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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-13

J. Y. Callahan. delegate-elect 10 congress,
was in the city today AMI. OF course, he
was the center Of Pop alteration. The
Democrats are tired of him and do not
have much to 10 with him. While he was
walking DOWN Harrison avenue he re-
minded one of his supporters OF some sto-
ries that Illustrate som. OF the weaknesses
OF his nature. According TO the stories told
he is a man who has terrible temper. lie
and a man named Graham lived not far
apart and the had two boys OF sbout the
same age. One day both boys fell out and
had a fight. in which the Graham boy got
decidedly the best of ii. Young Callahan
went home and told his father what had
happened and it is alleged that the dele
gate mounted his horse, rode into King
fisher, entered the store OF Murphy. Car
roll & Brough. where the elder Graham is
working, and not only challenged him 10
fight right then and there. but used such
abusive and unbecoming language towards
him that everybody in the store not only
became disguised but indignant. He had
no grievance whatever against Graham
outside OF the trouble between their two
BOYS In justice 20 him, however. nc Is
said 10 be as remorseful as he Is vengeful
and that whenever he abuses a man in the
heat OF his terrlDie passion ne dPS4Os@e=
for !. when he cools on
4 few years ago when he ran fo- the
territorial council one OF MS children died
while he was out campaigning. The next
Sunday after that ne preached In local
church and among other things he said
that he believed IL was sin against hea-
ven for a minister Of the Gospel 70 run
for a political Office and that he was quite
sure that his child had been taken away
from him for punishment During his cam
pa.gn last fan he met Dan Jones OF Denver
and IN their conversation Dan SAID. Gala
han. IL one Grid was taken away from you
for running for the council ain you staTi1
you viii lose all your children for runnlns :
for copxressZ' This remark threw n.1
into a passion Of rage AID Il only through
tie efforts OF friends that Re was prevented
frcn ssssultirS Jones
DAVID D. LEAHT.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-13

Among the men who might b. one OF the
new judges in Oklahoma. ii he had sense,
is Major W. S. Wh;ttinghill of Enid. Dur
ing the last campaign he allowed himself
to lie seduced nv the sirene songs of the
silver advocates and he followed them TO his
political destruction. Poor Whit is now
here like a sheep that had wandered away
from his shepherd and from his flock He
is too smart to mingle with the Pops; be-
ing a temperance man he can find no pleas
ure in the association of Democrats and
being short-sighted he divorced himself for
ever from the fellowship of Republicans.
All ray today nc followed a cowboy preach
err around town listening TO his plaintive
songs lie found solace in such hymns
as Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight
ard Throw Out the Life Line" which in
dictated tcst ne was sorry for his political
sins. Mr.. hitinehil denies the state
ment that he was the teacher who educated
Zip Wyatt, the noted outlaw, in Indiana.
The herald., 1897-08-27

serve the ends of justice. Scarcely two
weeks ago one of the city justices found
it his duty to administer scathing re-
buke to two jurymen who had baked
the ends of justice in one of these Chinese
lottery cases.
Chief Glass. however, does not weary
in we'll doing. AS the courts do not af-
ford an adequate remedy, he proposes to
raid the lottery dens until the dealers
get tired and quit. This is tedious
method, but in view of the prevailing
conditions it seems to be about the only
thing that can be done
1t would be well to keep up the fight
against the property owners who in vio-
lation of the law rent their buildings to
the Chinese gamblers for lottery pur-
poses. So long as the gamblers are af-
forded refuge and a place of "busi-
ness" they will keep up their game.
The herald., 1897-08-27
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1897.
OCTOBER FIRST THE PROPER
DATE

The public schools of this city ought
not to be opened for the fall term until
the first of October. To open them soon
er makes the time worse than wasted.
August and September are the real sum-
mer months in this section. Think what
a storm of protests would arise if the
school authorities in New York or Chi
cago or Kansas City or Omaha should
decide to open the public schools Aug l.
1t would not be tolerated. Yet it would
be no more deleterious or unwise than
it is to open the Los Angeles public
schools early in September.
The teachers cannot teach to advantage
and the pupils cannot study to advantage
during the warm weather that prevails
in September. Any setbacks at such
time must necessarily exert an injurious
influence upon the work of the pupil
for the whole year. In short no good
reason can be advanced for following the
stereotyped schedule of the eastern cities
where the weather and the general eli
matte conditions are so very different
from those prevailing here.
The June weather in Southern Cali
fornia is almost invariably cool and
comfortable. School can be held during
that month to good advantage and with
out endangering the health of the teach
ers and scholars. The board of trustees
should rescind their recent action call
ing for the opening of the schools the
middle of September. Let the school
year run from the first Monday in Oc-
tober to the last Friday in June, and
the best possible results will accrue all
around.
The herald., 1897-08-27

would many pages Of descriptive writ
ing. We may state, however, as pointer
in this direction. that at distance OF 600
miles from the sea this magnificent river
has a width of more than one mile, and
that its volume and momentum are so
great that ten miles out at sea, from the
point where it enters the ocean, its water
is as fresh and potable as it was before
1t left its natural channel.
AS matter of more than historical in
terest, just now, it may be added that
Russian expedition under Bering
discovered this territory in 1741, and that
in 1867 the whole Russian possessions
were ce6ed to the United States-a pur-
chase which. until the magic of the gold
discovery changed mems minds, was re-
garded by everybody in the light Of a
wildcat enterprise
There is another point worth mention
ing in this connection, to-wit: The eli
mate of the southwestern coast of Alaska
is comparatively mild, considering it's
high latitude. The great, warm current
Of the Pacific, flowing northeasterly from
the East Indian islands, has an effect
upon the climate of adjacent shores much
the same as that of the gulf streams upon
those of the Atlantic ocean. This, how
ever, while modifying the temperature
induces an excessive rainfall-a diff
Guilty which the American gold hunters
will find to be of more serious import to
their enterprise than the icy tempera-
ture against which they all are preparing
themselves. The term "web-foot" will
apply to adventurers far north Of Puget
sound.
The herald., 1897-08-27
ARIZONA
sound.

A careful reading Of the newspapers Of
Arizona discloses that the development
of the rich and varied, resources of the
big territory is proceeding in a most
gratifying manner despite the many
drawbacks that have existed to develop
ment everywhere during the past seven
years.
Perhaps this development is most
prominent in the mining industry, which
is taking great strides forward this year.
Arizona is very rich in gold. silver and
copper, and it needs only brains and
the magic touch Of capital to place her
in the front rank among the producers
of these important metals. A large
amount of prospecting is being done and
the results seem to be amply satisfac-
tory to the prospectors, if one may
judge from the published interviews.
The cattle industry, too, which has
been picking up somewhat all over the
country during the past year or two, is
no small factor in the industry and pros
siderably to the roundup of the years
profits.
A new railroad to the Grand canyon
Of the Colorado will surely be built very
soon, If indeed, 1t is not completed this
year. This will add greatly to the at
fractions OF the territory and will draw
many visitors who perhaps now labor
under the mistaken impression that
Arizona is an almost trackless desert.
The leading cities of the territory, too,
are doing very we'll and displaying un-
mistakable indications of up -to-date- en-
terprise and push. Phoenix, Tucson,
Tombstone, Prescott and others that
might be named are feeling the impetus
and moving ahead accordingly.
If congress will have the justice to
admit Arizona into the Union next win
ter it will grow and prosper as it never
has before. surprising its most sanguine
friends. The Herald sincerely hopes
that result will be achieved.
The herald., 1897-08-27
THE CHINESE LOTTERY CASES

The most violent stretching of the
imagination would not allow the cru
sade that has been carried on by the
police against the Chinese lottery deal
ers to be called success. or the thirty
three cases that have been brought
against these alleged violators of the
law, convictions have been secured in
but two, and both of them were ap-
pealed. OF the thirty-one other cases,
two defendants were acquitted, three
were dismissed for lack of evidence, and
four got off through dead-locked juries.
Three cases were reset for trial, and the
remainder, nineteen, are yet waiting to
be heard. This is all there is to show for
the five months crusade.
The police are not to be blamed be-
cause their efforts have not been more
successful. 1t has been for years a
justice court axiom that it is impossible
to secure convictions in Chinese lottery
cases. This same complaint was made
twenty years ago, and to a very large
degree it holds good today.
The reason for this deplorable state of
affairs is pretty well known to the news
paper reading public. 1t has been al
most impossible to secure juries of rep
resentative citizens. and it has been
clearly shown that the ordinary jury.
which Is almost certain to contain one
or more professional jurors. does not
The herald., 1897-08-27
DON'T

Don't marry for money, they tell me,
Ambition and wealth are not all.
Don't marry foreigner-titled-
The chance to be happy's too small!
Don't marry a poor man, they tell me,
advice have had from scoreD
For love is a scarey young creature
And fiies-when the VOLTS at the door.
Don't marry at all. others tell me.
For sorrows come thick and fast,
Don't be an old maid, pleads poor auntie-
Who plainly regrets chances past.
All speak as from bitter experience.
And yet-from girls poiut of view
Their "Don'ts" are so strangely conflicting
l really don't know what to do
Judith Spencer in Good Housekeeping.
The herald., 1897-08-27
GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR 4
PRINCE

He laughs best who laughs last The
Count of Turin got the better of that
measly duel, but little cheap glory
is all that he will acquire from it. Prince
Henri of Orleans, who lives, care of the
Due de Chartres. Rue Jean Goujon,
Paris, where he is at home nights, has
the chance to make a cool $50000, which
is something more substantial.
The Honorable Steve" Brodie, bridge
jumper, saloon keeper, actor and i'm
pressario, has sent the following dis
patch to Prince Henri at the address
given in the foregoing:
Will give you and Gen. Albertone $780,
600 apiece if you will fight your coming
duel before the kinetoscope, giving me
exclusive rights to use of films Will
give you $40, 900 apiece additional If you
will make the duel last for at least ten
rounds.
Mr.. Brodie insists that his offer is
made on the deceased level see?" 1t
should be explained that Mr.. Brodie is
a personal friend of the prince, having
met him in Paris several years ago.
Asked his opinion of the prince as gen.
tleman and scholar, Mr. Brodie replied
in reminiscent tones: He's d-n
nice fellow, but broke, like all the rest
of EN-" Did he expect an answer
Sure! Why them fellers is both poor
haven't got dollar between them hard
ly."
Notwithstanding Mr.. Brodies cable
gram was prepaid and he also deposited
$40 to pay for the answer, the acceptance
has not been received up to date. Ev-
cry true sporting man and everyone who
is interested in the good work of ameli-
Grating the condition of royal scions will
await the outcome with great anxiety.
If the titled personages of Europe are
not willing to earn good money by fight
ing French duels they should be given
a woodward alternative.
The herald., 1897-08-27
NOTES OF THE DAY

| Papers valued at from So 900 to $12, 900,
mislaid thirty years ago, have been
found by workmen in tearing down an
| old house at Carbondale, Pa.
| Large numbers of flint-lock guns six
| feet long are made in Birmingham at
6 shillings EACH and many of these weap-
ons find a ready market in darkest At
rica.
| A turtle crept into the feed pipe of the
| planning mill plant of Henderson, Hull
& Co., at Montgomery, Lycoming county,
4, Pa, and caused a shutdown for half g.
day.
| Suits have been instituted in both
Philadelphia and Pittsburg to test the
constitutionality Of the recent law tax
ling unnaturalized male laborers cents
a day.
Green Bank, Pa, boasts Of the oldest
grain bag. 1t was owned by Josiah
Hummel, is of the old homespun make
and was formerly owned by his great
grandfather 1t is dated 1878 and Is with
out a rent.
| Vanity Fair one of the leading society
| journals, declares that the London sea-
| son just at an end has been remarka BILE
for bringing into prominence the intem-
perate habits of society" 1t proceeds
| to say that 1.-The women are as bad as the
men,"
Russia, according to the recent census
returns has a population close to $780,
600 O00 about equal to that Of any other
three European states. Half a century
ago it's people numbered very nearly
what ours do now; that is, they have
just about doubled in that period.
| Who would have supposed that the
feminine hats of this country cost 81, $780,
900 a day, in addition to the milliner's
bill. The editor of Garden and Forest
says the destruction of birds for their
plumage causes that immense loss to the
agricultural interests Of the United
States.
The herald., 1897-08-27
CALIFORNIA OPINION
Steel Clad Hands

did you ever see wave with steel
clad hands? There are none at Santa
Monica or Long Beach. Perhaps the
poet intended to be mythical like the sea
serpent. If so, she has achieved high
degree of success"
The above is taken from a Los Angeles
Herald editorial. Strange things hap
pen in this end of the century period
Had the Herald editor been writing OF
harbors instead of poetry, Santa Monica
waves would not only have steel clad
hands, but would be adorned with brass
helmets and have copper lined stomachs.
Santa Monica Outlook.
The herald., 1897-08-27
TO ABOLISH BACHELORS

A pathetic appeal is that which Mrs.
Charlotte Smith, president Of the Wom-
ans Rescue league of New York recent
ly made to the Central Labor union in
behalf of the husbandless women of that
city. Her scheme is to abolish, by legal
enactment, the genus bachelor, by COM
pelling each of that heartless class to
take to himself wife. She claims that
sixty per cent of the men of Gotham re-
fuse to enter the state of matrimony, and
thus the great army of minated females
are, In default of husbands to support
love, honor and obey them, forced into
competition in the labor market with
the men, reducing wages and playing
havoc with social and business affairs
generally.
With the coercion OF the bachelors
Mrs. Smith. by implication. assures an
expectant world that the long delayed
Mckinley advance -agent-of- prosperity
will come to time sure enough.
But alas for the thorn on the stem OF
sHiS piuSHiiS Iose Ol HOpe. MTS SIflltD II
AYERS that even If all the unmarried men
of Greater New York were to each pro-
vide himself with a helpmeet from out
the ranks of the fair maids and widows
of that metropolis, there would be still
as many as 100000 women left there to
mourn their lonely husbandless condi-
ton!
Among the many burdens provided by
the Dingley tariff bill, it was pitiful, II
was wondrous pitiful, that the trainers
of that measure did not include in its
schedule good, round tax upon the
condition of bachlerhood-a thorough
going woman's protective tariff tax. A
feature like that would have gone ia,
toward redeeming in popular estimation
the notorious bill for the protection OF
monopolies and millionaires-a bill which
has linked a kind of questionable i'm.
mortality to the name Of Dingley, but il
is to be feared will never make the gen.
tleman from Maine president of the
United States! But since the late tariff
missed such splendid opportunity oi
doing good, let us all unite with the Mrs
Charlotte Smith crusade against those
neuter genders of social life, the hither.
to go-as-you-please and incorrigibl,
tribe of bachelors.
The herald., 1897-08-27
Generally Improved

The general Improvement in the Los
Angeles Herald of late is very notice.
able. The present management is inl-
parting to it degree of life, vigor, relia-
bility and all-round up-to-dateness
which is certainly very pleasing to its
patrons and friends. A special feature in
which the Herald now excels is it's out
side correspondence and summer resort
news, which is under the general super
vision of that old warhorse of coast jour-
nalism, L. M. Holt. A glance at these de-
partments shows that he is strictly
next to himself. Santa Monica Signal.
The herald., 1897-08-27
ADVANTAGES

do you not think."the student of So
cial problems was asking. that the lack
of fortuituous advantages rather than
Unborn wickedness is responsible for
these men being here?'
The warden of the prison inclined his
head.
Beyond a doubt" he answered earn
estly. There is hardly a thief in my
charge who with wealth and position and
culture might not have been a klepto-
maniac."-Detroit Journal
The herald., 1897-08-27
ALASKA COMING NEARER

The press dispatches from Unalaska,
August 7th, via Seattle, Wash, August
22nd, speak of the arrival at that port
of the steamship Excelsior with freight
and passengers bound for the gold fields
of Klondyke. The bare recital of this
event is eloquent of the swift though
silent progress of civilization toward the
hitherto all but inaccessible arctic re-
gions of our continent. 1t is scarcely
more than two generations ago since, in
giving to his readers what might in our
time be termed a snapshot of extreme
territorial remoteness and desolation,
Byron referred to the faraway land:
Where rolls the Oregon
And hears no sound but his own dashings."
The summer girl and college professor
from the banks of that classic stream,
which now runs all but through the CEN
ter of population Of the United States,
might we'll stare in amazement at the
modernism of the Byronic allusion afore-
said.
And, among ourselves, until the imme-
diately last eighteen months, or so, who,
If he gave the subject any attention at
all, but associated the name and terri
tory of Alaska with that dismal, wintry
sentiment couched in the line:
1.-The VOLTS long howl from Unalaska's s
shore"
Today the port of Unalaska is the scene
of busy and cheerful commerce. Men of
the race that is fashioning the whole
world for its profit or its pleasure are
there. Says the dispatch:
The revenue cutter Rush is at the dock
here coaling. The Corwin coaled and
departed at p. m. yesterday, and H.
NJ. S. Amphion has just arrived on the
same mission. The steamship Portland
left here on Monday with 100 passengers
bound for the gold regions.
Not much of the VOLTS howl, long or
short, in these notes from Unala ska's
shore. How long will it be until the val
| ley of the Yukon is dotted with thrifty
American towns and cities? Why not, if
within the territorial lines of a country
akin to those hyperborean valleys and
hills?
Russia has established a portion of
her immense civic strength in the icy
north. Why may not American grit and
enterprise in Alaska eclipse the best
efforts of the subjects of the czar?
What is called British America is
destined, in the long run. to come under
the flag of the United States The logic
| of events will determine that.
| Alaska comprises the whole of North
America from 141 degrees west Iongi-
tude to Bering straits, including the coast
| archipelago, Kodiak and Aleutian
| islands. 1t has an area of 514, 700 square
miles and coast line of 1860 miles-an
extent greater than the entire eastern
coast line of the United States! This
vast line of coast is indented with several
splendid harbors-natural situations fol
daily made, among the readers of The
Herald, of the Yukon river, whose name
has a pleasant, auriferous signification
but nine-tenths' of our readers have nc
adequate idea of the greatness of that
stream. 1t rises in British America an6
flows westward across the whole terri
tory of Alaska and falls into the Pacific
ocean to the south of what has beer
long known as Norton sound. A glance
at some good map of North America viii
convey a clearer idea of its extent thar
The herald., 1897-08-27
Unable or Lazy

We have long been of the opinion that
a man living in the west and advocating
the gold standard, did advocate the gold
standard simply because he was either
unable to think straight or too lazy to
think at all. This opinion has become
a fixed belief since we have read, with
mingled feelings of contempt and
amusement, the frequent editorials in
California newspapers triumphantiy
citing the rise in the price of wheat and
the fall in the price Of silver as COM
plete refutation of the theory Of bimet-
alliSm.-Stockton Mail.
The herald., 1897-08-27
Hairs of the Head

A set of hair scientists" have been
counting square inch of hairs on the
heads of several persons, and have come
to the conclusion that head of hair is
made up of 143,O00 hairs. A dark head
produces 100000 hairs and head of red
hair ouly $4,000. The reason of the diff
ferance is that fair hair Is the finest and
red hair is Of the coarsest quality.-Lon-
don Figaro.
The herald., 1897-08-27
The Raisin Growers

The raisin growers of the San Joaquin
valley have at last come to their senses.
At a meeting held in Fresno last Satur-
day it was voted not to sell any raisins
for less than 3 cents a pound in the
sweat box. This means that the grow
ers are not going to spend all their time
and thought in producing raisins, but
will give a little of their attention to
marketing their products in future
Visalia Times.
The herald., 1897-08-27

Dispatches from London say that the
sensational advance in the price of wheat
took the Boston dealers by surprise. 1t
surprised everybody except the pres
cient gentleman Dingley Bill. Esq. He
knew 1t was coming all along.
The herald., 1897-08-27

The mayor has returned from brief
visit to San Francisco, and during the
few very warm days of his absence Her.
man Silver, the president of the council,
proved himself "a cool and collected
locum tenens. No crisis was precipitat-
ed during his honor's absence, but Mr..
Silver may be congratulated on a brief,
serene and graceful interregnum.
The herald., 1897-08-27

The eastern railroads have refused
to grant New York special rates for n
proposed bargain and buyers week on
the ground that they did not care to dis
criminate against other cities. The bar
gain week idea doesn't seem to be very
popular anywhere.
The herald., 1897-08-27

The Express suggests that the race
would probably be improved by the en-
forcement of an ordinance compelling
bicycle riders to sit up straight, as is
Washington. 1t would probably improve
the human race to enforce such law,
but wouldn't bicycle race be rather
tame under such a restriction? The
Express is indefinite as to which race it
refers to-
The herald., 1897-08-27
Couldn't Stand Dickens

Speaking of crime" remarked the
night police reporter, you remember
that passage in one of Dickens books in
which"
IT don't remember any passage in any
Of Dickens books" interrupted the
proofreader II make 1t point never to
read Dickens. He didn't understand
the first principles Of punctuation. -
Chicago Tribune.
The herald., 1897-08-27

There are few California editors up
north who are not under arrest for Grim
inal libel, but the output is growing
smaller as the returns come in. We
should like to hear what the Sacramento o
Bee thinks of the criminal libel fad.