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The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
HOME PRODUCTS MARKETS.

The prospective admission of Arizona
and New Mexico as states calls 10 mind
the fallacy of the j. Sterling Morton
school of agricultural economists rela-
tive to over-production and the exhaus-
ton of our food producing areas, which
may be seen by few figures. In the
matter of sugar, fruit. raw silk, olive oil
and rice statistics show that the United
States imported for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1898, to the value of Sf60, 1879,
25l. California and Arizona alone could
wipe out this adverse balance with prop
er encouragement 10 those industries.
The United States expend annually
more than million and half dollars
for oranges. California can now, and
Arizona soon will furnish this fruit in
sufficient quantity TO supply the home
demand, except such small amount as
the Van Allen Americans may require to
satisfy their snobbish palates.
Olive oil takes 50. 600, 600 of our money
evNry year. California can supply
large portion of this necessary commodi-
". and with the product of Arizona,
Nevada and Utah viii, in few wears.
be able TO supply the world. Raisins,
currants, figs, prunes and lemons are ali
produced il our semi-tropical sections.
and with the aid of irrigation their pro-
ductlon Will be extended 10 the arid
areas and thus largely augmented.
With such statements of facts and
possibilities the question that is natural
ly suggested is, What's the matter with
supplying our tables with our own fruits:
There is nothing in the way OF 1t, only
the eastern money bags, the jealous press,
the secretary of agriculture, with the
geld monopolists, are in combine 10
check western enterprise and develop
ment by shutting of if passibls the
investment and use of eastern capita.
But the endeavor. which has no more
worthy prompting than jealousy and
envy. cannot long stand against western
energy and its indomltable spirit OF
progressiveness. We only lack the ele-
ment OF time, and OF this We connot be
robbed.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
BEYOND THE LAWS REACH.

Kentucky has long had a most sirin-
gent law against the carrying of deadly
weapons concealed upon the person, but
it did not stop accidental homicides from
guns supposed to be unloaded, nor bullies
from terrorizing people along the public
highway by the reckless discharge of
firearms To cover these weak points
the legislature has just amended the law,
making it a misdemeanor for any person
to flourish a deadly weapon. loaded or
unloaded, in the presence of another, or
o point such a weapon at another, affix-
ing penalty therefor of 500 fine and
fifty days imprisonment. The trouble
with the old law was not so much its in
sufficiency of scope or penalty, but in
the lack of its enforcement. The senti-
ment of the people was in sympathy
with the law until some clever young
fellow. a member of prominent family,
was accidentally caught in its toiis, then
it it was transferred to the victim, with
the result that he almost invariably >es-
capped through the agency of petition
for clemency. The chances are that the
new law will not overcome this formid-
able obstacle to a needed reform.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
GRADUALLY DEVELOPING,

Barney Kelly, ex-pension agent, it is
announced Will stand for congressman.
at-large on the Morrill, program. Kelly
Will claim Shawnee county as his home
and its delegation as his meat. Barney
has been out of Office now some thirty
days and has a fellow feeling for his
friend Morrill,, who hasn't been in con-
gress for two years and who is about to
lose his hold as director of the Soldiers
Home. Kelly's and Morrilrs arrange
ment in conjunction with John j. In
gals to succeed Martin constitutes a
combine that will be dangerous to fool
with. The old pocket seems determined
on heroic effort to regain her former
prestige and with the same old tried and
true tools. But the fellows of central,
southern and western Kansas should not
despair. These men can't live always
and even if they should they may find
that they are tired some day.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Yesterdays dispatches from Washing
ton in regard to statehood for the terri
tories contain valuable pointer for the
citizens of Oklahoma. The situation as
set out in the dispatch is altogether
favorable for statehood for Oklahoma,
the only thing likely to interfere being
a possible division among the people of
the territory. If they maintain solid
front and unitedly press the demand for
statehood upon the merits of their
claims, there is little doubt that it will
be accomplished. As to the possible
opposition from the Indian portions,
that will hot prove serious obstacle,
being factional and inspired solely by
the cupidity of handful of leaders.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
THE REAL RE ASON.

Much is attempted to be made of the
fact, especially by newspaper writers,
that the bank vaults of the commercial
celters are overfowing with money. Sc
far as any promise Of good times is con-
cerned all these millions held by the
banks might just as well be buried or
hidden away in stockings. 1t amounts
TO the same thing. While everybody is
pinched for money nobody can find such
profitable use for it as would warrant
a borrowing, even if the necessary Sc
curity was at hand, 1t is not the scare
ity of money that hurts, for the present
volume is very great, but it is the ab-
sence of chances for its profitable en-
ployment. The supply is great but the
demand utterly wanting, except for the
discharge of debt by those who are des
titute of the requisite security. No
supply of money, however great, can
make good times in the absence of de-
mand for it coming Of profitable invest
ment, and profitable investment is i'm
possible where there is no confidence.
The distrust, which is at the bottom of
all the trouble did not arise from
fear of any depreciation of the
currency that might ensue from an
overplus of silver. as was held by Mr..
Cleveland and by Wall street, but from
a general recognition Of the fact that in
the absence of exceedingly prosperous
times and of very high prices every
other man, firm and corporation in the
land would be unable to meet outstand-
ing obligations. This apprehension, Of
itself, precipitated the very conditions
dreaded. The result Of such conviction
robbed the debtor of the ability to sat
lsfy his creditor, in which is found the
sum and substance of the present strin-
gency. A renewal of general pros
perity, therefore, is only possible
through and by an equally universal
and pronounced conviction of solvency;
hat obligations have been liquidated;
n brief, that every individual, firm and
corporation are on such footing as to
'ender apprehension of collapse impos-
ibIe.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
The tariff reformers on the ways an

The tariff reformers on the ways and
means committee of congress no doubt
imagine that it would be a clever trick
to impose tax upon all board of trade
and exchange transactions in the staple
commodities, such as grain and meats
and cotton and oil, the idea being that
they can fool the people with the claim
that such tax would fall upon and be
paid by the operators in those COM
modities. But he is very simpleton
who does not know that the amount of
such a tax would be deducted from the
market price to the producer or added to
the price the consumer pays, and prob
ably both in some instances, to say
nothing of the increase in the expenses
of the government in collecting the tax.
The scheme is but cowardly makeshift,
and will fool nobody.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
TIE DEAD LINE OF HOPE.

The Ell Dorado Republican comes out
with diagram of Kansas in which the
state is cut up into six square districts,
the west two-tliirds of the state, or four
OF the districts beying marked coyotes,
buffalos, rattlesnakes, owls, and no
water, and all these are set down as be-
ing beyond the dead line of political
hope. The Republican draws its diagram
SO as to throw FL Dorado just within the
dead line. Wichita is left o1er in the
owl region and contiguous to sockless-
vile. Of this precinct the Republican
says:
Two or three Wichita fellows are
spoken Of AS Candidates, aud DO sooner is
the announcement made than 200 hun
dred newspapers, east of the dead line,
jump onto the owl country and say Wica-
liza Is trying to hog everything, SO tue
owls back out, go into their holes, and re-
engage IL fighting other owls"
Following this the Republican goes on
to show that everything in the way of
offices and institutions since the admis-
sion OF the state have gone to the small
section east Of the dead line and that
the men comprising all of the supposed
ring combine tickets now in the field
live east of the dead line, and the Re-
publican, after advising all of the owls,
coyotes and buffalos who want office to
more inside of the dead lines, concludes
in the following resigned and loyal
strain:
There is not a man named in this
article who is not abundantly competent
to fill the Office to which his name is con-
nected. They are semong our ablest and
best men-every one of them-and if
ticket Is made up by the party. of these
candidates. it will be elected. No Ques-
ton about it. Morrill,, Martin. johnson,
Kelly and Hoch. There are no better men
in Kansas.
I'VE do not object to the men nor to
their candidacy, and if any one OF them is
nominated by the same old crowd OF fixers,
and III the same old way we will support
the ticket as we have always doue; but
it makes us sick to have lot of
fellows get right out in broad day light
aud fix up dose for Us, knowing that
while we may kick in the preparation, we
and many Others will gulp it down after it
is fixed. That's what hurts"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Perry now has COW ordinance.
The Enid land Office is busy with mai
filings.
A majority of the grand jury at Perry
are Democrats.
The Enid Daily Wave has just been un-
furled at that town.
The territorial board of pharmacy will
meet at Fl Reno Jan. 2.
Tom King seems to have dogged deter
mination to do up dogs.
The revenues of the city of Guthrie
amount TO about 81. 900 quarter.
Olive Gates, one Of the actresses in Patti
Rosa's company. lives near Guthrie.
Oklahoma doesn't seem to care much
whether Beaver county secedes or not.
1t is about time for the bona fide circu-
laticn war to get up aud snort in the strip.
1t is Poor Lo with his juicy aunuities
who is blockading statehood for Okla
homa.
Tom King and the deputy sheriff are
said to have escaped on one horse, the dep
uty riding behind.
The most prominent business men of
~~S'~ ~SANoss W CuC AiC 0SPoAoAShcs oAA
they all work together.
The county Jail at Guthrie has capac-
ity for only sixteen men, and there are
thirty in it at present.
Most of the Iowa and Sac and Fox Indi.
ans are doing the ghost dance few miles
east of Perkins, it is said.
A postoffice has been established at
EaSnD in tho poft nouutrv
Lue NJ. Eason appointed postmaster.
When subscriber at Edmond puts up
the dough the editor of the Sun-Democrat
remarks that he made a Substantial
CALL"
Ponca City Tribune: Old Oklahomans
refer to their former homes as oklahoma
proper" But they do not call the strip
Oklahoma improper"
Guthrie Leader: The papers in an old
suit at Pawhuska, in which the principals
have the historic names of Roscoe Conk-
ling and Herbert Spencer, were filed away
in the archives of the district court yester-
day.
The cipher language used by the clerks
for fraudulent deals at the opening o. the
strip contained symbols for the names of
Register Malone aud Receiver Hassler.
This cipher was invented TWO weeks be-
fore thess gentlemen were appointed.
Oklahoma Times-J ournal: Not blade
of wheat has turned yellow yet from freez-
ing, but north of Oklahoma, clear across
Kansas, the green leaves of the wheat, if
any are left, are hidden by the yellow,
frozen blades. 1t may not hurt wheat ary
to freeze down SO, but green field looks
so much better than yellow one.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
DAN AND HIS GANG.
From the Kan.a. Chief.

From the Kansae Chief.
Lumber, logs, and all wood. go on the
free list: but pulp, that Is made out OF
logs, is to be heavily protected. There
is patent on an improved process of
making wood pulp, which has been
William c. Whitney. Daniel S. Lamont,
Don NJ. Dickinson, Grover Cleveland,
and one Or two other personal friends
president and members, or ex-members
of his cabinet! All other industries must
take care of them-elves; but this wood
pulp speculation, in which there are
millions, and which is in the hands of
the president and few of his crcnies,
will be heavily protected. The same
syndicate also control lime trust, aud
lime will be protected.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
Governors No. D,c,a.ors.

From tie New O~;e&zs FcAyaae-
The governor OF Kansas seems 20
imagine that hs is the supreme court
He has issued circular Of instructions
10 the boards Of police com
naissioaers OF that state enjoining
them from enforcing the law which
Condemns vagTanis 10 WORK on the
streets and rock Pile. The law, he SAYS.
is Unconstitutional 1.-The right 10 20
freely from place 10 place IN searcss e
employment, he asserts, .'or even IN
obedience 10 mere within, is part OF the
personal liberty guaranteed bv the con-
ststation Of .Ae United States 10 evsrv
human being on American soil. Even
voluntary iEieness - not forbidden
The governors law seems 20 be al rsgiss,
hut ils pTesauipg 30 pronounce upaa Il
Is all wrong. Governors are elected TO
enforce sile laws ard nos 20 pass upon
shesr cunssstGsaonsiiss. Fer the exect.-
tive 10 asurp the Judicial suEcsioa Is Of
the very essence Of syrannv. American
governors are lot cicsasSss.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Hicks prediction that December
weather would be noted for The extremes
OF temperature is being verified right
along by taking the Dakotas and the
north as representing one extreme and
the latitude of southern Kansas the
other. Speaking of weather, the corn
husks, goose bone and rabbits foot have
not been consulted, but the hogs melt
says the winter in this section will not
be severe, but mild and uniform in tenn
perature during the latter half, or after
New Years.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

''With two declared candidates for
congressman-at-larg and a candidate
for governor in grooming, Wichita seems
disposed to take snap Judgment on the
rest of the state. kansas City Journal
Kansas City, Kan, has candidate ior
candidate for congressman-at-large and
candidate for congress from the Sec
ond district, and yet nothing is said
about it.-El Dorado Republican.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Pension Agent Click has appointed
Republican to position at the Topeka
agency. This is the highest compliment
to Mr. Clicks discriminating judgment
that he's been passed for long time.
The appointment is said to be, by those
who know the appointee-F. D. Coburn
of Wyandotte county-eminently fitting
as TO his qualifications; but wont it make
the waiting horde of hungry Democrats
gnash their teeth, though?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

The American League of Honolulu in
their address to the people of the United
States make the sticking point that "the
present government OF Hiwaii has the
same right to exist as had that of the
United States in the successful revolu-
ton of 17s6.h If not. why not: An
swer to the simple question. which
covers the whole case, devolves upon the
opposition in this country.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Notwithstanding the supply of wheat
in sight is several millions bushels in ex-
cess of the visible stocks year ago, the
Cincinnati Price Current figures out that
the amount in farmers hands is at least
II 900, 900 bushals below what they held
a year ago. And yet prices move but
fitfully from panic figures, dropping to
that notch with the close of almost every
davis market
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
EXCH ANGE EPIiOMES.
Our Daily Reckoning.

If we sit down at set of sun
And count the things that we have done,
And, counting, find
One self denying act. one word
That cheered the heart of him who heard,
One glance most Kind.
That fell Ike sunshine where it went
Then we may count the day well spent;
But if. through the livelopg day
We've eased no heart by yea or nay
If through it all
We've nothing done that we can trace
That brought the sunshine to face,
No act most small
That helped some soul, and nothing cost
Then count that day as worse than lost.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
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Aa immense Porker.
From tie xe~Ass pzaserai.

Probably the largest hog in the
world is now owned BIZ IL county
hoy. Joe Miller. who has a claim near
Blackwell, bought CT q Texas farmer
a hog weighing 1860 pounds and says
he can easily raise The weight 10 LOO
pounds within sixty days, al which time
the porker will be taken 10 tie mid n.er
exhibition al San Francisco. Mr. Miller
paid $50 for the animal
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Oklahoma might be admitted as
state II were not for the Indians. What
does it profit man to be patriotic, vote
SIX times year and jerk the American
eagle bald-headed On every Fourth of
July when greasy old Pie-on-the-brain
and lousy Wart-on-the-neck can plant
themselves before the advance of prog.
Iess and block civilization.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Business goes on just the. same. While
Mrs. Lease Is recuperating from her re-
cent less corn episode, the institution
over which she has control keeps the
more-excuSe us-incident going night
and ,iay
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

The big suit begun the first of the
week at Emporia, for damages again It
the N. X. n I. railroad for introducing
cattle affected with Texas fever into
Lyon county. terminated in compari-
uvely short order, tie jury rendering q
verdict for the full amount claimed py
the plaintiffs, S45. 900.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
A Bad Mouth.

From the Leavenworta Times.
Marsh Murdock is making sighting
remarks about Helen Cougars mouth.
Better put curb on that disposition,
Marsh. Heien's mouth may be in Kan
sas next year at a time when you won't
want to hear from it. 'The wise man
foreseeth the evil and hideth himself.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

During the hard times the fire insur-
ance companies are doing a rushing busi-
ness, although it is against their policy.
Yet the premiums offered compel them
to meet the wants of the public.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

This is day of rest. For twenty-four
hours we will be spared the pangs of
watching the office of congressman-at.
large humping around the state in vain
search for the man.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
A Mitchell county farmer a shor

4 Mitchell county farmer short
time ago discovered some deposits upon
his land that proved to be gold and
silver. Farmers all over the state made
the same discovery years ago, in the
magical yields of yellow grain which.
taken one year with another. exceed in
value the entire output OF the mines CT
the country
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

During Cleveland's first term both
houses were Republican and he couldn't
tall over himself great deal, but now
the whole menagerie is Democratic and
they are having a monkey and parrot
time and every antic causes destruction.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

We should not be too hard on Gov.
ernor Lewelling. 1t was from Kansas
thet the greatest peregrinatlng spirit of
the age came. We should remember
that John Browns soul still goes march,
ipc on
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
Will Run For Governor.

From the Atchison Champion.
An able-bodied tramp called at an
Atchison house on r street yesterday
and asked for square meal. 1t was
given to him and the lady of the house
asked him if he would bring in an arm
full of wood. The tramp Indignantly
replied: Il did not come here TO work
l expect to run for governor Of Kansas
next year.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Before rushing 10 Kansas on the
strength of the Lswelling circular the
army of tramps outside should consult
the returns from the recent elections.
1hey will discover that the opportunity
for their kind to secure an office has
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Tom King has laid out the bloodhound
which was sent in pursuit of her. She
also took hairpin and tackled With
cism TO the dead dogs ear. The only
hope of capturing her now is that some
one will invent flying machine in order
that she may be laSsooed from above,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

When the mouth of the dead blood
hound was pried open it was found to
contain piece of checked pantaloons
and freckle. We know little about
Miss King, but we are finding out more
about her every day.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
Fighting Over He,eu and Mor,,e

From the Topeka journal.
At the next meeting Of TIE Topeka
EQUAL Suffrage association. DR.. Eva
Harding will resign the presidency of
the association. There has been some
dispute as to the speakers that will be
secured for the summers campaign. DR..
Harding wants Helen II. Cougar and
Mrs. Lease, but members Of the state
association are opposed to them, and it
is because of this that DR.. Harding will
do suffrage work outside of the associa-
ton.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Topeka has insulted Governor Level
ling by sending tramp to the rock pile.
This lack of tact On the part of Topeka
may prove expensive. Lewelling might
conclude to board in some other town
when the legislature is not in session.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
An Expensive experiment..

From the Topeka Journal.
Assistant. Secretary of State d. C.
Zercher has a fve-column article In this
weeks Advocate on what the Peoples
party costs the state. From the amount
Of space taken to tell about it one is led
TO believe it must cost great deal.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
MsN4xmAl MsaNexmAl
V'Y@M AA6<
1a3 and l27 n. Main.

Dress Patterns,
Pretty dress patterns of
all wool materials, plain or
fancy 1925.
An assortment of very
stylish imported patterns at
$500 each.
A large assortment at
500 and 1000. All of the
above dress patterns, are re.
duced in price for this sale.
Silk Dress Patterns,
Is yards in each pattern,
SLIPS, $l4.25, S14.50 and
S16.50
Evenining Shades,
20 evening dress. fine all
wool materials, 40 inches
wide at SOC.
Evening shades, plain and
brocade silks, S1.OO and
S1.25.
Gents Gloves.
Gents pique seam kids,
good quality, sl.a5. The
best quality Foster Kids for
gentlemen, Sl.15.
Cloaks and Furs.
Some fine fur capes and
muffs, and a few fine cloaks
to be sold very cheap.
Ladies Handkerchiefs,
Look at those from 15 to
% cents; the latest designs
and big values.
Buy Christmas Trees and
Evergreens before the best
are picked.
You can buy anthing you
want for Christmas of us at
less than the other stores.
II IN
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
Lines to n Cynic.

He daily trod the ways Of busy men,
Silent serene and in the citys mart
They often marked his placid features when
They could not read the anguish In his heart
Inscrutable, and grave OF nlten. to oil
Save me he seemed q man OF marble
wrought;
But I, l knew his calm was but pail
Wherewith to shroud the skeleton of thought
Was not his secret writ upon his brow
In one sharp symbol, pitifully plain,
That furrow was not turned By times dull
pow,
Rather a sword-cut dealt by deathless pain
he daily paced tne city's populous ways,
But through his heart o sad and hopeless
song
Went ever singing. and his patient gaze
Was fixed on something far beyond tho
throng.
University Courier.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Congress does not intend to admit
Oklahoma. That is plain. Its promises
in that direction are intended TO state
hoodwink the mistletoe territory.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

We should not forget that during all
this Hawaiian trouble the Kansas mill
tia has looked on with an unfinching
fortitudc that is at once splendid and
upjnue
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Let the authorities send poodle dog
after Tom King. The little thing might
appeal to her feminine heart and thus
escape the fate of the bloodhound.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17

Wire netting has been placed before
the strangers gallery in the house of
commons. The anarchists will now set
to work to make bomb in the shape of
q lead pencil