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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05
THE CONTEST ENDED.

The contest that has been on between
the telegraph operators of the Santa re
system and the managers of that railway
system over the question of hours and
wages was brought to close Saturday,
an agreement having been reached be-
tween the grievance committee of the for
mer and the representative OF the latter.
The grievance committee first pre-
sented a schedule that asked for an IN
crease in wages amounting, in the aggre-
gate, to 1925, 600 per year. The COM
promise finally agreed upon, will In
crease the wages of the Santa Fe teie-
graphers SIS, 900 per year.
The rules agreed upon provide that
twelve hours shall constitute day S
work, where two operators are employed.
Where more than two are employed,
ten hours. Eight hours constitute a
day for train dispatchers, and overtime
will be allowed in all cases for any ex-
cess. This is an entirely new provision.
Chief train dispatchers will, under the
new schedule, receive S145 per month.
and trick dispatchers 1920. The average
increase for dispatchers is SIS per month
The minimum salary for operators IS
fixed at $40. This increases salaries at
number of offices which heretofore paid
$50 and $50 per month.
All other offices have been increased
So or SO per month except 200 out OF
900 offices, at which the railway officials
contended a reasonable compensation
was being paid, and for which the COM
mittee insisted upon an increase of $50
per month. This was compromised by
the company allowing an increase Of 81
per month.
About 1900 operators employed along
the $500 miles of the Santa Fe system
proper are effected.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

Farmers in North Dakota, who were
compelled to stack their wheat IN
threshed last fall are losers TO the ex-
tent of millions of bushels, as the
warm rains have caused the grain to
swell. This state of affairs is brought
about by q combine of the railways and
the millers, who insist on getting the
grain at shameful under value. This
will constitute another strong count IN
the indictment the people have already
filed against combines in general.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05
a REMARKABLE MARCH.

According to Professor Shows record
for March it was the most remarkable
month in its meteorological features OF
any dnring the past twenty-five years.
To begin with, the temperature was
below the average; the week of March
1920 was colder than that of any CORE
spending period with the exception OF
the year 1876. The percentage of humid
itv has never been exceeded and both
wind velocity and percentage of cloudl-
ness were above the average.
The mean temperature was ~ de-
grees. which is 341 degrees above the
March average. The highest tempera-
ture WAS IS degrees, on the 3lst; the
lowest was Is degrees, on the 10th and
18th, giving range of 90 degrees.
The rainfall was, including melted
snow and sleet, 5.72 inches. which is 3.54
inches above the March average. Rain
and snow in measurable quantities fell
on seven DAYS. Snow fell on four days,
and the entire depth was two inches.
There was one thunder shower. The en-
tire rainfall for the three months Of 1892
now completed, has been 1l.5l inches,
which is 6. 60 inches above the average
for the same months in the preceding
twenty -four years.
The month was cloudier than usual
Number of clear days Qess than one
third cloudy ID: half clear from one to
two-thirds cloudy 6; There were five
entireiy clear days and nine entirely
cloudy.
The total run of the wind was Is, 040
miles, which is 939 miles above the
March average. This gives mean daily
velocity of 20 miles. The highest veicc-
/ ity was seventy miles an hour, from
1915 TO l2.:a0 u. N. on the Goth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

The insidious inclination for ca
lamity bowling has ceased to be local In
this country; it is spreading throughout
the nation and is breaking out IN dan
gerous discomfort everywhere. Lieu
tenant Totten predicts that the Judgment
era on which we have entered will in
crease geometrically, as did the seven
years famine in Egypt. cat its termi-
nation" he says, "as you will remember,
there was one man who owned Egypt
men, cattle, land and river" AT the rate
of geonetrical progression in which they
are increasing the trusts are In fair
wav to own this land in less than seven
years, provided they be permitted to
exercise their own sweet will. Yet.
while the voracity of the monster trusts
is everywhere recognized, it is unfair to
our country. disloyal to our government
and unpatriotic in sentiment to forget
that, with all our troubles, we are today
by far the happiest and most prosperous
nation on earth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat having
insinuated that political black-mall has
been practiced in the custom house in
that city, Mr.. c. l. Filley, the chief of
the service there, comes out In an en-
phatic deny and aggressive defy. If
the CD. did not mean il as an April
fool canard-and the GID. rarely in
duiges in the umorous-some breezy
reading may be looked for.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

Clover of the Third district sets Mr.,
Jerry Simpson, his colleague, down as
demagogue, smart Aleck and an OBJ
structionist. and the empigra matte Jerry
accuses Clover of losing the free coinage
bill by not being in his place; but neither
as to either dare say that the other tells
anything but the truth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CON-
VENTION.

A delegate convention Of the Republicans .h OF
Wy = -. = hereby called to meet in the city,
If KinCInan on Wednesday June 10 ls.G, AZ
10s M for the purpose of nominating a can-
tlidate for congress in the SeEthth cGuE
kional district 81 Kansas ana also !" n'i-i
one presidential elector. -, ,,or,,er-
The basis of representation ID sald CONVEX
tlon shall be one delegate at large, Tor ea .a.
co,,,+y in the district and one delegate LOT
- .i,n ,-otes and the major fraction thereof
cast for Hon. J. r. Hallowell for congress IN
Isee nroyIded no county to have less than two
delegates. under which rule delegates are aP.
,lo,.fi Toned to the several counties as folloWs'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

With the same infatuation that the
Tennessee Democrats still vote for
Andrew jackson on each recurring pres
idential election. the topeka Democrat
still continues to deciaIm for hill
When the fact breaks upon the Topeka
Democrat that Hill has been ont Of 1t
for weeks it viii discIaim ever having
been for him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

"Maud S." the noted mare, was is
years old last Monday. She has lived
long enough to see her record broken,
but there is a little Maud coming up
that promises to retrieve the lost reputa-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

The last statement Of specie shipments
show an excess Of silver over gold in ex-
ports, and of gold over silver in imports
The agitation of the coinage question
does not seem to effect adversely the
foreign estimate Of silver as medium
OF sxchaura
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

The demonstrations over Cleveland in
Little Rhody eciipsed By far the most
unctious gush INDUCED over Hill at any
point visited by him on his tour of the
south recently. Grover is good deal
bigger than Dave down east. And it
appears to be breaking out in spots in the
west
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

1t is no inconsiderahle sign OF the
times when 600 colored people in Chi
cago deliberately refuse to sing Amer
lea when announced from the plat
form, because as one OF them expressed
their sentiment, they did not want to
sing that song until this country IS
what it claims to be, sweet land Of lib
~
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05
HI. GoRDoS, Secretary.

a delegate convention of the Republicans on
the Seventh congressional district OF the state
of Kansas j.. hereby called TO meet IN the Guy:
Of Einsley. Kan, on MAY 3 1892, At 10 a. nn..for
the burmese of electing two delegates and TWO
alteTnates to the national Republican conVen-
ton TO be held in the city OF minneapolis,
Mimi, on June :. 1882
The basis of representation in this conVen-
tion shall be one delegate at large Tor eacn
county and one DELICATE for each 40 votes, ana
the major fraction thereof, cast for Hon. y. IL
Iafloweu Tor congress in 1890 provided no
county 10 have less than two delegates; phder
which rule the several counties IN the clstrlct
are entitled to delegates as apportoned IN
nbove call FOR congressional convection
1t is recommended that the several counties
in said district select their delegates ana al
fernetes O said convention on April 81 lsss-y
unless otherwise ordered by the county central
committee.
BY order Of the Seventh congressional dis
trict central committee
s ]. SHAW. Chairman.
II. L. GORDON, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

Hon. A. p. Riddle, Of Minneapolis,
Acknowledgements of the state, has
been formally announced as candidate
for governor, with an assured backing
OF several counties in the northwest.
He is clean and able man and nothing
can be said against him. The field now
shows Martindale, Wright, Barker,
Riddle, Morrill, and Smith.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

The corning campaign has its bright
side. The contest is going to be so close
here at home that PETER, Simpson and
Mrs. Lease will not have time to go
gadding about in other states slandering
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

Dewitt TaImage is in favor OF the old
fashioned graveyard over the new
tangled cremation. This is question
that will always be of more moment to
the living than the dead.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05
There is something wrong with this

There is something wrong with this
country's liver. Everybody is grumpy.
A man is even no longer assured that
he will be spoken of kindly after his
death. The time-honored obituary COM
pliments are being dropped. Half the
papers in the Union have taken occasion
to blast Walt Whitman since his death,
Notwithstanding the encomiums pro-
nounced on him and his works by the
first minds of the world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

II is recommended that the several counties
In said congressional district select their dele
gates and ajternates 10 said convention on
April 80. 1852. unless otherwise ordered oy the
county central committee.
BY order OF the Seventh congressman us
trict central committee.
H I. GORDoS, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

The secretaries of the several county conVeh-
ions are instructed to forward 10 the unoer,
signed secretary at Hutchinson, Ran, cerll::
fled COPY OF the credentials or their seNeral
delegates Immediately upon the 2djournment
of the county conventions. SAID credenlHls
10 be received at Hutchinson not later than
the evening of May 3. From these credentlsi5
the Republican state central committee VIII
prepare a roster of those entitled 70 parllupets
In she preliminary organization OF the conveh-
tion.
w. j. BUCHAN, Chairman.
JOIN II. SMITH, Secretary.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. 8.
A delegate convention of the Republicans OK
Kansas will be held in the city of Topeka on
Thursday. the thirrieth CsDthl day of june
1892, at the hour of lOo.ciock a. M, Tor ina
nomination of candidates FOR:
Associate Justice o. the supreme court
Governor.
Lieutenant governor, ----~
Secretary of stale.
Auditor of state.
Treasurer OF state.
Attorney general.
SuperinieHdent Of public instruction.
Delegates 10 the convention mentioned above
shall be elected by county conventions dulE
called by tae several county Republican coms
Inittees under such rules and regulations AS
may be by them prescribed. The basis or APP
poI tionment OF delegates to said state conven-
lion will he one delegate-at-large for eaca
county of tho state and one delegate Tor every
90s votes, or faction of lU0 or more votes, casa
lor George W. Winans for superintendent or
public instruction IN the election of 1880 under
which rule delegates are apportioned to the
several counties the same as for the conVen-
tion called to meet ut Hutchinson to choose
delegates TO the national convention ana az
given in the table of apportionment as above.
The secretaries of the several county conven-
sions are instructed to forward 10 the underS
signed secretary at Topeka, Kan, a certified
copy of the credentials of their several dele'
gates Immediately upon the adjournment OF
the county conventions. said credentials TO be
received at Topeka not later than tire evening
OF June ~. From these credentials the Repu5i-
can state central committee will prepare a
roster Of those entitled TO participate N the
preliminary organization OF the convention.
By order OF the committee:
w. ]. BCCHAN, Chairman.
JOHN II. SMITH, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

Topeka, the Capital says, believes that
the railroads discriminate against her.
If that be true, then the rate sheets for
Wichita must be simply highway rob-
harr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

A seven story building collapsed IN
Chicago during the storm aud there were
ar many killed and wounded as theEs
were IN some CT the Kansas VILLAGES
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

President Harrison has done up the
English lion while common Tammany
tiger put Cleveland TO rout.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

The rainmakers seems to have over
done the thing little and Matched cy-
clone"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

It would be poetic fitness if blast of
indignation should blow the umbrella
trust inside out,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

If congress breaks over the eight-hour
limitation for labor, they will do it with
out Ben Clover's assistance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-05

II. L. GORDON. Secretary.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16
SHORTER INSURANCE CREDIT.
Why Agents Want Premiums More
Promptly-No United Action Taken.

Why Agents Want Premiums More
Promptly-NO United Action Taken.
In regard to the movement among in
surance men to secure more prompt col
lections of premiums. D. A. Spencer.
manager of the Home Fire Insurance
Company, said yesterday that the local
board of underwriters had declined to
take any action. for the present at least.
leaving it to the individual agent to work
out his own salvation. In explanation of
the movement he said:
East OF the Rocky mountains the rule is that
all Insurance premiums are collectible when
delivered, or ut the end of the month in which
they issued, but in the territory this side of
the mountains agents have been in the habit of
giving long credits. The companies, in order to
retain the business of agents controlling con-
siderable lines, have in their turn found it
necessary to extend long credit 10 the
agents until the AVERAGE premiums outstanding
OF almost every company doing business on the
Coast are about one-third Of their annual pre-
miunss. or an average credit of four months.
Naturally the home Offices of these companies
have been anxious to bring about some abate-
ment of this credit evil, and as starter In that
direction, the Pacific Insurance Union has
passed an amendment to the by Laws, providing
that all agents must remit premiums for all
policies issued within thirty days from the end
of the month in which they were issued. While
this does not directly affect the insured, the
natural tendency will be to insist upon closer
collections as otherwise very few OF the agents
would he able to go on with the business at any
profit
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16

stock of groceries carried by E. W. Small.
This was carried by the Franklin, Of
Philadelphia, and expired on November
10, Just three days before the fire. 1t was
written again on that day in the Connecti-
cut Insurance Company. of Hartford,
represented by Clark & Schroeder. The
detail insurance in this fire was as follows:
On the stock of E. w. Small, grocer,
81. $50 in the Connecticut. Of Hartford. and
$500 in st. Paul Fire and Marine: on the
store furniture Of Small $50. also in last
named company: all this was written by
Clark & Schroeder; $500 was on the
building occupied by Small, written in the
National Insurance Company. of Hart
ford, Conn.,, by George A. Burch 4 Co.
This building and its fixtures were owned
half and half by E. W. Small and ]. A.
Ward. The other building was owned by
Hugo Graf. and was insured for $1,000 in
the Sun Insurance Company. of London,
written by the Washington Territory In
vestment Company. Crafts building was
occupied by B. r. Bailey Il Co., as gro
Gerry. These gentlemen carried 5000 in
surance on their stock, written by Wright
Il Jacobsen: 81 800 of it was in the Fire
Insurance Company, of Reading. Pa. and
a like amount in the Granite State Fire In
surance Company, of Portsmouth. n. H.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16
TWO WEEKS MORE.
That Period Will See the Great
Northern Finished.
SNOW WILL PROVE NO OBSTACLE
Chief Engineer Becker on the Work
Shinglemen Asked to Help in End.
ing the Car Famine.

E. H. Becker chief engineer, and John
F. Stevens. principal assistant engineer, OF
the Great Northern road, were in the city
yesterday and are sanguine as to the early
completion of the line. Mr.. Becker said:
On Monday we laid two miles of track on tho
cast side and half mile on the west eide OF the
mountains, leaving only about thirty-aye miles
to lay. The remainder viii most likely be laid
from the east as soon as we have used up the
rails now on this side OF the mountains There is
nothing on either side to delay the completion
o. work and 1 still think We shall get through
by December The temporary bridges are all
in and the spans will be in by the middle OF De-
cember, except perhaps the one at Martin
Creek. The grading on the switchbeck il done
and the bridges on it are built
There IL foot OF snow on the summit, but
last winter we laid track on three feet OF snow,
half OF which proved to be ice, SO we shall not
stop for one foot of light snow in the timber.
We shall simply shovel it OF with scrsperA
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16
NEW BUSINESS CONNECTIONS.
Fishback, Hardin & Mclean Move Into
More Convenient Quarters.

Messrs. Fishback, Hardin & Mclean
will today commence the removal of their
law offices to their new quarters in the
Squire Latimer building on Commercial
street. On account of newly-formed busi-
ness connections these gentlemen have
found it necessary to make change in
their location, and have secured large
suite of rooms most pleasantly located and
conveniently arranged. Within the next
three days they will be ready to receive
their friends at the new location, where
they will have one of the best and most
thoroughly equipped offices in the city.
consisting of a suite of eight spacious
rooms on the fourth floor OF the Squire
Latimer building.
Although this firm has been but recently
organized, yet it has become thoroughly
we'll known and ranks among the promi-
nent law firms of Seattle, and its recently
formed connections VIII serve 10 add to
the business of the firm and will give its
members the position OF legal advisers TO
some of the strongest men anu financial
interests in the Northwest. They desire
to extend to the pubic generally an in
yltation to call and see them In the new
quarters
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16
WATER FRONT NOTES.

The local inspectors have gone TO G.ay's bar
Dor TO inspect some beats there.
Bark Snow and Burgess. Capt Martensen, ar
rived in port from san Francisco yesterday TO
load a return cargo OF coal for the Oregon I'm
provement Company.
Northern Pacific steamer Zsmbezi cleared
from here for the Orient last night She took
very little freight, but few passengers from
here. Among her passengers was Woo Gen,
Wa Chongs head man.
Following is the result of Alphens Byers local
weather OBJ ,ervations for the twenty-Iour hours
preceding o'clock last evening: Maximum
temperature. so; minimum, e; mean, 10: rain.
fall, "a OF an inch: wind, 20; clouds, IS: fair
weather.
Schooner Laura MadseD. Capt Rasmussen.
arrived IN port from Newport yesterday and 10
now awaiting orders at Smiths cove. The cap
tain complains of bontres which were kept
burning on WILDLY island the night he was
sailing ill., lie mistook them for the signal
lights on the points and Came very near run
ming aground.
Steamer Falrhaven had fifteen tons in and
twenty out on the la Conner route; Monticello.
fifteen out on Port Angeles route: CITY OF Aber-
Ceea, ten out on Olympia route; Mabe,, dtty-
eight Qua on Snohomish route; Angeles, fifteen
IN AID forty cut on Port Angeles route: Nasco.
twenty Ave out un Nhatcom route, Mutnomah
twenty in and twenty five out on Olympia route:
state OF Washington, twenty out on Everett
rcuie. aud iAe Rapid Transit brought In 100 toas
-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16
APPEAL TO sHINGLE SHIPPERS.
Northern Pacific Asks Their Aid in
Avoiding Detention Of Cars.

Northern Pacific Asks Their Aid in
Avoiding Detention of Cars.
The following has been issued from the
general freight department Of the North
ern Pacific railroad under date Of Novem-
Der IL. signed by s. g. Fulton, assistant
general freight agent:
To Shippers of Lumber and Shingles: The gen.
eral frei hit agent calls my attention to the fact
that your consigneesin the East are not unload
ing our cars promptly. This 10 q very important
matter, and should be Immediately looked after
by yourselves The situation is becoming such
that unless cars are handled properly and
promptly it may be necessary for US to refuse to
accept shipments from certain shippers. The
misuse Of our equipment is particularly notice.
able on shipments TO points in Iowa, Nebraska
and Kansas.
In view of the fact that the supply of cars on
the Pacific coast for lumber and shingles will
depend upon the help which we have from your
copsignees in unloading equipment and having
it returned promptly, will yOu not instruct
your consignees TO look after this matter care
fully, with the view OF doing everything in
their power to release cars as soon as possible
after their arrival at destination.
In explanation of this circular. l. A.
Nadeau, general agent of the road, said
yesterday:
Over 1900 OF our cars are now other lines
loaded with shingles. and consgnees often keep
them standing on the track day after day before
accepting them. We have cars stand loaded for
four months, and hall to two-thirds OF the tele-
graphing done from this office is in tracing
Ehingie cars. We only get z cent annie for the
distance the cars are actually hauled over an.
other line. but nothing for the time they are
standing still. Even if there were a demurrags
charge it would 60 TO the connecting line on
which the cars stand. The Car accountants
have been irving To arrange a ay.ferr nj Nor
diem payment for the use OF foreign cars in
place of the mileage rate. We have been exert
ing ourselves to help the shingle business. and
we are now asking the shingle men to help us
by taking steps to hasten the unloading and pre-
vent detention OF cars.