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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

The appointment of Judge Culberson
to the interstate commerce commission
is perhaps the best that could have been
made from the south and from his
political party, both of which claimed
and were entitled to a place on the COM
mission. The only thing to the judges
disadvantage is that the position calls
for active endeavor, while he is ex-
tremely phlegmatic. But there is no
discounting his ability as far as intel
lectuaI scope and legal acumen go.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

The Wichita EAGLE is in favor of pro-
hibition-in South Carolina eaven-
worth Times
The Wichita EAGLE is not In favor OF
prohibition in South Carolina or any
where else, unless decided majority
of the community are in favor OF 1t 10
the extent that it may be made effective
and not farce and fraud.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

The November of 1861 will ever be
famous in our political history, because
in that month, for the first and only
time, two presidents were elected within
these United States-Abraham Lincoln
to rule in Washington, and Jefferson
Davis in Richmond
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
YOU GIVE IT A TOO SERIOUS TREND

From the Atchison Champion.
1t is practically foregone conclusion
that, despite the opinions of the pinheads
to the contrary, Major Morrill, or Colonel
Marsh Murdoch will receive the Repub'
lican nomination for governor next
summer without much opposition.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
.Jerry's Fiat.

The New York Press asked Jerry
Simpson if be was in favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. The
reply was, II am in favor of the free
coinage of all silver the same as gold.
We must have hard money"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
He Ought to Be Satisfied.

I
A Brown county farmer who recently
expressed a yearning for life Of ex'
element got his wish the other day.
He was presented with hog having five
feet, his wife gave birth to twin boys
and his eldest son and the hired girl
eioped; all within twenty-four hours.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Education and Republicanism.

From the Emporia Republican.
A Forum article discusses the ques-
ton sis Modern Education Failure:
No-not as long as the prospects of the
Republican party continue as bright as
they are at present. The people are
evidently doing great deal of intelligent
thinking
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Abolish the Barbarity.

From the Winfield Courier.
The writer has seen a string of five
little children running, the older drag
ging the younger ones, in a supreme
physical effort to avoid the effect of the
''tardy bell" The barbarous thing
should be abolished.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

There is said to be shortage IN the
peanut crop, but it will hardly cause any
serious hitch in the worlds revolutions.
We've an abundance of popcorn and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
An Inside Secret Barnacle Opinion.
From the Hutchinson News Topeka correspondent
an attache OF the governors Office.


an attache OF the governors Office.
Among the candidates for governor is
your own ever present, eVer-existing
Marsh Murdoch. There is something sad
in his candidacy, as well as something
amusing. Dear, kind, egotistical, stupid
old Marsh, vino now lives but by the re-
flected light of his son Victor and that Of
his brother Bent, who is always loyal to
the head of the Murdoch family. Marsh
has ability, plenty of it, and has back
bone, whatever quality that may be, but
he lacks judgment. He has antagonized
the women of Kansas, and were he to
be nominated, there would be such a
buzzing about his ears that he would
soon wish he were in the solitudes Of
Wichita once more. But then Marsh
will not gain the prize. The newspaper
boys give him plenty of fattering notices
which they do not mean. Murdoch
would unquestionably make good gov
ernor, and would lend dignity to tina;
office. He would never cause Kansans
to be ashamed of him, and his intimate
friends would always find good, whole
some, refreshing welcome whether the
express trains ran or not.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Names vs.. Nature.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
There is discussion among the Mis-
siouri newspapers of the proper pronun-
citation of the name of their state. 1t
seems to be understood that the plain
people call it ''Mizzouree, and the
patrician folk "Mizzourah." Arkansas
wisely settled a similar dispute some
years ago by statue which made the
correct pronunciation "Arkansaw," with
the accent on the first syllable.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Ml(IIll gayle
Nj. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor

The citizens of Kentucky are arrang-
inc to celebrate next year the Tooth an
piversary of the admission into the union
of that state.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

probability of being splendid invest
ment, while at Velasco it would be as
hazardous as to engage in game Of
three card monte.
Very respectfully, yours,
o. M. SHERMAN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Cutting Down the Corners.

From the Monthly,
Kingley-Say, don't you want to in
vest little cash in a scheme l am just
maturing?
Bingo-I would like to go in with you
first rate, old man, but the fact is | have
just begun to save all my spare cash for
the Christmas present my wife is going
to GIVE me-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
That's Right: Hit 'em Again.

From the Wichita Arrow.
A great number of the male popula-
ton of Wichita are taller than they were
a week ago. They were in Squire Jones
court during the trial of Alexander for
rape, and stretched their necks to get a
glimpse of the victim. The eagerness OF
men to hear the details of such court
cases is disgrace to our sex.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, =,

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN The doctors of
the city appear to be various-minded in
regard TO sanitary matters. ] can re-
member when some of those who are
now decrying and belittling Health Off
Ger Nichols efforts to have the city de-
Gently cleaned up We're members of local
and State Boards of Health; and | re-
member, too, that they were periodically
flooding the State with circulars admon-
ishing the people to clean up their premi-
ses and their towns, or the cholera or some
other epidemic would sweep them Oft the
face of the earth.
What more than this has DIR. Nichols
done, / would like TO know? And vet a
number of these doctors are jumping on
him with both feet.
4 great, great many years ago Artemus
Ward summed up courage one day to go
to church. The minister's subject was,
"When Doctors Disagree, Who Shall De-
eide ?'' He repeated this deliberately
and with owlish solemnity, and hesitated
as if waiting for an answer.
Artemus arose in his place and said
lyou know Artemus stuttered): "L-l-
leave it tito a m-man of sense"
CONSISTENCY
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America for Americans.

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: The Sacramento
Bee, speaking of the Prince of Wales
connection with the baccarat scandal,
says:
Such man, under no possible COM
bination of circumstances, could become
President Of the United States or be
chosen to even the most ordinary official
stations were his life known to the peo-
pie"
The Bee evidently forgets that in the
principal cities of this country (Sacra-
mento included the market price of votes
ranges from q drink Of bad whisky TO 81
apiece. 1t is lamentable fact that we
are in imminent peril Of losing nationality
amidst conglomerated mass of human
ity that is recruited and reinforced year
by year from the servile classes Of mon
archical Europe, and who come here-not
because they like American institutions
but American dollars.
When the foreign clement becomes
strong enough to control whole States, as
is now the case in the State of Wisconsin,
the establishment within the limits of the
Great Republic" of royalty itself is
neither impossible nor improbable.
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
Sacramento, June 10, 1891
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FOOLED AGAIN.
How Suburban Saloon-keepcr Was
Cleverly Nictfmized.

now IL SUBURBAN. SalOnn- he0pCr w as
Cleverly Victfmized.
The keeper of the saloon at Twenty
ninth and j streets has been the victim of
several burglaries and robberies. but
never was he so thoroughly exasperated
as he was a couple of evenings ago, when
he was played in an unusually clever
way.
1t was quite dark and two men had Just
driven up in buggy. Evidently not
caring to alight, they called to the saloon
keeper TO bring them some cigars. Their
order was filled, and then they wanted
some beer. When the saloon man went
in after the bubbles the two callers
clucked to their horse and drove off at
an easy jog. The liquor man heard the
buggy moving OFF, and dropping his
mugs started after the young men at a
sprinting gait, yelling, Come back an
pay fer tn cigars, at every jump. He
ran about two blocks when his wind
gave out and he gave up the chase.
1T was contemplate bit of petty lar
ceny," quoth the saloon man as he shut
fled back toward the saloon putting and
blowing at a great rate. OF course it was
mean and contemplate. But the sa-
loon mans anger then was nothing COM
pared to what it was when he reached
the saloon and discovered that while he
had been out chasing the miscreants the
remainder of the gang had dropped into
the place and carried off dozen or more
bottles Of whisky and other articles.
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BEAUTIFUL LAKE COMO.
Something About the Glorious Land
mark to be EiIled In

Something About the Glorious Land
mark to be Filled In.
There is brilliant future ahead for ex-
Deputy Coroner George Watson.
Since retiring from political life he has
entered the literary world. His maiden
effort was description of Lake Como,
written expressly for an Eastern journal,
and if this starter is any criterion as to
the talent and imagination of the young
man. it will only be short time when
Rider Haggard will have to take q back
seat. Here is what George would fill the
Fasteners with:
Lake Como is beautiful sheet of
water in the northwestern suburbs of
Sacramento. In, on and around it are
some Of the most wonderfulthings and
beings, which none but Californian
could think Of or invent. Some Of the
most noteworthy are the trained allie
gators, turtles and crabs The allegators
are saddled, and upon their backs tourists
can ride around the lake and see the
various curious sights with more safety
than galloping over the plains on the
hurricane-deck of an average California
mustang. The monster turtles are har-
messed by twos TO a canoe and can be
driven around the lake as readily as can
pair OF horses to q carriage over the
grand driveways that surround the lake.
If you accidentally drop a ring, fan,
knife, or, in TACT, any small article Of
value overheard, those ugly-loOking
crabs are ever ready to go to the bottom
(which III places is sixty fathoms deep
after it, or for a piece Of sugar candy,
fruit, or other sweetmeatS. Ii you have
nothing of that kind a piece Of tobacco, or
a cigar-stump will do as well.
IF while out on the lake you want to
send message 10 the shore, you whistle
as though calling a dog, and almost in
Stantly it is answered by the appearance
of beautiful white swan that will carry
your note to any part Of the shore that
you may designate. Throughout the
| lake are distributed beautiful coral
islands, with grOttOS that are enchanting,
and you almost believe you are in fairy
land. On the banks and shores are trees
from all parts Of the world and Of nearly
every known variety; and flowers! it is
simply impossible to describe them
| There is not a variety known to man that
is not represented on the banks of Lake
Como. The water Of the lake is ever
kept fresh by underground channels and
connections with that most beautiful of
all Calitorna'S rivers, the Sacramento,
which comes rolling majestically down
J from grand and glorious old Mount
Shasta the fame of whose mineral water
| is known throughout the civilized world.
| and whose high crest is covered with a
silvery mantle of snow the year round.
But l am leaving my subject far
away, so win hasten back to the always
! lovely lake, upon whose banks my
friends are anXiously awaiting me, as it
is growing dark, and we must start back
for the hotel. In the near future | will
tell you something about the people, their
mode of living, and other curious and
interesting things concerning them, and
also of the many other objects OF interest
and curiosity, that are as common to us
as CalifOrnians as is the air which we
breathen
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4 Eaw Eionres-

EDS. RECORD UNION: DR.. Cluness is
reported as saying that there should be
an ordinance requiring every one to
empty the cesspool or vault on his prem
ises at least once year. Right you are.
doctor. Now then, there are $50 blocks
in the city. They contain 6,240 eighty
foot lots 100 feet deep. If we assume one
half are occupied, we are away within the
minimum. Many lots are subdivided
into four-that is, two forty-foot lots on
the street and two on the alley, and some
are cut into twenty-foot tracts If we
say, however, that every other eighty-foot
lot has one cesspool and one vault it will
be perfectly fair figure, and that every
other eighty-foot lot is unoccupied, and
we will be far below the truth, for we
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Sewage EnIuent.

EDS. RECORD UNION: Have the kind
ness to state what degree Of purity the
sewage Of city attains by the application
of the chemicals in ordinary use for this
purpose. Would it be in a suitable con
ditiOn for use in irrigation? and much
oblige A READER.
Sacramento, June 10, 1891.
We are not prepared to say that the
efflQent would be useful for irrigation.
1t would depend upon the chemicals
used and the quantity, and these vary
according to systems. Lime, however, is
a chief ingredient in ali systems. At
Worcester lime and alunina are the only
chemicals introduced. But the sewage of
that town contains great amount Of iron
salts. Salts of iron are decomposed by
alkaline substances. and insoluble hy-
drate of iron being formed which attracts
to itself the suspended matter in the sew
age and carries it to the bottom. In puri-
tication by precipitation, iron salts are
commonly added after the sewage has
been made decidedly alkaline by the addi-
ton of lime, so the presence of iron
salts in sewage at Worcester is an adj
vantage. To change the acid character of
sewage 900 pounds of quick lime is added
to every LOCO 600 gallons. This forms
calcium sulphate The lime is put in in
the form of milk of lime, fifteen grains
per gallon as maximum sometimes,
but half this amount is used. Sometimes
also, lime water is employed as cheaper
than milk of lime. Mansergh, the great
sanitary engineer, uses four or five grains
of lime and one grain of proto-suIphate
of iron per gallon, and in hot weather
adds very little manganate of soda and
sulphuric acid to act as a deodorant. The
etfluent at Worcester is as clear as spring
water. Whether it would serve good
purposes upon producing land we are
not advised, but our correspondent,
knowing what chemicals enter into the
sewage to obtain the clear eff1uent, can
judge of the effect of such water upon
growth from the soil. There is no record
in our possession of. the effluent being
used for irrigation.-EDs.
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whislley if they wants it, bat it is good
idea to make them as sells it pay good
price to the city for sellin' it. 1t says in
one place in the peice, becus' Ticker
makes such big expenses for the city to
pay, the city had ought to charge them as
sells the Ticker great big price, for it
cost the city lot of money to punish the
men who get drunk and rob and kill
folks.
The peice says proibishun isn't before
the people. Well, L didn't come in out of
my backyard to write peice about what
isn't before the people. Cleanin' up is
before the people, and what I've got to
say in my .peice is, amt goi1t' to do 1t.
Pd be mighty glad of chance to sag my
peice in court; writin' it is a hard Job for
me.
Last year / cleaned UP, and 1 paid
lot of money to do it, bat L amt aqoig'
to do anuther thing while that sewer
which was built by the city to carry off
the stuff from three Brewerys, and
Winery goes right by my house and
smells so that / can't stay i'll my back
yard long enough to clean it up without
getting a sore throat. Last year we was
sick lot to our house land we haven't
got well yeti, and the doctor said ''you
must have your ceSSpOOt cleaned out"
and said l to him, "we paid 10 dollars not
much more'n a year ago to have 'em
ClGdIGd klhO VI 6IllJs DuG we dO1iC oS
he said, and it cost us twenty dollars to
have the Sacramento River pumped out
of our ceSSpoOl.
Well, 'twixt doctors bills and medi-
cine bills 1--WE take quinine TO our house,
we've had a lot OF expenses this year.
We tried to connect they call it, with the
sewer 1--WE got kinder sick pumpin' out
the river; it's right handy to us but we
couldn't, the sewer want made for that
kind of work, twas only made for back
water they said. l didn't understand
eggsactly what they meant, and Tve Won
dered what made it smell so disagreabul,
but this mornin' I found out by the
paper what backwater is, and / amt
goin' to clean up no more while that kind
of water goes past my house.
Pm proibishunist. believe in ekal
rights. | helped to pay the money that
built that sewer that carried off that back
water from Breweries and Winery. [
help pay the big expense that the peice
i'll the paper told about this mornin'.
gave my man 40 dollars the other day to
pay taxes with. l saved it by selling
eggs. They's been high. this winter
done well with 'em.
l got my man when he come in to din
ner to write out what the paper said
about the expenses Ticker cost the city,
here 1t Is IN eggSactiy the right words:
Since liquor is chargeable with SO
large a proportion of municipal burdens
it is simply fair that it should bear Due
proportion Of the cost"
What | want to ask is, Who is goin' to
bear the rest of the cost? Seems to me
my egg money helped. If it did, think
I've got right to have my peice put in
the paper. My man says l muSt'n mt put
my true name to it, for it might hurt his
bizineSs, so am respectfully.
NANCY NOBODY.
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Sacramento, June 10. 1891.
Nancy Nobody Talks Sense.

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: This mornin'
after got my man off to his work set
down to read the paper. seen in min
ite that l didn't know nobody that was
married, or born, or dead, so / looked
about to find what I could find, and my
eyes fell onto the words in big letters, the
board of health backs up doctor Nichols
in his Crusade. l read that piece through,
and sez to myself, II guess ! better
stop readin' and go out in lsy back yard
and look about" Well / went out and
looked around my place some and | got
TO thinkin', and sez l TO myself 81 won't
do a single thing about cleanin' up I'll
go in the house and I'll write a piece and
speak out my mind. AS like as not /
can't get it put into no paper, for" sez !
TO myself, "the papers are mighty queer;
if they say good thing they are pretty
sure 20 back out the next line"
Pve been readin' some more in the
,,aner since l came in out of my back
tf,ard Ia one of the peices which / read
II saws some things which sound pretty
Good. and l said TO myself, That's first
Tate y TThe words are too big for plain
1voT,,an like me to write down. / guess
most everybody read 'em, but l declare
the rest of the piece must have been writ
Nv somebody else-'twas so different.
1Tba meanin' of the peice was that it isn't
q. good idea to keep folks from drinking
The record-union., 1891-06-12
New Incorporatjons.

The following articles of incorporation
were filed in the Secretary of States of
flee yesterday:
First Congregational Church of Anti
och. Directors j. Rio Baker, T. a.
Jenkins, j. c. Rouse, J. L. Belshaw and
7. Byron Dewitt.
Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway
Company, organized for the purpose OF
operating a road in Los Angeles County.
Principal place of business, Pasadena.
Capital stock. S120,00O. Directors-T. S.
G. Lowe, j. w. Hugus, p. NJ. Green, A.
c. Armstrong and L. p. Lukens.
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oCrnftttIg Htnilto&rH.
ROSS S.

STANDARD; RECORD, a:25. I'm NUM-.
b perS VIII DC given in Wallace's Trotting
MOSS =, 2:25, by Nutwood, 2:IS5<. first
dam by State OF Maine, 2:4O. by Si1inson;S
Messenger by Winthrop Messenger. son OF
mp. mp Messenger, second dam by McCracken's
ROSS s has the fastest record of anv Nut.
WOOD stallion on the coast. excepting Dawn.
2:leS4, and as sire will prove 10 bs the eouai
ol % y aily son OF Nutwood. His first colts. now
S-year-olds, are very promising. and three az
them Will drop In the 2:30 list this wear II
nothing happens them as two can now show
$50. ROSS'S. and his colts can be seen nc
staoles OF the undersigned, where all can see
that ne is sire of size, color, style and speed.
bay, Is hands high, weighs I.l5O pounds.
very stylish, good name and tail, legs and
feet, plenty of bone and muscle and a spler-
did long neck.
TERMS-ROss s. will stand at S75 for tbs
season.
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Chico Normal school.

The exercises of commencement week
at the Chico State Normal School will
take place from June 18th to 18th. A
delightful programme has been arranged.
Following are the names on the class
roll: Lille Earl, Mabel Dixon Hend-
ricks, Mamie Mason Lowell, Cora Mason,
James Clay Ray, Samuel Scott Ray,
Charles Alexander Reynolds, Lorinda
Maria Sanber, Josie Isabelle Small,
Gladys Matilda Spencer, Stella Nav
Stiles. Hazel Rasatia Wood and Esther
Alice Wright.
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Sergeant Barwick,s Weather Record.

SeISeaHo barWich,s weather RECORD.
The Signal Service reports yesterday
show the rainfall to have been but .O5 of
an inch, making for this season 1881
inches, as against $3.50 inches to July l,
1890.
The ideas, notions, recollections, ETC.,
of some people are too wonderful to con-
template. Some think that this is the
greatest storm that ever occurred in June.
The records show that June, 1875, had I.l0
inches of rain; June, 1884, had As inches.
which were the two wettest June months
in record of forty years. The barometer
has now rather a downward tendency,
and prospects for good weather are an
unknown quantity.
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ouarrellng Neighbors Punished

Mrs. Lena Brown, Mrs. Louisa Behrle
and III. Weinsheimer, the parties who
figured in neighborhood quarrel on
Eighth street, last Saturday evening and
Sunday morning, were sentenced in the
Police Court yesterday. Weinsheimer
and Mrs. Brown were fined $40 each, and
Mrs. Behrle was taxed S. for the fun she
had enjoyed.
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PAY CAR

Is my name; my sire is Ross s., record 2:2B.
oy Nutwood, record 2:lS}4; my dam is Etellxs,
by Sultan, record 2:24 sire OF Stamboul
record 2:l1; my great dam is Katie Did the
dam OF Inez, record 2:3o. / am years old,
1o14 hands high, splendid blood bay in color
heavy black name and TAIL the best OF legs
and feet long neck, good head, we'll set on,
can trot q 2:4Q gait in an easy way. / am the
only stallion in the State standing for public
service that combines the blood of the two
great sires, Nutwo0d and Sultan. l will be
allowed TO serve fifteen approved mares for
500 the season, at Worth Ober's Training
Stables, Sacramento Race Track Good mares
sent TO breed to me VIII have the best of care
ful handling and kept in any way wished.
Accidents or escapes at owners risk Address
all communications to
WORTH OBER, Owner.
mr21-3m 61S Twenty-third ST., Sacramento.
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What Shall He Do with Its

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN 1t has been the
custom for years for residents to deposit.
the refuse from their barns in the alley and
gardeners would remove it, usually every
day. Must that practice now be stopped
under the new health ordinance, and if
so, what must citizens do with the refuse
from barns? A SUBSCRIBER.