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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-23
Westville Items.

"esGVAl1c 1tcAhBs
Dickerman Hose company No. of West
vile will give lawn party this (Tuesday)
evening on the grounds adjoining the hose
house on Alden avenue. Ice cream and
strawberries will be served, large tent
raised and music in attendance, that those
who wish may enjoy dancing. An efficient
committee are making every effort to make
the occasion an enjoyable one. A large at
tendance is desired in behalf of the hose
company, which has already during it's
short existence rendered valuable service to
village property owners.
Wednesday, evening, June "a, the New
Haven Choral union will give an entertain
der the auspices of Ethel chapter No. 20,
0. E. S.
THE FRONTIER CAvALRxMAN.
He Makes a Magnificent Irregular
Soldier.
IT. A. Dodge in Harper's Magazne.l
Our frontier cavalryman is the beau ideal
of an irregular. The irregular horseman
of all ages was recruited from among row
ing, unintelligent classes, and had, except
in his own peculiar province, as plentiful
lack of good as he had a superabundance
of bad qualities. Our trooper is intelligent
and trained in the hardest of schools. Few
civilians, who find it so easy to criticise
the operations of the army in the west,
would make much of success in hunting
band of few hundred Indians in a path
less wilderness or waterless desert bigger
than New York and New England com
bined.
And yet, thus handicapped, what splen-
did work our cavalry has done! While one
civil department of the government has for
years been busy sowing the seeds Of strife
and furnishing the red man arms of preci-
sion, the best Of cartridges, and plenty of
them, how ably our handful of bluecoats,
under orders Of another, have managed to
quell the Indian uprisings! A farce of So
900 men constantly on foot would have
been none too great to do justice to our In
dian promblem since the war; the actual
force has been less than third of this
number.
Let whose is tempted to criticise the
army make himself familiar with some of
the deeds of heroism of the past twenty
years by our soldiers on the plains. Crit
cism benches before their recital. But
the soldier is no boaster. You must seek
his story from other lips than his.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-23
Js1tsIfllatIkut1s.
ORIGINAL: No. q,
Strawberry
Cottage Pudding.
BY Mrs. DEARBORN,
px;,-,b,/ RorSo,, /ooL:so S-kn,y

frinrtPdE Boston C00fsHg SehooE
Cream "a cup butter; add a cup
sugar gradually, beating all the time
then add egg beaten till thick and
light. Mix together generous pint of
pastry flour and tea sp. Cleveland's
Baking Powder; add this to the first
mixture alternately with one cupful OF
milk
Beat well together, pour into a
buttered baking-p pan and bake about
thirty minutes in a moderate oven.
Cut in squares and serve with stewed
and sweetened strawberries and cream.
Copyright, 1891, by Cleveland Baking
Powder Coz
Use oxly Ckveland's baking ibovaer,
tic preportions are made fer that.
/.15s57zsa An even teaspoon
$500 full of C1eve1and's
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80 heaping teaspoon
| 1M full of others. A
b.. IN large saving on a
o-EMEG pcNw years bakings. Try
$500 60 a can, Cleveland's.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-23
It is in brief as follows:

Modern philanthropy itself has invited many
crticismsl we are told with much justice that
she seldom makes great sacrifices; is often os-
tentatious; often injudicious, defeating her own
ment not defective there is call enough for effort
in the magnitude Of the remaining work. Despite
all prophecies the millennium is doubtless far dis
tant: and in these days of prospective billion
aires and muttering masses. with our political
economy founded upon selfshness, our whole
science $50 careless of the single life'' we
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-23

Classmates, to you need not say farewell;
We bid farewell to pleasant years now past,
OF light-souled college life we toll the knell,
But not of friendship, let us still hold fast
To NINETYoNE, though scattered by times
blast,
In love united-Good is every state,
Take heart go forth; obedience conquers fate.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-23
YALE COMMENCEMENT.

A Brilliant Scene ON Yale's Campus
The Glass Day Exercises-The Ora
ton and Poem Read-Fun and HI"
larity at the Reading of the Class
Histories.
Yale university's commencement was IN
full blast yesterday. First and paramount
in general public interest were the class
day exercises. There is an old saying,
Grain never comes to interfere with Yale
class day." and yesterday surely was an in
stance proving the truthfulness of this an
Gent tradition. For if there ever was a
day when the rain apparently fairly ached
to come down in torrents yesterday was
that day. Nearly all the night previous
the food gates of heaven were open wide,
and early in the morning, though the rain
had ceased, the outlook was far from en-
couraging. Heavy clouds hid the sky and
sun from mortal gaze and the air was op-
pressive with muggy heat. But fortune
came to the rescue and a good day for all
the exercises was the result.
THE CLASS GRAFTON.
The first exercises of the day were in
Battel chapel at II o'clock, where the
large assembled audience listened to the
class Grafton and class poem. The former
was delivered by Francis Theodore Brown
of Glens Falls, N. Y. on the subject,
Couture and Service" and proved mas
terly effort. The Grafton was not only
| written extremely we'll, but delivered as
only few orations. at Yale have ever been
| delivered.
It is in brief as follows:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

A Guthrie man has brought suit for 500
damages against the Western Union Tele-
graph company for failure to deliver a
message.
The Sac and Fox Indians have lately re-
ceived portion of their payment. but the
long delayed Pottawatomie payment is
still an uncertain matter.
Postmaster Dennis Flynn yesterday re-
ceived tax receipt No. /, the first receipt
for taxes ever issued by the county treas
urer of Logan county. He will preserve it
as relic.
Every man should be bipartisan in the
statehood matter It will be time enough
to decide whether Oklahoma shall be Re-
publican or Democratic after it has be-
come state.
Judge Green rendered very important
decision Thursday. 1t was the case of
Robert W. Black VS.. Townsite Board No.
g. He decided that lot claimants could
not appeal from the decision of the board
to Washington, but could bring action in
the district court.
Beaver Advocate: County Commissioner
Birdsall told US last week that the grey
wolves are becoming numerous on the
Kiowa, in the southeast part of the county,
and are doing great damage. having al
ready killed number of full-grown cows
and horses, besides many calves and colts.
1t is thought the wolves are coming III
from the Cherokee strip. as the cattle have
been taken out of that country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,

A newspaper is soon to be published at
Moore.
Sam Paul has finished his stump-speech-
ing tour.
The little town of Pleasant Hill has a
200-pound bell.
When the strip is opened will it outstrip
the original opening?
The wild and woody boys Of Edmond
have the silt craze.
The Greer county mines are said to be
purely and simply myth.
L. n. Terrill was advertised to lecture at
Saltwater, Thursday night.
A new bridge is being built across Tur-
key creek near Hennessey.
One man stabbed another at a literary"
in Beaver county this week.
Jake Admire still says that Seay will
get the governor appointment.
Last year at this time the farmers had
their stock on their wheat fields.
The Choctaw road will be completed to
Oklahoma City in eleven days.
The single desk is used almost entirely
in the Oklahoma public schools.
The chemical fire engine at Oklahoma
City has been tested and approved.
The last big rain has started the wheat
to growing and strengthened the roots.
The order to vacate the military reserva.
ton at Oklahoma City has been sus
pended.
IF congress was made up of Oklahoma
men, the strip would be declared open day
after tomorrow
The smoke from the new mill. the
Gazette thinks, is the finest flag Oklahoma
City ever hoated.
Somebody is kicking because Springer
owns land in Oklahoma If he does so
much the better.
Chief Mayes belonged TO the Downing
party and the assistant chief belonged 10
the National party.
The farther south you go in Oklahoma
the more Lives Of jefferson Davis you
see on the book shelves.
The colt that ran of with Jake Admire
is named Ben Harrison" Jake has been
talking Blaine too much.
It Is agreed in Oklahoma that the capital I
fight viii never be brought up again until I
it can be settled by popular vote.
Rube Hickox. postmaster at FL Reno, |
has been awarded the southwest quarter .
of section 4-i2-7. in Canadian county.
OF the 10. 600 people in the FIVE civilized 1
tribes, only 1900 are full bIoOds. Those /
figures Will beat the tribal governments }
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

The appointment of Steph EIkins to
b position in Harrison's cabinet is one of
the most inexplicable of political moves.
EIkins, while never posing as states
man, is undoubtedly one of the biggest
Drained men in the country, but for
years the bright particular star among
Blaine's most steadfast friends and ad-
mirers. More than ever are people con-
GLIDING that Harrison is for Blaine or
that Blaine is for Harrison, and that in
any event there is an understanding be-
tween them which is as strong as the tie
Of their personal friendship.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20
KANSAS BANKS.

Under law passed last winter pro-
viding for a state bank examiner and
who has just made his report, 1t is de-
veloped that Kansas has two hundred
and forty-nine state banks and one hun
bred and sixty-fve private banks in addi-
ton to national banks, the total resources
of which are upwards of thirty millions
of dollars. The individual deposits in
these banks reach the sum of ten mil
lion dollars. By them is carried in cur
rency, 81, SIS, 722 SO, in gold coin, $685.
176 80; in silver, S1SS,27616 ; in other
cash items and fractional currency,
$970, The report proves quite a
surprise and will greatly interest eastern
capitalists, who have been thinking that
rural Kansas was busted" The cur
rency volume Of Kansas "per capiter"
will astoniSh the mortgagor. Another
thing, a majority of the stockholders of
these private and state banks seem to be
farmers, and more than half OF the de-
posts are those of the farmer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

the depression caused by over-produc-
ton OF that one article, For three years
past, at least, tue crop has been far
greater than the demand, and conse-
quently cotton has been piled up in the
warehouses for which there is no market,
while the succeeding crops have added
to the oyer-supply, and consequently
lowered the price. The proposal to call
a convention fer the purpose of securing
united action has been made by Com
missioner Lane of the department of
agriculture of Alabama, and it is meet
Ing with general response. What the
south should do is to find other things to
raise besides cotton. Diversity of prod
ucts will prove far more profitable
than devotion to one staple. Northern
farmers find that it pays them to have
other crops to depend on than wheat, but
the south has not progressed as fast as
the north in the knowledge of what she
can do with her soil. Mr.. Lane should
add discussion of the possibilities of
southern agriculture to the call for his
cotton convention"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20
STATE RIGHTS AND RAILROAD
TAXES.
From the Globe-Democrat.

From the Globe-Democrat.
The decision of the United States
supreme court IN the Maine railroad-tax
case is of more than usual Importance by
reason of its departure from the line of
previous decisions 10 the same relation.
1t establishes new precedent, and may
lead to complete reversal of the posi-
ton heretofore held by the court with
regard to the regulation of interstate
commerce. The case turned upon the
question of the right of the state to tax
the gross receipts of railroad for each
mile operated within its limits, regard
less of the fact that said road extended
into another state and thus was brought
under the interstate commerce law; and
the decision is to the effect that this
right exists. 1t is a mistake, the court
holds, to say that interstate commerce
cannot be taxed by a state under any cir
cumstances. When a state imposes
a uniform tax upon all rail-
roads without discriminating be-
tween those that are wholly with
in the state and those that are
not, it is constitutional, the court de-
clares. Such tax is to be construed as
tax on franchise, and SO does not sig
Nifty an interference with Interstate
commerce. That is to say, a state has
the right, according to this decision, to
tax for revenue purposes the means or
subjects of interstate commerce within
its borders, provided the same tax is
levied upon the means and subjects of
local commerce.
This view is directly opposed to that
which was taken in the original pack
age case and in the cease of the tax on
drummers The court practically held
in both of those cases that interstate
commerce could not be reached by the
state for the purposes of taxation in any
form or degree. This later decision is
certainly more reasonable. A state
should be able to tax all of the railroads
that have the privilege of doing business
within its borders, under the protection
of its laws; and the fact that some of
them happen to have lines extending
into another state should not exempt
them from the obligation to pay their
due share of the public expenses. The
plan of taxing gross receipts, by the mile,
is probably the best that could be
adopted, and, as Justice Field points out,
it cannot be considered an interference
with interstate commerce, but must be
regarded merely as rule for ascertain
ing the value of the business transacted
by the corporation. Five of the nine
justices agree in the decision, which is to
say that it may be changed when a new
justice shall be appointed in place of one
of the present incumbents. 1t is to be
hoped, however, that a decision so
clearly right and practical will be al
lowed to stand. The railroads are liable
to escape more or less taxation in any
event, and it is to the interest of the
people that the right of the state to tax
the franchise of all roads or parts of
roads within its boundaries shall be fully
and maintained.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20
PLANT LESS COTTON.

1t was stated in dispatch from Okla
homa yesterday that the cotton fields
down there, some of them, are still white
with the ungathered crop. the price of
the staple being so low that the farmers
declare they will lose money by hiring
the crop harvested. This Is but a reflex
Of the condition Of the cotton producing
portions Of the south. Commenting
upon the suggestion that has been made
10 the cotton planters to try the expert
ment of restricting tine area OF the crop
for next year, and hereafter until the
demand shall reach the present supply.
the Kansas City Journal has this TO say:
The entire cotton producing section
Of the United States l. suffering from
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

With all of its alleged profligacy the
Fifty-first congress was not as Liberal
in the matter of appropriations for river
improvements as was desired by some
localities, and as if to take advantage of
the circumstance of the absolute and I'M
restricted control of the house by the
Democrats, the constituencies of num-
Der of its members, particularly from
the south, are making formidable prepa-
ration to raid the treasury in that behalf
And the chances are that the thing will
be pressed to such an extreme that but
little will be accomplished. As Senator
Vest said in his letter TO the Kansas City
convention-wlich convention he did
not attend-the first thing necessary to
be done to accomplish the ends desired
in such matters is to educate the people
up to the point that they can make an
intelligent demand for the governments
aid. That is to say, the people must be
convinced that the thing is feasible and
necessary to the public veal, for the
people have to pay the bills.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

Already the Democratic papers of
Kansas are beginning to ask the Kansas
Democrat what it will do in the event of
Cleveland'S nomination for president
next year, an event that is almost sure to
take place. The query is brought out by
The persistent opposition of the Democrat
TO Cleveland in favor of Hill. Our friends,
the enemy referred to, need give them
selves no uneasiness on the Democrats
sccount-it is perhaps the most accom-
plished political acrobat in the west 1t
has made two handsprings within the
past two months and is sure to make sew
eral more between this and the eth of
November, 1892.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20
AN OLD TIME KANSAS EDITOR
TALKS ON GOVERNOR.

From the Kinglsher Free Press.
The Free Press has watched the progress
of Hon. Marshall NJ Murdock's guberna-
torial boom with much interest. If there
was anything in the old saw about the Of
fee seeking the man, Marsh would have
some show. There is nothing in that,
however: it is companion fraud of the
rich growing richer and the poor poorer.
The men who talk most often and most
solemnly about the Importance of allowing
the office to seek the man, single handed
and alone, don't believe word of it. 1t
has got to be so that man who wants an
office must go after it-go after it with all
his might. Marsh Murdoch would make
a good governor; his administration would
be honest, plain, unvarnished and void Of
hypocracy; but these are not sufficient.
The men who run the politics of Kansas
do not care so much what man really is.
as they do for what he publicly processes to
be. Profession is everything. SO there is
no show for Murdoch; he will never be
governor of Kansas. Never. Never-un-
less-well the leopard cannot change his
spots.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

The political situation in Louisiana is
growing interesting. There has been a
split in the Democratic party of the state
on the lottery question, both factions
having held conventions and nominated
state tickets The wing known as the
straight Democracy endorse and cham
pion the Louisiana State lottery, while
he other faction oppose the lottery grant,
and they are joined in the fight for de-
cency and honesty by the Farmers ALI
ance and all the other elements in the
state who desire to see the blot upon the
state wiped out Nevertheless, the lottery
crowd claim big majority.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20
Aho1t Newsnaners.

From The Beaver Republican
The evening edition Of the Kansas City
Times, which was started about a year
ago with the avowed intention Of run
ming out the Evening Star, has sus-
pended publication. and the experiment
has proved so costly that 1t Is probable
that the morning edition Of the Times
NAV soon follow suit i newspaper
which the public has no use for Is al
WAYS apt 70 prove losing venture. and
there are very few cities in the United
States which VIII support more than one
first-class newspaper. either morning or
evening. Even such large cities As &.
Louis. Cincinnati, Louisville, 81. Paul.
Minneapolis and Milwaukee have only
two successful papers each. one pub
lished IN the morning ami ons II the
evening.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20
A PUBLIC INSULT.

The Washington dispatches of Friday
contained the statement that the creden-
tials of Senator-elect Hill of New York
were presented to the senate and placed
on file. Hill was no doubt prompted to
forward his credential by the circum-
stance that there was some talk at the
capital of excluding him from the seat
in the senate to which he was elected by
the legislature of New York. 1t is held
by most of the Republicans and some Of
the Democrats that his failure to appear
and be sworn in at the opening of con-
gress is an insult to the people of the
United States, and it ought to be
resented, if possible, by declaring
his seat forfeited. But this cannot be
done. Absence from the senate does not
constitute crime either within the rules
of that body or the laws of the country.
Hill knows this, and he knows he cannot
be interfered with. But his conduct is
nevertheless reprehensible, all the more
so in that Lieutenant Governor Jones is
a Democrat, and could be depended
upon, as his successor, to administer the
governorship according to Democratic
principles. Hill is, however, law unto
himself, and defies decency and public
sentiment by holding to two offices. He
is afraid that Jones might GUST some of
his favorites and redistribute the official
patronage. This is the Tammany way
of doing things.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

The last statement sent out bv the
treasury department shows that for the
first eleven months of 1891 the exports
of breadstutfs have aggregated $194, or
COZ, as against 1926, 49, 100 for the same
period in 1890, gain of SCI. 1868, Ar. or
more than 90 per cent. 1t is probable
shat the shipments for the closing month
of the year will exceed those of the
closing month of last year. and that the
impetus given our export trade in bread
stutfs by the short crops in Europe will
extend far into 1892. This is a very
strong indication that the high prices for
bread crops, predicted bv Mr.. c. Wood
Davis, are pretty sure to be realized. and
at not much later date than he sug-
CeSted.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

We want to know-If Marsh Murdoch
still claims the Kansas rebellion as all his
own?-Leavenworth Times.
So far as the claim might be consid-
cred to initiate against any supposed
personal political aspirations we answer
yes" most emphatically; but, in SO far
as the rebellion" may be fostered and
used to revolutionize the rule of the
barnacles and hypocrites we are willing
that everybody should make just as big
claims as they can effectively utilize,
being perfectly willing ourselves to re-
inquish any or all supposed credit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20

There is trouble in the Democratic
camp in Georgia. The Cleveland men.
who are In the majority, are mad at
Crisp for anying himself with the Hill
crowd, and they are glorying in the fact
that Representative Watson OF their
state voted against the speaker More
than this, Watson's constituents were
to hold meeting on the 18Th instant.
and indorse him and thus rebuke the
Atlanta Constitution for denouncing him
as a traitor. The people of Georgia viii
not have Hill. They seem To know him
as well as the people of N2w York know
HIM. Here is more grief for the Topeka
Democrat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-20
For the Eagle.
THE DOMINANT CHORD.

What is LIES dominant and fullest chord,
That oftenest has realized the best
And worst in man. has deepest force exprest,
And widest passion stirred, and has explored
All human needs and warnings; highest SCARED
And lowest swept on sounding keys, when prest
By ToIL and LOVE and DEATH in solemn test?
Lo, PAM divinest music doth record;
Breathing the mingled difference of each
In heart experience; though often pain
VIII thunder discordant self-spoilt strain,
Still do the undertones of pathos reach,
The universal chord, whose mighty key,
Rests in the bosom of humanity.
NAN W. HEALY.