The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-27

Bill prayed like good fellow, and exhort-
ed everybody to come to Christ, and L
could not help rejecting on his past life to
such an extent that could not keep track
of his utterances. Mrs. Lee sang with the
enthusiasm SO characteristic OF one who
believes in the Salvation cause. The
crowd that attended these services was
interesting. Every one looked more
or less rough; they sat on their
heels; some of them whitfield and
some Of them looked sad. Others had
their thoughts fixed far away. and all
| were silent-solemnly, weirdly silent.
Only six meu took off their hats at first
but before the middle of the program was
reached nearly ali heads were uncovered.
Some women were in the crowd and they
wore sunbonnets in the recesses OF which
attentive, thoughtful faces could be seen.
After Bill had concluded some other man
arose and addressed the congregation. He
was evidently frontier preacher, for he
very ingeniously interlarded his discourse
with the vernacular of the homesteader.
His remarks were quite interesting and
concluded with hymn concerning
some very refreshing fountain which
made the thirsty boomer smack his lips
and which be had some OF it. When he
had concluded Captain Lee brought forth
a novelty, genuine novelty at that, to
address the meeting. He was an Irish
| man, and his name was Maloney. Mr..
Maloney had the verses and chapters a
little mixed, but he was a powerful
speaker. besides being one of the best
looking men in the territory. How he
ever drifted into the Salvation Army he
did not state, but he WAS quite sure that
he was saved and that there would be no
contest on his claim ''Over there" A
healthy and rugged frontiersman.
wearing souwester hat and a
blue shirt made the amen corner
pretty lively and he emphasized every good
point made in the the sermons by
powerful amen that rolled and Jhundered
over the heads of the people and out over
the billowey prairie for three miles, like a
fog horn.
CORRUPTION CHARGED.
There WAS some sarcasm i'll the fact that
religious services were held so near the
land Office. for if the stories told as Enid
are true the devil is more active in the
| neighborhood of the government building
than any where else in the city. 1t is
boldly asserted that for twenty-fiv dollars
any man can get into the land Office to file
aud that it anly requires about half an
hour to do it, while fellows too poor or
too ignorant of Democratic methods, are
compelled to stand in liue all the way
from two days to three weeks. The Dem
ocratic party is making a fue record at
ErfA HI n baa I,
! theresince the land office opened than could
have been made by all the tariff docu-
ments that the printing presses OF the
country could have turned out in a week
The scenes enacted there every day are
enough to make an honest Democrat drop
his head in Shame | am told that Il
Kansas lady paid $50 few days ago for
admission 10 the land Office TO file.
She met with some obstruction
or delay after entering, and when she
came out Disappointed she demanded the
return OF her so, and deputy marshal
paid the money back to her before the very
eyes OF 5000 people. This made the popu-
lace so indignant that IA mass meeting WAS
held and Il man appointed to note the dis
honest proceedings INDUCED i'll by the
officers in the failure. If what the people
say is true, several officials are far worse
than poor Jim Dent, who is probably the
victim OF al official conspiracy. The very
air around the government lot seems to be
filled with the etfiuvia of fraud and dis
honesty.
Prices are not high for meals at Enid
but meals are very dear when what one
gets Is measured with the price, ate din-
ner with a Nebraska restaurateur, and
while l was paying him 40 cents for about
2 cents worth OF q combination of stewed
beef and Deans, he actually told me that
he couldn't live very long 1T Euid because
there were no church and Sunday school
advantages there.
At ENID STATION.
/ returned TO Enid station in the after
noon and met rnapy formerly of Kansas
people there. The Sabbath didn't bother
them very much and they went on driving
nails and selling whisky as If it was a
week day. / presume there are dozen
saloons in New Enid, and they are
all making money. One knight
of the white apron and corkscrew told me
that his receipts the day before amounted
| to S345 a sum nearly rs large as the sala-
ries of half a dozen preachers whom
know, and larger than the annual salaries
of at least fifty school teachers in Ssdg-
wick county.
After making a round of the saloons,
restaurants, peanut stands and real estate
offices, wound up at large tabernacle
tent set up by the ladies of the Methodist
church OF Caldwell rs a lodging tent The
man In charge told ms that a bed would
cost % cents il / had my own blankets and
35 cents il the Methodists furnished the
blankets, all of which was very cheap.
While l was talking to him three or four
eastern preachers commenced services and
expoupded the gospel to dozen Christian
boomers including two women.
THE NOTED DALToNS
After services l walked down towards
the depot aud sat on pile of humber near
modest looking citizen wearing, among
other things, white hat aud a round
brown jacket. l had long chat with
him, and enjoyed it very much, for the
gentlema was no other than Cole Dalton,
one of the famous Dalton Brothers. We
became very friendly and l found him to
be an intelligent fellow. He spoke
feelingly, but modestly, of the
Coffeyviile tragedy, and seemed to
regret more than anything else the
fate of the 22-yesr old brother Emmett
who was sent To the Kansas penitentiary
for life. He told me that they had all
taken claims twelve miles east of Tremlin
and would improve them AS soon as cir
cumstances would permit. Later on we
went to supper together and continued the
conversation. After first meeting him |
desired to test his religious feelings and
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