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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
ONLY A MISUNDERSTANDING.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
Ia the Hallowell-Douglass correspon.
dence in Tuesdays paper, one of the sspir-
ants stated that We have party ma
chinery in this county" that the chair.
man of the central committee is person al
and political friend of one and the personal
aad political enemy OF tae other, and can
be influenced by one TO call the commit
tee." etc.
Ia justice TO myself and the central
committee. who entrusted me tensirely
uusolicited1 with the chalrmanship
desire to say that have no personal eB-
nifty against soul on earth, aud political
enmity Only against those who seek to
DESTROY the great party of Lincoln, Grant
and Garfield, / am surprised at these
statements, when | was not aware
(antii after the CORES poadence had passed
between the partiesj tuat any one desired
the committee called. Trusting your read
ers may understand that neither the coun-
~ central committee nor its chairman
have shown any partiaiity IN this contest.
aud that | am now as | have been for the
past thirty Years, ready and within. TO do
snythiag houorsbiy III my power To in
sure the success OF the Republican party
or any OF It's nominees. respectfully,
j. Il Mccall.
Chairman County Republican Central
COMMITTEE
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
SOUP HOUSE SQUIBBS.

Thanks are extended to a friend for q
gift of 200 loaves Of bread, which was sen,
just at time when most needed.
The soup house never was such boon
as during this cold snap. The number OF
persons applying and receiving food
reached over ninety yesterday.
The Wichita Produce company sent six
crates Of onions and one bag of potatoes.
The ladies of the Episcopal church a lot of
sandwiches, Mr.. Buck two gallons of milk,
Larkin Commission company sweet pota-
toes. Mr.. McEwen cabbage, Boston store
fourteen yards of dry goods for partition,
Eddy Wygent the use of stove, Mr..
Chapman, rice, a friend, beans, another
beef.
Over 500 meals have been given so far.
The needs are greater than ever, and while
much is being done, there is much more to
be done, and we urge the people to remem.
Der the soup house, and to not forget that
the way to help and bless the poor is by IL
liberal donation.
fla woodward could be started where
men could work for their meals they
would gladly do SO. To commence it
would require piece of ground, say
40 100, temporary wood-shed, saws,
hatchets, ETC., and the use of horse
and wagon for delivering the wood OF
course they would not compete with any
of the regular dealers nor sell the
cut wood at any cheaper rate.
while all profits would be turned
into the work, thus increasing the useful
ness of the soup house. Many families
could be helped with fuel, etc, by chart-
ably inclined people purchasing the wood
and giving it to the poor of the city in
need of fuel.
Captain Dale will gladly confer with
any one in this matter and outline the
scheme more fully il they will call on him
or drop him note with their address in
closed. The captain can be found every
day at the soup house. III South Lawrence,
from l. N. to 2 p. m.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
DISTRICT CONVENTION.
'rogram Out for the Belle Plano Meeting,

The following is the program of the
Wichita district convention, to be held al
Belle PLANE Feb. 6, and s:
TUESDAY NIGHT, FEB6.
200 Song service.
$50 Opening sermon by Don s. Colt. Alter.
nate-Dusald Mccormick.
WEDNESDAY MORN ING, FEB.
$50 Devotional service.
300 Organization and appointment of CON-
mittecs
1000 Reports from pastors.
ll:UU Sermon by +. c. Beach.
Wednesday Afternoon, Feb. Z,
200 Devotional service
2:l5 Reports from pastors.
800 Sermon by {. ". Davis
AGO Reports from local preachers and ex-
horters.
Wednesday Night, Feb, !.
100 Song and praise service
$50 Sermon by A. B. Bruner.
Thursday Morning. Feb. s.
$50 Devotional service.
800 Reports of committees of examination.
Renewing and granting license,
1l;OO Sermon by j. w. Anderson.
Thursday Afternoon, Feb. 8.
200 Devotional service.
2:l5 Reports of committees.
500 Sermon by w. |. Miller.
400 Unfinished and miscellaneous business
Thursday Night, Feb, S.
200 Sacramento service.
':35 Sermon by c. s. Nusbaum.
Pastors. local preachers. exhortcrs, Sunday
school superintendent, Epworth League pres
idents, district stewards and class leaders who
cannot be present, will please send written
reports TO the presiding elder w. j. Martin
dale, in time for the conference.
Let every member of the conference make
1t point 20 be present. Come to be present at
the opening and stay to the close of the scs-
sion. w. V. BURNS
WI. MARTINDALr,
u. ;. COLT.
60.
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A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE.
james Dale OF UdaiI Makes a Suggestion
About RANGES

To the Editor Of the Wichita Eagle
The article in your paper this morning
headed Blown to Pieces is identical to
our own experience. We also have range
stove that is similarly connected, and
after starting fire in our range some
twenty minutes there was an explosion
that shook the house and could be heard
some blocks away. blowing out the front
end of the stove aud sending the pieces in
every direction. Some of the castings
were forced through door while others
were sent flying through the ceiling. The
walls were covered with dirty water and
the floor was sight 60 behold, but fortu-
nately no one WAS hurt, as | had bat mo-
ment before left the room, and Mrs. Dale i,
who was sweeping, had just opened the
outside door and stepped out, leaving the
door open. which saved herself AS we'll as
the windows. This furnished vent other-
wise it would undoubtedly have wrecke ed
the entire room. The cause of this explo-
sion was the freezing of the pipes that
connected the tank with the stove.
write this that ir may be a warning to
others as we'll as to ourselves, and would
suggest as a remedy the placing OF vent
cock in each pipe leading from the heater
to the range. JAMES T. DALE
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
WILL END TODAY.
JUDGE WILLIAMS WILL PROBABLY
ADJOURN COURT THIS EVENING.
In This Event the Prisoners Will Be
Sentenced This Afternoon and
the Day Fixed for the
Execution of Wat
tox-NOteS.

Judge Williams will adjourn the United
] States district court this evening and will
| leave for his home in Arkansas.
This is not publicly announced yet, but
! is given out semi-officiaily.
| The persons who have been convicted Of
| crimes during the session will be sentenced
| today, probably about o'clock In the af-
ternoon. The only one who will be SEN
fenced to death will be Clyde Mattox.
Dou btless the court room will be crowded
as many people, ladies particularly. are
anxious to see how he will receive the
fatal words of the judge.
There will be some six or
seven other offenders sentenced for
minor crimes, such rs crooked postoffce
employees coupterfeiters, violalors of the
revenue laws, etc.
The court lasted exacly eighteen days,
but actually did about twenty-five days
work, sessions being held every night but
one since the commencement of the term.
The docket Is pretty we'll disposed of, and
what remains has been postponed till the
March term; this includes the Dobson case.
During the eighteen days of the term three
or four sets of jurors have been kept busy
all the time.
The time of the court and jury were &C.
cupied last evening in the United Stated
court by the case of the United States
against elite Mcknight, charged with per-
jury in the Patsey Smith pension claim.
Mcknight is we'll known colored men,
and has resided for many years III this city.
Upon the conclusion Of the testimony for
the government the court instructed the
jury to acquit the defendant, which was
done.
The Norwood insurance cases, tried in
the federal court yesterday, was decided in
favor of the plaintiffs.
Archbishop Dillon and his brother were
found guilty of counterfeiting 10 Ness
county and will be sentenced today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
AMONG THE SPORTS.
Many People Took Day on to Hear thu
Returns

Nothing, after all, causes so much ex
| element and enthusiasm for day as
prize fight.
1t is interesting to stay around publ,
place where sports assemble TO get thu
returns, and see the class of people VIII,
become interested in prize fight. 1t il
really revelation. Men who naturally
appear to be sportIvely inclined are scarce
ly ever seen around such places, while
on the contrary, men gather there ani
become roaring enthusiasts who are gen
orally supposed to be straigbt-laced indi
viduals who would not even tolerate {
game of base ball or Skinny.
There IS one Wichita citizen now al
Jacksonville who is one Of the conspicu
Gus churchmen of the city, ane
he is probably better versed il
| pugilistic affairs than any other man ia
Gown. This is the only known learning
he has got to sporting life, and all the en-.
thusiasm he can generate is usually
wasted in this science. He is something
of boxer himself, and while the athletic
club held forth in the old creamery he was
constant patron of it.
Outside OF a small circle
it is not known that one OF
the best boxers in town is the pastor OF
one of the city churches. He learned tie
| science when he was in college and he has
always retained fondness for it. He
takes quite an interest in prize fighting,
whenever it is not too brutal, and on a
few occasions While he has been in the
city he has boxed, himself in a quiet way.
He was not around the public
places yesterday, but he waited
in the Office of friend and got the news
over the telephone AS fast as it came in.
Many women are interested in boxing
and look upon prize fight as no particu-
lar evil or sin. 1t is surprising to learn
how many Wichita ladies know the repu-
tation and record of all the first and Sec
ond class fighters In this case CorbsUt
was quite a favorite with all the women
who take an interest in the manly art.
One well known woman placed a bet on
Corbett yesterday. putting the money up
in the hands of North Main street bust
ness man, and won SIS. TO prove that she
knew what she was doing she put S225 up
against the SIS
Many of the best business men of Wichi-
ia spent few hours yesterday
around with the boys discussing the rela-
tive merits of the two gladiators.
They showed by their conversation and
enthusiasm that they wele not only well
versed in the history of pugilism, but that
they admired it as pastime.
The excitement yesterday among the
local enthusiasts was intense during the
hour preceding the fight; the next hour
succeeding the fight thew kicked them
selves. The fact that the fight was settled
in three rounds was great disappoint-
ment to them, and even these three rounds
came together in one bulletin, thus de-
priving the crowd of that waiting expert
ence between rounds that intensifies the
Wichita was unanimously for Corbett,
but Gentleman Jim would have increased
his popularity here by prolonging the
fight about seventeen rounds longer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
TELLING STORIES.
Conductor Spears Tells Some OF His Experience
II Fighting Indians.

Conductor Billy Spears of this city has
been down to Guthrie and helped out the
Leader young man the night of the biz
Zard with some stories according to the
following from that paper:
Conductor Spears can tell good story
and is chuck full of "reminiscences. He
was at one time in the Seventh cavalry
with old Jack Stillwell. the we'll known
scout. The other night he found time for
chat aud while telling about life on the
Republican river when they were up there
fighting Indians he said:
"We had a niger up there with us and
during brush with the Indians one day
was captured and carried up over
the hill. We saw a fire started
in few minutes and from the yels
coming down from there we know they
were burning the Niger, but they were
too many for us. and all we could do
was to let him yell aud burn. When l
was superintendent of the Denver, Mem
phis and Atlantic got off at Kiowa one
day, when up came the niger, lhe identi-
cal one we supposed was burned He was
with that tribe three years. had taken an
Indian wife and was not burned at all.
"But the greatest case of Indian captiv-
ity l ever knew of was that of an old man
now at Purcell. He was taken when An
infant at the Alamo massacre. He learn
ed the language readily, and when ID
grew up became familiar with the differ
ent dialects. He was sold from one tribe
to another and has been the interpreter in
many of the big contracts the Indians
have made from time to time with the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
KING RENE's DAUHGTEa.

The Peerless Princess is surely proud OF
her musical daughters. The Wichita
Musical club. who are noted for their ex-
cellent entertainments, aud upon Monday
evening, Jan. %, at the Crawford Grand
will be given Que of the clubs best efforts.
Every one attending the entertainment
will be presented with a souvenir program
containing a hveretto of the cantata
king Rene's Daughter" The solos,
DUETS, trios and quartetts will be sung by
Wichita's best talent. The costumes will
be Greek in style, including all the rain
bow tints, these among the palms and
yellow and white flowers 1.-THE club colors)
will be very effective to TIE artistic eye
Don't forget the date. Monday, Jan %
Tickets on sale at the Goldsmith book
store, l49 North Main street. Reserved
seats can be secured without extra charge
at the box office.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
Characteristic. OF the Seventeenth Century
I'M n

Characteristic. OF the Seventeenth Century
Dutch.
What the Dutch most appreciated
were the faithful reproductions of the
familiar scenes they loved So we
have the delightful reflections of that
peaceful and Industrious life which has
scarcely altered appreciably at the
present day. There was a ousi-cor-
ner or canal bridge, with the bright
brass knockers on the house doors, the
little mirrors at either side OF the par
lor windows and the hay barge lying
at its moorings, with the bargeman
smoking on the ca bose
There were the hustle in the open
ais bours- and the bargaining in the
open-air tish market Then the liter
ally realistic turned TO the realistically
humorous The Dutchmen Of the
Seventeenth century were far from
being licentious. but they were gross:
the ma irons were not given to blush
ing. and the men would shake then
sides at coarse bufoonery.
SO we have the village kirmess and
the suburban fairs: the Doors smoking
dhA4 A<A AZ h4is@ IA AssS y Sue
and the troopers hating for refresh
Inent and flirting with the rustic
bellies Even Rembrandt, in MS
younger days, must be condemned as a
fragrant offender against CIR notions
~ decency. There are siGe-seenes and
by-play N some Of the best Of his
works which would be pronounced
most offensive nov. were they no,
sancfified by his memory.
We doubt not that Teuiers and os-
tade and their 1onfrsres drew shrek.
Of laughter by theiF grotesque studies
q uasophisslcated surgery; the boo-
having his tooth drawn by the black
smiths foreeTs. and the patieE: bssny
cat for the stone fy the razoS Of the
village taraer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
IN PROBATE COURT.

John Hagerman's Will was ordered and
admitted to probate yesterday. The OBJ
lection to the appointment of George r.
Campbell to the execution of the will was
sustained, aud the matter of appointment
OF administrator with will annexed was
postponed till today.
In the estate of Catharine Wolf and
others, the final report OF 5. w. Shattuck
as guardian WAS approved, and he was
discharged as to the guardianship of Cath
arine, Emma and Elizabeth Wolf.
In the estate of w. S. White, the final
report of K. B. Jewett as sole surviving
trustee under the will, was filed and ap-
proved. and the estate declared settled and
the executor discharged.
In the estate of Minerva G. Arnold
proof of the death aud application for the
appointment of an administrator was filed
aud citation issued to l. W. Arnold to
take out letters of administration.
Harry Wiikey and Niche c. Stafford
both of Oklahoma were granted u license
to marry.
A marriage license was issued to John
w. Robinson and Myloie B. Campbell, both
black and both of this city.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
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MUSIC AND DRAMA.
SIDE TRACKED.

The Park.-'Side Tracked One Of the
largest audiences ever within the walls OF
the Park theacer WIS there last night to
laugh over side Tracked" as the title
suggests. Side Tracked" is on the comedy
order. The railroad scene is side-sclitting
in its drollness, aud every character we'll
taken and true to life. julie Walters, as a
new tramp in town, is whole show in
himself. His makeup is original and very
funny: besides the side-tracking Of the
tramp there are other realistic scenes of
great enjoyment. There are ,Eauy special
ties of high order. funny musical per-
Torrance. and wonderful club act aud
some good singing. Altogether it is a
good show and worthy the large patron
age it is drawing Side Tracked" Will
remain at the Park the rest Of the week.
Secure your seats early and avoid the rush
Morning Journal, Dayton.
side Tracked" viii be ar the Crawford
Monday and Tuesday of next week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
DOING GOOD WORK.
TEXAS Whitley. AN EX-CONVICT.
STARTS AFREE LODGING HOUSE
Doing Rushing Business OH South
Lawrence and All for GlOry-He ,
Was a Professional Tramp
Himself and Knows His
Guests IN oteS.

A companion piece to the Salvation
Army soup house has been started on South
Lawrence avenue in the shape of a bunk
house for the lodging of poor and home
less strangers.
Free lodging up stairs' This was the
sign over the door of this house that at
tracted the attention of reporter for the
EAGLE last night. Going up stairs a lot of
men were found sleeping peacefully.
There were some whose lips the razor
had rarely touched on account of their
youth, and some whose boards were grey
and whose hair was thin because of years
OF struggle. They came there as Mr.. Hop
kins. the host, stated nearly frozen, out of
work, moneyless, homeless, hungry and
discouraged, and they were given place
to sleep.
The house is frame building, in the
lower part of which there are stores. Up.
stairs are eleven rooms.
The house Is rented at 81 for three
months, and the money is donated by the
business men of Wichita
lamp at the top of the stairway shows
passage through which the door of the
Office or assembly room of this queer place
is reached. Here we awakened
from their slumbers the proprietors J. w.
Hopkins, G. Il. Bates, Sherman Short and
A. A. Clark
Such mottos as 'God is Love" sPre-
pare to Meet Thy God' are painted on the
walls in good lettering and on the front
wall opposite the door is cross with the
words Faith, Hope and Charity, placed
in its corners.
The other rooms contains beds, roughly
constructed out of two by fours, with an
upper and lower birth.
In these beds are first placed straw, and
on top of that blanket on which to lie,
and one to cover with. Each bed will hold
two men, and each room eight men. so
that, were there enough lumber and nails
furnished, Lightweight men could be kept
from the billiards. blast.
There is also dinjng-room and kitchen
attached, both kept clean and inviting.
though the table is not spread with the
best Irish linen.
The victuals served are soupe, meat.
bread, beans. potatoes and such other
vegetables MS the good people may send or
they are able to buy.
Men are given supper, bed
and breakfast. They are asked
to register and opposite their names
ace placed their occupations, among which |
may be seen laborers, mechanics, shoe
makers, miners, painters, printers, clerks |
and others.
The scheme was originated by j. w. |
Hopkins, known to the police station as |
Texas Whitley" He is an ex-convct of |
the state penitentiary, but was converted |
to the Christian faith while in the city |
prison.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
PERSONALS.

G. w. Ross of Cincinnati. O., is paying
Wichita business visit.
Fred j. Starr of Lincoln, Neb., is among
the visitors in the city.
f. E. Curtis of Toledo is doing business
in the city.
H. T. Porter of Atchison was at the
Carey last night on business.
J. H. Lyon one of the prominent Pythian
Knights of the state was in town yester-
day.
H. Z. Lowenstein of Kansas City did
business in the Peerless Princess yester-
day.
j. NJ. Thralls of Wellington was among
the visitors in the city yesterday.
John G. Frye of Larned was in town
yesterday on legal business.
Phil B. Collins of Denver was at the
Carey last night; also James Wilson of the
same city.
) w. n. Milligan of Kansas City is in
town on a brief business visit.
John Z. Hopper of Arkansas City and
A NJ. Heard of the same place were at the
Carey yesterday.
j. ID. Smith of Kingsly is at the Man
haitian.
Mrs. NJ. C. Wood of FL Reno is visiting
IN the city.
J. A l.. Pinto of st. Joe did business in
town yesterday.
II. J. Guthrie of St. Louis was at the
Manhattan last night.
j. +. Taylor of Kansas City is among the
Cliff Dwellers in town.
+. A. Terres of Kansas City is at the
Manhattan.
E Ii. Null of Cullison is in town.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
GLACIAL ACTION.
Great Rocks Crushed and Ground Dswl
Under the Irresistible Molten.

Great Rocks Crushed and Ground Down
Under the Irresistible Molten.
Every glacier carries with il, imbed.
ded in its under surface, numbers Of
rocks and stones which, during the
slow but unceasing motion over its bed,
crush and grind down all rocky pro-
jections, producing in the end gently
rounded or almost fat surfaces even on
the toughest and hardest rocks In
many of the valleys of Wales, the lake
district, and Scotland every exposed
rock has acquired this characteristic
outline, and the same feature can be
traced on all the rocky slopes and often
on the submits of the lesser heights,
and the explanation of how these form.
have been produced is not theory
only, but has been observed in actual
operation in the accessible portions OF
many glaciers
Rocks and stones are to be seen i'm
bedded in the ice and actually scratch.
ing, growing, and grinding the rock
beneath in their slow but irresistible
onward motion. The rocky islets in
Windermere, Ullswater, and other
tdhCs, ar VIC AOuSduu lsiduus
OF the St Lawrence, are Anus ice
ground, and the amount of grinding
can often be seen 20 be proportional 10
the pressure and motion of the advanc-
ing glacier.
! recently noticed in the marshy al
luvial plain above Derwentwater q pro-
jecting rock which has been ground
down to so regular a curve as To look
like a portion of an enormous globe
buried in the earth. By rough meas
urement and estimate this rock was
about two hundred and fifty feet across
and twenty or thirty feet high. II was
formed OF hard slate, with numerous
quartzite veins, the whole ground
down TO a uniform spherical surface.
1t had evidently once been an island In
the lake. having a mucn broader base
now hidden by the alluvium. and may
originally have been one of those alb
rupt craggy rocks a few hundred feet
high, which, owing 20 thel- superior
hardness or tenacity, resisted ordinary
denudstion, and which, when above
the old ice level, form those numerous
pixies" which add so much 20 the wild
and picturesque scenery Of the district
A. T. Wallace, in Fortnightly Re
view
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-26
SUED By a WOMAN.
Mrs. Allison Seeks TO Recover None From The
safe investment Company.

Mrs. Sarah Allison sued the Safe Invest
ment company OF this city yesterday to
recover the money paid them on fifteen
bonds, and has garnisheed the funds Of
the company in the bank
This is the first time Kansas court has
had an opportunity TO pass on the legality
OF an institution OF this Kind since Score
tary OF State Osborne has given charters
admitting them TO do business in the
state.
Ihis, 1t viii be remembered, is the same
institution that was barred from doing
business through the postoffice few
weeks ago by Uncle Sam.