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The herald., 1897-12-03
BADLY BEATEN
BALL BUMPERS
Ives Brilliant Billiard Playing
Breaks the Record

NEW YORK, Dec. Frank Ives was
pitted against George Sutton today i'll
the sixth game of the champion billiard
tournament at Madison Square Garden
concert hall. He played in brilliant
form and secured his 500 points while
Sutton was rolling up 140. The cham
pion's highest run was 140 in the fifth
inning and his average was 91A. On the
other hand the Canadian expert played
poorly. He was nervous and only in two
innings managed to reach the score of 80
BY running 140 Ives broke the record
his score being 90 higher than that made
by Schaefer at Chicago last May in his
contest with DAILY the first time the new
game was played in this country. Score:
Ives, g. % 16, 81, 140 l, ., 25, 6, 9, 40, Is, ?,
So, 23. $500.
Sutton 7. 0, 10, so, 1, 10, 9, 2, Q, SO, 4, 0, s,
"a, 0, 0,-140.
Average-Ives, 31A; Sutton, 91a.
Time of game, two hours and five min
utes.
Jacob Schaefer and George Slosson,
each with two games to his credit, were
the contestants in the deciding game of
the tournament, as far as they We're
concerned, at Madison Square Garden
concert hall tonight. The Score:
Slosson, 500; Schaefer, 1885,
Avera ges-Slosson, II Sal; Schaefer,
20-41.
Highest runs-Slosson, 61; Schaefer,
The herald., 1897-12-03
ON THE DIAMOND
The Big League Players Pulverize
the Amafeurs

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.-The con-
test today at Recreation park between
the Baltimores and the Stocktons was
heavy batting and fine fielding exhibi-
tion of baseball. Harper was easy for
the champions, but many of the hits
scored against him We're so recorded. be-
cause his supporters did not show their
usual celerity in going after the ball.
The truth is, that the Stocktons felt
they were outclassed
The only time they got men across the
home plate was in the fourth inning.
when, with the bases full, Stanley made
q fine drive to center field for two bslc.s
and sent in three runs.
The heart was gone out of the Stock
tons after the first inning, when tho
Baltimores batted Harper freely. and
made six runs off as many hits. one =
three-bagger by Jennings. Clarke
made q fine home run hit, knocking the
ball to the housetops back Of the center
field fence. Billings met with an acci-
dent in the last part of the game that
practically Knocked him out. Horton
was trying to steal second, when the
ball was thrown to Billings; he turned
quickly to put it on Horton, who slid for
his base, and in sliding his feet flew in
The herald., 1897-12-03
The Pratt Will

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-The right
of a testator to suspend the power of
alienation of his property has again been
decided void by the supreme court; but
this decision is based entirely upon the
fact that an appeal was not taken within
the time specified by law. Had the appeal
been properly taken, the trust would
have been declared void and the property
been distributed according to the code.
The question was raised in the case of
Orville c. Pratt, who died on October
"a, 1891, in Butte county. He left a will,
and after giving certain stated proper
ties to his wife, children and brothers
he put in Il trust clause, by which he
placed the remainder in the hands of two
trustees to be held in trust by them for
certain purposes.
The herald., 1897-12-03
BLANTHER's CONFESSION
Proved to Be False Beyond Any
Question

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 2-Jose e.
Blanther, better known as Arthur d.
Forbes, who was manager and pro-
prietor of the Southern Purchasing
Agency in Atlanta, and who committed
suicide in a county Jail in Texas, was in
Atlanta on the day when the murder of
Miss Blanche Lamont and Miss Minnie
Williams occurred in San Francisco.
The statement is made by persons in
Atlanta who knew Forbes and who had
business dealings with him, and to sup
port their statements the books and rec
ords which were in Forbes office here
have been consulted and 1t has been
shown that between April and IA, 1895,
the time of the murders in San Fran
cisco, Forbes was here and doing busi-
ness with Kelly Bros. & Co. and other
firms. If the statements be true, and
there appears no reason to doubt the
proofs submitted, Forbes. alias Blanth-
er, could not have possibly been the
murderer of the young girls and the dec
laration made in a written confession
admitting that he killed the young wom-
en- is false.
The herald., 1897-12-03

upon him to attempt the carrying out of
her plot. that they might acquire pos
session Of the family's little farm. and
live there together.
Jerome Kern was lured by the son
into the woods. and there deliberately
shot by Miss Fales. The dead mans
clothing was then saturated with oil and
set on fire, the object being to conceal
the manner of his death.
Kern was frightened into his confess
sion by detectives, who haunted him In
the guise of the ghost Of his murdered
father. He also confessed that the MUIR
der of his mother was to have been ac-
complished at later date.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Killed Her Babies

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2.-Annie
Niggle, the young wife of s. N. Niggle, q
picture frame dealer, living at 73S jack
son street. tonight killed her two babies,
one aged two years and one aged six
months, by smothering them with illum-
mating gas. The woman attempted
to commite suicide in the same manner
and the returning husband found his
children dead and his wife In an uncon-
scious condition. She may recover.
The herald., 1897-12-03
A Ship in Distress

ASTORIA, Ore, Dec. 2.-Capt. Schra6s
er of the steamer Gilmore, which arrived
from Tillamook this evening. repofts
that as she left that port at dark Tues
day evening he sighted dismantled
sloop endeavoring to put into Tillamook.
The captain was unable to make out the
name Of the sloop, but says that she
reached Tillamook in safe
ty. He stated that there were five per-
sons on board.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Steamers for Stickeen

VANCOUVER, B. c., Dec. 2.-Captain
Troup, superintendent of the Canadian
Pacific railway steamers in the Kootenai
waters, has gone to Montreal to arrange
for the construction of fleet of light
draught stern-wheel steamers to put on
the Stickeen river in the spring to con-
meet with the four large ocean steamers
that will run from Vancouver.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Darlan's Successor

PARIS, Dec. IN. II. Milliard, sena-
tor for the department of Eure, has been
appointed minister of justice in success
sion to NJ. Darlan, who resigned yester-
day owing-to the senate's rejection on
Tuesday of his motion to shelve the de-
cision of the removal of magistrate,
which had been denounced as Illegal.
The herald., 1897-12-03
For Free Ireland

VICTOR, Col, Dec. 2.--Mlss Maude
Come addressed a large audience as
sembled in the opera house in this city
on The Freedom of Ireland.
The assemblage was very enthusiastic
in their reception of the young lady.
The herald., 1897-12-03

visions to 60 to Circle City or Fort Yu-
kon, where provisions are to be had. The
stores are closed. The cargo of the Bella
won't begin to I'LL half the orders"
The amount of provisions taken to
Dawson City on the Weare Is now placed
at only sixty-eight tons.
The herald., 1897-12-03
COILS WILL BID

TOLEDO, O., Dec. PA story is cur
rent here that C. p. Huntington is lay
ing plans to secure the Glover Leaf road
when it is sold by the courts. Hunting
toms interests in the Southern Pacific
and Santa Fe Pacific already give him
entrance into st. Louis and the Glover
Leaf would give him practically direct
route through to the Eastern seaboard.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Gunboat Accepted

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The navy
department has finally accepted the
gunboat built at the Bath Iron works,
Maine.
The herald., 1897-12-03
AN AWFUL PAIR
A Fiendish Girl and a Weak-Minded
Man

WATERLOO, Ia, Dec. 2.-William
Kern. under arrest here for the murder
of his father Jerome Kern, has made
confession in which he duplicates his
sweetheart, Delilah Fales. Kerns par
ents opposed his marriage to the young
woman. and he states that she plotted to
kill both of his parents, and prevailed
The herald., 1897-12-03
ALTIMORES


Stocktons .............. 0 SOC 0 o.
ialtimores ............ 8 0 l 0 0 0 x-15
Earned runs--Stockton, /; Baltimore, 10.
Home run-Clark.
Three-base hit-Jennfngs.
Two-base hits-Stanley, Selma, Griffin,
Reitz.
Bases on balls-Stockton, 2: Baltimore, 2.
Left on bases-Stockton. g. Baltimore, Z.
Struck out-By Harper. 2; by Horton, s.
Hit by pitcher-Stewart, Selma, Clark.
Double plays--Jennings, Reitz and Doyle;
Horton and Doyle; ReitZ to Donahue: Kel-
ley and Clark: Selma and Smith; Kelley,
ReitZ and Donahue.
Wild pitches-Harper, l.
Time of game-1:45.
Umpire-McD Donald.
Official scorer-Magee.
BADLY BEATEN
SANTA CRUZ, Cal. Dec. 2.-The ALL
Americans defeated the Beachcombers
of Santa Cruz this afternoon by a score
of to /, due in large measure to the
errors of the local nine.
The herald., 1897-12-03

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. AT meet
ing OF the board of directors of the
Southern Pacific company held here to-
day General Thomas H. Hubbard, sec
ond president, was unanimously
elected to the first vfce-presidency re-
Gently vacated by the death of Colonel
Charles F. Crocker; and George Crocker,
brother of the deceased, was elected to
fill the vacancy caused by General Hub
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17
GERMANY KICKING

The Republican tariff bill. which is
speedily now to become a law. il is
hoped. is designed 10 give work TO
American w0rkmen. TO start up factor
les and stimulate thousand idle in
Gustries; in other words. to keep at
bone in American pockets the money
which has been going abroad 10 pay
foreign workmen and TO swell the prof
its OF foreign manufacturers. What
will be European loss will be American
gain. For three years past European
manufacturers have found very prof
liable market in the United States
Millions of money was sent over TO pay
the balances against us. So great was
tie drain on the treasury that Grover
Cleveland was forced 10 go into two big
bond deals for gold with which TO meet
these demands. The goods could just
as well have been manufactured in
America. but not SO cheaply as by for
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17
LET THEM COMPROMISE.

Compromise upon The part of the
joint committee of conference over the
tariff bill is ineyitabl or otherwise the
extra session must go for naught, and
the last state of the country prove
worse than the first. Compromise be-
Ing self-evident necessity, why not do
so, radically and at once? There is but
the one thing TO do. and that is cOmpro-
mise by the committee, and its accept
ance by both branches of congress.
Every days delay works harm. The
house having deliberately formulated a
bill according to the best majority judy
ment and the senate having done the
same thing. and the two judgments not
being the same at some points, there
must be compromise or no law. The
country, without regard to party, de-
mands compromise. and as congress is
the servant of the country no time
should be lost in obeying. The value
of any point gained through Quibbling
or through prolongation of the discus
sion will he more than counterbalanced
by loss through delay. Compromises.
radical in some respects. will have to be
made. doubtless, if the bill is to be put
in such shape that il will meet with the
approval of the members of the senate
1t is well understood that the many rad
zeal changes in the house bill by the
senate were made in order to insure lis
passage by the upper house. The con-
ditions in that body are such that n
majority cannot be secured for just
such a bill as the Republicans would
pass if they had the power.
The Republican leaders in both the
house and senate owe it TO the people
TO do everything in their power 10
reach an agreement as soon as posi-
BILE. The country has waited too long
already for the enactment OF this much
needed revenue law, and there can be
no positive business revival until mer-
chants and manufacturers are given TO
understand just what they may expect
in the way Of tariff legislation. There
is every prospect at present, however.
that the bill viii soon become a law.
and when the measure has finally been
disposed of prosperity is certain 10 re-
turn by leaps and bounds
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17
HOLDING THE MAILS.

Kansas City, Missouri, is the out
growth of lawless border elements.
hwhackers, tTain-robbers and the
supposed more refined criminals have
never failed Of finding sympathetic ele-
ments within the purlieus Of that place.
1t was begotten Of these. What is bred
In the bone cannot be cured in the flesh.
The same character OF influences which
inspired The founding of the town con-
troll today There are good and de-
cent people living there, but such con-
tingent never controlled its municipal
affairs. The political history of the
place constitutes a record of looting,
bocdling, of crime and corruption.
Every local campaign rings with
charges and countercharges Of dlsrepu'
table acts and official peculation. No
public improvement is ever inaugural
ed there that does not include job or
steal. Their motto is to beat everybody
and anybody. be the means fair or foul.
The late fast mail scheme is but one
crooked project Of a thousand. Two
Wichita banks but yesterday exhibited
TO us postal cards acknowledging re-
mittances which had been delayed, by
the evidence of the postmark, for the
fast mail" greatly to the incOnveni-
ence of the said bankers. That "fast
,,oil,, cu-in1Ia L. nrirn ,.ilx- at tho coSf
of the general government, in the in
terest of very insignificant combine,
benefiting the public in no degree what
ever But when it comes to rendering
it plausible or seeming necessity, at
the expense OF the business interests of
southwest Kansas and Oklahoma towns
it is time some action was being taken.
Another prominent banker of Wichita
informs Us that the Acknowledgements
of remittances for eastern transactions
that should have reached him by the
regular train this morning had not yet
put in an appearance, greatly to his dis
comfiture, but that he supposed he
would get them by the Frisco, which
brings down the 'fast mali which lays
over at Newton for hours. This Kansas
City crowd has worked Kansas legis-
lators and state officials for years, but
when that town comes to working the
general government to the disadvant-
age of Kansas, a public protest of some
character should be in order.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

eign labor. The Republican protective
tariff is TO wipe out the European ad-
vantage over American labor, and not
only to maintain the standard of prices
but to have the stuff made at home.
and the money paid for it kept at home.
Consequently, Germany is protesting
against the Republican measure,
threatening retaliation. This hostility
is also perceptible in England. OF
course German and other foreign indus
tries will be adversely affected, direct
ly and indirectly. But we, as people,
are under no political or moral obliga-
tons to sustain the industries of for
eign countries. The Cleveland admin
istration seemed to think so, but it Is
net So Even as matter of sentiment,
charity begins at home" The German
exports for the past three months have
been greater than ever before to this
country, and that people contemplate
the Republican tariff with dismay.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17
Along the Kansas Nile.

During this summer lull, Governor Leedy
might redeem at least one campaign promise
by blowing blood into the ears Of the CAPT
talists.
Bicycle riding has become such a craze a.
Arkansas City among the young meE that
the chickens are roosting on the billiard
tables.
The sky guards Kansas from dyspepsia
jealousy. If 1t is big wheat crop il IS a
poor corn crop, If big corn crop falling
wheat yield.
Every time Mrs. Lease strikes Topeka
she attracts as much attention as man IL
Few shoes going to a front pew during a
low and fervent prayer.
Will White walked a block with Mark
Hanna in Washington the other day and
Hanna was stopped twenty-s!x times by
men importun.ng him for Office. The rush
was SO great that White didn't get a
chance TO say a thing about the Emporia
postoffice. himself.
The oats are so good in Kansas this year
that It really appears possible for the
horses TO find something under the sheath
Ed Pove is demanding of the city counC
OF Atchisol that an ordinance be passed
prohibiting women with double shins from
wearing iow-neck dresses
e H. Lutweiler, the Duncan. indian Ter
ritory. commissioner who moved there from
Texas. ami has been sentenced 10 PRISON
Cor receiving a bride. used 70 i've II Atch,-
son. Kansas. Luiweiler first came in
prominence In the Indian Territory BY prr
ohssirg the boots IN which BIZ Daltc:
6.sd.
A tramp who was moved by the exhor-s
items CT the Kansas papers TO take work L
the ha:yesS field says he I'D IL He say
that when he went 10 the house at nigh; The
farmers wife made him take bath a5e
the farmer held out 3 cents for bath: -
was charged % ceats for the ice water re
drank. s. day for board and = cents fea
Laundry. and as he got only sl-ss a day. -
isf; owing the farmer ~ cents.
\ Kansas farmer who simply could 10;
get harvest hands put I'D thi. sign o. rs
front fence: Harvest hands wznreo
Hired girl. blond and genial Cabinet or
gan music IN the evening PIE three tine
a day. Three spoons OF sugar With ever
cup Of coffee Hammock. feather beds. o.
leather dsvans at your option fer STEERING
Rising hour O'Clock IN the morning Ta-ei
hours res. az noon- Come one. come a.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17
SdIy * SayH
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.
THE IRRIGATION HUMBUG.

In prominent daily journal of Kan
kas there appeared the other day a SYM
nosium on Kansas and Arkansas valley
irrigation The papers, unsigned ana
nncre dited, seemed TO be from the pens
of experts or scientists, but for the most
part rehashed what experience mas
proved to be untrue. Among other mis-
leading assertions was one TO the elect
that the underfow of the Great Arkah-
sas valley, being inexhaustibie, any
man could purchase a quarter secuoh
out there with perfect safety and the
assurance of future profitable farming
by irrigation, with water lifted from
the underfiow by mechanical means
The Eagle, in asserting to the aDunu-
ant and easily reached underflow, Who'll
" dissents from the rest of the state
ment. 1t is misleading. Sucn state
ments are wrong and may do lrrepara-
BILE individual damage. The Eagle Iuf-
ther goes on record with the declara-
ton that profitable irrigation farming.
by water mechanically lifted. is an u
ter impossibility in Kansas. We care
not how accessible the water, or now
cheap the mechanical device, of wind
mill. or what not. farm crops can not
be raised by such irrigation III compeu-
ton with the crops of the eastern sec
ton of the state Where it is possible
to lead the underf1ow TO the surface
and TO distribute it over the land by
bitches. the average grain and grass
crops can be thus raised with great
profit. Where the supply Of water is in
exhaustible, practically, and the lift Is
but for a few feet at most, gardens,
small fruits and orchards of standard
fruits NAV be rendered profitable by
mechanical irrigation, but vegetables
and fruits comprise the list Of things
which can be thus profitably produced
in western Kansas by such irrigation
Very circumscribed will be the area Of
ground which can be commenSurately
watered. by windmill for instance,
which is the cheapest power known TO
a region devoid Of every kind of fuel
for steam producing purposes. Very
few have any adequate idea of the
weight. in tons Of water necessary to be
lifted for the thorough irrigation for
single season CT Il single acre of calcar-
eous or porous sandy soil, laying open
TO the sun This talk Of irrigating one
hundred and sixty acres of such soil.
under such conditions, by such an ap-
pliance, and prOfitably, is nonsense.
For irrigation farming, of a profitable
character, if the living stream and
cheap ditch are wanting, all is want
ing. The men, or company, or corpOr-
alton, therefore, who should induce set
element of the upper Arkansas valley
under the idea that a farmer can COM
pete with the present low prices of farm
products by irrigating with water lift
ed or supplied by a mechanical force,
is guilty OF wrong.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

Busy Times Here Now

Busy Times Here Now
Our low prices great values keep everything and
body the Others fall short of attempt to imi
prices walk through the will and
show bargains than printers ink tell New
items of special interest published day. but the low
prices that have been advertised before still prevail during this
Great Money Raising Sale.
Untrimmed Hats
Ladies' Misses, up $3.50, today 10
Four 1ore Specials for Saturday Night From to
O'clock.
Pears Soap
You all what ist's the best, 10 cake.
Ladies' Fine All-Linen
Real hemstched Handkerchefs large small
neat with BORDERS good value but Saturday
evening 10 cents.
Gentlemen, Take Warning
good Isle finished Hose high spliced
double toe sock worth sale Saturday evening
pair.
Ladies'
Fine Isle finished Vest silk tapped neck arms worth IS
cents Saturday evening 10 cents.
Sale r1onday
Mems Neglge Shirts and starch bosoms
white collars and they have cuffs match. others ask
and $I75 for thing special IS choice.
If thinking of getting Carpets Mattngs look
around and pces then here and will sell new
uptodae and standard goods LESS THAN OTHERS
ASK for old goods in behind the time designs
patterns
Watch For Our AID Sunday.
nd lain e.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

For man who sold his country out to
England in 1873, according to Populist re-
port, John Sherman is acting mighty
strange in feeding sand-burrs to the Brit
sh lion now
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

Durrant regrets his inability 10 attend the
meetings of the Christian Endeavor society
However, he is booked for a longer jour-
rey than any Christian Endeavorer eve.
hopes TO take
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

The Populist police commission at Kan.
sss City, Kansas, threatened TO put women
10 work on the rock pile And Populism e
the party of female suffrage. Equal rights
and equal wrongs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

A Philadelphia doctor says that the IN
crease in pulmonary troubles among the
eelored people IS caused by emancipation
This is fully SIS logical as the railroads
right 10 steal coal in Ohio because they
carry United States mail.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

Kansas has been playful at times and
cranky but il remained for one of Leedy's
police commissions TO absolutely disgrace
the state by ordering women prisoners u
the rock pile.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

DR.. Cadwallader. head OF one Of the most
exclusive families in Philadelphia, has mar
RED Bridget Ryan. his servant She viii
make better wife than the pink-silk darl-
ING girls who chase OF 10 Europe fer c:sea.-
Cd aoblemea for husbands.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

About every four weeks some fellow
starts out to locate a colony and better
mankind. About every five weeks a band
OF misguided settlers troop back TO civiliza-
ton and use super-heated profanity on the
whole scheme.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

II Needham Is right and there are &c
female angels In heaven the male angels
win have TO be forcIbiy restrained or other
x.sc Paradise VIII De depopuia,ed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

1t begins 10 appear that you will not be
able TO be elected register of deeds this fall
unless you brush up on the seal question
and can make a good talk on the subject.
Free coinage isn't N it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

If John Sherman continues to receive
abuse from England several thousand Popu-
lists Will be under the soul-racking necessi-
~ of admiring him.