The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-10
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STATE INSTITUTIONS ATTRACT III
OKLAHOMA EYE


Shoestring Smith Sets the Pot Boiling by 4
Bill to Locate the Penitentiary at Pond
Creek--ColoneI Prouty Comes Back a.
Him in the Council, Naming Einsfisher
--Other Points Want Various Things
and VIII Make an Oklahoma Pull for
Them--Heroic Measures for Inebriates--
Stringent Game Law.
Guthrie 0. T, Feb. e-(SpeciaD-The
spirit Of locating public institutions
has broken out in full force. Shoe
string" Smiths bill locating the peni-
tertiary at Pond Creek has been follow
ed by Senator Prouty Introducing bill
in the council locating the institution
at kingfisher. MIR. Mason, of the house,
has a bill locating the insane asylum
at Chandler and Senator BoIes to place
it at Perry. Senator Boles bill pro-
vides as an inducement that the city
will donate one of its school houses to
keep the insane in until the territorial
institution is built.
These are expected to be but the be-
ginning OF many other bills that will
follow. Every considerable city in the
territory will come in with something,
and the merry competition viii begin.
Both houses Of the legislature have
passed q memorial to congress asking
an appropriation of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of purchasing seed for the settlers
of the Cherokee strip. The necessity
of the measure was discussed at length
The members representing the districts
of Oklahoma proper felt that such a
measure going before the public would
do the territory more harm than good.
But Colonel d. ". Baker, representing
the eastern portion Of the Cherokee
strip, offset these arguments by show
Ing that II was not aqueStion of adver-
Using TO the world the poverty of the
territory. The question was simply that
the settlers in the strip We're new, who
In the nature of the settlement would
be able to put in their first serious crop,
and that as new settlers, who had rails
ed no prior crop, did not have the seed
necessary. He said that when the San
ia Fe and Rock Island roads furnished
the settlers of the old counties seed
wheat ii proved from the crops they
raised from il the best investment the
roads had ever made as they carried
thousands of bushels of wheat out Of
the country the next season, as freight
NOI ASHAMED TO ASK.
This appropriation would prove equal
ly as profitable to the farmers of the
strip. The people of his districe needed
the appropriation and wanted ii. and
he was not ashamed to ask it for them,
as new settlers
Senator Ray of Woodward objected to
The memorial, stating that his people
old not need any help and offered an
amendment excluding that part of the
Cherokee strip west OF the east line OF
Woodward county The amendment.
however, was defeated. Senator Baker
answering Senator Ray said he did not
Diane the gentleman for his position;
he was but following the presidents
laid down by his party The Demo-
cratic party had always opposed Civ
ing the people free homes and contri-
buttons to the poor
When il came to the vote the repre-
sentatives from the old counties voted
Tor the measure because they felt it
would be!p the new counties. The pas
sage or the measure is due TO CAPTAIN
baker, who as chairman of the commit
Tee on county affairs reported favor
ably on il and supported it vigorously
on the floor
S0BERED BY LAW.
The house passed today the Kee!ev
cure bill. providing for the forcibIa !
ii
ton and the injection of bi-chloride of |
gold. The subject shall be tried as in |
case of insanity and if il is proven that |
ne takes more than is good for him ne |
mas 10 so over the road" The bill /
is considered q true and natural Off |
spring OF bleeding Kansas" as il was
by Harry St John. who. as
everybody knows, is the son OF ex-Gov- !
hrnor st. John OF Kansas, the great |
prohibition apostle, and is one of the |
most popular men in Oklahoma When !
he was ''one of the boys" no man was
considered better or more genial fell |
low. But he has had change of-drink !
Now he is considered as one of the most |
conservative, able citizens in Oklahoma /
He acknowledges on the floor of the
house that he had had the benefits of /
the Kelley institute and could vouch .
for the efficacy OF it's cures.
FULL MANY a FLOWER
What the council viii do with it can |
not be foretold. In case IT becomes a |
law, old whskey buns. among whom
viii be many & gentlemanly inebriate, |
will be sent 10 the Kelley institutes. /
like street dogs without master into |
the city dog pound, whether they want /
TO go or not The general objection To |
the bill is that il would be a crime 1
10 forcibly bleach out in one month |
The blushing noSeSay on Il mans nose |
that had taken years and thousands of /
dollars 10 paint there. 1t would be lfeS |
Rsslduous labor thrown away; and then /
The moral feeling that one had barter |
ed sentiment with all its pleasures for |
Eold-chloride OF gold.
SWEEPING GAME LAW
The measure that is making another !
class of fellows roar like Spanish bulls /
Is the game law passed by the house
Its provisions cut off entirely all chance !
for the city fellows TO indulge in the !
best portions of the guslatory menu, !