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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Governor Seay will take his seat some
time this week.
Bondinot says the present congress will
ratify the strip deal.
The sherIffs of the territory met at Ok
lahoma City yesterday.
The measles epidemic is affecting school
attendance in Oklahoma.
The Rock Island will build 100 miles
south before stopping again.
Mansur's Cherokee strip bill has been
read twice and ordered printed.
The Choctaw right of way into Okla
homa City cost that city $4,000.
The thermometer was down to eleven
below zero, last Monday morning.
c. T.. Roberts of the Oklahoma y. NJ C..
A. goes TO South Africa as a missionary
next month.
The stockholders of the Citizens bank
of Norman have decided to increase the
capital stock TO so, 900.
The militia at Guthrie has gone to pieces.
The guns furnished by the government are
being eaten up with rust.
Two of the Bohemian claims near Ok
Iahoma City have been relinquished for
consideration of $500 each.
Acting Governor Martin is preparing a
report to Secretary Noble showing the
work done under his administration.
The city council of Oklahoma City have
appropriated $500 for a representative OF
the city in Washington. Sid Clarke will
90.
A Hennessy man, Nat Campbell, wants
to bet that the Cherokee strip will be
opened before the Cheyenne aud ArraPhoe
country.
1t is said the school land lease notes have
been paid more promptly IN kingfisher
county, than III any other county IN the
territory.
There is a log cabin school house in
Kingfsher county, and there Is probably a
little boy going To school there who VIII
be president some day.
In private letter Mr.. Harvey says there
is no use of introducing the Oklahoma
statehood bill at present, as it viii be ia
the committee five or six months auywa
John l., Rose. seven miles southeast OF
Kingfsher, was found dead in his bed last
week. He had been dead four or five days
when discovered. and his stock was al
most crazed with hunger.
Lieutenant Phil Smith, of the United
States army was recently interviewed in
the Chicago News and maligned Okla
hoIna with all the smartness he could
summon To his aid. There is no fool like
the jackassical fool.
4 significant utterance Of the Demo
cratic Oklahoma Gazette: The Democrats
lost three states By Mr.. Cleveltnd's Oh
lection to admitting three territories. VIII
the present Democratic house repeat the
blunder?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
JOHN W. BEEBE.

In the lowest spheres of life the force
Of inventive faculty may be detected,
says a writer in Longman's Magazine.
The burglar himself as a mechanical
genius may be a rival of nature. An
honest genius of an inventive kind in
vents a lock; s,raightway another in
ventive genius of a dishonest kind
picks that lock. A man, not burglar,
but professed lock-picker, picked a
subtle lock of bureau for me because
/ had lost the key. The science the
man showed, the resource, the ingenuity,
formed a study and his efforts were
soon crowned with success. 1 was
struck by the skill the man displayed,
but still more by the philosophy. "They
call the man who invented that there
lock, sir, gentleman, and they say
he's made tremendous fortune by it,
but they give no credit to them as has
learned to pick it; not a bit of it! not
they. and some of them as can pick it
they calls burglars and gives 'em years
of hard labor, though they was just as
clever as the lucky un, who set the
thing a-goins."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
HE KNOWS KANSAS.
From the Newton Kansan.

From the Newton Kansan.
The Republican papers of Kansas have re-
Gently contained many favorable notices of
Colonel Marsh Murdoch with reference to the
governorship. The Kansan has been waiting
for an avowal from Mr.. Murdoch as to whether
he was or would be candidate for that office,
but the EAGLE remains silent about il, and we
will say our say anyhow. That Colonel Muir
dock would make good governor goes with
out dispute. There is probably no man in the
state who has better knowledge of its cond-
ton and requirements. For nearly thirty
years Kansas has been his chief study; he
knows it a student knows his hooks, and he
has been a prominent factor in bringing it to
its present grandeur and Importance, having
persistently published. in every issue OF his
widely circulated paper, its beauties, the fer
tility and productiyeness of its soil, its educa-
tional facilities, and the many advantages it
offers in a thousand other ways as a desirable
place of residence. He is not, nor has he been,
an Office seeker, being content to devote his
time to laboring for the material welfare of
the state. That he has earned the honor of
nomination and election everybody viii adj
NIT, and we know Of no man TO whom we could
extend more willing and cheerful support
for this Office than our friend, Colonel NJ Nj.
Murdoch, of Wichita
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
Roller Coa.ti... on a farm.


Old Sam johnson lives down In Ken.
nebec county town. As long "a johnson
isn't his name I'll ten you that he is about
the sourest and most strait laced old fel
low You ever saw.
The other day he heard an awful clstteI
ont on a long hill near bis house. He goa
out TO the scene just in time to see his son
Jed mount the OK cart. hold up the
tongue" and coast down the Hill with q
thuuderous roar aud in a cloud 81 dust.
The old man started on the trail down the
hill, picking mp "a clab on the way and Yell
ing for Jed TO come back and take lick.
ing But the nearer he got 10 the trenl-
bling Jed the more the real novelty and
humor appealed 20 him. When be got "a
the foot If the hill he was grinning like
''chessy cat" - Jed afterward declared
What in tmenation you doin with thai
oxcart. jedi
by CORY dad. I'm sliding down hill
ir her. dad. aud lt more fun an or Injuns.
jest help nae toost 'er mp bill and take
ride SAID jed, taking courage from his
father grin.
You sassy imp" sPuttered Sam. I'm
good mind 20 welt yo1"
oh, dad come On. 1t s slathers or fun"
one may see me-
Git out, they won't neither Take holi
here an we'Il run er up hill
The old man couldn't resist. chucklina
he helpcl push the cart up hill. chuckiing
still, he cTawled IN and be Uttered as be
told Jed 70 hold tight and steer straight %
Away they went. Bat they had Just got
under headWay when a team came togging
10. in . &. II
the bill The old OK cart .oared down IN
its headl0ug rush. A wicked smashup
seemed imminent The frightened jed.
bewilderrd by yolley II squAwks and
Wells. yanked the tougus about and the
flying cart sheered FOR the fields 10
careened wildly. hoped the highway
gutter. crashed over stone wall aud came
70 a wrecked staadsiill. Bottom upward.
Jed ard the old glan were beneath.
IL Was SIX weeks before johnson got ths
crick out Of his back and recovered the uss
Of his battered members. Ills first duty at
the end II those SIX weeks was % lick JED.
hot passiona;ely and intempsratsIy. bus
thoroughly. consz5euti0usly. earnestly, sc-
c0rding 70 carefully matured plan and
determination -Le~istOa (sfe.l Journal
4 Wall street man who lives in Brock
iFA y tbe iSfp3a t<sssffsof q three bTs ghk
cb,iaren. One q them. a hoy tot quits
three years Old, f. = ggod deal ~ pl.iisu1,
pher and = great stlckler for sceuraev.
While playing iu the nursery eBs dsT iiffls
Gordon for ,hAt is biz naun~-ovsrhezrd
rs sider ssg.sr ts3 sbe Burzs that she vas
Roiag 70 Er.ts isttsT 20 Santa Claus atzi
Ak h'us 20 Gil Der fto1kIng from To-, q -.
"lie tan CO i intsrru cted IA hoy.
Ay- rs, &c ean, Gordon r-y.isd he
bttie -ir! taa, - 4 he IS willing o. b"
30. he tan'f 20 reiterated ths lfIr fslios
dos5uaf4>AllT.
Wy Eet. Gorr5orfT Asksd tbs nurss
soothinslJ. = FL - vby yoa az - p1aS-
tive
There vas = roguiah Twinkle IN Ei,ls
Gordon r eyes ~ b answered. '@Tzass lid
have - isil a 'tock.cz from t. % Top II 10
faIsd II AZ al Sew YoFk Tines
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
THE MURDOCH REBELLION.

From the Colwich Courier.
Saturday the happiest man in the Arkansas
Valley was NJ. NJ. Murdoch, of the EAGLE. 1t
was just about that time that things were
settled favorable for his candidacy for gov
ernor OF Kansas. He was pleased, as any one
who saw him will attest. And he had right
to be pleased. Through his personal influence
and through the EAGLE he has ever waged Il
conflict for his party, its success and above all,
its purity. 1t was Murdoch who, in his friend
ship for his party and in the interest of the
people of Kansas, waged the brilliant warfare
known as the Murdoch Rebellion Now,
with the first blush of the ripening fruit of
that contest, he is to Gull honors, the least be-
ing the recognition accorded him sufficient to
gain his assent to the candidacy for governor.
He Will receive the nomination and be elected,
and if he does not fill the executive chair in
such a manner as shall be to the best interests
of our state, then his brilliant editorship OF
the EAGLE augurs nothing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24

began to chew it, this is de Baptist reli-
gion." A pause, then Disguised exclama-
ton: Gosh blast the darned thing; it's
rotten"
Although Ingalls, was in the senate two
years before he made a speech. and Sena-
tor Plumb even longer, Senator Peffer.
who has not yet had his seat thirty days,
made a two-hours speech yesterday In sup
port of Stanford's land loan bill. Ii was
the longest speech of the present session,
and while it WAS a carefully prepared ar
gument, it became tiresome, and one by
one the senators quietly disappeared. unul
at one time there were seventy ont OF
eighty seats vacant. The galleries con
tanned good many Alliance advocates
who listened attentively, but Jerry Simp-
son, who came over from the house and
remained three minutes, said that was
enough for him State Printer Snow of
Kansas sat through it all, and said 1t was
the finest thing he ever heard.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
THAT BUMPTIoUs WICHITA CROWD

From the Yates Center News
Marsh Murdoch is candidate for governor.
While nothing can be said against either the
integrity or the ability of this would-be gov
ernor. he is sadly handicapped by his support.
The Wichita crowd have pretty thoroughly
disguised the state more than once by their
internal bumptiousness, and they will do it
again. Look out for a crowd of them at the
state convention, with brass band a jag,
and threat to secede from the party and
state if everything they want is not handed to
them on platter. They have been training
by themselves so long that they do not seem
to realize that outside of the suburban pre-
cincts of Wichita there is great state and a
million and a quarter of people. If reminded
of the fact they would perhaps look sorry and
say, so much the worse for the great state and
the million and quarter of people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
"THE KANSAS CITY PAPERS,"

From the Kansas City Journal.
A great many Kansas papers. in referring TO
the proposed gubernatorial candidacy of a
well-knOwn man III the Sunfower state, are
particularly sure that the nomination will not
come his way IF the Kansas City papers have
their way about it," This assumption is I'M
just to the gentleman aspiring to the honor,
and unjust to the papers of this city. 1t infers
that they Will attempt to control the politics
of neighboring state, and thereby thwart the
wishes of its citizens So far as the Journal is
concerned this is entirely wrong. As for its
Democratic contemporaries, they have very
little influence with Republican politics in
Kansas, even in II negative way. Kansans
have long since learned that the main object
of Missouri Democrats in meddling with Kan
sas politics is to embarrass the party in power
and to spread free trade literature.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
THERE WAS no SLATE TALKED.

From the FL Dorado Republican.
The FL Dorado Republican gives it out as no
secret that several old misunderstanding
were fixed up during the senatorial affair that
viii have an important influence upon the
next campaign, which, being freely interpret
ed, means that the Murdocks and Major Hud-
son got together and in consideration of the
Murdochs scratching the majors back for SEN
ator the major is going 10 tickle the Murdocks
by coming out for Marsh for governor. Now
watch the cards--Topeka Lance.
You cover the entire ground with a hop,
skip and jump, and therefore miss some OF the
main points in our statement
During the week of the senatorial canvass
there were probably two or three hundred
prominent Kansas Republicans in Topeka,
many of whom had not met in years. and as it
was good natured contest there was ample
opportunity for Republicans to get together,
and they did so. The late campaign was talk
ed over, old sores or misunderstanding were
fixed up and a number of very ugly ruts in the
political highway were agreed to be filed up,
so that marching in solid column in the future
viii be easier, with no hummucky or jolty
places in the road Personal ambitions were
entirely lost sight of, there being no political
states talked of or agreed upon. 1t was gem
eral political discussion which will work out
great results for the party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
HE Is TOO LIBERAL
From the Sterling Bulletin-Gazette.

From the Sterling Bulletin-Gazette.
Colonel Marsh Murdoch, Of the Wichita
EAGLE, has announced his candidacy for gov
ernor. Marsh stands at the head of Kansas
journalism. He is brilliant. brainy man, and
has many qualities which would fit him 70 &C
cupy the gubernatial chair with honor and
credit TO the state. There is one serious objec-
ton. however-his continued and persistent
hostility to the prohibitory law and his de-
Tense of the practical notification of that law
in the city Of Wichita. His paper is. in a
large measure, responsible for the public sen
timent which upholds the officers in permit
ting the open and continued Illegal sale OF
liquors. Colonel NGrdOck, holding such
views, could never be elected governor Of Kan
sas, no matter on what ticket he runs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
For the Eagle.
CONTENT.

There is a charm 1 can't express,
That melts the heart in tenderness;
A joy that lifts the soul above
The grovelling things that round it move;
II.
A calm upon the air that brings
Almost the sound of angel wings;
Watts music from the unseen choir,
More sweet than any earthborn Tyre.
Happy the one that here can find
That blessed thing, peaceful mind;
The wants of life, but few, supplied;
BY no contending passions tried.
Wrapped by domestic bliss around,
Youths ioyousness in age is found;
And childhood IS wisdom, like the sage,
Grows ripper, as increased by age.
V.
Where morning finds a thankful heart
Take up the well apportioned part;
Start fair with each recurring sun,
Yet praiseful when the day is done,
VI.
When rising moon and glittering stars
Are CLEANS of light athwart the bars
Of gates that ope beyond the skies,
To let us in to paradise.
JOHN W. BEEBE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
WICHITA WILL BE IN 1T.

There is not a business man in this city
who fails of recognizing the import of
the late dispatch announcing the passage
of the appropriation bill providing for
the speedy completion of the work of
allotting the Cheyenne, Arapahoe and
| the lands Of other reservations lying to
the west of the settled portion of Okla
homa. Here are millions of acres of
valleys and of hills, Of prairies, streams,
and of timber, and no doubt of valuable
minerals, which will at very early
date be opened to settlement, and the
business of every town, community and
farm of which, in greater or less sense,
will be directly linked to Wichita by the
Rock Island road. For the jobbing sup
plies for that great section and its
people, in the lines of agricultural
implements, in machinery, in merchan-
disc, and SO forth, no other city IS
directly, and no other so quickly reached,
as Wichita. The opening of the slX
million acres constituting the Cherokee
Strip has become problematical in the
hands of a Democratic congress and de-
Law is threatened, but the lands that will
come in, as above described, with their
rapid settlement, are only second In
Importance to the future of Wichita to
those of the nearer Cherokee Strip.
These lands thus directed linked
by rail to Wichita, and to no
other important city, must double
our trade with the territory within
sixty days after the president shall have
signed the proclamation. But besides
the Rock Island connection, the southern
branch of the Santa Fe runs directly
through the upper half of these lands
while Kansas City jobbers and manu-
facturers can only utilize or avail them
selves of by two hundred mile longer
haul than from Wichita. Again, the
Kiowa branch of the Missouri Pacific
which runs in an air line from Wichita
to the border of the territory, will, Of
necessity, with the opening of the reser-
vations named, be projected on south
and across them; and, the Hutchinson q
Southern which has two direct con-
nections, and two additional
not very indirect connection with this
city, is now preparing to extend across
another portion of these lands, as it also |
will traverse the Strip from north to |
south.
With all the late gratifying and |
evidences of reviving bust |
ness, and accommodating and undeniable |
proofs of the expansion Of trade we
nevertheless incline to the opinion that
Wichita's coming growth viii be on the
scale of arithmetical progression or an
increase by the square of present
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
JOE ADY'S GREAT FIGHT.
From the ElDorado Republican.

From the F1DoTado Republican.
Honorable Joseph w Adv is the
author Of the suit 10 break down the
trans Missouri Traffic association. and
the credit is due 10 him alone He got
his first inspiration from remark made
on a Pullman car coming in from Colo
RADIO last September. and it was this:
1t IS unfortunate fer Kansas that the
railways are not permitted TO make
rates 50 that all the grass grown on the
Kansas praIrieS could be cut and sent TO
market where il would bring from eight
70 twelve dollars per. ton. there being
enough OF it going 10 waste annually 70
pay of the mortgage debt Of the state at
these figures, as well as 10 furnish an
endless amount o. employment for
labor and business for the railroads
For months afterwards AR Adv worked
on this problem aud the result Is this
suit in the United States court TO give To
the state free railway competition.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
WELL, WICHITA WILL.

The Salina Republican says: "We see
no reason why Wichita should not some
day make as large city as Kansas City. F"
The Republican overlooks the physical,
geographical and moral fact that all great
cities are made by water.-Kansas City
Gazette.
There goes that red-headed editor
again, declaring the Missouri river to be
water, that weary tide of shifting sands,
whose only physical geography" is its
unstable sandbars, its "moral facts but
catfish; there he goes all obliyious of
the fact that this is the age of steel and
tireless wheels, and not of water
that were it possible to bridge, or tunnel,
the Atlantic ocean, that navigation nor
water would any longer be in it. Fully
one-half of this vast continent lies be-
tween the muddy Missouri and the
Pacific ocean, without a single naviga-
BILE stream or lake. Does that Gazette
man pretend that Kansas City is the
last chance and that there will be no
great cities on all the said expanse?
The Salina Republican is right; no one
can see why Wichita should not some
day make as large city as the com
bined Kansas Cities at the mouth of the
KaU
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24

Lawrence Journal: Chicago gets the
Democratic convention. Tie consola-
ton there is left for the defeated cities is
that it viii not be much OF show any
way, and viii amount to very little. Ii
the authorities can keep al the delegates
sober while they are in town, big Chi
cago will hardly know there Is a conven-
ton there Perhaps so: but you must
remember that the patronage implied in
the delegates not keeping sober is enc of
the principal inducements for securing
the location Of the big spree for the big
town.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
am Old Relic of slavery.

There died at Richield Springs, \. Y.
the other day \ relic of New York's
slavery DAYS. commonly known as odd
Uncle Ben Phillips He was born at
Cherry Valley of slave parents, but
passed most of his life near Otsego Lake.
His exact age was unknown, but It is
believed that lac had passed hi, 95th
year. His name, Benjamin Phillips,
was that of his last master Uncle
Ben" was foud of giving "reminiscences
of the days of slavery, and among other
things that Mr.. Phillips got him from
hi, first master, Mr. Hoke. in trade for
horse. lie was among the last quota
of slaves liberated IN New York state IN
1927 under the gradual emancipation
act. Even then. he said. he had ~ run
away from his old master.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
OUGHT TO BE BY ACCLAMATIoN.

From the kinsley Mercury.
II Marsh Murdock wants to be governor OF
Kansas, and it would seem that he does, he
ought to BE- nominated by reclamation Aside
from being an old Kansan- which doesn I
count much any more, he has done more hard.
effective work for Kansas than any other man
in the state. There Is not brainier or IN
every way more competent man IN tbs state
than he, and. o. stated above. if he wants 10
be governor the Republican party can honor
itself and al the same time secure a leader
that viii draw thousands OF votes from the
opposition by nominating him We uCve lis
nomination be made unanimous
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
We see it stated that the attorney gen.

We see it stated that the attorney gen.
eral has taken steps to diSorganize Gar
field county. The Indebtedness of the
county is nearly % per cent of its as
sessed valuation, and there are less than
1000 people in it. Just how Mr.. Ives
will proceed to disorganize the county is
not stated, and under the circumstances
it is by no means clear how it can be done
without enablement from the legislature.
No doubt there are several other counties
out in that country that would have
made money by remaining unborn, but
since the accouchments were made &C
cording to the prescribed mode it is too
late to discuss might-have-beens.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
AN ALLIANCE VIEW.

From The EI.snwood Advocate.
The Wichita Mirror of the 10Th inst says;
Marsh MVrdock has placed himself in the
hands Of his friends. and they vii see 10 Il
that he secures the goyernor-hIp of Kansas"
It would have appeared more rassiest ard iess
Ike boast i the Mirror had said his friends
will >ee "a 10 thar he gets the nomination as
getting the nomination and getting The gov
eruurShip are -w5 different things = might
be well for NJ. Murieykrs friends 20 rsTnenb-r
tia: there arr two political parties IN kansas.
one with several important topics Ilo5 carried
IN the EepnhIieAn Err 5 platform.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24
AT LEAST NOR a CRANK.

Frerr go EaKeea Nfe-<sfeer.
II l. announced that Marsh Na-gloak has "a
LAST consented - - 8 candidate for governor.
Mt AIGrioe1 lass been repeatedly fFs-psr1 'irsed
ny his friends 20 stand foT this position err
hiss always declined herefasoTe. AEnon- tise
Republican asliranfs we know q 10 1-1e r' ilrss
s2cc-S would please - - resl - that ~ tfe
fear3ss. and energetic editor ~ III, NiehsfA
EAGTE- Ngrsa~k mas r.enty n aaaifE- 40
abundance II character. sg.d- Nhssi = t--1 -
a. hls b5gtsry-sg foe cuEid nat zccuse i4lsl y
being a crank. lie j. ansIezhsedIy she n4ss-s
Hva..abss man Z tie Republican gazty.