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Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
For the EAGLE.
THE OKLAMOELESS.

A fascination, scarce to be explained:
| Has of its farmers many district drained;
| Their land was good, their pastures teem-
ed with herds,
Good health was theirs; yet when by
chance some words
Came to their ears, Gin earnest or IN JEST
! OF Oklahoma, then they knew no rest;
Sent quick for EAGLES" crazy to know
more,
And with their neighbors talked the mat
ter DER.
The more they thought, it seemed that
smaller grew
Their fields; as for their herds, they dwin-
died too.
They knew that Oklahoma was wild
| And lawless country, where growing
child
Would be compelled to see the years roll
by
Without the boon of school But,
They stifled thoughts like these and when
Arrived, were in the battle-lIke array
That swept across the prairieS like a
storm.
A week has passed. There has been time
to form
Opinions, good and bad, and to decide
If they shall there continue to reside.
Suppose we take journey south and see
How fare these men-if they live tran
GULLY.
We scarce have passed the southern edge
of town
When we are met by wagons, loaded down
With men who left this matchless state, TO
find
That Oklahmoa was not quite SO kind
AS Kansas. And we ask. will none re-
main,
Will that deceitful land grow quiet again
And all men flee? All! No. All states
are not
Like ours. There are men there whose
irksome lot
Was cast in states less fertile; they will
stay
If kindly Providence leads them not this
way.
But you will find no Kansan lingering
there,
When but few miles north state most
fair
Bids him return and live beneath her good
And wholesome laws, secure from scenes
of blood. "PONCO."
April 20, 1889.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
AS TO INDIAN LANDS,

A new act passed by the last congress
by which the Sioux Indians will have
allotments of land made them upon their
reservations, in lieu of permitting the
general use of the reservation, strikes
one as if this might be a practicable So
luton of the Indian question. This new
act gives 800 acres to each head of
family, but it is not compulsory except
with the consent of the majority OF the
tribe.
1t seems, however. as if the govern
ment might 90 farther and insist upon
such allotment to all male Indians, upon
their reaching their majority. The free
use of large bodies of land by these
tribes does not seem to improve them in
their habits, or advance them in the scale
of civilization, excepting in few In
stances. Their wild, free, mode of life
is preferable to them because it is easier,
and does not demand particular labor
Such modes of life are also de-
moralizing in all respects. If the
present generation of Indians are incul-
Gated into the plan OF self-sustenance
through their own energies, their sue
cessors will take more kindly to the idea,
and each successive generation will pos
sess less and less of the nomadic and war
like instinct that permades them now.
In reasonable time we may expect to find
the Indian reasonably valuable citizen.
Isolation will not do this, and it cannot
be expected that they will of themselves
choose this plan. But the time has come
when progressing population is moving
steadily upon the heretofore remote In
dian countries, and unless some plan is
adopted by which they will possess in
severalty their own domain it will be
impracticable to protect them in their
tribal rights.
These facts and conditions are espe-
cially true of the Indians in the southern
and western portions of the Indian Ter
ritory. 1t is sincerely hoped the COM
that has at last been completed
and qualified, will be able to.consummate
a satisfactory deal by which the excess
of their lands may be given 10 the whites
for homesteads.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
DOMESTIC DRIFT.

CRANBERRY jelly mixed with cold water
makes refreshing drink for sick persons.
BLooD-BLIsTERs should be plunged into
spirits of camphor, and Kept there five
minutes; this prevents the blister and
eases pain.
MILK contains all that is required by the
body, and the best proportions of mineral
matter; is less irritating than other foods
and better digested.
WHEN ironing any dark stuff never use a
linen cloth to put between the iron as the
lint will come off on to the stuff, and it viii
be almost impossible to brush it off again !;
always use a dark cloth or tissue or news
paper.
DAISY CAKE-Eight eggs, one pint of
sugar, one cupful of butter, one pint of
flour; beat the sugar and butter together;
beat the yelks and whites of the eggs sep
arately; add the yelks to the butter and
sugar; then the flour; and the last thing
the whites.
To REMOVE lime from walls take one tea
cUpful strong vinegar to a pail Of warm
water, wash your walls in this solution:
then take a quart OF -four and one good
handful Of glue, dissolve the glue first in
little water, and make paste with it which
BOILED or steamed celery is very nice.
Cut up the stalks into inch pieces, put in
saucepan and add just enough water to
cover the whole Throw in a little salt and
let boil until soft, but not enough so that il
falls TO pieces. Drain off the water, put the
vegetable into dish, and while hot serve
with butter.
As A cement for sealing bottles, etc,
mix three parts of resin, one part Of caustiC
soda and five parts of water; this compost
tion is then mixed with half its weight Of
plaster OF Paris. The compound sets in
three-quarters of an hour, adheres strongly,
IS not permeable Ike plaster used alone,
and is attacked only slightly by warm
water.
THIN Corn CAKE.-One cupful Of Indian
meai, one-fourth Of teaspOOnful OF salt,
Of boiling water, one teaspoouful Of sugar.
Pour the boiling water on the meal, sugar
and salt. Beat thoroughly, add the butter
and when well mixed spread very thin on
buttered tin sheets. Bake slowly about
twenty minutes.
SEA-sHgLLs are pretty when polished
The beginner should first try his hand on
q musselshell, selecting large ere. First
place il for few hours in dilute solu-
ton Of nitric acid and scrape of the rough
surface with a stout knife Polish with
emery-paper and sweet oil, and finish Of
with poiishers' putty and oil and rouge
After polishing, mount II on a small piece
Of smooth marble, By means Of stratena.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

q boot which me weaTer can MAKE smaller
or larger without spelling the shape, IL Is
especially suitable for tender-footed trav-
elers.
A FHEscHMAN has invented a new system
for propelling canal boats. IL consists Of
an endless cable running along two banks.
The boats are moved at double the ordinary
speed, and can readily be attached and de-
tached from tho cables.
THE Swiss watchmakers have invented a
watch for the blind A small peg is SET Ia
the middle OF each figure. When the hour
hand is moving toward given hour The peg
for that hour drops. The person finds the
peg is down and then counts back TO twelve.
a CHICAGO man has invented a spring
gong, to be attached 70 an umbrella or cane,
so arranged that II any unauthorized per.
sen picks up the article so guarded The bel
rings with whirr that Ia certain 70 attract
the attention CT every Que within block.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
THE WORK OF INVENTORS.

A woRKISG-MAS in Pittsburgh has patent
ed a new submarine ram that will pierce
the side ofthe heaviest iron-clad.
A MONTREAL man has patented q device
by which he claims he can make a years
supply Of ice for seventy five cents.
II is reported that Dr. Eisenmaun, Of
Berlin, has invented piano which, by the
aid Of electro-magnetsm, can sustain, in
crease and diminish sound.
ABOUT 5000 brakes have been invented
and patented One Of the latest is de-
scribed as beautifully simple IN is work
ing. Push a button and the brakes are set
on the entire train.
A MAINE mechanic IS the Inventor o.
sleigh which is 70 be run by steam. The
model which he has built has capacity and
motive power sufficient 10 carry IS. 600 feet
Of logs. The sleigh has made number Of
successful trips this winter
A SHOEMAKER named Schon, living 10
town In MoTavia. has invented apd patented
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
SUGAR IN KANSAS.
Kansas City Gazette.

Kansas City Gazette.
1t is interesting to compare the sor-
ghum industry of Kansas with the cane
sugar industry of Louisiana. In the lat
ter state good cane commands from 81
to s. per ton; in the former 81. Sugar
cane yields 200 pounds or so to the ton of
cane: sorghum 50 or 80 pounds. In Lou
isiana the production is sometimes %
tons per acre, and perhaps on an aver
age from Is to 20 tons; in Kansas sor-
ghum yields ABOUT 10 tons to the acre.
So far, the advantage is all on the side of
the sugar cane. on the other hand, that
cane can be produced only in compare
lively small extent of country in one
state, whereas sorghum can be grown in
all of the states north of the thirty
seventh parallel. Sugar cane takes
rather more careful cultivation than sor-
ghum, too. But the other is the decisive
point. Louisiana cannot produce more
than one-tenth, or, at most, let us say
one-eighth, of the amount of sugar we
need. The other seven-eights must
come from somewhere else. If it can
be produced from sorghum, then there
is gain to the country.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
Tho Gran, Monument.

Raising million Of dollars for uong-
meut IN New York TO General Grsai Ia
rather uphill WORK Some Of the rich peopls
who talked loudsst about building tie
monument Immediately oontribUts very
small sums. They remind Is Of the farmer
who, on being approached By the agsa' Of
proposed railroad, ordained vooiisreuslyi
Yes, I'm in favor Of railroads trss las,
and al the time. You bet you esn put ne
down as a uan who VII aslp bgEa . ra.s-
read"
TIE agent vas delighted As the fsrEes
was rich, TIE sgeat supposed that the farm.
or would sske about fifty Thousands Dollars
worth Of tie STOCK, 30 he toox eus his koss
and asked
"ho. much stock shall put yo7 dovnP'
"Waal, =" sad tie fsrnerf II suppose yos
can pu, rle down 70, sevsntyfEs cents, u
{. runs near nv farm "--Ter.- sif'inRs
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

A LIE IS NO ISLANDER,

The irreyerent Lawrence Tribune alludes to
Marsh Murdoch as the rum-soaked apologizer for
the joints at Nichita.-Clay Center Times.
The Lawrence Tribune does very mean
thing, and publishes vile SANDER, when
it makes such a statement. Marsh Muir
dock is, and always has been, sober, tenn
perate man, and to refer to him as rum
soaked" is simply outrageous. He is, &C.
casionally absurdly sensitive about Wich-
tia, and so imagines that people who never
had any but the kIndliest feelings for that
city, are Jealous of it, or anxious to injure
it, or disposed to wrong it. But he has
lived temperate, sober life, he is devoted
to his wife, his children, his work, and his
home: and there is no possible excuse for
assailing him with such absurd and base
less ISLANDERS. -Atchison Champion
Thanks. The editor of the EAGLE
morally nor otherwise, does not claim to
be any better than his average neighbor,
but, upon the other hand, he did net
know that his loyalty to his town
amounted to sensitiveness, However,
we suppose every man is cranky to some
degree In some direction, and we further
suppose that where one thinks of and
writes on one subject to the exclusion of
almost all others that it is possible for
him to become cranky or ''absurdly
sensitive touching that sucject. While
a lie is no SANDER, its reiteration will, in
time, nevertheless, carry conviction. For
instance, the older editors of Kansas
have, by continual dropping" con-
WINGED onehalf all the people who ever
heard of us that we are red-headed. 1t
is now within their power, we suppose,
to convince the other half that we are
the ''rum-soaked apologizer for the
Joints of Wichita"
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

Salina has not held her spring election
yet and preparatory thereto the Repub-
lican says the ladies of the city, that is
the E. S. A. part of them, are going to
hold q convention to nominate officers,
Just to see how it is done and experience
the peculiar sensation common TO the
career of the ward politician. The sue
cess of the sistorin in the four or five
towns of the state who elected women
officers probably has something TO do
with the activity of the Salina con-
tingent. There is nothing that stimu-
lates woman's ambition like the sue
cess of some other woman in given en-
terprise or line of action.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

Everybody now comedies that the
EAGLES Oklahoma news has been the
most reliable of ali the papers pretending
to give the facts. A majority or the
dailies insulted the intelligence of their
readers by their lies of murders and
trouble which never occurred.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

1t is now limited that Cy Leland is liza
BILE to be made collector Of internal
revenue for Kansas, the place that the
BOYS had fixed out for General Rice.
Everybody under this administration
seem to be getting something, the ma
jority of them getting-left.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

The man or woman of today who was
living when the memorable event took
place that is celebrated today, is the
very rarest exception; but perhaps not
more so than those Of today who shall
witness its second centennial in 1899. 1t
therefore behooves every patriotic son
and daughter of this favored land to
fittingly observe this gladstone occasion.
1t is an extraordinary holiday and should
be so universally recognized and OBJ
served.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

Hon. Ed. Hook, of Marion, one of the
promising candidates for Congressman
Ryan's place, spent several hours in the
city yesterday, making the EAGLE a
pleasant call. Ed. was in Wichita in
1872, when he had to buy floor space in
hotel for a bed and use his boots for a
pillow. He says he thought then that
the town couldn't last, but for sixteen
years he has been gradually changing
his opinion on that subject.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
Twas the Common Estimate


Last Sundays EAGLE was everything
promised by its editor on SATURDAY,. 4
great big paper filled full. not of boom
documents made of wind. but substan-
tial facts, not fancy. One-half of the
fisst page was covered with a correct
map OF Oklahoma and Southern Kansas
showing Wichita and her different raid
roads reaching out into other PARTS OF
the state and territory.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

Ex-Mayor Metsker captured the Shaw
nee county convention and secured the
delegation in his favor. Now let him
perform a similar coup on the district
convention at Emporia tomorrow and
then at the polls on the Goth, and his
triumph will be complete.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

A Wichita boy enlisted in the regular
army of Uruguay, South America, and
for thirteen months never heard a word
of his native language. While detailed
as guard at the opera house in Monte
Nideo, he heard Patti sing Home,
Sweet Home, In English. 1t made him
SO homesick that he took the first oppor-
tunity to come back to his native land.
and is now again in Kansas.-State
Journal
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
The I.iTsI Tower.

The Eirel Tower reached It's fuI height
eleven hundred and seYenty-eight feet,
March 81. A newspaper correspondent
who went TO the top says that tho ascent
by the staircase took forty minutes, and
by elevators 1t Ia 70 be made In Eve min
utes. 1t Is expected that tho electric light
on its top viii enable one 20 read q news
paper at a distance OF seven miles
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
Our Calculations and Predictions
Verified.
Kansas City Star.

Kansas City Star.
More than 200 Immigrants stopped the
other day at Newton, on their return
from Oklahoma, to look at land in
Harvey bounty. Similar reports come
from many other towns in southwestern
Kansas. The back water has set in from
the Indian territory, and Kansas is real
izing in an unexpected way the benefits
of the vast immigration caused by the
opening of Oklahoma. The recedinS
wave has come much earlier than there
was reason to anticipate, and Its volume
exceeds all expectation. The prophesy
that Kansas would gain more than she
would lose by the Oklahoma movement
is being abundantly verified.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

The EAGLE tomorrow, will, no doubt,
contain the poem which will be read by
Whittier, and the speech delivered by
Chauncey Depew, in New York city to-
day. Of course the poem will be lofty
and musical, will be filled with inspir-
ing thoughts and noble sentiments of the
life and record of the American people.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

Brigadier-General Merritt gratuitously
misrepresent in his dispatch to the adj
iutant-general wherein he says, Il am
thus explicit because Kansas newspapers
are reporting scenes of bloodshed." The
EAGLE is Kansas newspaper and has
contained more real Oklahoma news
than any paper east or west, besides it
reaches more readers in the territory
than any other paper, and there has
been no blood shedding scenes reported
in its columns. The truth is the blood
business has appeared principally in pa
pers published outside of Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

We received anumber of complies of the
minutes of the Southwest Kansas con-
ference of the NJ. Z. church held at
Larned, March -. Official Journal,
Vol. 3, No. l. 1t is well arranged, nicely
printed, and makes a creditable appear
ance. We notice the names of our
townsmen, Mater, Smedley, Shutter and
the First National Bank among the adj
yertisers. The Wichita EAGLE office did
the work.-St. John Advance.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

The accident to Martin Beecher, who
accidentally shot himself one week ago
today, was much worse than was sup
posed when thu news first reached Us.
The flesh was all torn from the left side
Of the face and the greater part OF the
cheek bone is gone. Until Thursday ne
hope OF his recovery was entertained
but since then ne has gained conscious
ness for an hour or two each day.
than Signal.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
No Want Him, No Take Him.

No Want Him, No Take him.
From the Harper Graphic.
Cowboys to the Wichita Eagle:
Blankety blank your BANKED Oklahoma
land Office blanks. We buckled our
blankets onto beasts, and beat the burly,
belated boomers into Babel; and now the
aforesaid boomers refuse to buy US OF,
and we don't want the land. Sabe:
Disconnected Divorcers, Don't Double.
Atchison Globe.
Discontinued married folks who rush
into divorce courts for relief are many
of them not aware that the last legisla-
ture passed law prohibiting marriage
again until six months after the decree.
The courts granting divorce are required
by act to add the following language TO
DEGREES: This decree does not become
absolute and take effect until the explra-
ton of six months from date hereof.
Marriage within the statutory SIX months
is bigamy, and punished by impriSon
ment in the penitentiary for not less
than one year nor more than three.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

The Capital has dropped the name OF
Commonwealth and goes back to its old
name under which its first editorial is a
long editorial explaining its position on
the negro question. We hope it will not
delay defining its views on prohibition,
female suffrage and the metropolitan
police questions. If it was necessary to
explain its views on the negro question
there can be no question of being in the
SOUP on the others.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

We congratulate our towsman, j. u;
Miles unon his election as first mayor of
Kingfisher, Ok. Lawrence men generally
get to the front very soon after the process
sion moves.-Journal.
In that respect they are better, estl-
mating their worth by their success else
where, fhan your woman at home. An.
we'll
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30
You're Mother.
Alex Butts in X. c. star.

Alex Butts in K. c. STAR.
\ man traded an oreide watch for q
couple of wild lots at Wichita the other
day and Marsh Murdoch promptly christ
ened the town the Magical Mascotte of
the Meridian Marsh is always a little
worse than common when the green
gifts back in the trees
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

Capt. 4. G. Pierce, the gentleman who
has been kri1rn over the state for the past
thirty-thfee yghrs as the pioneer farmer
of GearY county, says that Kansas with
the silo can make the cheapest cheese and
raise the cheapest beef in the world. c.
Union.
And he might have added that with
alfalfa pastures it can raise the finest
and best, as well is the cheapest, hogs
which are the most profitable live stock
the farmer can rails. if he has the alfalfa.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

One hundred years of republican rule!
What American citizen would exchange
it for the strongest, most magnificent
monarchy on earth?
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the authoress
of Robert Elsmere, and the profoundest
woman writer Lying, is earnestly OPP
posed to the ballot for woman.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

The next state to take a turn at the
prohibition at the ballot box will be
Pennsylvania. Defeat of the measure
is freely predicted in advance, more on
account of the adverse result of recent
elections in other eastern states than for
any tangible local reason, unless the sue
cess of the high license system in reduc-
ing the number of saloons and drinking
places i'll that state, as it is claimed,
more than half, can be alleged as a
reason. ProhibitionistS who are such
from conviction, however, find nothing
in this seeming ebb tide to discourage
them. Like christianity, seasons of
temporary reverses are necessary at
times TO purify the moral atmosphere.
The church is often strengthened more
by getting nd of than receiving
members
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

". +. Housely, on trial before the cir
cult court for Stevens county on the
charge Of murder, the killing of J. i.
Ferguson in Woodsdale last September,
was acquitted Of the charge last Thurs
day, the trial jury returnin. verdict Of
not guilty.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

IN some of the eastern states, especial
ly in New Jersey, the question of grade
crossings OF railroads is attracting con-
siderable attention. The frequent acct
dents and fatalities TO persons at the
crossings of railways and wagon roads,
it seems TO have moved the people to de-
mand of the state legislatures some sort
of legal protection and it is altogether
probable that New Jersey viii take the
initiative in requiring all railways TO
provide safe guards at the crossings in
the state, either by bridging the track,
making suitable passway underneath or
establishing gates and keeping watch
men constantly posted. Either mode
will entail heavy expense 10 the rail-
roads, but the public will demand it,
and now that it IS started in the east it
will no doubt be followed in other
sections where the interest and safety of
private travel demand it.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-30

2. A. Smith, editor of the Leavenworth
Times. calls it the Oklahomeless.