise:
Il don't want anybody 10 come up
here and talk 10 me about old times. l
knew something about them, wrote it
down. had it printed. and was done with
the thing. Today Is king in disguise.
says Emerson. Salute the king. The
eye of the west Is IN its forehead. That
piece Of property, on Main street, sold.
in So. for 100000 Get out of here,
and go 10 work.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
Get After the Cutworms.

Two methods of killing cutworn.
are recommended by DIR. Riley. One
is to make holes several inches deep
with a round stick about the plants.
The worms are liable TO fall into thesl
and cannot get out. The other way,
and better one, Is TO scatter a lot OF
green clover cabbage or other succu,
lent leaves about after the ground ia
ready, which are poisoned with paris
green or London purple The woriu4
VIII eat these and be very generally
destroyed They may crawl under thes
surface before dying. however, and ID
not be found. Large numbers have,
been brought 10 the surface by loosen,
ing the ground with the finger for
II or Q inches below the surface
and turning up the soil They can
then be crushed. farm and Home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
It Costs TOO Much.

From the Argentine Republic.
While the agitator of the new party
are belly aching morning, noon and
night over excessive taxation and the
wrongs Of the poor laboring men. they
forget to mention the new tax that is
being imposed weekly and monthly on
these poor laboring men to pay for halls,
signs, grips and passwords, and exces-
sive CAB of these same agitators which
comes high when it Is all figured up.
It's an insult 10 the intelligence of labor
ing men who are compelled to work ten
hours per day to support their families,
and then try to tax them with the ex-
cessive luxury of supporting q few men
who would rather be caught dead than
perform manual labor. Laboring men
are not fools, and will soon get onto this
funny business, for II costs too much.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The statement comes from Atchison
that Henry Bennett, well-known Ali
ance man of Jewell, Kan, is in Jail for
entering d. c. Clusters house and
throwing his goods into the road. Ben
nett recently had some trouble with
Steven Brown, who took possession of
his farm under mortgage, the former
laboring under a delusion that a mort
gage should not be foreclosed. Brown
then leased the farm to Cluster and Ben
nett proceeded to carry out his idea,
with the result that he is the guest of the
sheriff Somebody is responsible for
Benefits false ideas and lawless act,
which is but legitimate sequence. Who
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

1t is claimed by the Alliance that it
has p, 900 lecturers in this state. a
plan has been adopted for the education
and training of this army of spouters
similar to that employed by in our edu-
cational system; that Is, a series Of
institutes are to be held, during the sum-
mer and fail. the congressional district
lecturers drilling the county lecturers,
and they in turn instructing the town
ship and civil district lecturers. Adopt
ing the Cleveland idea, they propose 10
inaugurate an educational campaign
preceding the state and national pollti-
cal contests.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
THE SAM WOOD KILLING.
RIcHFIELD, Kan, July 8, 1891.
n he E<aseo-

RIcHFIELD, Kan, July 8, 1891.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
Please allow me to notice some matters
| IN regard to the Wood shooting affair.
which have lately appeared in the
papers, which place Richfeld and Nor
ton county in a very unfair light. 1t is
claimed, or asserted rather, that the
presence of Frank Weir, sheriff of Nor
ton county, in Hugoton on the day of
the shooting, was by preconcerted agree
ment with somebody. Now / know
something about his errand over there.
Mr.. Weir had been appointed by the
court, as receiver of some Of the notes
and accounts of the Bank of Richfeld and
it was to obtain information and instruc-
tons with regard to that business that
he went to Hugoton. Judge Botkin had
not been in our town since last October,
and Weir wanted to see him. Now, no
man can testify very wise, to what he
don't know? But it strikes me that if he
shows up squarely what he does know,
that ought to be better than anybody's
guess work.
You see by these thoughtless in
uendoes you apparently duplicate men
who know no more about it, until after
it was done, than you, gentlemen, did
yourselves.
l was there, in Hugoton, about thirty
minutes after the shooting. I heard
Brennan refuse to give up his gun to
Cam: and saw him afterward give two
revolyers to Weir. 1 understood from
street talk that ne had had some little
disagreement previously with Sheriff
Cam.
James Brennan never was a deputy of
Weir's. Nor he never was a constable
in our county, that l can find out. He
was sent over to our Jail for safe keep
ing in the evening after the arrest. The
constable from Center township, Stevens
county, brought him over What our
sheriff had to do was to keep him safe.
He did it. -Four armed men kept guard
at night, four others kept guard all day.
Sometimes they had to take him outside.
When they did SO they ironed him, put
shackles and manacles, on him. Does
that look as if he was parading the
streets with guns strapped on him? If
he had had forty guns, he would have
had difficulty in using them with his
hands locked together.
Now we in Mortin county want to be
fair with our neighbors. We do not
know who is guilty, until we hear the
verdict of the jury. But if any man is
guilty-let him be punished-and pun
ished according to law. And let US keep
out of our neighbors quarrels. We
have in all conscience enough of our
own. We know you will set us right
when you hear the facts, and we feel
that the time is now for us to say some
thing or people will think we have moth
ing to say. Yours Truly,
ROBERT A. KING,
County Attorney of Morton county,
Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
sOMNAMeULISTIC SWIMMING.
The Perilous Experience OF a New Yor
sIeep-Walker.

The Perilous Experience oT q New York
sleep-wsIker.
A curious freak Of somnambu lisrn re-
Gently occurred near Dewitteville. y
Y, which nearly cost the sleep-walker,
Horace Ransome. his life. Ransome is
g young man, but has always been NOR
bidly afraid Of venturing into the water.
but on a recent night arose from his bed
while asleep. and made his way 20
large submerged rock about fifty feet
from the shore of Lake Chautauqua.
Ransome says that he is entirely ig-
norant Of the art of swimming. never
having been in water over two feet deep
in his life. but IL is said that il IL an I'm
possibility for him u have reached the
spot where he was found without swim
ming, and the only conclusion 20 lie ar
rived at is that he must have uncon-
sciously struck out On finding himself IN
the lake.
Another remarkable feature % the
affair is how the sounam bulist could
have remained asleep after entering the
water. which is quite cold. but the ad-
venture was too peTiloUs 20 have been a
hoax. Ransome was found q short
while after dawn standing On the rock
ard holding up his head % keep from
drowning, the water reaching nearly 70
his chin. lie was utterly prostrated
with the shock and the sJertion. AID
for some days suffered intensely from
rheumatism brought on by his cold
bath
lie says bis first knowledge Of what
he had done was when he found himself
erdesvoriag % keep bis footing on the
slippery rock, and was then afraid 20
~ - swirl 70 the shore lie has a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The announcement that eighteen
Mormon missionaries sailed from New
York for Europe, Sunday, appears in
rather odd contrast with the professions
of the leaders of that sect in this country
of intention to comply with the terms of
the law in relation to the practices of
that following. 1t indicates that, what
ever their professions, they do not mean
to give up their polygamous practices,
though their continuance may involve
a new colonization beyond the jurisdc-
ton of the Washington government,
north or south.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The marriage rite and relation must
be getting pretty low down in the moral
scale when license to keep a dog is all
the warrant and authority a minister re-
quires to perform the erstwhile solemn
ceremony designated 10 make man and
woman one. But that seems to be the
present status in New York city. The
metropolis will never forgive Chicago
for securing the worlds fair until it has
outrivaled the lake city in some one or
more of its special innovations.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The most complete history of the
Gillian war yet published in this coun-
try will appear in Harper's Weekly pub
lished July Sth. The illustrations will
include views of prominent localities
connected with the war, pictures of
Gillian warships, and portraits of the
leading men on both sides of the conflict
The unusual interest felt in this country
in the contest down there and its proba-
bic outcome viii cause the forthcoming
number of the Weekly to be a much
sought after issue.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
Kansas Missionaries in Georgia.

From the New York sun.
The Kansas Farmers Alliance now
sends a squad Of stump speakers of both
sexes to the southern states. where they
are to boom the new Peoples party by
carrying on a red hot campaign in its
interest. The speakers who have been
chosen for this business are the cele-
brated Mrs. Lease, the famous Mrs.
Diggs, the renowned Jerry Simpson and
the long bearded PETER; and it is an
nounced that they are to begin opera
tions at once in Georgia. How will
these extraordinary if not unparalleled
Kansas demonstrators be received by the
southern Farmers Alliance? We are
not aware that speeches of their kind
have ever yet been made in Georgia.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The kaiser, having been made aware
of the agitation among extreme Sabbath
rians in England in opposition to his
proposed private visit 10 the naval ex-
hibition on Sunday proceeding which
would be regarded as perfectly proper in
his own capital-announced that he
would postpone his visit to week day,
thus showing spirit of liberality and
consideration which certain Kansas de-
scanters upon royalty" would do well
10 emulate, in view of the episode at
Emporia last SUNDAY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

Not content with haranguing the peo-
pie on every conceivable occasion week
days and nights, a coterie of Alliance
defiuvlcatorS, by means of an artifice,
secured a congregation in Emporia last
Sunday evening and proceeded to preach
politics of the most extravagant sort.
But, inasmuch as structures upon such
proceedings are regarded by some as
Fighting the agricultural interests of
the state" we leave the subject with the
reader, to form his own opinion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

Last week there occurred three disas-
tiers, with appalling consequences, upon
as many railroads and in as many days,
and all three in the same vicinity: in
eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and
northern West Virginia. The aggregate
loss Of life amounted to fully thirty.
while the injured run up into tile hun
dreds. The disasters make it again peril
mont to inquire whether the criminal
liability of railroad directors as well As
employees can be established in a court of
law. Coroner's iuries may censure and
grand juries may indict, but there are
few instances on record where such
palpahle manslaughter as in the disasters
mentioned has been properly punished.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

Mrs. VIM. Binford, who resides west of
the city, was thrown from a buggy. July 4,
and received broken limb.-Topeka Dem
Ocrat.
The friends of the unfortunate lady no
doubt sympathize with her in this mis-,
hap, but it would have been much more
satisfactory to them to have been told
whether the broken climb was leg or
arm, and whether above or below the
knee or elbow. Such indefiniteness in
an important statement is next to ex-
asperating. sometimes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The north pole will remain undis-
covered for another season. Lieut..
Peary's arctic expedition has temporarily
collapsed, owing to the fact that his
crew of negro sailors were paralyzed by
the cold before the expedition was two
weeks out of New York. If Lieut..
Peary earnestly desires to find the north
pole he will do well to ship a crew that
doesn't want to take New Works sum-
mer climate with them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The German emperor must be a very
trustful sort of potentate, to leave his
capital and realm and go into foreign
country on the instant CT the capture OF
most of his seaport cities by aliens and
an advance movement on the seat of the
national government. But that is pre-
cisely the condition over there just now.
The Standard Oil company is the slick
alien referred to, and it is over prepared
fO Stav
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
His Ambition.

A gentleman heard a young visitor In
his house ask his own son aged six:
Which would you rather be-a walk
ing policeman or mounted pohcemsnT
"a mounted policeman, of course
said the boy.
Why asked the other.
'"Cause If the robbers came could
get away quicker Brandon Bucksaw.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The English government has an
nounced that it Will appoint a royal
commission to provide for a proper
representation of Great Britain at the
Worlds Columbian exposition. This
should set at rest the senseless twaddle
that England will show any official
hostility to the United States by reason
of the Mckinley high tariff law.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
TIE Nicet,es OF Fs:e.

7 7
Fate seems to make things tit in nice
IL: Just as wood was giving out, coal
was discovered: Just as whale oil was
about exhauated, petroleum was found;
and now, Just as we have about given
up hope Of being angels, Mr.. Maxim
assures Us that his flying machine will
soon DC ready.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

Mrs. Cleveland keeps a scrap-book
wherein are pasted all the newspaper
notices mentioning her husband. If
Grover goes into the campaign OF 1892
the clippings from Democratic papers
will be a continual source of amusement
to her, exhibiting as they will, compared
to what they will then say, marvellous
and ridiculous feats of ground and lofty
turOhlinO
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

Homer w. Moore, the North Topeka
man who mysteriously disappeared sew
eral weeks since, is back again. In fact
he has been at home since Friday. When
asked by Democrat reporter why he
went away without notifying his family,
he replied that that was matter which
only concerned his family and himself,
and if they were satisfied the public
ought to be. Homer may be sure the
public are losing no sleep over his freak.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The secretary of an accident company
at Chicago received the following ex-
PLANTATION with a cancellation notice: 81
have no father and mother, and have
Just married; therefore, I cannot afford
to carry accident insurance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
The Railing Passion.

Foreman of the jury-Guilty Of mur-
der in the first degree!
Judge-Prisoner ct the bar. stand up
70 receive the sentence OF the court.
The prisoner (who poisoned her hus-
bandt-In a minute, judge Jennie 10
her sister, is ny hat On straight-Life
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
An Alliance Pie Eat.

From the EmpOrIa RepubIlcan.
II witness before me-" said Congress
man Baker of the Sixth district, ian
audience clothed in rags and bathed in
tears, that have been living on cut straw
and sorghum molasses, and drinking
whey" The audience cheered loudly,
and then went and Owed into their
baskets for fried chicken, roast veal,
fruit cake and raspberry pie, and starved
till their stomachs could hold no more.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The growth of sentiment in favor of
popular education in this country as
shown by the census returns received
and complied by the bureau IS a crafty
Ing augury for the future intellectual
development OF the citizens of the coun-
try. The per cent OF the increase in the
enrolment of pupils Of school age ex-
ceeds the increase in population. With
such improvement in this most import
ant respect, the necessity for compulsory
education laws, advocated by many, be-
comes less pressing, and if the growth
of interest in that direction is main
tanned it will..not be long until such neceS-
tsity viii have disappeared.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
Higher n.thenatie, a. Harvard.

s. Ponge-Can you let me have ten
dollars for a week OF So
q. Enerous-Tve only got nine, but
you can have that II il viii DO.
s. Pouge-All night; I'll take that and
then you viii owe ne one dollSr.-H2--
ward Lampoon-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
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EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Bees Swarmed in Her Corset.

From the Atchison Globe.
A hive of bees swarmed in a corset
that had been hung out to air in North
Atchison. The owner of the corset tried
to coax the bees off by beating tin pan,
but they settled down to business, and
she had to go without her corset until
her husband came home at night and
smoked the invaders off.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
From Down East.

"Have you ever travelled in the west.
Miss Penelope2' asked Shelley Higgins.
Yes. Mother and / pahssed sis
weeks in New York lahst wintah- -
Puck
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

Doctor-Yos1E wife Is avery SEX won
al, sir. and likely 70 de.
Eusb4Rd-You needat worrv about
her, doc She got Few dress the other
day, and she hasn't t-isd it On yet
Cloak EeTleE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

1t is understood that the promoters of
the Pennington air enterprise have made
a deal with Kelley for the use of his
motor to run the machine. This makes
a go of it, for sure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

Senator PETER says he will visit every
state in the Union this wear. which
prompts the Washington Post TO remark
that this will prevent him spending any
time in the state OF tranquility. To be
sure it VIII. If he were compelled 10
enter and remain in that state for as
long as single month he would dry up
aud blow away.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The great mineral palace of Pueblo, a
structure that surpaSses anything OF its
kind in the world, was opened with ap-
propriate ceremonies on July 4.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

faint recollection having dream, In
which a woman was drowning before
his eyes and of plunging in to save her.
-Philadelphia Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
WtSNlJggss esJS
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

Returns from all over the country in
dictate that Secretary Rusk has gone wet
by large majority.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-02-03
Editor ADVOCATE +:

Editor ADVOCATE:
Being one who is always interested
i'll the success of the Democratic party
and remembering something of the
defeat which they suffered in this APP
pellate Court District in their last race,
1 hope then it will not appear unseen
lily for me to make suggestion.
We have in the person of Hon. John
E. Cooper, Of Montgomery county, a
man who, if placed at the lead, will
not suffer the cause of the Democracy
to ''bite the dust" As for his fitness
for the high position of Appellate
Judge, we have only to refer to his
record as Circuit Judge of this district,
and now, considering the above,
would like to ask the Democrats where
could more suitable man for the
place be found!
Respectfully,
Il. j. ARNETT,
ID. w. GARDNER.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-02-03
Il. j. ARNETT,
ID. w. GARDNER.

A fence being necessary evil
economy in its construction has al.
ways been considered important
Time was when timber was so chear
that the crooked rail fence was the
cheapest of any. The rails cost moth.
ing but labor, and that also in winter
was very cheap. In most localities
now almost any material is cheaper
than wood for fencing. An Usage
orange hedge is one of the most slightly
and economical fences that can be
made. See your friend Abe Sutton
and have him show you the advanta-
ges of his method Of training this for
a fence.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-02-03

|es of those who desire to see the
RS fail in the management of
own business. We can conf
| say to the farmers Of Kentucky
3ewhere, that if they ship their
Rto these houses, it will be
sold and at much less cx-
IN they have been heretofore
TO pay. If Inducements are