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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Times-Jou publishes suake
story seven feet eight inches long.
The Oklahoma Territorial fair will be
held in Oklahoma City October to in
elusive.
A harvest home picnic will be held at
Sheridan, in the north part of kingfsher
county next Saturday.
Probably the oldest fake in the territory
is j. G. Fake, superintendent OF the Okla
homa City electric light company.
The indications are that the acreage OF
wheat in Oklahoma next year will be fully
five times that of the present season.
Ada Gladys, the millionaire heiress of
Guthrie died in Pueblo, Col, last week. 1t
is said she was the only heir of an estate
valued at S6.0O0,000.
The Cleveland county normal institut
will convene in Norman on August 10Th.
Professor Halloc.l is conductor and Profess
sors Mcdaniel and Talley instructors.
Muskogee Phoenix: They have discov-
cred a sea serpent over in Oklahoma. yet
this place is thousands of miles from either
ocean, Oklahoma is equal to anything
Sam E. Bartell of Oklahoma City, has
been awarded the contract of carrying the
United States mails from Minco, l. T., to
Cloud Chief. His bid was Sl400 per au-
mum.
The Edmond Sun says that the cam
paign song in Oklahoma for the Republic
can party is, ''Blest Be the Tie that
Binds" to the tune of dennis" and the
song will lead to victory.
Oklahoma has been created in a separate
division for the transaction of all business
pertaining to the internal revenue service.
Hamilton Tarr will be deputy internal
revenue collector with headquarters in
Guthrie.
The area of had land this year is much
less than last year, owing to the large
amount broken since last years crop was
harvested. The Times-Journai says the
farmers should bear this in mind and save
all the hay they have. It is likely to be
more valuable than last year.
Times Journal: J. II. Woods has re-
quesfed the board of county commissioners
of B county to relieve him OF the duties OF
county attorney of that county by the
appointment to that Office Of a resident
attorney of B county. and thereby fill the
vacancy occasioned by his failure to be-
come resident OF b county. The firm of
HAYS & Woods have an extensive practice
in this county and this step will enable
Judge Woods to devote more time to the
business of the firm, land not be away from
home so much Of the time.
The Ardmore Chieftain says twenty-sev-
en- of the Indian militia were camped east
of the city last night. The militia were
under the leadership of that great states
man, Senator Charlie Mule and was made
up of mostly young bucks In an inter
view the Hon. Mule said the mission of
this ferocious band was to cut fences and
look into the unlawful holding of cattle by
citizens When the senator was asked
how long his company would camp here
he replied: Maybe so; me stay here two
day, maybe three day; maybe so leave in
mornin'." They left this morning going
west,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
GOSSIP OF The WHEEL

McDufie is accounted tie best rider
in the east They say he is superior TO
Berlo.
In the course of practice work Tim
norman has ridden third of mile In
4S seconds.
They are racing wen in France. Char
ron. the Gallo champion, rode handi-
cap mile in 2:224 2-5.
The race from Paris TO Nantes and re-
turn, distance of Ga miles, was won
by Allard in 6S h IS min.
Tommy Edge, the nd English
long-distance rider, is to -ackle the
twenty-four hour track rec u
Zimmerman also won to N. c. A.
ffty-nile championship from twenty
other men in h 81 min 81 SIS sec.
Berlo, Banker and Taxis tried to get
inside the mile trotting horse figures on
a triplet, but could not do any better
than 2:14 As.
Taylor is given credit for having rid
den mile in 2:1S with a flying start.
He also has claim in for the standing
start quarter in 0:32 is.
The Leeds track, on which thinner
man won the n. C. A., one and
five mile championships. i thN shane Of
D, there being practically - --L,---9.
except in leaving and entering the some
what short straight. The surface is de-
cidedly good. The track is but eighteen
feet wide.
Incorporation papers have been Sc
cured from the secretary of state for
the Chicago Colored Cycling club, and
in short time they viii make formal
application for admission to the League
of American Wheelmen and the Asso-
ciated Cycling clubs of Chicago. Then
there win be music.
Berlo's flying quarter in IS As is now
the mark for the fast short distance
men. If it is allowed by the racing
board, and if Lumsden's half in 1:03 SIS
Is allowed, Zimmerman, grand rider
as he is, viii be without record to his
name save the ones he holds for thedis-
tances in the vicinity of three, four and
five miles.
Charron, the French champion and
holder of the French record of 2m
24-5s for the mile, is the owner of one
of the ightest bicycles in the world.
The wheel weighs with saddle, pedal.
toe clips, etc, only 1853 pounds. The
extreme lightness of the wheel is the
result of employing aluminium in every
possible way in its construction. Critics
declare the machine to be as rigid as
most wheels are that weigh at least ten
pounds more.
Arrangements are already well under
way for huge park and track between
Minneapolis and ST. Paul. The men
who have the idea in charge have al
ready secured options on several pieces
of ground splendidly located aud will
arrange a modern park to cost about
$1,000. The park when finished will be
the finest of its kind in the country,
and viii contain among other things
the fastest board track in the world,
built but three laps to the mile.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04

devil in human form who ought to be
strung up by mob, of which he ex-
pressed desire to be a leader, the Kan
sas congressman took position that was
libel on the Alliance and on the farmers
of the United States. If men are to be
killed who build up great industries,
affording employment to thousands at
wages ranging from S1.50 to Sl5 day
lover 2,00o men at Homestead averaged
more than So day), or if farmers are to
be killed who achieve conspicuous sue
cess, let us all know il SO that none OF US
NAV be candidates for the executioner.
The plain truth is, these Homestead and
Idaho strikers, with wages of x, DO to
SIS 80 day, were making more money
than most of the farmers in this country
and were in position To save
gleat deal more money. Yet farmers
are not not demanding that the wealth of
either these employers or employees be
taken from them and distributed among
the poor farmers The sensational news
papers and agitators who have been
preaching such anarchy IN various
forms, have done SO to make a few pal
try dollars for themselves. They are
enemies, not friends of labor-parasites
who thrive by sucking labOr's life blood.
Let it be understood that the farmers
have no sympathy with these enemies OF
society. The owners of Anlerican farms
and homes have geuine sympathy Tor
the working masses, OF which they con-
sti:ute so large part, but VIII toie rate
no encroachment upon law and order
from labor any more than from capital
The true working man and the average
capitalist stand squareiy with the farmer
on this platform.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
MEDICINE IN PATAGONIA.
How Sick Children Are Treated In Our
Continents southern Extremity.

How Sick Children Are Treated In Our
Continents Southern Extremity.
The Boston Globe has learned the
medical treatment of sick children in
Patagonia. As soon as the doctor ar
rives he looks at the sick child, and then
with much ceremony rolls it up in
piece of skin. He then orders clay
plaster, and by this time the child has
ceased crying, soothed by the warmth
of the skin, and SO renders still more
solid his reputation as a wise man
Yellow clay is brought and made into
thick cream with water. and the child is
painted from head to foot, causing him
TO cry again. THE evil spirit is still
here" says the doctor, sagely, and I'M
does two mysterious packages he car
ries: one contains rhea sincws and the
other rattle made of stones in a gourd
decorated with feathers. He then
fingers the sinews, mutters something
for few minutes, then he seizes the
rattle and shakes il violently, staring
very hard at the crying child, then
wraps it in the skin again and it ceases
crying. Again it is painted, ratified at,
and stared at, and again il cries This
is done four times, and then the cure IS
considered complete. The doctor leaves
the child quiet, embodied in the warm
skin, and goes away, having received
two pipefuls OF tobacco as his fec
Strange 10 SAP. the child generally re
covers, bat # It does not the doctor gets
out of the difficulty by declaring that
the parents did not keep the medicine
skin tightly round the child. ard 50 let
the evil spirit get back again This
statement NAV possibly explain the
origin % the old nursery song which Is
printed in ali editions Of Mother Goose
Melodies and has probably been sung
by every mother IN America
81 Baby BEafkn-
Daddy gCEe tErE1n
To eef little rs5z.f skEa
10 Erap - Ezsg BGnf.a q
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
Wichita, Aug. ?, 1892.

The only hot wind there has been IN
Kansas this year has been the breath of
calamity shriekers If their rawlings
were accepted as the truth the effect
upon the states prosperity would be as
blighting as the superheated atmosphere
would be TO vegetation; but, fortunately,
the intellectual atmosphere OF the coun-
try has been sufficiently surcharged
with the moisture of truth as to the
actual conditions in Kansas touching the
agricultural and other material interests,
to render the fevered asseverations of
local defameTs impotent OF serious in
july to the states good name and COM
mercial standing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
THE FARMERS INTEREST.

From the Farm and Home
The American farmer will never sub
nit to the dictation OF Il labor union. The
farmer recognizes only the right TO en-
plov any man who wishes TO work for
him on terms that are mutually salts
factory. The farm hand should recog-
nize only his right 10 work for whom he
pleases al such wages as he chooses to
accept. Suppose farm help should or
ganize a union and say: 'Ar. Farmer,
YOU can't get your work done except by
our union men at our price, Tor we VOL
let any non-union man work Tor you.
This is precisely what has come about IN
the iron trade and 70 some extent in
other industries. Such tyranny of q G
labor union is as wicked, As Unconsti-
tutional and as cruel as the tyranny OF
capital in It's worst form Labor has the
same right to combine and organize fer
self-prolection that capital has, but
neither has the right 10 trsnssress the law.
Tins is Just exactly where we draw the
line in the Pennsylvania labor war.
whatever may be the merits OF the case
at Homestead. or the errors and Excess
- of either side. Non-union men have
the same right to living as IS enjoyed
by those belonging 10 the union; the
employer has The right 10 hire whoever
wishes 10 work for him. IL IS a good
time to make this simple truth emphatic
now that 50 nluca rot mas been INDUCED
in over the affair az the Carnegie Steel
woSks. This freedom OF empioyer and
and employed Is one OF the corner stones
of Our constitutional liberty. When
either party interfere with such freedom
the logical result Is anarchy unless
society steps in AMI protects the iegiti-
male interests OF all II the point Of the
6avonet.
Our American farmers have no syrn-
patty with anarchy. When Jerry
Simpsos denounced Andrew Carnegie as
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
DEMOCRATS RECEIVED ON PRoBA-
TON

The middle of the road people held
their convention in Chase county Satur-
day and nominated county ticket. The
Democrats begged and plead for half of
the ticket, but the Peoples party men
snubbed them numerically and did not
give the hungry Democrats a single
place on the ticket. They were very
angry and swore in several different
languages, but the Peoples party fellows
laughed them to scorn. They said, and
very properly, too, "You have endorsed
Dur state ticket and our Mr. Weaver; YOU
profess TO stand on our platform, but YOU
must do works meet for repentance
and learn to talk calamity awhile before
you can be admitted into full fellowship
with the saints and ask for Office on our
tickets"
The same thing has occurred in other
counties and will occur in still others,
among them Sedgwick, in all probability.
True, there is pretty strong element
among the Democrats vino are bitterly
opposed to sell-out, and who would.
IL they could, put up a straight party
ticket for county officers and make
formal demand upon the Pops to endorse
it, in consideration of the Democratic en-
dorsement of the Peoples electoral, state
and congressional nominees. And there
is disposition among the Pops of this
county to yield to such demand if made:
but it viii not be done. The fxers have
made up the program, which is, take
whatever the Pops offer in the way of
county officers, including the privilege
to the latter to name the Democrats for
such offices as may be accorded that
party by the grace of the other.
The protesting contingent of Demo-
Gratis have been handicapped in advance
by being denied representation in the
county convention, orders having been
issued by the bosses TO the managers of
the primaries, TO be held Saturday, to
allow no kicker against the program to
he selected as delegate. the same sort
of snap action as was taken by the couu-
ty convention that selected delegates To
the state convention at Topeka last
month.
A lovely condition for high-minded.
self-respecting and party-losing Demo-
Gratis TO contemplate, don't you think:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
FREIGHT RATES.
George L. Douglass Discusses Some
Questions From Wichita
SfandnOinf

0Sc1dOPo1<fos
To the Editor of the Eagle.
There is much discussion in our COM
munity upon the subject of freight rates
and a great deal is heard about the
merits of ''a maximum freight rate
bilT'-as though all maximum rate bills
were alike and every one sure cure for
all diseases. A maximum rate bill
might be framed which would be a good
thing for Wichita and on the other hand,
it might be so framed that it would alb
solutely wreck ali our business interests.
A man, therefore, who advocates any
particular bill ought to know what is
in it.
One of the great evils with which
Wichita business interests now contend
is the discrimination against them and
in favor of Kansas City, No., by reason
Of which the business interests Of the
Missouri city have grown to vast proper
tions, while the business interests of
Wichita and other cities in Kansas have
been ruthlessly trampled under foot.
For three years the Sedgwick county
Republican conventions have denounced
this system in the most vigorous terms;
and the last Republican state convention
also demanded a remedy for it in the
most radical and unmistakable language
ever employed on such an occasion. The
late Peoples party convention adopted a
platform commencing the last house OF
representatives for 'passing the maxi
mum freight rate bill, conf
dent that if it had become law the in
terror cities, which are justly complain
ing of discrimination against them by
railroads in favor of Missouri river points,
would find the evil removed" In other
words, the idea Of the Peoples party, as
to the measure of relief which Wichita
ought to have is embodied in that BILL
1t is true that the bill in question
would have lowered rates at many points
and upon many commodities, but 1t is
also true that it was SO constructed as
not only to give legislative sanction TO
many of the most odious determinations
under which we now labor, but in some
cases to intensity them.
Take the live stock schedule, for
instance. As every body knows, Wichita
enterprise has at last succeeded, in
the face of all discouragements, in build
ing up fourishing stock market and
packing industry in our midst; and every
Wichita man hopes to see the day when
our city will be the acknowledged center
of this great business in all the territory
west of the Missouri river. The greatest
drawback to success has been the gross
discrimination against us in favor OF
Kansas City. Let us see then what this
Maximum rate bilI' would have done
for this great branch of business on
which we base so many of our hopes.
The following table will show approx
mately how it would have affected rates
from some of the surrounding towns (se-
lected at random) which ship live stock
to Wichita:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
THE BOOKMAKER'S LOT.
According to One of the Fraternity 10 Il
Not a Happy One.

Not Happy One.
To the average race-goer a bookmak-
er's lot seems a rosy one, but those ia
miliar with the true details of the bust
ness know the exact reverse to be the
case.
1t is true that some few have become
rich in the ring, yet how many more
have lost fortunes, the aggregate of the
latter exceeding the winnings of the
former many times over.
Aside from the financial part of the
business, there is an amount of worry
and care, of hard, )aborious work that
would soon dispel ell notions of soft
thing the idea that most people have
big race tracks.
To begin with. the booamaker must
stand on his box for three or four hours
in ring which, as a rule, is hot and
close He is pushed and crowded,
damned and squeezed by the would-be
plungers in their frantic endeavors TO
place their bets. Should he put up a
price shade better than the market,
he is rushed at by hundreds who, in
their eagerness to obtain the good bet
ting, almost throw the generous bookie
from his stand. He takes as much Of
this storm of dollars as his limit per-
mits. then should he wipe the price,
with some few unable 10 obtain It. he
is roundly abused by the disappointed
ones.
Another part Of the work which re-
quires the most watchful care is to
avoid errors in counting money, in
making change and in watching for
counterfeits. Strange to say, from the
latter source there is very little trouble.
vet no batter place could be found
to push it were it not that ia the
few cases where the attempt was
made punishment came so quick and Sc
we're that it has served TO frighten those
who would try such a mode of wrong
doing.
In the matter Of making change and
of accepting big amounts of money the
greatest care is necessary. IL often
happens that n man win bet you hun
dred dollars. offering the sum in small
bills In justice to ones own interest
il must be counted, yet must be done
in most rapid style. for delays may be
costly. losing perhaps business that must
be obtained 70 round book up.
These things require far more mental
labor than the unlEnowing can believe,
and taken with the chances Of loss that
must accompany the game, the book
makers bed Is anything but the one Of
roses 80 often told Of b1zt never seen
Henry Schapps, in y. Y. Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
THAT DOUGLASS Litter.

The letter on the railway freight and
maximum rate questions found elsew here
IN this issue, written by Hon. Geo. l.
Douglass, was written and was 10 have
appeared several days ago, but press of
other matters postponed its appearance.
1t l. we'll worth reading. Kansas cannot
afford 30 Jump from ihe frying pan into
the FIRE. Determinations By railways
must be abolished; but there are men.
and business men. too. advocating lines
Of action and demanding enactTnents,
which, If secured, would not only reduce
Wichita SO tie level Of an ordinary
county seat town but put the state in the
financial soup for years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
THAT REPUBLICAN EDITORIAL.
TRUST.

'sIn the multitude of councillors there
is safety" was the remark of Solomon
at time when he was trying to convince
the world that he was the smartest man
that had ever live, but the earl Of Ros-
common with couple of thousand more
years of experience to bank on, declared
that "The multitude Is always in the
wrong" It matters little which was
right, there is less wisdom than was evil
denced by either of these philosophers in
the Geographic announcement OF yester-
day morning that the Republican editors
of Kansas would get togetherC9 in an as
ISOLATION about September /, for the
purpose of working in harmonyC9 for
the success of the Republican ticket.
The Republican editors of Kansas are
ever "a multitude" and they are always
Gin counsel" They are together every
day, and more genuinely in
touch in spirit and in fact,
than they could possibly be
in the hubbub of a social meeting, for
that is all that such an organization
would develop. There never was any
sense to an editorial meeting or to an
editorial association of any kind; outside
of its possible social enjoyments. Every
day an editors life is devoted to the labor
Of expressing his own convictions and of
impressing his individual ideas, together
with those of other editors upon his
readers. If he has an idea he will hardly
fail OF conveying 1t to the average SYM
pathetic contemporary even If he should
fail to impress the public mind with it.
1t can't be possible that any editor who
could make himself felt in a "talke-
talke" would fail with the same ideas in
the quiet of his own Office and
through his own columns. The
truth is the average editor can see more
between the lines of every issue of his
contemporary than he could learn from
him in a month, through either set
speeches or disultory Cabling or con-
viviality.
If bright idea should strike the CEN
trail committee they can transmit it
safely to all Republican editors, under
cover, and much more cheaply and
satisfactorily than by sending for all
editors to come up to Topeka to be en-
lightened. If the present central COM
mittee or the present chosen bands of
speakers and stumpers know anything
that they didn't first learn from reading
the newspapers, then they are the first
lot of the kind ever appearing in the
interest Of the party in this state.
The Alliance editors have been meet
ing for the purpose of being coached by
a lot of old broken down political hacks,
which hacks had suddenly developed
into prophets for and promised saviors
of the people, and so the Democratic edi-
tors, who are now a part and parcel of
the fusion sale and job, also, held such a
conference or two; but as the average
Republican editor is supposed to be an
honest and intelligent reflector, if not
molder, of public opinion, and smart
enough to modify in rejecting, and the
party to whom he addresses himself con-
tanning the vast majority of the patriot
ism, the brains and the energy of the
American people, we see no sense in the
proposed association.