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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
SENATOR PLUMB'S ESTATE.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
Senator Plumb made the remark with
in week of his death that his business
was so scattered that he didn't know
what would become of his family if any,
thing happened to him. The dispatches
a few days ago told of suits instituted
against his estate, and the Washington
correspondent of the Topeka Capital
corroborates the worst. He writes that
Frank Flenniken resigned as secret airy
for Senator Perkins in order that he
might give his whole time to the affairs
of the late Senator Plumb. This was
done at the earnest solicitation of Mrs.
Plumb and also Major Calvin Hood and
the senator's brother, George Plumb,
who have been in Washington several
days on matters connected with the
estate. Litigation has been commenced
which seriously endangers the estate,
and should the claimants be successful,
the bulk of the property left by the
senator would be swept away. The de-
velopmentt Of the last few days show
that Senator Plumbs business affairs are
in a most unsettled condition, and I'M
less handled with great care good share
of the valuable estate is likely to be sac
rifced.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

There is talk of third party in the
Chicasaw nation.
Seven railroads traverse the Indian Ter
ritory and Oklahoma.
Governor Seay assumed the executive
robes yesterday afternoon.
The tax penalty list, which is in force to-
day, is said to be large one.
Cinnamon at Oklahoma City celebrated
| their new years day Friday.
| The covered wagons have again begun
| to wend their ways westward.
| Mansur is against statehood Statehood
| is in no immediate danger. The nearest is
| four years.
There will be annual elections in cities
of the first class in Oklahoma, the first
Tuesday in April.
The Kelly institute has treated twenty
patients since its establishment in Okla
homa City on Dec. -
y colored woman at Oklahoma City has
received $50 damages from a man who
ran over her with buggy.
The Oklahoma City Gazette has the most
startling headlines for its local page of
any paper, between China and San Fran
cisco.
Oklahoma has great many influential
Democrats who ought to see that the pres
ent congress gets the Cherokee bill
through.
The Christian church at Guthrie has
been granted donation OF 81 90 from the
church extension society TO build house
Of worship.
Tecumseh came forward with a Repub-
lican club. whereby Chandler pushes 70
the front with Democratic organization
with 2js members
The Indian police. under Instructions
from Indian Agent Bennett. are seizinE
and destroying all the beer they can find
in the Indian Territory.
At the recent leap year ball 81 Guthrie
the gentlemen were forbidden 70 firt.
chew gum or hold their partners hands
more than ten minutes at a time
Oklahoma Timss-JouFual. A private
letter from Delegate Harvey informs rs
that the treaties made bv the commission
with tie Wichita & Caddo and Kickapoo
Indians VIII he ratified as soon ss they are
reported frota the COMMITTEES, which VIII /
be very sooE-
The Cheyenne Ind aus are believers ia !
dreams and feS week agD the Indians /
czIu 4pti a0out Cantnaaaent .er- called % /
da2ce through a cream. a ctri dreamed !
she sax re e9a= davya frssE heaTeu. !
who commanded her 10 cali Asr people 70
sester T. dance
TIE Teeumsea Herald Botes that Ia. /
~hswuee payment lsesaa last Saturday /
an ! NIL g-s Efsffft. from GAY % CAV unst5
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

the Democracy is ready for fusion with
the Peoples party, when the avowed
principles of each are Numerically an
| tagonistic: the one affects frantic emo
| tons at the suggestion of paternalism IN
national affairs, while the other advo-
Gates it to the fullest extent. Imagine
the combination and their platform II
| they should attempt 10 construct one.
The variegated colors of crazy quilt
would not compare with if. 4 compos-
| tie photograph of them would out sell
the so, 600 beauty in the old-time coun-
try circus. Such fusion and combina-
ton would cause thousands of desertions
| from the ranks of both, and such would
join under the victorious banner of Re-
publicanism.
Having given some OF the reasons why
we are here We may be permitted fur
| Their to answer what we are not here for;
unlike Mr. Flanagan of Texas we are
not here for the offices in sight;we are not
here for personal aggrandisement; we
are not here as ''kicker' or mug
wumpS;" we are stalwarts who have
done the party some service and propose
to continue the good work; we propose
in unison with the whole party to select
to assist our brethren in maintaining the
cardinal doctrines of Republicanism;
most Of the young men here have long
ago by observation and little exper-
fence concluded that holding and trying
to get office is poor business as a means
of livelihood: we expect, however, fair
share of the honors belonging to victo-
rious party and have no fears but that
they will be accorded us.
We are either kansans by birth or
adoption, and being SO we hope that our
beloved state will in due time take rank
among the great states of our nation 10
which she is entitled by reason of her
soil. climate and the character of her
people. Under Republican rule the rapid
development and growth of Kansas has
excited the admiration of all people; we
realize that we are on the ave of an I'M
portant campaign, by the result of which
will be determined whether Kansas is to
be Republican or Cossack; whether the
van of progress shall roll onward or
backward during the next decade.
We believe that a patriotic duty calls
us to assist the Republican party in a
campaign fraught with results SO i'm
portant: we believe that Republican vic
tory means national prosperity TO The
whole people; it will mean a continual
improvement and protection of our
American industrial civilization; it will
mean a stable monetary system adapted
to the necessities of trade and labor; it
will mean that all the great economic
questions of the age will be solved and
rightly determined by the constructive
and inventive craftsmanship of our
party, characteristic of its past; in Kan
sas among many other things it will
mean that the great question of trans
portation will receive prompt legislation.
To assist our Republican brethren in
making these accomplishments possible
is what we are here for We are here
for the purpose of avowing our intention
to assist in making the future history of
the Republican party as glorious as its
past.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
STILL A vEXED QUESTION.

The census shows that the same drift
of population from the country to the
towns which constitutes one of the veXed
problems OF the east Is observable in so
agricultural state as Illinois. In 1880 p
percent of the states population lived in
the cities; in 1890 the percentage had
risen to H. The agricultural counties
have gained generally in population, but
the increase has been IN the towns. and
not on the farms. During thu last ten
years, for instance, Fulton county,
which is noted for its productiveness,
gained / $50 in population. but the rural
districts fell off 1929. Strange to say
the productivity of the farms in the
state is greater than ever, of this it is
said that ''the drainage has added to the
crop bearing capacity of the land with
out calling for more workers"
The increase of urban over rural pop
ulation that has been going on at such
an extent as to attract the attention of
social and political economists for many
years, has caused no little solicitude.
But after all it is not so hard to account
for and upon a reasonable basis. In the
older states particularly the tillable lands
have been brought under cultivation for
long time, which condition leaves little
or no room for any increase in the
amount of labor required. Add to this
the rapid increase in labor saving nipple
ments which have superseded manual
labor in large measure, and we have a
very plausible explanation of the matter.
Still, it does not remove the perplexity
of the situation presented by the great
increase in nonproductive urban popula
tions and what to do with it-how to en-
ploy 1t SO as to make it self-supporting.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
The Northwest Speaks.

From the Clay Center Times.
Marshall NJ. Murdoch, the war-horse of the
Upper Arkansas. is announced as a sure
enough candidate for governor. He possesses
the prime requisites necessary to make gov
ernor of this great state equal to any who ever
occupied the position. 1t would be a pleasure
TO support him.
From the Kensington Mirror.
The strong endorsement of Marshall VI. MUIR
docks candidacy for governor is probably due
TO the fact that the Mirror brought him out.
From The Topeka Lance.
If the newspapers of Kansas wers to vote on
candidates for governor, at this time. Marsh
Murdoch would be found running so fast that
he might be mistaken for comet in transit.
From the Eingfisher Free Press.
Oklahoma is unanimous for Marsh Murdoch
for governor of Kansas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
The southeast Corner Heard From.

From the Baxter Springs News.
Marsh Murdoch is candidate for governor.
and is unquestionably the best man spoken of
for that position. Murdoch is one of the few
iberal-minded, broad-guage politicians of Kan
sas and is just the man needed at this time to
take our state out of the narrow rut of bigoted
fanaticism and place her where she belongs,
in the front row with Illinois and Ohio. Muir
dock is the man who, through the columns of
the Wichita EAGLE, gave that town the as
cendancy over every other town IN Kansas. 1t
was through his brains and energy. and through
such men as he that the great development of
business prosperity was made in 1855. Through
thick and thin he has upheld the honor of the
state and sought to impress upon the outside
world the fact that investments in Kansas
property are not all deIusion and a snare, but
are safe and profitable as can be made in
any other state. His faith is still unbounded
and he has lost none of his old-time energy.
He understands the wants of the people and
with such man at the helm and a sensible
Legislature back of him, Kansas could not help
but take long stride toward financial pros
perity. We want no more sickly sentimental
lty. We want no more pessimistic calamity
screechers. We want no more impracticable
legislation. We want more brains and more
business. Murdoch is man of the people and
although he would have a hard fight with the
cradle reform barnacles who infest the state,
the men of Kansas would unite on him and
elect him by an overwhelming majority.
With Marsh Murdoch as governor the credit
of the state would be advanced abroad, strife
at home would be allayed, and the financial
interests of all would be better conserved than
by the election of any other man. lie is the
sort of man who does not spend his time on
technicalities, but with a wider vision and
of snch laws as would conform to
the advance of civilization and progress which
all western states have made during the last
decade. Mr.. Murdoch has not d fanatical or
calamity hair in his head, and the elevation of
such man to the gubernatoral chair would
tend greatly to counterfeit the opinion gener-
ally held by the outside world that the popU-
laton of Kansas is chiefly made up of COM
munists, fanatics, imbeciles, females and
crankS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
sUNFLoWER sILHoUETTEs.
Chill has come off the perch and pull

| Chill has come off the perch and pulled
the perch down after her.
There ere only SOB paupers in the poor
houses of Kansas, against 2,21S in Mis-
| souri,.
! There were 10 men at the Kansas Day
clubs banquet, and twentysiX of these
were Kansas born.
1t is said of certain politician in Topeka
| that he always keeps his word, because
nobody will take it.
The Methodist church atHolyrood threw
open its doors to the Uncle Toms Cabin
company last Monday evening.
Kansas done number of impossible
things. 1t may remain for Kansas to
unite the theatre and the church.
John j. ingalls, will join the G. a r.
and become member, at the Atchison
encampment, next week, for the first
time.
1t mas been definitely settled that there
is to be no lack of harmony between the
old and young crowds, but the young men
may crowd the old ones a little.
There was only one point. made at the
Kansas Day clubs banquet that was not
applauded. One speaker declared: "We
are not here seeking Office" and you
could hear the paper sticking to the wall
A western Kansas man who got the grip
and was bitten by rat tlesnake on the
same day dosed himself so heavily that at
evening he put three shovelsfull of ice in
the furnace and filed the refrigerator with
coal
There is meteor in the State university
with queer markings on it, and some of
the scientists believe that it may be mes
sage from Jupiter or some other planet of
high civilization, and these marks are the
writing of some language
One of the editors of the Kansas City
Journal gives the startling information
that George Elliott was prouder of making
a good omelet than of writing Robert
ElSmer." In justice sof Will White it
should be said that he was out of town
that day.
Congressman Funston and Jerry Simp-
son made an exhibition of themselves be-
fore the house the other day in qua rrel
about the price of corn. Why don't they
talk about protoplastic genesis or empiri-
cal cosmography, or something they know
something about?
Don't say OCCASION
Write affair" at your peril.
Event" is obsolete.
Neither must you specialize at high-tea,
ball, party, entertain
ment, musical or conversations.
Put it social function.'
That's Boston.
The Alliance is good deal like mica or
isinglass 1t is mighty thin at the start,
but you can split it a thousand times
without seeming to change its appear
ance. 1t was just as easy to see through
at the beginning as a Democratic side
show, as it is when it is all broken apart
and nobody remains in the remnant but
Jerry Simpson and two other fellows
whom nobody knows
There is new story on Bailey WAGNER,
a prominent citizen of Atchison. Years
ago Mr.. Wagner marked his initials on
copper penny and sent it out on that long
voyage which every piece of currency
makes. One day last week Mr. Wagner
received in change a penny which he Slip
ped into his pocket carelesSly. Later in
the day, however, the recollection of the
he had made years ago occur
red to him, and he fished out the copper
and inspected it. And, 10! the penny was
NOT the coin he had marked in his youth! |
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

Sos, 1913 80. the total expenditures $l2s ,525.-
IS. The Indian Territory has more post
offices than either Arizona. Delaware. Ne
vada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Utah or
Wyoming.
The Guthrie Capital has neat letter
from Postmaster General Wauamaker.
thanking it for publishing the article on
"How to send your Christmas presents. -
and commencing Postmaster Flynn for
writing it. ''It is such things as this. -
says the letter, which informs the people
and assists in promoting the mail service.
Mr.. Carruthers. who has been a mis-
sionary among them. says the condition Of
the Cheyennes from n moral point OF view
is terrible. IL is not the contact with the
white race that is rapidly dominating
the tribes, but their unbridled iudulgences
and excuses. There IS scarcely a sound,
healthy person in the tribes, and becAuse
OF this utter disregard of moral laws, the
children who would naturally be strong
and robust are often born with the germs
of a loathsOme disease cOursing through
their veins. The immoral practices are
mostly among the children, the law Of the
tribes requiring wives 70 live strictly
virtuous lives. and the law is rarely broken.
Prostitutes among these Indians are social
outcasts. the same A. among their white
neighbors, and the mothers seem anxious
that their daughters should grow up 10
be good, yirtuous women, but il seems
to be accepted as a matter Of course
that these immoral practices viii exist
among the youth of the tribe such *
cesses and the prevalence Of the attendant
life destroying diseases are destroy ing the (
tribes. aud the pIen Of today are hut gauut I
shadows Of their ancestors. tie great Sioux 4
warriors Of 30 years ago. The great. gaunt 4
frame is about al thst l. lsaf and that j. 1
often bent aud distorted prematurely.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

The country would very generally CON
cur in decision of the courts that would
award DIR. Graves a new trial. The
Springfield Democrat very pertinentIy
remarks, the evidence upon which he
was convicted and sentenced to be hung
was as purely circumstantial as any ever
adduced in a murder trial, and however
convincing it may have been in its pre-
sentation to the jury, it lacked much of
satisfying the public, which followed the
case with unusual interest. 1t is gener-
ally conceded that Graves conviction
was more the result of the laundering
OF his attorneys than 10 the convincing
proofs of guilt deduced during the trial.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
WOMAN'S CLUBS.
WICHITA. Kan. Jan. o.

WICHITA, Kan. Jan, -. 1892,
To the Womens Clubs throughout Kansas and
oklahoma
The biennial meeting of the federation
of Women'S clubs will occur in Nav in
the city of Chicago. 1t is earnestly de-
sired that every club shall send a repre-
sentative TO that convention. Only
those clubs that are members of the fed
Grafton are entitled to vote, but il is
believed that much information NAV be
gained in regard to womau's work: and
it will also be an opportunity to meet
and hear MANY of the most notable lit
erary and philanthropic women of our
country. | shall be glad to answer any
questions with regard to the matter.
Papers throughout Kansas and Okla
homa Will confer favor bv copying this
notice. Mrs. NARY c. Tom.
Chairman of correspondence for Kansas
and Oklahoma.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

Wichita will entertain the Kansas post
masters Feb s. Several hundred are ex-
pected to be present as a state organization
will be formed. Here will be a chance for
Marsh Murdoch TO get in his work. The
EAGLE needs to be a Harrison paper dur
ing the convention. City Times.
The EAGLE at all times believes Mr..
Harrison to be 4 pure man, a sound
Statesman and an exalted patriot who
has given the American people the clean
est ADMINISTRATION, taken all in all, since
Washington took the oath as the first
president Of the United States. Harrison
has not even been guilty of unintentional
mistakes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

The relic hunters in the interest of the
worlds fair seem to have overlooked the
existence of the modest little wooden
building in Greenville, Tenn, over the
front door Of which the little sign still
Temains bearing the words ga, johnson,
Tailor" True, there is not much senti-
ment associated with the name that
would make it exceptionally popular or
attractive; still, in a general collection
Of curios the little taller shop of the
ex-president would be quite as unique as
the average that will be exhibited in that
line.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
The Valley Center Journals the name Of

The Valley Center journal Is the name Of
new paper just started in our neighbor-
Ing town By V. /. Alexander, editor and
proprietor. Since the demise OF the
News, some months ago. Valley Center
has been without Z paper. anu the good
people of that community. realizing the
disadvantage Of being without such q
popular medium OF exchange OF thought
aud record OF local happenings. induced
Ar. Alexander 10 occupy the field with
the Journal, and with very neat and
graceful salaam he makes the venture
TIC EAGLE wishes the journal ami it,
publisher all the success the one Graves
and the other merits
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
THE SOVEREIGN CITY OF KANSAS.

From the Eureka Democratic Messenger.
The fellows that claim Wichita is not s
good town, are either honestly mistaken
or worse. The writer was in the "magic
city last Monday and found great many
evidences Of active life and prosperity.
Wichita does large and constantly in
creasing business. Her stores, hotels aud
manufacturing institutions of various
kinds have an air OF prosperity and we pre-
dict that within the next three years the
Peerless Princess" will again be the
sovereign of Kansas, and with q far better
claim for homage than she had during the
palmy days Of the Doom.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

2 Now that the trouble Is all over and
we can do so honorably, the Lawrence
Record thinks there is no longer an ex-
cuse for retaining Pat Egan as minister
to Chill. The Record says: "Whether
rightfuiiy or otherwise ne has made him
self obnoxious to those people and should
not be forced upon them longer" That
all may be true enough. As far as it an
plies 70 Egan personally and 10 she Chill
ians; hut 1t is a generally conceded fact
that the recent disturbance was the
prompting Of English influence. If not
OF the English government. on account
OF antipathy 10 Mr.. Egan personally. As
We'll as TO cripple tlNs couuUys CONNER
ciai interests. This view OF tine case pre-
SCENTS a strong reason why Egan should
Be retained there for an indefinite period.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

If there is any such thing as legitimate
news, and there undoubtedly is, the Al
lance party at Washington has divided
in serious row and IN a nnisunderstand-
ing that was heightened by all but
blows. 1t is to be hoped that this is true
and Kansas willn ext year elect Repub-
licans to congress or least men who can
come nearer earning their $1,000 than
by wearing out the bottom of a congress
siOnaI chair
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

AT last the long pending governorship
contest in Nebraska is settled, the United
States supreme court yesterday deciding
Boyd eligible and entitled to the Office.
The involvings of the case are of more
concern to Governor Boyd, personally.
than to any and every body else, mas
much as the question of his citizenship
was involved. As to the office OF which
he has been deprived, it is matter of
comparatively little moment 10 him.
since he has escaped the responsibilities
it imposes these months and will now
receive the emoluments in full as we'll as
all the honor the title carries with it.
and deal of notoriety to boot that he
never would have gotten otherwise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02
We Will Have
WICHITA BOOK co
rs East Douglas Avenue,
INCORPORATED
The war Child-

Prom the - Louis Posi-Disgatch.
General 10 Wheeler j. this only south.
ern congressman whom the president has
succeeded ia making a conspicuous fool
Of in the CHILEAN controversy General
Wheeler is one q those Economically
and effulgently cLivalro1s ,outhroBG
who delight in patriotic efii0rescencs
and conspicuous poses. They say when
be had a command Of rebel cavalry. hs
used 20 stride out ~ bis tent with spur
jingling and sabeT c.anking. and order
his negro servant IN tragic tones heard
over the whole camp Saddle my large
grey. The War Child rides tonight.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-02

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