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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
BLOCKADES AND WATER ROUTES
From the Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas City Times.
Grain blockades at Buffalo and other
points lead the Wichita EAGLE to sug.
gest the necessity of new outlets at New
Orleans, Mobile and Galveston.
To the EAGLES list may be added
Baltimore, Savannah and perhaps Port
Royal
But the EAGLE does not explain how
grain can be diverted to these outlets.
AS long as the lake route reduces rates
On wheat and corn from Chicago while
railroads charge what they please west
of Chicago, there will be blockades in
plentiful years. The gram will still pile
up on the way to Chicago and Buffalo
and leave other routes comparatively
neglected.
Water competition alone can divert
grain to the southern ports and water
competition is possible only on the Mis-
sissippi and its tributaries. Navigation
from st. Louis to New Orleans now COM
pels certain cheapness of carriage by
rail Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Ne
braska must have a water route straight
to the sea. Then the railroads will
follow with low rates. Elevators will
spring up as by magic and grain will go
from Missouri river points through to
New Orleans without an intermediate
handling.
To meet the competition railroads viii
reduce rates to Galveston, Mobile and
Savannah.
Navigation of the Missouri will be far
reaching in its effects. 1t will develop
southern and southwestern railway lines.
1t will promote the profits of western
grain fields. 1t will help trade and loosen
the bonds which attach US exclusively 10
eastern trade centers.
Blockades come OPPORTUNITY for the
education of delegates to next week
river convention. They are great oo-
ject lesson whose teaching can not be
mistaken.
Kansas City has proved that tire Mis-
souri, can be navigated even with de-
tached effort and with the river In its
present condition.
The government was liberal to land
grant railroads and it must be fair 90 the
rivers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Guthrie is working hard to raise FUND
for building hotel.
The Oklahoma Times-Journal is against
| licensing variety theater.
The Terrill trial cost Logon county
s., 500, and with no result.
A Guthrie schoolmarm was married in
Sacramento, Cal, last week.
Judge Seay says his name lie pronounced
"say." This ought to settle it.
The Kelley whisky cure institute at
Oklahoma City is under Roadway.
1t is becoming agreed that the Cherokee
commission will not make the wrinkle.
The man who talks double statehood,
ought to sit down and think awhile.
Corn will average about thirty-five bush
els to the acre this year in Oklahoma.
The fire insurance companies are max
ing capital out of the Oklahoma City fire.
A young lady is acting marshal when
Marshal Grimes is absent from the terri
tory.
Yukon is the first town to come forward
with the announcement of Christmas
tree.
1t is said to be difficult thing to buy a
farm in Cleveland county for a reasonable
price.
Oklahoma City had the biggest fire in
its history Wednesday night. The loss
was s., 500.
Guthrie has telephone connection with
Tohee. And, by the way, what has be-
come of Tohee?
The Western Union Telegraph company
had the cheek to ask Guthrie to pay the
rent of an uptown Office.
As soon as the Choctaw is completed a
daily mail will be established between FL
Reno and Oklahoma City.
An ordinance has been introduced in the
city council of Guthrie against whistling
comrades" on the streets.
Some of the houses in Chandler are
built with lumber taken from buildings in
Leoti, western Kansas town.
An Oklahoma City man has made appH-
cation to enter the reservation which has
been occupied by the troops, as a home
stead.
The Guthrie Capital has refused to pub
lish piece of original poetry entitled
Loves Dirge." The line had to be drawn
somewhere.
The Indian Arrow states that Sl-4l an
acre, together with the concessions asked
for by the Cherokees is equal to about $40
acre to the Cherokee nation.
Hennessey Clipper: Harrison could
make the people handsome present by
giving them the strip for Christmas and
the Cheyenne country for New Year.
In the Fisher perjury case at Oklahoma
City the defendant was found guilty. This
was the longest trial in the history Of
Oklahoma courts. 1t lasted four weeks,
A boy living eight miles north OF Guth-
RE, exploded gun by accident right over
his heart, but there happened to be full
pocketbook in his coat, which saved his
life. If full pocketbooks were depended
upon to save Oklahoma mems lives, there
would be mighty few saved
Some surprise being manifested in the
fact that after having once refused TO give
bail to L n. Terrill, Judge Green should
have finally done so, it is but just to say
that he did it because there is a section Of
the criminal statutes of Oklahoma, which
leaves no alternative In the matter. but
states that it shall be done, In so many
words. /. is to the effect that after a
criminal has been tried aud the jury dis
agreed, the judge shall give the prisoner
bail
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Monday

Special sale of framed
pictures and Rudelstadt art
porcelain. The prices given
will surprise everybody. Be
on hand Monday.
Large lines of Millinery
will be closed this week at
half price.
Misses cloaks will be sold
again this week at just half
price. If the mothers knew
just what this means they
would clean us out in a
jiffy. This offer means just
what it says; all the misses
cloaks from 6 to IL years at
just half price.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

1t is reported that the total number of
persons rendered homeless by the recent
earthquakes in Japan will reach 500, 900,
and that in many cases the means of
livelihood have been swept away from
whole communities. The advent of
winter renders prompt relief measures
necessary, While the japanese authori-
ties are doing their best to relieve their
stricken countrymen, the appeal to the
outside world for additional help will
not go unheeded. The fact is, as here
tofore stated, the distress call comes up
from almost every quarter of the globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

st. Louis is getting right down to bust
ness in the matter of the Democratic
national convention. The spectacle of St.
Louis awake will startle the people so
that they will all want to go there to see
how the town looks.-Lawrence Journal
Don't bear too hard on drowsy old St.
Louis; she might wake up and quote the
business record back at you, which
shows that Kansas did a full million
dollars more business, during the past
year, through st. Louis banks that she
did with Chicago.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

Kentucky's new constitution prohibits
lotteries, does away with the leased con-
vict system, establishes the Australian
ballot, and makes the decision of three
fourths of jury binding in all civil
suits. When 1t comes to matters not
strictly partisan in political sense, and
wherein the Republicans have chance
to take part, even staid, bourbon old
Kentucky gives some evidence of pro-
gressive spirit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
A Question OF Bslief

From the Atchison Globe
Did you ever know child that really
believed in Santa Claus? We never did.
One of the first things we can remember
is going out behind the barn TO wink
when Santa Claus was mentioned. We
worked belief in Santa Claus for all it
was worth, but we never did believe in
it. The writer of this has boy five
years old. If he hasn't better sense than
to believe in Santa Claus, he won't get
thing from his father.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Dress Goods

10 pieces 40 inch dress
goods, worth Is cents at 80
cents. These are late ar.
rivals from New York
IA pieces 80 inch twill
dark broadcloth, all the new
dark colors. worth sL35 at
s1.00. This is a big bargain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

The people of Kansas can have new
constitution whenever they have sup
piled the Kellys, Troutmans ct al with
the necessary assurances that the new
instrument will not cut them out of an
occupation and hobby, and not till
then. If anybody thinks this either sar-
casm or cheaper wit they are not posted,
and the Emporia Republican is posted.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

This will be Great Week in Our Store,
nothing like it before this season.
Hundreds OF things of special interest to
buyers Of Christmas Presents, and hundreds
of special bargains will be displayed in the
different departments up and down stairs
Special Bargains in goods for Gentlemen
this week. Be in time and you will get what
yon want and you will get it cheap
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

The expert testimony for the state IN
the now famous Graves case, on trial In
Denver, makes a pretty strong chain of
facts and circumstances eliminating DIR.
Graves. The defendant is yet to be
heard, though, and it may be that ne
will be able to fully exonerate himself
of the charge of murder.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Happy in Their Own conceis.

From the New York sun.
1t is soothing thought to think that
the two happiest, busiest, most impor-
tant. wisest, and, according to their
merits, best-paid men, callous-handed
tillers and surprising statesmen and
reformers in this or any other country
are the Hon William Alliance PETER
and the Hon. Jerry Simpson Of Kansas.
Who would wish 70 disturb their sweet
dream that the world and all its mes
sages and appurtenances revolve around
them2 In a year or two they viii be
sadder and less interesting. For the
moment, while the first dawn Of expert
ence has hardly had time to grow upon
their craftsmanship, they are as happy
as the cat In the cream jug.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

The Kansas City Times is nervously ap-
prehensive that ''Tammany may try to
run counter to the general course OF the
Democratic party" Do not worry, Ora
ham. Recent events show that Tammany
has the Democratic party with lt.-IopeKa
Democrat.
Right for once. Tammany has the
party wsth it-like the lion had the lamb
when they lied down together.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

Armenian Suitings, yard
wide at 81 cents yard.
Great sale of Fancy Lin
ems this week.
Fine line Gentlemens
neckwear.
Gentlemens Silk Hosiery.
Fine Fancy French Mar
sailles quilts, / off this week.
They make an excellent
Christmas gift.
Gentlemens fine cotton
and wool hose put up in
quantities to suit for Christ
mas presents.
Gentlemens extra quality
hemstitched Jap silk hand
kerchiefs, worth 65 cents at
so cents this week.
Extra fine quality and
fine thread hemstitched Jap
silk handkerchiefs for gen
tlemen, with handsome silk
initial for 65 cents, 2 for
S1.25.
Gentlemens Collars and
Cuffs.
Our finest line Of Gentle
mems handkerchiefs, silk
and linen, plain and initial,
will be on sale here this
week. We can suit you now
and save you money besides.
II yard Chenille Squares
rs cents this week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

The mandate of the United States SUI
preme court in the Pullman Palace Car
case, recently decided against the COM
pany, was received by Attorney General
Ives Friday and filed in the United
States circuit court at Topeka. The
various county treasurers are now in
position to proceed to collect the amounts
due for taxes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

ty to accomplish this than the present,
when there is grain famine abroad. If
accomplished it will be of the greatest
possible benefit to the United States, as
it will assure us foreign market for
our immense surplus corn crop.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Some Alliance Tafy.

From the Kiowa Journal
Marsh. Murdoch is being mentioned
by the Republican press of the state as
an available candidate for governor of
the great commonwealth of Kansas.
Marsh is about the only sone aspiring to
that position that has the best interests
of the people at heart, and the Republi-
can nominating convention could do far
worse in selecting standard-bearer in
'92.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Sunday at the Fair.

A great deal Of time and money has
been spent in getting up petitions and
memorials to congress asking that
the worlds fair be closed on Sunday. If
1t is closed there will be twice rs much
wickedness in Chicago every Sunday as
thers will if it is opened.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Rev. Rogers, Rapid Ride.
From the Arkansas City Dispatch

From the Arkansas City Dlspatch.
Rev. Rogers is a preacher with a
bicycle record. Yesterday he started
from Towanda at $50 a. m, stopped an
hour at Douglass to feed, and arrived
here at 5:30 p. m, having been on his
bicycle only eight hours and in that
time travelling seventy-three miles-a
little over nine miles an hour. He was
little tired when he arrived but had
not lost his appetite on the way.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
SOUVENIR

Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday we will con-
tinue to give our Christmas
Souvenir Of a Dictionary
bound in red leather, with
every purchase of $500 or
more.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Ml(t!ft .a9le
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

Rev. Bernard Kelly, United States
pension agent and general political ma
nipulator, announces that he will not be
a candidate for commander of the e. A.
r, This is regarded as very important
information, to be given out just at this
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Jerry's Hardihood.

From the Chicago News.
The Hon. Jerry Simpson is running
several risks of being sat on severely by
his constituents. He has not only sue
cumbed to the effeminate habit of wear
ing hosiery, but is said to be determined
to employ private secretary. Jerry's
recent contact with civilization seems to
have entirely unnamed him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Special

All Our S1.25 and $1.5O
Mems underwear will be
closed this week at S1.0O.
Don't fail to look at this
bargain.
Fine white Blankets at
low prices this week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Have Applied the Brakes

Frc-n The LeaVe0W0rIA lIE1e@
In a paragraph of polysylables, the
Wichita EAGLE attempts to eclipse the
Kansas City Star. Il hurls such words
as per scopic" and ''multi-pufferr at the
poor twinkIer. Go easy, Murdoch
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Undeniable Facts.

From the Lesvenworth Times.
The Fort Scott Monitor believes that
before the next state printer is de-
termined upon a reduction of the state
printers compensation to reasonable
figures should be determined upon. 1t
is certainly true. When an office pays
man 81 900 per month for doing
nothing, but signing his name, the peo-
pie are being robbed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
A Family Blush.

From the Fl Dorado Republican,
A Medicine Lodge paper says Commo-
dore Murdoch of Wichita is not a big
enough man for governor. When we
think of Harvey, st. John and some of
the others, we blush for the family.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
Now is the Time.

From the Greensburg Signal
Land is cheaper now in Kansas than it
ever will be again, and now is the time
for eastern people who are living on
rented farms to come west and buy a
good farm for themselves and make a
home. Lands that can now be bought
for $40 an acre will soon be worth twice
that amount, and will continue to go up
In price as time goes onward.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13

A meeting of the Kansas Swine Breed
ers' association has been called to be held
in Topeka Wednesday, Jan. IS, 1892, at
o'clock p. IN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
No Seduction. No Surrender Here.

From the Eureka Messenger (Dem).
1t really looks as though Marsh Muir
dock has at last surrendered his maiden
modesty and is about to be seduced into
running for governor. If it has to be a
Republican, Murdoch is our choice by a
good-sized majority.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-11

friends wife, brazenly defy public opin-
ion until the disruption of household
containing grown up children is accom-
plished; and then, by marrying the
woman whose name he has made by
word, everything is condoned. 1t is
small wonder that neither the Irish
clergy nor the Irish people could see
much to commend in such an eccentric
programme. It's moral obliquity is not
the only thing that condemns it. 1t
sounds in all the lowest motives that
could oe supposed to actuste a gentle
man. There are millions who will be
sorry that man like Parnell, who had
such great things before him, should so
utterly disappoint expectation; but it
looks very much as if, like Lucifer, he
has fallen never to rise again.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-11

The Express signally fails to show
that the Mckinley tariff gives any in
creased protection to American orange
growers over what they had prior to the
adoption of that measure. 1t gives too
much Importance to the addition made
to the orange schedule of 10 cents for
every cubic foot on packages measuring
over five cubic feet. This addition was
made to meet importations that never
or very seldom are made. 1t goes with
out saying that if, under the old sched-
ule, packages of from 21a to cubic
feet were rated at 80 cents that larger
packages could only be entered by pay
ing a proportionate increase. That does
away completely with all the Express
has to say in favor of the Mckinley
orange tariff, and leaves the old rate of
SLIGO per 1000 on oranges in bulk will
the credit of 10 cents more protection on
each thousand than the new rate. We
are glad that the Express had the nerve
to publish the fruit schedule in full. In
felligent readers will carefully examine
the items set forth, and then wonder
how war-tax paper could go into &C.
stacies over it.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-11
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Nebraska Farmer Murders His Family
and Suicides.

A Nebraska Farmer Murders His Family
and Suicides.
ELLIS, Neb., July 10.-Some time last
night the most horrible tragedy ever en-
acted in this section of Nebraska oc-
Cured. This afternoon Mrs. DR.. Allen,
of Beatrice, came to Ellis on visit to
her brother, John H. Puterbaugh,
who lives mile and half south
of town. She was driven to
the farm by Louis Petting and knocked
at the door, but received no response.
They entered, the door not being locked,
and found horrible state of affairs.
Her brother was lying on the floor, his
face covered with blood. In bed was
his wife with bullet through her
head. In bed with her was
a two-year-old baby, also shot through
the head. On lounge in the room was
another bed, occupied by two young
girls, one aged and one Is. Both We're
dead, with bullet holes in their heads.
How they met their terrible fate lis yet
unknown. The general belief
is that the terrible deed was
the work of the husband and father.
The faces of the dead, although covered
with blood, were as calm as though
sleeping. All seemed to have been
killed while sleeping, and were shot
directly through the skull. Puterbaugh
was not drinking man. He suffered
from grip astspring, and since then had
not been in the best of health. 1t is
thought he killed the family and sui
cided.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-11
s. NJ. PERRY ASSIGNS.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPERvIS-
ORS EMBARRASSED.
His Assets and Liabilities-The Larger
Creditors and the Amounts Due Them.
The Sheriff Made Receiver.

S. M. Perry, chairman of.the board of.
supervisors, principal stakeholder of the
S. M. Perry Plumbing company and
prominent citizen generally, has gone
into insolvency. His petition was filed
Thursday afternoon by his attorneys,
Houghton, Silent & Campbell, but was
concealed by the county clerks office
from the reporters until yesterday,
when the fact that it had been filed was
learned by a HERALD man.
The petition recites that the petitioner
Through the dullness of business and
his inability to dispose OF his stock' is
compelled to place his property in the
hands OF the court for the proper adjud-
icatlon of his accounts. The schedules
included in the petition place Mr..
Perry's liabilities at $44. 791.66. His as
estate, incumbered for $33, ,493.35 and
insolvent amounting to $9713.83l5.
amounts due them are the following
The Crane Bros Co., $7143.35 Mrs.
Rosa Mccartney, $4,000; T. Ii. Aboott,
$4,000; Mathew Pickles, $4,000; James
Moir, $4,000; H. P. Gregory & Co.,
1891; Los Angeles National bank,
$500; California bank, $1840; Califor-
MIA National bank, $1,000; T i. Rowan,
$780, Clara Busch, $500; Security
Loan and Trust Co., $4,000, and Chas.
Krug, $2500.
The real estate which comprises the
greater portion of Mr., Perry's assets in
cludes the south half of section IL,
township 2, south range west, valued
at $50 per acre, $4,000; 68 acres in San
Gabriel, $l3,940; lots on Boyle
Heights, $4,000; lot "a of the Miles
tract, $500, and 40 acres on the Slau-
son tract, valaed at $4,000, besides other
outside property. Among the other
assets are 400 shares in the s. M. Perry
company, and 3320.8315 shares in the
Carbonate Mining company.
Judge Van Dyke heard the petition in
department four Thursday afternoon
and issued an order in adjudication,
making the sheriff receiver. The order
further says: "It is further ordered
that all the creditors of said debtor be
and appear before the honorable Lucien
Shaw, judge of the superior court of
the county of Los Angeles, in open
court, at the courtroom Of said court, in
the county of Los Angeles, on the 11th
day OF August, 1891, at 10 O'Clock a. m.
of that day, to prove their debts and
choose one or more assignees of the
estate OF said debtor"
Mr.. Perry's insolvency will prove to
be great surprise when it becomes
generally known, as very few people,
even among his business intimates knew
that he was hard pressed financially.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-11

The decisive defeat of Parnell in the
election of successor from Carlow to
the O'Gorman Mahon knocks the last
prop from under a man whose name
was once pregnant with much good for
the much abused Island of Saints. Par
nell, ever since the O'Shea scandal chal-
lenged the attention of the public, seems
to have lost his head. Under the cir
cumstances, man of merely ordinary
intellect would have seen the necessity
of retiring from the nominal leadership
of the national cause for time. Here,
if ever, was case when a man might
have seen the world to advantage, and
when an extended scheme of travel
would have come in most opportunely.
Such concession to public opinion
would have been most graciously re-
ceived, and the Irish leader would have
been permitted to resume his useful la
bors in year or less time. But the
very course which would most compro-
mise the cause of Home Rule was that
which Parnell selected to take. Know
ing the fanatical ideas which the Irish
people have on everything that relates
to the purity of the home, and knowing
the implacable devotion which the Ro-
man Catholic hierarchy OF Ireland have
to the marital rite, Parnell seems
to have deliberately elected to throw
down all his bridges. Perhaps there
was never more ridiculous idea than
that his marriage to Mrs. O'Shea would
improve his position. That ceremony
removed any doubt that might have ex-
listed in any mind as to the relations
which had existed between these two
famous persons. The real moral status
OF the matter may be rendered thus:
A man may invade the family of his
friend, violate the chastity OF that