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ITAINHALTJI. M UK DOCK. Trtltor.
The thing the Democrats regret the
most is that a man -with the ability
Reed has isn't a Democrat.
The grip of Speaker Reed is more
dreaded by the Democratic congressmen
than the Russian ai tide and, it may be
added, more deadly, to their schemes.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is bidding
forpopblar sympathy. He declines Xp
announce himself an aspirant for the
Democratic presidential nomination in
K92.
The biggest edible oysters in the world
are found at Port Lincoln, South Aus
tralia. They are as large as a dinner
plate. They are sometimes more than a
foot across the shell.
Portugal has cooled off. Democratic
demonstrations and boastful bellowings
against England have ceased. After all,
it is not every country tnac may uui
a republic that desires to be so.
A much mooted question and one cre
ating some annoyance lias been settled
by Attorney General filler proclaiming
that criminals and violators of the
internal levenue are subject to the east
ern dibtrict of Texas.
In St. Louis school books will be fur
nished free to pupils at the beginning of
the next school year. This is worthy of
emulation on the the part of those cities
who are everlastingly poking fun at St.
Louis about being slow.
The New York Sun bravely stands up
in defense of Speaker Reed. It says the
Democratic members were either "drunk
or paralyzed." There is a candid, hon
est llavor about the Sun that must be
veryobnoxiousto the average Democrat.
The "Washington firemen advance the
theory that the tire in Secretary Tracy's
house at "Washington was caused by the
explosion of a lamp turned low and left
burning, but the jury with the custom
ary clearness saTs the cause is unknown.
The Hon. John H. Thomas, of Spring
field, O., lenews his charges that the
Hon. Calvin H. Brico pm chased his
election to the United States senate, and
by way of pioof the Hon. John submits
the fact that legislator purchased by
himself subsequently voted for Bnce.
Fall River mills ha.ve just distributed
an operators' dividend for the first six
months of the experiment. Over C per
cent of the sum distributed to the stock
holder was thus paid out. The sum
distributed amounted to 3 1-2 per cent
of the total wages of the work people.
Whisky causes fights in Kansas and
water in lli-souri. Two editors of the
Kansas City Globe are oin around in h
sling on account of a water difficulty. JMib
Mjuriiins always weie prejudiced against
water. Salina Republican.
Tho case you cite seems to iudicato
that they are at least divided on the
question. Let's bo just give the devil
his due.
Chicago evidently hopes to injure St.
Louis' chances for securing the world's
fair, by belittling its ability to entertain
it. That's right, Hogopolis; keep it up,
and St. Louis will sure get the fair if it
comes west. Nothing helps a cause or a
person or a candidate so much as perse
cution. Tho blood of tho maityrs is the
jeed of the church.
Alfred Thomas, Homo Rulo member of
the English house of commons, will at
the coming session move an amendment
to tho address in reply to the queen's
ppeech opening parliament, that the af
fairs of "Wales ought to bo administeied
by a bpecial depaitment presided over
by a minister acquainted with Welch
national affairs.
Germany is trying to stop emigration
to this country. In that sho may be
making a mistake. Tho Germans who
nro seeking to come hero como because
they lovo liberty and long for republican
government. If they are kept at homo
they may some day cause tiouble to im
perialism. The greatest mistake of the
unfortunate Charles the Firstof England
was in forcibly keeping at home a baud
of people who had gathered to sail for
America. In that band was Oliver
Cromwell.
Tho negro deportation proposition
would seem to bo invested with a new
phase b- the action of tho colored peoplo
of Birmingham, Alabama, mentioned in
the dispatches. This is tho lust ex
pression in favor of tho scheme coining
from the colored people, and our notion
is that tho sentiment among them gen
erally obtains only where it is worked
up by some designing smart fellow who
hopes to realize some peisonal gain
thereby. We have yet to bo convinced
that any considerable number of the
ooloied people of tho south will ever
consent to leave that section to go any
wheie. If ho is permitted to enjoy his
lights of citizenship unmolested ho will
be content to remain there and work out
his material salvation, "at peace with tho
world and the balance of mankind."
THE UTAH ELECTION.
A fierce political contest is raging in
Salt Lake, and tho outcome will be
watched with interest all over tho
United States. The largo sums of
money, invested in Utah by Gentiles,
and tho largo immigration that teni
toiy lias had during tho past year, has
brought that teriitory into general
notice, and the question now to be de
termined is shall the Mormon or the
tJentilo element i ule.
Tins is a contest that means much for
Utah. If the Gentile element gains the
ascendency it will encourage eastern
capitalists to invest in that territory.
If the GenUle element and tho pro
gressive anti-polygamous Mormons who
are in sympathy with them are defeated,
it will-Undoubtedly retard the growth of
the territory, weaken the confidence of
investors and keep Utah under a terri
torial form of government for some time
to come.
Many former Wichita men are now
residents of the Utah capital, and tlW
are deeply interested in the outcome of
the election. All who believe in western
progress must necessarily wish tho suc
cess of that party which will bring
to Utah tho greatest degree of prosperity.
A CONCESSION GRANTED.
Upon the principle that a little is a
prodigious percentage upon nothing the
reduction of 10 per cent in the rate of
freight on corn from tho transmissouri
country to Chicago agreed to by the
managers of the railroads, the farmers
have something to be thankful for. It
will amount to a little more than a cent
a bushel which, although seemingly in
significant, will amount to something
like $4,000,000 in the aggregate saved to
the farmers, if they should be able to get
that small benefit. Tho railroad people
in discussing the matter raise the point
we have adverted to more than once,
and that is whether or not the specula
tors on the market will take advantage
of any reduction in freight to bear down
the price of corn. In view of this con
tingency it is perhaps best that a greater
reduction was not agreed to at one
time. If tho farmers are benefitted
to the extent of tho reduction named it
will be a strong argument with them in
urging a further concession in their
favor.
The agreement is not free from criti
cism, however. Tho reduction is made
only to Chicago. Of course Kansas
City will get its share of tho benefit,
whatever it may be, under stop-over and
reshipping privileges that is to say, it is
presumed such will bo the effect in that
town's case. But the arrangement, as
stated in the dispatches, is a payable
discrimination against St. Louis. To
insure to tho farmer the full benefit of
tho concession granted it should be ex
tended by all the roads to all the mar
kets. This may follow as a result, a
matter of self-defense with lines leading
to other markets, but it may not; there
fore tlie reduction should have been
made all over at onco as far as tho juris
diction or influence of the railroad peo
ple who have taken the initiative could
be exerted to that end.
GAG LAW DON'T GO.
Those who are clamoring for an extra
session of the legislature, ostensibly to se
cure the passage of an act staying fore
closure proceedings in the interest of the
farmers of Kansas, may as well quit their
clamoring. When the legislature was last
in session it refused to puss such a bill, and
its revival at this time is a circumstance
giving rise to the suspicion that ic is sim
ply a resubmission device to get the legis
lature together. Governor Ilumphrey,
however, understands the situation thor
oughly, and the chances are that the legis
lature will not be called together. Tho
stay business can wuit a few months
lonser; likewise several other things.
Atchison Champion.
Just see how quick you are to jump to
a conclusion. You are too suspicious to
enjoy life. The Eagle does not throw
itself on tho extra session proposition,
because, as it said in a former mention
of the subject, there aro some good and
substantial reasons in connection with
the objects set out m the proposition why
an extra session is of doubtful expe
diency, as well as some in its favor. But
there is nothing in the petitions that are
boing circulated, so far as we have been
able to discover, to so much as intimate
that the movement is not made in good
faith and prompted by tho stress
of the situation that is now upon
tho community in whose interest it is
made. Tho number and character of
signers to tho said petitions will settle
that question, however. What wo
wanted to say to the Champion is this:
its zeal in fighting tho resubmission
movement is liable to lead it into ex
cesses that will prove a boomerang, and
if it isn't caieful this will provo a caso
wherein the object sought to be accom
plished will be defeated.
One of the stock arguments of tho
anti-resubmissionists, the Champion
among tho rest, has been that the masses
of the people, and especially the farm
ers, caro nothing about resubmission,
or if they do that they are opposed to it.
Granting that it is true, the Champion
wants to know that it is a condition that
conforts tho farming community and
they havo their own theories of the
causo or causes. But bo all that as it
may, if this irrelevant matter is thrust in
to prevent the gianting of what tho
farmeis consider a reasonable request,
that is that the legislature bo convened
for the purpose of devising some means
for their relief, they will find an oppor
tunity and a way to resent what they
cannot but regard as an insult, added to
injury.
Governor Humphrey may not see his
way clear to call tho legislature together
in extra session, but if so, ho will be
able to give good and satisfactory rea
sons therefor, based on tho merits of the
case asset out in the petition that will be
presented to him, and not set up any
biich specious plea as suggested by tho
Champion.
In a word, tho effect of tho Cham
pion's illogical, unreasonable position in
tho paragraph quoted, if pursued and
acted upon, will bo to make Resubmis
sionists of the farmers whether or no.
On this point we havo no complaint, but
we want tho farmers, as everybody else,
fairly treated in this and all other
matters.
The Leaverworth .Times calls for an
honest report from the state agricultural
bureau on the question of cotton cultures
in this state; its extent and tho experi
ence of those who have engaged in it
heretofore as to its practicability and
profitableness as a crop. Tho point is
well taken; tho secretary's report should
bo not only thoroughly reliable but
should bo full enough to give a compre
hensive idea of the subject. As to the
adaptibility of tho soil, climate, etc., of
tho southern part ot the state there is no
question; nor as to its profitableness as
an auxiliary crop. The statement of
State Senator McTaggart, of Montgom
ery county, on these points, recently
published. settles them beyond perad
venture, and in tho affirmative. Never
theless, as wo have Insforo stated, in no
state of case and in no locality should
any one adopt tho cotton crop as his
chief depeudancc to the exclusion or
neglect ot others. Farmers and commu
nities that follow tho policy of diversify
ing their crops are the must successful,
as a rule.
Pertinently Put.
From the Lawrence Journal.
Mr. E. P. McCabe, ex-auditor of this
state, having been headed off in his en
deavor to be tho $12,000-a-year deed re
corder in the District of Columbia by
Blanch K. Bruce, is now a candidate for
the governorshio of Oklahoma territory.
For Mr. McCabe as a colored man of
some brains and Industry we have great
respect. For McCabe the inveterate of
fice seeker we have little respect. If a
little learning is a dangerous thing, how
much more dangerous is a taste of office
holding
A EEPLT TO "FARMERS' FRIEND."
To tho Editor of the Eacle.
I note that some one under signature
"Farmers' Friend" disagrees with my
"emergency rate" paper. I do not claim
infallibility. I may be wrong; I often
find that I am on a cold trail; yet I be
lieve that If Kansas obtains a reduced
rate that Nebraska. Iowa, Missouri and
other states will be after the carrier in
twenty-four hours, demanding a restor
ation of former rates or corresponding
reduction.
The interstate commerce act was con
ceived and created to prevent railroads
from fostering the produce of one state
to the damage and injury of another.
Under this act railroads can grant a rate
in defiance of it, from point to point
within the limits of a state, but not be
yond it. Hence in Illinois a rate can be
given to Chicago which the interstate
ace can not prevent, and which might
hurt Kansas and benefit Illinois. The
final effect of our acts should not only be
thought of, but deliberately considered.
Tho sum of wisdom is the' bold and
aggressive agitation of any question
coming before the public. Contention,
argument, debate, discussion, results in
general information. Kanzan is wholly
indifferent to criticism by any writer.
So long as there is no rebound it is a
doubt if anything has been said; the re
bound is some evidence that some one
has read the article. To preach the
earnest thought of Kansans on every
problem, the discussion of which may
result in awr.kening people to think, is
the desire of 'Kanzan." To arouse peo
ple to work out tho leasonable possibili
ties of Kansas , is my only desire. I
write for the press without profit, with
out any "axe to grind," hoping for no
rewaid" other than that which maybe
shared by every man who calls Kansas
"home."
The demand for an "'emergency rate"
is an admission of state weakness, a con
fession that we lack capital, and this
weakness was one of the main causes
that led to the formation of the "State
Immigration Bureau," and if this cra
ving for an "emergency rate" has the
effect of stimulating our people to exert
themselves it will be a benefit.
I have no objections to an "emergency
rate," though I believe that worse things
can happen than being forced to hold
tliTs corn crop over one yeur. My idea
is that tho study of the causes that pro
duced tho demand for an "emergency
rate" should move our people to so labor
and think as to make a second "emer
gency rate" demand unnecessary. Our
present necessities should teach us to
correct the evil, not stand still and court
its repetition. And while an "emer
gency rate" may contain a present per
cent of quick profit, continuity of tho
present humiliation, stagnation and de
pression must eventually result in final
ruin to the agricultural interests of the
state.
Our wish is not to prevent the farmer
from getting paid for his labor, but to
get people to thinking, in tho belief
that tho result of the concentrated
thought will bo to the advantage of
agriculture, commerce, general business,
mechanics and laborers.
I am not posing as the especial friend
of any one class, and if "Farmers'
Friend" means to insinuate that I am
not friendly to the farmer, or desires to
havo it known that ho is the champion
of tho farmer alone, I resent his insinu
ation as an insult, and suggest that the
same thing that benefits the farmer helps
all classes; hence sign my nanio "Kan
zan" as a sign that I embrace
the entire state and all classes in
my puny efforts. The desire or effort to
sustain one factor in our state to tho
neglect or disregard of the rights or in
teiests of other classes, is the cause of
friction, class legislation, society differ
ences and wrangling, and should meet
the condemnation of all cititizens whose
wish is general prosperity to the entire
state.
Every interest, railway, milling,
banking, mercantile, industrial,
manufacturing, mechanical and la
boring has as much at stake
as the farmer, and that which tends to
benefit all should be the 6tudy of our
people.
I am no more a friend to the farmer
than I am to every other interest on
Kansas soil. I recognize agriculture as
the source of all our worth, prosperity
and greatness, but at the same time in
sist that an "emergency rate" is only for
one crop. I would that we so work as
to never again in Kansas see a petition
for an "emergency rate." I woirld that
Kansans study the cause, discern the
remedy and apply it.
If we conclude that "emergency rates"
aro the tho panacea for low prices event
ually we shall be, and should be, finan
cially damned. "Kaxzan. "
BEET SUGAR IN KANSAS.
Louisiana Sugar Planter.
"Kansas may yet bless the day she
tried to make sugar from sorghum, even
if sorghum be abandoned, because it has
paved the way to tho successful produc
tion of beet sugar.
Tho pioduction of sugar from any
plant is a complex industry, usually re
quiring great skill and much experience,
and now that Kansas has the skill and
experience, she can shift from 6orghum
to tho beet in ono year, if she wants to.
From what wo know of the beet cul
ture the soil of Kansas is well adapted to
it. If there bo too httlo rain there is
some compensation in the increased
sweetness of the beet. Tho wonderful
success at Speckle's factory at Watson
ville, Cal., where irrigation is practiced,
shows that there is now little doubt of
the rapid expansion of this industry.
There 'seems to have been some trou
ble about hand labor required in beet
culture, our American farmers boing
somewhat restless about farm drudgery
and wanting now to do all the farm
work with come kind of a machine.
There can bo no doubt that machines
will soon be produced that will do all
the work that needs to be done. The
Kansas people havo suffered so much
from the loss of crops that they would
surely be willing to do the hand work
now necessary in beet culture and get
several thousands of acres planted for
1S90, and they wil never regret the ef
foi t. "With the complete manufactur
ing outfits now at their doors, and the
proof at Medicine Lodge that they can
succeed, they should go ahead now and
confirm their success at once.
The harvest of oyer 3,000,000 tons of
beet sugar now drawing to a close in
Europe, shows what we can do here in
the United States. "We can make our
own iron, our own steel, now Jet us
make our own sugar. Let Kansas and
Louisiana lead in the good work."
Beauty of Women.
Whlttlcr.
Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was
that of a woman whom tho world called
beautiful. Through its "silver veil" the
evil and ungeutle passions looked out,
hideous and hateful. On the other band,
there are faces which the multitude at
first glance pronounce homely, unat
tractive and such as "nature fashions by
the gross," which I alwavs recognize
with a warm heart-thrill. Nor for the
world would I have one feature changed:
they please mo as they are; they are
hallowed by kind memories and beauti
ful through associations,
CATTLE FEEDING.
From the Des Molacs Itejister.
Cattle will be better soon, and we
would advise the average farmer to
study the finishing of cattle. It is poorly
understood on most farms. The profits
that come from feeding the steers that
grow on a farm are not comprehended
as they should be. We urge small tann
ers to tie up two, five or ten, and ob
serve the conditions. No large feeder
can get such results as he can who raises
the steers he feeds, and the feed they
eat. The cattle raised on a farm do bet
ter there than elsewhere. There is no
expense in hauling off grain. There is
no shrinkage in buying in cattle. Tying
ud is to be defended, as nobody has done
it and what nobody has done requires
vigorous defense. Tying up as milk
cows are tied up is the way to feed a few
steers profitably. They are to be fat
tened on corn. It is folly to talk-e.,any-thing
else. Iowa has the cheapest corn
in the universe. States farther east buy
our corn to feed, and could not exist
without it. We think breeding animals
should have feed, but fattening stock
must have corn. It is the best fattening
power known to man. You may grind
it and save corn. You may cook it
and save more corn, but with present
prices of corn and help you
cannot afford to do either. We are
told that grinding and cooking will
not pay. They would if help were
cheaper. Grinding and cooking econo
mize feed, but the cost of labor eats up
tho economy. The hog will act as scav
enger and should lie around the feed
yard.
In feeding a pen of cattle remember
that an exclusive corn diet can only be
fed with profit till the blood becomes
thick and hair comes off. Some change
of feed is necessary. -A little flax, boil
ed, or a little flax meal will correct the
derangement. Roots would answer, but
they cost too much to grow. Oats are
valuable, but not always convenient. A
little flax can be harvested like other
grain and no extra help need be called in
to do it. The 2-year-old steer will eat
6ixty bushels of corn while you are fin
ishing him. If he was on your farm all
his days, you havo saved many little
commissions and expenses that the large
feeder pays out. It is part of the farm
er's profits. What comes from cattle
feeding and how to do it is part of his
education. The younger the steer, the
greater the gain, consequently early ma
turity is a prime factor in feeding.
The native cattle do not matuie early.
Their ancestry was required to endure
rather than mature. They are losing
money just now to all who touch them.
Wo advise the farmers who need all
that can be made fiom their busi
ness to finish their own cattle by
all means. It is a department of the
farm that has been entirely neglected by
too many. Cattle feeding as it ha3 been
managed in large yards is not the most
economical way. The average gain is
less than in small bunches. The hogs
that follow will get disease more readily.
Winter work on the farm should require
the summer help more nearly than it
does at present, We have the finest corn
growing country on earth, and surplus
corn will always require consumers on
the farm. Behind the steer is, of course,
sire and dam, and the uses of the dairy
cow the necessity of proper sire, that re
quires attendance by itself.
Cattle feeding belongs to the cattle
breeder. It has a profit peculiar to itself
that the average f aimer cannot afford to
overlook. It teaches the value of im
proved cattle as nothing else does. It is
one of the great forces that keeps up
farm fertility, "We have been doing it by
proxy. Feeders at . home havo gathered
cattle by hundreds, and bought corn by
the thousands of bushels and whether
they made a profit or not the farmers
who sold to them either corn or cattle
lost certainly the amount they sold off
tho farm, cow or young Bteers. Feeders
in states east of us have boughs our corn
and steers and put them together. Feed
ers in Germany now want our thin
steers to finish. Feeders in Britain have
always fed our oil meals. All this indi
cates want of knowledge on western
farms and want of enterprise. The dairy
interests of the state has not helped the
feeding department of the farm. Dairy
ing has paid something of itself. When
butter becomes cheaper and other profits
are necessary, feeding will bo suggested
to the minds of dairymen. We insist
dairymen feed their cattle more. Dairy
papers generally overlook this feature of
the farm, this auxiliary to the dairy.
When the west doubles its cows for
dairy uses this department of the farm
will become imperative.
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Nix Kam Haraus.
From the Stillwater Gazette,
It is our guess that "Sooner's" corres
pondence in the Wichita Eagle of the
29th iust. was written by N. T. Nix.
Tho Russian's New Drama.
Count Tolstoi's drama, The Power of
Darkness, tho production of which in
public theaters was prohibited, has been
performed in private and created a pro
found impression, says a London letter.
This illustrates tho power of darkness.
The good done by the drama wiil prob
ably be a thousand-fold more by rejison
of the prohibition. Tho government has
accentuated the moral.
Gladstono'e Library.
Mr. Gladstone, being a man who loves
his oooks, says the London Academy, is
arranging his library at Hawarden with
his own hands. As they go in serried
order on the selves, ho marks in each
those passages which seem to him most
important, and which have had most in
fluence on his mind and life. The col
lection will thus be in some sort an auto
biography. Quotes Him Correctly.
From the Washington Post.
Marsh Murdock, the editor and pro
prietor of the "Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, is
in the city, booming the interests of
Oklahoma. Mr. Murdock is a versatile
and vigorous editor of the old-time
frontier type. He has been in the legis
lature a time or two and has been talked
of for congress, the governorship, etc.,
but he thinks life is exciting enough
in the Eagle office.
Give Us an Honest Report.
From the Leavemrorth Time.
The papers of the state are discussing
the possibility of making cotton culture
pay in the state. For years cotton has
been raised in Kansas. The report of the
secretary of the state board of agricul
ture ought to afford reliable information
concerning the experiments, but it
doesn't. This is not the fault of the sec
retaries, perhaps, but their lazy clerks.
For years it has been the custom to make
reports of certain crops, including cot
ton, that are evidently not taken from
returns. Take the report of 1SSS for in
stance. Whether it; is in the northeast,
in the southeast, in the center or m the
western part of the state, in every county
which is credited, with raising cotton the
report state that just 300 pounds of cot
ton were raised to the acre, and in every
case it was worth just Scents per pound.
It does not take any one long to see that
this is not even good guess work, and
that it is utterly worthies?. "We ought
to have honest reports of our cgncultu
ral products.
A piteous plea to the lemonade maker:
A little lemon juice in drinking wsr
h?,s a tendency to counteract malaria.'
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Sted:, Slips, Scions. Sprouts. Shoot and Slivrs.
Marion will organize a resubmission
club next week.
Several candidates are ont to succeed
Congressman Turnerirom the SixthKan
sas district.
The G-. A. R. of Kansas have 6,942 fem
inine relatives,all members of the Women's
Relief corps.
Tbe next house of representatives of
Kansas legislature will contain many
more farmers than the last.
An exchange remarks that the numerous
state boards ire of no use to Kansas. That
mav be. Bnt think of tbe use Kansas is
to the boards, says the Emporia Repub
lican. The State Journal takes time to explain
editoriallv that St. Valentine's day is not
celebrated on account ot the new Clay
Center regent of the university "as may
have been'erroneously supposed by home.
Caroline W. Rose has entered suit
airainst the city of Topeka for $5,000 dam
ages which she alleges she sustained last
November. While crossing a street bh&
stumbled and fell, fracturing her knee
pan.
Nellie Bly is to lecture on her recent
record-breaking tour around the world.
She will give three lectures in .NewYqrlr,
and will then be heard in Boston, Phila
delphia, Chicago, St. Louis and other large
cities.
The El Dorado Republican, a paper
which recently inveighed against short,
good-humored paragraphs in the Kansas
press, in its current number says: lhere
is talk of running R. B. Hayes for a second
term.
The Democrat of Hiawatha recently
printed a paper published in the I orum
hy John G. Carlisle. A notice was served
last week that a suit for $5,000 damages
would be commenced by the Forum pub
lishing company.
The citizens of Maryville, Kan., it is
said, celebrated tho completion of the
waterworks by tupping a couple of kegs ot
beer and giving everybody a drink or more
of it. This is pretty hard on the popula
tion of the town.
Judge Parker, the United States district
judge of Arkansas, who is jspoken of as
the probable successor of Jude Brewer,
has sentenced during his time eighty men
to be hanged. This is not the bet recom
mendation in the world for a man to Kan
sans. Kansas City Star: Tho city council
chamber at Atchison has a horsey binell.
while the council chamber at Cottonwood
Falls is permeated with a strong odor of
Hoyt'h German cologne and honey soap.
It is still a serious question whether it is
better to place the reins of mumcipul
government in tho hands of men or to
trust them to women.
Cullison Tomahawk: Housewife We
haven't any cold victuals nor lrunip
Cold victuals? Who asked you for cold
victuals? I want a broiled steak an' fried
egg3 an' hot flannel cakes an' coffee. Cold
victuals? The idea! Housewife Walk in,
please. My daughter, Elsie, will play on
the piano for you while I'm getting them
ready.
Some of the candidates for the supreme
court commissionershiD are given: Judge
J. C. Strang, of Larned; Judge Hiram
Stevens and" Henry L. Alden. of Kansas
City, Kan.; Judge W. C. Webb, of Topeka;
Judge C. Angevine, of Mankato; Judge 1.
O. Shinn. ot Eureka; Hon. L. F. Kellar, of
Marion; Oscar Foust. of Iola; Judge Sam
uel A. Parks, of Winfleld; ex-Senator
George S. Green, of Manhattan; T. F. Car
ver, of Salina, and Silas W. Porter, of
Ness City. Judge Joel Holt, of Beloit, is
a candidate for re-appointment as supremo
court commissioner.
Greensburg Times: Jim Hutchinson
lost three valuable dogs while in the terri
tory. They remained behind unnoticed
while camp was being chanced and the
discovery was not mode until some five
hours afterwards. Being uuablo to return
to the old camp ground the dogs were not
gotten track of. It is supposed they fol
lowed the trail to the new quarters but be
coming bewildered were unable to locate
the camp and after wandering about the
cheerless and snow-covered divides and
canyons for several days struck out for
home, a distonce of 150 miles with not a
single human habitation on the road,
without food or water, as the ground and
water pools were frozen bolul. Tracks
were discovered in the salt plains indicat
ing that tho dogs had stuck to each other
for nearly snveuty-flve miles, when huuger
no doubt drove them in pursuit of gmno
and they became separated. "Old Buck,"
the bird dog, was the only ono of tho trio
that reached homo.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
The quarries at Britton are very busy.
El Reno has a band, and they call it the
"surprise."
Violets were blooming near Britton in
January.
The Britton school house will be com
menced next week.
The plow Is already to work in many
parts of Oklahoma.
C. E, Gunn has been appointed deputy
United States marshal at El Reno.
They have tho awnings down in Okla
homa. It has become warm again.
None of Reno's enemies have yet been
meau enough to spell it backwards and
add a "y."
If the people go to Oklahoma and starve
they must not expect the government to
feed them.
The Union City Clipper says: "Our
town is tho most civil, orderly and respec
table city in Oklahoma."
Stockmen in the Cheyenne nnd Arapho
nations claim that Union City is their
most convenient shipping point.
Every day is a tad letter day, so to speak,
for Stillwater, says the Stillwurer Gnzette.
And it has the glow of the prairie fires at
night.
Lots in El Reno sell from $25 to $273.
They cannot remain at such prices in the
face of such prospects. Says a corres
pondent in the El Reno Herald.
Union City wants a marshal, not that he
is needed at all. because Union City
doesn't go much on the "wild and wooly
west" bnsiness, but just for an ornament.
Union City needs a public hall at pres
ent, but it might as well be added right
here that Union City wants a great many
things now that it will not six months
hence.
Gazette: The ladies of Stillwater have
departed from the time worn custom of
dibcusing the fashions nnd are wrestling
with tho question of railroads for Still
water. Tbe meeting of tbe Republican territo
rial central committee announced for Feb
ruary 6 was recalled, owing to the inability
of some of the members to be present at
the time.
Horse thieves made a raid on Oklahoma
City and vicinity Saturday night, taking
a team from a settler west of town, one
horse from J. W. M&ssey. five miles south
west of town, and a team from a man liv
ing in the city.
If the people of Oklahoma dislike one
tional bill. It is not ths bill itself that
they do not admire, but tee way in which
it keeps bobbing up and preventing Okla-
soma xegisiaiiua. i
Why don't tbe printer's devils of Okla
homa get up an acciation The ma
jority seem to bars taken up that vocation
smce their residence there and it raicht
prove beneficial to get observations oa the h
cahing from oac another. i
Oklahoma City Journal: The arrival
yesterday u attend the M. K. conference
were Bfbop W- E. Nmde, of J opeka; Rev.
3L F. Tipton, Wyandotte, I X.; Rev. W.
S. Browning, Chaatanona Spring, Kan..
Rev. T. "D. Holet.baLe, Jofaasoo, LT,
Rev. , C. Dslaplas? and wife, Kingfisher: j
Rev. W. P. Bam. Valparaiso, Iod; Kr i
Roberts, I riscc: iter, iiaithew Campt-eii, ;
Creek nation: Rv. P, J. Wood, Iadiaa I
azent as Pawnse, iv. t. r. Hill and wife,
Gathrxe.
Stillwater Standard: SUJIwraiier L tbe
btat town in the territory today, oatsids cl I
WHITE
WE SAT UP
To Mark Oof
We are marking down all over the store, on both floors and
both rooms. Reduction and clearance sale. Every tiling' in the
house is reduced, except Warner's corsets and Centemerie kids
TIS IS 01 SEMI-ANNDAL SAL
And as heretofore we maKe a reduction on everything you
call for that we have. $7o,000 worth of dry goods, canets cur
tains and portiers.
Everything from a tie to a table cloth.
Everything from a braid to a blanket.
Everything from curling tongs to a carpet.
' Everything from a hairpin to a handkerchief.
Now is the time to purchase anything in
Dress Goods or Silks!
Housekeepers attention is called to the great chance to dis
play economy. Table linen very cheap. Everything cheap.
AT THE
WHITE HOUSE
O IT
Innes : & : Ross
116 to 120 Main Street,
We are here to Stay. Think of This!
MOVING TO DALLAS!
EVERYTHING- GOES 1
Store for rent and fixtures for sale and our entire immense stock
at cost or les3 and iu fact
AT ANY PRICE
To move it during the next few clays. Prices cut all to
pieces as every thing must go by
FEBHITA-RY 25TH
This is a golden opportunity to stock: up from tlie largest
stock of Books and Stationery in the state at
jobbers first cost. Open till G p. m.
ROBINSON :i -.CHAMPION,
SEDG-WICK BLOCK, WICHITA, KAN.
Gnthrio and Oklahoma City. There is no
trouhle or excitement over property; the
city ordinances are lived up to and obeyed
in every particular; luxes levied on city
Eroperty are paid without a murmer; tre
ave an excellent school with ninety-sir
scholars In attendance; the city is out of
deht Hnd ban a large turn in the treasury,
the population or the town Is placed at
over 5W and pradually increasing o
other town can short n better record, or
brighter pnnpect. This is tho place
for the business man, investor and home
seeker.
EL r.ESO UCAJS.
JTa nro rrviHhW informed hv theofHoialq
of the Rock Island railroad that there ivill
be no depot between OfcarcneunU JvlKeno.
Tbe construction train has crossed the
river nod the track will be laid to tho El
Eeno depot by Thursday night, where tbe
LRlAMI
Baking Powder
MOST PERFECT MADE.
2TEW TOESl'S GEEAX CrTK&HST.
TbU 1 to certffr that I hare DalyzJ Dr. Pnc' Crea Eakhag Powdet
I find It cotapo! A pare matrJL, eompc-BO'lad on cermet ci s-
tiSc xrriceipltK. The Ingredient r accanetrly and cl3tl-
Bcsliy proportion!, lircc, bread or bUeniu prepar-
ert with ft re Ijetirr ftuitrd tor dfritletx
It. OGDKS DOHK5I r?. M. D . hU D.
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ALL, NIGHT?
Goo
side tra cfcs, Bivltcbw, eta, arebclnppntln.
A srand j i.bileu will take oiace at Kl lleno
on tho arr ival of thu first panger train.
The Choctaw oeopla are throwing dirt an
fast as novIble. and It will not ba Ioog
until LI licno will have two railroads. Sbd
haa been slew !n getting a start but will
get there all tb e same.
El Rno it pushing rapidly to the front
Several Iarae firm haTc oitabHehed bnl
nefcs bones here. The drug ntoro of I'at
tTM)n & Co. would bo an honor to any
city.
The El Reno Herald I the brt parr
published in the territory, and tb editor
being a v ry conscientious gentleman, will
not prevaricate.
The Wichita EAQLE la nought after bro
by many, and we watch tho coming of tb
Okarrbe Etage with -ager eyes If w do
have to pay 10 cents fur it. P.
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