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The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-27

Safes on Thanksgiving Night
Last night about $50 the officers made
what is believed to be an important cap
ture of gang of thieves. There are
now six men in the city prison being
held for investigation. Officer thinner
man saw the gang going north in the
street. One of them had a rool OF pink
canton flannel, while the other had a
pair Of new rubber boots He called to
them to stop but they took to their heels.
He fired at one who gave mis- name as
John Clark. Clark fell to the ground but
Was on his feet in an instant and made
his escape. Officer THOMPSON caught the
one who is supposed TO be the leader.
When taken to the station he said that
his name was Gallagher. When Zimmer-
man found that Clark vas getting away
from him he turned and caught another
who at the station had his name en- Jii-
ed as john Williams.
The rest of the fellows made their es-
rape at the frs sncounter bit four .ctn-
ers were arrested later in the evening,
Officers Carroll. Fox AMI Davis making
the arrests around the Santa Fe tracks,
where it is supposed they had goIe I,
t,y and catch a train out OF town. Waen
brought to the staiio1 taey gave the
names Of Chas. Collins, Arthur Williams,
John Clark and Chas. Hail. All OF tiem
are strangers here. The officers believe
them TO be all round thieves
Some of this gang may have entered
Mr.. Gould's place on Thanksgiving
night. On the same evening the window
in the office Of the Chicago Lumber COM
pany was opened and somebody entered
and opened the safe which was not lock-
ed. No money is kept in the safe, so
they failed to get anything. The safe is
only used to put the books in. Not for
the past six years has the safe been
locked. Until about four weeks ago
there was sign attached to the door of
the safe on which was printed: This
safe is not locked; do not MARI IT" Tire
sign was taken down too soon az il bears
signs Of having been tampered with
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-27
SERIES OF FIVE SERMONS
Dr. Brsdt win Preach on the Evidence OF
Chri~ttHnity.

Commencing with the discussion of
the subject. HON do 1 know the Bible
is a revelation from Gcd?" Dr.. c. E.
Brandt will deliver. on Sunday evenings
in the First Presbyterian church a series
OF five sermons on ',ae Evidences Of
Christianity" This course is 10 follow
up in natural order the efforts ot Dr..
Wells
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-27
Baptist MEETING CLOSED
Revival Services Produce Spirit of Progres-
stye HARMONY.

The revival services a. the First Bap-
tist church closed Thursday evening
with a Thanksgiving prayer meeting.
Dr.. Parker could not remain through
the week. but returned home Monday
The meetings we're in eve-y way he,pfui
to the cnurch. a spirit % harmony
prevails in the church, and all look fo--
ward 10 the future work u the eaurcn
with r1u>h nnne
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-27
SIX CROOKS CAUGHT
OFFICER ZIMMERMAN SHOOTS AT
ONE BUT MISSES.

Last Night the Officers Made What They
Believed 20 be an Important Capture
of q Gang of Thieves-None 7 of the Gang
Known Here-When Discovered They
Had Some Booty With Them which
May Have Been Stolen From "a North
Main Street Store-Tried tn Crack Two
Safes on Thanksgiving Night.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-27

Visitors to the city will find at
Gehring's drug store on the corner Of To-
peka and Douglas avenues, a room full
from floor to ceiling OF Japanese goods.
Thousands OF articles of the most
antique designs. for which that nation
OF people are famous IN making. Their
needlework and, in fact, everything to
be seen there is interesting.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-27
HOUSE AND GROUND
Prominent NORTH SIDE PROPERTY
CHANGES HANDS.

Wichita Nursery Yesterday Baught the
O.d Kentucky Hote, Near the Dold
Packing House Along With Ten Acres
of Ground TO be Utilized for Preserv-
ing and Packing shipments-Emn War
ner Gets q Decission for $1,000 Advance
On His Lots Condemned for SIT of Mid
land Depot
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-05-15

con espf.s puede observar b .sta
los gestos que 20 hago ante mi
cap 9io, 81 ese hombre no es due d !,
de lbs a,ontecimientos. -.
IS II IRA, cuando V. M. pas6
"a no shs fasra de su aposelto, 10
he sabido. sEstaba bien hecha
mi po'icf.2 ST, Sno es verdad2
Ese df. b lbf. i'd v NJ a caA de
esta senora, calle de San Claudio,
en- ell Marais. ESQ no era de mi
ineumbencia. Cuando os habeis
prese tldo a YER la cubeta de
Mesmer con madama de LAmba-
lie, crso qae habeis estado allf;
mi policfa estaba bien hecha,
puesto que os han sisto mis- agen-
tes. Cuando fuisteis al bale de
la Opera. -. :
La reina levant6 vivamente Ia
cabeza.
-Pemitidme terminaT, sefioras
Us digo 10 que cs ha dicho ell se-
nor conde de Artois, y cuando
IN cnnado Sc equiyoca acerta de
las facciones de su Gun ada, con
mas rszon Sc equivocara IN sgen-
te que cobra IN escudo diario. Fl
agente hA dicho que ha crefdo
yeros; de consiguiente ess dfa es-
taba tambien hecha mi policfa.
sDneis tambien, seflors, que mis-
agentes no han seguido bien Ell
negocio del gacetero Reteau, que
IN recibido tan bnena felpa del
sef1or de Charny?
-iDel sefior de Charny! ex-
clamaron & un tempo Andrea y
Ia reina.
La ocuTreneia no 60 amelia Sc
nora, v sun estan marcados esos
ba.tonazos en- las espsldas del g,s
Get -ro. lie All una do esz-
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-05-15

de no verla. Sc la busc6, pero
en- vano, puss habfa desap are,i-
do.
-3Y os habla robado alglna
costa, querida mfa2
No, seflora, pues 20 no po-
sefa NADIA.
Juana habfi escuchado este CO.
loquio con una atencion facil de
comprender.
-iY vos no sabfais todo este,
senor de Crosne? pregunto /,
reina.
No sen IRA.
sConque existe una muj jer
cuya semejanzs conmigo es tan
gIaude, vos no 10 sabeis2 PCon-
que ocurre en- ell RENO IN aeon
tecimiento de tamaf1s importan-
cia y ocasionA graves des6rdenes,
y vos no sois ell primero que Sc
entera de ese acontecimiento2 Va
mos, confesamos que La policia
esta muy NAL servida.
-Os sseguro que no, seiora,
respondi6 ell magistrate. Eleve
ell vulgo, 81 gusta, las funciones
del subdelegado de policla la
altura de las funciones de IN
Dios; pero V. nj. tiene ua asien-
TO mas elevado que yo en- este
olimpio terrestre, sabe bien que
los magistrates del rey no son
mas que hombres, y que 20 no
tengo dominic sobre los aconte-
cimientos. Los hay tan extrafios
que la inteligencia humana ape
mas baSta para comprenderlos.
-Sszor, tu .ndo IN hombre ha
recibido todos los poderes posi-
bles para penetrar hasta en- los
senti,ni, ntos de- sns semejantee;
cnando con age-tes pagA espi.s, y
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-05-15

favoreciendo de ese modo & Ia re-
Gle nVenida.
Andrea desapareci6 bajo los pa
nos de la tspicerfa, sin habe. pes.
taneado nj manlfestado la menor
emoci6n.
-lAcero, acerol exclam6 la rel
ma. 81, todos esos Taverney son
acero, pero tambl6n son orc.
-iAh! buenos dfas, sefiores io-
yeros. sQne me tracts de nuevo2
va sabeis que no tergo dinero.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-05-15
Ell COLLAR DE LA REINA

V. III. 6 los sefiores Behmer y
BossangeP
-lAh! es verdad, mi buena Mi
sery, es verdad. Que entren.
Quedaos a6n, madame de La Mo-
tie, pues puiero que ell rey haga
unas PAGES mas completes con vos.
Al decir estas palabras, la reina
acechaba en- ell espejo la EXPIRE
sion del semblants de Andrea, que
Sc dirigia lentamente & la puerta
de aquel vasto gsbinets.
Qalzas guerra picar sus celos
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-05-15
BicicIetaS

SUPERIORES de las acreditadas fAbricas In
glesas NEW HowE MACHINE Co (Que tieEe
pedides en- Ia aetualidad rnontsDtss 50. 600
bicicletas) VICTORIA MANUFACTURING Go. !;
lie construction muy Eoida In Vez que Gle
gantes- Emplsanse en- elias los mejores ma
teriales y Ia yanta DUSLOPE Que es sin dis-
oata ls mejor del mundo.
Sc garsntizansse ser de primera calidad y 50
venden preeics sumamente modicos On ell
taller de Herrera, Carreteri Wimbledon dc
Roberto Graham, donde tam En- SO conn., O.
nen bicioletas, J hay de venta puestos para
las mismas
Ponce. 0etnbre 90 de 1895.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-05-15

IL. L del da toma
pasaj rasbordo al do
sale de d de cada aguno de Ia
a de Herrera vj del q oarA Epaha zas5o
l Puerto Rico 81 recto sale de gual dia de
y
1e Mayo 30 de see
adni tod los rut, paaJero s
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-05-15

Asa.ass d Ia. s.as. -fasflfIIlRlIlsigs
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-05-15
THE BRUNSWICK BALKE
COLLEN DER \ CD. NEW YORK.

Sc vende IN maguifco billar de e8ta
acreditada fab.ica, N aeble nnevo de con
ficiones msgaifcas. FL que 10 interese
puede dirigirse D. A. Padi'la de A.ecibo,
So duefio.
Ponce MARIO II de 1897.
2 90 3v. p. 3.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
Our British Cousins.

An opinion is expressed in the weekly
American, of Philadelphia, which is so
pointed and which concerns a subject
SO frequently under discussion that We
venture to reproduce it herewith.
The American people, as a whole, have
no friendship for Britain; their feeling
toward Great Britain Is one of enmity,
not of love. There is nothing to be
gained by Disgusting the fact. We are a
peace-loving nation; We harbor ill-will for
no country but one, and that one is Great
Britain. And this cnmity is not born OF
passion; it is not unreasoning. But one
nation has wronged us, StriVen to retard
our growth, and for that nation we have
not, cannot have friendship, at least not
while she stands politically, industrially,
or financially in the way of our national
growth. OF what England does we are
jealous, we are sensitive of the criticisms
of her people. To the criticisms, the opin-
ions Of other peoples, we are profoundly
Indifferent. 1t Is undeniable that, should
the occasion arise, a war with Great Bri-
tain would be pop ular, popular as no 9TH
er war would be. TO fight such a war ten
men would volunteer where one would
volunteer to fight any other foe. Men
would vie with one another to enlist for
such war. They would do so because
they feel that Britain has not treated us
fairly, and they would seize the opportun-
ity to repay old scores. This feeling OF
enmity is not carried so far as to make
us desirous of picking quarrel, for we
are justlce-loving people. But the feel
ing Of our people toward Great Britain IS
such that they would be quicker to re-
sent encroachments of Britain than the
eEcroachments of any other people. They
would do so because they look upon Bri-
tain as our hereditary foe, ever on the
outlook to secure some advantage over
US. They look upon no other nation with
the same distrust.
Every proposition has two sides; in
the foregoing remarks only one side
Is given. What the American says is
true. There is. as it remarks, no good
to be gained by trying to deny it. For
England, collectively, the American
people have continual suspicion and
dstrust, They have read history,
and history teaches that whenever
English and Yankee circles Of political
interest have touched in the past II
has been English diplomacy which has
prepared the ambGshes, committed the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21

aggresslons, done the bullying and
manifested a sustained contempt for
American claims and rights. The two
governments have been not unlike
game cocks waiting for an opening q
move by one invarlable makes the
others feathers bristle, and the look
in the eyes of each is such that the
wonder is only two actual wars have
characterized their intercourse.
But the American states only half
the truth. 1t is a common phenom-
enon OF family life that brothers, while
under ordinary circumstances outward
ly jealous each of the other and pro-
Tossing to be Indifferent each to the
others welfare, need only the touch OF
some common afflicton or the spur of
a fundamental experience to throw off
this superficial appearance of enmity,
and yield to the promptings Of the in
born affection. Here we have precise
ly the attitude of England and Ameri-
ca. Deeper than all the distrust Of
Britain and more firmly rooted in the
Yankee character than all the resent
lands i'll treatment of us, is the flial
feeling that from these same bullying,
rapacious, full-blooded Anglo Saxons
we derived our language, our religious
principles and our basic laws, If not a
good bit of the hardihood of tempera-
ment and physique which have sus-
tanned us in the upbuilding Of a COM
petitive empire. And while we would
as readily whack their ears as take
them by the hand, and are disposed,
whatever the form or the occasion of
the rivalry, to give them as good as
they send, yet it is very much in the
spirit of the boxer, who enjoys the
competition in exact proportion as it
taxes mis- skill and keeps his wits and
muscles on the alert.
That we should have greater friction
with our own kith and kin than with
neighbors of different blood is not un-
natural, nor does it disprove the ex-
istence underneath of common bond
of brotherhood. Nor would we have
this friction cease. 1t is the necessary
spice of our national existence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
AS TO NATURALIZATION.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
The time has come when no man should
be naturalized in this state who does not
read the language of the country. 1t is no
hardship to ask that an emigrant coming
to share our citizenship should, in five
years, become sufficiently familiar with
our language to read the laws OF the state
and nation. 1t is not necessary that they
should become English scholars, but 1t is
necessary that they should accept the
language of the nation whose liberties
they come to enjoy. Especially should
the courts of Pennsylvania accept the de-
mand of the Schuylkill Bar association
that no public officer OF the county, or
candidate for office, or member of any
campaign or political committee should
be accepted as a voucher in any natural
ization petition. When such petitions are
presented in court they should be ac-
cepted as notice that the naturalization
Is not so much fG' the benefit of the alien
as for the benefit of those who have po-
litical ends to serve, and who wish to
transform the alien into a citizen for their
advantage rather than his own. In short,
naturalization should be strictly judicial
proceeding, entirely free from partisan
influences, and the courts should hew to
the line in obeying the law of the nation
that permits only the naturalization of
those who are in all respects worthy of
the great boon of American citizenship.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
lie Must Go.

The Chittenden bicycle ordinance,
the provisions of which were printed
yeste rday, seems to be a reasonable
treasure and its adoption would put
the city we'll to the fore among those
th9t have brought common sense to
bear upon the regulation OF wheeling.
But its enactment will solve only u
small portion of the problem the
great question remaining is, Will It
be enforced?
There are ordinances on the statute
books now covering many of the abuses
to which bicycle riding has been sub
jected. One of those abuses--riding on
the sidewalk-has become very serious
in this community. Not day nor
night passes that wheelmen by the
hundreds don't ride rapidly along on
the sidewalks of the much-traveled
streets, crowding pedestrians aside and
putting children and old persons in
danger of their lives This is clearly
in defiance of the ordinances Of the city
and 1t has provoked repeated COM
plants from citizens, but the police
have not attempted to make an arrest
and the ordinance against this practice
might therefore just as well not be.
All the ordinances in the world would
fail unless vigorously and vigilantly
enforced.
If a boor 4foot were to force pedes-
trians off the sidewalk it would not
be so bad; because sooner or later he
would meet his Nemesis in some stall
wart citizen who, If the police should
shrink their duty, would take the law
into his own hands and knock the ag
gressor down. The boor on a wheel,
however, has the advantage. Thanks
to his machines pneumatic tires and
his invariable failure to ring a bell,
he comes upon the pedestrian unawares
and after robbing the latter of his
right of way is off before the victim
can administer proof of dissatisfaction.
Thus 1t has come to pass that neither
in the roadways, at the street cross
ings nor on the ostensibly reserved
sidewalks can the man, woman or child
who doesn't ride feel that ne or she
is protected in the old-fashioned right
to walk in peace.
The problem of drafting a law which
shall equitably stand between the pub
lie and the careless or reckless bicycle
rider is comparatively easy to solve;
but the problem of getting the police
department to realize that infringe
ment of the rights of pedestrians is
just as much a crime deserving of
vigilant apprehension and punishment
as is a theft of property or an at
tempt to commit arson is seemingly
much more perplexing. And yet the
sidewalk scorcher must go.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
THE MODERN MAID.


She's a very modern maiden with opin-
ions and proclivities,
A hankering for greatness and a mind
of strong activities;
She has bloomers quite unmatchable,
To men she Is not catchable.
For she's very independent and precise.
A ninety-seven wheel she rides
And everything unreal derides.
But she's not the kind of girl that's voted
mice
Now, this very modern maiden, be it said,
with lack of levity,
Is indulging in rapid pace that has the
smack of brevity.
For the wheel of time moves steadily
And old age comes so readily
That she'll realize her danger when too
late.
Then, alone in some dark corner,
She who taught the men to scorn her
WIZ a withered maiden lady be, no longer
up to date.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
its infancy: and Hawaii is the cradle
that Will rock II into healthy growth.

The imposition of a fine Of $500 and
costs uopn Rev. DIR. Silas c. Swallow
for libeling Captain Delaney in the pub
lication In the Pennsylvania Methodist
of sweeping and unsubstantiated
charges affecting his integrity as an
official closes for the present an cpl
sode from which no good has resulted.
The sentence is q mercifw one. Dr..
Swallow not only committed a crime
ward glorfied in it and is today posing
before the public as a martyr in the
cause Of reform. There is consolation
in the lightness Of his sentence only to
the extent that il battles his evident
purpose to turn a more drastic doom to
DprsOnal account
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
HmeriCa's New
Railway King
From the Providence Journal

From the Providence Journal.
Since the stirring days when Commo-
dore Vanderbilt was investing his money
in railroads, and when his efforts to Sc
cure the properties which he was seek
ing to acquire were being fashioned into a
vast scheme of profit by such adversaries
as Fisk, Gould and Drew, the country
has seen no such shifting of railroad in
vestments and ownership as it is now
beholding in the movements of the Nor
gan interest. Most of what is being done is
characterized by silence, or at most, by
rumors in the stock markets. There is
none of that direct buying in the street
which marked the entrance of the un-
sophisticated founder of the Vanderbilt
fortunes into his new fed of activity.
Thus, in the absence of sensationalism,
this diversion of New York capitalstic
enterprise into the coal fields, into the
southern states, and even far across the
Mississippi, is attended by no excitement
on the part of the general public and no
thrilling scenes in the New York Stock
exchange. But what is being accom-
plished is perhaps far more comprehensive
and extensive than all that the house of
Vanderbilt has sought to do in the same
| region of Industrial and financial achieve
ment.
There Is every reason to believe that
| Mr.. Morgan knows exactly what he is
| about, and that his immense venture is a
| part of the long chain of conservative
| financiering which has enabled him to
stand as a growing power in high finance
| from his first experiences as a banker.
| That Is clear from the fact that the ac-
quisition of the new increments of his
| wealth and of the capital which he con-
trolls has been gradual process, and that
the extension of his influence as q. factor
| in the financierng operations of the east
ern railroads during the last twenty years
| has been in proportion to a moderate use
of the funds within his power He has
| not entered this dangerous or at least
risky area of business as if he were
| Monte Cristo, or even a Vanderbilt or
| Gould. His capital has been deposited
here and there in many properties for a
| score of years, and now the system which
| he has followed in making loans is bearing
| fruit. In nearly every case he has either
| been called upon to acquire by foreclos-
| ure of mortgage or been solicited to
take over q disorganiZed and nsolvent
property for the sake of the investors.
| Foreclosures have brought ownership
in fee simple, practically, and reorganiza-
| tons absolute control through the bond
| holders.
| Mr.. Morgan is now of course reputed
| to be the financial or business manager
of the eatire body of railroad interests
formerly looked after by the Vanderbits.
But his functions there it Is unnecessary
to confound with the ownership and con-
| troll which he exercises in the case of
other properties. The railroads which
are essentially in his own hands are as
follows. with mileage and capitalization
| dot cot la1
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
MiSlaken.

The Chicago Record has not hereto
fore been noted for violent hostility to
the principle of protection, but in dis
cussing the amended Dingley bill it
says: ''It is not improbable that the
Dipgley bill, If it may be so called after
its thorough revision, will go down in
history as worse than the Mckinley
law. There can be no justification at
this day for the excessively high rates
of duty which it imposes. 1t is con-
tinuation of war taxes in time of peace
for the benefit, not Of the government,
but of private individuals. The duties
in many cases being SO high as TO be
prohibitive, there will be no imports
from which the government can de-
rive revenue, but the taxes in such
cases will go to private individuals in
the form of higher prices for products
and greater profits" The Record also
says: "'rhe passage of such a tariff
bill at this time is a violation of faith
on the part of the Republican party"
In the realm of opinion each man is
sovereign. The editor Of the Record is
entitled to think the Dingley bill bad
one and to say so II ne likes, for that is
a matter of belief. But he has no right
to say as fact what is untrue and for
which he can produce no confirmatory
evidence, namely, that the passage of
the Dingley bill is a violation of faith.
The passage of that bill is q redemp-
tion of a specific pledge embodied in the
very beginning of the st. Louis plat
form and reiterated in nearly every
campaign address and printed state
ment OF Republican doctrine uttered in
the campaign which eliminated in the
election of the st. Louis nominees. 1t
IS natural consequence of the eleva-
tlon to the presidency of William Nc
Kinley, the man whose greatest claim
to the suffrage Of the American people
had to do with his lifelong advocacy
of systematic protection.
Whether the Dingley bill shall prove
TO be worse or better than the McKin-
ley bill Is something which time and
experience alone can tell. The Chicago
Record has no reason to pronounce q
verdict before the evidence is I'm. A
tariff bill like q tree must be judged,
not by the individual prejudices Of the
editor who passes judgment, but by its
fruits. The Journal which snaps an
opinion In advance simply disoredits
its own reputation for fairness. But IL
the Dingley bill shall prove to be any
where near so good a measure as the
Mckinley bill was. 1t viii vindicate the
wisdom Of its sponsors and earn the
admiration OF the country.
This year James ]. Hill, of the Great
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