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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-06
Philippine Tariff Bill.

The conferees of the two houses of
Congress on the Philippine tariff bill
reached an agreement after one sitting,
the representatives of the House accept
ing all but one of the material amend
ments made by the Senate. The amend
ment which was not accepted is that
imposing the tonnage taxes of the United
States upon foreign vessels engaged in
inter-island traffic in the Philippines.
The House conferees also refused to
accept the proviso connected with the
Senate amendment limiting the operation
of the sedtion laws of the Philippines,
leaving that provision to declare simply
that mo person in the Philippine Islands
shall under the authority of the United
States be convicted of treason by any
tribunal, civil or military, unless on the
testimony of two witnesses to the same
overt act or on confessions in open
court. The part stricken out exempted
members of a family from punishment
Tor failing to give information concern
ing the reasonable acts of one another.
The Senate reduction of 25 per cent. on
the rate of duty is retained.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
Dean Gordon and the Carp.

The other DAY while party OF fisher-
men from Wichita were out on Waldock
lake Dean Gordon watched with intense
interest a performance on the part OF
Charley Ferguson. Charley vas armed
with a rife. and big buffalo which was
roofing along the bank attracting his
attention he biased away. but missed
A few seconds later a big catfish stuck
his head above the surface and Ferguson
got him with bullet through his head
This struck Dean Gordon as about the
best sport ever, and he went back to
the house, procured a rife and began a
long journey around the lake for a snot.
While he was gone a couple OF boys
who were SEEMING for ninnows took IL
a big carp. tied the carp 10 willow
and went on seining. Presently Dean
Gordon reached the spot. saw the flip
fop Of the carp. drew the rife 70 his
shoulder shut his eyes and fired IL
rather frightened the carp but didn't
touch him and then the boys came up
and told Gordon TO quit IT,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
How That Tbirty.Nine Came.

II is now known that the years school
at Lewis academy is only thirty-nine
weeks. but there are perhaps not very
many Of the present patrons Of that
great educational Institution VINO now re-
member. how, what IS generally called
ten months OF school happens to be
thirty-nine weeks instead OF forty.
A reporter for the Eagle met Professor
Naylor in one OF the National banks in
this city one day last week and he asked
him to explain how they came 10 drop
that week and make the school year
only thirty-nine weeks.
We'll" said the Professor. an expla-
nation Of that wiz form a chapter in the
history of Wichita When the boom came
70 Wichita, you will remember there
was good deal OF money made by many
Of the people OF Wichita. When people
have plenty OF money they have TO invent
ways TO spend It.
We'll. one OF the ways the Wichita
people found TO spend their money was
to spend the summer in the mountains
Of the west or on the eastern coast. The
school at that time ran well up into June
and the people who wanted to go away
TO spend the summer wanted to go before
school was cut and there was an agita-
ton started TO cut the term short two
weeks and it carried The school year
at Lewis academy was made thirty
eight weeks to suit these people who
wanted TO spend the hot months out OF
the city and there was good many of
them.
After a few years the number OF people
who wanted TO leave the city during
the warm months grew less. Wichita
finally became TO be considered a pretty
healthy summer resort itself, and then
there was a demand on the part of the
people who did not want 10 go away TO
have the forty weeks of the school
There were still some. influential people
who wanted TO spend the summer months
in some other latitude and a compro-
mise was affected by adding another
week and making it thirty-nine, and ii
has remained SO ever since
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
Heard Of Battle in Bed

Nr e J. Sullivan. manager - the
western Union Telegraph company n this
city tells = the first words Re received
q the battle a Manila and Il can p SAID
that there are very few on earth that
heard Il a. he did At TIE tire. ~ mad
TELEGRAPH instruments n RS home ais
vie ard he had gone n tsed. h1t were
az.kened ~ .hs click q tfss instrument
that ssut a ;hrill q exciterneHz ihfo1sS
the-u. Hr suIliTsa was out g bed y
u.iuuse su5 vas ~ RE irsTT1Trsnt Nalt-
ing untn s0n1ething would arrive he
saws his hair vas o. au en1 EhfE Ire
rrst news cane Re Tss soiaet - -
vie. who hy ne ciscki1E y tnstTlzasHt
has been aroHsea- Here thess t~o r.f--
ems stavsd and heard re first short
rerert-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25

Golf has proved a great thing for
the lads OF ST Andrews" said George
Turpie the professional Of the Wichita
Country Club the other day. You see.
golf had been a sport Of St. Andrews for
centuries you might say 1t was sport
peculiar to the old Scotch town. and no
place else in the world The babies had
golf-clubs IN their hands as soon as they
could toddle and the Old men OF the
place. bearded old gentlemen as regular
" went out IN the afternoons and had
their play as they went 10 church. for
in St Andrews nearly all are Presby-
terians and the observance Of Sunday
Is very strict. ST. Andrews went on
playing the game, and cared not whe-
Their the world joined in or not. About
ten years ago a slight golf fever broke
out in England about SIX years ago il
reached the United States St Andrew
felt the shock OF the fever IN a peculiar
way. The business OF making clubs
showed an unprecedented activity. One
day. we al our house. had a wonderful
surprise. Ny older brother. come home
70 dinner. announced - mother and all
OF Us that he was going 70 America
My mother laughed iacTe6ulousiy. But
brother insisted that he was going. Ee
explained that the game CT golf had
reached "a city named Chicago ard mat
q club had been organized there and that
IL wanted q professional Instructor and
he had been recommended We could
ha-lIy believe IT, His first letter was
a great topic among tie golfers He
wrote he had found a large city. srest
civilized country. that there were no
Indians CT dark ard forb.dding forests.
The fever &c Gene u America grew
apace in 81 Andrews And II was aot
sn unsatisae6 longing Tor requests for
professional instructors poured Fl FAST on
.ha town That was Only i've or six
years ago. snd yet. today s.. Andrew S
Young men are scattered al over this
country. Toa viii ind one 81 two az
every large golf course. and they ara
SIN coming over. 81. Andrews as a
consequence IS wei informed on America
and is much gratifeG that America has
adopted lis game
Mr.. Turpie SAYS that the Rig money
n Eolf Sc FAR hiss been ma6e ey the nan
ufacturers Of clubs. wko recognized early
the demand and were prepared 1nr H.
Speaking x the sreaS players. he sad,
IT IS not very eivereinE 70 see Nsr6ca
play although goa would think -. Eis
playing IS alrloes nonotonoss. helag 50
accurate. He drives straight ahead with
q regularity that is aachine-lge And
yet he viii Sometimes foozls. I saw
him fcozle once 81 place whsrs no novice
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
The Wlchita chaffeura-


The worst enthusiasts in Wichita at
the present moment are the owners of
automobiles. Singly and collectively the
chaffeurs OF the eighteen OF twenty au-
tomobiies in Wichita declare that it is
the most fascinating thing they ever
came across Sam Sergeant was asked
the other day TO explain what there is
fascinating about it. ITS exhilirating. -
he explained. I've been through some
OF the other enthusiasms Ike skating
on rollers and cycling but none OF them
can hold a candle 10 the automobile. II
just takes hold OF you and wins you.
The longer you run the automobile. the
more in love with the sport you become.
The popular idea that the machine gets
out OF order quickly IS an error The
machines are called .fooI-proof They
are easily started. They take you many
places quickly and comfortably. There
is no urging. no restricting. no slack
in the speed as long as the journey
lengthens. The idea that dust gathers
on the machinery is partly an error. The
whirl Of the machinery may fan It of
or something similar prevent it's accumu-
lstion. but very little dust gathers
Mr.. Sergeant has recently ordered a
new automobile from Philadelphia. which
when It arrives, viii be the heaviest au-
tomobile in town. 1t viii weigh close
on to 400 pounds and win be built on the
French lines which depart from the
horse vehicle idea.
George Spencer who is now running
an automobile and has from the earliest
youth been horse enthusiast acknowl-
equine. He says that an automobile
is simply irresistible, and he never fell
a victim to anything so easily in his
life. He dreams Of automobiles. The
bane of his life at present is friends who
insist that the automobile would be all
right If It didn't break down so easily.
This fills him with wrath. He says
that the automobile doesn't break down
easily and the assertion that 1t does is
unjust
The other day at noon George Spencer
was driving his machine down town when
he met a friend up on Thirteenth street
and invited him to ride.
7 don't know whether you can get
me there or not" said the friend.
III get you there asserted George.
As they whirled down town the friend
kept expressing his enjoyment Of the
outing. and regretting that machines
were so uncertain" It is too bad ne
declared, that autos break down so cas-
lily
BY this time they had reached Third
street AS he had gone by Central. Mr..
Spencer noticed an old farm wagon that
was loaded with corn in the middle of
the street A front wheel had gone to
pieces and made a sad wreck. At Third
street Spencer whirled his machine
around and went back 70 Central.
Where you going2" asked the friend.
''Oh. just around the corner" said
Spencer Hello. there's q farm wagon
broken down. IN declare
Then he brought his friend down town
and as the latter was crawling out he
asked suspiciously: What did you take
me back 70 that farm wagon for. any
way?"
7 just wanted to show you said
Spencer that farm wagons break down
sometimes, too"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
GOSSIP FOR HOME PEOPLE

ever misses the ball That gas on the
putting green in a worlds champion
match We were watching him make the
hole. He was within yard OF the hole
on his third stroke; he pushed his putter
at his ball, went over Il; he then struck
the bah and went down. He went over
10 the marker and asked: What did
mark me for that hole2" -Four" said
said the marker. You're wrong, said
yardon, Il took five I fooled there on
the putt" Those who had been watching
him could not believe it but vardon said:
I can't explain how. but missed the
ball
A much more interesting player. accord
ing TO Mr.. Turpie, is the present cham
pion Of the world, James Braid Braid.
he says is not exact He slices and pulls
a drive occasionally and the interest is
heightened IN seeing HIM recover by a
ma gniicent and long and accurate shot
UT. Turpie saw him II one match clear
a bunker $50 yards away with a cleek.
Il was the most difficult of shots and
Braid. who is a giant. put the last bit
OF his strength In the blow He broke
the shaft Of the cieek of clean so great
was the impact. but the ball sailed over
the bunker and onto the green just the
same.
Mr. Turpie asserts that Holabird and
the other crack amateurs OF Chicago
would not do anything wonderful on the
College XIII links He doesn't believe
they would 90 under fifty strokes the irst
time they tried il. He says the College
hin links are difficult. mostly because Of
their great length
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25

cso-rs NcSral has tec7ne - p<1'r1a-
rsnf hxtrra or sorth Ezin street. - sis
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25

TIE graduates 81 the Tiirh school wer~
Mary = Randall Clydus G. Brown. zei-
"a Verona Snyder I4iilan T. kirkses.
Erwin Aimorct Taft Rebecca woadeTiT.
Charles p Lass. Iena n. Ccsaeii. Joe
p Kasz s0phroria wnkis. Fiova casvsii.
WIFI. ~ s,nlwe1 Roy r HAYS. la
johnson. Burdin X. sisson Ichn Parsi1~
son. Clara Brown. sadie Caldwell. Ser
bert " Levy Mar Bufd. Fofrstirs f'air-
ring. Amos Mccain Ieura n spa~a.
John Anderson. I3xzis E. Hlssr Errs r.
peard. Minnie r Dewey The iiriohmss
were presented BY Or p van Suys
Born ~ Hr. ard Mrs. VIII RaffaTf.
q boy
The residence x a. Reau- m Tsnth
street vas struck ~ nshtnirr and hiils
I.~ra R~arns rentered uneorrcieas ~
fhe shock
Miss Rose Payne n ere west sids ~
,srtasnef Her quests we're NissaH liz-
zis Psston. rixzis coegf7iasr. Nara Cop
erider. THiss Taylor Msnis caopton- Hss
yvoafrna- ssiiy Pavre. Mrs 9 Pat
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25

much foa h-u. aaG ne VAS now EoHs
bssiegsd il. the mansion. and al last was
driven forth into the streets.
Il By this time day was dawning. the
whole population. soldiers and burghers.
men, women and children. we're throns-
ing about the little band OF marauders.
and assaIling them with every weapon
and every missile 70 be found Schenk
fought with his usual ferocity. but AZ
last the muskateers. IN spite OF his in
dlgnant commands. began rapidly 70 re-
treat towards the quay
u In vain Martin storned and cursed.
in vain with his own hand he struck more
than one OF his soldiers dead. He
was swept along with the panic-stricSen
band. and when. shouting and crashing
his teeth with frenzy. he reached the
quay al last he saw at glance why
his great enterprise had failed
g. The few empty barges OF his own
party were moored al the steps; the
rest were a half mile on. contending
hopelessly against the swollen and rapid
WAL Schenk. desperately wounded.
was left almost alone upon the wharf
for his routed followers had plunged
helter-skelter into the boats. several II
which. overiaden in the panic. sank at
once. leaving the soldiers 10 drown OF
struggle with the waves
u The game was lost. Nothing was
left the free booter but retreat Reiuc-
family turning his back 20 his enemies.
now in fun cry close behind hin.
he sprang into last remaining boat Just
pushing from the quay. Already over
weight, and Martin Schenk. encountered
laden, 1t foundered with its additional
with his heavy armor sank st once 70
the bottom OF the WAL.
Is Some Of the fugitives succeeded In
swimming down the stream and were
picked up by their comrades in the
barges below the Town ard so made
their escape. Many were drowned with
their captain. \ few days afterward.
the fnha bitants OF Nymegen hshed up the
body OF the famous partisan. he was
easily recognized by his armor. and oy
his truculent face. stu wearing the
scowl with which he had last rebuked
his followers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
Short Term Of Court.


State Senator Tom Noftsger and
we're in the Haskell County Court, the
first OF the week" said o. H. Bentley
1T was an awfulIy long term Of the
district court OF Haskell county. It
lasted fully two hours and . half The
spring term lasted fifteen minutes They
have no jury. as good robust jury
term such as Judge Reed used 10 hold
in this county. would break the county In
costs. At Col. Finches' Kankakee Hotel
in Garden. they mean BY that Garden
City, they don't have time to SAY Gar
den City. We noticed a hotel advertis-
ing board which said 20 miles TO ivan
hoe. the finest trading point south OF
the .rkansas river, Brown and Rounds.
Ageats"
And so the next morning We rounded
up George Linn Miller. the county at
torney Of Kinney county and we started
10 santa Fe. Haskell county. We rode
with Miller in his dne carriage and be-
hind his Oregon bay horses We did
this 20 save livery hire and We pulled
for eight miles through the sand His.
Senator Noftsger held a small repeating
rife across his lap and many was the
iackrabhit that he scared on the way.
Nv great fear was that he would shoot
the team.
After a long pun we passed the sand
hills and twenty-five miles south q Car
den city reached the site Of the town az
Ivanhoe. Il is an immense prairie dog
town and has a school house ard The
remains Of a tower for wind pump
once used By tbs town IN its paimy DAYS
-
ranch and IS covered with a very 6ne
growth OF Buffalo grass. sTording very
fine succuieat psstursge for the DOS
town Il once had 100 people and was
rival Of Santa Fe fer the county seat
or Haskell COUNTY Those were the days
ur,len the county commissioners issued
ceuaty scrip 10 the tune q 81 per acre
for breaking sod This scrip was after
wards funded into funding bonds q the
county and sold or the open bo1d mar
ket 10 hoaa-f6e purchasers and the sot
bends 50 caEe3. we're fought q the h.sh-
est courts II the Land and he'd good
gnose we're the day-s when ncasy was
plenty and Joe Rcsershzl ran tie Has
kaH county hank arc everything vas
ayinr. Ivanhoe r1ssea away and caly
the 5oS tozn above mentioned. She ruin
&C water tower and an CD grave yard
surrounded b a haro wire fence marks
the place. We reached santa r IN due
tine ard fouzd verv little there. cniy
sbout twenty-five people IN Tire town
The last lawyer WI Pesree has moved
away 10 Garden Ciry and there IS todGy
Tot resident lawyer n Hsslsll county
Some OF Is trieS Il brace up ice Pearcs
who : the postmaster ard mrs the Re
pahiican- We went sor hsn snd ETie1 .
get him 70 apply Ter adr-isssou 70 the
bar. bur ret having been post-,aster -
qast after SIX months. Joe sssd tsat he
Vas ros eaEsoic-. ne sTsu agreed vita
him chat ~ xaaid se1 ss delegates f-a-z
tie sara fTins and ser hs= auztnased
for county attorney tbs fan bat ~ fell
down OF Is
After cezr1 we drove back 70 Garden
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25

Rufus Cone S one of the best known
men In Wichita. He has been prosperous
in business and some CT his friends now
value his holdings at fifty thousand dol
lars and 1t was al made in Wichita
When he first came TO this city twenty
five years ago he worked in an ele-
vator for a dollar a day until he foand
something that paid him better salary.
4 reporter for the Eagle asked Mr.. Cone
the other day to what he ascribed his
success.
7 have made two thousand dollars
year above my expenses" he said since
I came here and / ascribe my success
to one rule that adopted when I started
out for myself and from which I have
never varied That was never to do but
one thing at a time and do that with
all my might
when I was constable I gave my
whole time to it and when went into
the grocery business I did not know any
thing else I never asked what other
Crocerymen were doing and the man who
came to my store always found me there.
When 1 was chief of police OF sheriff.
I gave my whole attention 10 IT, and
tried TO know a little more about the
business than anyone else think l
was reasonably successful as chief OF
police and sheriff OF this county
When I went out Of the sherihs Of
fee and went into the laundry business,
1 quit politics dead cold and nobody could
induce me TO now TO have anything to do
With party machinery. have no other
business outside of the laundry and i
can take the place of any person IN 1t
and do the work. I have never en-
pioyed a person white OF black 20 do
a Job of work that I considered myself
too good to work at I do not know
anything now outside of the laundry.
Some carpenters came TO me the other
day and asked me to sign petition re-
questing the contractors 10 submit their
difficulty to arbitration. told them that
I would not sign such thing for any
consideration. because did not know
anything more about the contractors
business than hog did about Latin
At this present time I do not consider
myself authority on anything outside OF
the laundry business and il you think
don't attend 10 that Just so down there
and inspect my plant"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
The Names Of Corners.

The names Of corners will finally pass
through disuse, although IL takes time.
The corner OF Main and Douglas now
known as the Schweiter corner was
for many years known as the New York
store corner and that many years after
the New York store had ceased to be.
One of the corners OF Main and First
was for a long time called The Con-
doifa Corner" though Joe Gondolfa was
gone and his hotel was a mere memory.
What is known as the Boston store cor
ner was for years The Wichita National
Corner" and the location now called
The Noyes Corner was The KATE
Corner"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
aNhere,s the Lassle y

one day the late Mrs Stewart, mother
OF John Stewart. was in Wichita she
had reached almost her hundredth year
and having never used q telephone. John
was anxious TO introduce her &c the mys-
teries He had her take down the re-
ceiver and cali for a certain number.
which she did. but forthwith dropped the
receiver and said to John;
where's the lassie, noo2'
she is n mile away. down town 'ex-
planned John.
Ma. ma. John protested the old Scotch
lady. the Iassie is behind the wall
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-25
4 psliherate Farmer.

If a person wiz take the trouble 70 no.
tice. Re viii find that the rnoutoTnecrs do
NOT ring their eongs 50 vocifsTously on
a rainy day as usual They can't. The
water soaks into the parts Of the knock
Ct and sticks It. This causes great m
convenience al times as TIE car can not
warn people OF the tracks Ore day last
week during the rainy weather. car
from the West SIDE vas complied 70
20 about fhree miles an hour for tEo
blocks because a farmer happened % be
ahead OF 81