The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-15
An OLD LANpMARK GONE.

A telephone message TO the EAGLE yes
terday from Wellington brought the sad
intelligence of the death of Isaac n.
King of that city who died yesterday
morning surrounded by fond wife and
four loving children, of pneumonia, pro-
voked by la grippe. He was in his forty
first year but owing to lung troubles of
many years standing he looked much
older.
In the death of Ike King Wellington
and Sumner county have lost an old land
mark and probably there is not man in
the entire community but what will
mourn his untimely end. He was probab
ly the the best known man in Sumner
county and as his manners were genial
and his habits democratic he was very
popular with all classes. He was one of
the first settlers in the county having
come there from the mountain regions on
the borders of Kentucky, his native state,
and Tennessee about twenty-oue or TWEEN
ty-twO years ago, when ne was
nothing but mere boy. He
studied law after coming to Wellington
with Tom George and while he never be-
came brilliant lawyer DO one could give
a cliant better advice than he could. He
was Il man very literally endowed with
good sense and had excellent business
ability besides. He was very generous and
would stick by friend in distress till his
last penny was gone. For twenty years or
more he was practically the head Of the
Democratic party of Sumner county and
was formidable man in campaign. AS
politician he was full of resources and IT
was often said that he knew how to man
age campaign better than any Democrat
in Kansas He was a religious advocate
of the still hunt" idea aud there is
scarcely fence corner in Sumner county
that he has not throd in during the twenty
or more campaigns he has made there. His
advice was always sought after by his po-
litical brethren and when the annual cam
paign came round a hundred Republicans
kept their eyes on him in hopes of detecting
some of his famous flank movements as
they used to term it. In politics he WAS an
ardent Democrat but never bitterly partl- |
san and was always respected by the OPP |
position; in fact he always cultl-
waited the friendship of the lead !
ing members of the Republican party, and |
when he made the campaign two years ago |
a good many votes on that side Of the po- |
litical house. He had also great faculty |
for manipulating the independents" and |
when lie could not make fasion nobody |
else had the nerve to attempt it. He served /
one term rs probate judge and it is claimed |
that be was one of the best the county ever |
had. He was very simple in dress, and
when he wore a boiled shirt, as the boys
termed it, the occasion was great indeed.
He was also very jovial aud NIL the great
jokes perpetrated in Wellington during
the past twenty years have either been
traced TO his door or else he was the vic
tim of them. During his campaign two
years ago his Republican friends, led by
Billy Berry, the county clerk at that time,
after much planning and good natured
,cheming, directed capital joke against
him, but he got wind of their designs and
turned the tables on them so cleverly that
all the town laughed next day. To sum
up tbs whole matter, Ike King was one of
natures no5lemen, and it is sad to think
hat the never-satisfied angel of death
should cut him down in the noontide of
lis life. He was a Knight Templar and
will be buried by that organization this
afternoon in Noodlawn cemetery He
vas well known by hundreds of the old
settlers of Wichita He was in the city
md made call on the EAGLE.