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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
MARTINS MANIFESTO,

Senator John Martin the Demo-Pop.
U. S. Senator from Kansas has his head
quarters at the National hotel. Congress-
man Charles Curtis who has just returned
to Topeka from Washington says to re-
porter Of the Capital that Martin in con-
tident he will control the Kansas patron
age. He asserts that in making recon-
mendations for Kansas postoffices, he
will require that the applicant have the
endorsement of majority of the Demo
cratic patrons of the Office and that he
also be satisfactory to the Populists. He
does not hesitate to say that he has the
"stalwart" Democrats all over the state
spotted" and they need expect but
little at his hands. Judge Martin talks
quite freely about the Topeka postoffce,
and says that unless the applicants now
fighting for the postoffice agree among
themselves upon one Of their number,
some one else would be recommended,
going so far as to name several Demo-
Gratis who would fill the bill. The sena-
tor disappointed some of the Populist
III going into the Demo-
cratic caucus, but it is generally under
stood he is with the Democrats on every
thing but the silver question; it is now
well known there that Martin does not
agree with President Cleveland on this
question, the senator being openly for
free silver.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
THE GOVERNOR OF KANSAS.

The Kansas City Star editorially SAYS
that politics never comes to standstill
in Kansas. As soon as one campaign is
over the people begin setting up the pins
for the next one, and thus speculation is
always active in official and political
circles, and the production of candidates
becomes perennial. The legislature
which adjourned at Topeka yesterday
developed two Republican asplrants to
the governors chair-Speaker Douglass
and Editor Hoch of the Marion Record.
1t Is gratifying to note that both these
men are above the average of guberna-
torial candidates in Kansas. Neither of
them is associated with the ring. Both
of them represent the better and pro-
gressive element of the Republican party.
They possess those qualities which com
mand respect and inspire confidence.
The very mention Of such names tor
official station of high degree is encour-
aging in Kansas. Ex-Congressman Nor
rill is spoken of for the United States
senate. That is also suspicious. He is
strong man whose record entities him
to recognition. 1t would seem that the
adverse experience of the Kansas Re-
publicans has not been wholly without
its salutary uses, and, if it shall prove
profitable to the extent of elevating the
standard official competency in that
state, it will certainly prove blessing
in disguise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,

Duncan will have town lot sale on the
2lst inst.
ST. Louis parties are building a grain
elevator at Terrell.
There is war between the Eagle and the
Payne county officials.
a Beaver county farmer will plant fifty
acres to wntermelons
The Accident wants two bridges across
the South Canadian near Taloga-
The mumps and the grip have corner
on the disease market ut Guthrie.
A chapter OF The o. E, S. was organized
at Crescent City last Tuesday evening.
Z lie Paoli mines shipped five cars OF
copper ore to the Kansas City smeiter last
week.
The Rustler boasts that the grass is six
inches high on the bottoms of Blaine
county.
The Gazette says that Oklahoma City
has four literary societies AID several cases
of humps.
A coiored man named Coleman was run
down by freight train on the bridge JUS.
south OF Guthrie Monday.
The wild notes OF the Scottish pribroch
played on bagpipes the ether morning an
nouncei that George FL. Lsing had arrived
in town says the Oklahoma Press
Gazette: The Capitals resume Of tie
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
An Ancient Word.

The word commencement" now in
the mouths of many. is Of ancient date;
it first appeared in 1897 in Trevisa, in
explanation OF statute of Oxen
ford" Harrison tells us in bis "Descrip-
ton of England" G5s7), that Gin Ok
ford this solemnity is called an act, but
in Cambridge they use the French word
commencement" and in his day the
degrees were always given in church
that had been dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. Nash spoke few years later Of
"a doctor sealed and delivered in the
presence of whole commencement"
In 1902 Cotton Mather wrote of orations
made by 'commencers;" and In the
seventeenth century the word "eom-
menceable" was employed. - Chicago
Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16

work Of the legislature is very roseate.
Mr.. Greer was very active member of the
legislature; in fact, he really shaped the
action of the lower house. II certainly is
TO be hoped that bis prophecies are partial
ly correct at the worst.
State Capital: Tim Sullivan of Mulhall
died Saturday, and Coroner Reder was
called up and embalmed the body and
shipped it to ST. Louis for burial. Tim
was good fellow and we'll liked and his
sudden taking off will be much regretted.
Noble Leader: A good cow, a good gar
den, good poultry yard and few pigs,
make very fine living at small cost.
Some farmers have Que, some another and
some have none of these things. and at the
end Of the Year are bound to carry their
cotton TO the man who has furnished them
canned goods, bacon, etc, to live on.
These are the farmers who never get
ahead in the world or look up.
Dick Howard says that Engineer Carl
Mac is happy now since ne can make mis-
run without fear of being held up-as
jess jackson is in the hospital at Fort
Smith. While at Fort Smith Mr.. Mac
visited Jackson several times and con-
versed with him. He asked why he al
ways held him up, and never caught John
Rain, aud was told that it was not inten-
tional; that he tried six nights TO hold up
train. but missed every time until the
sixth night. The first attempt was made
on Carls train at Red Rock, but WAS
failure because Carl never stopped
at the station. On the next
night it was failure be-
cause John Rain went through Red Rock
at forty mile an hour gait. The next
night was CARTS night and one of the gang
was sent here to buy a ticket for Red
Rock SO as to have the train stop there.
The agent here refused to sell ticket for
Red Rock because the train didn't stop at
that station. The next night one of the
gang bought ticket here for Ponca. At
Ponca he was to get off and take the blind
baggage and crawl over the tender at Red
Rock and hold up the engineer and fire.
man. On the arrival OF the train at Ponca
this scheme was thwarted by too many
brakemen being around. Different schemes
were tried until the train was caught at
Wharton. The robbers ara under $500
bond each.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
KANSAS CORN IN MEXICO

From the K. c. STAR
President Dlaz of Mexico has decreed
the free importa ton of Indian maize and
beans for an indefinite period. This is
good news for Kansas. 1t is estimated
that 10, 600, 600 bushels of corn went out
of that state into Mexico last fall during
the abatement of the duty on that cereal.
The restoration of the tax by the Mexi-
can government stopped shipments al
most entireiy, but exports will now be
resumed under the liberal edict uf the
Mexican president. There is great
natural market in the southern republic
for the farm products of the southwest.
This logical and convenient outlet has
been restricted by the tariff policy of our
government, which imposes duty on
Mexican ores shipped into the
United States. Under an admin
iStration which fayors COM
mercial freedom and which is in position
to carry out its idea of economic reform,
the trade relations between the United
States and Mexico are destined to eX-
pand and become more intimate, and the
agricultural classes will be the gamers.
The conversion of the western. farmers
to the doctrine of tariff reform, which
was exemplified in the last presidential
election, was simply in conformity with
the idea that self-preservation is the first
law of nature. Kansas, which stuck to
protection for more than quarter of a
century in the face OF reason, can now
celebrate the overthrow of its ancient
idol by planting more corn this year for
Mexican consumption.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
STATES RIGHTS IN KANSAS.

There has been test of states rights
in Kansas, recently-a question of pre-
cedence between federal and state
authority, in which the state came out
on top. The case was this: Some time
ago orders were issued from the war de-
partment at Washington to have the re-
mains of the soldiers that lie buried at
Fort Hays, recently abandoned, removed
to Fort Leavenworth and inferred in the
military cemetery there. 1t seems that
several years ago when the cholera pre-
vailed at Fort Hays several of the
soldiers stationed there died of the
scourge and their remains are among
those to have been removed. 1t was
feared that to exhume those would expose
and reinvigorate the germs of the
cholera that had been buried with the
victims of that disease and start them
afresh on mission OF destruction.
Accordingly the state board of health
communicated the facts to the federal
authorities together with the further in
formation that any attempt to remove
the cholera corpse would be resisted by
the state, at the same time issuing orders
for the immediate arrest of anyone who
should attempt to remove any of the in
hibited remains.
The chairman of the state board of
health has been notified from Washing
ton that unless the board withdraws its
objections to the removal the project
will be abandoned by the government
altogether. OF course the objections
will not be Withdrawn, and the cholera
germs that were planted at Fort Hays
will not have the opportunity of seeking
more victims; not this year.
And so Kansas successfully resists
Uncle Sans invasion of her precincts,
basing her resistance upon the first law
of nature
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
aaerioan PnhI,o I,h-aries-

Our public libraries in this country
beat the world, bu, there are GER
tain advantages IN an institution like
the London library, subscription CON
Germ which we may well envy. !. Is
an institution OF eminent respectabi iity,
for Lord Tennyson was It's president.
Mr. Gladstone one Of its vice-presidents
AID SIR John Lubbock and Lord Rose
berry are of its trustees For three
pounds year one obtains the privilege
of this splendid library OF one hundred
and afty thousand volumes, and mar
take out ten volumes IL he is town
mem Der and fifteen Il he lives in the
coun;ry-of course with ali tlss usual
readins-room privileges of g great
HbrarF.-Chicago Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
BALLOT REFORM.

From the Californian.
Ballot reform is agitated more espe-
cially 10 prevent frauds in manipulating
ballot boxes and returns. There is COM
paratively little said of the wholesale de-
privauon of the right of suffrage by
force or intimidation. The man whose
vote is not counted is cheated out OF the
exercise of his rightful power in shaping
the policies of government: if it. is
counted for the opposite side he is
doubly wronged. The same is true in
case of forgery or classification of re-
turns. All these are no worse, or not as
bad even as the use of violence
or intimidation to deter men
from voting. Force and intimI-
dalton have frequently been iesorted TO
"a prevent large classes from voting on
the ground of prejudice against race. re-
hgion or nationality, and sometimes to
promote par,izan and personal success.
The consequences of preventing the
exercise of the right of ballot by any un-
lawful means may be Of most fearful
character. Ii one class is thus deprived.
1t constitutes precedent for depriving
another. True ballot reform includes
not alone the prevention of too much
voting orcounting, but also enforcement
OF the exercise OF the right in behalf of
all who are entitled.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE,

From the Kansas City Star.
In refusing to pass bill which pro-
vided for the election OF the railroad
commissioners by the people, the Popu-
lists OF the Kansas senate openly con-
fessed their fear of the popular judy
ment against the Populist course IN the
recent war" at Topeka. There can be
no doubt that the Republicans expect to
make the twin houses" in the lower
branch of the legislature an issue in the
local elections next fall. And what is
more, there can lie little doubt that this
issue is very much stronger than the
national issues on which the Republicans
have gone to defeat since 1890. The
Populists. on the other hand, were polite
and cunning, if not manly, IN refusing
to bring matters to head by allowing a
state vote to be taken on the questions
involved in the war issues" Two years
is long time 10 wait, and the PopulisJs
arc figuring on the forgetfulness of the
people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
A REPLY TO GRATTAN.
A Wichita Man Tells Some of His States
Good Points.

WICHITA, March /, 1898.
FRIEND GRATTAN-I have read with
interest your interview on Kansas, taken
from the Tacoma Daily News. The
caption thereto was superfuous. Did l
not know that the figures and forms en-
ployed over any non de plume were
sprouted in the fertile brain of my old
friend? You talk of Kansas with that
liberty and freedom which I like.
The seference to her early struggles, her
county seat wars, her booms and cranks
would serve as tiles to much of her
history, but why, o, why, did you stop
short of her virtues? Who knows bet
ter than you that in all this turmoil of
crankism, socialism and birthstone
there is leaven Of patriotism which
has never failed us and never will?
Who knows better than you that there
is more independent thinking and
greater liberty in talking in Kansas than
elSew here, and that the first impulse OF a
Kansas man is to fight, leaving differ
ences TO be adjusted afterwards? How
long, / pray you, would it have taken by
diplomacy or moral suasion TO capitulate
with the late trump" house as effectu-
ally as did George Douglas with his
sledge hammer in thirty seconds? Dl-
Iplomacy is a great card in international
differences, but in this Missouri
country it's a dead letter.
Now, good friend, let me beg of you
that you begin where yon left off in that
interview, and tell the readers of the
News that Kansas raises more corn and
wheat. more beef and pork, a greater
surplus of everything for the hungry
mouths that are abusing her than any
state in the Union. Tell them,
further, that any incipient revO-
luton or sand-lot conspiracy which may
fasten its tenacles upon your glorious
land of the Occident may find radical
cure in the great Kansas hospital-not
by the Kelley method, but by the s;mpls
counter-irritant of short swords and
sledge hammers.
We are disguised, edited and amused
by turns at the structures and satire of
the press. A New York paper broke the
record last week by covering the whole
ground in a line, kansas Is the meanest
state in the Union" Candid, isn't it?
But even Kansas may exercise the mean
prerogative of sizing up New York. The
great commonwealth with her millions
of people and billions of treasure. with
ing and gasping with Tammany at her
throat, is to our conception, a
spectacle too abject and a people too
cowardly to breathe the air of Ameri-
can freedom. A butterfly in cyclone
would stand better show than Tam
many in Kansas.
Let me give you pointer right here:
Tins fusion Demo-Pop-Alliance tragedy
is all over, and though the potion was
bitter to the taste it will purify Kansas
politics for years to come; and, further,
the surface twelve inches of Kansas soil
will produce more gold dollars in the
next decade than all the mines in the
Sierra Madre mountains. For wealth
and glory there never was better time
to come to Kansas. With best regards,
l am sincerely yours,
J. D. HUTCHINGs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
Sued for An Arm.

Ellis Housley, an Englishman. re-
Gently sued the junior house surgeon
at the Bolton infrmary for ten pounds.
the value of one of the arms OF his son,
who had been injured in an accident at
his work. The limb was amputated at
the infrmary, and after the operation
the plaintiff asked for the arm, but the
house surgeon refused to allow him to
take it away. A day or two later the
boy died, and the father again demand
ed his sons arm along with the body
for burial The Judge said the plaintiff
had no property in his son or his sons
body, and even guardian was only
guardian during lifetime and not of the
dead body. The verdict was for the de-
fepdant.-N Y. Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
In Hoifn8d.

Many of the country danes and dam
sells look Is II they had been brough.
up on soap and water. Their faces
glisten 40 preteruaturally, their pots
aud pans. the red tiles of their floors.
their tables and benches eli bear wit
ness 80 unnistakably to their cleansing
ardor i suppose sy in the butter
they were ehurnlng. or mirsd foot on
the boards they have but just scrubbed.
would be as nearly likely to give them
CT as anything could be Chambers
Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16

The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
"Way out in the west Senator Ingalls,
raises his piercing voice to shout that it
would be mistake to annex Hawaii.
Beyond proving that Mr.. ingalls, has
been living in the backwoods long
time now his shout has not the slightest
significance" Probably not; yet it is
remarkable coincidence that shortly
afler the ex-senator's pronouncement
Mr.. Cleveland withdrew the Hawaiian
treaty that had been sent TO the senate
by President Harrison. The appoint
ment of Mr.. Ingalls, to the commission
provided for by an act of congress to
visit the islands, investigate and report,
would be no stranger act on the part of
the president than was the call of J Judge
Gresham TO his cabinet.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-16
A FORTUNE IN A TRUNK.

How 925O. 900 was safely Taken Across
the Plains When Robbers Fiourished.
Among the passengers who occupied
Great Northern car running west from
Fargo to Bismack. the other day. was
n. g. McMicken. general agent for the
Great Northern in Winnipeg. Man.
Mac" rs he Is Familiarity known in
railroad circles, is OF Canadian birth
and a son of Gilbert McNicken. who
acted as assistant receiver-general on
the opening of Manitoba aud opera ted
the first government land office in Win
nipeg. 1t was nearly twenty years ago
when. acting under that government.
he had undergone the responsibility of
having two hundred and nifty thousand
dollars conveyed from Toronto. Can
There being no railroad transporter
ton north of Moorehead, Mimi, tie
dangerous and irksome task of over
land travel was necessary. Tie
money was placed il two large
of North Dakota by ox-teams. occupy
ing a period of three weeks from Moor-
head. Those were anxious days for the
new receiver-general. but the wealth
reached Winnipeg unmolested- That
was the first government money taken
into Manitoba.
few months later it was found nee
essary to double that amount and the
son was given the authority to trans
port another quarter OF million dol
lars He bethought himself of novel
scheme, inasmuch as he was compelled
to accompany the money, and pur-
chased an old leather trunk, in which
he deposited the amount, which con-
sisted OF paper money of small de-
nomination, covered it with some wear
ing apparel, and started for Chicago
There he found his baggage safe, left
il in the depot, sought his hotel and
retired. The next day he checked it TO
ST. Paul, and from there TO Moorhead-
Here he took the stage and his journey
to the north began. The old trunk
was tossed upon the rear end Of the
coach with no fastening, and away they
went humping over the broad plains
Stage robbers and thieves were numer-
GUS throughout the country, and al
most daily the overland traveller found
himself lined up along the roadside
while the leader of gang deprived
him Of his possessions. Little did the
bandits think as the old, familiar stage
rumbled on its journey that the old
leather trunk held fortune The
stage reached Penn bina, near the border
line. one Saturday morning. Eager to
reach his destination Mr.. McMickcn
hired half-breed who was the sole
possessor of lame bronco and two
wheeled cart. Seated on the trunk be-
hind the broncho, and the bronzed ma
tive in the rear on foot, the journey to
Winnipeg was resumed. For thirty
miles this picturesque trio logged along
in the fashion described, when ct last
they were met by a carriage that had
been sent out to convey the traveller in.
His father could hardly believe him SO
rash as to make the trip he did, but
Mac declared that he lost no sleep
over the old leather trunk that many
NIGHTS stood out of doors on the stage,
and which could easily have been pene-
trated by common jack-knife. -Chica-
go Tribune.