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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16
MoRB DAMpNBss DESIRED.

Yesterday was great day in the con-
current history Of the Arkansas river.
The busy and contented denizens of the
central section of the happy valley may
have been obliviouS to the efforts being
put forth at either end of the Nile OF
America in their behalf, but the efforts
were none the less significant on that
.account. For that matter, few people
| of the world realize that there are
| things being incidentally and remotely
| done every day which are destined to
| very closely touch their individual lives.
| The act of potentate of the antipodes
of yesterday may by day after tomor-
row, through some conjunction, result
in a sequence which will reach and af-
feet for veal or woe the existence of
one or of many who never heard of the
one CT knew of the other. The things
touching the welfare of the people of
the plains and the present and future of
the Peerless Princess, alluded to as
transpiring but yesterday, were two
conventions, both semi-arid in charac-
ter. The one was held at Fort Smith,
Arkansas, for, the purpose of encom-
passing the possible navigability of the
Arkansas river. The other was held in
Phoenix, Arizona, to consider and de-
wise ways and means for ir1igating this
same valley. One scheme was for Sc
curing water and the other for utilizing
it after it had been secured. 1t is in the
contingent prospective dampness
sought to be made available by both of
these conventions which more or less
directly involves the lives and fortunes
of the people, now more generally de-
nominated Pops Of Southwest Kan
sas. DampneSs is a primary desiderat-
um when it comes to question Of
either agriculture or navigation. With
out the requisite dampness neither will
prove financial success Water that
will wet is what both of these conven
tions were after. In SO far the efforts
of these two bodies so widely separated
and SO divers in ultimate aims are one
and unit. The success of either means
a victory for our people. Neither can
succeed without beneftting, the most |
directly, the very people who seem the
least concerned, they knowing that the |
Power fixed the devious ways |
of the meaningless wanderer known as |
the Arkansas river. No man or conven- |
ton of men can ever alter or change it's |
course. They NAV add to or diminish |
its uncertain flow, but there she creeps |
in and out, and there she will remain,
the resolutions of great and wonderful
Iy enterprising deep-water and arid irri-
cation conventions to the contrary not
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

Ed Howe's new novel is entitled "wil-
liam and Mary"
|. Ed Little and Governor Leedy are now
| preparing the inaugural message
Tony.a Winfield man. has a pony so
| fractious that he has to have buck
boards made especially for it
Two votes in the Populist caucus at
| Topeka once would have put Dostsr in
10 the United States senate instead OF
| Martin.
| If western Kansas is put into four
| counties you viii see the finest county
seat wars ever produced under single
canvas.
VIII Whites editorial page in the EN-
poria Gazette is interesting but he
ought 10 try 10 stifle the doubleiead hab-
it.
A Kansas railroad paper publishes an
advertisement OF wooden limbs WI a
cut of hickory leg and calls II: The
railroad mans favorite.'
By the time senator PETER has been in
the senate twelve years he viii move to
abolish the galleries because OF the en-
PITY space strain on his voice.
Colonel ]. D. Snoddy. prominent in
Kansas politics, says that if Prohibition
is resubmitted to the people of Kansas
1t will carry again TWO to one
The Atchison Free Silver Flaubeau
club took in ten new members the other
night. A Flambeau club which can ex-
ist for four years viii be daisy.
Several Kansas Republicans are slow
ly getting over the terrible fear that the
Republican national platform Of 1900
would ask them to defend trusts.
If Governor Leedy abolishes the police
boards he will put all the cities of the
first class into the hands of Republican
mayors. And for little thing like this
Mr.. Leedy is willing 10 commit suicide.
Men differ. ingalls, now wonders If he
had compiled the number of speeches he
made in the senate and sumbitted them
to the people of kansas he would have
been returned to the United States SEN
ate.
must be slowly losing all knowledge ex-
cept that which pertains to the office of
public printer. Snow of the Ottawa
Journal dishes up public printer disputes
by the columns every week.
Winfield Courier: On the farm OF
Judge NJ. B. Light, OF Sedan, father OF
NJ. B. Light of this city, is a new gas
well and the flow is something remark
able. The well is down 100 feet and the
pressure throws out broken stones from
the hole. A board laid across the top o,
the hole with three men on IL was
thrown off like a straw. 1t is the inten-
ton, If possible, TO conf1ne the gas to
sink the shaft lower with a view of dis
covering oil. The extraordinary flow
from this well has again excited COM
ment in the scheme to sink another well
at this place. The well on Grouse creek
was piped some time since and when ig
nited throws a blaze about eighteen
inches high and according to the theory
of gas men, Winfield is over a mine OF
wealth. The theory is that he gas stra-
ia floats downward towards the north
west at about the--rate of twenty feet
per mile This would make the Sedan
strata about $500 feet below US. The
Grouse creek we'll is shallow and was
sunk for water. This is conclusive evi-
dencet hat there is gas this side OF the
Flint Hills and leaves the only question
to decide: How much is there, and how
deep to it?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

They cite the fact that instead Of en-
actment by the representatives of the
people in congress about every great
issue which arises is put by that body
into the hands Of a commission. So we
have railway commissions, land COM
missions, Indian commissions, tariff
commissions, labor commissions, ad in
finitum. But now comes PETER, bob
bing up from behind his whiskers, with
a proposition to refer the greatest of all
the living questions. that of currency or
money, to special commission. His
proposition, as set forth by the resolu-
ton which he submitted, is for a COM
mission Of four men to investigate and
report on the establishment of perma-
nent money system for the whole coun-
try for all time to come. He proposes
one goldbug. one silver-bug and one
fiatist, which three, selected by the
president, shall choose a fourth, pre-
sumably bimetallist, who shall within
a year determine the whole thing. PEI
fer, for a man who worked on SD per
week before he was elected to the
United States senate, is a growing indi-
vidual, a resourceful statesman. Hav-
ing been successful in fixing every
member of his numerous family in posi-
tions which respectfully pay from three
to five dollars per diem each, he seems
to be giving the whole of his own valu-
able time to the solution of the more
complex problems confronting the
American people. The people are all
right, in way, and so are the legislat-
i've bodies in the proper places, but as
rule of safety he would prefer settling
all of the more abstruse and difficult
questions by commissions of which he
select contingents he dotes on being
member. PETERS particular commits
sion will hardly materialZe. Still it the
more adds to the great record he has
made along that line, by which he ex-
poets to encompass his reelection.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16
ABOUT BEER DRINKING.

Beer drinking one naturally associ-
ates with Germany. Beer gardens are
the family picnic grounds of the Ger
Elau people. However, the facts of sta
tistics seem to prove, and probably do
prove. that the German is much more
temperate III his consumption of the
foaming beverage than is the English
man. The latter is not only excessive
in his use of malt liquor, but he takes
to stronger brands than the mild lager,
to stouts and ales. The enormous con-
sumption of beer in Great Britain is
well measured by the vast fortunes left
by brewers lately deceased. Sir Charles
Booth, whose name is not familiar to
Americans interested in beer as that of
Bass or a Guinness would be, left
personal property, aside from landed
wealth, which is appraised by executors
of his estate at S10.0O0.OOO. Another
beer maker recently left a fortune
amounting 20 S12,500,0O and the es-
tates of three more brewers were worth
abIut S5.0O0.000 apiece. Such figures,
in a country where capital is so abund-
ant and competition in business is so in
tense that large returns upon invest
ments are rare and difficult TO obtain,
show that the British appetite for beer
puts the brewers in altogether excep-
tional position among business men. In
cidentally. it may be added that the ex-
cessive consumption of alcoholic liquors
is the greatest blemish upon British So
cial life and one of the moost serious
obstacles in the way OF comfort and
prosperity for the poorer classes in the
United Kingdom.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16
A NEW NATIONAL BANK PLAN.

The amendments proposed by Comp.
troller Eckels to the national bank act
to give the increased banking facilities
required in the agricultural states, &c
very far toward solving the problem.
His purpose is to popularize the banks
by permitting their existence in small
towns, with branches in villages, at the
same time reducing the minimum of
capital stock and bonds required. 1t is
proposed that national banks be allow
ed in towns of less than two thousand
inhabitants, with a capital stock of
$4,000 and a correspondingly small
amount of bonds as security for the
notes to he issued. All banks would be
permitted to issue notes to the par value
of the bonds held. The tax on notes
would be reduced to one-fourth of one
per cent. Under proper regulations ma
tional banks would be permitted to es-
tablish branches in small towns, such
branches to receive deposits, make
loans and discounts, ETC., but not to
issue notes other than those of the par
en-. bank.
The effect Of the multiplication of
branch banks, with all the resources of
large parent banks behind them, would
doubtless be most happy. Every agri-
cultural community, however small,
would thus have the opportunity to OBJ
tain money at rates lower than those
that now prevail. The reduction of the
tax on circulation and permission to in
crease it to the par of the bonds deposit
ed as security for circulation would
tend to the same result-a large increase
IT loanable funds at the command of
agriculturists. "At present." Mr.. Eek
els says, ''the money of the country con-
gests at the great financial centers to re-
main idle and profitless, or to be used at
a very small profit, only because there
seem to be no new arteries through
which il can flow." The branch banks
viii supply these ''new arteries" ,and
stimulate the use of local capital 1t is
exceedingly desirable that the surplus
Of local banks should thus, or other
wise, be Kept for local needs.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

his work when he pleases, alone or in
the company of elers, and denies to
the employers the right to conspire to-
gether against him and debar him from
employment because Of his act. That
appears to be proper and just The
strike is quite frequently poor way OF
securing recognition from the employer
Of labor. But the right to strike is one
that cannot be questioned, and refusal
on the part Of combination Of manu-
facturers to re-employ a striker gives a
power which might easily become dan
gerouS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

The Montana silver statue of Ada Re
han, exhibited at the worlds fair, has
gone into the hands of receiver. The
receiver will probably paint it to look
like copper and sell it as a work of art.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Senator Allen OF Nebraska arises in
the senate to assure the east that its
Fop legislature viii do nothing radical
but not man from Kansas arises tn
say the same thing OF the Kansas legis-
lature. No one can honestly say !,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

A Dew scientist holds that something
can be devised which will move in the
air by the power of the opposing wind
itself. Kansas will get to travel on her
wind yet.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

A great many people who are noddinr
their heads knowingly over the death of
1ree thinking man and woman in a
hotel room in Boston should stop ane
think that several people not free
thought cranks, have met the same
fate
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Some one points out that the etiquette
which surrounds the wife of a president
IN the White House is more hindin.
than that of European courts. Then il
VIII he changed The people are get
ting awfully sick of didoes.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Like Allen, PETER had better crawl
Gp and defend Kansas in a speech.
Kansas doesn't want PETER to defend
her particularly, but it will give the
Pop legislators an excuse to re-elect him
TO the senate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Hoar hit Allen an awful crack when
he told the simpleton from Nebraska
that senators entered the senate to rep
resent states, not political parties. Pops
as rule can not distinguish between
politics and government.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16
Ehs pag Eagle ausduesdap aaoruins pember IS

the country, and the district would re-
ceive 81 per month for each. The amount
would be sufficient TO employ one addi-
ticnal teacher. Every class would be
large enough to keep up interest and all
would receive better instruction through
the change
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

fenator Palmer believes the Demo-
Gratis would have Won had they nomin
ated Judge Turner of Georgia instead
of Bryan. Turner's nomination would
certainly have Kept Tom Watson off the
track
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

There is kick against the use of the
library building for the inaugural ball.
The librarian claims that the home of
literature and art ought not to be desc
Grated by dancing.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

The people of Marcus Hook. Pennsyl-
vania, have burned a Spanish flag.
How grand that, when all the craven
world stands aghast at Spanish cruelty.
Marcus Hook should thus assert her
self.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Maceo was the last of nine brothers
who bled and died for Cuba The wild
ows Of that family ought certainly to
have pensions if Cuba is ever free,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

As chairman of the ways and means
committee Of the senate Lewelling
ought to be able to bring the state and
Garfield university together.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16
PETERS PROPOSITION.

One of the complaints of the Pop par
t. is 10 the effect that our Republican
form of government is degeneratiny
into government by commission
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

If Weyler wants to sit down on the
Jagged teeth Of the periphery, he can do
it in no better way than by allowing
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Don Carlos, pretender to the Spanish
throne, has decided to abdicate in fav-
or of his son Don Jaime. Jaime wants
10 get move on or there won't be any
throne to pretend to.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Mark Hanna says: Il have been men
toned for every Office except the one l
want" Perhaps Mark is after the
Cleveland postofice.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Professor Langley Of Washington has
really made a flying machine that will
fly. A recent experiment succeeded in
keeping it In the air one and three-quar-
ter minutes.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Mark Hanna is back home again
after skirmish in the east. Mckinley
ought 10 risk it now and sally out Of
Canton just few miles.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

PETER wants a commission appointed
10 investigate the financial question.
Rut why investigate? Haven't the Pop
ulists found out what the matter is?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

That ship the Laurada is still nosing
around the coast os Spain looking for
trouble, and she may get big wad of
1t in her hulk before she knows it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Maceo, it develops, thought more or
Spanish yalor than of American. We
now withdraw the touching things we
wrote in that obituary.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Havana is one of the most immoral
cities in the world. Its slums equal
those of London. Perhaps Havana
comes by her lying naturally.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

The feeling is always uneasy" on
Wall street. Uneasiness is as much
Wall streets stock in trade as it is Kan
sas Populism's.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

Coxey has walked out Of the Populist
party. And if it isn't too far out, the
whole tramp family will walk out with
Kim
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

The owner of that fiilibusterer The
Three Friends must be formerly of
Kansas iointist. He eludes the authori-
ties so much.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

The inaugural ball will be the most
splendid in the history of the nation.
Still neither Major nor Mrs. Mckinley
dance
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

This country last year produced one
fourth of the worlds gold product. And
about hree-fourths Of the worlds silver
sentiment
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

The most novel bicycle tire for 1897
will be of rubber, roughened on the sur
face to look like alligator skin.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

A man belonging to the Moi tribe in
India with a fully developed tail has
been discovered. He disdains fly paper.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16

A DIRTY fellow who was selling = ma
shine Tor oriylng nails was advised to gel
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16
Daily II Eas1l,e
n. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.

Sharkey is now out of bed and able to
tell in an audible voice how he licked
the man who threshed him.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-10

Philadelphia, Sept 5.-The receipts for the
week-Beeyes,a,s77; sheep i,7se; hogs, e,a5A Beef
tadss Common. a1 ss; sheep s Extra.
&C.; good, 3Ea3xc.; medium, 3aahc.: common,
ahasa.c.; culs, laahc.: lambs, sa5Hc., Hogs
ssasse. Thin COWS, ssais Miich cows, ssOa4I
IBsaafIalo,, n; Y. Sept. 7.-oattle- Receipts,
ss.50as75; good to prime q, helier., 50 asas %;
stockers, s2.7bas.50 fat batchers s. 7bs3; veals,
S4a6a5. Hogs-Receipts, ll,5so head. Good
$3.55; mediums, sa4oa8.45; heavy, ss.25as.3o;
roughs, ss.65a2s5; stays, saa25o. Sheep and
lambs-Receipts, 1000 head, Prime lambs,
Common Common ss Sal mix mixed sheep. good 70
choice, ss.50aas0; common 10 fair, s2.8osa40:
heavy ewes, ss,25sS.ss; Canada lambs, z.9oas.l5.
pr hass s4ss tsS rood es ,dy s
$50: bulls, stays and cows, saa35O; bologna
ass irs.f sSss sas
SS.60a3.65: common TO fair Workers, x5boaB, so.
heavy, s.. 2oa3ao; ronghs. Sa.25a3. sheep-Priae,
mon s2.lUl26O: cuiis, 50c.asi; choice lambs,
si,b0a4.I5; common TO good lambs, ssa4.a5; veal
New York, Sept. Y.-Beeves-Receipts. a,7so
head. strers, 50. a5atoo oxen and stays, s3a4.lo;
bulls, $i.70a2fo: cows, Sl.l0a2.70. CalveH-Re-
celpts, 1889 head. VeAls, &aI2o; extra, $3.50;
$i.5oah87A. shsep and lanbs--Rscelpts, 1s,s2i
head. Sheep, So 50asto: lambs, SSab; extra
State lambs, So ioas,a5. Hoss--feceipts, s,ali
Chicago, Ill. sept /. Cattle Receipts. 10000
head Common 10 extra steers, Ssoah2o;
stockers and feeders, 50. 4osa76; cows and bulls,
81 s5a3.25; calves, Sa2sH5,ss; Texans, S2S0aa Is;
Western rangers. s2.l5a4- Hogs y Receipts,
3s,001 head. Heavy packing ana shipping iots.
Ses0a3.2u common TO choics mixed, $pebaa so;
choice assorted, Ss 3sa3.4b: light S3i5aA45; pigs,
s2,y.,aS.9. ebebp-kscaipts, 1000 head. Inferior
TO choice, s2a3.2o; lambs, se.sea4e5
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-10

A Track Walker Finds a Body Along the
Delaware Railroad Near MiddIetown.

A Track Walker Finds Body Along the
Delaware Railroad Near Middietown.
Shortly after o'clock q. m. Tuesday
track walker ON the Delaware rail
road made CHASTITY find alongside of
the railroad track near Middletown.
Lying upon his side cold in death was
the body of a man apparently about AZ
years of age. He wore black cotton
shirt with a small white pin stripe, a
pair of trousers and vest, all in good
condition. The shoes were almost new.
A card Was found upon the body
which may be the means of identitica-
tion. 1t was a transfer card from
Branch No. 4, United Green Glass
Workers to George Mann, in good
standing, and was signed by George II.
Reich, president, and John v. Sayler.
financial secretary. The date on the
card was November 18th, 1885.
There was no coat near the body.
The supposition is that the man was
murdered, as there was large hole in
the back OF his head. This might have
been caused by some blunt instrument.
The body together with three hats that
had been picked up, was brought to
this city Tuesday morning on train No.
so which reached here at II. 20 O'Clock.
The remains we're taken to the morgue.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-10

Miss Louise Presbury Cook, daughter
of j. Glenn Cook of West Arlington.
Baltimore, and niece of the Rev. r.
B. Cook, D. D.. of this city, and Han
son Hiss were married Tuesday after
noon at the Eutaw Place Baptist
Church, Baltimore. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. e. r. A.
Hiss of New York. Miss Bertha
Weightman of Philadelphia was maid
Of honor, and W. ]. Hiss, Jr., was
best man. The ushers were Richard
Cook, Edward King, g. S. Baldwin,
Grafflin Cook, Frank Whitman and r.
W. Barnes. The bride wore a brown
cloth tailor maze travelling dress, with
brown hat, and carried bunch oil
American Beauty roses. Miss Weight
man wore white organdie over blue
and Leghorn hat. Among the guests
were some Wilmingtonians.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-10

George Whiteman. colored, is at the
Homeopathic Hospital suffering from
bad wound in the abdomen, which is
alleged 10 have been inflicted late Tues
day night by his wife, a nnie Whiteman,
at their residence on Eighth street near
Tatnall. The woman was arrested by
Officer White, and at yesterday ses-
sion of city court was held without
bail for appearance next Wednesday
morning. II is alleged that the woman
assaulted her husband because she
thought he was untrue to her. He was
cut with a razor. and while the injury
is dangerous he may recover.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-10
snor Hy ~ rssANE GEnMAN.
Attempt of Shoemaker TO Murder a
Bieyolint.
Aasoci ntad prnss Dianatrh nv Suectsl Wires,

Attempt of n Shoemaker to Murder
Bieyoiist.
Associated Press Dispatch by special Wires.
Ivyland, Pa, Sept. Q. Station Agent
Frank Sholler was shot through the
jaw last night by a German shoemaker
named Christian Henninger, who also
placed revolver in his mouth and sent
bullet into his brain. killing himself.
Ilenninger had been considered u
harmless crank for some time. but last
night his mania assumed different
aspect While Mr.. Sholler was bicy-
cling past Henninger's shop the latter
rushed to the door and fred two shots
at him. The first shot went wide of
its mark, but the second passed
through the upper lip Of, the bicycler
and fractured his jaw bone. Hen
ninger then roamed around the town
and finally stopped near Mr.. Sholler'H
house, evidently having some imaginary
grievance against the station agent.
Constable Knight saw the .demented
German skulking around Sholler's
house, but when Henninger saw the
constable he fed to his shop. Knight
went to the shop and found the door
locked. He summoned assistance and
broke down the door. When he was
about to enter the doorway Henninger
placed revolver in his mouth and
pulled the trigger. He dropped at the
feet Of the constable and died in less
than 10 minutes. Sholler's injuries are
not serious.