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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
KNOCK OUT SLUGGING.

According to dispatches from New
Orleans it seems moro than probable
that the days of prize fighting in that
city are over. A strong public sentiment
seems to have sprung up there against
| fighting. The New Orleans newspapers
have for the first time opened up a war
on the ring ana are now making strong
demands that the thing be stopped. The
club lost several thousand dollars.
There is talk also that the FitzsimmoDs-
Hall contest was pure fake, those two
worthless agreeing beforehand to divide
the $40, 900 purse.
The incidents of the fight as given in
the dispatches indicated that Hall had
the better of the contest up to the last
moment, just as it appeared in the Sulli-
van-Corbett battle. There are many
who still believe that the Sullivan-Cor-
bett contest was hipprodrome affair
and many others have the same opinion
of the last fight. The real argument
against the brutalizlng sportCo is not
found in these allegations, however:
they are the pleas of the sports who
lost their money on the mills. The prize
ring ought to be suppressed because of
its demoralizing and debasing influence
upon the community. Nine-tenths of
the newspaper readers devour with
avidity the Geographic accounts of the
contests, which are published in response
to such popular demand, and not of the
publishers choice. 1t ought to be stop
nod
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
Odd Statistlcs About Thunder

Thunderstorms are more frequent in
Java than in any other part Of the
world, there being an average of 81
days in each year upon which they oc-
cur. Next to Java comes Sumatra,
which never has less than SO thunder
days" per year. Then comes Hindoo-
stan with Sc, Borneo with 81, the Afri-
can Gold Coast with 80, and the region
around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 81.
The European list is headed by Italy,
with So thunder days out of the 365, on
an average. Austria has %; Baden,
Wurtemourg and Hungary each aver
age 90; Silesia, Bavaria and Belgium
have 81; Holland and Saxony, IS;
France, Austria and South Russia, 16;
Great Britain and Switzerland only Z.
At Cairo, Egypt and in North Russia
and in Sweden and Norway the average
is only per year. In Finland and East
Turkestan thunderstorms are wholly
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
WICHITA IN WASHINGTON.

The news comes from Washington,
where Tom Fitch is at present holding
forth, that in case he don't get what he
went after he will accept the postmaster
ship at Wichita. Eaton is down there
also claiming the district attorneyship of
the state, but hints come from the same
source that Fred Bentley of Wichits is
very favorably mentioned in the last
connection. 1t proved an awful big job
for the Democrats to elect Cleveland,
but bigger one to get the offices after
they got him in. Grover says that he is
tired of the old office seekers. AS for
himself he says he was chosen by the
American people on his merits, which
claim the average Democrat who bores
him cannot make. Billy Jones and
Click and the balance of the crowd cay
that Grover may be tired, but his talk
simply makes them weary. John Martin
don't seem to be in it to any alarming
extent, and Pop PETER simply, strokes
his whiskers, walls his eyes and looks
wise. In the mean time Wichita has
the first assistant secretaryship OF the
treasury,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
ICE TEA.
A Texas Woman's First Attempt 1t Max
Ing the Delicious Beverage.

TEXAS Woman's First Attempt 1t Mak-
Ing the Delicious Beverage.
There is certain good woman, the
wife of a prominent lawyer OF Texas,
who has never lived out of the county
In which she was born. Fer husband
attended court at the different towns of
the state, and his wife listened to his
experiences with wonder and surprise.
The Saturday Gazette gives this story:
He never grew tired of extolling the
virtues of "a big glass of iced tea when
man is warm and tired" and when a
new railroad line was laid out TO his ma
tive town his first commission was for
a quantity of ice.
The wife was neither surprised nor
displeased to have awell-filled ice-chest,
and on the morning after the arrival of
the ice the lawyer requested her to have
Iced tea for supper.
It was an extremely warm day, and
when he took his seat at the table he
was hot, tired and thirsty.
What was mis- surprise to see, instead
OF the Efreshing, amber beverage of
his souls desire, the same old steaming
Brown BETTY teapot, and the cups and
saucers of former days.
Where is the iced tea, Mary2" he
asked.
There it's" she answered, laying her
forefnger on the kissing lid CT Brown
Betty; ''and ii you can tell any differ
ence betwixt it and plain well water
tea, you're smarter than be-"
She had boiled the ice.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14

Beauty Of skin :; I'D purity of blood so
hand in hand. NJ greater blessing than
4 skin without flemish, and body
nourished BY pure blood, is vouchSafej
man or woman IL is the foundation
I health and hap mess. To cleanse the
blood, skin. and 5 alp of every eruption,
imrcfI;y and d. ase, and restore the
hair, no agency IA the world Of medi-
cine Is SO speedy, economical and unfail-
inc as the CVTICURA REMEDIES. Every.
tniR1 ., ut them inspires confidence.
They are absolutely pure, aad may be
uied on the youngest infaat. They af-
ord immediate relief in the most ago
MIXING of itching and burning eczemas,
and other itching, scaly and crusted skin
and scalp diseases. They prevent in
flamation and elogging Of the pores. the
cause of pimpies. blotches, blackheads.
red, rough and oily skin. They speedi-
ly cure humors Of the blood and skin
with loss of hair, whether simple scrof-
ulous, hereditary. or ulcerative. They
cleanse the system Of all impurities BY
internal and external medication, aud
constitute the most effective treatment
Of modern times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
BILLS KILLED.

TIE most important bills introduced in
the late legislature were all killed. Here
they are and our readers can judge fol-
themselves, taht and the Populist senate
is responsible we believe no one denies.
The freight bill killed by the senate
because the house insisted on the
election of railroad commissioners by
the people.
The appellate court bill, killed by the
senate because the governor could not
appoint tie judges.
The congressional apportionment bill,
because the two houses could not agree.
The bill for the reduction of fees and
salaries of county officers, killed in the
senate.
The free school book bill and state
uniformity bill, dead, because the two
houses could not agree.
The judicial apportionment bill, killed
in the house.
The bill giving the governor the super
vision of the agricultural department
and the appointment of its officers, killed
in the house.
Anti-lottery bill, killed in the senate
because of house amendments.
The bill to regulate the sale of oleo-
margarine, killed in the senate.
The bill for the revision of the statutes
failed in both houses.
Bill making appropriation to COM
plete the state house, left ON the house
calendar.
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Arizona jasper.

The jasperized wood Of Arizona has
become well known by reason of the
many cabinet specimens, p or weights
and decorative slabs of it that arc sent
to the eastern cities, but this Is by no
means the only petrifed forest in this
country. In tn e Hsndoo district of the
Yellowstone many stumps OF trees arc
found converted to stone, some of them
showing knots. grain of the wood, and
bark as plainly as the living tree, and
the pebbly beaches of the Yellowstone
river are strewn with tons of fragnents
Of fossil wood. In the dreary desert Of
the Dakota Bad Lands leaf impressions
are frequently found in tho hardened
clay, and 1T Little Missouri, at the point
known as the Burn ing Mountain, where
a coal seam has been on fire since no.
body knows when. there s-e half q
dozen tree trunks about thirty ieet long.
This is remarkable on account of the
almost total lack Of tree life in this
region at present.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14

The point to the action Of the Popu-
lists in the legislature in supporting the
new ballo: law is found in the prohibi-
tive clause which bars from representa-
ton on the boards of elections offices all
parties that fuse with other parties.
This provision bars the Democrats from
the election boards at the first election
held under the new law, and if the let
ter of the law is observed it will like
wise prevent Populists from so serving:
the Populists were just as much a party
10 The fusion last fall as were the fusion
Democrats. Under the law the only
parties that can serve as election officers
will be Republicans, Prohibitionists and
stalwart Democrats.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
PROVISIONS GOVERNING.

GEUDA SPRINGS, Kan, March II, 1893.
Editor Wichita Eagle.
DEAR SIR:-Will you please publish in
the DAILY EAGLE who is entitled to take a
claim in the Cherokee strip under the late
bill. SUBSCRIBER.
The full text of the bill as passed by
congress has not been published in con-
secutive form, but the provisions of the
Oklahoma act in relation to question
asked are understood to apply to the
Strip lands. In other words, there will
be two methods of initiating right to a
homestead-by settlement: and by filing.
The settler will have three months in
which to make his entry, and six months
from date of entry in which to establish
permanent residence. Communication
may be made at the end of twelve
months, by paying the full price Of the
land.
The old sooner law is re-enacted and
an additional clause is inserted that
seems to indicate that prior to issuance
of the proclamation no right will be for
feited by looking over the country. The
clause referred to is as follows:
mo person shall be permitted to occupy
or to enter upon any of the lands herein
referred to, except in the manner pres
cribed by the proclamation of the presl-
dent opening the same to settlement, and
any person otherwise occupying or enter
ing upon said lands shall forfeit all right
to acquire any of said lands"
The safest plan, however, is to stay
out until the day of the opening.
Those who have committed under the
Communication provision of the homestead
laws, or who, ''frem any cause" have
failed to secure title in fee to home
stead under existing law, are qualified
to make homestead entry. This does
not, however, allow those who have
committed in Oklahoma to homestead
again, as the Communication here is under
a special provision, but those who have
relinauished claims in Oklahoma may
fare better. Some lawyers say that they
will be entitled to homestead again IN
the Cherokee strip, while others are in
clined to the opinion that the law docs
not apply to those who have exercised
their rights in Oklahoma.
Townsites can be laid off anywhere,
the cost Of the land being the price fixed
for homestead, it varying from 81 10
So. so per acre.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
DWARFS IN MOROCCO.
Sturted In Growth Because OF Poor Food
and . Rigorous Climate.

and Rigorous Climate.
The existence of a race of dwarfs on
the Atlas range, about which there was
an animated controversy last year,
has received unexpected confirmation.
Walter B. Harris, who has just returned
from a journey in southern Morocco,
communicates the facts to the London
Times. While travelling along the foot
of the mountains ne saw thirteen or
fourteen persons, none of whom were
over four feet six inches in height. ma
tives of the upper mountain regions.
The Moors describe them as "a wild
people, living in built houses in the
rocks and snow, hunting moufon with
extraordinary agility and given to
shooting anyone penetrating TO their
domains" He attributes their small
stature not, as some have asserted, to
the fact that they are the remnants of
the troglodytes, but to the circum-
stances in which they live. He believes
them to be merely certain collection
of Shleh tribes, who, through the high
altitude a: which they live and the ex-
trenes of climate they are subject to,
from their poverty and inability to
raise crops, from the scarcity and bad
quality of such food as they are able 20
collect, have, in the lapse OF centuries.
become OF almost Extraordinarily
stunted growth" On his return jour
ney to the coast Mr.. Harris visited the
arrifclal caves OF Ain Tarsilt, which,
from the height of the roofs and the
size of the doors, windows and alcoves
for beds, We're evidently the work of
dwarfs. He does not venture an opin-
ion, however, as to whether any de-
sceadants OF this people are still living.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14

A British admiral exereis<d porul-
lar privilege recently. shorliing there
By one illustration 10 The question oftsn
presented % the czusoas AZ 20 what
might happen should The s~ESnT officer
OF a ship or feet chosy-, whsn light
bells or sunset" ~ reported 20 him. 70
withhold his Make II 80. pIesse." By
officially delaying sInset for over sn
hour. II wss during the trial Of Nd
rz,iraI Fairfax several weeks a9oL by
the admiralty regulations court mar
,ial. Eay not ri. after suns~1 The
trial was almost over when sunset uas
reported On this day. snd -. admiral.
being anxious 90 conclude The mater.
officially PCT ths sun back. or ordsres.
TIA. it stand Still Ia consequences, al
the ships In Devenpor- kept Their en-
signs firing until after h vas quite
dark.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14

THE COUNTRY DOCTOR.
II Usually Requires . Zig Fee 60 0s1
Him Out Of bed NlghsA

| II Usually Requires . Zig Pee 60 CT
Him Out Of bed NlghsA
an the summer of 1915 ] was So
journine with friend for q few weeks
In little fishing village On tho coast OF
Maine" SAYS q correspondent of the
Detroit Free Press zone night my
friend was seized with . sudden and
painful illness, which neocaxitatad my
summontng the only doctor IN tho
village. who lived on . farm a milo
distant from our hotei, and who COM
bined agriculture with the practice Of
medicine Iaroused The sleephg physi-
clan with some dificulty and stated my
erand. but despite my opportunities
It was against m infsxibls rule To
leave his home as night no matter how
urgent tho call However, he gener-
ously consented to compound n mixture
with which i fastened back TO the
hotel. where found p-J frepd racked
with pain and pleading for medical
attendance I again trsvcrsed tho
road to the doctors house aud thun-
icred At tho door, determined To force
or bride the prl compounds from his
domioila When the identity of tho
intruder was discovered the usually
placid physician became irass and
somewhat abusive In vain I urged
the necessity Of the visit and pleaded
the csuse Of humanity. Finally
offered any fee. h or out OF reason. he
might demand. Thin gradually sofe-
cned him, and looking at me critically
to see the full effect of his words. hs
said: Young man, IL so up there
with you tonight IL viii cost Jon
penny Apprebensive Of . mammoth
fee, beyond the resources Of eompars-
lively slender purse. ! qucried somc-
what timidly; What would you
CHARGE TO which, with the same
quizxicAl look fixed on ry faoe, the
answer slowly came: III go up there
tonight 1t viii cost Jon one dollar and
q half
"Joyously oonsenttng 70 The condition
while conceaiing my szpnsemsnt I
fastened home, and by = recital Of the
story put the sufferer In s.ch rood
hurnor that the doctor, on his arrival.
found the patien: 20 far On the road 60
recovery that two Waits completed the
restoration Subsequently, learped
tina. the fees charged the villagers
during the doctors exclusive prnrticc
among them of four decades had bern
fifty cents for calls made after night
fall and bat half that sam for siAia In.
the DAYTIME"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
For the Eagle.
LIE VASE BRISB.

Translated from the French of Sully Prud
homme by Marie Mathis.]
On the vase that holds this dead verveine
rude careless hand left a mar.
L nheard was the stroke. and unseen;
But the vase and doomed flower felt the jar.
For alas from the wound though so slight;
Oozed the water through the bright crystal
pores
Drop by drop day by day; night by night;
And no kind hand the fair vase restores.
Touch it not, touch it not; it is broken.
Thus oft By the hand that we cherish,
A fatal blow to the fond heart is given.
The sweet flower of love will soon perish,
When the life's crystal vase is riven;
Though unseen by the eyes of the world.
Yet the soul feels the wound s deadly power.
O, alasI wasted tear drops of pearl
And wounded heart that holds a dead flower.
Touch it not. touch it not; it is broken.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
A stormy uooin~.

Gen Butler had a stormy wooing
His betrothed, Sarah Hildreth. was a
New England schoolma'am, and firing
Of the profession she went On the stage,
whereat Benjamin was full OF wrath
His expost ulations were in vain, how
ever, until one night when Miss Hi
dreth was in Cincinnati playing Pauline
il the Lady of Lyons" he suddenly
appeared behind the scenes, fierce and
stormy. He gave Pauline until the end
OF the play to decide whether she'd be
the Lady OF Lyons or Mrs Butler. She
chose the less conspicuous role and left
the stage.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14

The intent and purpose of Mr.. Doug
lass anti-bribery bill are commendabIe
and right, that is. to purify our elective
system of methods that have become a
scandal upon the community and q
penace to good and pure government;
but it is feared by many that the pro-
visions of the measure are too sweeniner
and exacting to be rigidly and effect
lively enforced. However this NAV be.
certain it is tina. in no department of
our soclo-political economy is there
greater need of reform. II it be true
that the publication of politics is an
iridescent dream, that circumstances
makes the demand for an earnest. hon.
est effort IN that direction all the mora
imperative.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
"TRE WESTERN SETTLER

The passenger department of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail-
way, whose lines run through Kansas,
Colorado, Indian Territory, Missouri and
into Texas, Nebraska, Iowa and Mime
sofa, has issued an immigration paper in
the interest of Kansas under the above
caption. 1t is full of Kansas, but only
of the most reliable facts and statistics.
The paper will be issued for the entire
year, price and copies will be mailed
free for the entire time to any one send
ing his address 10 editor Western Set
tier, Chicago, Ills"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
The wa,Iinr Place OF Congress

There is mourners' corner in one OF
the cloakrooms of the national house Of
representatives andSnother in the SEN
ate cloakroom, where the disappointed
and disgruntled congregate to express
their dissatisfaction with the existing
order of things There, II Is averred,
statesmen gather 20 sit with the corpses
Of their dead hopes and ambitions. and
each place is known locally as cham
Der of signs 4 joke or good story Is
never heard there
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

chandler wants lana Office.
Mulhall has new hotel building 70x7
feet.
The female seminary at Tahlequah Ia
$50 pupils.
Purcell is to have new sl2,o hotel il
| place of the one recently burned.
The Temperance club at Okarche ha
nine Cheyenne Indians on its membership
roll.
| The Democrat says that Edmond il
flooded with dimes made out Of Seen
| pieces.
Guthrie is agitating the sinking Of I
found there.
Farmers in the vicinity of Mulhall are
marketing hogs every day. Plenty of PORK
in that community.
The water of the Caddo Springs, neal
Fort Reno, by actual analysis, is shown te
be the pures5 in the United States.
Mort Bixler says the first legislature
was made quite respectable by the actions
of the last one. Come to think of it, Nor,
was member of the first one.
The prospective settlers near Arkansas
City have sent petition with 2,O00 sigma
lures to President Cleveland praying him
to open the strip in time to plant spring
crops.
A portion of the Cheyenne and Arapa.
hoe Indians are beginning to interpret the
handwriting on the wall and are now
turning their attention to improving their
allOtments.
The boys in the United States Jail at
Guthrie sent piece of poetry three yards
long to the Leader. with the request that
it be published, but the Leader informed
them that three yards We're more than its
poetry machine could manage.
Watonga Republican,: The biennial re-
port of the Territorial superintendent
shows that so per cent of all the school
land leased in the G.. and A. country is
from Blaine county, and that we furnish
9315 per cent of all cash receipts obtained
from such bases.
Three Indians with the picturesque
names of Kish Hawkins, Bird Chief and
Little Coyote are at Oklahoma City. They
are in attendance at the land Office before
which an important land contest in which
they are interested is pending.
Mr.. Dillon has recommended to the de-
partment the advisabilIty of changing the
mails so that they will depart from Wa
tonga at l p' NJ, instead of s a. m, and
arrive at Z p. M, instead of p. N. The
Republican says the mails would thus be
received from Kingfsher just one day
earlier
Captain Forbush with troop E Of the
Fifth cavalry has camped on Chi!occo
creek and are patroling the strip line. The
captain says he has strict orders to escort
to the line all persons who can not prove
that they are simply passing through the
strip. Lettering around and viewing the
country, he says, is strictly prohibited.
Norman Transcript: Mr.. w. H. Stuble-
man received box of whips this week
which weighed 100 pounds. The box came
from Connecticut by way of the gulf. The
peculiar feature of the deal is that 81 paid
all the charge The freight by steamer
from the starting point to the gulf was
just IA cents.
Chandler News: The house last week
passed bill providing that no railroad
shall build within five miles of county
seat or other town without passing through
it, unless there be some unsurmountable
obstacle. This is wise action and will
prevent railway companies from running
towns by coming just near enough to kill
them
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
THE ART INTERCHANGE.

Trysting Place has been given the
palm for exceptional elegance IN execu-
ton. 1t has been pronounced by con-
noisseurs equal to the best examples of
French art. The original costing $500.
the work of Percy Moran whose firus e
painting and artistic costume treatment
are unequalled, is most faithfully re-
produced. No copy of the Trysting has
ever been sold for less than SIC and it TO.
day ornaments the drawing rooms OF
some of the most beautiful and artistic
homes in America We give this bean
tiful picture as a gift entirely separate
and apart from the studies, thirtv-six in
number, given with The Art Interchange
for 1893 to further extend the daily IN
creasing sale and large circulation OF
The Art Interchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-14
A One-Hor.e Railroad.

One of the queerest railroads on this
continent is the Salisbury &c Ravey, in
New Brunswick Il is bat twenty
miles long, and, although it connects
with the Inter-Colonial road, an sd-
mirably constructed line, 1t Is confessed
IL unsafe A printed notice hung up in
the ears cautions passengers that IL is
well to get ont and walk when reaching
certain bridge. and it was long the
custom TO push the cars over this crazy
structure before the mighty engine was
trusted upon its rottiug timbers