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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-26
published October Is, 1851
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An ordinance providing for the issuance
of an internal Improvement bond in the
sum OF Three Hundred and FiSc and
7a-lO0 Dollars to J. r Davis % pay FOR
the construction Of sidewalks
Be It ordained By the Mayor and Council
men Of the City OF wichita:
Section L That an internal improve
ment bond In the sum Of Three Hundred
and Five and 7s-l00 Dollars be ISSUED 70
J. T. Davis TO pay for the construction
OF sidewalks az per bills on file 81 the
Office OF the city clerk. dated and sworn
to October q. 1850. al Of the said side
walks having been constructed according
TO contract under the direction % the
mayor and council. and said bills having
been approved by the mayor and council
said bond shall BE- dated November T. 1s.s.
and shall become due one year after
date; shall bear interest az the rate o.,
six per cent per annum. Said bond shall
be denominated internal Improvement
bond No. ----. Series 49, and shall -
payable at the fiscal agency Of the state
% Kansas. IL the city 81 New York IN
the state OF New York. and shall be
signed by the mayor and attestcd by the
city clerk with the seal q the city i'm
pressed thereon.
Sec. ? This ordinance shall take eject
and be IN force from and after its publ
cation IN the Wichita Daily Eagle.
Approved October 2. isss
F1SrAY ROSS. Mayor.
Attest: AMOS NOLAN. city clerk.
3HK HEArHa;.
Wichita Kan. Oct 2 1871.
Local forecast for wichita and vie.ni-s
Clearing and colder Tbursday. fair ard
colder Thursday night and Fritsy
During the past a hour. the highest
temperature has been g. the lowest q
and the mean s. COR So degrees co8ier
than yesterday. with q mld thunder
storm IN TIE morning. Hght rsln most %
the day 10 inches up 90 81 o. ~ 10
FIRST rain o. consequence FOR = days
On this date last year tbe highest tsfn-
peratBrs WAS -. fhs lowest p. ane fhs
mean . with light rain. turning 20 iirht
snow before morning. the FIRST snow =
the season.
50 Ear this month ere average temper
ture has been g. watch is degrees above
the normal
- far this month TIE rainfall has bs.-
IL inches, shlea is . iruh issa thaH ~
normal FRED = J1uEEJ&
Wsfhiugfv1. Cff Z-f'orecHat fsg
Ta.fs1ay and FTfdsvs
Kaasss- Pair g1grwriuy sHz FrifaYs
north o. east winds
OxIzhona ard Tadiau Terri ory--gaiT
ThgrsEa~. f5ti5wsd bV clearing c11eF.
with f.osf1 a. -igHt. probably asrr a
western and central portions FRIDAY.
fair: usrther.y Hfrfs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-26

Lincoln J. Carriers pretty and romantic
play. Chattanooga" which will lbe pre-
scented for the first time in this cav at
the Crawford. Friday night. The story
of Chattanooga is one of villiany and
war, and Is full of interest from start %
finish. The action of the piece is spirited
and the plot IS interseersed WITH comedy
situations which happily commentaries
incidents of a more tragic and son:b,e
nature. The realism is strong. te;ng
aided by special scenery carried by the
company. The approach to the clIp7ax
OF the last act is one of the most novel
ever witnessed in this city. The hero and
william fight on the tender of a fuIl-sized
locomotive which is speeding towards
General Hookers camp. The biogrlDh IS
utilized to give the appearance o. rapid
motion and the Illusion. with fvi1g :ele-
graph poles. rolling smoke and other in
dications Of a mile-a-minute speed IS we'll
night perfect. The final scene shows the
safe arrival Of the big flyer" az Fight
ing Joe's" headquarters. The company
is one of refinement and more than q o.
nary talent and each member exhibits
commendable earnestness
Richards & Pringle's Famous &c, g.a
Minstrels a mammoth minstrel aggreSa-
ton. will appear at the Crawford theatre
Tuesday next october 81. This famous
firm Is to the minstrel field. what Barru-n
& Bailey and the Ringiings are o the
circus; everything they attempt is do1e
with wonderful prodigaiiry. Their show
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-26
THE BANNER PHECURE

Is Banner Salve. 1t gives immediate re-
lief and will soon effect a cure. 25c.
Hooking Drug Co., G. Gehring and Wells
Miller druggists.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

game in West Virginia the night be-
fore and woke up in California Didn't
know how the dickens he got there
The place interested me, and ] could
hardly tear myself away. My friend
assured me that it was run strictly ac~
cording to State traditions. HIS was
in Maine at first, but they refused to
send any beer to his room on account
of the prohibition law, so he had them
change him across the hall to ken-
lucky, and now he likes It so well 40
has concluded to stay indefinitely.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16
VII.-EXTRAVAGANCE AND
CONTEMPORARIES.

Extrayagance is one of the most
prevalent sins of the day. Very dan
gerous, people say. l quite agree with
them, but, upon my honor, l do not
see how extravaganza is to be avoided.
Education land have the greatest re-
spect for it in the WORLD has taught
people to have ideas far above their
station, because the adage seems to be
that you are to be not what you are,
but as you seem. There is small won
der that this vice is growing day by
day. But / must stop moralzing on
this theme, lest should not do justice
to the sister vice conventionality; for
conventionality and extravaganza are
so closely allied that / think they must
be twin sisters or brothers, do not
know which, but anyhow twins. New
er, / think, has there been such ex-
travagance in dress as there is now.
Look over any dress paper, or a ladies'
weekly, and you will be positively as
tonished at the costliness of clothes
and underwear. Blouses at and 10
guineas each are as common as green
peas in summer. Chemises and night
dresses at and guineas-articles as
essential as strawberries in June.
Costumes at IA and 16 guineas are sim
ply nothing. 1t may be asked, in these
days of strikes, of poverty, and of
appeals to the benevolent. who has the
money to buy these things? Somebody
must, or else why do the big firms ad-
vertise them? You may be quite sure
that people do not advertise unlesss
1t pays them to, and what they adver-
tise are the things that pay them best.
/ candidly acknowledge myself that 1
never take up newspaper but what
! am honestly astonished at the prices
given. Mark you, do not say but that
every article is well worth every TWEEN
ty shillings to the e, but what I mar
vel at is the number of people who
have the shillings to the pound-suffi-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16
SOCIAL Sins AND SLAMS.
BY LILLE HARRIS.

cient to pay not only for the goods,
but for the advertisements. This is an
epoch of wholesale extravaganza, we
cannot blink our eyes to it. We live
too well, we drink too well, we clothe
too we'll, and we are none the happier
for it; and / do not believe that We
do it for ourselves.
WE LIVE FOR STRANGERS.
We don't study our own convenience,
but only our friends. Society Of to-
day is skeleton. Strip it of its con-
ventionalities, it's pretences, its extra
yagance, it's absolute unworthiness, and
what do you find? Simply mass Of
corroding bones-a framework on
which is hung hospitality that we can
not afford, courtesy that we do not
mean 1t makes me sick. To start
with, extravaganza in dress is positive
ly appalling. 1t permeates all classes,
violence, we all dress in a style far
more expensive than we can really at
ford. I do not wonder that diapers
and modistes make fortunes or go
smash. Time was when a woman
thought herself fortunate in getting a
new serge dress which cost Cos. or 92.
Now, if she wants one, and goes to a
ladies' tailor, she has to pay sixteen
guineas. l have no objection to her
paying if she can afford it, but what
say is that where her husband has a
very limited income, and she still in
dulges in such extravaganza, she is do
ing quite wrong. 1t is this love of dress
that has ruined SO many homes. l am
not going to write morally, and show
how many girls it has caused to take a
downward path-that is for other pens
than mine. am not moralist.' l am,
if there is such word, a seeist. I see,
and / write what I see. I do not ad-
wise. am not such fool. OF all peo-
pie some of the most detestable are
those that will give you advice. No,
that will not do. l will write of what
I see, but to attempt to better it-no:
| will leave that for other pens than
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16
that you are right. From your friend
and well-wisher.
@l@,yt24Nex
THE UNITED STATES" HOTEL.
Rooms Bear State Names Instead OF
Numbers in Southern Hostelry.

Morgantown New Dominion.
II ran across one of the queerest
hotels in the world not long ago." said
a drummer at the Wallace House to-
day. 81 don't care to advertise the es-
adjustment gratuitously, so suffice 1t
to say it's situated in city made by
nearly all travelling men out of New
Orleans, and is run by an eccentric old
chap who has named his house the
United States" hotel, and his rooms
after States instead of giving them
numbers. The effect is somewhat
startling l went there first to in
quire for a friend. Yes, he's in
Maine, replied the clerk, when / men
toned his name. But he isn't in
Maine / protested, for / happen to
know he's right here in this hotel
Then he explained. While l was
standing there waiting, the side talk
at the desk was enough to make man
crazy. Gent in Massachusetts is kick
ing, sir said bell boy; claims dat
Teller in Utah is all de time playin'
the cordian at night. Put him in
Montana said the clerk. NO towels
in North Dakota, said chambermaid,
and that fat man in Florida wants to
be changed to Vermont Ny friend
came down looking very rocky. He
said he'd been sitting in little poker
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16
THE GOLFER,

See the golfer on the links.
Muddy links.
See him raise his driver high
For a careful, mighty Try,
That will split the azure SKY
So he thinks.
See the club piow up the ground
Frozen grounds:
Hear the profane golfer roar,
For he knows his bioomin score
Is Increased by Just one more
In that round.
See him make another stronA
Careful stroke.
See the slender driver fan,
But-he's missed it that's all;
Holy smoke.
Did you hear the golfers speech,
Hasty speechg
See him hit IL this time-woughl
He's advanced 1t ten yards now,
But ten beats nothing, anyhow,
(More rash speecn-)
Now he takes another stick, :.
Pretty stick.
Strikes a vicious, heavy blow.
Club stops short~-more earths you kuQXf
See him take MS nag ana sos
See the atmosphere turn blue.
Very blue.
Hear him rend the ambient air:
Smash his clubs and rant and swear
That he'll quit the game for Ger;
Wouldn't you?
See his caddie leer and grin.
Cursed grim
See the smrk upon his face
When they start TO leave the place;
To murder him in such case
Is no sin.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

kind of plants are set out in another
month. You would call him most
unwise florist who would still persist
in setting out this kind of plant at a
time when nature is against him.
FLYING IN THE FACE f FACTS.
Now what is the fact with regard to
the offspring of people who marry too
young? Nature is against these people.
Their future happiness is already mort
gagged. The chance for their children to
grow up in good health, or, indeed,
to grow up at all, are against them.
This being true. should any person en-
ter into a condition of life in which I'm
happiness is likely to follow?
During many years a German physi-
clan made a threefold inquiry at tae
death of every child OF whom he heard
until he had gathered facts from no
less than thirty thousand mothers. He
inquired the age Of the parents at the
time of the chiid's birth; il death was
the result of disease contracted after
birth.
AS the result OF an inquiry covering
so many thousand cases he found thai
children born of mothers under twenty
years of age are more subject to dis
ease than ether children; that they die
in twice the number from consumption
and in three times the number from
wasting away from lack of nonrish-
meN than do the children born OF
mothers over twenty years Of age.
Is there net food for thought here?
Take into consideration the immature
Judgment of girl OF seventeen. realize
what changes in taste occur in the few
years which follow, consider the vast
changes between a fckle sentiment aud
a grand passion OF love, and think into
the meaning OF this extended research
~ the physician. and then do not snlse
he step upon which depends 50 much|
of your faDgfn'sn untA ron f@sl sure
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

THE FEATURE OF THIS PARAso is THAT
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

TITLED AMERICAN
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-07
POsToFFICE BROKEN OPEN.
Thieves We're Amnteurs-Interestin
Legal Case Closed.

Abbeville, Ga. July 6.-The postofhce and
the store Of \. Il. Carithers were burglar
lied last night. but emily a small amount
OF booty was secured From The postonce
only a trning sum in nickels and pennies
was carried off. the postage stamps and
bulk of the money having been locked up
IN the safe before the office was closed
for the night \ few dry goods, amounting
in value to less than $40 were taken from
Carthers' store.
That the thieves were not professional
burglars but probably home talent" is
shown by the facts that no attempt was
made TO open the safe at either place, and
thar they tried without success to enter
the dry goods store Of T. GottiJib and gen
eral store of W. II. Wilkinson. There is
no clue TO the cuprits
\ complicated legal contest involving
$4,000 or more. which had been n progress
for over two years, and i'm which great in
terest was fet in this community, was de-
cldcd 10y Judge Smith i'm chambers al Haw-
knsvine a few days ago II was the case
OF the Mohr-Weyl Lumber Company of
Montgomery, Ala VS.. A. h. & NJ. b. Rus
sell of this place, for an accounting and
the Possession of the large shinCe min of
the Russcl's, located here. A final decree
was rendered in favor of the Russells on
all the ISSUES involved. also allowing
Messrs. cut s & Lawson, attorneys for the
Russeils, fee of $3.50 for services in the
case.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-07
CONVENTION OF PoPuLIsrs.
The Party Badly Split on the Cues
ton of the Philippines.

Terre Haute, Ind, July 6.-Mortimer G.
Rankin, chairman of the Populist national
committee, stated to-day that the Popu-
lists would not form fusion with the
Democrats for the coming campaign.
Mr.. Rankin said that the Popuists will
hold their national convention one month
prior to that either of the Democrats or
the Republican convention. On this ac
count the Populists will prepare their own
Platform and nominate their own candi-
date.
Mr.. Rankin stated that he was not wi
lins to say much concerning the party
views for the approaching campaign, as
II had been the desire of the central COM
mittee TO leave the other Two political par
ties in the dark as regards its movements
and plans
He stated, however, that the party was
split up on The matter of holding the PhE-
ippne Islands. Some of the members of
the party counselled having nothing more
TO do with them, while others are in favor
of keeping them, fighting the war with the
Iilipinos until they are brought 10 terms
and then making a republic there. The last
idea is the one which Mr.. Rankin favors
He said If the Democrats fight the policy
of the administrator in holding the Phi:-
ippines until a suitable form Of government
has been formed, they viii find themselves
showed under far worse than they were
in 1886.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-07
SENATE FAILED TO CONFIRM.
Therefore SIMPSONS Pay as Rear
Admiral Is Held Up.

W Washington, July 6.-n4t. Mitchell. act
ing controller of the treasury. has re-
piled to an inquiry from Pay Inspector
Burtis on the United States flagship New
York at Port of Spain, Trinidad as to the
rate of pay to which Rear Admiral w. t.
Sampson is entitled from Aug. 10, 1895
when he was commissioned a rear admi-
raj to March 4, 1899, the date when Con-
gress adjourned The essential facts in
connection with Admiral SIMPSONS ad-
Vancement are given by the bureau OF nav
gation as follows:
Rear Admiral William T. Sampson was
advanced eight numbers and appointed a
rear admiral in the navy for eminent and
conspicuous conduct in battle under the
provisions of Section 1906 of the Revised
statutes, from the tenth day of August.
1898, and an ad interium commission was
issued him from that date. This advance
menl the Senate failed TO confirm prior to
Adjournment
Acting Controller Mitchell in The course
of his decision, says:
Inc advancement in numbers, author
lzed by section 1906, does not create va
cancy within the meaning of the consti-
luton from the time when the President
decided 70 recommend such an advance
WSht, nor is any vacancy created prior to
the date when the Senate concurs in the
Presidents recommendation Il is not sim
ply the filing of an Office; il is an adiudi-
cation not by the President alone, but by
the President and Senate, upon the ques-
ton OF whether the acts of herOism con-
stitute sufficient ground for advancement,
and until such combined action is had, no
advancement takes place, and no vacancy
exists to be filled. The President
and Senate together constitute forum to
pass upon questions of advancement in
numbers under this section of the Re
vised Statutes.
Il am of opinion, therefore, and so
decide, that as the Senate did not consent
to the advancement of Rear Admiral
Sampson, no authority exists for paying
him as rear admiral from the date when
he was commissioned as such for eminent
and conspicuous conduct in battle, TO the
adjournment of the session of the Sena te
a which such advancement was pro-
posed"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-07

Manila Correspondence Harper's Weekly.
It was during the campaign along the
railway that the duty Of charging the en-
envy fell on Nebraska. They occupied the
extreme right of the line, and as the enc
my invariably moved off, before our ad-
vance, from our front to our right, Ne
braska had hard fighting every day, even
when the rest of Gen. MacArthur's dvis-
ion found little resistance il came 70
such pass that the mere appearance of
Col. Stotsenburg was the signal for a
charge.
When Col Stotsenburg crossed the field
towards his men they rose from that ditch
with shout. For hours they had lain UNI
der the scorching sun, exposed more or
less 10 the enemy's fire. without answer
ing. Many wounded had already been
taken back. There came their colonel. He
would lead them to victory, as he had al
ways done Nebraska with a wild cheer
started forward. They had gone some dis
tance before Gen. Hale realized what they
we're doing.
why" he exclaimed, "they are not
coming back; they are going forward
Stop them!"
"i'n try said Maj milford; but when
they once get started they are hard to
stop"
When the major reached the Nebraska
line, however, II was so near the insurgent
trenches that he realized the folly of
| bringing it back over that open field. and
instead OF delivering Gen. Hae's order he
joined in the charge.
Col. Stotsenburg had to run to get up
with his regiment. When he reached them
the first enthusiasm Of the charge had
worn off. He shook them into form and
the little companies now went ahead by
rushes-alternate companies kneeling to
fire while the others ran forward The in
surgents made an effort 20 stop them.
Every Mauser from the trenches emptied
its contents across the open field AS the
American lines advanced the Utah guns
had TO stop firing. With good marksmen
In those trenches the position could not
have been taken by infantry on the direct
charge. Gradually the firing from the
trenches grew Jess and less showing that
the insurgents were retreating and at
last the first American crossed the
trenches. It was another victory for Ne
braska, but dearly paid for When the
losses for the day were counted, it was
found that seven were killed ana forty
four wounded. Nearly all Of the loss was
from the troop of the Fourth Cavalry and
the Nebraska regiment. Greatest loss of
all, Col. Stotsenburg was shot through
the heart two hundred yards from the In
surgent earthWorks
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-07
WRECK ON THE BURLINGTON.
Fireman WeIty Killed and Several
Passengers Injured.

Kansas City, July IA passenger train
on the Burlington road went through a
culvert and was wrecked shortly before
midnight near Waldron, Mo.
Fireman Charles Welty, of ST Joseph,
Mo, was killed, and several passengers
are reported to have been seriously In
jured. The names of the injured cannot
be obtained at this hour
A heavy rain tonight washed 200 feet
of roadbed near the point where the wreck
occurred and the water there is reported
to be two feet over the track. The foun-
dations of the culvert are supposed to
have washed away.
Shortly after midnight wrecking trains
carrying surgeons were dispatched from
Kansas Clay Leavenworth and St. Jo-
seph. Railroad officials state only five or
six passengers are hurt and that the only
person killed is Fireman Wety. The train
is number 3, running from Kansas City
to Omaha.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-07
PRESIDENT HAS NOT HEARD.
Hut There Is No Reason Why Schur-
man Should Not Return.


Washington, July 6.-Secretary Hay said
to-day that he had received no notice from
President Schurman of the Philippine com
mission of his intention to Sail immedi-
ately from Manila for home, nor any word
from him since his return from his trip
to the principal islands of the Philippines
south of Luzou.
1t was fully expected by the department
that Mr. Sehurman would return to the
United States in season to take up his
work as president of Cornell University
al the beginning of the fall term and it
is believed that he undertook this vista
ton in order to be able to report per
sOnally to the President the exact condi-
tons prevailing among these unknown
groups of islands up to the latest mo-
ment
There is believed to he no reason why
Mr.. Schurman should delay his departure
from Manila unit. later in the summer, for
the indications are that there will be no
political change of moment in the Philip
pine situation before the next dry season
at least. and moreover, other members
of the commission will remain in the Phil
ippines.