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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
KANSAS DEVELOPMENT.

The prosperity of a people is founded
upon local development Of their resources
by we'll directed labor on practical lines.
Industry creates wealth and pays much
or little according to the possibilities of
the local conditions, the degree of indus
try and the intelligence OF its applica.
ton,
\ new state with the requisite natural
wealth ar the time of its first settlement
does not utilize but small proportion
OF its natural advantages, but as the
population increases, and those natural
advantages are more thoroughly under
stood, they are taken up and in tie end
are made the most of. 1t is a sign of
progress worthy of note when new
state has settled down to business. and
Its people rise up every morning with
a fixed purpose TO perform
a days work upon that day.
1t might be hoped that it is otherwise
but observation shows this to be 4 fact
and 1t Is therefore good sign, an in
dicatlon of progress. steadineSs of pur-
pose. and harbinger OF the wealth
creating period, when a new western
state settles down 10 steady industry.
and loses some of the romantic expecta-
uons of making a future in a few wears
IN some indefinite way. When an in6e6-
mite hope is abandoned and a definite
purpose 10 settle down to work takes its
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
For the Eagle.
SWEET BRIER.

Do you remember how we used to go,
Deep in the woods, with hearts half fearing.
Full of that dread that only children know
To that wild spot, the Rockwell Clearing:
Walled by the forest, wierd, dark and still,
A little LONE place once, but long deserted,
Where pennyroyal spread at its own viii,
And berry vines grew rampant and perverted.
Where once had stood the house the caved in
ground
Yawned, black mouth; the stone walled
lichen, messed,
Deep, wide, old well, with lizards crawling
round:
We, venturesome, lay on the rails that
crossed,
And looked down at the water dark and clear;
And watched the widening OF liquid rings.
When startled with a most exquisite fear,
We heard the drip and splash, of frogs and
things.
With feet soft stepping on the dead past's
grave.
We walked about; the pungent odor rare
Of the sweet brier. to the silence gave,
A touch of romance in the haunted air.
With many a backward glance Ger shoulder
cast,
We half expected ghosts or something worse
To drive US out, for waking up the past,
That old place desolated by curse.
We talked about it in a solemn hush
And plucked mulberries from the bent old
trees,
A. d yellow roses from the ragged bush,
No other roses ever smelt like these.
From stiffened bodies Bonded to the north,
As if they sought to flee but could not go,
What mighty signs those lonely oaks gave
forth.
Melodious sobbings of their long agol
NAN w. HEALY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

There may have been a few persons
who were sadly disappointed by the
failure of the Minneapolis convention to
name James G. Blaine as the Republic
can standard bearer in the pending
national contest, but this will soon give
place to the universal feeling in the
party of satisfaction that Will grow into
enthusiasm over the magnificent
work done by the convention,
both in the selection of the two leaders
and in the clear, unequivocal and patri-
otto declaration of principles. The dis
appointment and chagrin that is ex-
perienced, though, by our friends, the
opposition, is pitiable to degree. They
hoped for the defeat of President Harri-
son because they realize that with him
to combat they are beaten before the
contest really begins.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

According to Census Bulletin No. 1S6,
which gives the cereal production, by
counties, of the states of Iowa, Kansas
and Arkansas for the year 1889, Iowa
leads in the aggregate production of
corn, and the average yield per acre is
set down in Iowa's favor by a small mar
gin; but, while the aggregate yield per
acre, by counties. was more uniform
than that of Kansas counties, but one
county in Iowa approached the yield of
Sedgwick county by million and 4
quarter bushels, and but only one
county in Iowa produced as much as
6,00G, 900 bushels. .Sedgwick county's
yield was 7,25s, 600 bushels.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
A Question TO Puzzle Over.

He was ''likely" looking Afro-Amer-
lean, and as he boarded the elevated
train at Twenty-eighth street attracted
no small amount of attention. He be
took himself 10 one of the cross seats,
facing the rear Of the car. As he set
tied himself comfortably, one Of the
two male passengers seated opposite
said to his companion in what was
evidently intended to be an undertone,
bat which was nevertheless plainly au-
dible, DO your people permit colored
folks to ride in first class compartments
in public conveyancesF What the re-
ply to the question may have been VIII
never be known. As for the occasion Of
the query, he did not betray by 50 much
as the movement Of a muscle or the
culver of an eyelash that he had over
heard what had been said.
But just before Blocker street was
reached he Strengthened himself up and
addressed the inquirer. "Dis yere amt
no question Of the Fittyent' mend
lnents," he said. 81 knows night plain
dat me and my race has all De rights Oh
de white peoples - ride in dege yer
keers 50 long a. we got dc money and
HAYES ourselves. So dat amt de ques-
ton. But what / would like 20 have
you ge7nme,s tell is dis. How kin q man
be cClored when he's born so.7
And as he stalled ont Of the car the
passengers all looked At one another and
wondered II they had been given new
problem in socio-roliticsl economy 20
puzzle oyer.-Sew York Tins.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

The New York Evening Post, which
has taken every possible occasion to
sheer at Senator Sherman because he is
a Republican and protectionist, says
that his speech delivered in the senate
on June 2, devoted to the silver question,
was the greatest speech ever made in
that body. This is rather exaggerated,
but it shows what an impression the
speech made even on unfriendly critics.
1t shows another thing, too,-the speech,
we mean-and that is that the Repub-
lican party is not going to abandon its
position on the coinage question, but
will continue TO insist, as it always has.
upon honest money, and to be issued in
volume sufficient to meet the require
ments of the country, opposing unneces-
sary expansion and harmful contraction
alike.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

respect before submitting it. A faint
heart is as bad in legislation as in senti-
ment. Now the question before the
senate will be the adoption or
rejection of the principle underlying
both bills, and not the petty details. The
speeches made by the opposition in the
house yesterday and the arguments of
the men who went before the committee
in opposition to the bill all dealt with
the principle itself, and not with the
details of the bill.
1t was stoutly maintained that it was
all wrong to abridge the freedom of con-
tract. eff man who has not bushel
of wheat nor any expectation OF buying
sees fit to sell million bushels of it he
has right to do so. and any law deny
ing to him that privilege is black with
communism, and, if carried to its
logical conclusion, means violations of
the rights of state sovereignty" Such
talk can be best characterized by one
word. rot. That it does curtail liberty
of contract is true, but it does rot in
fringe upon either the individual right
to property OF the rights Of a state. The
question is a practical one. Can the
evil of gambling in grain and other
"a &c puS tIC
restraints of law without interfering
with legitimate business? The Inter
Ocean thinks it would be wise 10 try it.
There is no danger of harm, however
much there may be of failure.
Our own Chicago board Of trade has of
late furnished a striking example of the
evils of option trading. One of our mer-
chant princes, with an almost illimitable
bank account and credit, proceeded TO
sell wheat to practically ilhmitable ex-
tent His sales were so large that they
raised an insuperable barrier against the
price of wheat in the market. He did
not attempt to corner The article, but
just the reverse. Had he put himself in
position to buy all wheat offered below
a certain price he would have helped
the producers, but at the expense of the
consumers. Interference with the nor
NAL action of supply and demand is
vicious and ought to be stopped.
Gambling in all its forms is bad, but
when the great staples of agriculture are
the cards and dice used the evil is espec-
Tally great, and the call for reform spe-
cialiy deserving of attention. No imagi-
nary evils should deter the senate from
concurring with the house in the passage
of the anti-option bill.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

place, the second epoch in new state
has set in, and it is certain that wealth
created on the spot by labor, will result.
Rome was not built in day, and a
great and wealty commonwealth must
have its time and seasons of develop
ment, but above all must be built by the
labor of its people.
There are many signs of these better in
tentions in and around Wichita and
Southwest Kansas, a country without
superior in agricultural possibilities. Its
people are now at work as never before
to extend its operations on that line. In
this great central wheat belt of the state,
which at the same time is equal to any
like area in the country as corn pro-
Queer, farms are selling every day to
new men, who are shrewd enough TO
realize that the cheapest land In the
United States at the price can now be
secured in this locality. Our own pros
porous farmers are buying the land adj
joining their possessions, and the class
who have been farming on shares are
exchanging their profits for farms of
their own.
City men and all classes of spectators
holding farm lands find it greatly to
their advantage to cultivate them.
New land is being broken up on all
sides and put into cultivation by all con-
ditIons of>owners, whoever or wherever
they may be, and the era of labor is
upon us. and our people are creating
wealth as well as importing it.
We congratulate the central belt and its
metropolis, Wichita, upon this improved
this second step in develop
ment which, while certain to come in
Kansas, is no less welcome now that is
come to stay. We chronicle the fact
with pride and satisfaction and take off
our hat with sincere respect for the
dignity of labor, the precursor of the
new era.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

The Republican party and the country
owe James q. Blaine lasting gratitude
for the great services he has rendered
the country-serviceSt that cover period
of quarter of century. and which.
while they may have ended as far as
further personal participation IN public
affairs by his voluntary withdrawal
from official duties for the present and
future, viii give him place in history
as one of Americas greatest statesmen
and patriots. And he viii be followed
into the private life he has chosen for
his declining years the gratitude and
loving regard of the whole people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Ex-Governor Steele was at Minneapolis
Flynn captured county \ last Monday.
Robert Carter has been found guilty of
adultery at Guthrie.
The city of FL Reno will get its water
from two large wells.
Oklahoma City was Blaine town and
Guthrie Harrison town.
Oklahoma is satisfied. Harrison has
always treated her fairly.
Kingfsher county will probably be in
structed for Prouty for congress.
When Oklahoma is state it will play a
bigger part in the national conventions.
Ex-Confederate soldiers will meet at
Broadway court house in Oklahoma City
June %.
The trail between Arapahoe and FL Reno
is continually lined with wagons loaded
with lumber bound for Arapahoe.
There are two or three men in the
territory who have not been arrested on
suspicion of being the Dalton boys.
The farmers of the Chicasaw nation are
tect themselves from horsethieves.
Since Oklahoma City was established
three and quarter years ago, 3d. 900 regis
tered letters have passed through the
office.
Attachments have been fled against the
Guthrie Lumber company by outside
parties, and the sheriff has taken posses
sion of portion of their yard.
A fight occurred at Crescent City on
Friday last between H. F. Warrenburg,
son of the postmaster, and Nat Brown.
Warrenburg was stabbed four times, once
in the back, ana so seriously hurt that he
is not expected to live. Brown has been
arrested.
Oklahoma City Gazette: Rattlesnake
Jack has on exhibition in the building
next to the corner of Broadway and Nam
twenty-fouI large rattlesnakes. with
which he is amusing himself and the pub
lie. He has also formed the Labit OF eat
ing small quantity of cobble stones
which he seems to digest with ease.
The Democrats are at sea as to a con-
gressional candidate. The names so far
mentioned are: Frank Dale. Jos. Wisely
of Gutherie; Major Simpson OF FL Reno,
Virgil Hobbs of kingfisher, Captain Levy
anu u IL. 1LdyIe Oh " OEUldO. JuuSe tlhENG
of Tecumseh, John Clark of Payne county.
and J. w. johnson, Z. \. Galbraith Mr..
Travis, Henry Scott. 3. J. Turner and
Others of Oklahoma City.
Guthrie Democrat: United States Mar
shall William Grimes arrived here yester-
day from Kingfsher. In an interview
with the Democrat young man, Mr..
Grimes stated that he had been fully vim
dictated and would continue in Office as
heretofore. While Mr. Grimes is a Repub-
lean, his many friends here among both
parties, viii he glad to know that he has
shown himself mot guilty"
Guthrie Democrats: Z. Il. McKennon is
under contract to begin work on an ele-
CANT $50, 600 hotel within the next two
weeks That this will be done McKeanon
declares Tia It there is no doubt. That the
building will be finished, furnished and
opened 10 the public as per agreement as
previously announced all who know Mr..
McKenuon firmly believes. This is one
hotel that Guthrie can depend on having,
and that within Z very few weeke.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
THE ANTI-OPrION BILL.

From the Chicago Ia;sE-Oce-a-
The house OF representatives claims
some attention, unwilling that the ma
tional Republican convention should mo-
nopolize it all On a suspension Of the
rules ii proceeded yesterday morning to
pass the Hatch a1ti-op,ion bill The
vote stood les 10 60.
The measure now goes 10 the senate,
where it viii find It's real father. Senator
WashbuTn OF Minnesota Il VIII be re-
membered by the readers Ct the Inter
Ocean that the senator was the first 30
introduce a measure Of this kind 10 con
gress he never claimed for his BIZ
that it was satisfactory II Us details,
only that II was right in principle Ar.
Hatch wat not 80 modest II tie estimate
Of his pet. He never admitted tie jus
tIce Of any criticism. hut stoUi!y ssOod
by tie measure he introduced II mus;
conceded that he was wise 20 yak until
he had something 20 his liking u svsry
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
A MAGNIFICENT SHOWING.

According to the census bulletin on
assessed valuation of property, there
was an increase in the valuation of Kan
sas from 1880 to 1890 of $1S7, SOS, $50. AS
the total valuation of the state in 1880
was but $3.50, S91, $50, it will be seen that
the increase was more than 100 per cent.
The increase was in fact 116 per cent.
while the increase of population was but
little over 40 per cent. This makes a
magnificent showing for Kansas. Docu-
ments of this kind will have very salu-
tary effect in assuring capitalists of the
security of investments in Kansas.
Property that is increasing in value at
the rate of III per cent. year is good
enough security for a Wall street gold
bug or anybody else who wants safe
returns or a home in the best state in
the Union.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

The announcement by the New York
Times that D. B. Hill had formally with
drawn from the contest for the Chicago
nomination was premature, but Ed Muir
ply needn't have been in such hurry to
deny it. The matter of day or two is
of small concern in cases of that sort.
The announcement will be made before
the Chicago convention is called to order.
Hill is for Hill first, to be sure; but he
can't succeed while his party has no
show of success-a situation that stares
at Mr.. Hill and his party with binding
glare just now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

A. E. Stevenson of Illinois, assistant
postmaster general under the Cleyeland
administration, whose vigor in removing
fourth-class postmasters first brought
into use the descriptive phrase about the
headsman's AK and basket, is leading
member of the Illinois delegation to the
Chicago convention. He has just had a
long conference with Mr.. Cleveland, and
finds that gentleman very confident of
Democratic success in the coming cleo
ton. The point to this, if there is any
point to it, is that Grover expects the
nomination. But this is no news.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
Worth Seeing.
From the Downs (Han.l Times.

From the Downs (KanJ Times
The fields OF wheat, rye and oats are
now beautiful sight While there are
hundreds of acres of wheat that were
sowed late, without drilling, that will be
listed with corn, and the total acreage to
bs harvested viii be slightly less than
last year, the fields that received proper
attention now show very even stand
and promise 70 yield abundantly. pro-
vided, always, that no unforeseen caiam-
ity befall them between this time and
harvesting. Many fields of rye are head
ing and a large part of the wheat is COM
mencing to wave maj .stically before the
gentle breezes. Corn planted this week
will not be over week later than the
earliest and not less than three-fourths
of the crop will be in the ground by
Saturday night.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
4 Hard Road TO Travel.

From the Empotia Gazette,
"When my Alliance brothers are not
at work discussing, work discussing,
and telling how to view public finance,
public finance, their capacity for fusing
and for fussing. and for fusSing, is apt TO
change my name from John 10 pants.
When Dave Overmyer sets the con
gressional bee TO buzzing, bee TO buzz-
ing, in the heads OF Dumbauld, Water
bury. and of Jones, and of Jones, then
it makes me feel ike going ho"re and
cussing, home and cussiug. \ ~,.4ece.
mans road is full of stones.-From the
Pirates of Kansas, by J. G.. OTIS, ESQ.,"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

The Republican party goes before the
country upon its past four years record
and achievements for the country's and
the peoples welfare. There is nothing
in that record of which true Republi-
cans need to apologize for or explain: it
is an open book and commends itself to
all fairminded citizens. The issue joined
will be what has been done, championed
by the Republican party, against unful-
filled promises and protests, represented
by the combined opposition to Republi-
can success
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

Unless Hill should fail to withdraw
ton, the contest at Chicago will be a
counterpart of that at Minneapolis, with
Cleveland, Hill and German in the posi-
ton of Harrison, Blaine and Mckinley
respectively, and with about the same
result as to the outcome, except that the
opposition to Cleveland will not end with
the action of the convention.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

In 1888 DR.. Thomas Werner, of Bath.
of the strawberry: "For
pleasantness of taste, acceptableness to
the stomach and goodness of juice they
are preferable, for they excite the appe-
tite, quench the thirst, repress the ebu-
lent acrimony and fiuxions of bloud and
cholar, and excelently cool the infiama-
ton Of the stomach and liver"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
Superior to eli Adversities

From the Atchison Champion.
The rains may descend on Kansas lie
flood. now and then stray cyclone may
strike some town in its 200 By 400 miles
of area, calamity howlers may burden
the air with their doleful lamentations.
but the Sunfower state FORCES right
progress, growing big crops Aer fertile
soil rewarding the patient toll = and her
people generally steadily bet ing their
condition, finding the success that lies
at the end of the race.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

Mount Vesuvius is in eruption and
earthquake shocks in various parts of
Italy are the latest additions to the wide
spread disturbances which have of late
caused such great destruction. The
meteorological record of the present year.
when it shall have been made up, will
be memorable in the annals of science.
Kansas has already furnished her share.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

Fast Day." one of the last lingering
relics of the connection between church
and state in Massachusetts is doomed.
Governor Russell has asked the legisla-
ture to relieve him of the duty of asking
the people to fast when he neither ex-
poets them TO do so nor has any authori
" 10 make the observance compulsory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

Morgan Caraway, editor of the Great
Bend Register, has withdrawn from the
race for secretary of state. 1t is no dis
arrangement to the other capable and
worthy gentlemen who are seeking the
nomination to say that a moro worthy
and capable man for the posi- would
be hard to find than the Great Bend
editor
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
swore That She Wa. Over a Hundred.

Mrs. Louis Martin, a full blooded
Chippewa Indian, who died az her home
il Allouz, Brown county, Wis, recently
made a sworn statement % priest be-
fore her death that she was los years
Old. She gave corTobOratiye evidence.
Sae was born IN wigwsrn near Green
Eay
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

The wholesale price Of wbalsbons u
low 800 per ton On the strength %
this large whaling feet 10 about 20 start
on a six months cruise to the Antarctic
ocean, where whales ara thought % 81
uIentlfnLs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

cine, and she does the same with the
wife. She Is to be tender with his
peculiaritias and patient with his stub
bornness. All the directions are given
to the wife. There is nothing said 10 the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
The death of President Polk announced

IHt UedtII OF ITeSIueHI L DIX dHHUuHCtu
in this mornings dispatches, is the
severest calamity that has yet befallen
the movement of which he was the head
and chief inspiration. Not that he was
a great man in mental breadth or moral
force of character, but he possessed in an
unusual degree the elements necessary
for successful leadership in the element
that he was chosen to lead
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

Numerous grandchildren II both tho
contracting parties attended the wcs-
ding Of q groon Of ssvenfy-fivs and Z
bride of ssyeu;y-ons at Charlottesville,
Ind. few days a.o.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

Say what you Will about the avail
ability of Cleveland, and on whatever
account, but he is as logically the candi-
date of the Democratic party AS Mr..
Harrison was of the Republican.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

A grand total q charitAbls beqnezts
II E3Zlsad daring 1891. exclsdiug BaFan
Hir~ch's benef4ci.ons, Is stated az fi5,-
eoo.ooG, a. against sl1 90. 900 during tbs
tree ding year
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12

An old saw SAYS: The manner of
making gift is often more important
than the thing given. Modern in.
stance: Mr.. Blaine giving his resigna-
ton of che secretaryship of state 10
Presiden. Harrison.