The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-25
IT FAILS TO WORK
JINGLE SAM SAYS SCENT BUTTER Is
QUITE DECEPTIVE
AS a Result, Mr.. Perkins Was Ar
rested for Violating the Postal
Laws = Milk and Butter
Won't Fuse Success
iully--COurt Notes

W. J. Perkins of this city has been ar
rested by the government, and has given
bond
| In almost all metropolitan eastern
papers one can encounter an advertise
ment in the want column which advertises
five cent butter" ETC., and giving the ad.
dress as Wichita.
Very few people in Wichita know any.
thing about the firm although the at
tention of hundreds of them have been
called to the advertisement.
The arrest was made by the postal
authorities and the complaint is. in sub
stance, that Mr.. Perkins was using the
mails for the purpose of defrsuding the
people.
Examiner Jesse Mcclure has the matter
in charge and the examination Of the case
will possibly be held in Commissioner
Shearman's court today. if that gentle
man can spare time from the federal court
to conduct it,
The governments claim is that the s.
cent butter is deceptive. 1t seems, from
the statements made, that the company
which Mr. Perkins represents has some
kind of powder or composition that is
the magic by which they make the alleged
butter. One pound of good butter is
taken and mixed with pint of milk, and
by the application Of as much of this
magic composition as can be contained
On the point of knife. the milk and the
butter fuse-like the Demo-Pops. as it
were. If the fusion is kept in a cool
place it does all right, but the
moment it comes in contact
with heat the fusion is bursted
and the milk will go back to its own self
again. For instance, if it is put on hot
biscuit it goes apart, and the good man
who finds his creamery TUNED into
sour milk kicks at the Office of the board
ing house, and the proprietor kicks in
turn at the groceryman. and the dickens
is to pay generally. The magic compost
tion does not work and this is how the PEG.
pie are deceived.
Uncle Sam, it appears. does not like that
kind of butter for his buckwheat cakes
and biscuits. and he proposes to make Mr..
Perkins invent some other composition to
make more successful butter, or drive him
out of the business by closing the post
office against his correspondence.
o. +. Norwood and Z. r. Norwood
against the Norwich Union Fire Insur-
ance society was on trial in the federal
court yesterday.
This case promises to be of al interesting
nature. for there are ten cases in groups of
three which are nearly the same TO be
brought by the same Norwood brothers.
The Norwoods We're merchants in the
city of Lsrned, Pawnee county, of this
state. Their stock was estimated at
5000
About October, November and Deem
Der, 1891, they insured their stock in ten
different insurance companies for amounts
from S. 5000 to $500, and aggre-
eating in the whole about thirty or forty
thousand dollars.
The building in which this stock was
kept WAS burned down on Nov. 5, 1892, and
the goods totally destroyed.
The insurance was asked for and refused
by each company insuriug.
Suit was then brought in the district
court of Pawnee county for the recovery
OF the insurance but was transferred to the
United States circuit court Of Wichita
where it is now in progress.
The plaintiff demands the insurance and
costs of the suit, aud give as their ground
the policy Of the company which
is such as is generally given
by insurance companies. The defendant
claims that the policy is null and void,
because without the consent of the com
pany the merchants bad placed both prior
and subsequent insurance on the prop
srty; that the goods were old, sec
oud-hand goods, contrary to what had
been represented to the company,
That instead of being worth $50, 900 they
were worth not more than $50, 900
That the ownership was not clearly de-
fined and that certain man named Rush
rad part interest in the stock of goods.
And that from these three REASONS it
WAS evident that the plaintiff had attempt
ell TO defraud, and hence the policy, &C
cording to its own working, null and void
The greatest interest centers around the
question of valuation. Were the goods
old or new. and were they worth ST., 5000
or $50, 900 co.
Witnesses were examined yesterday, but
there was conflict in the evidence pro-
duced.
The case will be continued today at a.
M, when the argument will be presented
to the jury.