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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19

| professors platform. Many also had to
be hauled away. Some remarkable cures
! have been made, and more are promised
just as soon as the patients accumulate a
little more faith
The method of Professor Blanford
seems to the average mind to be very
simple, indeed. He walks bareheaded
from his hotel to the platform, looking
neither to the right or to, the left. He
greets his patients with a smile just be-
fore he mounts his platform. A paralytic
or man with stomach trouble ap-
proaches him after he has said his pre-
iminary speech. Then he lays his soft,
thin hands on the patients head and
gazes into the heavens, assuming pre-
cisely the pose Of a lovesick tenor singer
in a church choir. While in this pose he
utters a short inaudabIe prayer. Then
he bends over the patient and presses his
hand on his head tightly and tells him
to "have faith"
AT Sunday nights meeting Mrs. Ber-
thina Sutton, who came here from
Kelley Butler county, to get healed, was
wheeled up to the platform TO be treated
She is staying with her sons who have
rooms on the third floor over 223 South
Main street. After the treatment she got
out of her chair and walked part of the
way back TO the rooms and uo the two
flights of stairs, with only the help OF her
son. She had not even attempted to walk
before for five years and is a very bad
cripple with infiamatory rheumatism. Her
hands are drawn out Of shape and she
IS a great sufferer. Yesterday she told
a reporter for the Eagle that she had
been greatly benefited by the first treat
ment and believed that Professor Blan-
ford would cure her. She has faith.
Mr.. George Miller, the well known
North Main street confectioner, wabbled
down Saturday night with leg that was
giving him great pain on account of rheu-
matism. He didn't have sufficient faith
to get healed that night. He went back
the next day and was blessed again, but
the leg IS still paining him.
Mr.. Rather, whom everybody knows to
be severely afflicted with paralysis, was
taken to the healer yesterday in a buggy.
The method was applied, and Mr.. Rat
ner walked off as brisk asa young man,
and the colored boy who has always
assisted him about town took the old
gentleman's cane and he walked alone.
The people saw that with wonder.
a cross-eyed man who seemed to have
faith enough to move a Wichita street
car, went up to get his eyes Strengthened
but somehow his faith failed him and he
is still looking the same old way.
Mr.. Bryan Dawson, troubled with
paralysis, and Charlie Wilkins, whom
everyone would like to see restored to
health, are among those who took treat
ment yesterday.
One old man was cured Of deafness
Saturday night, and he was so glad that
he opened his heart and dropped half
dollar into the basket. He is said to
have been deaf ten years.
The healers will remain in Wichita in
definitely and some of the people who
visit them are expecting to get new
hold on life and may get a little sweet
ness of it yet
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
OFFER OF THREE PRIZES
Mrs. Hays Generosity Increases Her
Offer for Decorated Cycles.

Mrs Hays of the Kelso School Of Music,
has decided to make even a more liberal
offer of prizes for the best decorated bi-
cycles ridden in the street fair parade.
She has cancelled the original offer and
now makes these offers, which will stand,
not subject to further change:
For the best decorated weel, a $25 schol-
arship in the Kelso School of Music
For the second best decorated wheel a
So scholarship in the Kelso School of
Music.
For the third best decorated wheel a SO
scholarship in the Kelso School of Music.
The offers are very generous end show
how public-spirited Mrs. Hays is. The
young people of the city, by the exercise
of their ingenuity and artistic tastes,
will be enabled to secure prizes which
will improve and accomplish them with
out cost to themselves.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
BURDETIE,S BIG FIGURES
Wants SEQ 900 for ssis Interest in
street Railway

1t Is stated that J. o. Burdete Of Bos-
ton. who is now blocking the street rail-
way deal. had to make good TO mr..
Brooks the $4,000 forfeit which ne put up
here more than a year ago on the iran
and lost and that he wants the city to
refund that money and Ny. Davidson to
put up $1,000 more for the option which
he secured by the payment Of the $500.
Bur3ette is to pay BatcheIder $33-ool for
the old lines. He paid $500 down and
holds an option. He wants $1,000 for his
interest and the Sl0o09 forfeit which
would make the old lines cost Mr.. David
son. were he TO take it on this figuring.
S3S.co0 besides the Sloooo forfeit BurdetJe
wants the city 10 give back.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
FAITH HEALERS ARE HERE
Prof. Blanford Is Attracting Great
Crowds at Main and Douglas.

A new set Of healers have struck
Wichita They wear long, golden, curly
hair and go through the world bare
headed. They attract great crowds at the
corner Of Main and Douglas every after
noon and night Professor BIanford is
the young man who pretends 10 heal
through faith in God. Professor Blanford
and his partner arrived Saturday and
have since given daily exhibitions on the
streets. They are remarkable young men
in many ways. The healer. Professor
Blanford, IS fairly good speaker. The
crowds at his meetings increase at each
service and those who are afflicted little
or much, wend their way 10 him and get
in line for his blessing. Probably thirty
were in line az his stand yesterday after
noon and more than fifty last night Some
were so old and feeble and diseased that
they had 10 be taken in carriages to the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
FRISCO HELPS The FAIR
Donates Seventy Five Dollars and VIII
Build Booth

The Frisco railroad people did a hand
some thing by the street fair and by
Wichita yesterday. General Agent T. ].
Franks announced that the road would
give SO to the street fair and would erect
a booth and fill 1t with representative
and extraordinary Kansas agricultural
attractions.
So. far no other road has contributed to
the fair and this friendly interest of the
Frisco people will be appreciated and re-
membered by the merchants of the city
in general and the street fair manage
ment in particular. 1t is rare that a rail-
road manifests interest enough in a mat
ter of local concern such as the street
fair, to contribute financially to its sup
port, as the Frisco has done to the fair
in any town in Kansas or any other state.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
FINE BAND IN TOWN
NarysviIIe Uniformed Band May
COME 10 the street Fair

The Maryville Military band stopped
over in the city yesterday on their way
from Enid. Q. T, where II PLAYED an en-
gagement. The hand is composed OF q
men who are elegantly uniformed. and
present a fine appearance Wich.ta wants
the band to come down and compete for
first prize in the big band contest N be
held here during the time Of The s-ree-
fair. and the leader Of the band expressed
himself very favorably about IL yes,cr-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19

one Of his own kind. and they charge, it
is said, that the county attorney has
turned tail and gone back into the camp
Of the plutocrats. and has engaged a front
seat in the band wagon Of the Imperial
lists.
Il is said that the feeling IS getting so
bitter that for the time being Parsons has
lost sight OF the insane asylum fight The
fan campaign will likely &c fought or the
Hazard sensation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
LkBORERS ARE SCARCE
Contractor wanted 300 Wen, but Was
Dfs4auoluIcd Here

There wasn't a loarer in town ysste0-
day. Even the third degree tramp. Hh9
would laugh man OK % counteuance
that would offer hin jon, hid himself
ia the railroad yards. There was c7n-
tractor here securing the town for lah1--
ers. lie Represented Mr.. Moore. Of New
ton. wh7 has the e7ntra-s for the con-
Struc..en o. part - the Santa re extern
sion from Guthrie. 10 CaneT, Kan Tae
contractor wants So mea. ana wants
then right away. he struck a poor place
when ne came % wicEira. .o- there are
no oilers here
Mr Moore viH aesia wrk on the OK
tension right away and w.n r1sh e rag
i5ly- He expects - have bis part @. ,Ae
rad graded by January :
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
GENTRY AND PATCHEN
Passed Through Wichita Sunday
Efwht

The famous PAGERS. John r Gentry and
Joe Patchen. were taken through here
Sunday night for Oklahoma City, where
they viii race during the fair Billy An
drews. driver OF John r. Gentry, and
Jno. Dickinson. driver Of joe Patchea.
were in the coach back OF the express car
containing their famous charges.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
CORN STALK F0R PARIS
Ross Seed Hou-e -a.ps oac Eighties
FseE gns~

TIE Ross sead house sai7Fef d staIk =
corn Is feet Ieng AID RTap2es u me
American coIo7s 70 Caas Rchz-ss
Do6gs. Washington CRY. TIE sazfk VII
20 70 TIE PARIS exposition as . composition
for the corn prize L vas raised D :.
Z. H2zsa. Salem township
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
RaIston's Pancake Flour,
Simon Pure riapie Syrup,
New England Mince fleat.

Just a word about our special blend Of
Peaberry Coffee. More than one hundred
customers have said to US, ut is the best
coffee we have ever used" We believe
it is worthy of a name and hereafter it
will be known as the "Astor House"
brand. Notice our guarantee, as follows,
viz: The best coffee produced, no matter
the price.
You can get some things here that no
other store has, and we believe every
thing you need in Staple and Fancy
Groceries. Trade at this good store and
you will make no mistake.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
Ho0a,S REEEs

Are prepared from Ma
lures mild laxatives, and
while gentle are reliable
and efficient. They
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
Rouse the Liver

Cure Sick Headache, Bill
iousness, Sour Stomach,
and Constipation. Sold
everywhere, 25c. per box.
PREPARED bTC.L Hood & Co. Lowell. MAss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
EAMES GROCER co.

We are headquarters for choice table
fruits. ripe Bartlett Pears and fancy
Plums. They are the finest shown in this
city.
These cool mornings you'll want Pan
cakes. We have new
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
Big
Closing Out
Sale

CASH BUYERS. row is your chance 7
have orders in Tor a Big stock 81 Pianos
aza organs also have 6-g sock on
hand and win begin Monday morning 20
close out q lot st factory c1st. 70 gel ths
cash This IS one chance n years TIE
goods VIII g. so 15nt think taere IS
some m.zzepres aaiatior- Come prepared
20 buy. o- you sill be sorry rhers 8 az
ways I1t ~ people wish cash looking
for sas-s ase them and want ysur
money. THIS a.H easy last q fs~ Gags.
es don't gzzls
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
"a TRAINING IN CLEANLINESS s
EORTUNE." COMPLETE YOUR EDUCATION WITH
SAPOLIO
FLORIDA.
A Superior Through SieepIlg Gar
Line Between st. Louis
and Jacksonville.

Commencing December 25ih. che Louis-
Vile Air Line has established the great
Through Sleeping Car Route % Florica-
Through sleeping cars arranged 20 3eaTs
s.. Louis s.l5 ?. n daily. passing Louis
vile 30 a. IA. Lexington la.Ss a m.
reaching Chattanooga 80 ?. ~. Atlanta
1910 o. N and Jacksonville goa a. rec
ond morning.. stop-oFefs allowed. ms
route Is through large cities and interest
ing country. ard. vale rev through
Sleeping car route. = over m7a1 sa2erl0r
and weI!-estasllsaed lines u railway. Tas
schedules are last and most convenient
THIS Lire siAo affords passages Tor
Florida trip VIA AEhsvk . X. g.. -
greatlat American all-year-aroaad res5Ft
CoTrespo n5encs solicited and !aIorEn4-
t.oa promptly fuTn,sne1 T. 4 CA4sP-
BELL General PasEe1gsr Agea- -
Louis. 40.
Tals . also TIE beE; uza 20 roi-ts n
Kentucky. TennesEss. GsogE.4 sn4 asfts
as South Caronaa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-19
InderSig ned:
". II. Berry.
Davidson & Case.

II. R. Butler. ". II. Berry.
Geo. W. Willett Davidson &, Case
J. F. Kfnsey. w. II. Berry.
Wallenstein & Cohn. S. II. Stonebraker.
c. z. Potts Drug Co Mary Henry.
r. W. Whitlock. Geo. HYDE.
c. A. Latham. F. Balzger.
Mary Beck. /. Garnet.
J. NJ. Hantnett- r. r. HASTE.
r. z. Wood. J. B. Thompson
Mrs. B. T. Courtner T. Menu Fnr. Co
w. A. Francis J. A. Richards
Mary Francis. Henry Schultz.
J. w. Snyder. A Hoss.
Mrs. L. c. Baker. A. II. Black.
Anna Streeter. NJ. L. Stanley.
Warren Chemical Co A. W. Sinclair.
Mrs. A. B. Warren. J. D. Caldwell.
Mrs. L. A Hart.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-28

permission to the Native Sons to use the
great seal of the State in striking OIL
medals for the boys of the First CallIor-
mia, was also passed with uneniinouS
vote.
Knowland's Assembly bill 2s2, relatlng
to erroneous tax assessments ana SAFES
was passed without debate.
Assembly bill 81, by Wade, relatlng 70
the recording of leases. sales or hlre OF
street railroads and equipment, was
passed.
Belshaws Assembly bill 500, which pre-
vents the Attorney General granting per-
mission to State commissions to hire out
side legal advice and compelling him 70
render such service himself, was passed
after an explanation by the author; ,.,,
The Governors veto of Assembly blli
229, which made the golden poppy the
State flower, was made the special order
for Thursday.
Belshaw's Assembly bill 4S0 making 1t
a misdemeanor to. sell liquor to hapltuaI
drunkardS or to minors, was passed, as
was Mack's Assembly bill l50, amending
the laws relating to estrays.
Assembly bill 576, substitute, for AS
ing for the creation OF sewer districts,
was also passed.
An important bill by Dibble,. 552, which
provides that all certificate and debenture
companies shall be under control OF the
State Bank Commissioners, was passed,
and so also was Dibble'S Assembly Dill
260, which provides that !gravestones
vided for all Union soldiers who shall die
without sufficient funds for burial ex-
penses,
The third reading file consumed the
evening session, and adjournment was
taken to tomorrow morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-28
| EGISLATORS WANT TO
KNOW WHOM TO KILL

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO. Feb 27.-Another newspaper
hill is coming to the surface in the Sen
ate-this time a restriction upon the col
umns. not the pictures. Senator More
houses measure to compel the signing
of certain articles published was. read the
second time and an amendment making
certain exceptions was adopted.
The bill requires that every article,
statement or editorial contained in any
newspaper or other printed publication
printed in this State which by writing or
printing tends to blacken the memory OF
one who is dead or to impeach the hon
esty. integrity, virtue or reputation or
publish the natural or alleged defects of
one who is alive, and thereby expose him
or her to public hatred, contempt or rid
icule must be supplemented by the true
name of the writer of such article state
ment or editorial, signed or printed at
the end thereof
Continuing, the bill provides that the
printer or publisher who publishes such
an article without the required sigma
ture shall forfeit $1,000, one-half of which
shall be turned over to the plaintiff in a
suit for such publication and the other
half of the State treasury.
The amendment submitted this evening
provides that in books the name on the
grams emanating from the same source
but one signature will be required.
There was no discussion on the meas
ure this evening, but there will probably
be a good deal when the bill comes up for
final passage.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-28
DIBBLE'S CONTROL
OF LEGISLATION
IS NOW BROKEN

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Feb. 1.-THE control which AS
semblyman Dibble has exercised over all
legislation and which since the session
of 1889 he has held by the virtue of no
more stable power than that of pure ar
rogance, is finally and completely broken.
AS an emulator of Car Reed Dibble has
been a proportionate success. His chair
nanship Of the Committee on Rules and
the almost infallible knowledge of par
liamentary law and usage which he has
held over his fellow-rnembers of that
more nor less than a steering committee
for the suppression of the measures of the
unfavored and for the furtherance of the
bills Of the wise ones who were of suffi-
cient strength and standing to be able to
offer reciprocal favors.
The files have been almost altogether at
his disposal, and so cleverly has he ex-
ercised his arrogated prerogativeS that
not until the beginning of this last fort
night did the green ones of this session
come TO an understanding of his system.
Then it was his own delegation, the
San Franciscans, who took the first step
toward breaking him. They got their
knowledge of Dibble's file manipulation
from Caminettti of Amador. who one day
arose to ask Dibble for an exposition of
the Especial urgency file' and its relation
to the second and third reading files.
Mr.. Dibble did not explain, but Caminetu
did, ingeniously and politely. In fact he
threw down the whole scheme.
Next day a type;written agreement en-
ton binding every one who signed it to
prevent Dibble, in so far as. should be
possible from playing engineer to the
whole legislative machine. and to kill on
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-28
SEAWALL BILL
PASSES The SENATE

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Feb. Ex-senator Sammy Braun
hart's seawaIl bill came up in the As
sembly this afternoon on It's final pass
age and was carried with only a few
scattering votes against it. The result
of the vote was a surprise to those on
the floor, for there was a hard fight made
against it, but for once all three of the
leaders stood in and the opposition did
not count.
Melick of Los Angeles bitterly scored
the San Francisco Harbor Commissioners,
He said that they had prosututed their
Office and spent its funds in cheap politics.
The commission, he said, had become
nothing more than q gigantic political
machine, and that every dollar spent by it
was calculated for political effect rather
than the improvement 1t would pay for IN
the States property. He said that the
proposition embodied in the bill to raise
by a bond issue the sum of S1000,O00 was
a scheme to throw to them more money
to go the way that the tolls and tariffs
they collect go.
Dibble of San Francisco, who has had
charge of the bill in its course through
the Assembly, denied that this was SO,
and said that not one cent of the mill
ion could be spent in any but the way
laid down in the bill for the completion
of the seaWall. He was backed by VAL
entfne, and the question prevailed. 1t had
few other than Melick's vote against it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-28
"JoKER" DoEsN'1 GO IN
COUNTY GOVERNMENT BILL

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Feb. 27.-Considerable excite
ment has been aroused by the expose
made in The Call in regard to the slip
ping in of 'joker" in the county gov
eminent bill, which permitted the San
Francisco county officials to hold office,
regardless of the law laid down by the
acts of the recent charter election, and
this evening at a joint meeting of the
committees on County and Township
Government of both the Senate and AS
sembly the obnoxious amendment was
stricken out and new bill substituted
which will not interfere with the San
Francisco law.
When the Senate convenes tomorrow
the bill. which was rushed through the
Joint committee last evening, will be re-
called and the substitute introduced.
much to the satisfaction of a number OF
legislators who nave San franclSco III
There was talk of money used to have
the hill with the Joker amendment rail-
roaded through; but whether 1T was the
case or not, it was tound that at the
Joint meeting of Saturday evening the
amendment which was passed upon with
q favora BILE recommendation previously
nv the Assembly committee and not by
the Senate committee in some way passed
into the hands of the clerks, who, think
ing that 1t had been properly passed upon,
sent it to the printer
The section is No. 5S1k, which provldes
that all county officers elected IN San
Erancisco in 1898 and whose terms COM
nenced January 1, 1899, should hold ONCE
until January 1, 1903 rms WouIu De LIN Soli-
ter, which expressly opposes such pro-
oaadfnp
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-28
A Crisis in the Situation Now Attracts the
Dark Horses.
DAN BURNS HAS REACHED HIS END
The Campaign Of Bluff BluSter Booze and Doodle Has
Failed to Draw Voters and His Associates and
BaCkerS Are Ready to Leave Him.

ing to oher except my record as Repub-
lican. If that is merit enough | will win.
If 1t Is not, no harm will have been done.
But win or lose, l am convinced that
the time is now critical in the Senatorial
contest, and none of the men now striving
for the honor can win under any circum-
stances that can be conceived
81 have not yet determined whether
to present my name tomorrow morning
or not. The conference that will be held
tomorrow afternoon is rather OF grave
Importance, and may wait until its ses-
sion is. oyer; I feel convinced that | can
command at least seven I votes, to begin
knights return to the Senatorial con-
test is topic tonight of general discus
sion There has been feeling that the
interjection of a new man into the field
is now an absolute necessity. The leading
candidates haze ceased to make material
gains. and in falling. to advance nave prac-
dragged its Shiny way of scandal and cor
ruption through the Legislature week
after week. The. Mexican has failed to
prove his boosted strength and the cor
rupt influences he assumes to control can
not help him.
There is little more to hope from the
other candidates. and the political horizon
has been eagerly scanned for new as
pirant Whether or not George A Knight
is the man is necessarily question or
speculation. He is the first to enter ana
to give expression to the sentiment lhat
is here.
Knights renewed candidacy has given
rise to some very free opinions on the
fight Burns has made and the condition
in which the Mexican now finds himself.
If Burns had anything more than blum
and buster to show, it Is said, ne would
have called on his reserve long ago. II
he had anything more than booze and
Doodle to offer he would have made the
offering long before he became a political
prophet whose only followers are the pa
riahs of politics, the outcaSts that men
shun except under the compulsion Of as
ISOLATION.