The Democrat 1890-1890 from Wichita, Kansas • 3

THE DEMOCRAT: WICHITA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1850. CONGRESS AND THE FARMERS ALLIANCE. The Democrat. THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1S90. COLE JONES, SHAT Rl PRICES WITH GREAT EFFECT.

The Slaughter is beyond the Power of a Detailed Description. Thousands of Dollars Worth of MEN'S. BOYS AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING must be bold berore MARCH 15. I The Bargains offered are Seized with a Wolf Like Voracity by all Classes of Humanity. You never saw so many Great Incucemeuts.

Couie aud see the Goods. ALL CHILDRENS OVERCOATS AT ONE-HALF FORMER PRICE! $5 Overcoats going at $3.50. $18 Overcoats going at $12. $12 and $14 Overcoats going at $8. $20 Chinchilla Overcoats going at $11.

$15 Overcoats going at $10. The aiiove will give you a slight idea of the immense cut we have made. WE ARE NOW IN THE MIDST OF THE Greatest Suit Sale Ever inaugurated on this continent, having selected out a desirable lot of Worsted. Cassimere and Cheviot Suits, worth all the way from $20 to $30, have placed them on a separate table and will give you choice for $15. Dispatch is the Soul of Business.

Do not Linger! Do not Tarry! Be Quick! Buy Now! Bargains await you! Fifth Ward Republican Caucus. Editor The Democrat: The Republicans of the IVest Side seem to be dissatisfied with the ticket they helped to nominate at the people's caucus held some time ago, and consequently held a meeting of their own on Monday evening at Seaman's grocery. Prominent in the meeting were J. C. Milton, Chas.

Iayne, R. A. Haste, S. S. Garber and others.

J. C'. Milton presided. Noninations for members of the school board were made consisting of Messrs. C'liidister and Park-hurst.

Parkhurst was chosen liy a large majority. Nominations for member of the city council were then made. RA. Haste nominated J. C.

Milton, referring to him as a bona fide resident of the fifth ward, a Shakqiearian and a plumed knight. Payne nominated E. IV. IVil-bite, recommending him as a man having a backbone of steel. Messrs.

IVebster and McKee were also put in nomination. McKee received a majority of all the votes cast ou the first ballot and was duly declared the nominee and was called upon to make a speech. After the appointment of a campaign committee, the meeting adjourned. IVest Sider. Educational Meeting in District No.

15. Editor The Democrat: You have been willing to publish an account of some of our previous meetings in district 15, and I will intrude upon your good nature with a short account of the meeting held here last Friday evening. It is seldom that a country district is favored with as many good lectures as we have been recently by the brightest minds in your city. The last gentleman to address our school as Prof. Davis, of the IVichita high school.

He chose for his subject, The Geological Formation of the American Continent. The professor began by saying the word geology was formed from two words, ge-, meaning the earth and -ologv, I study. IVe were not long in coming to the conclusion that he had studied, and had studied the subject in hand, too, for he held the undivided attention of the large audience for almost two hours as he went from period to period of the formation of the continent through the Azoic, Devonian, Carboniferous and Mammalian epochs, giving to each period a clear and concise description of the rocks, plants and animal life of each, and illustrating the same by the use of the stereopticon. He also had with him his microscope, through which he let the pupils take a peep at the animalcule existence of life, that they might have some conception as to the difference between a cell life and that of a mastodon. At the close, resolutions complimentary to the professor, the teacher and the patrons, were adapted.

The teacher then announced that he expected Dr. Stevenson and another educator out in three weeks, and gave the audience an invitation to attend. Lulu IVilsox, Pupil. 210 and 212 Douglas Avenue. TIIE ONE-PUK CLOTHIERS -COLE JOSES, Chas.

Mosbacher, 1 WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, AND OPTICAL Special Inducements on Diamonds. Something About Markets. Anything of importance regarding the market price of grain and live stock has a peculiar interest to Kausas people. The market price of these articles determines the farmers income and the amount of his profits at the close of the year's operations. These productions constitute the principal exports of Kausas, and consequently every other business depends to a certain extent upon the amount of the farmer's income.

Abundant crops and good prices insure the merchants of this state a liberal trade. The products which we, as a people, are compelled to import into the state, are to a very large extent fixed in their values by national legislation. People of even moderate information are able to comprehend the fact that, if the prices of our products are comparatively lower than the products we are compelled to buy, the balance of trade ill he against us, and, as a consequence, our currency will have to he sent away to pay these balances. These are the conditions now prevailing in Kansas and, in consequence, there is a scarcity of currency that is affecting injuriously every branch of trade. The publishers of The Democrat, knowing that nearly every other interest depends upon the selling price of the farmers products and that all classes of its readers are interested in the prices of these commodities, have thought it advisable to give our readers every week, under the head of Something About Markets, the outlook in regard to these markets and our own conclusions from the most reliable information obtainable.

Notwithstanding the extremely low prices of grain, nothing now appears to indicate a rise in prices in the near future. R. G. Dun New York, in their report of the countrys trade during the week ending last Saturday, say: The state of trade has not not materially altered during the past week, though the change of weather has produced much temporary improvement in some lines, and in others trade is rather less satisfactory than a week ago. The monetary situation is much more satisfactory, notwithstanding the fact that the cash actually held by the treasury is $3,200,000 more than last week, for rates here have declined from 5 to 3 per cent, and foreign exchange has risen from $4.81 "to $4.84 Ui.

The interior money markets are generally steady but on the whole more easy. The demand at Kansas City is only moderate. The decrease in actual circulation outside the treasury in the month of February was $10,276,963, and this, with the further absorption this month by the treasury, indicates a less active commercial demand. The Democrat has on more than one occasion pointed to the fact that the scarcity of currency is a prime factor in the depression of prices for farm products. When the able authority above quoted reports money matters much more satisfactory after more than ten million dollars was taken from the general circulation to swell the volume in the treasury in the past month, it simply shows that trade is obstructed and there is less demand for money.

If the currency of the country were reduced to one-tenth its present volume and all business of the country temporarily suspended, we would have a great abundance of money because there would be no use for money. Another fact that has been used to depress the wheat market during the last two weeks is the accepted belief that the government statement for March would show a large amount of wheat in farmers hands. Anybody who has had anything whatever to do with the collection of such information, knows its perfect unreliability. The writer has been frequently pressed to give his estimate of the amount of wheat in farmers hands at this time of year when any estimate made by him, which was but a random guess at best, was fully as reliable, and no more so, than someones estimate of the number of quails in the brush from the rattling of the leaves. Such estimates, however, go to make up the reports of the government that materially affect prices of farm produce and either make or lose money for the farmers.

The government report for March is not yet at hand, hut we will not be surprised if it proves to be of such a nature as to bear prices. Wheat is very low, and those upon whom the government is compelled to depend for information, will more than likely conclude that the farmers still have a vast amount of wheat in their granaries. The Democrat would be only too happy to predict better markets for all farm produce in the very near future, if it thought the future would justify its prediction. The critical time for growing wheat commences with March, and something may develop in regard to the condition of winter wheat, or spring sowing be delayed by inclement weather, that may cause a sudden and rapid rise in wheat which would have a tendency to better the price of other grain. The farmer who holds grain over until this time of year, should not be over-anxious to sell until these critical periods have passed.

Since writing the above, the government report has been received, and will be found in another column of this paper. :112 East Douglas Avenue. Col. J. R.

Hallowed Gives His Views. We Want Men in Congress to Represent Kansas. The IH.mouut lias repeatedly called the attention of Republican statesmen in Kansas to the demands of farmers, and asked these would he sonants to express their opinions in regard to the Alliance movement. Tlie-e Republican statesmen, however, have been a little backward in coming to the front. A representative of The Democrat, knowing that Col.

J. R. Hallow ell's friends would force him in the race for congressman for the big seventh district, called at his office Monday morning and asked him if he would like to talk to Tiie Hkmoi rat's readers about the farmer movement and its probable influence on the coming congressional election. The representative of this paper will not deny the fact that he was somewhat surprised when the genial colonel threw himself baek in his office chair and said: Why, certainly, I am willing to talk about anything that is of interest to all of us. Candidly, I am glad the farmers of Kausas are getting in shape to let their wants le known and force a bearing in regard to their interests.

The state of Kansas is decidedly an agricultural state, and all our business is bound to depend for prosperity upon the success of agriculture. When the Kansas farmer fails, no other business in the state can possibly prosper, because agriculture is the basis of all our wealth. Therefore, every man and every other interest in the state of Kausas is interested in maintaining and protecting agriculture. If I were in congress, I want it understood that I would represent Kausas, and for that reason I am perfectly willing that everybody should know my views on questions affecting the welfare of Kansas as far as xve are affected by national legislation. I am fully persuaded in my own mind that the unsatisfactory condition of affairs in this state, which is affecting not only the farmers interest, liut every other interest in the state, is very largely due to an insufficiency of currency with which to do the legitimate business of the people.

Notwithstanding the business of this country is constantly increasing, the supply of our currency has been constantly decreasing in volume for the last twelve years. We have more than $218,000,000 less currency at this time than we had in 1876. This is all wrong, and there is no benefit to the people in any such business. I am in favor of more money. I am in favor of a double standard, and the equal coinage of gold and silver.

I am also in favor of issuing at least $150,000,000 more legal tender treasury notes to take the place of currency that has been retired by national banks. This country is all right, and there will be prosperity if the people are allow ed a liberal supply of currency to facilitate trade. The people of the northern states of the Union ere prosperous at the close of the civil ar in spite of the fact that a very large number of producers were made non-producers by enlisting the army. They were prosperous because there was plenty of money in circulation. Plenty of money will now relieve the people of the west of these hard times.

Plenty of money will inspire enterprise, enterprise will increase wages, liberal wages will increase consumption, consumption will increase demand, and an increased demand will increase the price of our productions. You may also say that I am in favor of raising still higher the taxes on all liquors, so as to create a fund for the payment of soldiers pensions, and thereby relieve articles of necessity and farm machinery of tariff duties. Whenever there is a proposed revision of the tariff, eastern congressmen are there to demand something for their own sections. I think a Kansas congressman ought to be there to contend for the interest of Kansas. Patriotism is a good thing, but I am not in favor of becoming so impressed with the welfare of the whole country as to lose sight of our own interest.

I would support every measure that would benefit Kansas producers, and, if my own party in congress did not do that, they would find me a vigorous kicker. Economic problems of great concern to western people are constantly being presented for solution, and we must meet them like men. Now, for instance, eastern men are proposing to build an immense navy. This will, of course, require large revenues to be collected by the government. As far as Kansas is concerned financially, we might just as well give this immense surplus revenue to the eastern states as to build an expensive navy.

Not a dollar of it would ever find its way out here, and we would he subjected to this everlasting drain of money. It is all wrong and I am opposed to it. We get our share of the benefits arising from the distribution of pension money, but we would receive no benefit from the millions it is proposed to invest in a navy. It is time western men showed a little courage in defending their own rights. FINDLAY ROSS Furniture I ASCII Came in like a Lion AND WILL GO OUT LIKE A LAMB.

THEREFORE GO NOIV TO THE ARCADE And Examine the Fine Stock of SPRING The Largest Stock and Lowest Prices in the City. VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS. Some Collections and Reflections by The Democrats Philosopher. People will not be satisfied in any cut. There is a good deal of complaint about scarcity of money, but County Treasurer Cartwright says nearly all the land that sold for taxes last ear lias been redeemed.

T. (). lloss Twill tell you what we farmers want to do. IVe want to raise everything. I ra'se wheat, corn, buckwheat, flax, rye and everything else that is raised on a farm.

I hate made money farming, but I if by going to the bank to get money to spec ulate on. Judge Little tohl me that he had been to New England and that the manufacturing towns are all prosperous, but the farmers there are complaining about hard times. I told him the reason of that is. the farmers are taxed for the benefit of the manufacturers, but the manufacturers are not taxed for the benefit of the farmers. r.

Pierc told me yesterday that ali the towns in Southern Kansas have come to the conc lusion that we are going to have one large city in this section and they all agree that IVichita will be the big city. I asked him what Hutchinson conceded. He said Hutchinson still claims to lie the saltcellar of the edible display. I saw Uncle John Carpenter in the county building the other day and he told me that we are going to have good times right away. I asked him what was going to bring about this desirable result.

Just then the motor car bell rang and Uncle John said, as he ran down the steps, Because we have a Republican administration. John Mund I am an agent for the North German line of steamers and I get a great many letters from people in Germany. These letters are all alike in one respect, the writers say they will not come to a Prohibition state like Kansas. They imagine it is a terribly despotic government that will not allow a man to drink beer. I have been in Kansas since 1876 and I think it is a good state.

Judge Redden We have not much Resubmission sentiment in Butler county. I do not think Resubmission will make any changes in our elections, but I am not so certain about the Alliance movement. I think our farmers ought to kick and that is what they are going to do. I cannot tell exactly what the farmers will do in the election of a congressman, hut there will he a big change if they do not get what they demand. We have a practical demonstration, I am sorry to say, in this city, that Prohibition exercises a more restraining influence than a high license.

The city council has been trying to restrain the dogs by a high license for a number of years, and while Prohibition has driven the liquor into hiding places, an innumerable number of unlicensed dogs continue to monopolize the sidewalks on the principal streets of Wichita. When the Barber Asphalt company' put dow-n their pavement on Market street, there was a good deal of indignation expressed against the city council for allowing the people to be but after a two or three months trial of the Market street swindle, I notice that a goodly number of those who kicked the most vigorously are now in favor of the asphalt pavement. I am becoming somewhat attached to the swindle myself. C. W.

Conklin I am an old soldier, but I would not ask for a pension if the government would treat me as fairly as it did the bondholder. I got my pay in depreciated money and now I want that depreciation made good. In Nashville, in 1865, 1 received back pay due me to the amount of $300. It was paid in 7-30 bonds, which I was compelled to discount five per cent, for currency. The currency' was worth about fifty cents on the dollar.

Just as soon as I came out of the army I was taxed to help make the bondholders dollar as good as gold, that is, to pay him in gold for the depreciated money we have borrowed of him. I want the soldier treated as well as the bondholder. A Dead Child. A dead baby, apparently about four months old, was found in a car on a south bound Santa Fe passenger train during the stop at the Douglas avenue depot last Thursday morning. The body of the dead child was given over to Undertaker Dunbar, and the coroner was notified of the suspicious circumstances.

It was thought that the child must have been murdered and left on the train for the purpose of concealing the identity of the child and the perpetrators of the murder. It was soon learned, from some of the passengers on the train, that a middle aged woman and a young man were seen with a child at Newton and that the parties had left the train at the union depot in this city. From this clue, it did not take the officers long to locate the woman and young man who were supposed to have deserted the child. Mrs. Dr.

F. O. Burkett and her son, a young man about eighteen years of age, were arrested Thursday night and held during the investigation by the coroner. The parties arrested live at King-man, and are the wife and son of Dr. F.

O. Burkett, a practicing physician of that place. The inquest and post mortem revealed the factthatMrs. Burkett had been on a tour through California, had found the child at some charitable institution in that state, had concluded to adopt the little stranger, and that the artificial food fed to the child during the long journey, not being suitable, it had died of starvation. The doctors making the examination thought the immediate cause of death was the inability or lack of power to assimilate its food.

The evidence of Drs. Foote, Purdy, Fabrique, McAdams, Graham and Oldham failed to show any criminal negligence on the part of Mrs. Burkett, and she and her son were released, after which Mrs. Burkett was re-arrested on the charge of having deserted the child. City Election.

Every citizen who has the best interest of IVichita at heart should register and vote at the next election. Every property holder and laboring man in the city, whether he owns property or not, will be benefited by an honest administration of the citys affairs. Do not allow the men who have a money interests in city improvement contracts to influence the election of councilmen. The people should elect their own councilmen and members of the school hoard. A large amount of the peoples money will be expended in the next year for public improvements, and the peoples rights will not be faithfully guarded if the people neglect their own interest.

DRY Frank A. Cooper Manufacturers and Jobbers of the Famous (alia Lily Toilet (roods. GOODS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS E. A. Kino, Spring Xlillinerv.

"LHE (UhhK Mrs. J. V. i spring Millinery. 8w IB (iij)ssEK, Fashionable Tailors, M.

T. 1 MiS, lhiots alal sinus. Smith A Stover. Boots aiul shoes. Smithsox A Real Estate.

Cot.F Jones, Clothing amt Gents Fttinishiin; Goods. .1 udge Buckner reports business at the probate court unpleasantly quiet for the past week. IV. A. McXees sold twenty-six carriages and buggies last uesday to YanVleet Sargent, of Winfield.

The schoolteachers of Wichita received their pay for four weeks last Saturday. The total sum paid was The remains of Helen Hefner, who died at the St. Francis hospital, were last Friday shipped to Cincinnati for interment. Every voter who expects to take a part in the election of councilmen and members of the school hoard, should register at once. John Mund, of Reno couuty, says the late cold weather has killed all the peach buds and that we will have no peaches this year.

IV. B. Hotchkiss, formerly of IVichita and publisher of the Beacon, was married at Indianapolis last Saturday to Miss Anna M. "White. The farmers coming into Wichita from the north, nearly all come down Market street.

They prefer to drive on the new asphalt pavement. The speculators at the grain exchange in the hoard of trade building, have nearly all quit tmying and selling grain and are dealing in railroad stocks. A. W. Oliver called O.

H. Bentley to account for having made a speech in favor of a constitutional convention instead of Resubmission straight, at Atchison. O. F. Percy, ex-coroner of tills county, died at his home in Valley Center last Monday night.

Mr. Percy was an old settler, having lived here for about fifteen years. The immigration bureau is receiving thousands of names of people living in eastern states, to whom will he sent immigration documents giving information about Kansas. A large number of men and teams collected on Main street last Monday morning expecting the Barber Asphalt company to commence paving. Owing to the non-arrival of material the men were not allowed to commence work.

The New Mexico cattlemen, who were the guests of Wichita last Monday, were loud in their praises of the Peerless Princess. Governor Hadley said, he had in his short visit, already seen much more of a city than he had ever anticipated. Two young colored men were making loud threats to do some shooting, last Tuesday morning at the comer of Main street and Central avenue.Quite a crowd collected to witness the marksmanship of the two disputants, put the police put a stop to the proceedings. The teachers of this county will hold a meeting at the Lewis Academy next Saturday evening. Addresses will be delivered by Chancellor Everest of the Garfield University, Supt.

Stevens, Prof. Naylor of the Lewis Academy, and Prof. Kemp of the Wichita University. Wichita Consistory No. 2 will hold a reunion and convention for work on March 18, 19 and 20, when all the degrees from the 4th to the 32nd will be conferred.

All Scottish Rite Masons in good standing of the northern or southern jurisdictions are invited to attend this reunion. The new court house is nearing completion and when finished will he a credit to the people of Sedgwick county. There is nothing impresses the stranger with the importance of a place more than magnificent public buildings. No farmer in this county will ever look at the new court house with any other than a feeling of pride. W.

S. Lyons, H. W. Mulvey, Nathan Hall, H. Romero, Wiley Weayer, R.

M. Barbour, F. Nichols, S. S. Jackson, T.

R. Jones, Louis Lutz, J. D. Reed, J. G.

Albright, W. B. Slaughter, P. Mothersill, O. A.

Hadley, C. B. Zreek, Rox Hardy, G. L. Brooks, J.

E. Seint, A. Rhodes, and W. H. H.

Llewellen, the New Mexico delegation to the cattlemens convention at Fort Worth, Texas, arrived in Wichita last Monday. They were met at the depot by the members of the board of trade and escorted to the Carey, where dinner was served, after which they were taken in carriages and driven over a portion of the city. AH expressed great satisfaction with Wichita. The general committee of the G. A.

R. met in the parlors of the Metropole last Friday evening, and effected an organization by electing Charles Ballance secretary. The chairman appointed M. Stewart, B. H.

Downing and John A. Wallace a committee on finance. Murray Myers, M. Stewart, T. Kramer, Captain Osborne and Lieutenant Gordon were appointed a committee to have entire charge of the ball.

George IV. Larimer was instructed to ask the board of trade to hold a reception for General Alger on uesday morning. J. N. Bayless, H.

Owens and John Johnson were appointed a committee on music, and John Wallace was appointed a committee on printing. An invitation was extended to Major William Warner to he present, and also to the Modoc club at Topeka. Murray Myers was appointed marshal of the day and Charles Schaffer assistant. It is the determination of the old soldiers and citizens to give General Alger a reception that will cause him to long remember Wichita. General Alger will arrive on the morning of the 25th of this month, when it is believed most of the old soldiers in all the country for many miles around will be here to take part in the reception and performances of the day.

Wichita Market Review. Catti.e. Receipts of cattle at the Union stock yards have been moderate and prices have ruled strong. Good native shipping steers, 1400 to 1600 pounds, are selling for $3 804 20. Good butchers steers $3 40ig3 80, native feeding will sell for $2 856f3 25, cows and heif-fers $1 85(2 15.

lions. The receipts of hogs for the past week have not been up to the demand of packers. Nearly all the hogs arriving are readily sold for $3 67K3 70. 8iieep. There is not much demand for sheep and the receipts are light.

Good mutton sheep may be quoted 3 254 00, good stock weathers, 75 to 80 pounds, 3 cents. Wheat. Receipts of wheat light and demand good. Milling wheat 55660 cents, low grade 256; 40 cents. Corn.

Receipts of corn are liberal and the market active at 14 cents for good yellow, while white brings 15 cents at the mills. Oats. Oats receipts are light and selling for 1213 cents. In addition to these attractions, we finished our inventory Saturday evening, and have set aside a number of odd little lots of Dry Goods and cut the prices to close them out. Be sure to call for the greatest novelty of the season the Grasshopper Tidy Fastener.

Here are some of the bargains: 95-CENT CORSET. IVe offer you for 95 cents a corset you cannot break down, cut after the best French model. If this corset breaks down your money will he refunded and no questions asked. 48-CENT MOHAIRS. A beautiful line of new colors in these goods just opened, all double width.

These goods are very cheap. One hundred (100) pieces new Satines only 124 cents. FLORENTINE FOULARDS. These are new goods for ladies dress, and we open them at only 15 cents. They ought to bring more.

ZEPHYR GINGHAMS. Beal Zephyr Ginghams only 15 cents per yard. This is a special lot opened cheap to open the balL ARCADE. ANOTHER NOVELTY. Printed Saccaroppas on 124 cents.

The ARCADE is flooded with new goods. ARCADE Frank A. Cooper 248 NORTH MAIN STREET, WICHITA, KANSAS. Accordion Plating still free at ARCADE. A WORD TO FARMERS.

Now is the Time to List Your FARM Kansas Farmers i i BAKER. BLASDEL CO. Manufacturers Ajrents and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Agricultural Implements, Wagons, Carriages. Etc. The Immigration Committee is hard at work, and inquiries for Kansas Iaiids are coming in from all sides.

Send in full DESCRIPTION of your Farm, with PRICE, to SMITHSON 200 East Douglas Avenue, WICHITA, KANSAS. Another Old Settler. The claim was made in this paper a short ti Sie since that The Democrat had on its subscription list some of the oldest settlers in this valley. An account was given of Quince Sniders settlement in Rockford township about twenty years ago. Another old settler, and a subscriber of The Democrat, is Mr.

Bernard Daly of Delano township. Mr. Daly came to this county in March, 1870, and settled on the southeast quarter of section 31 in the township above named, where he now lives. Mr. Daly says that, when he came here, he walked from Burlingame and had about five hundred dollars in his pocket his entire possessions.

He says that, when he came to the hill now called Frisco Eights, east of IVichita, he was charmed by the magnificent scenery and resolved to make his home here for the balance of his life. Mr. Daly says that, when he settled on his claim, the only men in that section of country were Frank Dodge and Isaac Walker. John McCormick afterwards came and bought a place from someone for twenty dollars. The party claiming it never made a settlement, but John gave him the twenty dollars to avoid any unpleasantry.

When Wichita began to extend toward Mr. Dalys farm, he sold eighty acres of it to some speculators for $24,000, receiving $8,000 in hand and taking a mortgage for the balance. The parties did not pay the balance, and Mr. Daly closed the mortgage and got back the land. L.

C. JACKSON, WHOLESALE COAL WICHITA FULTON MKT. PETRY KUNKEL, Proprietors. Dealers in sU Kinds of Imported Canned Goods, Sausage and Cheese. Fresh and Salt Meats.

Freeh Fish and Game in Season. '4 I2i North Market Street, Wichita, Kansas. A Chicago Mans Opinion. C. D.

Burroughs, of Chicago, was in Wichita last Friday. He is engaged in the real estate and loan business in the city by the lake. To a representative of The Democrat he said: I think you have a nice little city here, and I think it is all right and will continue to grow until it is much larger than at present. I have heard a great deal of talk in Chicago and other places about Wichita. Some of the newspapers misrepresent your city shamefully, hut that does not make much difference.

Intelligent people all over the country know what you are doing and the advantages of your location. It is generally conceded by people outside of this state that Wichita is the best town in Kansas, and whatever comes about to give Kansas a good name helps Wichita. What do you think of our immigration movement There are a great many Germans come to our office in Chicago, and they talk about Kansas more than any other class. They like a country where they can raise plenty of corn. I have heard hundreds of these German people say that they would like to come to Kansas, hut they would not come to a prohibition state.

I am thoroughly convinced that prohibition is keeping thousands of settlers away from Kansas, and the class that it is keeping away is the very class that would develop your farms and make this state come to the front rank. I am a Republican, but I tell you that I work for my own interest once in awhile as well as for other people, and, if I were to come to Kansas to live, I would work for my own interest by voting the Democratic ticket. I would never ruin my own state just to keep the Republican party in power. People outside of Kansas do not believe you will ever get clear of prohibition in this state while the Republican party is in power. If you would down every man on the Republican ticket, people outside your state would then believe prohibition would be defeated, and thousands of people would rush to Kansas.

AND BUILDING MATERIAL. TRIMBLE THRELKELD, 112 South Fourth Avenue. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL I REMOVED! Figg B6az, Undertakers, Has removed from 117 8. Main to 327 Douglas, where their friends wiU find them in the fntnre. Telephone 182.

Interested in Wichita. The Frisco officials. President Winslow and General Manager Morrill, were in Wichita last Friday. They telegraphed Col. Murdock to meet them at the Douglas avenue depot to discuss matters pertaining to Wichita.

President Winslow said that time and its developments had settled the fact that Kansas was going to have a great commercial city within her own borders, and that Wichita was going to be that city without question, and that soon and with all depression from present debts and low prices to the contrary notwithstanding. Wm. Lillie, The Merchant Tailor, Has Just Received a Fine New Line of Goods, all the Latest Patterns. Call and See Them. 131 North Main Street, Wichita, Kansas.

Sa' ANtJt Tons of New Footwear. Mr. N. A. Lewis, manager for IV.

T. Damon 110 North Main street, has just returned from the eastern markets with several tons of latest style hoots, shoes and slippers. In the boot and shoe business Mr. Lewis proposes to make music similar to the sweet sounds that echoed over the earth when the morning stars sang together, and to astonish the people, not with sheriffs sale shop worn goods, but with the newest and most fashionable brands of footwear at prices that will terrify all competitors, lie bought for spot cash on the eastern markets and tan sell at rock bottom prices. CUTLERY, TINWARE and STOVES.

110 EAST DOUGLAS AVENUE. WICHITA. KANSAS. HOUSEKEEPERS DELIGHT: The DANGLER Gasoline Stove. The Oven Burners are Used on this Stove While all Other Burners are Shut off.

No other Stove can do This. STOP IN AND SEE IT. Fresh Roasted aud Crushed Coffee a specialty. Mail and Telephone Orders attended to. State Agents Wanted.

1 C. I. FULLER, 202 Douglas Avenue, Wichita, Kansas. Farmers are frequently heard to remark that they will not return to the assessors the amount of corn and oats they will plant this spring, because such statistics are used to ther disadvantage. J.

K. McGregor was on the streets last Tuesday for the first time in nearly two weeks, having been kept within doors by sickness during that length of time..