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The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
JAIL Is NOW EMPTY.
Tramps Have Given " iclita a Wide Berth
I.fs

The city prison was tenantless last
night for the first time in many moons.
The rock pile did it. For two years,
or at least since the time Governor
Lewelling issued his tramp order Wich
ita has been the mecca of nearly all the
tramps in Kansas. Not a night passed
but what the hoodium wagon hauled in
from fifteen TO twenty and the tax
peyers had to pay for their breakfast
next morning. They We're getting 10 be
an intolerable nuisance and at O'Clock
in the evening they We're strung along
Douglas avenue from Main street 10
the Carey hotel boring every man that
passed. Something had to he done.
Many schemes We're proposed but y
rock pile was deemed to be the most
feasible When that rock pile was
started week ago there We're thirty
prisoners in the Jail; last night il was
empty. The word has passed along the
line of trampdom that Wichita has a
rock pile and already IL is known TO
every tramp between here AMI Chica-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
JERRY SIMPSON IN EXILE.
How the Statesman Looks in Agrieultur
Retirement.

Retirement.
A we'll known citizen OF Medicine
Lodge was in town last night and in
conversation with a reporter for the
Eagle referred to the changed condi-
ton of political affairs down there
The old city administration has been
turned down and full set of new men
are running the government Of that
cradle of statesmen. Al Noble is the
new mayor, a young man of ambition
and business capacity from whom great
things are expected. The next biggest
man in town TO the mayor is the city
marshal. When Jerry Simpson left
that Office four years ago and dignified
it by jumping directly into congress.
Jim Gano took his place. Ever since
then Jim has held it and made good
marshal, but he has resigned and in
stead of going into congress he goes
into the ice business, which is the next
best thing at this season Of the year.
Chester Long has returned home from
his honeymoon and has introduced his
wife into the society Of BARRIERS capital.
She is a splendid and beautiful woman,
and already all the ladies of Medicine
Lodge have pronounced her charming.
She has captivated Medicine Lodge and
her husband Is the happiest man in it.
The very same day that Mrs. Long ar
rived in town Mrs. Jerry Simpson came
in from the farm with a basket of eggs
and q few pounds of butter and eX-
changed them for groceries and calico.
Mrs. Simpson wore a sunbonnet and
said: Il am now Farmer Simpson s
wife" She is happy and contented on
the farm, and Washington life did not
change her a bit. She knows every
body in Medicine Lodge, talks to them
all and has hosts of friends. Jerry
comes into town every few days. Q
rides in a lumber wagon, drives span
of mules. and in all likelihood thinks
that he is only in Elba instead of St.
elena. He wears a wooden shirt anG>Sin
old hat. Jerry's best campaigns We're
made by his clothes, and he is still in
the belief that he will go TO congress
again. He has a PRETTY good farm
that is well stocked, but he tells them
at Medicine Lodge that times are hard
and that he has fierce and terrible
struggles to avoid the tolls of the
bankers and money lenders. Opinion
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
WILL HAVE SPRING RACES.
Fair Association to Give Three Days of
Rare sport in June.

Wichita is to have spring races. That
is now fully decided by the fair asso-
citation whose members VIII meet Mon
day to formulate a program and give
direction To the preliminaries. Secre-
tary VIII Harvey was seen yesterday
and said: Yes, the spring meet is an
assured thing. and il viii be a success
We have figured closely on the matter
and can see our way clear 70 give nine
races, three each day, June L. IS and
IA. we viii hang up at least $4,000,
and more If necessary to give southern
Kansas three days of fine sport. II
you think we won't have some flyers
here you are mistaken. The associa ton
will make arrangements for big crowd
and will treat visitors royalty l can
tell you more about it later on. You
can say. however. that the spring meet
ing viii come off on the above dates
without doubt
The fact is there are now some fast
horses at the fair grounds. Very few
people perhaps know that ninety of the
association stalls are occupied. There
is one horse there with a record of 2:l1.
and several horses with records better
than 2:15. There is a general ambition
to make Wichita a horse center and in
order TO 90 SO is must keep up with the
times and have spring races.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
CLOSING UP EVIDENCE.
County Attorney OF sumner County Ready
to Prosecute Talbot.

Hon. Harry L. Wood of Sumner coun-
ty was in the city last night returning
home to Wellington after being absent
for a few days in the interest Of the
prosecution of James Talbot. the az
cused murderer OF Mike Maegfier. Mr.
Wood is the county attorney Of SUM
ner county, and is sparing neither
time nor work IN the preparation Of this
case which will be commenced before
Judge Burnett next Monday. One of
the prominent figures in the case Will
be Johnnie Meagher. the brother Of the
murdered man. He is taking a deep in
tereSt in the prosecution. for he was
more than Il brother 10 the victim OF
Talbotts bullet. ne was a twin brother
II is said OF him that after Mike was
killed he followed Talbot for eleven
years and over that many states and
territories. and that II he laid eyes upon
him either Talbot or another
Meagher would bite the dust. The case
will be one OF most interesting cases
in the history of sumner county.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06

are in better condition than in years
Western Kansas is gradually getting
to be a cattle raising region and the
fact that stock is doing well, that the
losses have been a mere cipher and
prices good, makes that section Of the
state quite prosperous
At the next term of hos court Judge
Price will have before him an interest
ing murder case in which able attor-
neys will participate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
JUDGE PRICE IN TOWN.
He Says Western Kansas is Doing Nicely
Considering Hard Times.

Judge Francis Price of Ashland was
at the Carey yesterday returning from
Meade county. where he was holding
court. The recent law passed by the
legisla ture has enlarged Judge Prices
district. adding kiowa. Gray and Ford
counties. This will increase his work
n great deal. but he is young, strong
and energetic and is not afraid To
tackle X.
Aes Judge Price says that the cattle
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06


Commission--Is Loudly Cheered.
Mr. Rohrbaugh addressed a meeting
of business men at the board of trade
hall last night He had been invited
by the citizens meeting but his au-
dience was almost entirely composed Of
business men. Mr.. w. J. Wilson asked
Mr.. Rohrbaugh a few questions which
he refused to answer, giving as his
reason that Mr.. Wilson was not friend
ly to him. The object of Mr.. Rohr-
baugh's speech was for the purpose of
vindicating his course in the legisla-
ture and to the unprejudiced mind he
gave a pretty good account of his
statesmanship.
He read from sections of the different
bills before the house and fairly and
candidly discussed these several sec
tions and the probable bearing on the
business interests OF the state. There
was no attempt 20 conceal anything
noteven his own views on any question
before the legisla ture.
Mr.. Rohrbaugh said that the people
seemed TO demand an explanation OF
him in regard to his action in reference
to the railroad bills before the house
anu he was Ifefe 10 report. he, now
ever, reminded them that committee
had been appointed by the board of
trade in that very room to secure
freight rates and that money had been
contributed TO aid them in the under
taking but not one of the committee
had ever made d report.
He looked this matter in the face
when he went to the legislature and he
knew then and knew now that if the
people of this city would band them
selves together they could get an open
freight rate and could have secured it
long ago by united action.
1t was not, in his opinion, the amount
of freight rates that had injured Wich-
ita but it was discrimina tions. The
merchants of Kansas City got better
rates because they were organized and
stood together as one man and if a
railroad did not use them fairly they
would not give the road a pound of
freight.
He read from the statutes and showed
that we now have ample laws to pre-
vent determinations but we do not en-
force them. The railroad commission
ers had given us rates but we did not
get them because men for a selfish pur-
pose had compromised their cases in
the courts.
He had offered bill in the house
which If ii had become a law would
have enforced every JUS ruling Of the
commissioners because the whole state
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
TERRIBLE SAND STORM.
1t Nearly BIockaded Train Between
Wellington and Harper.

Marshal Gano Of Medicine Lodge was
in the city yesterday. He came over
on the Southern Kansas train to Wei
lington and he says that in all his life
he never saw such a sand storm as he
witnessed while travelling between Wei
lington and Harper. II never saw such
q. storm" said he 1.-The train could
hardly go through it. and the darkness
which it caused was like that of going
through a tunnel"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
HE HIT 1T RIGHT.
Wichita CoIOred Musician Tuned His Lyre
Right.

Professor Smith, a colored man of
this city, is a composer that will soon
be distinguished among Americas col
ored population. When Fred Douglas,
the distinguished colored orator died.
the heart of Professor Smith was fired
by the achievements of Mr.. Douglas.
and he was inspired to write a Fred
Douglas march which he sent to q
New York music house. Yesterday he
received an acknowledgment of the
composition with letter full of praise
and compliments. The house published
his music and gave him nice royalty
on all Of it that sells.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
COMING LOCAL EVENTS

The r. r. circle Of Kings Daughters
hold their regular meeting at he home
of Miss Jean Thatcher. as North
Fourth avenue. this afternoon at :
O'Clock. Gail Giles.
lodge. No. 81. l. -. -. F. are requested
TO be in attendance on Monday evening
as busines Of Importance Will be TO at
tend 10. we expect To leave home soon
Mrs Emma Gwyn. y. @.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
COUNCIL COUNT VOTES.
Cox Receives the Highest Vote Cast Where
There Was OppOsitiOn.

The city council met last night and
canvassed the vote cast at Tuesdays
election. Mayor Cox received the
highest vote cast for any man on the
ticket that had opposition. The follow
ing is the official vote.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
The aphita nairu Eaelc Saturday 1or,no, Apr s. 1895

is divided locally as to his financial
condition. Some say that he has stacks
OF money piled up somewhere, while
others say that he has his land and
stock clear and that is all His friends
say that he was bled almost 10 death
during the last two years he was in con-
gress. They allege that the Pop news
papers did il. and that there is scarcely
sheet in the district that he was not
compelled TO help financially. Some OF
them needed help. others did not. but
bled him unmercifuily- The prepon-
derance of opinion. however, is that he
is we'll fixed financially. Some others
say that he has mortgage Of $500 on
his stock. but that he has done that
simply for effect. In other words. that
il will be worth more that the interest
on the money to him as a campaign
argument in favor Of his honesty should
he go before the people again as he un-
doubtedly Will ii in 1896.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
PROGRAMS.

PROGRAMS.
Schools and academies wanting COM
mencement programs can secure them
at this office. The designs are hand
some and cheaper than ever before.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06

ALI. truth is nonsense TO the man WHO has
let lie make its home in his heart-ksaI.l :
Horn.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
At GGARUend0tbon'b

Dry Goods and Carpets at Wholesae Every per
knows that buy at wholesale get goods from
10 to 80 per cent cheaper than to buy them retail In
order successfully wholesale the wholesaler must pur
chase all goods in large quantities direct from the fac
tories. We have been buying all goods in large qlanti-
ties. and to make common wholesale profit is sufficient
for Hereafter will sell in retail quantities
thing in immense stock at exactly wholesale, with
to sell at certain agreed prices, which sorry
have to do, we hate combinations. Remember this
everything in store-Dress Goods, Carpets,
Curtains and all.
At: f:6@hG0emdotbon'b !
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
WAS A BIG STREAM
CHISHOLM CREEK WATERS FLOOD
SWEITE s FARM.

Crowd of People Assemble to See How it
Was Done--It Was an Irrigating Pump
at Nork.-WiIl Cover Eighty Acres of
Land With Water Twelve Inches Deep
in One Hundred and Eighty Hours--It
VIII Make Fine Apples and Grapes
Figures Out His Profits i'm Irrigation
and Ground Feed for stock.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-06
PAT HELD HIS OWN
TALKS ABOUT T Is OWN COURSE IN
THE HOUSE AND RATES.

1t Was Predicted That the Business Men
Would Smash Mr. Rohrbaugh on the
Rate Question but Pat Remains Intact
Shows How His Bill Would Have
Helped Every Man i'm Wickita--The
State Would Have Been Behind the
shipper to Enforce the Ruling OF the
Commission-Is Loudly Cheered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
TERRIBLE DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Awful Sight Witnessed by Two Littls
Children in New York.

Awful Sight Witnessed by Two Little
Children in New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Louis Gress muir
dered his pretty young wife Jennie at
their house, 204 West Thirty third street.
Immediately afterwards he shot himself
and died in a few minutes. The only
witnesses of the tragedy were their two
little children, aged and 3. The imme-
diate motive for the double murder is
not known. Gress was said to be in sane
ly jealous of his wife, and on several
occasions had been heard to threaten to
kill her.
He was intoxicated earlier in the day
and beat her cruelty with poker. Ter
rified mt his brutality, she went into a
neighbours rooms after her husband had
gone out and asked that some one stay in
the rooms with her at night, as she feared
her life was in danger. The neighbor
promised to comply, but Gress came home
and the tragedy was completed before his
presence was known outside his own
rooms. What occurred in the room before
the shooting is not known. The children,
both girls, are too young and were too
greatly terrified by what they had seen
to give any intelligent description of it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
TAYLOR NOT YET ARRESTED.


The South Dakota Defaulter's Where
abouts Is still Unknown.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-THE telegram from
Memphis last week stating that W. w.
Taylor, the South Dakota ex-trcasurcr,
had been arrested there seems to have been
a mistake, and his friends here say he is
somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean. A
Pierre, 5. D., dispatch says that he actual
shortage which would have been revealed
when Taylor came to transfer his office to
his successor was about $l7J,0JO in cash
Ii is therefore believed that he must have
appropriated about 200, 600 more when he
found out how matters stood, on the theory
that he was in for it any way.
The Pierre dispatch also says that Mayor
Ruth, of the office of school lands, is ac-
cused of completely with Taylor. In June
last it is alleged he held back his semi
annual apportionment of school lands
funds for several months, and then only
apportioncd a part of it, and when the No
vember apportionment became due re-
fused to make that until Dec. "a. Ten it
was too late for county treasurers to make
acquisitions, and So, 90 went with Taylor.
Taylor and Ruth were close business as
sociates
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
ABBREVIATED TELEeRAMs.

At the funeral OF Mrs. w. W. Astol
at New York, the only Astor present was
the husband of the deceased, who is the
head of the family.
Two more bodies-making eleven in all
have been recovered from the ruins of the
Deleyan House at Albany, n. Y.
Tht farmers Of the vicinity of Ransom,
Kas., are destitute and an appeal has
been made for them to the mayor Of New
York
L. NJ. Ball, originally from Bement,
Ills. In Jail at Pueblo, Col, for petty
larceny, hanged himself with dog chain.
Rpstmaster b. F. Marsh, of Cartwright,
WIS, hes been arrested by a United States
marshal on, charge of conducting a
''blind pig" in connection with the gov
ernment establishment.
The English creditors Of J. T. NJ.
Pierce, of Yankton, S. d., who swindled
them on forged school bonds have sched.
uled their losses at 81, 137, ,OUO.
The king of Ashantee, West Africa, has
arrogantly refused to ce ase the practice
of human sacrifices. and there is trouble
brewing for him from the British
NJ. Rcumanet, a socialist deputy in the
French chamber, has been expelled for
violent talk and conduct because the
deputies will not release another socialist
who has been sent to prison for insul ing
talk about the president of the republic.
William II. Stillwell, 40 years old and
an ex- judge of Gravesend, l. l., was found
dead in his apartments i'm Brooklyn with
the gas turned on. Suicide Is suspected
Domestic infelicity.
The snow at Elva, Kas, Albion, Ills,
and other places in the west was covered
with ayellowish q brown dirt
Nearly 1,500 familE9 are destitute In
the mining districts nsaR Nelsonville, o.
1t was so cold in the sereet cars at Louis
vile during the blisn1a that one woman
fell unconscious in q ear and had to be
taken to drug stoRs TO be revived.
The Bank of 81 CAarles, at St. Charles,
Mimi. is closed V order of the state bank
examiner, and ; ieceiver will probably be
appointed.
Mrs. Betty Page, 80 years old, is dead at
Lynn, Mass, after having tasted forty
seven days. Her malady was a stomach
cancer.
Commander-in- Chief Lawler, of the G..
A. R., proposes to beat the record by visit
ing every department encampment held
in the country this year. He will leave
home at Rockford, Ills, Jan. %, to begin
this mission.
Nearly all the country lying in the val
ley of the Mississippi had a touch of tha
late blizzard and the snow was heavy,
reaching far into tine south.
Lawyers from all parts of Illinois will
gather in Springfield Jan. "a to attend the
opening of the annual meeting of the
Illinois State Bar association. The meet.
ing will last two days and all the prepara-
tions are completed.
1t is the general belief at New York
that Superintendent Byrnes will reor-
ganize the police force under Mayor
Strong.
Old Fort Union in New Mexico, part of
General b. +. Buffers estate will be put
in good repair by the generals trustees
and given to the use of cons sumptives, free
of rent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
BIG STREET CAR STRIKE.
Nearly Ali Of Bro0klyn's Trolley Men Out
Other News Of the Day.

Nearly ALI Of Bro0klyn's Trolley Men Out
Other News Of the Day.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. 14.-All the
trolley cars in the city are tied up
except one important line. Over
5000 men have quit work. including
the motormen, conductors, elec-
tricians, switchmen and others en-
ployed in the various power houses.
1t is claimed the strike will extend
to the Brooklyn elevated. The en-
tire police force is on duty in case of
trouble, though none is expected.
The strike is the result of the re-
fusal of the companies to grant statr-
tary 10 hours as days work or ex-
ira if the day be made IL hours.
The strike interferes seriously with
the mails, which it is customary to
collect and deliver on the trolly cars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
WAITE AND e. v. oeRs AGREE.
The Ex-Gsyernor Greatly Pleased with
His vhsit to the VI oodstock JAN.

The Ex-Geyernor Greatly Pleased with
His Whit to the VI oodstock jail.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14-Ex-Goyernor Waite
visited Woodstock, Ills, for the purpose
Of making visit to Debs. The visit was
not Of great length, but Waite after his
return to the city expressed himself as
greatly pleased with the trip. He said:
I'VE discussed the railroad strike Of last
summer at great length Debs, in my
opinion, violated no law, and it is hard
that he should be imprisoned" Waite
addressed an audience IN Central Music
hall on the "Emancipation of the White
Race" His audience was very enthusi-
astic and applauded him freely.
He said that Washington was the rich
est man in America when he died worth
s9l GOO, but now lit is only question that
the bright children of our public schools
can solve, when the blessed 400 shall hold
all the richest of the country and the
masses shall in truth become the slaves of
capital. There is no use nor sense
in crying peace when there is no peace
Victory for the masses is only to
be won through the defeat of the British
bankers and the money power of Amer
lea. Europe is paying usury
from its poverty and degradation, the
United States from its earnings.
The old parties would not change it if
they could and they coald not if they
would. l have an abiding faith
in the virtue and intelligence of the peo-
pie. The republic is safe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
Woman Suffrage for sGichis...

LANSING. Jan. 14-Noticc has been
given in the house of q general woman
suffrage bill: of a joint resolution for a
constitutional amendment relative to the
election and salaries Of Legislators, max
ing the term of half the members four
years and having half elected every two
years and half every four years; Of an
anti-cigarette bill; Of q bill to compel
weekly payment Of employees; Of a pri-
mary election law for cities Of 15 900 pop
ulation-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
Anarchy or q Joke:

PARIS. Jan. 14.-At midnight, a
passer-by noticed a package on a
window etge of No. 65 Ru Monceau
and notified the porter. The latter
ran out and took the package and
threw it as far as he could into the
street, and re-entered the house. A
moment later a terrific explosion oc-
cured, breaking all the windows in
the vicinity and doing other damage.
and causing panic among the il
habitants of the vicinity. The bomb
was a tin cracker can, strengthened
with an aluminium band and filled
with powder. 1t was at first thought
that it was the work of anarchists,
but it is now believed to be a dan
gerous practical joke.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
viii Cos: srI.oco. 900 to Enforce.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-Secretary Car
Isle has written a letter stating that in
his opinion an appropriation OF not less
than 81 CO., coo will be necessary to pro-
vide q sufficient force of clerks and in
spectors and ether like officials to carry
Into effect the provisions Of the law ex.
empting from taxation alcohol used in
the arts and for medicinal purposes. The
internal revenue commissioner says its
enforcement will also cause a loss Of Sl0,
OUOOO in revenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
College Presidents Discuss Athletics.

CHICAGO, Jan. IA group Of gentle
men who are at the head of the most
prominent colleges in the great middle
west, met here to discuss the question of
controlling college athletics The prcsi-
dents Of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Minnesota, Northwestern, Chicago, and
Purdue universities wero present and
resolutions were adopted calling for the
framing of football rules that will pro-
duce the minimum of danger; for all
colleges to have n representative on the
committee on athletics, and prohibiting
any but enrolled students taking part in
college games,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-14
Lets T.lk About the " carner.

WHEELING, w. Va, Jan. 1.-THE most
remarkable change in the temp trature
ever known in this section has taken
place. Friday night it rained. Saturday
morning was beautiful, with the sun shin
ing, and carpenters worked out of doors
in tAeir shirt sleeves. At noon the
thermemeter registered A. above zero; at
l o'clock 25; at 8 O'Clock zero and at o
: degrees below zero.