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THE TIMES I Cheney Journal. Established 1887. Wichita Times, Sucessor to i Cheney Blade, Established 1889. Cheney Herald. Established 1891' WICHITA, KANSAS.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. 1898. VOL. VIU. NO.

4fl. SPECIE PAYMENT IN CHILI. Mr. Homan has established for the Midland road in this city A game of ball was placed at between the Colwieh club and the aud opened an office at 201 Sedgwick Rattlers of Wichita, yesterday. The block.

The road is now under a lease of the Frisco and it is believed will be purchased by this company soon. If this purchase is consumated Wichita Rattlers had two Andersons and the scorer called the wrong one who sent the ball beyond any of the fielders and secured a home run. bringing in the will be made the end of a division, others who were on the bases. The Col Kanaas G. A.

R. Reunion at Topeka. September 28, to October 3. One fare for the round trip over all roads. The fair grounds, park and all buildings will be given over to the veterans and their families.

The most noted Grand Army orators of the state and nation will be present at the re-union festival at Topeka. Campfires will be held every day and evening interspersed with band and choral music, street pageants, processions, tournaments and carnivals. The flower parade which the Topeka ladies have charge of as their part of Topeka's Festival-Reunioh will be the first one ever given in Kansas. wich boys kicked, but the umpire would not count Anderson out and decided the game 9 to 1 in favor of the Rattlers. This will bring all the freight and passenger division offices to this city.

This will necessitate the building of a round house and passenger depot and will locate a number of the employes and their families in Wichita. Bryan has made two great speeches. They are a fair representation of the man. Lincolns speeches are a fair representation of the man. Compare the two mens speeches.

Yon should have Lincolns Gettysburg speech. Compare it or his second inaugral in its simple dignity to Bryans flashy compound of old campaign material delivered at Chicago, or his verbose acceptance where he spends four columns defending a position which the Republicans have held for years, and a few paragraphs in evading the question whether 16 to 1 can be maintained. No doubt be meant by his great lengthy speech to keep people from reading it, but read it and count the times he assumes bis arguments and fails to give proof and the times he evades the facts that cant help rise in the business mans mind. This is the action of a derna- gogue not a statesman. Clarence Williams, whose family live at 440 West Fourteenth street, was killed at Leatonia, Ohio, Tuesday.

Mr. Williams had been in the employ of the Syndicate circus for the past year, and the telegiam announcing his death gave no particulars of the cause. Reeves. Lydia Silvia, daughter of Charles and Cora Reeves, born in Sedgwick county, Kansas, December 6, 1894, died July 25, 1896, aged 1 year, 7 months and 19 days, after an illness of some days with cholera infantum. The funeral sertices were conducted by Roy.

T. B. Lawrence at Scltzee church and the remains were buried in the Selton church cemetery on Saturday July 25, 1896. She has gone to meet the angels Around God's pearly throne, Where she shall ever happily dwell To call her parents home. A fire at 135 Stella avenue Tuesday morning destroyed a two-story house, the family by the name of Green, barely escaping with their scant night apparel.

The department responded promptly, but was too late to save the house. A Lesson in Silver of the Sufferings of Wage-Earners- The industrial history of the world is filled with instances that demonstrate that the wage earner will be the greatest sufferer from the evils of a depreciated currency. Not speak at present of the stoppages of enterprises that will inevitably result from the adoption of an unstable standard of value, from the fears and uncertainties of the future of a country whose money system and industries will then be in the hands of the politicians, whose cardinal doctrine is that thrift is not necessarily the gain of skill and industry, but may be promoted and compelled by legislation, not to speak of the thousands of workingmen who would find themselves without employment on the day after the election of Mr. Bryan, it is the univer sal experience that at a time of inflated prices ages are the last to rise, and they never rise so high that their purchasing power is as great when com modities are highest as it was hen commodities were lowest. This is the story of industry in all times and in all countries.

It was true of our own country when our currency was depreciated paper, aud more recently it has been true of Chili, which, after seventeen years of bitter experience with the silver standard, has just adopted the gold standard. In the course of an able and exhaustive report on Resumption of Specie Payment in Chili, to which we shall have occasion to refer more than once during the present campaign, Mr. Edward H. Stro-bel, our minister to Chili, has presented some interesting statistics of the course of wages during the silver period. The peso is supposed to be worth 43 pence, but in 1873 it was worth 43 3-4 A great reduction has been made in the membership fees of the Y.

M. C. A. For the next three months or until Nov. 1.

the price will be $1. This includes all privileges, gymnasium, baths, etc. A shower bath these hot days is a boon in itself well worth the amount. When Bryan advocated free trade four years ago and complained that the Wilson bill did not go far enough, he was mistaken. Now he wants free silver.

May he not be mistaken again In describing an object the Indian has the wonderful faculty of picking out its most distinguished characteristic at once. I have repeatedly seen Indians come into a military post to see officers. Without knowing the particular officers name, and without being able to pronounce it intelligibly if it were known, I have never seen an instance where, by a few signs, the Indian has not been at once directed to the person whom he wished to see. A stout officer will be described beyond the possibility of any doubt when the Indian half-circles his extended hands over the region of his stomach. If the officer wears glares, the Indian will look through the two circles made by his thumbs and first fingers; if the officer is bald, the Indian will raise his own long tresses in one hand and draw the forefinger of his other hand across the top of his bead as though he were going through the pleasant operation of lifting a scalp.

An officer who varied the monotony of frontier life by very steudy and hard drinking I once saw an Indian describe by pointing to the head and then waving his hand in small circles. There was no mistaking that sign the Indian A happy meeting took place at the home of Mrs. C. A. Foster of South Lawrence avenue.

Some forty years ago Mrs Foster married and left her Illinois home and settled in California, in time losing all trace of her family whom she thought dead. Last week Thomas Winn, one of four brothers yet alive, who lives in Montrose, Colorado, with his two sons paid a visit to his sister. the first one she has met. The fire insurance agents will hold a picnic at Lin wood park on Wednesday! afternoon and evening, August 18, 1896. -Jtsr note how the Pops are quot-The various offices will be closed at ing Blain on silver.

They quote him the purpose of at- noon on that day for tending. like the devil quotes scriptur only in part When such is done look out! Beware! They are fooling you. Governor Anthony said two years ago, "Populism is the Magnified Miseries of Mankind. The governor is now passed away, but the truth lives on. Billy Myers, Sheriff Cone's efficient and popular clerk, has decided to embark in business for himself.

He will devote his entire time to the Western Mercantile company of which he is secretary and treasurer. Tom Wilson has refused the chairmanship of the Republican county central committee. The Republicans plead with him, but it was of no avail. Tom has worked very hard for the last twelve months and should go to the mountains and recuperate. He will go into training shortly for an appointment under the McKinley At a meeting of the Wichita Wheelmen the officers to be in charge of the races on the 25th and 26th were appointed.

All the home boys have been in training for sometime and all look forward to the meet with interest. Freddie Browder, a well known clerk in the Boston store, aged 16, died at his home on the west side Friday of typhoid fever, and will be buried today. wanted the officer v. Ucac bruin was in a whirl. And although utterly devoid of sense of humor, an Indian is always laughingly good natured in thus pointing out any one's distiug uishing characteristic or eccentricity.

The expression of words by means of the sign language may be divided into the following classes: Imitating actions or attributes: pointing to objects; representing shapes, sizes. u-es or habits; simulating emotions: employing metaphors consistent with Indian conception and making empirical signs, although if the developement of signs of this last class could be traced back I am sure they would resolve themselves into some one of the other classes. Hon. Rudolph Hatfield will address the various McKinley clubs of the city next Moaday evening, August 17, at the auditorium. His address will be upon the issues of the campaign and will be of much interest to all desiring an honest and truthful explanation of the important questions now agitating the public.

Go and hear him. I Ed Swarts, the man shot by the West It reems there was some objection on gi(e tough) is able t0 be about again the part of the city to receiving and anfj likely recover, except a scar settling for the pavement until it va thoroughly repaired hieh the com-1 pany are now doing in a very satisfac-j La()el buUons are greatly in demand tory man net. now and no one can consider himself in the swim unless he sport either a The O. M. B.

and A. I1. A. are all right and will pull through all right as they have Ben Downing and Tom Wilson who are officers in and are at the head of the Union League of this city'. McKinley or Bryan button.

Mrs. Dr. St. John, who was called tJ the deathbed of her father, M. R.

Sherman, McGregor. returned home Tuesday. A colored man, Robert Treteller, sue. ceeded in passing a forged or worthless check upon B. W.

Daniels, of North Main street, in exchange for goods and ash to the amount of $20. By prompt action Mr. Daniels regained possession of his property and landed the colored gentleman in jail to await a charge of obtaining goods under false pretense. We understand that Governor Levv-elling had positively declined to become a candidate for state senator, lie has pence, in it wa 'wth. 26 pence, and in 1895 it was worth but from 13 to 17 pence.

During this period, while the money of the country was depreciating, and when, therefore, its purchasing power was growing less, wages increased, but not nearly at the rate at which the peso decreased. In 1875, for example, some mechanics received from 3 to 4 1-2 pe-os a day; a carpenter received from 3 to 4 pesos; a laborer from 1 1-2 to 1 3-4 pesos. In the mechanic who had received from 3 to 4 1-2 pesos received from 4 3-4 to ti 1-2, while the carpenter received from 4 to 5 and the laborer from 2 1-4 to 3. But the higher wages were not worth nearly so much to the reecipients as the lower wages had been, for while in 1875 the peso was worth nearly its full value, in 1895 4 3-4 pesos were equivalent to 1.79, and 6 1-2 pesos were worth only 2.40 pesos of full value. The laborer instead of being able to buy the necessaries of life to the value of nearly 1 1-2 pesos with a days wages in 1895, procured goods to the value of only about .85 of a peso, although in the first instance his days wage was 11-2 pesos, and in the latter 2 1-4 pesos.

When he received 1 3-4 pesos his daily wage purchased for him food and other commodities of the value of about 1.70 pesos; in 1895, when his day's wage was 3 pesos, it purchased only 1 1-3 pesos worth of goods. We do not recite these facts because they are new and exceptional. On the contrary, they ure the most modern in stances of a universal and unchangable law, and if by any unhappy chance Mr, Ilryan should be elected president, and if the communists and populists should control the house of representatives and congress should enact a free-coin-age law, the wage-earners of our own country would again suffer the hard ships that prevailed in the United States during the war, and that has been so recently experienced in Chili Harpers Weekly. Mrs. E.

M. Brown and A. M. Irwin changed his mind: the office of state attended the funeral of their cousin senator pursued him so persistently, that he gave up in the first round. Mrs.

James Brewer, of Peabody, Monday. Mr. Frank R. Tracy and Miss Grace Bledsoe, both of this city were married lust Sunday evening at 610 S. Main.

It is reported that the Sedgwick county Republican central committee will elect Ben Downing chairman. If they elect this man Downing, we will not elect a man on the county ticket and will lose votes for the congressional and state ticket. Downing is a dead duck and he and some of his backers dont know it. Miss Minnie Stuckey, principle of the Third ward school, returned last week from the meeting of the National Teachers association at Buffalo, and a visit to joe Christman has returned friends in Canada, St. Louis and other a visit to Cay City, and points.

Chicago, and Joe is again happy. A groat many people wonder why colored tickets were used at the Republican primaries. It is this way. We have the O. M.

B. and the A. P. A. organizations composed of Republicans, Democrats and Populists.

Then we have the Uniou League composed of Republicans. The U. L. has about forty members and don't want any larg-er membership, yet the forty U. L.

be long to the O. M. B. and the A. P.

A. and have up to date controlled those two organizations, and the striped tick ets were used to hold those two organ izations in line. We know what we are talking about and can prove what we say- Some of the people in the city are advocating the placing of all electric and telephone lines in the allies. A very good suggestion indeed, since it is a shame the manner in which the employes of these companies cut and slash the nice shade trees along the streets, completely ruining many of them, wherever they come in contact with their wires, and in utter contempt and disregard of the protests of adjacent property owners. By all means protect our trees which are the pride of our city and has taken so many years to grow into their present beauty.

Prof. M. A. Carleton of the United States department of agriculture is spending his vacation in this city. Mr.

Cox, of Wichita, is in the city on a months visit with his wife, who has been spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. T. A. Campbell. Pratt Republican.

Mr. Duncan, attorney for Comanche county, stopped over on his way home from the state convention. He says the Populist craze has so far worn off as to leave the people in a health condition and the Republican ticket a sure winner this fall in Comanche. If yon are interested in poultry read about the one hundred poultry Captain Bennett gave a three day'J Pictreg in another column. entertainment of his wonderful pony For sale or trade: a scholarship in the and dog show which was well attended by a large and appreciative audience.

Yellow Jackets have taken possession of a section of sidewalk on Douglas avenud between Locust and Ash treets and built their nests under the same. It is well in passing this locality to tread lightly or one is liable to come in contact with tbe business end of a lot of gold bugs with their war paint on. Wichita Business College. Enquire at the Times office. Quite a party of Wichita people are over on the Walnut enjoying an outing und camp Hie.

I. Dillev and Miss Cora A. Benton of Wichita, and J. T. Dickerson of Benton and Miss Jessie E.

Carroll of Warsaw, have been licensed to marry Owing to the extreme hot, dry weather, the street force has been laid off indefinitely. Wednesday evening the fire department was called to the rear of Fuller's grocery store to extinguish a small fire cuused by escaping gasoline. A warrant was issued from Justice Jones court yesterday for George S. Wilson for embezzling money from one Sallie Kennedy. Mr.

Wilson has been a resident of this city for several years and the bringing of this action was a surprise to his many friends. Caroline Harrison Circle Ladies of the G. A. R. gave an ice cream social at the residence of Mrs.

Cossitt, corner of Gentral and Riverview Wednesday afternoon and evening, which was well patronized. The Circle realized quite slim from the sale of refreshments which will he used for charitable pur poses. This organization does' mor genuine charitable work than uny oth er in the city and is deserving of the liberal patronage of all classes. A. M.

Goldstandt is in the easterm markets scouring novelties for thd fall trade. The Fort Worth Telegram chronicles the re-arrest at El Paso, Texas, of Charlie Parker, the notorious cattle thief who was arrested at Ashland, this state, a year or two since after receiving the contents of Sheriff Raven-scraft's Winchester in the shouldel) and who afterwards made his escape from the Wichita hospital. The German Millitary Aid society will celebrate the 2Gtb anniversary of the battle of Sedun, on September 2, by a grand picnic. to Ellin- The Frisco railroad people liuve put In a large plate glass window in their new ticket office on Main und Douglas. Fritz Huttman has gone wood for a ten days visit..