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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-12

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
He Thinks the Eoggy Creek Find a Delu
sion and Snare.

Jim Duffy returned last night from
the gold fields on Boggy creek.
He says in the language of the late
Aretemus Ward, the scene beggars de-
scription, men are crazy s looms run
ming here and there with a shovel full
of dirt which when washed out proves
TO contain plenty of fool gold bat more
of the genuine article.
The WaSllita and South Canadian
rivers are too full TO cross except m
the old way, viz: put your clothes on
top Of your head and swim for it.
Jimie Donahoe, the Conemara lad who
beat Captain Woodson out of his valu-
able lots in FL Reno, mOrtgaged the
same, bought a mule and burro loaded
them down with a full line of prospect
ors supplies and started for the land Of
the Wichita's. When seen Wednesday
Jimmie said may the divil and all his
imps fly away with the man who first
said there was gold on the Washita. He
tramped up and down, high and low,
over hill and dale without even seeing
the sign Of gold, let alone the precioIN
metal itself His burro is gone, the last
he saw of the valuable animal it was
floating down the turbid Washita with
its four feet raised TO heaven as If
praying maledictions on the head of the
man who first started the rumpus.
Frank Mitchell of Ell Reno was also
there. Frank left FL Reno two weeks
ago with 500 head of Southdowns which
he sold for s. head. He remarked
in a mild tone Of voice he could not
bear to see the poor miners starve
when he could from his bountiful store
of mutton supply them with the neces-
saries of life Frank returned with a
gunny sack filled with rock and few
genuine nuggets of gold which some
evil disposed persons say were brought
by Frank from California in go.
George Baker. Jack Stillwell, Frenchy
Judge Pitzer. United States Marshal
Madison eX-CnuntY Clerk Clark. and a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
HAVE RECEIVED THEIR oRDEAs.
Sanitary Police Must Arrest People Who
Picket stock in the streets.

There has been a good deal Of COM
plant entered at police headquarters
on account Of stock picketed in the
streets and alleys. The park commits
sioaers also report that people drive
into Linwood park and hitch their
horses 10 the trees and that some of
the best trees in the park have been
ruined by horses eating the bark from
the trunks Of the trees.
This matter has been investigated
and the sanitary policemen have been
ordered to arrest any one found hitch
ing horses 10 trees in the parks. II j.
also claimed that there are numbers OF
people in the city who keep cows and
they picket them anywhere in the
streets where grass can be found grow
ing along the sidewalks and people are
compelled either 10 get cut in the
streets or stop 10 drive the cows from
the walks. This is in violation OF the
city ordinance and the police have
been ordered TO arrest all parties found
picketing stock in the streets. The POI
lice say they will have 70 obey the or
der and people who wish 10 avoid ar
rest will not hereafter picket stock in
the streets or alleys.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
CITY IN BRIEF.

J. B. Larimer of Topeka was in town
yesterday.
T. ]. Culberson Of Chicago is visiting
! ing the city.
/ Mrs. L. c. Weeks returned from Kan
sas City yesterday.
Thomas C. Lombard OF New YorA
was guest at the Carey yesterday.
| Miss Jessie Landes of Yates Center Is
visiting with Mrs. Guy Myres Of this
city.
Thomas B. Brown. the we'll known
| financial man Of West Chester, Pa. is
in the city.
l. n. Crawford Of Topeka was look
ing after his business interests in the
city yesterday.
Miss Steel. who has been visiting Mrs
RuggIes for the past two weeks, re-
turns TO her home Saturday.
Miss Lizzie Newcomb left home Thurs
day TO spend few days with friends in
Wellington. and from there she goes TO
South Haven.
There is a call for a good baseball
pitcher If there is one in town. He
must throw good ball and II he can
good job awaits him.
Word was received yesterday from
Splitter & Co., that the county bonds
were almost ready for the signatures
Of the county commissioners.
Park Massey left last night for Her
rington to visit ois sister. Mrs. Mosier.
whom he has not seen for some years.
He will be accompanied by his wife and
children.
John Coin OF Salem township was at
the court house yesterday. He says
that they have a surplus OF rain down
there and that the ground is too wet
to pillow corn.
H. Z. Patterson Of Harper county
is in the city looking for some nice
residence property TO buy for a per-
manent residence. He is accompanied
by Mrs. Patterson.
yesterday, Wells. the man who stole
fiddle was released from the city .pris-
on by giving a mortgage on his furni-
ture to guarantee the payment of the
fine. The chief Of police holds the
mortgage.
Roy Kramer, the connoisseur OF fe-
male lovliness, was down to Winfield
this week and 10 hear his description of
the beauties Of that place is really in
spring. 1t is said that he is very
much elder since he returned.
The state board OF railway assessors
have made their returns 10 the county
clerk. The assessment has been in
creased on the main lines and decreas-
ed on the branch lines. On the whole
the railway assessment in the county
has been reduced $4,000.
County Clerk, NJ. A. Carvin. returned
from a little outing yesterday. He
drove from Newton to Walton and
out of several hundren acres Of wheat
he saw only two or three poor patches.
He says there is thousands upon thous-
ands of acres OF corn in Harvey county
as fine as he has ever seen.
There was a mistake made in the list
of gentlemen OF which the silver COM
mittee on permanent organization Is
composed. The corrected list of men,
bers is as follows: ". NJ. Murdoch, r.
A. Sankey. a. V. Alexander. G. W.
Charlton, Whitney Tucker. John Eaton.
A. S. Parks, y. A. Garst. II. x. fuller.
j. P. Johns, William Mathewson, Col
Bird, Jesse Haymaker, Colonel Hal
lowell, T. B. Wall.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
WILL GIVE AN ANIMAL FEAST.
German Lutheran Congregation Prepa rins
for Big Mission Fest.

on Sunday the annual mission feast
OF the German Lutheran coHgrega ton
Will be celebrated in their church L
the corner OF Waterman and Market
streets and great preparations have
been made for the observance of the
same. Among the numerous visitors
from out of the city viii be three min
listers, the Rev. Rudolph of Hanover.
Rev. Jeans of Inman and Rev. Kottish
of Hudson. who will each address the
congregation during the hay. The choir
will furnish special music for the occa-
sion. The services viii commence in
the morning with prayer exercises and
sermon. This will be followed by a gen
eral dinner served to all the guests and
congregation at a house adjacent TO
the church. Dinner hour being from
l. until 3 o'clock. Benches and chairs
viii be provided in the pretty grove
adjoining the church where the con-
gregation may mingle in social inter-
course during certain hours Of the day.
The pastor. Rer. SHERMAN. extends a
cordial invitation 10 all friends Of the
church and all Germans in particular
10 attend all the services
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
WILL HAVE SOME WHEAT.
Andale stock Buyer Says He has a Field of
Wheat that will Yield We'll

a. Smarsh, the man who buys all the
stock around Andale and ships to the
Wichita market. was in the city yes
terday.
Mr.. Smarsh says that people in his
section are surprised at the way the
oats has come out and that they are
going to have some really good oats.
He says he has a fifty acre field of
Russian Turkey wheat that viii make
twenty bushels 10 the acre.
Mr.. Smarsh says he paid one dollar a
bushel for the seed and this is the sec
ond year It has been raised in this
country. He thinks the soft wheat
here has run out and that To insure
good crops the farmers will have TO
import seed wheat about every ten or
twelve years. He says the reason his
wheat is good is because it was recent
IN imnOrted.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22

This car is in charge of Mr.. c. A.
Porter. a genial gentleman, who has
been in the show business for thirty
five years. He is known the length
and bredth of the land as an advance
agent He spends his winters in the
services of metropolitan dailies. He has
served two terms in the legislature of
his state. Mr.. NJ. Fagin, the boss bill
poster. is an expert and is ably assisted
by eighteen experts. This force makes
a specially of advertising the excurs-
ions which all the lines of railroad COM
ing into town will run on show day at
greatly reduced rates.
The sight of such car as this and
the one which preceded ii gives one
confidence in the greatness of the show
they herald. Cheap aggrega tons
could not support so much splendor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
CONDITION OF THE CROPS
Mr.. Skinner Travels Good Deal and Tells
What He saw.

Captain J. ". Skinner. trustee OF
Wichita township. was at the court
house yesterday on some official BUSH
ness. He travels a good deal in the
country insuring farm property and
hence is well posted on the condition
of the crops. He says there is a strip
OF country running east OF Nulvane
along the Butler county line and ex-
tending from a point east of Derby TO
point east OF Belle Plaihe in Sumner
county that is almost barren OF vege-
tation. For some cause they had no
rain TO amount 10 anything in that
strip Of country this year. The hedges
and trees are almmOst bare. wheat
and oats are a complete failure and
corn is not more than foot high. The
northern part OF this county he SAYS
has the finest crop he ever saw with
the corn ten and twelve feet high
This strip runs as far west as Reno
county and is especially fine in the
neighborhood OF Mount Hope Gensr-
ally speaking corn is wonderful In this
county and in some places he saw oats
that viii thresh seventy bushels TO the
acre. He thinks there are lots Of fields
OF wheat that will go twenty-five bush
els and some that viii not go more
than five. He thinks the ag-rega te
crop. considering the probable price.
VIII end in very satisfactory results. Z
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
HE BOBS UP AGAIN
BOY TIMMONS Is REGARDED AS
DEAD, AT BURLINGTON.
His Friends there will not Believe other
wise Till the Wichita Police Locate Him
to Their SatisfactiOn--In Fact They
Think the Guardians of the Peace of
the Peerless Princess are Only Covering
up Their own Inability to Account for
the Mysterious Djsappearance--They
Thiuk Wichita q BAD Place.

Fresh interest has been revived in
the disappearance of Roy Timmons, the
young man who came here to work for
j. j. Mcnamara. The last published
accounts indicated that the police had
located him somewhere in the west but
would not tell where it was, offering as
to avoid his father.
That story seemed to satisfy the pub
lie but it does dot satisfy the friends of
Timmons, many of whom think, wheth-
er justly or otherwise, that the police
Just said that for the purpose of smooth
ing over their inability to find young
Timmons or to account for his absence.
Certain 1t is that the people OF Burlins-
ton, Kansas are excited over the mat
ter and letters are received from them
daily criticiZing the police force of WITCH
tia for not throwing light on the matter
if they can do so. II the police know,
and they evidently do, for Wichita has
policemen who are as clever as any otn-
er policemen, they must either reveal
the whereabouts of Ray Timmons or
rest under a cloud. 1t seems that young
Timmons was very popular at Burllng-
ton and a letter from there, seen yes
terday by reporter for the Eagle, sta
ted that his friends We're in mourning
for him, believing that he was dead.
1t seems they think that Wichita is a
very wicked place where men can be
murdered and thrown into sewers for a
few dollars and the police not only
have their own reputation TO defend
but the reputation of the city as well.
This Will probably be an inducement
for them 10 reveal the whereabouts
of Roy Timmons if they know.
Mr.. Mcnamara has been flooded with
letters all in dicating a belief that Tim
mons is dead. Mr.. Mcnamara is almost
persuaded TO that belief himself from
what he has read in the letters some
of which were written by TimOns day
or so before he disappeared. He has
found out that Timmons came here
with money which would be an induce
ment for foul play. The day before
Timmons disappeared he wrote a long
letter to a prominent gentleman at
Burlington in which ne seemed TO be
very cheerful over the fact that he had
secured a nice position. He spoke high
ly of Mr.. Mcnamara and expressed him
self as being fortunate in getting in
with such man. The tone of this let
ter has served more than any other
cause TO make his friends believe that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22

hundred other FL RenoiteS buried their
picks. pans and shovels in the heart of
the Washita mountains and with sad ia
es retraced their steps to their homes
sadder If not wiser men. 1t was a
pitiful sight TO see Judge Pitzer with
his Peffersonian appendages floating in
the breeze climbing a back fence the
other morning with the evident desire
of reaching his quiet home without
the neighbors seeing him.
George Bakers raiment after two
weeks in the mountains would serve
to clothe the nakedness Of the tramp
in the Noble Outcast."
The whole thing is a fiZZle from a to
lizard. There is nothing in it. If the
country for a radius of 100 miles was
dug up and turned over not five pounds
of clear gold would be realized.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
Expert cooks use Prices Baking Pow
der because It adds to their fame.
SAYS HE WAS ROBBED.
Henry Patton Came to the City to Learn
Something of Life in a MetropOiis.

So.betntnS Oh Lie III n NetTOpoiiss
There was a young man taking in
the sights last night who claimed TO
have been robbed on West Douglas.
He told reporter for the Eagle that
his name was Mr.. Kelley and he lived
at Clearwater, but the bookkeeper at
the Douglas Avenue house said his
name was Henry Patten, and he hail
ed from Derby.
Henry Patten or Mr.. Kelley claims
that he went into a room at the Doug
las Avenue and lay down to rest and
when he awoke his money, between
$50 and $50 was not in his pocket where
il should be.
He lodged complaint a police head
quarters and at midnight last night
Officers Parks and Dunbar arrested
Charley Cane and Belle Quick on sus-
piciOn. Belle went off laughing with
officer Dunbar al the idea of her rob-
bing a big awkward man.
The barkeeper at the Douglas Ave
nue. house said Patten had been around
that section OF the city for two days
drinking and having high cid time
and he supposed that the gentleman
from Derby had lost a few dollars
some where and then tried To disgrace
the Douglas Avenue house by having
one Of the dining room girls arrested.
Patten. or Mr.. Kelley. however, in
sisted that he lost his money and that
he would know whole lot more next
time
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
The dQ1ieha allu aole Saturday zorms gune e.

never arrested and taken to Philadel-
phia. If he had been we would have
heard of it,
Il do not blame you for hunting for
news said Mr.. Coleman. land will
convince you Frank Pratt is not in
prison in Philadelphia. And he took
the reporter in and was met at the door
by a kindly appearing little woman
whose appearance indicated that She
had seen trouble. This my sister,
Mrs. Pratt he said.
She seemed to know that we had been
talking about her husband. The little
girl that stood outside had evidently
gone in and repeated a part of the
conversation to her. Mr. Coleman ask
ed her for Franks picture and his last
letter and they were brought out The
letter was dated June 14th and every
line in it was the plea of a repentant
man for forgiveness from the wife that
he had wronged. 1t was not difficult
to see that Mrs. Pratt, good woman as
she is, still has faith in her husband.
Whatever grounds there may have
been for the report that Holmes or
Nugget is Frank Pratt the reporter
was convinced that he was not in Phil
adelphia on 18th OF this month. He
may have never been in Philadelphia
in his life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
PROMISES To DO SOME SHOOTING.
Jury in the Ed Smith Case Return q Verdict
of Guilty as Charged.


The jury in the Ed Smith case re-
turned verdict yesterday morning
finding him guilty Of burglary and lar
ceny is charged.
Photographs of Charles Smith. alias
"Cigarett Charley" have been received
by the officers here from the Pinker-
tons in)IllinOis where Cigarette Charley
is charged with murder. The officers
think that Cigarett Charley is the
identical Ed Smith whom they have
convicted for robbing a Santa Fe car.
II seems that Sheriff Royse and his
deputies regarded Smith as a danger
Gus man and when he was taken out
OF Jail the officers handcuffed him and
Smith objected thinking that it would
prejudice the jury against him.
He roasted Sheriff Royse in fine
shape for 1t and promised faithfully
that he will kill Royse just as soon as
he gets out of this trouble. He refuses
to give any other name than Ed Smith
but the officers are satisfied that is not
his name and some of them have
great curiosity in knowing who their
prisoner is. Officers Sutton and Wood
say they know nothing of his antece-
dents but they know that he is the
man who helped the negro Shine"
take DR.. Trice's goods from the Santa
Fe car.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
HIS NAME IS DENNIS.
And He is Now on Trial for Very Serious
Onense.

Rev. Dennis Todd, ex-pastor CT the
Friendship Baptist church, is on trial
for his reputation and incidentally his
liberty in the district court Of this coun
ty.
The trial was called yesterday MORN
ing and there was considerable difficult
ty in getting a jury. Rev. Todd is
charged with rape for which there is
a severe penalty and upon this penalty
the test was made on those who We're
called upon to act as jurors. There
was no other convenient way Of being
exempted from service in the jury but
to say that the penalty was too severe
and many awaited themselves OF this
means OF evading two or three days in
hot jury box.
The prosecuting witness in the case
is Della Coffey, a young colored girl,
IA years of age, an attendant at Rev,
Todd's church and also an attendant
at the Park school house. Recently
this young girl became a mother.
She told her story on the stand yes
terday in straightforward way and
if Mr.. foods lawyers are not able 10
break 1t down on cross-examination
and they have failed 10 do II so far,
1t will go hard with their client. Were
1t not for the fact that the case is al
together too serious a matter il would
be directly comical owing to the char
acter Of the testimony. The outrage
was committed in the home of Miss
Coffey on the ith day of September
last while her parents We're absent.
Todd was visitor at their house fire.
juently and accepted their hospitality,
hence the crime is additionally repul-
Give.
Mrs. Coffey, the mother of the. girl,
was the fierst witness yesterday and
her testimony was quite interesting
10 a very large number Of spectators.
She is one of the colored women who
came here from Tennessee four years
ago and uses all the quaint express
ions characteristic of the colored peo-
pie of that state.
When the defense intimated that
she would not let anybody see her
baby she refuted it with in
was born there was several specula-
tors around, meaning, Of course, spec
tators.
When asked whether she hadfa mar
riage certificate she curled up her lip
and said: mo sab, what do you reacon
/ wanted with a certificate when l got
the man
John Davis and Judge Tucker are
prosecuting while Judge Sankey and
Judge keenan, are defending.
The case has attracted a large audi
ence of colored people. old and young,
and it is quite interesting.
Government chemists, after rigid
analysis of many baking powders, re-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
ANOTHER GORGEOUS CAR COMES
Second billing Brigade of the Great Wal
lace shows Docs Its Work.

II is only a week since the Great
Wallace shows No. bill car was here
and decorated this town IN flaming col
ors from one end 10 the other. That
seemed enough 70 herald most any az
greCation. but q second one pulled IN
yesterday and gave more beauty - dull
places This car. ike the first. Is
work OF art inside and outside. and
certainly heraIds a great show. \
small circus could not support two 81
such masnihceace.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22

he did not voluntarily leave on the
very night before he was To go to work
for Mr.. Mcnamara. 1t is also thought
that Timons would not leave without
settling his obligations where he board
ed, which amounted only to a dollar or
two, as he bore very good reputation
for honesty and manly conduct. MIR.
Mcnamara has settled these obligations
and taken charge of his property. M.
Mcnamara is very much in earnest
about finding information about Tim
mons as are his friends at Burlington.
If he is alive, which they seem 10 think
is not likely.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
HOUSES AND LANDS
For SdlC for Cash,
or safe OH Time,
For safe Ou IHSfsfif,neHt Plan.

To trade for stocks of merchandise oil
anything else that can be converted
into money. Western land clear Of in
cumbrance to trade for city property.
Now is the time to get a home. AL
farm products are advancing in value
Real estate Will have its turn next and
when it is too late you will be telling
what you could have done IL you had
only had the nerve.
SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS.
Ten room house on College Hill, fit
ted with all modern improvements,
splendid out buildings. plenty OF fruit.
ornamental trees and shrubs. cost TO
build $4,000. VIII lease 10 good tenant
for three years.
Brick house. four rooms-sl5o.
Good six room house, well located
$500
Two houses. four rooms each. good
each-s500.
Good four room house on y. Fourth
$500.
House. three rooms, in good repair-
newly painted, shade trees. 80 feet front
in West Wichita, convenient 10 BUSH
ness.-s250
House. four rooms. good repair new
- painted inside and out. new kitchen
so feet front. we'll located on the Yves;
Side. with southeast exposure-Ssoa
Livery barn. store buildings. build
inCs suitable for manufacturing pur-
poses and numerous dwellings located
in all parts If the city. for rent or sale
Cali on me in the Kansas National
hank room, corner Main and Douglas
c. L. DAVIDSON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22

Government chemists, after rigid
analysis of many baking powders, re-
port Prices purest, Of highest strength
a nd hest
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
DUFFY DIDN'T LIKE III.

Emblem of happiness, comfort and
health-Dr. Prices Baking Powder.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-22
WHO WAS ARRESTED
CAN HOLMES OR NUGGET BE
FRANK PRATT OF Il IOHITA.

Report that the Philadelphia SwindIer is a
man Tells How the Report star ted that
Nugget was Frank Pratt--COunty At
forney Davis and Cossitt Relate Some
thing About Pratt--W. j. Coleman Saws
the Philadelphia Man is not Pratt-Mrs.
Pratt brings Out Letter.