The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-21

| Visits the Town and Is Taken ArOune
and Shown the Sights by the Aldermen
and Decides to Start a Big Distillery
| There-Selects Leavenworth Because OF
the Great Corn Fields of Kansas and the
| Cheapness of FUELS from Peoria
News of Kansas.
| Topeka, Kan, Aug. 20.-(SpeciaD-
For several days the rumor has been
| abroad that Levenworth is going to
/ have a big whisky distillery. At first ii
was proposed to turn an old sugar re-
| inery there into distilley, but week
| ago, some one set fire to this and II
burned I'D. This morning the Leaven-
worth Times said:
From present indications Leaven-
worth will have a big distillery in oper-
alton before long. Yesterday Christie
! pher Winink of Pekin, ILL.,, place
few miles from Peroia and in the big
distiliing district of the country, was in
the city arranging to put in SlOO,O0O
plant.
He is about to enter into partner
ship with Elisha Sherman, VINO was
burned out last Friday morning, and
the distillery will go up where the old
glucose factory stood. At this place
there is an elevator, boilers and good
start already for a plant. Yesterday
Mr.. Winink was going around with Mr..
Sherman and a member of the city
council talking with citizens about the
matter. He has big backing and is a
practical distiller. The question Of how
distillery can be operated under the
Kansas prohibitory law was given
serious consideration by Mr.. Winink.
During the day he consulted with sew
eral of the leading lawyers of the city.
He found that he could manufacture
alcohol for medicinal, mechanical and
scientific purposes to sell in Kansas and
for all purpose to sell in other states.
He does not want to sell at retail and
the chances are, he would not find any
trouble to dispose of his product 10 the
druggists and other dealers in the state.
The reason that caused Mr.. Winink 10
come to Leavenworth to see about start
ing a distillery is the cheapness of coal
and Of corn. Not place in the United
States offers better inducements in this
line The plant he is talking OF erecting
will use from $500 to 1900 bushels of
corn a day and will be in operation the
entire year.
Pin IN APPENDIX.
From Leavenworth is reported a
death from rather strange cause.
James Ellis of No. $50 Congress street,
that city, died Sunday morning.
He was taken i'll the previous Sunday,
but was able to attend TO business as
usual until last Thursday, and was con-
fined to his room only three days. The
immediate cause of death was purulent
peritonitiS, Superinduced by a pin in the
vermiform appendix. It's supposed that
he swallowed the pin many years ago,
and it might have been when he was a
child.
Mr.. Ellis was 81 years old. He was
born in Leekg Staffordshire, England,
December %, 1892; came to America in
1872 He lived in Toronto and London,
Canada, and conducted a business in
Detroit for eight years. Since then he
has lived in Toledo and Kansas City
and resided in Leavenworth since last
January, being connected with the bust
ness of Carl Ochs.
FIGHT FOR TEACHERS PLACE.
The question of who shall succeed the
| late Hon. Scion O. Thatcher as state
| senator from the Fifth district has al
| ready begun to interest the Republicans
| of Douglass and Jefferson counties
| which compose the district. If there is
| to be no special session Of the legisla-
| ture this winter there will probably be
no need of a special election to fill the
| vacancy, but owing to the fact that
| there is at present an uneXpired term
| to be filled it may lead TO some rivalry
between the two counties as TO which
| one shall furnish the next senator.
Jefferson claims that it was the IN
| derStanding that she was TO fill the Of
flee next time and as the man who is
| elected for such a short term is almost
invariably reelected for a long term,
believes a Jefferson county man should
now be given the position.
Among the jefferson county men who
| have been urged to enter the race for
the place are DR.. Fred Swallows of Val
ley Falls, A. j. Perry of Nortonville. c.
+. Johnson of OskalOoSa and Matt Ed
monds of McLouth.
Douglass county holds that as Judge
TEACHERS term had not expired the
candidate should he chosen from the
southern end of the district. A num-
Der have been mentioned for the place,
| but the only one to receive open support
so far is j. d. Bowersock, the we'll
known Lawrence miller, who has ex-
tensive interests in the classic city.
SUIT ON STATE HOUSE
Judge w. B. Sutton of Russell, secre-
tary of the state board of irriga ton.
is n the city on legal business and
spent yesterday taking dispositions in
the case brought by the Park Bros.
company of PittSburg, Pa, to recover
between $4,000 and $4,000 due and al
legged 70 be unpaid for the copper sheet
ing winch now covers the dome of the
state house. The suit is against p. E.
Lane who was a sub-contract on the
building and who did the work OF put
ting on the roofing. The case is TO
come up for trial at the September
term OF the Lake county circuit court
at Hammond, Ind. Judge Sutton is
preparing for trial and represents the
plaintiffs.
Though interested in the work at
tending the taking OF the depositions
Judge Sutton found time 10 talk about
irrigation to a reporter. Mentioning
the plant placed in operation al Digh-
ton last Friday. he says it will be one
OF the most successful which has been
located by the board unless all indica-
tons fail The state board Of irriga-
ton held a meeting at Dighton Thurs
day and on Friday witnessed the start
ing of the plant. This we'll is No. s
and il is 50 feet deep and contains 35
feet OF water. 1t is equipped with a
six inch WoodmanSe pump and a four
teen foot Woodmanse steel mill. The
test was satisfactory and the success
OF the plant will induce many OF the
people Of Lane county 10 initiate il.
THAT EXPENSIVE FURNITURE
The North Furniture company OK
Kansas City. No, has threa tened 10
mandamus State Auditor George z
Cole TO compel him 10 audit the bill
presented for furniture purchased by
the old board OF directors for the re-
formatory at Hutchinson. Mr. Cole
has thus far refused IN issue a warrant
for the amount OF the bill. nearly 81 .00o
and there Is nothing 10 indicate that
he VIII do IL The company has sent
the bill 10 the Bank OF Topeka for
collection.
When the new board os directors
took barge OF the reformatorv they