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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
THAT PITIFUL WALL.

The effort of the late Popocratic party
to ignore the improvements in business
is, 10 say the least, pitiable. They read
the daily report of new activity in
trade, and denounce it as a faisehood,
gotten up for political reasons 1t would
be difficlt TO imagine what political
ends could be served by circulating
such reports now. The election IS over.
the speakers have gone home and al
committee headquarters are deserted.
Besides this the Demopop alliance is
dead. The plans that knew them two
short weeks ago will know them no
more forever. Their haunts are tenant
less and unless as the proyerbi3l last
years birds net All that remains Of
the outfit is the warning factions. en-
gagged in the laudable busienss Of heap
ing the responsibility for defeat upon
each other. There IS no object in de-
flaming dead man. much less a de
funcf party, so what end would be sery
ed by lying reports about bank clear
ings or the resumption OF work in the
mills:
What these Pops gain by such incred-
uliry is not clear. Nobody believes
them neither do they believe each other.
business men take the reports which
come through regular channels and aci
upon them. Market reports, and ;ke
demand for goods 90 further with them
team auybody's theory or political pros
poets There is No partisaDship in
Dun's or Bradstree,'s reports Their
weekly trade review tells the story that
more than 10000 men have gone 10
work sinfe the election Their quota
ZION of prices. complied from reliable
data. show how values have gone mp
The figures prove nlore than all the boy
orators could reciie IN a life time; 50 It's
no use 20 whine While the iaid-oGs
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
LEEDY AND PROHIBITION.

Very airily are the Populists in the
state getting ready to take hold of the
Prohibition question. Governor-elect
Leedy, with that confidence in omnipo-
tent ability which is born in a man as
soon as he is elected governor Of Kali
sas. is at this very moment feeling the
weight of that part of his oath which
commands him to enforce all laws OF
the state Of Kansas.
John W. Briedenthal. one of the most
outspoken Prohibition advocates in the
state, has already taken the ground
that all laws on the statute books must
be enforced, which means that the Pro-
hibition law in particular should be en-
forced, and the other similar laws for
gotten.
TO Topeka reporter Mr.. Bredenthal
said, when asked if there was any truth
in the report that Mr.. Leedy had prom
ised the saloon element that they would
be protected if he was successful at the
pools: ''NO, sir; emphatically, no! You
can state for me that that is lie. l
know that Mr.. Leedy made no promises
to anybody on that subject, and do
not believe he has made single prom
ise of Office to anyone. He goes into
office unpledged and free to act as he
desires. From my knowledge of Mr..
Ieedy, I believe he will enforce the
laws on the statute books as he finds
them. Whether the legislature-elect is
not know. They are largely from the
country and not from the large towns,
and. therefore, are not so apt to be re-
submissionists. Our people believe,
though, in submitting all questions to
the people, but do not pretend to say
what they will do with the Prohibition
law"
Mr.. Briedenthal also has word or
two to say about a constitutional con-
ventiOn which every one, regardless OF
party, recognizes as good thing. But
a constitutional convention is a thing
of much delay and red tape. Governor
Leedy's Prohibition policy must begin
the day he is inaugurated. The result
of a constitutional convention may be
of interest two years hence, but in the
next campaign Mr.. Leedy's Prohibition
policy will be handled as an argument
for or against his party.
What will that policy be? Briedenthal
says the enforcement of all laws"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

for heavy artillery. For six years this
country has lad a socialistic element
which has been constantly growing.
Kansas caught the disease first and The
Republican party Of Kansas has been
fighting with it ever since. Against the
raw sore of absolute fiat money the Re
publicans of Kansas placed the oint-
ment of free silver coinage, and, having
cured the fiat sore. We're asked to cure
the free silver scah by an application Of
the .existing gold standard" The pa
tient arose and licked the doctor. But
we are still here and all we ask to pro-
duce complete cure is time.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
The au1ieha aay Eagle sunaay 1oru Houebsr IS 1896

candidate is being carted through the
streets of Denver the Mark HaHna's
and Hobart's have laid aside their poll
teal armor and gone to work. While
the dry goods-box orator and the street
loafer are prolonging the wall over
their hopeless defeat; the un-bucket
brigade is drawing weekly pay, and
their wives and children are once more
cortented and happy.
Ii is ridiculous. cowardiy and alto
gether superfiuous for those defeated
sore heads to talk. Tie motive is so
transparent that a blind man can see
it. A cold bath, especially for the head,
is the sure specific for this widespread
mania. Slander only aggravates It.
Four years hence will be ample time
for relapse, but meanwhile the work
ing masses ask for nothing but good
wages and steady employment
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

See Naples and die" in Kansas Is chang
ed TO read: see Topeka (as governor) aad
de-"
1t cos; .i,n5D to hold the election IN
Greenwood county. or % cents for every
vote cast
In Greenwood county it cost the county
IS for every man who voisd the Ke2:ord-
Vance ticket
Dick Blue has pulled himself I'D by ore
OF the guy ropes and IS thinking Of max
ing a iungs al Canton
jim Simpson says that TIE Republicans
viii wia in Kansas IN Isds ana stay II
power twenty-five years
Charles Moreau Harger had Ere article
on corn on the editorial page Of the Chicago
T!mss-Heraa one cay this week
The Lawrence World unssEeaingiy pro
poses Farmer Funston as candidate fos
the Republican ronlnati3a for sossrno. Z
isss
Nate Ksnd-ick Q, Eureka izst seek -
csired letter EEsrh contained SIMPLY q
picture Of Bryan VIII the vozds: "hs
cs1a't do a .hins 70 h.E-
Kansas DeopIe car zoi er3Ers i~gis-s-
iure TIE usxt l4gsslziare w.E he 1azszsc
on al s.aes before Il has aa-sne-- kaEk<2
alzays A&te3 Is can bro0S-
Nszrsy al ths papers n tEs state q TIE
Reruolcza stde have zSrned AT. Leety
thai he - Jumping % ;h-a See as E0ysrrST
Thers uee1 be 10 xorry a6S1t j.
I: e EoE talked snoag HsAnT so1rclaas
Tia; L ths Topeka czPsial Ezd not fss-fr
irfo tss hxrazsS Of bankers sAs state q EAn
szs rssgni have beea ezrTis1 foT EsEsn,zg
Kansas Cssy Star; Lgese1 Baker IA
zsses EEs brSlhsr Joaz II of Iscssaz T.
TIE Un.tes States sezzte I4Frh nzxl n,
: rsznlrg Eeek ard nsrk xsfh fAz e.nss
candidates ara 5 szl4 % b sszso.A snssz
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
MUTTERINGs OF p,sCoNrENT.

Fifteen years ago NoFdsu said: Not
withstanding the growth and increase
of all conditions TO promote comfort
the human race Is today more diseon-
tented. more irritsted and more restless
than ever before. Go through the world
and ask each country you come To-:
Does ccnlentmenf dwell here: Have
you peace and happinessY From
each You will hear the same reDly:
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

There is every liability that some
hight some Populist will wake up with
q start from a dream tnat the rural free
mail delivery is in the interest Of the
daily newspapers and against the Pop
ulist party
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

1t is announced from the east that
Mr.. Allison of Iowa will probably be
given a place in McKinley's cabinet in
order to satisfy the silver men. Well,
We suppose that Mr.. Teller will also be
given a place in order TO quell theawful
din of the gold men for recognition.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

This is the truth-many a Kansas
man put on Bryan button early. and
afrerward wanted TO vote for McKin-
ley but an Old Saw named Consistency
took him by the throat and choked him
out of the notion.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

There is no question but that McKin-
ley Will call a special session of con-
gress. Mckinley will not experiment,
either. He knows that something has
to be done and he knows congress is
anxious 10 helm.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

An Oklahoma editor reluctantly ac-
knowledges McKinley's election by sar
casticaily advertising the inauguration
OF new crap game in the alley just OPP
posite his sanctum-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

THANK heaven" Santa Claus will say
this year as he stuffS the little stock
ings, "As soon as these youngsters get
big enough to quarrel over the financial
question they are big enough to doubt
my existence and expect nothing
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

To the great disgust OF the mission
aries there the Methodist church has de-
cided to allow only S134, 400 to the In
dia missions this year. And As we are
selling wheat there this year we viii get
most OF that back, probably.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

The first congress passed a law de-
ciaring that no person interested in
trade, in vessels or securities could be
secretary of the treasury. Yet the Pops
were going TO make Teller secretary
under Bryan.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

Richard Olney has made a wonderful
secretary Of stale by his record on the
Monroe doctrine which has been recog-
nized by Europe through his courage
oiney is the only man the country re-
gretS losing when Cleveland steps out.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

II you are a casual observer you will
notice that the Captain Doodledoas of
the L. S. A, are now calling on Presi-
dent-eleet Mckinley. The most abject
specimens of cancelled independence
are our small army officers.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

Davenport. the artist, who SO william
ously caricatured Hanna for the New
York Journal called on Hanna the other
day and had pleasant chat with him.
Those caricatures were brutal, and
turned many a mans vote 10 Bryan.
Why a pleasant chat now:
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

The New York Sun says the five men
who proved themselves the leading ora
tors of the nation in the recent cam
paign were Harrison, Mckinley. Inger-
soil, Cochran and Reed. Possibly the
Sun didn't hear that Hoosier who went
through Kansas talking free coinage or
iron.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

Illinois has had but seven cabinet Of
been lavish with her majorities. Ma
jorities do not get reserved seats at the
nie-cOuntpr
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

1t will always remain mystery just
how much of Leedy's 5000 majority
should be charged UP to that sprig OF
the Norman ntagenets-Jacques
CballenOr
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

The Republicans of Kansas are not
wholly to blame. They have had Pop
ulism to fight six years and they have
offered some Inducements that the Ma
tional party refused to indorse-thats
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

Suspicion has grown into actual fear
that somewhere in the madding srowd
Mrs. Leases loquacity and the Money
Power have met and Mrs. Leases loqu-
acity has gone down.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

Generally the newspapers of the land
condemn General Miles petition for an
increased army. There is absolutely
no need for larger army except TO give
hOSS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

So far as we can see the Mckinley
men are not bearing the fruits Of their
predictions any more brutally than the
Bryan men would, had they not had a
drOf-Th
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

All the silver Republicansenators but
one Cannon of Utah) have announced
that they will no longer obsruct legis-
iation for silver. A million popular
majority makes considerable Of a buzz
saw
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

What worries Mr.. ingalls, is that
when a man gets sixty, he ought to
have something more stimulating than
en- ambition that only throbs once every
six wears
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

The Clan-na-Gael Irishman should
scrutinize his acquaintances, as the
English government is liable to know
him by the company he keeps.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

When the British police start out to
have a dynamite plot, they are going TO
have it if they have to buy UP every
purchaseable Imagination in Ireland.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

Denver will not be offended if Mr..
Bryan, during his coming visit there,
nfers that Denver is bigger than the
United States of America, any way.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

The sultan was probably not surpris-
ed at Salisbury's Venezuela back-doWn.
The sultan has just recently been COM
2limented that way himself.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

Kansas having chosen the most prom
lnent point on the stage is now entreat-
Ing the nation in loud voice to forget
her. The hyprocrite!
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

Spain is either licking the stuffing out
Of the Cubans and the PHILIPPINES, or
Dur friend Don Tetuan is breech-load-
ing Lar.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

The Texas is no stronger than the
Chicago Altgeld platform which was
also troubled slightly with structural
weakness
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15
9ai1y Ea9Ie
n. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

Appropriately the solid south first
gave way in the liquid state of Ken
tucky
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-15

With a fidelity worthy better cause,
many Kansas Populists insist on belieV-
ing thar a Afr. Bryan run for presi-
1err
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14
Notice of Mortgage sa1e.

DEFAULT HAVING BEEN MADE IN THE
conditions of certain mortgage bearing
GATE OF the first day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-three QS93), made
oy Emile b. Cochran. wife of Thomas Coch-
ran, and the said Thomas Cochran mort
gagors, to William D. Barbour, mortgagee,
and recorded in the Office Of the Register Of
Deeds of Ramsey County, Minnesota, on the
second day OF June, one thousand eight hun
dred and ninety-three in Book "264'' Of Mort
there is now due and payable and claimed to
be due and payable, the full sum of Four
Thousand, Seven Hundred Sixty-fve and
92-100 Dollars (s4765.92);
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that.
by virtue of the power Of sale in the said
mortgage contained, and the statute In such
case made and provided the said mortgage
will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises
herein described, to be made by the Sheriff
OF Ramsey County, Minnesota, at the Cedar
house, in the city Of st. Paul, Ramsey County,
Minnesota on Monday. the twenty-third day
Of November, 1896, at ten O'Clock in the fore
noon, to satisfy the amount which will then
be due upon said mortgage, the costs and dis
bursements of sale and Fifty Dollars $500
Attorneys Fees. stipulated to be paid in case
Of the foreclosure of the said mortgage
The premises described in the said mort
gage and so tC be sold are all that tract or
parcel Of land, lying and being in the County
OF Ramsey and State ofrMinnesota, described
as follows, to wit: Lots numbered three (3).
four "a, and five o., in Block numbered
three 60 OF Nininger's Addition to Saint Paul
according to the plat thereof on file and OF
record in the office of the Register of Deeds
In and for said Ramsey County.
Dated st. Paul, Minnesota October s, 1896
WILLIAM D. BARBOUR,
Stringer & Seymour, Mortgages.
Attorneys for Mortgage st. Paul. MINI.
Globe dly. Oct. 10-17-24-31. Nov. 7-11-21
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14
SUPREME COURT CASES.
Three Important Ones on the CaIen-
dar for Monday.


The case of the state against Charles
r. Lowe will engage the attention of
the supreme court Monday. Lowe was
indicted in this county for the crime
of murder in the third degree. 1t was
charged that he was implicated in the
death of Clara Bergh.
In the indictment Lowe was charged
with ''eVincing a depraved mind and
disregard of human life
A verdict of guilty was found Nov.
5, 1895, and a motion was made for an
arrest of judgment on the grounds that
the indictment failed to allege suffi-
Gent facts to constitute either the crime
of murder in the third degree or man
slaughter in the second degree or any
criminal or public offense. The motion
was denied and an appeal taken.
An argument will also be made in
the Charles w. Smith habeas corpus
proceedings. The claim is made that
Smith is being unlawfully imprisoned
by Chief of Police Goss. The prisoner
was arrested on the strength of a re-
QUESTION made by the governor of Hi
nOiS on which a letter or warrant of
eXtradltion was issued by the governor
of Minnesota. The crime charged was
that Smith, under false representations,
secured certain personal property from
Milton Layton, of Lewiston, Ill.
On the first proceeding, Judge Kelly
denied the motion for the discharge of
the petitioner and an appeal was taken.
Release is asked on the grounds that
the petitioner is not guilty Of the al
legged offenSe; that the requisition was
not accompanied by an affidavit or in
dictment; that the complaint is void on
it's face; that the requisition is not au-
thenticated by the certificate Of the
governor of Illinois, that no demand
has been made by the governor Of Illi-
nois for the surrender Of the petitioner.
There will be an argument Monday
before the supreme court in a case Of
considerable mportance-that of the
state against John r. Howard.
Howard is an attorney, and Is &C
cused by the grand jury of Wright
county of the crime of bribery of a jul
dicial officer.
It was alleged that during the trial
Of the action of Matthew and Susie
Czech against the Great Northern Rail-
way company, Howard, who was one
of the attorneys for the defendant COM
pany, hired and procured a man named
o. L. Billings to offer a bride to one of
the jurymen in the case, named Ernest
Otto. The cases were heard at Buffalo.
The defendant demurred to the in
dictment. The demurrer was heard
before Judge Seagrave Smith, who
overruled it, and an appeal was taken.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14

,ENT TO THE REFORMAT0RY.
SAID HE HAD BEEN DRINKING,
Shooting the, Conductor Nor
Any One Else.

Hugh De Moss, the colored man who
fired bullet into the leg Of Conductor
Wheelon, an employe of the City Rail
way company, on the night Of Aug.
10 last, was found guilty. Of assault in
the second degree by jury yesterday
and sentenced to the state prison on
the reformatory plan. The jury occu-
pied less than an hour in arriving at a
verdict but also returned recon-
mendation to the court for mercy,
which undoubtedly saved the defendant
from the imposition of heavier SEN
tence.
The testimony in the case showed
that De Moss and two companions had
been UP to Minneapolis to a dance and
that in returning to st. Paul about II
o'clock at night, had had some dis
agreement with Wheelon, the conduc-
tor Of an Interurban car. DeMoss had
been carrying a loaded revolver all
evening which, at one time, his COM
paniOns had taken away from him, but
which he regained possession Of on the
car. The men finally left the car at
Raymond avenue, when De Moss pulled
the revolver and fired into the car.
William ]. Schneider swore that he saw
De Moss fire the shot and that he de-
liberately raised the revolver toward
the car before shooting. officer James
Finn, who arrested De Moss and who
was standing near the car when the
shot was fired, also testified to seeing
De Moss point the weapon directly at
the rear platform Of the car. which
was crowded with passengers.
Only two witnesses were introduced
by the defense, De Moss swore he had
been drunk and that the revolver had
been discharged by accident. He had
no intention Of injuring the conductor
or any one else. The gun was a self
acting affair and had been discharged
as he drew it from his pocket.
Charles Goddard, who had been with
the defendant in Minneapolis and on
the car, told of the evenings doings
Of the trio of jewellers and of taking
the revolver from De Moss for fear that
he would hurt some one.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14

rowed 81, 600 in cash. The machinery required
some overhauiing, which was done in Mobile
and never paid for. Hall then leased two
other mills. Log carts and cattle were pur-
chased on credit and the mills put in oper-
alton. Hall opened accounts with merchants
IN Mobile. purchasing heavily. A number of
Northern men had lately settled about Fruit
dale, and these Hall employed in his mill,
and in almost every instance borrowed money
from them, which he forgot to pay, as well
as the wages. 1t is remarkable how a small
slick tongue, could come into a community
and build. equip and run mill, lease two
others, purchase supplies and run three
months without the outlay Of single dollar
the proceeds, and, owing his board at the
Fruitdale hotel for five months. skip out
and leave the creditors to hold the bag.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14
HALL WAS NO NOVICE.
The FruitdaIe Incident Was Not His
First.

John Hardcastle Hall, who is in a
Mankato hospital claiming to have
completely lost his memory, appears to
have had an interesting and varied
career according to facts which are
coming to light regarding his past life.
D. H. McMullen, the Eastern travel
ing representative Of the Atlas Lum-
Der company, Of Seattle, met Hall at
the union depot a few days before the
man without memory showed up in
Mankato. McMullen recognized in him
man who, it is alleged, had swindled
q Seattle bank out of $1,000, and also
given several trusting natures in the
coast city cause to mourn. In other
words, there is little doubt that the j.
H. Hall, of Seattle, and the ]. H. Hall,
of Chicago and Alabama, are one and
the same with j. H. Hall, at Mankato.
The Mississippi Valley Lumberman
says of Halls appearance in Seattle:
Some time along in 1892, when the Puget
Sound country was on the boom, there
showed up in Seattle, Wash, rather pious
and sanctimonious looking individual,
neatly dressed, but without any money. He
had a fertile brain, however, and shortly
after his arrival in town he learned that
President s. D. Silver, of the Skeokum Man
ufacturing company, large manufacturers Of
boxes, wished to dispose of his interest in
the concern. The stranger, who gave his
name as John H. Hail. by his agreeable man
ners, secured the confidence of bank cash
with which he purchased Mr.. Silver's inter-
est in the Skookum Manufacturing company,
and from that time on became a ll-hedged
box manufacturer. He went in the best of
society and prospered for a time. Things
went along this way for some months, and
then between two days he disappeared and
so did the money that was loaned him. The
institution placed in the hands of a
receiver, and paid but few cents on the
dollar. After he had left Seattle his past
record was looked up some, and the re-
ports received did not add to the esteem in
which the former box manufactures was held:
1t was thought he had come to Seattle from
California, where his record was not the best.
Nothing more was heard of him in Seattle or
on the Puget Sound"
The story of the Fruitdale swindle
is told by the New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat as follows:
The Times Democrat would state that there
is only too much truth in the statement that
Mr.. Hall mysteriously disappeared, leaving
behind him debts due Mobile merchants and
mill supply men to the amount of about
$4,000 Hall went to Chicago and there
purchased from}J. W. Blanchard plant for
mill to be erected in Fruitdale. Hall not
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14
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