The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-21
KINGElSHER NOTES.

| KINGFIsHER, o. T., June 20-TSpecial. !
| The district court, which convened here
| on May %, with Judge John II. Burford
presiding, adjourned On Saturday until
July r. The most important case was
the Territory against Clinton c. Davis,
charged with the murder of Harry Wag-
| CART, soldier in the regular army, on the
morning of April IL, 1892, in this city.
The case was ably conducted and hotly
contested on both sides, with W. w.
Noffsinger and z. S. Nagle for the terri
tory aud r. G. Palmer and c. E. Elliot for
the defense. The jury was out eighteen
hours and brought in verdict of acouit-
tai. The defendant pleaded self-defense.
Judge Burford left on Saturday evening
for Geuda Springs. Kan, to spend Sunday
with his wife, who has been there for
several days. From there he goes to
Guthrie today to attend session of the
supreme court.
The Republican convention which met
at Dover on Saturday afternoon for the
purpose of electing delegates to the con-
gressional convention at Guthrie, July IA.
passed resolutions indorsing the nominees
of the national convention; renewed their
fealty and fidelity to the principles of the
Republican party; rendered earnest thanks
to Governor Seay for the able and adj
mirable manner in which he has con-
Quoted the affairs of the territory; de-
clared in favor of the setting aside by the
government of the United States OF the
money arising from the sale of public
lands in this territory for educational
purposes: condemned the present mode of
educating and maintaining the Indians as
a mistake, and subversive of the very
results intended to be accomplished by
the government; favored the establish
ment of soldiers home in this territory
and urged the delegate to congress to
work for the passage OF n bill for that
purpose, and asked that all pensions be
paid directly from the United States
treasury, Instead Of coming by circuitous
route through the hands of pension
agent.
Resolved, That we call upon the pres
ent county officials to put their houses in
order and make ready to flee to their caves;
for storm of wrath is approaching, and
the cyclone of Republican victory will
sweep them from their places this fall,
leaving only such traces of their wretched
management of the trust confided to them
by a deluded people as can be gathered
from the mangled records which disgrace
their Offices. +"
Twenty-eight delegates were chosen to
the Guthrie convention. The delegation
was instructed for Colonel &. T. Prouty of
instructions were hardly necessary, for the
whole convention WAS enthusiastic for
him without any instruction.
With solid home delegation and help
from every county in the territory except
Logan county, the colonel is evidently
going into the persimmon patch with the
longest pole of any of the aspirants His
boom has assumed funnel shape in the
past few days, and by the 14th of next
month it will have gathered enough
strength to easily make him the choice of
the Republicans of this territory for dele
gate to congress: and the choice of the
Republicans means the choice of the peo-
pie of the territory. Colonel Prouty will
be nominated and elected.
There seems to be no foundation for
Saturday nights dispatches regarding the
alleged troubles in county.
Wheat harvest is in full blast and will
turn out an enormous yield. Crops of
every kind never looked better.