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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10

Jake Harmon of this city gave train rob-
hing in the Cherokee Strip back set last
night.
He drew his gun, took deadly aim, and
made one robber bite the dust.
He mot only did this but he captured
another ons of the robbers, with both
horses.
The details of the affair could not
be thoroughly ascertained last night
owing to the I,teness of the hour at which
the robbery vas attempted and the meagre
telegraph news service in the cities of the
Cherokee strip.
The Rock Island train left this city at
o'clock with Jake Harmon as guard
whose run extends to Fort Worth.
When it had arrived between Pond Creek
and Round Pond in the Cherokee strip
a desnerado who had srcreted himself
somew here about the engine presented a
revolver TO the head of the engineer and
ordered him to come 10 a stand still which
order was instantly complied with. A
number of masked men jumped from the
brush and made instantly for the express
car and battered the door down. One of
the robbers was crawling iuto the car when
Guard Harmon drew a bead on him and
sent a bullet crashing through his body
killing him instantly.
This warm reception astonished the
other bandits and they tried to make their
escape but before doing so one of them
WAS captured. The BODY Of the dead
man was taken to Round Pond to
DE tnrned over TO the county authori-
Ties, while the other man was taken there
as prisoner and lodged in Jail. Two
horses were also captured and are held by
the authorities.
Nothing could be learned as to the
names of the Robbers or the identity of the
band to which they belong.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10

In speaking of the visit of Mrs. Lease to
Chicago the Tribune says:
| Mary Ellen also comes to Chicago tc
place manuscript in the hands of pub
llshlng firm. 1t must be quite a manu-
| scriDr, for she said:
Il think l have the book of the century,
That might sound little egotistical. but
1t Is so. The publishers say the same, and
thlnk there viii be no trouble in dispos
Ing of the first million at once"
A reporter for the EAGLE called on the
worthy spouse of Mary Ellen at his home.
o3o Wabash avenue, yesterday to ascer.
tain something concerning this remark
aoe book. Mr.. Lease. or Charley as every
body Familiarity calls him, was up to
MS eyes i'll business He had
cleaned up the yard in the rear of
pin would be jealous of it and the accu-
muiated rubbish was ascending towards
heaven III line volume of blue smoke.
charlie did not stand idly by like other
men would have done and watch the blaze:
on the contrary he was sprinkling a gar.
den that looked like checker board with
well kept patches of lettuce, peas, rad
dishes, onions, tomatoes and lot of other
truck
Yes" said Charlie, 81 heard some
thing about that book. The odd woman
spoke about something of the kind some
time ago"
Has she written it yet?''
mo, not that know. 1 just got letter
from her today, IN which she spoke about
it again.
DO you know anything about the sub
ject of the book"
No, but L am pretty sure it will be a
stem winder. The old woman is writer"
said Charlie with "A twinkle of pride in
his eye. and l predict n big sale for the
book. I'll tell you all about il later on"
Mr.. Lease refers to his wife in that plain
simple old way as the "olG woman but
he does 1t with all the respect in the world;
Tor be thinks great deal of her and Is
possibly the most enthusiastic admirer o.
her talent,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
HOTEL SOIOURNERs.

Hotel Carey-W l. Trovbridge, Chica
60; c: T. Riley. S. Lonis; :. j. Bear. To
peka; c. s Bowman, Newton; II. I. Earl
Kansas City, n. F. Iaogenbery, st Louis
F. F. King. ST. Louis; y. W. Milligan
Kansas City; q. II. Copiin, Winfield
Elmer Daniel Dexter, Kan: George Is
Sayre, Chicsgo: John Anderson, New
York: r W. Underwood. Hutchinson; II
c. Wood, Hutchinson; William Hadley
Topeka.
Hotel Msnhattan-R r Mobry, st.
Louis; Ed Deemer, 81. Louis: G. D-Wolf
Hartford: A c. 1borp. Great Bend: ID. h.
Calyer, Newton; Bert Russell, Kansas CITY:
u. NJ. Heath and wife, Peabody, II. n
Gilbert, Conway: c. ". Nickersoa. Ghetto
Pc; II. Work, Ellsworth; l. Il Connell,
Ani hony; Jacob Lewis. Kansas City.
Hotel Metropole-J. E Trent, Z! Reno.
p. u. MesiElekaui. Chicsgc; ". C. Brady,
-. .Jo,-ph: Fl. h Robinson, Kansas City;
j NJ Wilson. Enid, A A Mathews. Leav-
enwortb: Cora Bennett Anthony, r II.
Audeis n, Topeka
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
CONDENSED LOCAL NEWS.

IL Is Very pleasant evidence of the fact
that the board OF county commissioners
Is again Republican TO see a man setting
out pretty flowers in the court house yard.
EX-County Commissioner S. H Haden
cas- In the city yesterday and reported a
lack Of moisture in his township.
Postmaster Ed Jewett has been spend
ing good deal of his time recently at his
farm. While putting down pump Sat
urday he discovered by scientific means
that the sub irrigation of the soil is re-
ceding farther towards the center of the
earth.
Fred Sewers of the district clerks office
Is contemplating starting little Coxey
movement of his own. He may yet start
out with an army of Western Kansas far
mers for Colorado, to release the Arkan-
sas river which is imprisoned up there for
the benefit of a few potato farmers to the
great and lasting injury of Kansas. He
is pInlng to see one more of those old FASH
Toned June roses that he used to see here
fifteen or twenty years ago.
The Goodyear divorce case. or rather
some preliminaries TO it. occupied Judge
Reeds attention in the district court yes
terday.
The county commissioners were sweat
ing I'll day yesterday allowing the monthly
bills, IF which there Was prodigous pile.
Baihf Johnson was not in the district
court yesterday. It was reported that he
was laid up with the measles, but he APP
peared al the council meeting last evening
revert heiess.
Filing Clerk Potter of the district clerks
Dfhce has changed boarding houses and
is now guest OF st. Francis hospital. He
Is suffering from an attack of the measles,
and, being a bacneior, had to go to the
hospital.
Peter Healy, runaway Chicago youth,
was arrested yesterday and reiurueG 10
his fond parents in the worlds fair city.
Initial steps were taken yesterday to-
wards the erection of fine building on the
rorner OF Douglas avenue and Water
street TO replace the old Douglas Avenue
hotel
s. Il Am;don went TO Topeka last night
70 intercede for a man named Briley, who
was sentenced at the last term of tue dis
trct court for hog stealing.
Philip Smith of Goddard was locked ND
in the county Jail yesterday pending in
quiry into his sanity.
A gentleman named Cooper of Salt Lake
is here looking for location for a whole
sale business house He will find the loca.
tion simply the best in the world.
verdict was rendered in the district
court yesterday for the defendant in the
case of the Citizens bank against John A.
Doran as constable. The jury was out
two days.
Baby Allen. the sweet little daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. 7. Allen, is still in a very
critical condition and her parents and
their hosts of friends are very anxious
about her. She is making heroic strug-
gle with the relentless disease that affiIcts
her
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
COMING local EVENTS,

Regular meeting of Arson Skinner camp
No. 149 in Garfield hail tonight at eight
o'clock.
Extra rehearsal of the choral depart
ment Of the Musical club this afternoon At
Ais. A full attendance Is requested.
The w. C. I. L. will meet at $50 o'clock
this (Tuesday) afternoon At their rooms
opposite the pos;office. Mrs. Clara G..
Deem.
Attention is called TO the regular drill of
company A tonight by Captain U. 5.
Hou gland. He desires 20 say also that no
one Will ba excused.
The big show with its many wonders will
give two grand exhibitions az Wichita on
Saturday, April IA. Howe & Cushing have
enjoyed the proud distinction for many
years as being the leading circus managers
snd greatest procurers OF rare wild AMI
mails, always presenting the latest and
greatest surprises in arenic, geologic and
curious creation Their efforts have been
amply rewarded at home and abroad with
unreasonable success Ever on the alert
and interchangeable in their efforts for new
features. and il is said that on this their
ty-fourth anu ual tour. II can be assert
ed without fear of contradiction that
theirs IS the best tented show of the Uni-
verse
The Equal Suffrage society will meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Tayio
3oi North Lawrence avenue. Subject:
:,Set,iement Of America
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
MORE JURORS DRAWN.

The following additional jurors have
been drawn for service at the present term
of the district court. in accordance with
an order made by Judge Reed:
J. e. Finney, city.
Jacob SILVER, Attica.
Frank Fisher, city.
c. Southwick. Garden Plain.
S. u. Slower, city.
Thomas Kerr, Alton.
Thomas Bowers, Union.
Ed Forward. D.iano.
q. +. WIlke, Gypsum.
Charles Garduer, city.
Charles Mos bacher. city.
5. II. Knepple, city.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
PAINFUL ACCIDENT.

]. L. G. Carney, clerk of the city court
met with very painful accident last Fri
day that has kept him prone upon his bed
ever since and is likely to hold him there
for several days. In taking down a heat
ing stove in his residence he made au
awkward step while sustaining the bulk
of the weight of the stove, and either
fractured the collar OF the hip bone or
ruptured a tendon. causing him to fall
with the load. His suffering from the
injury has been intense rendering neces-
thetics
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
MYRTLE DEANS DEATH.

Last night the telegraph made the sad
announcement of the death of Miss Myrtle
DEAN at Chicago where she had been for
several months visiting her sister. Mrs.
Brown. Her death must be q very sudden
one as there WAS no intelligence here that
she had been sick. Miss Myrtle was. q
sister to Frank and Lew DEAN and a
daughter of Mrs. E A. DEAN of 1446 Park
Place Avenue. Miss DEAN was a very
beautiful young lady aud she had hosts of
warm friends aud admirers in Wichita.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
THAT GRAIN CONGRESS.

Letters are being received every day
from southern cities Indicating the general
interest that Is being taken ia the coming
grain and trade congress to be held in this
city on the II. The president of the board
of trade received a telegram yesterday
from the secretary of the boari of trade of
New Orleans stating that New Orleans
would be present with a full delegation
and prepared to present papers and discuss
questions pertinent to the occasion. Mo-
bile aud Galveston also respond with the
same enthusiasm and sentiment
The Gulf port C ties are fully alive to the
Importance of tins convention.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
NICHITA SEI.ECTEn

The twenty.ninth annual meeting Of thu
State Sunday-school association will b.
held in this city on the s. o and 10 of next
mouth.
Some OF the leading Sunday-school
workers OF New York. Illinois aud Mis-
souri, have been secured. The workers of
Kansas combined with the eastern celeb
rites will make the meeting one of the
best ever held in the state
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
GOING TO ALASKA.

Professor Shull, for several years princi-
pal of the High school of this city. will
leave next Saturday for Alaska to engage
in educational work among the natives Of
that benighted country. His destination
is Sitka and his work will be performed
under the pay of some benevolent educa-
tional society. the headquarters of which
is in New York. Miss Weaver, also o
former teacher of Wichita, il there.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
CHAUTAUQuA PROGRAM.

Program of SuDflower Chautauqua circle
for Monday April 16.
Circle to meet at Miss Ola Kinkead's,
913 \. Lawrence avenue.
Classics Latin course in English,"...
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mrs. Powell
"Song and Legends from the Mid lls..
Ages. Ola kinkead
Outline history of Sicily. Mrs. Hill
Religious Legends of the Mortimer.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .....Mrs. Schell
Character and study-"Hanable''-
...................M Mrs. Harmmening
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
EMpORIA PREsBYTERY,

The Emporia Presbytery will be held in
the First Presbyterian church. this city
Sessions begin Tuesday evening at
o'clock with a sermon by the moderator
Rev. A l. Lawrence of Burlingame. The
business meetings will be continued
through Wednesday and Thursday.
All sessions are open to the public, and
q cordial invitation extended to every one
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
ANOTHER NEW ENTERPRISE.

The Campbell Produce company has
opened up its main Office in the old
Zephyr mills on First street and Fifth
avenue. Formerly they were located in
Douglass and Argonia but their business
grew to such magnitude it compelled
them to find a more suitable railroad CEN
ter. and they chose Wichita.
This brings to Wichita five families and
an annual business of at least $50, 600
They made their first shipment yesterday
of one Car Of poultry aud contemplate
shipping at least two cars each week. Mr..
A. E. Lawrence is manager Of the enter
prise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
SCHOOL OF MASONRY.

The masonic state school Of instruction
is in session in this city and will continue
all the week. All master mas0ns are in
vited. Officers of lodges from different
parts Of the state lave been arriving and .
large attendance is looked for this morn
ing at nine o'clock. This state school is
held each year when all who desire can
learn the correct work.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10
ROARD OF TRADE

There will lie a regular meeting of the
directors Of the board OF trade at their
rooms in the Sedewick block this (Tues-
day. evening at $50 o'clock. 4 tuIl at
tendance of all the directors is earnestly
requested. BY order of the president.
+. A. DAVIS Sec