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secretary of the Typographical Union. say
the head of the Census Office and his sub
ordinate misinterpret the law, and are
dealing unjustly TO the employees in ques-
tion by withholding rights to which they
are clearly entitled
Yesterday morning when Superintend-
ent Boos informed his men they could
knock off work if eypleased at l o'clock.
but with the understanding that the time
lost would not be paid for. they regis
tered a protest through their representa-
tives, President Feeney and Secretary
Garrett. who lodged an informal protest
against Director Merriam's ruling but it
was CT no avail, and the men continued at
their iabors until the regular closing
hour.
Declares Ii Rnnk Injustice.
MIR. Feney was seen last night at Ma
tional Rifles Armory, where the Book
! binders Society was holding it's annual
ball. He was mad all over at what he
termed the rankest kind of injustice to
the most deserving and hardest worked
employees OF the Census Office.
The per diem argument is all poppy
cock" said Mr. Feeney. I'VE are paid in
the same way at the Government Print
ing Office, and Mr. Palmer closed the Of
nee Hall d uty before CnrlStIlldS duu yes
terday. Mr.. Merriam could have done the
same. Our boys in his Office work under
exactly the same rules as they do in
mine, ard the bill providing for printing
branch of the Census Office sets forth
these very facts N Enthusiastically plain
language"
Comptroller Wns Consulted.
Director Merriam. when seen at his
described the controversy as a tempest
in a teapot"
Mr.. McCauley. our chief CLERK he ex
planned, consulted the Comptroller. who
seemed to think pay for half holiday
was not within the law governing the
printing branch. That settled it so far as
| was concerned. The men were welcome
to the time if they cared to lose the
money
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TEMPERATURE

Fair ard colder today and tomorrow;
fresh northwesterly winds.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
Tbe toasi)in9ton Gimss.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY l. 1902.
The weather Indications

Publication ofice:
CORNER TENTH AND d STREETS.
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Too Much Holiday Fun and Folly

Too much of good thing! That's what we are
all liable to take during holiday season. Healthy,
jolly people will do it and make themselves sick.
I'm time OF peace prepare for war" and have about
the house pleasant, perfect, palatable, positive
medicine for sour stomach, sick headache, colo,
winds, belching, bousness, furred tongue, lazy
liver constipation bad breath, bad TASTE all liable
to result from holiday over-indulgence. Cascarets
Candy Cathartic is what you want tablet after
big meal will prevent sickness, or tablet at night
before going to bed, after good time will fix YOU
all right for morning, and let you get up clear as
bell, ready for business pleasure
for druggists a,c Never sold N br,.
MleoNQ1O @ ae on saa s ss.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
MAJOR HOOD WINS HIS SUIT.

Judge Hazen Of the district court of Shawnee county
Major Hood of Emporia the Martindalc
suit as every one who knows Major Hood expected.
A good many papers in Kansas are just saying
something in congratulaton Major Hood Major Hood
own kind. belonged his youth properly to
science art literature. He is of that temperament He
loves the quiet sincerity the sterling qualities of these
things Those watched him in the occasional pur
suit of political ambition how little he understood
the political atmosphere He never was able advertise
his capacity through megaphone to cap two-story
with threestory cornce or to jolly to evade and
insincerely promise.
He loves his home its books and pictures and its little
world respects his friends enjoys the bust
and asks the sincere esteem of his fellow citizens
And this he shall have The Martndale suit grew out
failure the National bank at Empora The
creditors of William Martndale authorized the trustee
Of the Mandae assets to sell the real estate for $4,000
The advertised for bids Major Hood and another
citizen put in a bid of $4,000 The sale was made
by the federal Then William Marndale brought
suit against Major Hood in Shawnee county asking that
the judgment of the federal court be set aside the charge
being that the been guilty Of fraud in Sc
curing judgment from Judge Phillips of the federal
court sell the Martndale estate to Hood for SAL 600
the property could be sold for more The defendants
fled demurrer and Judge lIazen sustained the de
murrer He held that Major Hood had right to buy
tie property at the lowest figure he could.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
MARKET FoR RED BUTTER
long again

Another question which may be taken TO the courts
connection with the enforcement of the oleomargane
law the right export adueratsd without
belling in such way mark popular con
tempt At least one eastern firm makes his butter ex-
clusively export red butter"
ing it in great cargoes certain Of the West
lands It compound of deteriorated butter and
fats and oils very highly colored which com
mands great sale among the natives of the Islands v
ing away back from the seacoas As shipped it is prac-
ticay liquid but the course of transportation much
OF the the of pack horses and mules over
rough mountain roads, churned to consistency not
unlike ordinary butter Of commerce The people who
buy it use it for much the purposes in cooking that
the fat parts meat and as they get it at very
low price they prize extent that would astonsh
the gourmet outside of the tropics
France and Denmark are the chief competitors of the
United States in this line export and we should fall
out they would have the profitable market all to them
selves The American manufacturers of red butter assert
that the law is running their industry because the
customs officers the islands regard blazing legend
on the outside of the package mark Of Cain and
fuse it admittance. 1t would be very simple
make test this and ascertain whether the com
missioner internal justified in ruling
the Ia" required the same stamping OF packages intended
for export those intended for the domestic market
There good believe treasury author
ties would not object to appeal to the courts they
have no desire arbitrarily to cut off export trade in
any direction where it is legitimatey making own
way The manufacturers might instance send notice
to the department that they preparing make
shipment Of red butter without stamping it The depart
ment could have officer hand arrest representa-
tive of the manufacturers in the sending the
unsamped packages The arrested party could then
out writ OF habeas and bring the whole ques
ton under the view Of the order If the
cases decided the manufacturers the fact
that they had deliberately notified department of
their purpose would be sufficient evidence no Grim
inal intent involved and there would therefore be
10 reason why the penalties prescribed by should not
be RENTED in this experimental instance
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
TIE WAY WITH COLORADO

MI Edward Mead. chief the irrigation bureau Of
the agricultural department now in the west in
vestgatng the suit against Colorado over Ar
kansas river compromise that suit the
way is not long. and the not complicated.
The decree which will settle the matter can be drawn
in two sentences the contention quoted in two minutes
Let Colorado consent with Kansas to have govern
survey the Arkansas river establishing the mean
annual flow Of the let Colorado stpuate not
to rob that river when it is below that point Kansas
not concerned in what she fakes of water above that
point
Kansas does not ask that Kansas make the survey;
would Kansas want Colorado to make it. The federal
would be fair square The dimensions Of the
river its flow would be preserved TO Kan
soil saturaton Of days would be restored aaa
ell that Kansas has conended for be forthcoming
And Colorado could by the exercise Of little indus.
try and economy escape any embarrassment by reason
OF the concession This could be accomplished through
the construction Of reservoirs for the storage of waters
taken when the volume Of water in the stream is in cx
cess Of the natural flow.
This spring enough surplus water left Colorado and
contributed 10 the Mississippi river which doesn't
need it, to inigate eastern Colorado for year Colorado
should store this surplus II she did it would aor be
to rob the river of all its water during the m
lowing months.
section Of Kansas has CHOSEN to regard this iitiga
ton as something Of Joke. It is not joke Colorado
knows there Is nothing humorous about it, The raging Ar
kansas may have its ~hins. but had water TOO IN its
day
The irrigation propasandists vao have lately been
favored by Congress ookins Colorado as parte-
lar pet find that The suit far from being joke is proving
serious deterrent to irrigation progress in Colorado
The way to settle the matter is by an equitable adjust
ment in which Colorado win do the decent square honest
thing and not as some irrigation specialist suggested in
Denver Tie other day, BY fool attempt nulfy the law
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
na;f;Yefsz S 9EaaIc
M. Nj. MURDOCH, Editor.
THE END OF TRACY.

There can be no denying that considerable NUMBER
OF people felt sorry Harry Tracy and feeling sorry
wished that he might escape It is kind of involuntary
tribute the world pays to desperate enterprise And the
world never entirely gets over it Robin Hood is hero
in literature after good many hundred years contem-
piation. That however. doesn't make him any less
murderer
The world has never seen greater daring. greater
nerve or more elaboration mixed with desperation than
it saw in the Oregon outlaw the dispatches reailed,
day by day his escape from one trap after another his
perfect nerve in difficulty and his cheerful confidence in
his unwilling hosts day by day the issue grew be
tween the convict and the pursuing officers people
against their better sense hoped he might be successful
in escaping
And still there might have come another thought to
these which nuled that hope before this nervy man
dragged himself broken with leaden bali and bleeding
to death into wheat field and put bullet through his
brain
For there is a thought of others Tracy a hold
up man" in Portland The he slipped up on in the
dark there and beted over the head did feel any
sympathy for Tracy The and children. the moth
ers and fathers of eight he has killed since he
capped two ago from the Salem penitentary
won into no admiration for cheerful daring Those
men, most Of them officers had no personal with
Tracy. They represented law and society They sacr
feed their lives for the security their ci
zens Four Of these were murdered before any
ward offered.
There several widows and little children out the
Pacific coast who viii because of Tracy have the
coming years. their hardshps and problems unaded and
entirely undramatc way, without any notable
patty any quarter In reading spirited accounts OF
Harry Tracys nerve it would be well remember that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08

Enid Eagle: The probate court room
was crowded 70 its utmost capacity last
night when the working men 81 Enid met
to form temporary organization for the
protection Of labor preliminary To the or
gaDization of a labor union. The CON
diuons leading UP 10 this meeting as gen
eralyl understood are these. About TWEEN
" men We're at work on the excavation
for the basement of the new Busch build
ing. when the contractors hired a colored
man al - cents an hour. The prevailing
wage for the other men has been - cents
an hour. il took but "a few minutes 70
acqEaint every man on the work Of this
fact. and a strike was declared. every
one but the colored man quitting. one
or two others went back 70 work after a
while. but the work was practically stop
ped. The contractors claim that they
have no strike, that they are working all
the men possible now. and that there
would have been laying of ~ many IF
the men in a few days. anyway ia eN-
PLANTATION of the hiring of the colnrei man
they claim that he is an expert in mix
ing mortar. and that he was engaged IN
preparing sand and not as a digger. The
contractors further say that they VIII
pay the scale OF wages that is ia vogue
IT. Enid, no matter what il is.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
AMERICAS LEIsURED CLASS.

The London Saturday Review. which, if scolding
the American people is worried some aspect of con
temporary American civilization is asserting that
the United States suffers seriously in many re-
spects from the absence of eisured class This we
seriously doubt There leisured class as wit
ness Newport Tuxedo, Bar Harbor Lenox etc. of
people with time and money than it well knows
what to do with. The lesured rich United States
loaf about in their yachts, fly south North Carolina
and Florida in the winter, return their New York
Boston palaces for few months of the year. during
the hot weather to be found occupying seaside or
mountain cottages which only built and main
tanned by rich people.
There are a few men among this American lesured
class who have something important to in the world
but they hardly to be classified as men Of leisure
Their and their wives daughters keep up the
game of society the whole round year Still there are
enough rich in the lesured class help
play the game. They off Europe every year some
times have their mansion in Mayfair for the
son, and known gded loafers fashionable
resorts the continent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
OUTLINES or OKLAHOMA.

Leslie Ni5lack says that the re-distr.ct-
ing result is in favor Of the Democrats in
legislative elections
By carefully studying the career Of
/ Tracy, one Bert Casey. OF Oklahoma.
can learn what he IS coming 10.
Dick Howard who has for years been
located at Arkansas City. IS thinking OF
starting 2 newspaper in oklahoma
Governor Ferguson thinks that under
! the new apporcionment the Republicans
VIII be able 10 elect seven councillors.
Bob Lowery. Of saltwater, IS an aspi-
rant for the place Of assistant district
attorney. made vacant BY the resignation
o. Bird MCGUIRE.
There is reason to believe that X IS now
LOT enough ia Oklahoma FOR the cotton.
I. il vii do the cotton any good the peo-
pie win manage 10 stand IT,
Ponca City IS an aspirant for the con-
veution which wiz nominate a Republican
candidate for the council IN the district
made mp az Kay and NOBLE counties
Ia a wei near Seger the biologists have
( found single ledge OF gypsum il5 fest
thick. The people who had been drinking
the water out II II were not surprised
In many localities in Oklahoma this
year "a green louise has finished The water
melon. THE louise is q new one and
doesut seem TO be subject 10 cholera
rEorhus.
4 Fonca City boy tied his mule 10 q
railroad track \ train came along and
cut the mule up badly But the mule
didn't get OF the track until The train
proved il.
Monday night Muskosee was treated 10
regular old-fash.oncd. rip-snorting
thunderstorm. Houses were struck by
lish-nins and half the telephones in town
were burned out
+. IT, Thwing has become the business
manager OF the Sanitarium Al Norman.
having increased his holdings in the in
sttuuon. The Sanitarium has been pow
erfUl quiet Of late.
Frank McMaster insists that there IS
gold in the Wichita mountains Some Of
il ought TO be put on the market. Ickel-
heimer is sending scads Of the stuff 70
Europe every day, and we need supply
al home.
In one neighborhood in Blackwell the
citizens have asked the police 10 make
one man and his wife quit quarreIing
They want it to be q quiet neighhorhood.
The PopLlists and Democrats held a pri-
mary nominating election Tuesday. on
Offices whore there were contests about
SEQ votes were cast
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

The principal trouble with the ankle
bug which is now preying upon Kansas
is that it doesn't stop there.
An Indian. being found in Emporia with
out bow and arrow. and blanke..
vas promptly arrested for vagrancy.
II is reported that Jessie Morrison is
becoming used to her surroundings and
is settling down TO live out her long
term
The Leavenworth Times whRcks It's fist
on the table and SAYS six county con-
ventions last week and Curtis defeated in
every one"
Major Hood. Of Emporia. has won his
suit. the one Martlndale brought against
him. charging fraud. Major Hood never
defrauded anybody in his life. and never
viii
II is claimed that at Atchison recently
4 man weighing 300 pounds sang Rock
Ne TO Sleep Again. Mother. Just for To-
night and that all the women present
cried.
on Tuesday the mercury In Kansas
crept ia one day from IS 70 IS. All The
citizen had 70 do was 70 start in IN
dressing early in lhe morning and keep al
f. steadily all day
\ man ut Augusta shot p fs-pound cat
fish in the Whitewater last Monday This
vas tough luck Had be been fishing
and fish Ike that had broken the line.
1t would have weighed 49, pounds.
John Seaton says that he VII beat Bale
Waggcner for the legislature. From hls
attitude il Is seen that he expects % eat
Baiie alive and can't decide on whether
no shall have him served 0r4ized or
au jus.
Charley curtis said. cooilv. the other
day ! think all sides concede that
have far the best ~ il 50 far as the
state senate is concerned. and believe
/ am getting more OF the representative
than ans other candidate for senator
The eastern papers are having fun over
an alleged remark ~ Burton that
Roosevelt could nor call a special session
of congress to help Cuba. without vioiat-
ing his oath - Office. because cuba IS 2
foreign country The eastern editors are
reading thu constitution over again and
can't ind Bur5ons authority
An Atchisou man with 70 poetry in biz
soHl who daesut want u hear tne cocks
shriI clarion has Invented scheme u
prevent 81 lie ties q string a. the rors-
tiers neck ana connects it % the zoos
ter big toe TIE rooster throws hls
bead back WHOM growing ard u De ca1t
throw h.s head back be- wont crow go
-lie Atchison man sleeps on ia ths mern-
i1g u1disturbed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
FALLINe o. IN r4g ExPoRr o. LocoMormEs.

According TO the report Of the bureau of statistics
the twelve months ending June 30 1902 there has been
decided falling in the sale of American locomotives
especially TO European countries. The highwater mark
in the export of this class of was reached
in 1900 when the figures for the fiscal year were 525 loco
motives valued $55924O3 During year just closed
the number dropped to 365 and the value s9257S94
But more noteworthy than this falling of in the
is the fact that whereas exported 1875 locomotives to
the United Kingdom Europe valued at s22S6 22O in
1900 during the last fiscal year we sold only nine locomo
tves valued at 100000 to all Europe one to the
United Kingdom.
If it had not been for increased sales Of American 10
comotives to Canada, Cuba South America and Japan
the muehheraded expectation Of our locomotives would
have dropped almost Of sight Il looks as if Eu
had only bought American locomotives for patterns
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08

In Lincoln Park, Chicago, there is an
Old-fashiOned garden \ gravel walk sep
arates it from a garden OF the newer
fashion. In this latter garden the out
lines Of the flower beds are like the peri
pheries Of geometrical figures. There is
a precision about everything that is not
altogether pleasing. The cannas are there
with their great leaves ard scarlet blcs-
SONS. while about them are the purple
and gold aristocrats OF the flower king
dom. whose names are those Of hybri1s.
Of changelings and Of foreign importa-
tons
In the olG-fashioned garden there is n
wealth of blossoming beauty and Of
flower fragrance which carry one back u
the gardens OF his youth There IN this
city park bloom sweet williams and mari
Colds. the lady SLIPPERS, the balsams the
pinks. the peonies. the buebells he sun
flowers and the phlox Through this rios
oi color and perfume there are 40 walks
with razor-cut edges. The visitor tresds
or turf springy and green. with his IA
vorites and their fragrance All about him
This garden is for those who have memo
ries. The youthful and the thoughtless
prefer the gorgeous cannas ia the garden
OF the newer fashion.
In the old fashioned garden there Gsilv
walk grayhaired men and women. They
Eneer there for hours and watch the
robins forage at the roots 81 the syri7gas
and the bees gather the sweets OF she
bluebells. Every summer the gray-haired
people haunt the garden. though new
faces appear each season. but the num-
her Of visitors remains about the same.
for with each winter some ~ these lovers
OF the old-fashioned in flowers are called
where the blossoms are perennial
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08

Castro is up against it. The ship bearing him am
munition and rifles has bumped into rock OF course
the other side had the pilot bought up In South Amer
revolutions murder is never employed when good
political trick viii do the work
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08

riparian rights which has endured the Of
the flood tricled of Ararat likely last
long again
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08

This is what Emperor William says Of disarmament.
Germany cannot impair finest instrument
Of ohense which the defense her existence because
other nations are unable to equal it William out Of
the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08

That Boston who says that Roosevelt viii be
elected panic viii intervene and Bryan viii be elected
zoos is giving the people plenty Of time forget the
prediction.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-08
IN THE oLD-FAeHIoNgD GARDEN.

Almost under the shadow CT Dorchester
Heights. wherein washington planted his
cannon 70 compel the evacuation OF Bos-
ton, stood and still stands a rambling
frame house, gray with age. There is d
broad piazza al the front and the side OF
this old Yankee homestead and about It
ali is a great old-fashioned garden
In the year that ushered n the Kline
tenth century this Dorchester dwelling
was the property and the residence OF
Colonel Henry Spencer. who had follow
ed Washington from Dorchester 10 Long
Island and then through the years 70 tn
end at Yorktown. Colonel Henry Spencer
left his Dorchester homestead 10 his only
son. who eighteen years ago lived in tn
old place, w.th his only daughter Mary.
Mary Spencer was 70 years old and as
fair as was the puritan maiden who locs-
cd down from the wall on Mary when al
her daily household tasks. and who seem
ed occasionally 70 smile at the industry
OF this. her sreat-great-g randchild
Philip Bradley, aged % a stalwar.
young surveyor. lived down near the
tide-yater Of Dorchester Bay. bat yea
within easy ard always pleasant walking
distance Of the gate which opened into
the Spencers' old-fashioned garden Philip
Bradley could only go back one genera
ton IT. Boston. Beyond that he laughing
H. said ne was nobody. lie had no Pris-
+-lA+ -sAlAit-l4o lAtE JA4Ai- -A.trl-5 AtffN4t-e7
down on him from the walls ard II he
should have framed his family tree il
would have shown precious little bat a
stump.
Philip Bradley's lack % family didn
trouble Mary Spencer in the least nor ci.
it bother her father. John Spencer. now
lettering with age Mar has family
enough for both OF them. he would say
to himself
Perhaps il goes without further saying
that Mary Spencer and Philip Bradley
were in love with each other. Now ever.
people in love have faults. and mary
Spencer's fault was a certain pride which
made it hard for her 10 forgive and for
get when she felt that she had been Of
Tended. Her father called this pride
stubbornness, and perhaps If Mary haa
not been so altogether a pretty girl and
otherwise charming well, il would be
best 10 agree with her sire. Philip Brad
ley had the disposition OF his Irish ances-
tors. He was warm hearted. impUlsive,
generous. but had a temper quicker than
that Of Cassius.