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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-29
Statesmen WANTED.


WANTED-Salesman 10 handle our fast
selling speciaIties. All stock guaranteed
true TO name. Write for terms. Mount
Hope Nurseries, Lawrence, Kansas.
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AGENTS WANTED.

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AGENTS WANTED-S500 daily guaran-
teed; greatest combination kitchen
utensil; Q articles in one; sample free
w. S. Forshee & Co. Cincinnati o.
4-2q 5-6-2t
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MONEY TO LOAN-on cattle ana otbe-
good personal property /. e wicker
sham Ne I55 y. Main. 12l-tt
UNLIMITED FUNDS 20 loan on cuotca
farm property II Kansas and Oklahoma
40l-434u5 Sedgwlck block Whine &
Whine lott
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BUSINESS OPPORTIrNIrIEs-

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partner. Address Real Estate. Eagle
office. 140-2ty
FOR SALE-Bl acksmith shop and smith
ing tools. Riley, over Kansas National
bank. 14D-9tv
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-29

FOR SALE-The south = Of section = and
lots 3. 5 and :. n section 2. township II.
range : west One ot the finest river bot
tom farms IN Reno county Kansas.
known as the Charles ". Shelton farm.
Three miles from Haven. IL miles from
school, one mile from United Presby-
terrain church. $40 acres, al bottom
land. $50 acres IN cultivation; 30 acres
IN pasture: acres IN orchard. House OF
) rooms. besides 3 closets. bath rom.
milk room. large cellar; TWO barns.
ETanaTy5 TWO corn cribs. hen house. All
fenced and cross fenced with hedge and
W-Te fences Three wells, cwo wind
mills Arkansas river runs through the
farm. Ins corn raised on this farm was
given the premium at the Words Fair
in lSe& Price $4,000: easy terms. II
you want one OF the finest farms IN
Kansas, investigate this Whine &
Whine Wichita. Kansas 7a-ts
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Get cur prl-es - Eoss Baszss. Esass.
sh-1hs at yszsA
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NANTED-Any persons having rooms 10
rent 20 travelling men 1T the annual
meeting Of L. &. T. on Nay Il and T..
please address To Ed Kinniard. office of
Central Coal and Coke Co lG>-tf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-29

WANTED-rhe commercial men 10 kpow
the new Eagle Hotel. Eewkirk. has
changed hands, and 5 one OF She hest
hotels y the territory L ". Hosfner
PrCc 5Srf
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WANTEn-To exchange shetland nouv
Tor good carriage. +. NJ REYNOLDS.
Blackwell. .. r. 1p-6tx
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WANTED-Buyer for fashionable Cali
ins Cards, at reduction Of % 10 g Der
cent. The Eagle office S-ff
" ANTED-Purchaser desiring rATi-z
city residences 10 call and set Srsr~io-
ton ana prices. Riley, over Kansas M
tioDal bank. -raev
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FOR SALE-50 feet, y. Lawrence avenue.
opposite r. II. Roys' house.
= feet. y. Lawrence avenue. between
Twelfth and Thirteenth street east
front. Barnes & NewC0m0 Music mouse.
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FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE.
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FOR SAIsts-S. W. i4-I3-29-4w; offer want
cd. Dean Gordon. l4I~l0t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
1T Is A DEADLOCK.
No Hope For Adjustment of Alaskan
Boundary.

London. May 26.-The foreign office Of
fcials confirm the statements made by the
New York correspondent of the London
Times to the effect that the negotiations
with the Canadian government on the
subject of Alaska have reached an almost
hopeless stage. owing to the insistence
of Alaska, which apparently precludes any
agreement being reached the subject
between the American and the Canadian
high commissioners The evening news
papers here reproduce the New York dis
patch. with comment generally regretting
the situation, but Directing to the con-
clusions that Canada is blamable. The
Globe says:
The Canadians would be far less pa
triotic than they are If they yielded to
what they consider to be an unjust and
indefensible demand for the sake of es-
adjustment of more friendly relations
Continuing. the Globe remarks that the
Times, by publishing its correspondent 5
unJudicial summing up, has adopted the
sureSt way to infiame public opinion on
both sides of the Atlantic
The Westminster Gazette says:
I'VE certainly hope a better face can
be put on things, far we are con-
cerned; but the deadlock seems very
serious
The st. James Gazette thinks American
politics are playing important part in
the situation; and says:
The Republicans are disposed to a
it must be on terms so favorable to
America that the Democrats will have no
excuse to say they yielded their interests
to Great Britain. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
GATLING PARKER,
Lieutenant of Spanish War Here to
Secure Recruits

Lieutenant John H. Parker of the
Twenty fifth United States infantry has
opened recruiting office in the F1am-
beau club rooms of the old court house.
and will enlist recruits for all branches
of army service.
During the Spanish-American war
Lieutenant Parker was connected with
the Thirteenth infantry. He was in
charge of a dynamite gun and bat
terry of Calling guns during the Santi-
ago campaign, and was the first man
to demonstrate the effectiveness of the
Calling gun on the firing line. He is
the author of THE Gatlings at Santi-
ago"
The recruiting office was opened this
morning, but as the fact had not been
advertised there was no great rush of
applicants to join the army. In view
of the fact that the recruiting office
which was established here about two
months 100 met with only partial sue
cess, it is doubtful if there will be a
very large number of recruits from this
section.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
READY TO BEAT MARKET.
Many Inquire About New York Trad
ing Machine.

New York May 26.-The Wall street
friends of Deputy Assistant Treasurer
of the United States Maurice L. Muhle-
man made life a burden for him today
They had read the description of the
trading machine which it was asserted
would enable it's operator to beat the
stock market by infallible system
of speculation. Mr.. Muhleman had
hardly got his coat off when the teIe-
phone rang and bank president called
for the deputy assistant treasurer and
said: IF you are sure you can't lose,
you can have part of our surplus to win
a million two for both of US before
lunch" So incessant were the inquiries
by telephone and SO many the callers
that Mr.. Muhleman was obliged to dis
connect his phone and deny admittance
to all visitors except those on public
business.
Mr. MuhIeman said to reporter: TT
is a marvellous piece of mechanism, in
deed, but it is absurd to say that it
can predict stock market results. Its
purpose is not to predict, but to show
the result of things that have happened.
1T will determine what the price of
American Sugar Refining stock should
be if. for instance, there were 215,OOO
shares of stock sold at prices ranging
from 1853 to 1854. The machine is some
what after the order of the adding ma
chimes in use in the offices of all big
financial institutions.
I'VE are not inviting the public to
subscribe to the Stock said Mr.. Muhle-
man. THE proposed corporation is to
conduct experiments solely. If the
thing is a success then a company to
manufacture it will be organized"
At the office of the American Com
mercial corporation at 141 Broadway, J.
n. Huston, the treasurer, said; The
machine will arrive here from London
this week and we will give public ex-
hibition of its workings"
According to the report from Profess
sors Morton and Webb of the Stevens
institute, the device is known as the
trading machine of Erastus E. Ford
They say:
THE machine is an honest machine
and is not open to any suspicion of
manipulation. The distinct advantage
of such a machine is that it is unin-
fuenced, and so avoids the risks of hui
man judgment, and thus operates on
fixed system according to such physical
laws as appear to govern the move
ments of the market"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
WOULD BE STATE AUDITOR.
c. n. ]. Taylor Once Attempted to
Break Into Populist Politics.

When the Populist state convention
at Wichita nominated L. D. Lewelling
for governor, c. H. J. Taylor, the noted
colored man who died yesterday at At
lanta, attempted to secure the nominal
ton for state auditor. Van B. Prather
was the successful candidate.
In this convention the candidates
were selected with little previous wire
pulling and Taylor had a scheme which
was later emulated by w. J. Bryan.
The POpuliStS have a way of bringing
candidates out and making them de-
clare themselves before the nominations
are made. This was being done at
Wichita. Taylor hunted up Bob Sem
pie and asked him to present his name
for auditor. Semple demurred and
Taylor remarked:
You nominate me- and I'll make a
speech thatn set 'em afire and 1 can
get the votes after that Then you
can be assistant auditor" he whispered
to Semple, but the proposition was re-
jected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
ROBS TO STOCK HER HOME.
Pretty Prospective St Louis Bride
Comics ses to Wholesale


ST. Louis, May 26.-Minnie Hill. a
pretty woman of % years, whose home
is at Carbonate, ILL.,, was arrested to-
day charged with stealing from a num-
Der of families in the West End. A
great deal of the property has been re-
covered, and the woman has made
confession.
Her thefts were part of an ill-con-
ceived plan to stock up a home of which
she soon expected to be mistress. She
is engaged to marry a travelling man
whose name she refuses to divulge. She
went about her work in the guiSe of a
servant hiring out among wealthy fam
lilies for from a week to a month, or
longer, if necessary, to get the oppor-
tunity to appropriate articles to which
she took a fancy as being suitable for
her prospective house.
She was so pretty and apparently
guileless that she found no difficulty in
obtaining employment without furnish
ing references. Her sudden disappear
ances from places where she worked
with the simultaneous disappearance of
various valuables led TO a watch being
set, and Minnie was arrested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
SENATOR HARRIS VIEWS.
Kansas Populists Favor Bryan and
His Platform.

Washington, May Ex-senator Harris
of Kansas will not discuss ex-senator
PETERS return to the Republican party,
beyond saying that its Importance has
he said, really left the Populists last
fall. His recent utterance is merely
postmortem statement"
rs the organization still intact?"
Most assuredly. We are more than
holding our own, and the agitation
against trusts will strengthen u.s. The
conservative Populists of Kansas have
no sympathy with those who agitate
merely for the sake of agitation. We
would accept, for instance, the Demo-
cratic platform of 1896, with an addi-
tional plank, providing for public own
ership of public utilities, and such
declarations against trusts and eXpan-
sion as have become necessary through
the development of events. There are
many Populists in Kansas, however.
who have been Republicans all their
lives, and who do not like to declare
themselves Democrats. 1 might add
that the sentiment of the Kansas Pop
ulists is overwhelmingly in favor of the
nomination of Bryan
viii the Populists hold their con-
vention before the Democrats meet?''
There was an agreement to that eff
feet at a meeting of the leading Popu-
lists in Omaha. but it was based upon
the idea that it would placate the rad
ical members of our party. Instead of
this, however. the middle -the-road
people assembled at Cincinnati and NOM
ina ted Barker and Donnelly as preSi-
Dental ticket, and, in my judgment.
the agreement is no longer binding. My
judgment is that the Democrats should
ion. name MIR. Bryan as their leader
again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26

didate for deputy warden. The gov
ernor is reported as having made imme-
date inquiry as to Gardeners home.
The executive was informed that Gard
liner lives in Topeka.
The governor is then quoted as say
ing: THAT settles it. Gardiner must
not be appointed
Then friend of Gardiner suggested
that w. A. Thompson is also from To-
peka. He is the man slated for the
place some weeks ago. Oh the gov
ernor is quoted saying, Thompson
came from Scott county only a short
time ago, and I believe that is his
home''
Scott county is in the Seventh district.
The appointment will be made early
next month and Thompsons' friends are
cOnfident he will land the place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26

eign coin shall be reduced to United
States money. The treasurer is also re-
quired to submit a report to the secre-
tary OF war ten days after the end of
each month. The treasurer, who will
be an army officer, shall give a bond for
the faithful performance of his duties.
The governor general is required to
make an examination quarterly, or
oftener, if deemed eXpedient, of the
books and accounts of the auditor and
money in the hands of the treasurer
and submit his report to the secretary
of war. The governor general in pass
ing upon acquisitions for money may
return the same to the auditor and
state what changes are necessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
KANSAS PROSPERITY.
Victor Murdoch Tells Chicago People
of Brighter Days.

Chicago, May 26.-eEvery passing
Kansas zephyr, whether of force only
capable of poetic murmur or of a We
locity that tears a cfstern out of the
ground, is laden with the scent of fresh
paint said Victor Murdoch of the
Wichita, Kan, Eagle while in this city
THE whole state is quickened under
a widespread Industrial revival The
monotony of the landscape within the
last year has been frightened by dashes
of yellow-Of yellow pine, the walls of
new granaries, new barns, new homes,
or by the glisten of fresh paint.
THE KanSan'S vehicles are new his
home is better ordered, and the Kan
san himself happier than he has been
for ten years. Wichita, the typical
city of Kansas, which suffers, of all,
the most acutely when Kansas is de-
pressed and, on the other hand, is the
high note of the scale when Kansas is
jubilant. is respondent in prosperity.
Politically, Kansas has become Re
publican-more firmly SO, in my opin-
ion, than many of her eastern sisters
the party. Kansas loves theory; she
thrills at a Colonel Sellers eye-water
proposition; she is appalled, at the pos
Sibility of a labor annihilating machine.
During a period of depression, by no
means confined to Kansas, the state
CROPPED into a frightful labyrinth of po-
Htical economy and followed tortuously
and with much mental agony many
blind trails, and lost sleep over the
enigmas of overproduction,c currency ra-
tics and the perils of combination.
Kansas found nothing by the search.
Prosperity found her, and it is such a
great, tangible, actual prosperity, that
Kansas has no desire to analyze it. She
is certain she has it within her grasp
and that is sufficient. With cOntinu-
ing increment in wealth and content
ment, the state will finally forget Popu-
hSm, or remember 1t only as a pOliti-
oil loo T1t1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
ALL TAKE A RIDE.
z. M. C. A. Delegates Shown the City
Of Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Mich, May 26.-Dele-
gates and visitors to the international
Y NJ. c. A. conference were given a
trolley ride about the city today. A
meeting for men only was addressed by
Anthony COmstock in the interest of
his work for suppression of immoral
literature. ]. NJ. Buckley, editor of the
Christian Advocate. delivered an ad-
dress on "Rauonalism. 1T was a strong
plea in behalf of inspiration of the BIZ
BILE.
The following additional standing
committees were announced today:
BusineSS-WilliS S. Horrick, Chicago;
well, Providence: H. O. Hine Wash
Boyd, South Bend.
Resolutiens-M. D. Douglas, Phila-
delphia; E. V. Ritter, st. Louis F. w
johnson, Summit, n. J.; w. ]. Dean,
Minneapolis; H. G. Van Tuil, Detroit:
E w. Frost. Milwaukee. and Prof. r.
NJ. Komonom. Perdue, Ind.
Devotion-J. b. Palmer, Galveston;
r. D. Noble. Petrolia, Ont: r. S Pad
dock, Rochester. n. Y; w. H. DarnaI,
Norfolk Va; f. A. Reid, Kalamazoo
NJ. w. Van Ranken and H. A. Hagerty,
Grand Rapids.
Associations-E. E. Richardson. Kan
sas City; DIR. Il. J. Peale, Cincinnati;
DR.. James Ross, Fitchburg; E. L. Gar
land, Portland. Me; Walter Palford,
Winnipeg; N. b. Peake, Louisville, and
E. p. Sheldon, Erie.
Railroad work was the subject dis
cussed at the afternoon session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
Market Gossip.

London. 1890 p. m: Consols, 1895; de-
Chicago receipts: Hogs. $1,000; cattle.
Kansas City receipts: Hogs, 1900; cat
Omaha receipts: Hogs. 1880; cattle.
Paris cable: Wheat confines up; -four.
Chicago receipts carlots: Wheat, g
oats. 100 cars, graded 50. .ozoo
higher fiour, Is eentimes higher.
i Liverpool opening cable; Wheat, sd
Argentine shipments of wheat, 2,O56 900;
London, 1:9O p. m: Wheat cargoes firm.
London: London buoyant advances ex-
'e Kansas City 'T Receipts Wheat. ca cars.
corn 40 cars; oats, I cars. Last year holt
Topeka cash market, Il a. m: No. ?
hard wheat, 50 test. 67l&@6Sc-
zoe, 600; Duluth will decrease 800 900. Looks
as if visible decrease Monday probably
was was an increase mere Of So ood 6'7' e.''S
Liverpool close: Wheat, 1sG&sd lower
ST: Louis: There is the worst lot Of
known in the trade. All receiving houses
Argentine shipments of wheat this week.
2,o56, 600; last week. 1854 600 last year. 500.
600; corn, shipments; $4,000; last week
ial rains yesterday. but Inadequate
our reports from central Kansas grow
ing worse; some sections beyond redemp-
ton.
No session of the Chicago board of trade
next Tuesday.
Puts, July wheat. 1850: calls. 75al4c.
July corn, s27s and $3.50; curb, July wheat
1850 sellers.
Huron S. D: State crop bulletin reports
conditions highly favora bic for recupera-
ton of wheat. oats and barley that were
affected by frost in northern counties:
many fields of oats and barley not suff-
GENTLY advanced in growth to be ser
iously damaged; too early to know actual
losses.
New York: Exports sales, 10 loads of
wheat: corn. 10.
St. Louis close: Wheat. May. 7ac; July
1I12Q5sc: September, 772sd1ec; Corn. cash
size May 3ac: July 3s1sc;' September
32Hc; oats. cash, PC: May, 261ac; July.
23Ac; September. 2OHA
New York close: Wheat May. S15sc:
July. S01sc; September, 791sc; December
1856; corn, May, $3.50; July. 3S1sc; Sep
TENDER, 3S5sc.
Kansas City cash markets. 100 p. m:
mixed corn. s134c: No. missed oats. PC.
Topeka cash market. 1:30 p. m: No.
hard wheat, 80 test, Csc.
Minneapolis close: Wheat. May. 1850;
July. 721kd5sc; September. lie.
Duluth close: Wheat, May, 74$4c; July.
751Ac: September. 1850.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
TO MEET IN JUNE.
Senate Committee on Finance to Take
Up Currency Question.

Washington, May Ex-senator Aid
rich, chairman of the senate committee
on finance, has issued a call for meet
ing of that committee to be held at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, on the
9Th of June. The meeting is expected to
decide what course the committee will
pursue under the resolution of the last
session of congress permitting the COM
mittee to hold meetings during the con-
gressional vacation. 1t, is now con-
sidered probable that the committee
will authorize a subcommittee consist
ing of the Republican members to take
up the financial question with the view
of recommending a bill to the next ses-
sion of congress. Some members of the
committee are in Europe and it is not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
He WILL BE GOOD
Convict Wants Governor to Try
His Parole Scheme.
Was a Slave to Opium When
He Stole.
HE is STRONG NOW.
Writes a Pathetic Letter to the
Chief Executive.
E is STRONG NOW.
Other News From the State
House Departments.

Governor Stanley has received a pa
thetic appeal for conditional pardon
from Bert Williams, under sentence of
eight years in the penitentiary for lar
ceny. The application for pardon was
written by Williams. The penmanship
is good, the language is clear and the
photography creditable. The young
man tells a sad story in his letter, ex-
planning that he now desires to go out
into the world and show to the people
that he is capable of living without
violating the laws of the country.
Williams was sent to the penitentiary
from Coffey county. With three others
he entered a store in Lebo and stole
some clothing. His three companions
We're sent to the reformatory, but he
was placed in the penitentiary.
My portion of the booty he writes
to the governor, consisted of a suit of
cheap clothes of which 1 was in sore
need. L had just been released from
the state penitentiary at Huntsville,
Tex, and the prison suit which [ had
was in rags. 1 was almost naked.
L was sent to the Denitentiary in
Texas for theft. having stolen some
thing to eat. 1 was a slave to opium.
1 could not work. 1 could do nothingbex-
cept consume opium. l committed the
ence of the drug L served my time
and came to Kansas, only again to
walk aStray under the same influence.
Il was crazed by opium, yet 1 had
sense enough to take only what L need
ed. I could get clothing in no other
way. 1 had to steal now and then to
get something to eat. Urged by ne
cessity, L committed the crime for
which now seek a conditional pardon.
1 was born in California and was pros
porous until the opium dens in San
Francisco dragged me down. From
my very youth l grew up among them
and fell to their temptations. The habit
enslaved me and now 1 am here. I am
now strong enough to resist the temp
tation. The craving for the drug has
left me and 1 am now ready to go
forth into the world and take up the
battle of life.
Il am ready to enter into any sort of
an agreement with you. 1 am ready
to do this because feel able to do my
self some good now. can work and
a friend in Kansas City has offered me
job in the event 1 should be released.
l sincerely hope that you will give this
application your serious and careful
cOnSidera ton"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
LIMIT PUNISHMENT.
State Board of Charities Wants Re-
form School Cruelties Stonned

Although the state officers and friends
of the administration have been dis
crediting the stories of cruelty and Sc
we're whippings of inmates of the re-
form school, the state board of chart
ties has taken cognizance of the mat
ter and has ordered the punishment of
refractory boys confined within a limit
necessary to the maintenance of good
order"
For years the boys have been com
PEELED to suffer inhuman beatingS and
f1oggings and recently people living
half mile from the institution have
heard the pleas for mercy, uttered with
sobs and screams of pain while the
lash was being applied.
No order has been made to abolish
these drubbings but the board requests
that acts of cruelty be no longer toler-
ated by the Superintendent.