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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
roRT SCOTT AND rs MONITOR.

! The Fort Scott Daily Monitor, which
is one of the oldest daily papers in Kan
sas, being iii its twenty-ninth year, has
changed proprietorship again, this time
falling into the hands of two expert
enced newspaper men, the Hons. Jacob
Stotler and \. T. Lee. Mr.. Stotlers
name appears as editor, and that of Mr.
Lee as business manager. Judge Bid
die, who mas been editing the Monitor
for nearly year. in his graceful words
of exit" bespeaks the new manage
ment success.
As the Monitor is one of the oldest
dailies in the west, so Fort Scott is one
of the oldest towns. Fort Scott is not
only an old, but it is a solid city. In
location and composition it is like no
other city in Kansas. The site of the
city is broken, diversified and wonder
fully attractive. And its people, as a
community, are many sided. Inter
mingled in its social, business
and political life are found
the radicalism of New England,
the fire Of the south, the conservation of
The border states and the enterprise of
the west. 1t is an old aristocratic gov
eminent station, planted on freedoms
soil, beside the borders of slavery. with
modern developments; a conservative
southern foundation on which has been
erected a superstructure of western en-
terprlse. The glamor, or atmosphere of
poetry which envelopes it, is not alto
gether due the poet of Paint creek. If
there is a spot in Kansas that could more
than any other inspire the genius of an
lronquill that spot is environed by the
bills and daies, by the woods and de-
clivities OF the Marmaton and Yellow
Paint, their tributary streamlets and
springs and lakes, all found within tie
corporate limits of the unique Fort Scott
As newspaper town, composed of the
elements indicated, its principle daily to
succeed should not, we should Judge, be
either radical or extreme. but rather
many sided, newSy end socially brilliant
Such paper we believe the Monitor,
under its new management. will prove
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
The INCREASE OF CRIME.


Facts from the Gensu~-CsuSes and Com
parisoHs-
Men and women who are not living
merely for to-day must. be- deeply inter
ested in tho efforts which practical phi
Iantropists are making - discover the
causes u crime and pappsrlsIn % rem
edv the mischievors conditions which
now prevail 10 such an alarming ex-
tent. Hidden away 70 a c0usidera Ole
degree IN the great mass - figures
which came into being through The op =
erations Of the eleventh census are facts
that should shock every good citizen
With all the warmth % euloyy the
story of wonderful progress has been
tod again and again, bot only few
references have been made - the abb
norma growth - VIVA. EnaT be termed
The cT.m.aal CASA
Forty year axo there was bu. one
criminal - = $50 zosd y reasons b =
good citizens Ia iss0 tae proportion
evas one .u rs f. ga Increase - g4S
per ceu& 80 a period asr5ns, =, hieh the
Dsfp1 .as$au increased l1r I79 pr cent
Never in she nation. history has eiu-
eatve work a. al 9=s1-iutsor4. hgca
Eearly Sc a-t.ya - for Ten year, past.
re, ts4s tma rae Increase s. t1,e
naza ber o. ttasa rb9 were confined q
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
KANSAS HEADQUARTERS.

The EAGLE suggested the only prac-
teal winning scheme for Kansas at the
Columbian Exposition. that of 'the
Worlds Farmers Headquarters. Fifty
practical, intelligent farmers, from as
many Kansas counties, selected for their
success as farmers,-as grain growers
and as cattle raisers-armed or unarmed
with statistics, would attract a greater
number of other practical and success
tul farmers to Kansas than any other
scheme, however expensive and attrac-
tive. There is no law warranting the
necessary expense to each county, but a
semi-official recommendation from the
governor to the commissioners of each
county suggesting the selection OF such
representative accompanied by few
general details as to the work to be per
formed, would probably meet with lit
tie or no opposition.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
"BLAsPHEMY" AND "REsUBMIssIoN.

From the Kansas Chief.
Why is it that men engaged in great
moral reforms invariably misrepresent
those who differ from them: We last
week referred to a lot of blasphemers
who engaged in the pastime of discuss
ing what part Christ would play IN poll
tics. if he were on earth now. We re-
what be had done before, such men as
u. c. Miner would pursue him for VIC
Iating the law. Now comes the Topeka
Capital, and charges us with blasphemv.
What or whom did we bIaspheme? D.
c. Miner: It will not be long, at this
rate, until the Capital insists that Miner
is Christ, aud commands the public, bv
open letter" or otherwise, to fall
down and worship him. The Capital
also calls lis a resuOmissionlst. There
has not been a word in this paper for
wears in favor Of resubmssion. Bat If
the Capital and n. c. Miner keep on
for year or two longer a they have
been going, they VIII not only bring
about resubmission. bat a repeal of the
prohibitory law. They have piled pro
hibtion upon the Republican party in
season and ont Of season. until they have
made the party very weary, and it isn't
IN a condition to be of much service to
anybody or any cause: aad now. We
suppose, they are preparing 20 saddle
the load upon it again. Some people
never know when TO let Well enough
alone, or to stop when thing has got a
far as it will 20.
u. {. Miller IS simply an iBtermc3-
dler. There is no call Whatever for aias
to desert his pulpit and travel around 70
other towns 10 enforce the law. Such
pecple are always obnoxious, even 10
these who wish 10 see the law enforced.
The law nav be violated IN Fort Scott
and other cities. The reaction would
come and the law abiding citizens would
arise in due time ana apply the remedy.
II outside mesidlers would not interfere.
The PEOPLE can always be trusfeI 70 reg
uia:e their own locai aflrs. and IN =
majority If cases they would eventually
regulate them according T. law and
order: bus people Of spirit ara
not gong 10 submit 20 beng reeu-
lated ~ a tramp sron abroad, WIG COS
around enforcing The law CD q salare
poplphan county comes - ns5g eEfgg-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
ABOUT KANS As.

! A 3-yearold steer raised near Corning
! was sold last week for SiQf 1t weighed
/ 2, 100 pounds.
| Colonel Fl. c. Cross has resigned as a
! director of the Missouri, Kansas and
| Texas road, position which he hes held
! for the past eighteen years.
Now that the state board of railway
commissioners is TO he reOrgaDzed there
is Lively scramble for the position OF sec
rotary. There are already score of apnli-
cants.
The Madison News takes pains to deny
the story that all Of the municipal officers
there this spring were keeleyites. The
mayor is graduate. but none of the
others We're ever shot"
The Kansas fruit crop may be a little
short, but short crop IN Kansas IS equal
10 a full crop in most OF the other states.
Same as to the wheat crop; we may have
10 acknowledge the corn later on.
The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the
General Association of Congregational
ministers and churches OF Kansas Will be
held at Great Bend May 4. D, G. and S,
with Rev d. D. belong of Arkansas City
acting as moderator.
At the next meeting of the pigeon fam
cers Of Kansas, June IS. there will be a
race of carrier pigeons, the circuit to en-
brace Leavenworth. Wichita and Topeka.
1t is proposed that the birds be liberated
from the roof of the National hotel, aud
Topeka's birds liberated at Leaveuworth
and Wichita, many OF them being now in
training,
It is now given ont. bold. by the Demo
cratic leaders of Kansas that their party
will sweep the state in 1894. electing its
state ticket and a majority OF the legisla-
ture. The claim is based upon the notion
that the Democratic party Is the only
party against woman suffrage. and it viii
unite all the dsaffected members Of the
other parties, aud then be able TO sweep
the state.
It is limited that the new board of rail
way commissioners will rescind the order
of the old board giving the interior jobbers
of the state Missouri river rates The
Willingness expressed by the railroad maG-
ayers 10 comply with the old boards
order. the Injunction suits to the contrary
Notwithstanding, Is the cause alleged FOR
the proposed countermand from the new
board The Populist idea Is to ind out
what the railroads want and then do the
contrary thing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

ing the law as any other county in the
state. There are violations in the coun
ty, but it is almost Invariably by low
and irresponsible men, who have 10
properly or interests here. but are ready
10 get up and run on short notice. Yet
some of these men ire caught and con-
| vlcted every court: and no outsider has
I ever stuck In his nose 10 regulate affairs.
| 80 1t viii be in other counties, If the
law abiding people are left TO do II.
! One OF the greatest curses 10 Kansas,
and one Of the greatest drawbacks to the
enforcement of the law, has been tile pc
] lice commissioner law, under which the
| affairs OF the larger cities are taken out
of the hands OF the people. Tals law
| may have worked moderately we'll in
| Topeka where the law would have bean
as we'll enforced without II. but it has
not been in any other city. 1t has re-
| ieved the citizens of all responsibility In
| the matter, and placed the administra-
! ton OF the law in the hands of men not
accountable to the people. These men,
as rule, have virtually licensed saloons
for their own benefit, and used
them as auxiiiaries to carry elections.
| Those who feared that Governor Level
ling would abolish these commits ions,
We're poor calculatorS. They are just
the thing he wants. They Will afford
rich picking for him and his gang. AMI
be powerful agencies in assisting his
party.
The thing that ]. X. Hudson ana d.
Z. Miller need TO do, is TO see that a reso-
luton is inserted III the next Republican
state platform, pledging the party III
favor o. the prohibitorv amendment,
and the laws enacted to enforce
it. That Will include this police
commissioner law. II any Repub- I
lican interposes the plea that the law
should stand upon its own merits. like
other laws, and not continue as q polit
zeal issue. call him a biasphemer, OF
resubmissonist, or whiskyiJe. There
are thousands Of good Republicans, yOt- 7
ing the straight ticket, who opposed the
prohibitory amendment, but are now
content to let it remain. and throw 10
obstacles in the way OF its enforcement. .
1t is well enough to hit them slap In the F
face occasionally, TO remind them Of .
their past error. Men who are good and .
holy, and are paid for being so, should
tolerate no difference of opinion III the
ranks. TO be sure, this course may
diminish the ranks; but what's the dit
ference, so long as YOU have the gesolu-
ton IN the platform:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
1rman's city indebtedness is less than

Norman's city indebtedness is less than
$500
Lincoln county officers have taken pos
session of the new court house.
Judge Beach OF Syracuse, y. Y, is the
latest asp rant for the governorship.
J. l. Browns claim, ten miles south Of
Edmond. sold for * 900 the other day.
\ new opera house at Purcell is an as
sured fact. and is 10 be completed by Sep
tember first
Coal in large quantities has been discov-
cred in Shackleford ana Stephens counties
IN the panhandle OF Texas
The Canadian Tex Enterprise is Of the
opinion that gentle spring should go into
the kitchen aud warm her feet.
Duncan. RYAN and Terral are all striv-
ing for the title Queen City OF the PFsi-
RE" The war Tor the supremacy bids
fair to be 2 battle royal.
Cave digging is becoming quite prsga-
lent. It will not be long until Oklahoma
viii he known Is the region OF ibe cave
jewellers il it keeps M much Logger
TownsIte board No has now moved
over the other wholesale liquor store IN
Tie Victor building. NJ retail has ness
VIII supply the demands OF No. 8, says the
Leader.
Oklahoma Gazette: Last Friday n.cht
thirteen society young men Of Guthrie 81 q
..l a = vgsr 10 escape the impending storm
There ! uothiog stuck up about cur
society when a cyclone Is hesdsi ,h.s way.
A O6l .horna editor says he has been
invited % spend = part % TIE summer az
4 seaside resort. aud tnar hls vile mas 81
rsady purchased g quarter OF p ysrl G.
azauel C MAKE bathing suits t5r she chill
iTeu.
Chandler News: J2lge Mason Is q
rustler Ca saturday morning ae granted
,,yo d3vorc=s, married oae c0Gp.e All -
sued two marriage licenses a.. IN 0aa
hour. Ca Monday &c eoek ;he stlal03y
CO six witnesses IL q cca;es, ca.e, received
one granted. u:a.viesl ole eoG2.l, ard
-lasca=sl q basl gam.
Leader Notice for tie formation -
school districts u logan cGaotT are bs.n=
poste1 np ta.. geeE After ;gTeaty leys
autsce II IKE formation o. . usw G.sl--c-,
s=n days notice mus ~ Go8 .or The
=.sctia7 Il officers J SPECIAL slses - y..s
,sa called ,a5s yesr sa~gzs re f3r>s srfea "a
iaae, bgsg hereafter gAe gesa.s- dtsgr RIGS
meeting NJ. IS beid tbs seco1d Iassl--
a Mas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
TIE DIZZINESS OF BUSINESS,

70 ne Editor OF the Eagle.
Complaints are being heard i'll all parts
of the country that business Is very dull.
The uncertainty in regard to the
finances, and the tariff at Washington.
is having tendency TO destroy conf
dence and the people who have money
are not inclined 10 invest it IN business
enterprises, as they fear that such in
yestments viii not give them any profits
In the east there Is more activity N real
estate thar anything else. Money Is be
ing put into that as the safest invest
ment that the holders can find. Il viii
not be surprising if investors begin to
put their spare money into gold, belisv-
ing that it will be retired from circula-
ton as money, and so to a premium.
Daring the past week the S10o, 000. 600
reserve has been encroached upon 10 the
extent Of about s.. 00o, GOO. in exchange
for legal tender notes and Ger
titicates. The parties holding those
notes know that they viii com
mand gold coin whenever pre-
scented. Secretary Carlisle mas threat
ened to redeem the legal tender n silver
instead Of gold. The moment that Is
done undoubtedly gold VIII 20 10 4 pre-
MUM. 1t will be the most successsu Ill
means Of sending gold TO premium Of
any he could possibly adopt. Siaca the
election last fat there ms been en- aver
age decline OF stocks Of over = q share.
The uncertainty il regard 70 the silver
question, and as to whether the govern
ment NIL try To maintain gold payments,
Is causing Zeneral jepTeSsica II prices
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

he recent decision of Insurance Com
missioner Snyder, wherein he denies
foreign insurance companies doing busi-
ness in the state the right TO appeal cases
from the state to federal courts. is pro
voking considerable discussion in the
press Of the state, some criticisjng the
ruling and some defending it. The In
surance Magazine of Kansas City, Kan,
Elk Commissioner Wiider's periodical, is
among the critics and offers something
OF an explanation of the reasons why
appeals have been taken from the state
TO the federal courts, which explanation,
while somewhat overJrawn, contains
much Of fact and truth. 1t saws:
Federal judges, as a rule. are more in
telligent and impartial than the district
judges of the state courts. No lawyer
will deny this assertion. And during the
past two years, the Kansas district Judges
have deteriorated in talents and in char
acter- There IL no doubt about the truth
Of this statement. Que mal WAS elected
district judge two years aud 4 half ago
who bad never studied law: no know Ell re
of law. no practice before the courts. no
experience. That was an extreme case,
but il illustrates the general decline all
over the state in recent years OF ability
and character IN district judges. i IL ii
wonder that the protection OF the federal
courts i sought.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

In 1877 Thseheray went % live n
Young street. and once pointing ont.
the bow Vindowed cottage 20 an in
quiring friend n . d "a have remarked:
GO down on your knees. you roepe.
fpr here Vanity Fair was pcnned. and
! viii 20 down with Won for nave a
high opinion % that little production
myself Here hr also wrote -
mond. and ons Of the houses close bg.
30 kensiugton square, has been chssra
a. the nome Il Lady CastiryTood and
Beatrice. Ia isGs Thackeray re-
moved from CnsloT4 SQUARE. szherc
Y he Negcomes and The Eirginlans-'
bad been composed. 10 the houas. hs
bad bulls himself IN Palace Green. a,s.l
remaining q the old court sul.ssfc Z.
with is iesfy trees and gardens. =,
which he was 20 much attached Her,
u vas that the completion ~ Denis
Buvs! vas cut snort bY hi. lau,.a,ei
death IN the following year.-cnass!
ber,' Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

sx=zzszxzzs=znzz.rss-z=-z
peniteutlar}cS and lsiis ami reiurI.1l.
tory institutions was almost twice a
RAPID as tue speed Of populatiVe growth.
Comparisons with conditions N Great
Britain are tar from encouraging. for
there the number Of criminal eapvic-
tons has decreased. 81 hile the popuIa-
ton and the general prosperity have
increased. Henry VI. Doles, IN his
Prisoners and Pnupers," shows :hat
criminal convictions Ia England have
fallen from &. 03S IN tSGa % 9, S!> ia I~S9
in Scotland from $50 10 /. rs for the
same years, and IN ireland from G,pSi IN
1870 To .32l Ia $50. That such improve
ment is due 10 the innate goodness Of
the British character is an improba bic
conclusion which some British statist-
clans have hastily reached; much OF the
betterment really resulted from whole
sale immigration of the least dcsira hle
classes to British colonies and u the
United States
And this deduction, supported by
facts that can not successfully bc con-
verified, is an unansw era Bile argument
in favor of a reasonable restriction of
immigration. Twenty per cent of this
country's population is practically for
eign. and that one-fifth OF the whole
furnishes more than half the inmates
of our reformatories. over one third OF
our convicts, and nearly three-fifths %
all the paupers supported in almsh0uses.
Paupers of foreign birth or parentaxc
are numerically equal to all the native
white and colored dependents. and vet
there are Americans OF prominence who
insist that every port shall be kept wide
open.
But the entire burden Of blame must
not be laid upon the nations that have
maliciouslv taken advantage of our gen.
crosby, for some of the depreciating
causes are domestic. There has been
vastly increased intemperaaee. from
which most crime springs: there - "A
constant movement of the population
toward and into the cities. and there "a
unintellgent application OF the laws
framed TO prevent crime. IL must bc
evident then, that whatever missionary
work is done should bee done in the
cities To demagnetize the ccnters 20
tica mind AT once turns TO an iuvesti-
CATION Of the methods bv which city
conditions may be reformed.
As Mr. Boles saws. There i 40
sound reason why people aggregated
into dense communities by natural in
stincts, and finding in such communi-
ties the mode If living there superior
ia physical. intellectual and moral adj
vantagcs, should be deb8sed by concen-
tration. but in spite - the absence -
the reason. the appalling fact b. IN full
view. The Star rs not pess,m istic---
this seems % be n pleasant sr.rt ~ n
world. anyhow-bnt jt can not help sce-
ing how thin is the partition dividing
the refBeulnt Of our urban civil ization'
AMI the dcmOraliza ion aud anarchy
toward which statistics indicate that
we are moving vith tremendous speed.
Washington Sta-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
Coi1nnunlt

Consul General New declined demon
stration that was proposed by the repre-
sentatives of the English government and
The snobs of English society in his honor
anent his withdrawal from the public
service Of the United States at the
American consulate at London. This
VIII be the last time such a demonstra-
ton will he declined by a representative
of the United States in that position, for
four years ut least. No Cleveland an
pointee will deny himself the honor OF
being feed by royalty in England or
anywhere else.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

Much local interest is felt in Topeka in
The meeting Of the state board of chart
ties which will be held in that city to-
morrow. The meeting will be an inn
p0rtant one to some persons there, as in
addition to letting the contracts for fur
nishing supplies to the various state in
stitutions, the board will elect officers
for the Topeka insane asylum and for
the reform school.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

At the rate of progress so far made in
the matter of opening the strip to settle
ment and from the manifestations of
concern by the present dynasty at Wash
lnston in accomplishing that long desired
and, to many, vital contamination, it
VIII probably be done some time next
spring-in 1894. The interests of the
individual Office seeker is paramount of
consideration TO the welfare of an entire
community
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

~ Who Is that little rnaH "a king, 70 all
tao=s people crowding zoors, him. H..s
been attracting NJ end Of attention To-
Z ight
~. hsvsn't ron heard Of Jlnksn..
ne great explorer. jus. returned from
sls sxped tion into the very hear, a
BuHgapo0. where he bad the raoss
thrilling exp@riensnresT~
certainly. sad gen don't Tel ne
tbst's Jinklnsy
Ca uo' = n,elas sat here. TaAss
FirklnS. Nho claims that he uas3 % 70
- Sec sarne school ritA Jia<.n.g-
Drase's Magazine
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

Some of the Pop managers have the
manhood to kick against the reform
state officers who with their families and
invited friends have been swinging
around over the railroads Of the state in
special cars at the combined expense of
the railroads and of the people. They
have been having a gay time of it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05
Governor Lewelling is at present er

Governor Lewelling is at present en-
gagged in the laudable effort of squelch-
ing that little hairbrained defamer and
squirt, Osborn, whom the Populist party
nominated and elected secretary OF
state. Had the governor commenced
his squelching efforts about the time
DoSter finished that inaugural address
he would have saved the people of Kan
sas millions of dollars.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

The governor of Oregon may not be a
states Fighter as that term is commonly
interpreted, but he is jealous enough of
the dignity and prerogatives of his ad.
ministration as the states chief execu-
live. His reply TO the president through
Secretary Gresham of ''you attend to
your own business and I viii attend to
mine," is enough TO delight the hearts of
the Calhoun doctrinaires wheresoever.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

The failure 10 invite ex-President Hai,
rison and ex-Nice President Morton &c
attend the naval review in New York
aud the opening Of the fair at Chicago
may have been unintentional, but il
looks like a deliberate and intentional
slight. If so, it reflects Infinitely greater
discredit upon the parties who are re-
sponsible for it than any one else, and
shows how small some great - people
really are
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-05

Missouri's horticultural exhibit at the
malapropos as is the Dysche collection
OF wild animal is for Kansas. The for
mer consists principally of yuccas, cen
fury plants, India-Nbber trees and
other tropical growths that have no
relevancy to the climate, soil or other
conditions of that state outside of the
green house seclusions.