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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
LAUNDERING LINEN.
Much Work Can Re saved I'm the Ironing IL
the Drying Is Tirst Done Right.

Much Work Can BE saved I'm the Ironing IL
the Drying Is FIRST Done Right.
Again and again housekeepers are
told never to allow linen to become
thoroughly dry before ironing, for it is
almost out of the question to make it
smooth after once wrinkles are dried
into it. In hanging ont linen. especial
care should be taken to shake il and
smooth it so that no creases caused by
wringing it shall be left in it. Some
housekeepers-these who have small
washings and plenty Of time-shake
towels out thoroughly, fold the two
ends together and pin the fringe To the
line, putting in one pin at each corner
and one in the middle. They claim
that the constant whipping of the
fringe wears the ends of the towels out
much more quickly than is necessary.
There is good theory in this, and
the additional time is worth while uu-
less strength and help are Of more inn
portance than towels
Pillow-cascs should be turned wrong
side out and pinned TO the line by the
closed end. Exception may be made to
h'AS bAN ci' NhiA vi htAH W btD tlif
clothes dry slowly; then they should toe
pinned 10 the line at one side of the
open end, but it is worth while for con-
venience in ironing to change them and
let them finish drying pinned by the
closed end.
1t is good plan, always considering
OF course, whether time and strength
will allow, TO take linen sheets and
table-clothes from the line when about
half dry, shake them and smooth them
out, fold them once over aud hang them
over the line without any stretching or
pulling. A couple Of pins az a little
distance from either edge viii keep
them in place. This gives more line
room, which is often greatly needed,
and allows the pieces to dry in much
better shape.
Many laundresses seem to think that
clothes may be flung on the line in any
way whatever, wrinkled folded or
twisted, as the case may be; but this
means jus. 50 much additional work
when ironing day comes Things tina:
are done right ia the first place save
much labor and perplexity ~ well a.
not little wear and tear of the article
themselves N. \. Ledger
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Next Tuesday is the day for the Chicka-
saw convention at Tishomingo.
new financial enterprise at Edmond is
the Peoples bank with a capital of $1,000
| Land is growing valuable claim
near Edmond sold the other day for s., 900.
There is good opening for a Touring
mill at the promising little town Of
Okarche,
Tecumseh has an ax.handle factory.
Administrative officials, as well As wood
choppers. may have their axes handled
while they wait.
Natural gas has been struck west OF
Ardmore. There has been an unusual
outcrop Of this commodity lately at sew
erol points--for instance, the plans for
opening the strip.
Among the members of the territorial
artists topographic is Il young Chickasaw
Indian, at Chickassw, who. it is said,
manipulates the movable alphabet with
the case and dexterty Of al old timer.
At Edmond, where the first school house
in the territory was built. the rapidly in
creasng enrolment of scholars has made
new building necessary, and it will bs
completed in time for the fall term.
The Rock Island Railroad company has
donated to the people OF Okarche car
load Of thing to be used in the fixing OF
the roads thereabout. Okiahomaites are
firm believers ia the virtue Of good high
ways.
It IS said that Chief Bushyhead is get
ting ready TO select the 100 acres allotted
to him by congress in the Cherokee strip.
The proba are that the selection
will lie made at Wharton. where a city
car be built in a dag on land with a clear
title
A Washington lawyer named Allen has
been at ADadarko during the past week
taking evidence for tie government 10 be
used o the disputed Greer county case.
When that case is settled Oklahoma will
spread out to Red river.
Mckinney Cobb, Cbiekasaw Senator,
died ut his home near Davis, l. T.. on
Thursday Of last week. Senator Cobb was
a full blood Indian, about u years old, and
has for some time been prominently COZ
uected with political affairs 10 the Chicka-
saw nation. The old-time Chickazaws are
rapidly disappearing, but few prominent
full bIood= being left to tell the tale Of 4
once powerful nation. -Caickssha Express
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
ABOUT KANSAS

Reports from different parts Of the state
indicate that fruit has not been greatly
injured by the late frosts.
The seventh annual meeting OF the Win
field Chautauqua assembly viii open "a
Island park June q, the longest day OF the
year.
Rev Charles 3 Mitchell Of the Grand
Avenue NJ E church Of Kansas City, has
been invited TO preach the baccalaureste
sermon AZ the State university al Law
renee this year.
tieorge Vi. Coffin. ". u, Of Winfield
lodge No. =. 4 r. and A. NJ, has been
appointed a member Of the beard Of Gus
1edisns to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation OF ". " ShsveE.
Salt has been flied IN the United States
court a Topeka Againss;he commissioners
Of Doniphsn county for soc RS Tas suit
Is 10 recover money on the bond coupons
o; the s. Joseph aud Dsaver CITY rsiI-
way.
An Euporia jury found a man Insane
becsuse h festsis horses i've or Xxx times
4 day wanderswhas the 6nd;ag - that
jury would be against the persons wbo ia
uos feed 81 ali, but stake lheir aaifn&is 0nt
occasionally 10 grszs'
The sixth annual reaventiou q ne Kan
sss Christian Eadeavo- Ssei@tlez niIi ise
held IN Hutchinson FRIDAY. >4,Ezsisy aad
>2aiAY. May -. q and - EE- -'-r-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30

The lowest per cent of mortgaged
property is in the southern states. This
may be accounted for upon several
hypothesis. 1t may be said in the first
place that the southrons are more con-
sentative in their business ideas than the
people of the northern states. and in the
second place their system of agriculture
precludes their mortgaginG their lands,
though the system OF giving liens for
advances of provisions and farm supplies
amounts to same thing. On general
principles it may be said that the alb
ence of mortgages indicates want of
enterprise and corresponding lack of de-
yelopment and progress.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
LOAN COMPANIES AND THEIR VIC
TINS.

The eastern purchasers of real estate
mortgages are the greatest kickers on
earth, and Kansas is suffering far more
than her fair share of their wrath. Judg-
ing from their actions and talk there
ought to be such condition of things
that the money loaner could take no risk
in buying first mortgages, that they
should be the elect of earth. There is no
commercial business, there are no trans
actions for profit, that are not to de-
gree speculative, and the risk great or
small in proportion to the profit. The
greatest financiers of the world bought
the securities of Argentine Republic, and
again. poured their wealth into Australia
only to have it swallowed up by the
most disastrous failures known to the
world.
In the days when the eastern mortgage
investors were running over each other
to secure Kansas first mortgages, an
other class of investors We're buying
Santa Fe stocks at S129 which many
were compelled to sell soon after at 20
to % cents, and yet their Indignation
does not seem half as uncomfortable as
that of the mortgage investor who is
compelled to take the mortgaged land
instead of the money. Where loans
were not fraudulently made there will
be but small loss, and large per cent of
them will prove very profitable if the
property is held short time. The mort
gage investor is kicking more because of
recent legislation relative to fore
closures and the gold clause, when
his own culpability and that of
his agent are at fault. So far as
mortgages are concerned, Kansas can at
this time afford to have the eastern loan
companies withdraw from the state, as
she is liquidating her mortgages faster
than any other state and she has recov-
cred from her borrowing craze. The
financial credit of the state. however. is
liable to effect our commercial and man.
ufacturing interests. The merchants and
business men of Kansas have proven
themselves conservative. There have.
been but few failures. Their credit
should be as good as that of the business
men of other states, and their wants can
be as safely supplied.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
ALL WAIT TO HEAR FROM KANSAS.

\ dry spell of weather in Kansas is of
so much importance in the markets of
the world that the wires are kept hot
sending messages from every hamlet in
the state as TO the condition OF the crop
in that particular spot. That the wheat
crop has been cut short in places cannot
be denied, but there will be many acres
plowed up, which, If left alone, would
produce fair crop OF wheat. This fact
has been demonstrated great many
times when farmers have plowed up all
their wheat ground that they could, ana
that which was left produced good
crop. The acreage of wheat is the larg-
est ever sown in Kansas and if the crop
is injured as badly asteported in some
places the same ground VIII be planted
in corn SO that cur corn
crop viii be larger and our wheat crop
less, which IS only 4 stand OFF. In the
south they are attempting By precon-
certed action to reduce the acreage OF
cotton SO that 10y shortening the crop
two acres viii bring as much as three
acres would. In the matter of wheat
nature may be doing the same thing, at
least the outlook for this year is that the
wheat crop of the world viii be much
less than for the past two years. which
means much higher prices. There are
pivotal states in politics, bat Kansas is
the great pivotal crop state. and every
million bushels we faIl short in wheat
viii show at leas; two million increase
in corn.
This leads rs 10 speak OF conditions
that exist in no state - largely as in
Kansas. and that Is. soil and climate
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30

The first step TO be taken towards the
reimposition of the tariff duty on sugar
will be the suspension. by executive
order, OF the payment of the bounty,
provided by the present law, upon the
sugar produced in this country. This is
p very adroit move. The order. it is
said, will he issued with the view of
testing the constitutionality of the
bounty provision of the tariff law. If
the point of objection is sustained
by the supreme court: that is. if the
court shall decide that congress cannot
set apart forprivate and individual bene-
lit money raised from the public FOR
public use, it is hoped to apply the rul-
ing 20 the tariff law in It's protective
features, and thus afford congress an
excuse for radically revising the tariff
laws and in 4 measure make such action
obligatory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
SUGAR FROM SiRUP.
Experiments Which May Offer the
Solution CT How to Raise Sorghum
at Profit

TIE sugar mills at Medicine Lodge have been ex-
perimenting. the past few DAYS. with the sorghum
strip received short time ago from Sterling. Tie
tests far made nave been very satisfactory. the
sugar Yield bcin. about % per cent. Of sugar from
the strip used Tas Is fully a large Yield rs vas
expected. and yet those ia charge o. the expert
menting hope TO get larger resuits.-wIchitd
EAGLE. c5th.
The above statement refers to 9. S2s
gallons of sorghum sirup which was
made at the experiment station at this
place last fall. and which was sent TO
the sugar factory in Medicine Lodge to
have the sugar extracted According to
the figures given, eight tons of sugar
was made in the experimental works at
the station; that Is, forty pounds for
each ton Of cane worked. This is en-
couraclng. for 1t IS the largest yield
which has ever been obtained from sor-
ehum sifup made III cheap avaporators.
II Is, however. only 4 beginning. Old
and imperfect machinery was used il
the experiments. losses were caused by
many unsatisfactory experiments, and
X IS believed that a much larger WELD of
sugar can be had this season, with the
experience gained IN the experiments
of last fail.
The apparatus used In the expert
ments seem simple enough aud cheap
enoTgh n enable owners Of horse
power cane mills 10 make good grade
of muscovado sugar for home use, and
it seems 10 be practicable for steam
power syrup factories 20 make "a syrup
which can be used By refineries or bv
sugar factories in the manufacture Of
sugar. When this can be done there
viii be many syrup factories, making
ready mark I for cane aud finding
ready market for the syrup. and The
sugar factories viii turn out lar1er
quantities Of sorghum sugar. Sterling
Bulletin. Aprli .
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
THE TWO CITIES.

Beyond the river. on the hill,
y city lieth wierd and still:
The quiet home Of earthly kin;
\ silent city-Silent men.
\ narrow house, with gloomy hall,
No windows there. or light. at all
Can enter house of rich or poor;
Their portals CLOSE with darkest door.
Deserted streets. no din or noise
Disturb the sleepers' deep repose;
Sweet flowers blooming droop heir heads
As winds go sobbing DER the dead.s
Another city, lieth low,
In the dim distance: it's aglow
With noise and bustle-hustlinG strife
The martS of trade take brains and life.
The anvils ring xith hammer blows,
there's hum OF spindle and whirr OF saws,
With clank of engines pond 'rous tread;
All tOiling for wealth, or for bread.
Here. marble palace. stately halls:
Dwell rich and great within their walls;
Their boarded wealth is all untold,
Years they have schemed TO gather gold.
Here, poor and lowly, toilinC on
For breed and raiment--sun to sun.
he bitter blasts of winter storms.
Pierce their hutS and shivering forms.
Soon cares and tolls forever cease;
The Angel. Death, rows all. in peace,
Across the river. to the bill:
Where rich and poor sleep, sweet and still
d. E. FULLER,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
GETTING INTERESTING.
from the topeka Journal.

FROM the Topeka JourHdI
Hon. 4. L. Williams himself seems to
be on the track of Railroad Commits
sioner Mitchell. What before has seemed
merely the ebullitions of partisanship,
now begins 20 look more serious. In
making his decision in favor of the Kan
sas City Terminal company, Mr. Mitchell
trod very heavily on the toes of the
Union Pacific railroad.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
is not accustomed to having its toes trod
on in silence. Hon. A. l.. Williams is one
of the shrewdest railroad solicitors in the
country and he intends to go to
the bottom of the alleged IDEAL. )"
He is now taking dispositions in Col
orado in reference TO Commissioner
Mitchell's investments in the Orphan
Boy" mine. He wants to know just
where the thousands Of dollars came
from that Commissioner Mitchell in
vested in that mine If it was money
acquired by honest industry, or by wise
investment, well and good; but if it was
money paid to Commissioner Mitchell by
the Kansas City Terminal company to
secure his decision, then Mr.. Williams
will 60 before the supreme court and
have the charter of the Kansas City
Terminal company set aside.
This is matter the public is greatly
interested in, and the truth should be
known, whatever it Is.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30

Henry Clews comes to the defense OF
the Sherman silver act--the law now in
force-in heroic shape in his last fnan-
cial circular. He declares emphaticaliy
that the Sherman law, as matter of
fact, has done excellent service, and
without which an immense number of
banking institutions in this country,
railroad companies, as well as mer-
chants, would have long before this
come to grief, causing general financial
and widespread disaster: in other words,
the credit is due to the Sherman silver
law for not only carrying this country
through, but of really carrying England,
France and Austria at the same time;
for through the new money created by
the sanction of the 1890 silver law, it
has made it possible for this country to
sustain itself and at the same time to
send the gold to foreign countries and
carry them through also. This view of
the matter will he taken by the free
coinage advocates as big boost for the
white metal. 1t is hardly to be expect
ed, though, that the Clews idea will be
accepted by the street and other mono
metalislS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
THE DELAYED OPENING,

Tie good people of Oklahoma and the
thousands of expectant settlers along
the borders Of the strip, without regard
to party, are, no doubt, pretty well con-
WINGED by this time that the gentleman
from Georgia, Mr.. Hoke Smith, Presi-
dent Cleveland's secretary Of the interior,
has other fish to fry than those pertain
ing to the interests of that people
Whenever and wherever an urgent
measure of public Importance hangs
fire, in either city council, state legis-
lature or national congress, the conclu-
sion is no less correct than inevitable
that a wheel within a wheel is being
turned for some personal purpose. Mr..
Hoke Smiths schemes, whatever their
character, have not matured to his salts
faction, or TO those of his superiors,
otherwise, it would seem, a little more
energy and business like methods would
have been employed i'll opening the strip.
Had there been no precedents, there
might have been found some excuse for
the delay. The Indians acted promptly,
but word comes every few days, through
the Associated Press reports, that the
secretary of the interior is doing little,
that the opening day seems as far off as
ever, and so forth. The preliminary
work was wholly routine and in persu
ance of mandatory enactment, but the
interior department will have to mend
its pace or the strip will not be opened
before the meeting of congress in Sep
TENDER.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
THE OFFICIAL BUNMERS,

From the Troy Chief.
The state bummers. called by cour-
tesv, he state board of railroad assess
ors, have been out over the roads, pre-
tending to assess them, but really on
pleasure tour, with their families and
hangers on, at the expense of the rail-
road companies. A conductor who had
charge of one of the trains that hauled
them around, has described the outfit
and their proceedings. Not only the
officers composing the board of assessors
went on the trip but all the members of
the state administration, their wives
and daughters, and their daughters
"fellers." The railroad companies fur
nished them with free cars, free sleep
ers, free dining cars and free cigars,
and they had an excursin all over the
state. This conductor says. what every
person would expect, knowing the
character of the untamed lot of hogs
that have been picked up for state Of
ticers, that a more ill-bred, unmannerly,
disgusting set of dungarees were never
put on board either passenger or hog
car-in fact, they should have been
shipped and billed as hogs. They would
sit and play cards, scarcely looking out
10 view the track; and occasionally,
when they came TO a station, one of
them would say: Lets see. here is
where the company has round-house,
isn't it, No" the conductor would re-
ply, ''there is nothing here but an ordin-
ary station Il don't believe any such
thing" the assessor would retort.
Just wait till we get out and see" And
the conductor would be compelled TO
hold the train until they potterei around
to search for what was not there. This
was a sample of the whole trip.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30
WHERE MANY MANSIONS BE,

GUTHRIE, Ok, April %, 1898.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.
As we cross The "divide" of life. we
anxiously peer into the beyond. One by
one our dearest friends have crossed the
river They have gone to the realms of
the blest. Some have gently stepped
down to the rivers brink, others have
left Us and the trials of life in the twink
ling of an eye. They now are in the
land where there is no more pain. 1t is
only we who are left that suffer, and we
suffer II proportion to our selfishness.
When analysed our grief is for ourselves.
1t is mistaken idea, that those
who have laid aside the mortal for i'm
mortality are not with us. | believe
they are ever near to comf0ft by their
unseen presence and to make the jour
ney less rough. Yesterday, under blue
sky, amid the rustling o. the wind, we
laii away all that was mortal of Anna
Heddin, young lady beloved by all for
her many virtues-a Christian swept
away in the bloom of youth. Anna
sleeps beneath the daisies of Oklahoma.
Her bishop performed the last sad rites
of the church and consigned her body
to the earth and the spirit to God who
gave it.
While we shall miss her, oh how we
shall miss her, the memories of her ex-
emplary happy life will be balm to our
grief. In the stormy night we may
think that our loved one has gone be-
yond the consultations. We realize that
far Der the stars there is rest. We will
try and meet you Anna cover yonder.'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30

that will produce wheat and corn
equally as well, and after the failure of
one the other can be substituted the
same crop year. Indeed, it is no un-
common thing for our farmers to har-
vest big crop of wheat and plant corn
on the same ground and get fair crop,
TINS getting two crops from the same
ground in one year. The market is SO
sensitive as to tile condition of Kansas
crops that every commission house and
option dealer in the land is in daily com.
munication with every shipping point in
the state. and south wind or a cloud
less sky is apt to cause the Kansas kicker
to make blue report
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30

When you go to look for Kansas in
any Of the Gsts-other than alphabetical
always look atthe head of the column
and you will find it at once. Kansas is
conceded first place in the wheat list and
in the aggregate of cereals; likewise in
live stock and orchard products. The
Kansas City Journal of Commerce, a
periodical devoted to market intelli-
gence, credits Kansas with the largest
production Of poultry and eggs. Fact
is, but for Kansas large section of the
human family would go without their
regular three-meals-a-dav.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30

From gentleman who has travelled
extensively over Colorado. Nebraska and
the Dakotas the Dighton Journal learns
that the crop prospects in Kansas are
ahead of these other states. The Journal
had special reference 10 western Kansas.
Lane county being central in that re-
serve. The comparison as stated. there
fore, is both gratifying and reassuring.
The western part of the stale has been
represented rs being in the worst distress
rs to crop prospects, when from the
statement quoted 1here appears to be
little occasion for\ serious apprehension.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30

Colonel w. f. Hutchinson was ap-
pointed by the governor delegate to
the Lincoln, Neb., railroad congress in
stead of Mr.. II. X. fuller, as reported on
the streets since the governors visit to
the city the first of the week. The gov
ernor had an interview with Mr.. fuller
on the subject and that gentleman ex-
pected the appointment, but it seems the
governor changed his mind after leav-
ing the city-he at least changed the
appointment. But, it is a Populistic
scheme all round and nobody else cares
much about it, anyhow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-30

The precipitation Of rain on the sea-
boards recently has been remarkable, so
also has been the snowfall in the north
west. We hear report from Minnesota
of snowfall varying from thirty inches
at st. Cloud to sixteen inches at st. Paul.
This, with the tornado visitationS in
Oklahoma, places Kansas between wind
and water, and yet we have been elbow
ing" ourselves, about fair supply of
moisture