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              <text>Wichita Farmers Win Siege of Dynamite&#13;
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     Wichita, Kan.---Harvey Pitman and James P. Somers, farmers, have capituated and their fight with the Midland Valley railway over a right of way through their farms near Derby came to a bloodless end. Pitman and Somers had their farms protected with dynamite mines and were patrolling them with guns in hand. Each farmer is to receive $4,000 from the railway company for damages. Pitman was awarded $2,775 and Somers $1,775 by a board of appraisers. By agreement Pitman and Somers are to remove all their mines and go ahead of the graders to insure that here are no explosives in the ground. Pitman said he would ride on a rake over every inch of the right-of-way. They planted over 100 charges of dynamite on their farms.&#13;
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     J.W. McLoud, general attorney for the railroad, carrying a flag of truce, visited Pitman while graders and newspaper men looked on from a distance. The two men talked for six hours; Somers joined Pitman and the talk continued. It broke up with the men shaking hands. Pitman and Somers threw down their guns and came to Wichita and signed a peace compact.</text>
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              <text>“Carrie Nation Again”&#13;
With Three Companions She Smashes Some Windows&#13;
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	Carrie Nation, Mrs. Myra McHenry, Mrs. Lucy Wilhoite and Mrs. Lydia Mountz were arrested yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock and taken to the city jail, where they are charged with the destruction of two large windows, the property of the Mahan Supply company.&#13;
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	Armed with hatchet, axe, hammer and stones, the four women proceeded quietly down a back street to the office of the Mahan Supply company on Rock Island avenue.  The company had received notice from the police station to be on their guard, and when Mrs. Nation and her assistants appeared there were four or five men standing before the doors to keep them from entering the building.&#13;
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	When the leader found that she would not be permitted to enter the building she opened her satchel and took out two stones, which she threw, breaking the glass out of the large office window.  Mrs. McHenry, who was armed with a hammer, made an attempt to break out another window but was frustrated in the attempt by one of the officers.  A large crowd collected and a telephone message was sent to the police station for the patrol.  Until the arrival of the officers, Mr. Mahan succeeded in holding Mrs. Nation so that she was unable to throw any more stones.&#13;
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	Upon the arrival of the patrol the women were placed in the wagon and on the way to the station hundreds of people followed hooting and yelling and calling loudly the name of Carrie Nation.  Arrived at the station the four prisoners were locked in a cell on the lower floor.  Immediately after their confinement in the cell a short prayer service was held, the women knelling on the cement floor.  At the conclusion of the prayer service a hymn was sung, after which they proceeded to investigate their surroundings.  Mrs. Nation stepped quickly to the iron door and through the grating addressed an Eagle reporter who was standing just outside.  “It seems to me this cell is rather damp.  Can’t you get us a better one?  I am getting very hoarse already from this dampness, and I know that there are better cells than this one in the building.”  Upon being reminded that she was in the city prison instead of the county jail, Mrs. Nation said: “Oh, yes.  I am mistaken.  It was at the county jail where I stayed a month.  This is my first trip to the city jail.”&#13;
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	The cell in which the women were placed had been thoroughly cleaned out earlier in the day, and in one or two little places there was some water standing in the slight indentations in the floor.  Failing to procure a different cell, Mrs. Nation opened her hand satchel and produced a dressing sacque with which she proceeded to mop the floor.&#13;
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	“We could do nothing but what we did today,” she said.  “God called us to do this work.  There were nine cases on the court docket this morning, and we feel that we shall have too much to answer for if we sit quietly by and see such deadly work go on.  The only way to accomplish our ends is to smash the hell keepers’ places.&#13;
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	“What have they done with my hatchet?” she demanded suddenly, her eyes sparkling.  “They have no right to that hatchet, and when I get out they must return it to me.  I have work to do with it.  I did not get to use my hatchet today.  Oh, no.  I did not have to.  I used stones.”&#13;
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	“That reminds me,” broke in Mrs. McHenry.  “I had a hammer and it is one that I do not wish to lose.  I cleaned out Derby with it, and upon the handle of it is, ‘Used by Myra McHenry when she cleaned out Derby.’  I hope they will take care of that hatchet because I want to keep it always.”&#13;
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         It was suggested to Mrs. Nation that an entrance fee be charged and the crowd outside be allowed to come in and see her. When the reporter said this, Mrs. Nation turned and said: “Yes, I expect we could make money, but I’m not in the menagerie. I may be some day, but I am not on exhibition now. I would not do it even if there were people on the outside with $300 to pay as a fee of admission.”&#13;
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		Mrs. Nation, Mrs. McHenry and Mrs. Wilhoit appeared to be excited and elated over their venture, but Mrs. Mountz say by herself in one corner of the room with an exceedingly thoughtful and, albeit, wistful look on her countenance. The frst three having had previous experience, did not seem to feel badly about being in jail, but on the contrary were very jolly and talkative.&#13;
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		When it became known over the city that Mrs. Nation and her companions were locked up in the city jail, immense crowds gathered and it required the assistance of several policemen to clear the office of the police department. Charles Prince, a man about 36 years of age, asked if he could put up a bond for the women and he was told by the chief that any bond would not be accepted. He then went outside the office, where he is charged with having made some profane remarks about the policemen. He was arrested and locked in a cell on the lower floor.&#13;
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              <text>“Death of Old Settler.”&#13;
R. A. Neely Was a Pioneer in Wichita.&#13;
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	Another one of the early settlers of Wichita has joined the larger number who have passed to the beyond.  R. A. Neely died at his home, 1431 North Market street at 7 a. m. yesterday.  Notice of the funeral will be given later.&#13;
&#13;
	R. A. Neely came to Wichita in the summer of 1870.  He took a claim on the east side of Chisholm creek, south of the Black place, and proved it up.  He afterwards sold the place and went to derby to engage in the grocery business with L. E. Vance.&#13;
&#13;
	Neely &amp; Vance did a large business with the first settlers in that section of the county.  After Mr. Neely went to Derby, then called El Paso, he was elected to the office of county commissioner, which was the only office he ever held.  His success as a merchant in these early days was limited because of his liberality.  Many of the early settlers were not very well fixed in the wealth of this world’s goods, but they all had credit at R. A. Neely’s store.&#13;
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	In the early seventies the business men of Derby were John Hufbauer, J. Haut Minnich, Albert Minnich, R. A. Neely, L. E. Vance, Dr. H. C. Tucker and George H. Litzenberg.  Hufbauer, Neely, J. Haut Minnich and Dr. H. C. Tucker are dead.  Albert Minnich is in Ohio and George H. Litzenberg lives in this city.  L. E. Vance came to Wichita with a team in the early eighties, since which time he has never been heard from.&#13;
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	In the early days when the merchants above named held forth in Derby it aspired to be the big city of the Arkansas valley.  They have a rock bottom in the Arkansas river at that point in the early seventies the Derbyites used to worry the Wichita town builders by writing letters to the Eagle and claiming that all of the railroads that came into this valley would have to come to Derby to cross the river at the only rock bottom ford on that stream between the mountains and the gulf of Mexico.  The people actually had faith in that rock ford and were surprised when the Santa Fe finally came and crossed the Arkansas where Mulvane is now located and at the widest place in the stream.  They found out that the railroads did not care for rock fords and did not go an inch out of their way for the Arkansas river, but crossed it wherever they pleased.&#13;
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&#13;
	R. A. Neely was born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1836.  He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss—William Neely of the Johnston-Larimer Dry Goods company, Harry C. Neely, commercial traveler, and Mrs. Gene Ketzler.&#13;
&#13;
	Mr. Neely came to this part of Kansas at the time when men who did not possess nerve of the necessary strength for a frontiersman remained in the east.  He was here when such men as Ledford, Curley Marshall, Rowdy Joe and Red were characters of the town, and he was an eye witness to some blood curdling scenes in the early frontier town.  He was never the man to take the life of a fellow man, but the men who did not value human life were all about him.  He had associated with the worst men on the frontier but he never lost that goodness of heart which was a part of his nature.  When R. A. Neely is laid to rest the soil of this valley will cover the remains of a man who never betrayed a friend or intentionally injured a neighbor.&#13;
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     Few men in this section are more widely or favorably known than the subject of this sketch, Mr. A. Minnich.&#13;
     Born in Trenton, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, March 29, 1842, the son of a prosperous merchant (Mr. Jno. Minnich, Sr.) he early inbibed a taste for merchant le pursuits, and the age when most boys are engaged with their marbles, tops, etc., found him behind his father's counter in the capacity of clerk, and, in due course of time, as the Book-keeper for the firm of Minnich &amp; Sons, his father being senior member of the firm, as well as one of the oldest settlers of the Tuscarawas Valley. In 1862 Mr. A. Minnich was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Tucker, and in 1871, with his family, he moved to Derby (then called El Paso,) where he and his brother, John H. Minnich, erected the first store building and opened a full and complete general stock of goods. Later, his brother, J. H., withdrew and Albert continued as sole proprietor of one of the most successful stores of the county. In 1884 Mr. Minnich found his business had increased so as to compel him to provide more room, in consequence of which, he erected, just north of the old site, one of the finest store rooms in the county, where he is still conducting a large and prosperous business. &#13;
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              <text>Correspondence of the Eagle.&#13;
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El Paso, Sedgwick, Co., Ks., Sept. 4, 1872.&#13;
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     Editor Eagle: Seeing a letter in last week's issue from our little neighbor across the water. Waco. I thought I would tell you something about us for the benefit of your many readers who may not know where and how we are situated. I will say that El Paso is in the southeast corner of the county, situated on the Arkansas river at the junction of the beautiful Spring creek. The town is laid out on the high prairie, overlooking the river and the vast bottom in which Waco is situated. There is one remarkable feature of our town, and that is the style of buildings up and in course of erection. They are of good size and substantial build. No little 10x12 cottonwood shanties. Mr. A. L. Minich of the firm Minich &amp; Bro. lives in his two story brick residence on Baltimore Ave. Another residence of worthy mention is our gentlemanly postmaster's. Dr. H. C. Tucker has built a fine residence in the rear of his drug store and brought his family to town. Although there is not much sickness here he is kept pretty busy, as he has the reputation of being the best doctor in these parts. Our enterprising fellow-townsman, R. R. Costin, is building him a fine store and residence on the corner of Baltimore and Market and is fitting a hall up stairs to be used by the votaries of the light fantastic toe. There is also a rumor that the Masons will organize and use the hall for a lodge.  &#13;
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     George Litzenberg, of the grocery firm Sharpnack &amp; Litzenberg, is doing a flourishing business in the real estate line. He says he has farms on Spring creek to sell from $300 to $1,500. In fact anything a man may want in the "dirt line."&#13;
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     I will say here for the benefit of your castern readers that this is one of the finest tracts of land in Kansas - well watered and timbered; and we think the day is not far distant when we will have coal mines in operation, as we find indications of coals in every well dug here. e climate is mild and salubrius, winters short and so mild that stock runs and feeds on the prairie the year round. The soil is of the richest in the state, and is a black sandy loam, with just sand enough to make it pulverize well.  No mud here the year round, and a man can work in his corn fields three hours after a heavy rain.&#13;
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     We have had two railroad survey,s but we don't hear the whistles as yet. That is all our town needs to make it a "city of the first class."&#13;
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     Our wide-awake saloon-keeper J. Griffey has just completed a fine livery and feed stable, size 22x36 feet, with a dance hall overhead, in which he gives a dance almost every week. Some of our Wichita neighbors could spend a pleasant evening at there "socials" - plenty to eat and drink, and good looking girls for partners.&#13;
&#13;
     Mr. McWilliams, one of our most extensive farmers,  built him a house here and expects to live in it this winter. &#13;
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     J. H. Bernard has built a factory and is going to manufacture wagons and farm implements. He and our blacksmith are turning out some good work.&#13;
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     Our merchants are all doing a good business, and there are but two changes that I know of. Mr. Neely has purchased the interest of his partner, Mr. Vance, and has restocked his store, and is doing a big biz. George Mamson has traded the El Paso House and furniture for a farm, and his successor J. Q. Graham, is playing mine host for the benefit of the traveling public, and for the few poor mortals here who are not blessed with a "household angel." He dishes up as good hash as any hotel in the state, and says that as long as Kansas City, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Wichita and other places send out "drummers" that leave the wealth, he will continue to do so.&#13;
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     Judge L. E. Vance, the gentleman nominated on the liberal county ticket for probate judge, is a resident of our town, and is a gentleman fully qualified for the position, and although a "crow eater," will carry this and surrounding townships where he is well known.&#13;
&#13;
     "Farmer Doolittle," your farmer correspondent from this place, being a strong supporter of the "honest sage," feels so badly over the election returns from North Carolina, Maine and other places that he cries for "a lodge in some vast wilderness," where rumors of political success may never reach him more.&#13;
&#13;
     We are all please to see the improvement in your paper. Keep on, and you will make it one of the best county papers in the state. As soon as the mail arrives from Wichita the office is filled and the general cry is "give me my EAGLE." Through neglect of the department at Wichita we failed to receive this week's issue. They sent the Southwestern mail here instead of ours. More anon.&#13;
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