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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
THE RAILROAD SITUATION.

According to yesterday mornings dis-
patches it would seem that dictator
that a combine mogul, has issued MS
ukase chargingsthat the traffic managers
of Kansas railroad lines have exceeded
their authority in granting rates that
place Kansas towns upon an equality
with towns on the Missouri river. This
chairman who, apparently, from legal
standpoint, is only at the head of an as
ISOLATION that is in no sense trust, or
illegal combine, but merely an innocent
advisory board, assumes to override the
railroads and to overturn the acts OF the
state board of railroad commissioners,
and it would seem also that the railroads
must obey. The fact that the Trans
missouri roads are outside of his territory
does not place them beyond his
Jurisdiction. The further fact
that the Kansas railroads and Kansas
shippers and Kansas commissioners are
all agreed as to the equitableness of the
rate complained of, cuts no figure with
this hired boss Of the trust known as the
Western Freight association. And still,
in the face of such orders, the Trans
missouri Freight association has the
cheek to tell us that they are not COM
bine. Midgleys mandate authoritative
" shows them to be combine of |
combine.
The advice Of the EAGLE to the Kansas |
railroads is that they keep good faith |
with the people of Kansas, with the
Kansas railroad commissioners, and with
their own solemn pledges, otherwise
there will be no end of trouble.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

The department of agriculture an
nounces that circular giving the re-
suits of experiments and investigations
concerning the new alcoholic process for
refining cane sugar, is now in press and
will be made public in short time. If
the process is what is anticipated it will
revolutiOnize the manufacture of sugar
In the United States and will, it is
claimed, enable every farmer to manu-
Eacture that staple for himself and of the
finest quality. This new process is of
especial interest 10 Kansas farmers. as
this state produces more cane than al
most any other. The EAGLE is still of
the opinion that there is a great future
Tor Kansas in the development and pro-
duction of sugar producing cane
and its finished product, despite the adj
verse predictions of certain skeptics
who seem to prefer that the state shall
stick to hog and hominy and eschew
anything like enterprise of progressive
ness. But we all know that Kansas is
not constructed on that line.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

The temperance of ex-senator In
gals in the political arena, and especially
his uniting with the G. A. r., affords
his political enemies and the wags gener-
ly-particularly those in the south
the pretext to open their batteries on
him. Here is a shot fired at the dis
tinguished Kansan by the Savannah ga. }
News:
John J. ingalls,, lately United States
senator from the state of Kansas, has been
admitted as member of the G. A. r. His
war record was made as a justice of the
peace in the shades of western backwoods
village, and his most brilliant achievement
during the whole time of the strife is said
to have been the sending of chicken thief
to Jail for thirty days.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Potatoes are retailing at dollar bushel
in Norman.
The Santa Fe will pay $4,000 taxes 70
Oklahoma.
The Edmund Sun IS bright and clipper
in aew dress
Register Ollie believes his successor viii
be appointed March l.
Governor Seay thinks there are too many
notaries in the territory.
A German newspaper will be started a.
Guthrie Ia few weeks
There.is a great demand 70 lease school
laud IN the new counties
The Christians have purchased lots a.
Norman and will erect church
Willim Hackney has really decided 70
move back from Oklahoma into Kansas.
Captain Rogers Of KingHsher county re
Gently lost twenty toas Of hay IN prairie
fire
wahco Hampton, the youthful CherOkse
outlaw killed recently, died laughing it is
said
Chandler has wife murderer who IS
also guilty OF incest with hls ls-ysAr-oid
daughter
One oElahgnas farmer has sued the
Chcrtaw FOR e - damages Tor running
through his fArua.
White Tarkey. fail 5loosi-si Po;tswa-
toulie Iusiiaa. i uasEa ber 4 the Tecunaseh
E-pablicAa club
l'nlitHs = azruslgg up IA oklaao1nA
ASasu- L woai4 * more itt-ressiug x
solaslssly WAS 80 b. e.rcses.
Another enc Of t,apszis. u fllss's gang o.
Greek Hl1reiersrs bss ss~=a csp1aged zaa
io3sei u tie Lo.&a 1sA-sT la.A
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

Judge Humphrey of the Dickinson
county district court decides that in a
case of mortgage foreclosure for nom
payment of deferred payment at ma
turity the holder of the mortgage note
can only collect the excess of interest
from the date of maturity of the nav
ment, and not from the original date Of
the obligation, as is stipulated in a clause
OF form of mortgages usually employed.
The judge in the opinion rendered saws
the excess of interest, if it be dated back
to the original date of the instrument. is in
the nature of penalty, and the laws of
the state expressly forbid such an imposi-
non IN transactions between private
individuals.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

Forger Bidwell. after nineteen years
imprisonment in England, finds much to
marvel at in the general progress that
has been made during that time. Up to
the day he reached New York, last week,
he had never seen a telephone, the cleo
trio lights were something supernatural,
railway trains and the speed they now
make are wonderful as compared with
what they were when he was locked up,
and to top of all, the people on the
streets, he said, all looked like aristo-
Gratis. 1t was to him almost like enter
ing new world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

While in Washington City few days
ago Mr.. Jay Gould called at the white
house simply to pay his respects to the
president, just as hundreds of other citi-
zens of the country do every day, and
just as every citizen of the country may
do without let or hindrance if he wishes
to. Yet the Democratic papers of the
country, many of them, are throwing
out inuendoes and insinuating remarks
about ga silent partnership" andsoforth.
This is as contemplate piece of littleness
as we have seen. But it is characteristic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

Lieutenant Governor Jones of New York
will have an opportunity before long to
get even with Senator Hill, judging from
present appearances. Hill will probably
receive the Democratic nomination for
president and then Jones and the anti
Hill Democrats will see that the majority
for Harrison in New York this fall will be
something Eear fifty thousand.-Salina
Republican.
You are liable to be deceived in your
calculation. Democrats in their talk
and actions, in regard to their party's
nominees, are good deal like they are
with their liquor: if it suits them they
praise it; if they don't like it they curse
it; but they drink it, all the same.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

If New York state is satisfied to have
that states interest looked after in the
United States senate by one senator
Hill has been in his seat just twelve days
during the two and half months of the
term now gone-it is that states bust
ness; but such record for public Off
cial charged with grave responsibilities,
doesn't suit the balance of the country,
AID 1T will be seen TO that he does not
get any higher. The decent element of
his own party repudiate such record,
and will discard the man who makes it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

One of the coolest burglars who has
been publicly interviewed for long time
was found in Brooklyn hardware store
at o'clock the other morning by the
clerk who went to open the store. The
clerk was about to give an alarm, when
the man said: look here, my friend.
I'm detective. Thieves broke into this
Place last night, and its very evident
that something was stolen. Run around
TO Dir. Bannerman's house and tell him
to come here at once. l want to find out
what has been taken before l make NV
report" The clerk did as requested, and
when he returned with the proprietor the
burglar was, of course. gone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

The supreme court of Michigan has
decided that a married woman cannot
collect wages, earned by herself, with
out an order from her husband. 1t isn't
clear whether this is meant to discourage
married women from working for
wages, or as another special favor for
brute men who are too lazy to work.
Any way, it will serve as a new text for
the equal sutfragists. Of course, if
women could vote in Michigan they
would soon correct such outrages as that
mentioned.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

The Democrats of the house ways and
means committee are far from beng
harmonious on the tariff; hence, their
delay in reporting any of the bills which
they announced as being almost ready
several weeks ago. That announcement
has been repeated every week since, and
still the bills are not reported. The at
titude of Mr.. Mills and his followers is
probably having something to do with
the delay. Fact is, Mills has as good as
announced that he doesn't propose to be
dead head in the tariff revision enter
prise. and he is on the ground, loaded.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

event in the history of Wichita. Its i'm
portance can scarcely be overestimated.
Nothing has yet occurred in this city
that will approximate it in the crowds
of people that viii throng its
streets. This will not be
crowd where people will
be expected to throw open their doors
to accommodate the overflow from the
hotels. For one week this crowd will
encamp around about US. They must all
be cared for and fed. 1t therefore be-
hooves the people of Wichita to wake
up to the importance Of this coming
event, and aid by their council, good
will and pocketbooks, if necessary, the
local committee who will have charge of
all arrangements pertaining to the re-
union. NJ. STEWART.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
The goth of February.

From The New York Ledgcr.
In the days OF Julius Caesar it was
found that what the calendar termed
summer came IN what was actually
spring. This Roman bull was due TO the
astronomical inaccuracy of the pontiffs
who had charge OF the calendar To
correct II Cesar. with the assistance Of
an astronomer. reformed the calendar by
making the length Of the wear 800! days.
instead Of the preceding 1884,, and by
giving each fourth year present Of q
day. THIS day was given to February,
the last DAY of the year according 10 the
Roman calendar. 1T February. accord
ing 10 the calendar. had txeuty-eighs
days. the day presented 10 il was known
as the 29th. Feb - i. this year. the
beginning of the Jewish month Of Adar
Feb. = : the carnival SUNDAY OF the
Greek church.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

How the hearts of the valiant old vet
Grams must have warmed and burned
with emotion when, in his thrilling ad-
dress to The department. encampment in
Atchison, in recounting his personal e1-
perience in the times that tried mems
souls, Comrade ingalls,, exclaimed:
''There is bond that binds
me with my brief service in
the service of my country to the brave
soldier who gave the longest service of
all, the bond of trepidation. The suffer
ings l endured whe coufrontedn. by dan
ger were so intense as to entitIe me to
the highest of pensions on the ground of
disability"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
Saved Kansas City.
From the sallna Journal.

FIOIn the SaIIna JOurnaI,
Mr.. 6. w. Perrill called on the Journal yes
terday, and among other things said he was
pleased to see the journal friendly to his old
friend Colonel Murdoch, for governor. He
said he was Quarter-master of the Usage coun-
ty battalion of which Marsh Mdrdock was
the commanding officer during the stirring
days of 81. He spoke in the highest terms of
Colonel Murdoch, and claims that their bat
tallion at one time saved the destruction of
Kansas City by the rebels, owing TO their IA
vorable location. Many other little incidents
were mnntioned. all of which went to show
that whoever is personally acquainted with
the coming man, is also his warm personal
friend.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

The Topeka Democrat quotes a rail-
road official. who is in position to have
accurate information. as authority for
the statement that a union is about 10 be
consummated between the Atchison.
Topeka and Santa Re railroad aud the
Pennsylvania Railroad company. If
this deal is carried through it will effect
the formation of a continuous trans.
continental line, and wall place Wichita
on the shortest possible route, and prac-
iically at the central point, between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
THE FREIGHT TRuSTs-

United States Attorney NIilchrist for the
district of Chicago in an interview the
other day, referring to the suit brought
by Judge Ady against the Missouri
Freight association said, in substance,
that "Mr. Ady is right; his petition
covers the antitrust law provisions and
he will undoubtedly win, and, in which
event, l viii Immediately bring suit
against the Western Traffic association
of which Mr.. Midgley is chairman,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
CORNER 18th AND DOUGLAS AVE.

1t is said that the Santa Fe railroad pays
more money for damage done by sparks
from the locomotives than for any other
one cause.
! The Saltwater Gazette states that March
( 22nd is the day designated for the raid on
the strip unless congress ratifies the Cher
okee treaty before that date.
There is gas spring near the Washlta
in the Chickasaw nation. The confederate
soldiers camped by it during the war and
at night often lit il up and spread their
blankets around it for a game at cards
The Salvation Army draws tremendous
houses at Norman, and the fine opera
house is filled to OVERLOOKING. The people
of Norman could do a great deal worse
things than turning out 70 hear the Saliva
ton Army.
Some mighty prominent babies arrived
in Guthrie last week. Among others, one
to Acting Secretary and Mrs. Cal Orner.
one to Worlds Fair Commissioner Gam
mon and wife and another TO Lawyer John
S Stone and wife.
Had the Indian lobby been weaker. the
Oklahoma statehood matter would have
gone through IL isl little thin for the
government TO pay rich indians money 20
they can loaf around Washington and
smoke 75-eent cigars.
Governor Seay has suggested 70 Post
master General WanRmaker the propriety
Of making the proper arrangements for
giving the new county seats IN the Chey-
enue aud Arapahoe reservation postofiices
and mail facilities from the very day Of
opening
The Pottowstomle payment viii not be
made until the roll Il first taken by Agent /
Patrick, and approved oJ the interior de- I
partmeut. This viii probably delay the 4
the money until about the 1T o. May. /
when the first installaeat Of 81 90 vii 4
DC made
Colonel C. ". Barnes. recsiveF. and Hon
John / Ollie. register Of the Guthrie land
Office, have volunteered 20 furnish ths ter
ritosiai auditor q list q ali taxaois lands
in their district free q CO.'S, Though ne
Law allows them n charge - cents ioF
esCh item. This i = very gs7~roos prop
si1!oB. and villa be a saving o. fnsSJ aoIisra
10 the taxpayer
Three nights last week The telegraph
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

If Hill is the bad man which some
New York Democrats represent him to
be, why have they been electing him
governor of the state and United States
senator? asks the St Joe Herald. They
will probably answer that they didn't
do it; that he did it'himself with the
little machine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
The Modern View

From the New ! orE Times.
The most conservative of opinions in
the matter is to the effect that women
have sphere of usefulness after mar
riage in upholding the home. If it is
possible to uphold the home better By
writing articles for magazines, singing
in church choir or conducting a class
in elocution than by making shirts and
darning stockings IL seems the height OF
folly to urge that so doing detracts from
woman's womanlineSs or man manliness.
Most husbands are proud, rather than
ashamed. that their wives render practi-
cal assistance in the sailing of the family
ship.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

The southern papers, many of them.
appear to be against the anticipation bill
pending before the commerce committee
of the house. This seems cdd, in view
Of the fact that option dealing has had
very much TO do with demoralizing the
cotton interests of that section.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

Ben Terrill of Texas favors Ben Butler
of Massachusetts,, about the only diff
terence between them being in the cock
of the other eye, the latter's being a little
mora Gu
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

General Buffers book admits that
Grant "was great general in every re-
spect." The Philadelphia Record sug-
gests that the status of the dead hero
having been thus satisfactorily determin-
ed, perhaps New York VIII takes steps
TO consider how other cities may be in
duced to complete the fund for his mon
ument on Manhattan Island.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
The Southwest and Northwest.
From the AichisOn Champion.


Nearly every paper in South and Southwest
ern Kansas has pronounced for Marshall NJ.
Murdoch for governor. Those which have not,
and which, as first choice, prefer another, all
speak the kindest words for the great Kansan.
In north and northwest Kansas many of the
editors are silent, but very many of them have
either pronounced for Mr.. Murdoch or have
said the best things possible of him. No man
ever was a candidate for office who had
stronger following or who was more deserving
OF the high enconiums pronounced upon him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

The Philadelphia Press is of the opinion
that Louisiana, Alabama and South
Carolina are persimmoas ripe for Repub-
lican plucking. There are some evil
dences of such ripening, to be sure; but
the trouble is for the Republicans to get
in their pole-they've got the pole all
right
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

A bill for an appropriation for q new
Chicago postoffiee has been proposed,
and Mr.. Holman is clearing his throat
preparatory to making few brief re-
marks. lie was not one Of the visiting
statesmen to the Fair city last week, and
that's what posters her.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
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w.H.B. TROUPE. Manager.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

The Cincinnati Enquirer declares that
if Cleveland is true Democrat he will
withdraw. That would be like declining
something that had not been offered.
Cleveland has never admitted that he
was in it, and has nothing to withdraw
or withdraw from.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
Travellers Themselves Responsible.

From the - Joe Herald.
President Pullman Of the car company
is unquestionably right when he says:
1--WE can get all the good porters we
need at the prices we pay them" But
when he adds, Fees paid by foolish
people often demoralize the service, be
opens a very pregnant question for dis
cussion. The world is filled with poor
devils, black as well as whise, who are
glad to take anything in the way of COM
pensation to keep the wolffrom the door,
The American people are expert travel
ers. They always insist upon the best,
and common sense teaches them that the
money expended in fees insures them
better attendance, whether it be n the
dining room or in the palace car.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
Has the Lead,
From the wichita Opinion.

Marsh Murdoch is out setting bis fences in
repair. Quite likely he will get the stakes
planted and riders ON by the time the conven-
ton meets. But there is FarUuer Smith who
hobs up and down each alternate year like a
bladder on a lake, and Morrill, and Price, and
no one knows how many more, Still, it is evil
dent that our own Marsh has the lead.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

Excessive smoking is alleged to he the
cause OF Secretary Fosters physical all
ment II is stated that he has smoked a
dozen strong cigars = day TOR the past
twenty-five years,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
The Heat of the South Carolina Cam
paign.
From the Greenville News CDem)

From The GreenvilIe News Dem.)
We do not propose to be profane. We
only wish to express fact in the strong
est and plainest English. The Greenville
News, with all Its belongings, would go
to hell and stay there forever before it
would help in any movement to elect or
defeat anybody by boiling Democratic
nomination in South Carolina or Join
with radicals TO defeat Democratic
nominee. We mean every word of it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
EXCHANGE SHOTS,
A Bob Tail, at That.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
Judging from the way our Kansas fell
lows were sat down upon at the st. Louis
conference, we conclude with our Mis-
souri, side contemporary, the Times, that
"Kansas is after all only the tail of the
third party animal"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
By Acclamation,

From the Eureka Messenger.
The complimentary notices given NJ. NJ. Muir
docks gubernatorial boom by the editors of
Kansas are now thirty-six feet in length, nom
pareil measure. If editorial goodwill counts
for anything Murdoch will be nominated by
reclamation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
What David Really Needs.

From the New York Recorder.
According to Washington dispatches
society there is opposed to Hills presi-
dental aspirations on the ground that
he is a bachelor. A beautiful bride
would, as we have told him, help HIM
more than all his machines.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
A Saving Clause.


The preamble to the great platform
promulgated at st. Louis yesterday laws
down the proposition that Those who do
not work must not eat" For the sake
of those who took part in that conven-
ton it is to be hoped that the LABOR of
the jaw is included in the general term
''work."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

T. V. Powderly, with his bald pate and
appearance, and his looks are in keeping
with his principles and bent of life
working in the interest of class.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
Almost Unanimously,

From the Wabaunsee County Enterprise.
If the nomination for governor ON the Repub-
lican ticket was left to the newspapers, Colonel
NJ. NJ. Murdoch, of the Wichita EAGLE, would
get it almost unanimously.