The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-24

Special Dispatch TO the Daily Eagle
KINGMAN, Kan, June 23.-Th1s city
aud county came in for full share or the
rainfall which visited southern Kansas
last Thursday afternoon and night. The
total waterfall here in about fourteen
hours lacked a small fraction OF being
three and one-half inches.
Since the big rain of three weeks ago
the apparent Transformation" that has
Dyertaken the wheat in this county IS won
aerfui Large fields of this cereal which
brior to that looked as though IL would
barely pay to waste time IN going over
with the reaper, give promise now OF any
where from fifteen to twenty bushels
yield TO the acre. And corn-well, TO use
the language of one of Kingman county's
best farmers, there's no telling Where the
yield per acre will stop"
Wheat harvest has been going on in this
county the larger part of this week, and
- rs far as have been able TO get reports
The yield will be- good, the heads being
well filled with fine, plump grains.
"Well, our female suffrage mass meet
ipgs have come and gone and Kingman
remains in about the same condition
nothing lost or gained. can say, however,
that from the day the Pops inserted the
plank in their platform favoring il the
saIne appeared TO lose enthusiasm among
its best workers in this city, and during
the two days meetings a pail seemed to
hover over the proceedings. With very
few exceptions Republican, Democrats and
Populists alike in this city, agree that it
was far better for the success of the
amendment to leave it out of all party
platform. This admission is made by
some OF the warmeSt supporters OF the
amendment. In her talk Tuesday night
Rev. Anna Shaw paid her respects to the
''red-headed editor of the EAGLE" One
statement she made during the evening
excited considerable comment at the time
as well as afterwards. 1t was: 81 have
travelled g great deal during my life, more,
perhaps. tn an any member of my audi
ance, and have mingled with hundreds
of families, but out of the whole
number have only found eight family
circles in which true happiness existed"
She gave NO cause for these failures In
happiness, neither did she suggest any
remedy, nor did she tell her audience what
that had 20 do with the suffrage question,
unless 1t was TO show them that without
female su11age marriage was failure
"Win the old soldiers in the Populist
party vote against Major Morrill, for gov
ernor?" is . portion of an extract | see in
The EAGLE from the Salina Sun. know
of four of TINS class in this county, and l
also know { hat each one of them is TODAY
drawing pension under the law of 1890
because they could not prove up their
claims under fthe old or general law. Two
of them We're the first parties in this
county to file claims under that law
forwarding their claims within fifteen DAYS
after the lsST was approved by President
Harrison.
Speaking Of pensions reminds me of a
late ruling made by Lochren on the claim
of Mrs. Bossart of PenalOsa, this county.
To back up her rights to a pension
unoer the law or 1890 she
sent in her own affidavit.
the affidavit of their daughter and the aft.
usvlts OF two men, neighbors, showing
that herself and daughter had to do all the
work on the farm; that they plowed the
corn and worked in the fields the same as
men; that she had no income save what
she gained from the farm, and that for the
year 1898 her total income from such work
was but sizes 50. Notwithstanding all this.
and the further fact that her husband was
n pensioner when he died, Lochren rejected
her claim a few days ago on the ground
that. under the law of 1890. she was not
dependent Having seen the papers in this
case L know this is-a true statement.
The Republican central committee of
TINS county viii come together next Satur-
day, the 30th, and fix the day, for the
county convention. Kingman Republicans
Ieel highly encouraged with the outlook
Tor success at the polls in November next.
hon. Il. NJ. Conkllng is visiting his fam
lly IN this city this week. Mr.. Copklinp
has had An Office in Enid, O. T.. since
shortly after the strip opened, where he
mas been practicing law