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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
A wELL-FoUNDaD OPINION.

j. ". Reinhart, president of the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad svs.
tenn, is IN Washington. lie has lust re.
turned from an extended tour over the
company's lines in the west, and has had
an unusually good opportunity of study.
ing the financial condition of the country
in various sections. In speaking of the
depression in business he said:
The railroads OF the country have felt
the hard times just as other businesses
have, but an improvement is now OBJ
servnble. Ordinary railroad traffic is
really the transportation Of The neceSsi-
ties of life of the people, and while the
bulk OF these may be cur for time
under the direct pressure of a panic,
they must inevitably return to their
former proportions. People will and
must have food and clothing and the
railroads must transport these articles.
The depression, however, in manufac-
lures does not show much improvement
as far as ] can see. The depression is
Que, in my opinion, to fear of tariff re-
vision. and find that the generally ac-
copied opinion among the manufacturers
Nheracar / ao
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
ABOUT KANS AS.

The Newton Turn Verein will celebrate
the tenth anniversary of its founding or
Nov. 10.
The Democrats of Barber county have
nominated fall ticket and passed resolu
tions scoring the Populists.
Fred Chadwick, one OF the suspected
Mound Valley robbers, has been released
from Jail because of lack of evidence
against him.
A Hartland mans horse bucked with
him. the other day, and when the man
was picked up both arms and both legs
were broken.
Burglars stole several hundred dollars
worth of guitars, .violins aud other musical
merchandise from Vernon Brothers store
in Salina Monday night.
The churches are still holding ice cream
festivals at Lawrence. They just prepare
the cream and set it out for few hours;
the weather does the icing.
! Leayenworth has woman candidate for
coroner. By the time she is through
questioning witnesses there will be no
question about the verdict.
The new state banking law which gives
the bank commissioner control Of all pri-
vats banks, has been decided constitu-
tiona by Judge West of Fort Scott.
The Bride family that left Oberlin a
month ago for the strip has not been
heard from. 1t is feared that in trying to
see some sooner's blind their reign was cut
off
The Topeka Journal says it isn't safe in
that city for people with gold filling in
their teeth TO go out alone after dark.
One dentists Office has been robbed al
ready.
The Lockwood Mortgage company Of
Anthony, Kan, has filed an amended
charter in the Office of the secretary of
state, reducing its capital stock from $500.
900 to $4,000.
John Diebold was found guilty. T tuesday,
evening, in the district court of Doniphan
county, Of murder in the second degree, in
the killing of Marion Cornelius PDyerd in
a melon patch near Doniphan last Sep
TENDER.
The secretary of state has filed the char
ter of the Mennonite Orphans and Chill
dren's Aid society of Halstead. Its pur-
pose is to care for and maintain orphans
and other needy children and to teach
them to live useful lives in Christian
manner, either by keeping them in an
orphan home or by placing them with
Christian families. retaining, however,
entire control and supervision over them.
One firm in Atchison is shipping Car
load Of cabbage every day. Most of it is
raised by farmers of Atchison county. The
Champion says it WAS thought for while
that the cabbage crop would be cut short
on account of the hot winds, but the late
rain brought it out all right, and the crop
is immense and the cabbage of fine quality.
By neglecting to file Il certified check for
10 per cent of the amount of his bid, J. N. |
Anderson of Emporia lost the contract
for the new wing of the State Normal |
school. although it was nearly 81, 900 lower |
than any other, and the state board of |
public works will award the contract to !
the next lowest bidder.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
WILL ORG ANjzE NEW PARTY
From the Hutchinson News.

From the Hutchinson News
So the Pops are going to organize a
new party. Going to bring on new
horse, as 1t were. The old Jaw Eve See
Of sub-treaSury nonsense and fat fan
doodle that was to bring the demagogres
under the Wire ahead of everything else
on the track has been stricken with null
hilarious ailments. 1t is wind broken.
spawned and sweenied. 1t has wind on
the stomach and water on the brain. |,
has thrown up It's tail at the first quar-
ter-stretch and VIII now be turned on,
TO grass. Poor old played-out Pop
donkey. Its ears were too lonr. and il
had too many cookie burS in It's tail. II
was sorry nag at best; but ii suffered
most at the hands of Us doctor,
and stable boys. PETER sweated the
poor beast under his fit blanket.
while Prohibitionist John Peter ST. John
administered water and brandy fore
anu Mrs. Lease ginger aft. Jerry Simp-
son Jockeyed 1t i'll front OF the grand
stand, keeping the blind eve away from.
the crowd. IL held its bead high and It's
tail u. Ii cut quite dash in tile pre-.
liminary scoring, and more than once
kicked 1t heels over the dashboard. Bal
when the go was given it and it found
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
KEEP OUT OF DEBT.
An investor in western mortgages puts

An investor in western mortgage puts
the query" What are you going to do now,
since you will no longer be able to borrow
money in the east?" This pre-supposes
that borrowed money is indispensable in
developing the west. 1t is fact that
foreign capital judiciously invested may
be used profitably, bnt to assume tina.
we are unable to thrive without it is, we
think, erroneous. Taking the experience
Of the last few years as a guide it is a
matter of doubt whether, considered as
whole, kanas has not suffered by
having too much credit. A very large
percentage of the money borrowed on
mortgages has been for speculative use
only. Not only has it gone into this chan
mel but the property mortgaged has been,
for the most part, of class not suscepti-
bic of permanent improvement. A loan
of $500 on an unimproved quarter in the
arid region of western Kansas or bal
loon of a house on somebody's far-off
addition adds nothing to the wealth of
state Or community. Money borrowed
by shiftless farmer on his acres. which
but for the fact that it is easily Obtained,
is an actual hindrance TO better efforts to
gain a livelihood by legitimate work.
The merchant who launches out beyond
his depth, simply because he is able
TO borrow money TO buy surplus
stock, is doomed to failure, whereas
he might have succeeded within
prescribed limits. There are exceptions
to the rule, but the large majority would
fare better, in a business way, to operate
on a. smaller scale than to attempt to
sail craft which is sure, sooner or
later, to drift upon the rocks.
Touching the matter of depending
upon our own resources there is no state
of the Union better equipped for this
than Kansas. With what we have al
ready provided in the way of markets
aud carrying facilities we have but to
depend upon the best brain and Drawn,
as applied to the means which nature
has given US, to build up community
Of wealth and general prosperity. Our
annual surplus is the bank of deposit
from which we may draw
the funds to provide every article need
ed from abroad, and create handsome
sinking fund besides. We are rich in |
The variety as well as the quantity of |
products. We have the geographical
position for commercial centers; we
have facilities for manufacture; we |
have mineral deposits of untold value
and our resources for agriculture are all
hat we choose to make them.
No, we are not in neea of eastern
money, though cur inquirer assumes too
much in saying it cannot be had. There
S plenty Of money now seeking invest
nent in good mortgage securities; but it
5 safe to say that season of dependence
lpon our own efforts would not be an
lnmixed blessing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

That CALIFORNIA; midwinter exposition
will present features of an international
character as well as be display of the
industries and products of The state has
been assured by the number Of foreign
applications for space and the promised
transterence TO the grounds of many of
the worlds fair exhibits and the most
attractive entertainments now on the
midway plaisance. California is evil
DENLY determined upon getting up an
exposition that will be worth a mid
winter trip across the continent,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
Emcient WeapOuS.

The government ordered 325 Holtzer
shells two years ago, and last Friday
tests were made at Sandy Hook. N. J.. +,
of the second 100 delivered under the
contract. The S-inch shells weigh 800
pounds each, are % inches long and cost
$40. The 1Oinch shells weigh 575
pounds, are 30 inches long and cost $500.
The 1O-inch gun required 100 pounds of
powder for every shot fired. Five tests
were made and the great shots ploughed
through armor plate III inches thick,
with an oak back, without doing them.
selves any harm whatever. Each shot
fired cost the government from $500 to
81 200, an III inch armor plate alone
being worth "a, 900.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
How Dime Novels ars,sgads.

One Of tbs mos. interesting things
about dime novels and summer iite.s-
ture is the way they are made There
is an esta blishment in Ne. York vi ich
prints 5000 novels al hour They
have . machine insisting of two CYL
indcrs, on each of which 14s pagss
may be screwed. and as tho long strip
Of paper goes through frst one side Is
printed and then the other. making 10
possible 70 print 2ss pages At every
revolution The strip Of paper. after
being carried over roiiers which dry
the ink. in cut, folded and brought to-
gether in the shape of q ssnsli veluns,
with the edges all trimmed. Every
sime the great cylinder goes around .
novel is printed. folded and trimmed,
and .. 600 Of these are turned ous every
hour. while, IL it we're necessary. 7,eyH
or 1000 might be the quota The COZ.
ering does not take long. fifty being
the average for . minute The paper
costs nearly ave times a. much al the
printing and mounts - high a. tive
cents = novel The whole cost for The
meehanIeal cops.rucsion Of these books
il not more than three cents . piece.
Ths most laboriozs part 10 in ~ writ
ing and reading Of them
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

itself really in race, it funked; it fell
down; brandy and ginger would not
save it, and all the hostiers couldn't put
it on its feet again. There it lies. The
managers believe it will be easier to
lasso another wild BRONCO than to put
the old nag in racing trim again.
So the Pops will organize q new party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
The nublic will he Glad 70 sac tho Iorg

The public will be glad TO see the long
and tedious debate in the senate ended.
but we are not sure that Mr.. Voorhees,
plan of forcing vote by exhausting the
physical energies of the obstructionists
will accomplish that purpose. The plan
has been tiled before and we do not re-
member that it has proven great sue
cess. 1t certainly can win after pro-
longed struggle. The question ought to
be settled one way or another,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

: The learned judges of Kansas City,
Kansas, are gravely discussing as to
whether or not ''policy" is gambling.
The Lawrence Journal thinks not, that
is. the kind of policy they have in Kan
sas City, Kan; that in order to make it
gambling it would have to be a game of
chance, and the fellows who play the
Kansas City, Kan, policy games have
no chance whatever
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

What the tornadoes of the south lack
IN frequency, as compared to the western
twisters, is more than made up IN de-
structlveness. The last one that swept
the northern coast of the gulf, ten days
ago, destroyed more lives than the COM
bined storms in the west have during a
dozen years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

Took Them from Life In Roth raseA
Miss Fortune-Do you take oil youf
characters from lie?
New Novelist-lnvnriably.
Miss Fortuue-How different yo0
must find your present career from your
former occupation
New Novelist formerly IN under
taler)-Not at all: I bave always taken
my characters from Efc.-Once . Week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

1t is announced from Topeka that
warrants on the treasury will be issued
this week for lie payment of expenses
aggregating S9,911.71, on account of the
military department, as follows: State
encampment, $3,Si3.73; Weir City
strike, 1,267.99; the court martial of
Colonel Hughes, 81. 700; pay roll, s., 900.
That settles it--for the present.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

Lawrence Journal: 1.-The house has
passed the bill repeating the federal cleo
ton law. AS the south has never paid
any attention whatever to the law, and
as they have violated it with impunity,
it is difficult to see why they were SO
anxious to have it repealed" Ia point
of fact they are not, by half, as some of
the metropolitan dough-faces of the
north
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

More silver and gold srs $50 N
the Industrial arts in the Usised states
than IN any ethsr country. Oar ausi
consumpsisu Of gold fer tAs pusyoss
amounts 70 over sis. eos .oes. and Il al
yer 20 over 81, Gee. ccs. Germany IL me
next greatest consumer Of tbs pree.ous
metals for manufacturing purpos<a,
and szch year works up ssos, si.. sse..
900 WORTH Of goid and soos. % eco eeo
worth Of silver. Frs.ee .xes sbous
se.eSc. Goa worth Of gold ssd u. 90. 80
worth Of sdvex
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
Governor Altgeld's abnormal X

Governor Altgeld's abnormal weak
ness for clemency TO criminals has re-
suited in the pardoning of ninety five
convicts in less than seven months. This
is the sort of executive laxity that breeds
social disorder and lynchings. Ii there
be very little anarchy in this country. as
Altgeld says, his course is sowing the
seed for larger crop of that undesira-
BILE element in the society of the future.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

Since Jan. 1, last, 2,040 miles of new
railway have been laid in the United
States. Over 1000 miles have been laid
since July /, of which Pennsylvania LAID
1854, North Dakota 1874, Texas 40, Mis-
souri, 1877, while Kansas laid but Is. 40.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
Understands 1t Now.

From the Kansas Chief.
we see II stated In an exchange that
Psstana, Republican candidate for con-
gress IN the Sixth district last fall, re-
Gently refused to address an old soldier
picnic because there was beer sold on
the grounds. We have long wondered
whether there was not some other cause
for his overwhelming defeat besides the
fact that he called himself Harry. Now
wecan understand it. He is too good.
lie should have lived in the age Of Enoch
and Elijah, when such good men were
snatched alive up into heaven. away
from this wicked world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

Albert Griffin denies that he has quit
the Republican party; that his engage
ment to stump the state for the PopS is
simply matter Of business. ProfitIng
by the example and experience of John
Peter the Saint. eh:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

The total cost of enforcing the Geary
exclusion act has been estimated at 81
100000 Tie people OF this country
should be served with a very high order
of craftsmanship, considering what they
are called upon to pay for it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
Exa~tneaA.

Jess-Jack's entire thouehtfuinso
was what captivated me
Bess-Wl,at did he Say 70 you when
he proposed to your
Jess--It ran thus: ''I have nevey
loved O woman as I do you since
since-(refer,ing to his note book
since-let me sec-russday, the 18th
July."-Bostou Globc.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

Irl Hicks predicts after the 10th it VIII
grow warmer followed by continual
storms with gales. Storm period, Ioth
to 18th, will take more wintery aspect
snow in north and west, followed 10y
freezing weather.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

Globe-Democrat: Governor Boies iost
his grip in Iowa when the Republicans
quit fooling with prohibition, and the
result of the coming election will make
him hopeless political Renaissance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
A Barbarous Invention.

From the Troy Chief
Martin Mohler was right. when he said
that the man who invented barbed wire
ought to be hung. The saving to farm
ers IS many times offset by the ruin or
death of horses and cattle, to say moth
ing of people. In Nemaha county, last
week, a German farmer was thrown
from his buggy to a barbed wire fence,
and bis heau was almost severed from
the body.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

The Lawrence Gazette denies that
CONGRESSMAN Curtis is to introduce
bill in congress appropriating s2,ooo Tor
tie relief of the Topeka fair.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
EXCHANGE EPITOMEs.
A Consolation.

One sweetiy solemn thought
Comes to me DER and DER
The Only Populist rule on earth
Lasts only one year more.
-Emporia Gazette,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

-Customer-''Do you suppose YOU can
take good picture OF rnc?' Photog.
rapher-'I shall have to answer you In
the negative, sir"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
Jim Legare's Renig.

From the Lawrence World.
Jim Legate is among the missing.
The fact is that Jim is so disguised in
getting into a party where there are
men meaner than he is that he is not
playing any this year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
A Pat Smile.

From the Mound Valley Herald.
A Georgia paper says: Gwen Kansas
has nothing like this: "A drummer who
drove out to saw mill in the vicinity of
Cordele recently declares that he got
onto road that was SO crooked that he
met himself coming back" That is
like some of the old soldiers of Kansas
who Joined the calamityites. A good
many OF them have met themselves
coming back,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
An Cnquenchable Fire.

In South Carolina there burns fire
that is not quenched. The Columbia
State declares that civil war is TO be the
inevitable consequences of the acts of
king Tillman,' who, it says, contem-
plates "quartering armed forces on the
cities Of South Carolina without their
consent" This action, the State warns
the "curs of low degree, who stick abou t
Illlman's footstooI," wilt "lead to revo-
luton" In South. Carolina the "fire-
eater" always finds something to eat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

For Sheriff.
B. r. ROYSE.
For Treasurer,
JOHN A. DOkAN;
For Register of Deeds,
s. l.. BARRETT.
ForsCounty Clerk,
M CARVIN.
For Surveyor.
". h. KEc Sick.
For Coroner,
NJ. NJ. MCCOLLlSTER.
For Commissioner,
f. WEBB.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1893-08-25


Nueva York, Agosto Io-En Ia
Camara de los Comunes, de Londres
Icl Sub-secretario de Negecios Ex-
tranJeros, contestando una pregun-
ia, nego que el Tribunal Arbit,al
concediese a los americanos monora-
lilo alguno para la caza de focas,
Anadio que las obligaciones que Fl
Tribunal imponfa Inglaterra en- ~
da perjudicaban sus intereses.
Mr.. Gladstone anuncio que presen-
tarla una mocion para que toda dis
custom sobre el Home Rule Bill el
viernes proximo fuera desechada.
Mr.. Chamberlain manifesto que prc.
sentaria una contraposicion, pues luz
gaba que era degrs 9te para la Ca
una mera maauinAstIs AstIsta9lntar-n,.i..a.>se-<- g
ponsal, asegurando que durante les
desordenes tuvo lugar una verdadera
batalla en- la que quedaron SO nue.
tos $50. heridos La calma sc ha
restablecido, pero solo bajo la promo
sa del Alcalde de que no Sc emplea
rfan mas trabajadores italianos bara-
tos en- las Salinas.
Nueva-York. idem 2I-Dicen &c
Londres que Mr. Gladstone ha expire
sado la opinion de que Ell voto hpsI
sobre ell Home Rule Bill en- la Cama
ra de los Comuues tendra lugar cl ;
del corriente. Sc teme que la esiA-
bilidad del ministerio sc quebrant..
mas causa de disensiones intestiias
que por la oposicion de los Unioniy
tas; los liberales ingleses, escoceses Y
los del piincipado de Gales imponiet-
do ciertas condiciones sus votos.
Telegraflan de Paris que todos les
muertos en- Aigues Mortes fueron ita
lianos con exception de uno y que
los disturbios han tenido por caus
odios politicos y nacionales. La pre-
sa romano excita al pueblo para que
pida reparaciones prontas y amplias.
En- varias poblaciones de Italia han
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1893-08-25
A DESTROY SINIESTRO

Venimos observando con pena que
Sc introduce, POGO q POGO, suavemen-
te, una practical inadmisible para el
nombramiento de alcaldes.
La ley pone al gobernador en- el
case de elegir 4 esos servidores del
pueblo con sujecci6n 4 las ternas. Y
Ell gobernador los nombra.
Acudir Madrid, no existiendo
circuns tancias excepcionales justi6-
cadas, serla como posponer y ridiculi-
zar la obra del ministro.
7 llegar1a un instante en- que las
consultas, repitiendose a menudo,
fijarlan la atenci6n de los poderes su-
premos.
A ESQ, y al caracter integro del
General Daban, atribuye ell pals la
unprecedented que consiste en- nom
brar sesenta alcaldes conservadores,
dentro de la terna, y, dentro de la
terna tambisn. dos al@aldes aqtono-
mientos, la mayor1a pertenece al CRU
DO incondicional, Y resultan, desde
[uego, incondicionales casi todos los
que repechan-esa es la frase-los
que repechan al primer sitio de las
ternas.
Hasta aquf todo va bien. No hay
disgustos que manifestar, nj protes-
tas que establecer, nj preterlclones
que eludir.
La ley, con sn magestad soberana,
reina en- la Fortaleza, y los que csc
idolo de las conciencias honradas
rinden homemade, aplauden al que no
10 desconoce nj 10 pisotea.
Pero ahora viene Ia practice mad
misibze de que ha blamos y a la cual
nos opondremos con todas nuestras
fuerzas, apoyados en- el derecho que
nos sobra para reclamar que Sc res
pete al fdozo de nuestro amor, aun.
Que, como ahora, sea 9eforme y cua'
81 estulto.
i En- ciertas localdades Sc ha lnclul
do en- la terna al alcalde actual !, sir
ser vecino, nj contribuyente, nj eie
gible, nj elector.
Y no solo Sc le ha include, sine