The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-20
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MINI. MURDOCH. Editor.
THE EAGLE SCOOPS THEM.

THE EAGLE SCOOPS THEM.
The Atchison Daily Globe, referring
to the fall down Of the Kansas City
and Topeka newspaper creatures o. the
fast mail" which fakes failed 10 give
their subscribers anything Of the terri
BILE catastrophe occurring in the harbor
of Havana Tuesday night, observes
that there was a tremedous row ana
a heap of scurryfng around" The To-
peka Capital replies to the witty criti-
cism Of the Globe by pretending that
there was no occasion for newspaper
glorihcation touching efforts to give the
people the news on Wednesday morn
ing, adding that IF there is to be any
blowing about beat, that the Capt.
tars edition for western and southern
Kansas, and for the entire state, for
that matter, contained a twenty-five
bulletin, while the same editions Of the
K. c. papers contained nothing"
Touching this matter, the Enid Wave
said: 1.-The fast mail trains from Kan
sas City brings the K. c. morning pa
pers to Kansas and Oklahoma ahead
of the news. We notice that neither of
the X c. papers of yesterday contained
a word concerning the blowing up of
the Maine"
The Hutchinson News, in referring to
these fast maip' failures, said: The
fast mail editions Of the Kansas City
papers did not have an account Of the
greatest event of the year, the disaster
of the Maine. The only morning paper
TO get the news this way was the
Wichita Eagle"
The editor of the Capital, if he knows
anything about what he was talking,
knew that the Eagle Of Wednesday
morning contained every word trans
mitted by the Associated Press, the full
and complete report Of the disaster.
But whether the Capital knew it or not,
the Hutchinson News and Enid Wave
show no hesitany in telling the people
the exact truth. The Eagle which has
a larger circulation, or which has a
greater number of readers in south
Kansas and in Oklahoma than all the
morning papers of Topeka, Kansas City
and st. Louis put together, furnished
its readers on Wednesday morning with
the entire report, as transmitted by the
Associated Press. Besides, there is not
d day in which the Eagle does not pub
lish important news that cannot be
found in the fast mali editions of the
sheets referred to. No matter how fast
the fast mali train may be run-and
which carries neither passengers nor
mail, nor anything save the half-baked
editions of the papers mentioned-it
cannot annihilate six of the best news
hours of the twenty-four, nor wipe out
Two hundred miles of distance.
Every reader of the Eagle in south
Kansas and in Oklahoma, as well as
those Of its home, got the full report
of the disaster promptly on Wednesday
morning. Only the local or home read
ers of the papers named knew what
had really happened. The outside read
er of these fast mali papers are one
important news. They are reading pa
pers with raised dates. The fast mali
edition OF the GlObe-Democrat, which
reaches south Kansas and Oklahoma, is
not printed on the day on which it
reaches its subscribers. 1t couldn't be-
Date lines on all these fast mail" edi-
tions are misleading. They are dishon-
est. All that the public of south Kan
sas and Oklahoma have to do to con-
vince themselves of the truth of the
above assertion is to compare the fast
mali X. c. morning sheets with the
Eagle for any day in the week. The
Eagle does not fill up its space daily
with coarse quarter-page and hideous
half-page cuts, called pictures, but with
news, the very latest up to the morn
ing hour of publication.