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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26

CoRDER, Mo, June 26-Quite a Sc
we're lightning and thunder storm
struck this place last evening Miss
Lena Welleman was instantly killed
by stroke of lightning and her sis
ter, Miss Annie and Miss Carrie
knight were badly shocked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26
A LANGUAGE SOCIETY.
Prof. Carruth of Lawrence Assists in Or
ganiziRg Ono.

LAWRENCE, June 26.-Prof. W. a. Car
ruth has returned from Chicago where
he went to meet representatives of other
Mississippi valley colleges for the pur-
pose of forming a modern language as
ISOLATION of some kind. There were nine
colleges represented, including the state
universities of Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana,
Michigan and Kansas. Chicago university
and Vanderbilt university.
The organization was named the Cen
trail Modern Language conference and
Includes the territory between the Rocky
and Allegheny mountains. Prof. w. II.
Carruth was elected president of the
conference and DR.. Schmidt WarteA berg
of the university of Chicago, secretary.
The association will hold annual meet
ings, the first one in Chicago next Christ
mas.
All repairs done free of charge at
TOPEKA STEAM LAUNDRY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26
Captain Howgate,s Case Appealed.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-The case of
Captain Henry w. Howgate, recently
convicted in the criminal court of
forgery and Justification of govern
ment accounts, will probably be taken
up in the district court of appeals dur
ing the first week of October. His
counsel are preparing bill of excep-
tions to carry the case to the higher
court and expect to file it in few
daVS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26

PERRY, Ok, June 2o.-While in
bathing a 15-year-old son of John W.
Henderson, well known Perry bust
ness man, was drowned The little
boy got in water over his head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26
A Respite for Cherokee RiII

Fort SMITH, Ark, June 26.-Chere-
zee Bill was not hanged yesterday, a
stay of execution having been granted
pending his appeal to the supreme
SQUIRT of the United States Charles
Smith and Webber Isaacs, who were
also to have been hanged, likewise ap-
pea1ed and were granted respites.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 26.-Gov-
ernor Matthews has appointed Benja-
min Harrison, ex-president of the
United States, a trustee for Purdue
university for a term of six years. Six
others were also named by the gov
ernor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26

LITTLE Rock, Ark, June 26-Tye
Nelson, aged 10 years, committed sui
eide near Oden, Montgomery county,
by shooting his brains out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26
THE POSTOFFICE GROUNDS
They Are to Re BeautIhed With Blue
GFRsa and Flowers.

GFRss and Flowers.
The postoff1es grounds-what little
there is of them-are to be beautified. If
you have not been in the postoffice alley
lately, you may have forgotten that there
are at the two eastern corners of the
building little three. cornered plots of
ground that need beautifying, and it is
these that Postmaster Arnold intends to
use his artistic instincts on.
The corners will be sown in blue grass
and a flower bed made in each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. June 26.-The
illinois legislature assembled in special
session to-day in response to the call of
Governor A1tgeld.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26

Send US your work We can suit You
Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-26

Plenty OF seats to Beatrice, Sunday.
June 30th. $3.50 for the round trim
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
FORAKER FOR PRESIDENT.

The Ohio platform proved a reveal
ton TO the gold gobblers of the east
no less than 10 the silver men of the
west. To some eastern man rather
than to an eastern platform have the
silver men of the west been looking.
A silver candidate has been hoped for,
but silver declaration in a platform
unexpected. One by one the avail
able men as the Republican nominee
for president have announced their Pc
sitions on the silver question, and each
successfully has disappointed the silver
Republicans of the west and south. All
save Reed of Maine, we believe have
taken their stand. SO the Ohio silver
platform. put forth by men who in the
same connection Endorsed Mckinley for
president proved a revelation. But
that convention was not a Mckinley
convention. 1t was dominated neither
by Mckinley, Foster or Sherman. but
by man who has not proclaimed his
convictions On the silver question I'M
less the platform which was the work
Of the convention which he unques-
tionably controlled, embodies his senti
ments. If the Ohio platform is the
Foraker platform, then Foraker and
hot Mckinley holds the long end Of the
political lever.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
FRENCHMAN HITS THE ENGLISH.

Alphonse Daudet. one Of the most
fluent, pleasing writers of the time,
Frenchman, has been over to England
and this is what he says Of the English
people: THE English we encounter i'll
Paris with flattened down hair and
huge feet, 1 found differed in no partic-
ular from the English women of rank
whom we met in London. They are
not handsome in feature and there is
nothing seductive about their physical
FORM
'Flattened down hair and huge feet"
Good! Hit 'em again, AlphOnse. For
something like half century the Eng
lish people have been wandering over
America. being entertained. and critl-
cising the actions of their hostess and
making fun of the country. Our women
were awkward and rude. Our men
were clodhoppers. Our buildings We're
novels. Our railroad coaches were
hog-pens. The whole people were a
nation of fools.
While that preSumptiouS little bump
in the sea, England, is attacking Amer
cha. it is refreshing to see Frenchman
paddle up and slam England in the
rear. OF course the English women
have big feet OF course there is no
seduction in their physical form, al
though the friends Of the author of
that pure genteel book ''Sappho" will
be surprised to hear him go that far.
The English women deserves to be at
tackled. She is the willing slave of
that chief boOr of the earth-JOhnny
Bull. The English claim to be the
most enlightened people on earth.
Their social and government leaders
are dictated by q system of aristocracy
that stinks in the nOstrils of the whole
world. Their literary lights who fol-
low the nobility for patronage appear
to be little better in morality. Their
national life is purely commercial and
consists of exceedingly rich hogs and
exceedingly poor wOrkmen. They have
never produced a general who won a
battle except through fortunate circum-
stances. And-hattened hair and huge
feet-well that is putting it mildly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
THE vETO-VOTER.

Grover, the gold gobbler always did
claim that he was "a man of destiny"
Few, outside of the m0sSback contin-
gent of his own party ever believed the
claim worthy any kind of considera-
ton. Yet, in view Of the result of
the New York Worlds poll of congress
men as furnished through the Associat-
ed Press last week, Mr.. Cleveland
stands between the American people
and silver. Solitary, alone and unSur
mountable he stands. Every state out
side of New York and New England
may demand the restoration Of silver
10 its former use and privileges, aud
congress may enact either independent
American or free and unlimited coin
age, still without the man of deStinys
consent it all would not avail His
will, and convictions are supreme. No
public sentiment or demand however
strong can prevail against the veto"
which hedges the gold gobbler about
A two-thirds vote in the house would
be TO better than a mere majority. 10
the absence of the conversion of num-
Der of senator's whose terms do not ex-
pire for years. The destiny OF this
country, So far as silver is concerned.
even in the event of the election of a
silver successor TO Grover. is fixed for
more than two years more. The man
of destiny" in addition TO being a bond
boOdler and 4 gold gobbier. is a veto
voter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
JUST A. CENTURY AGO.

If any American has any doubts
about the future of his country all he
has to do to pispell them is to look
back 100 years. Our progress has
been marvellous. Our present embar-
rasment may be merely reaction and
a wait from too sudden development.
The last week in May, 1895, was a
United States, and the record has been
revived by the New York Shipping and
Commercial List. May % was an i'm
promptu, uncalendared holiday. John
Jay arrived in the harbor of New York
in the ship Severn, bringing with him
news of the commercial treaty with
Great Britain. The voyage had occu-
pied just seven weeks. He was well
coined by great concourse of citizens,
who escorted him TO his home on
Broadway. In the evening a joyful
peal was rung from the bells of the city
and a national salute fired from the
battery was returned from the fort at
Governors Island. While not salts
factory in some of its details the treaty
was an acknowledgment of the COM
mercial liberty of the new nation and
gave a stimulus to enterprise on all
hands. The trial of Barere in France
was news four months old. but it was
claiming the attention of America. Ma
poleon Bonaparte was in Paris. a sol
der ont of job, and the following
October cleared the streets Of Paris OF
furious mob. According TO Barras
the subsequent Empress Josephine was
notorious as the mistress of General
LaZare Hoche just a century ago.
The last week in May. 1875, the cam
paign for the governorship Of New
York. between Mr.. Jay, chief justice Of
the United States. and Mr. Yates. chief
justice of New York. was drawing 10
a close. Many OF the political confer
ences were held at the house of the
celebrated Mrs. Daubeney. whose
daughter Charlotte committed suicide
by drowning eight years later because
she was Tilted by Colonel Nicholas
Fish. subsequently father Of Hamilton
Fish. Grants great secretary of state.
The best play being presented in Amer
ella was THE Conscious Lovers" the
last important work of Richard Steele.
and Matthew Carey. the Philadelphia
publisher. was advertising Goldsmith's
History Of Earth and Animated Ma
ture" in parts. offering 10 refund the
money TO subscribers who might be dis
satisfied With the work as it progressed.
May - Philadelphia was the scene Of
the fight between a portion Of the crew
of the French privateer brig Brutus
and a number Of men employed in the
ropewalk>- in which three were killed
outright and one fatally injured.
Previous TO very little more than a
hundred years ago there were no fac
tories in any line OF business. new
building, q bridge, or ship mighI re
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
QUEER KICKAPOo COURT.

1t is reliably reported that many of
the settlers in the new Kickapoo coun-
try have decided to settle their land
contests out of court, selecting certain
men from among themselves to hear
the evidence, seeking to prove prior
settlement, and agreeing to abide by
the decision of this court, which. with
out having the power to settle finally,
it is purposed, shall have the confidence
and obedience of the community.
Here, in fact, is the real problem in
such an unauthorized court If the
community is one of high order it
would mean the ostracism of any single
man who would break his word by re-
fusing 10 accept the decision of the
improvised court. If the community
is not of high responsibility twenty
men individually, or twenty men col
lectively banded together for the pur-
pose, could break the agreement, re-
pudiate the decision of the citizens
court, and overthrow the whole plan
and purpose of its origin.
There are several reasons why the
settlers of the Kickapoo country are
thinking Of taking this action. The
first reason is the great cost Of contest
in land offices. There are not only
lawyers to pay-and their fees are large
but the costs of hearing are at times
so great that the value of the land in
dispute does not warrant the contestant
in proceeding. Another reason is that
after a decision is reached the contest
ants have so little faith in the incor-
ruptibility and business of the land
judges, that those who have lost feel
that they have been defrauded of the
land through unjust means rather than
deprived of it through overwhelming
evidence.
Whether these differences of corrup-
ton and unfairness are true or not. it
matters little so long as the average
contestant believes it.
VIII the contestants have any more
faith in the imprOvised court among
his neighbors? The question can only
be answered by referring again to the
intelligence and tone of the community.
If the settlement where case is to be
adjudicated is made up of grabbed, sus-
picious, covetOus cunning settlers, the
court will be suspected, impeached
and overthrOwn. If the people are
men of their word, who will stand by
the agreement they make, the impro-
yised court will stand until it has COM
pleted a great deal of the work which
has been formerly transacted in a
tedious way by the land offices.
Speaking to the particular case of
the Kickapoo country in this matter,
it can safely be said that except in Il
few cases such courts will be bowling
failures. The KickapOO country is full
of sooners. These men broke the law
when they went in ahead of time. They
intended TO use perjury to uphold their
case. They are now occupying many
of the claims and would take promi-
nent part in the improvised court,
which the very participation Of the
lawlesS sooner would overthrow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
DIsusE. NOT ovER-sUPPLY.

In the face of the figures TO the con-
trary the gold gobblers will persist in
declaring that the shrinkage in the
price of silver bullion comes of over
production. They seem 10 he incap-
able of understanding that The law of
supply and demand may he effected
otherwise than by under and over pro-
duction. or what Use and diSuse are
as effective factors in controlling
prices There has been no over pro-
ducJion of silver As compared with
commercial development or increased
population. Silver fell in price be-
cause OF an enforced disuSe. 1t is
said. and ii is probably true, thar horses
are proprortionately cheaper than any
other product Of the farm and have
been for two or three years. Statistics
show that there has been no over pro-
duetion of horses. Facts. patent to
everybody, disclose the reason for the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
PURLOINED PLUMES.
President Faure's father is an upholst

President Faure's father is an uphoIst-
erer.
The Eskimos make waterproof clothing
of the intestines OF the walrus.
1t is estimated that the United States
has fully 2,0dO separate railway companies.
Lord Shoito Douglass and his waiter girl
bride both have a claim on the public SYM
pathy-
Utah has 1000 miles of canals her irri-
gated lands producing over 6,090.0o0 BUSH
els OF grain annually.
Some of the condors shot in the Andes
mountains have spread of wing from
fifteen to twenty feet.
Queen Victoria once said OF the women
of Ireland that every third Irish woman
she saw was beautiful.
It may be possible tina; IL Attorney Gen.
eral Olney was made secretary Of state
he would strike his real gait.
lie QEHCll GHcSfl WoTlE MI tieFeiaDI.
He will take a long rest at Gray Gables
before he starts the bond machine.
Mr. Cleveland is going TO fish for tarpoa
in Florida. AS that fish is called the
silver king, the president will take special
pleasure in hooking them.
Australia is the only country IN the
not indigenous. and yet cattle and sheep
OF various breeds thrive there amazingly.
General Schoheld admits he has heard
g rumor TO the effect that he is a candi-
date for the presidency, but he is unable
TO trace II 10 any Trustworthy source
Somehow very few particulars as TO tina.
leaked out This is not the case generally
when Mr.. Depew participates IN dinner
A Denver clergyman says there are To-.
c0o men going 70 he'll on bicycles" II his
figures are accurate there must b. sew
everal thousand men wheel their way 70
heaven
Hugh s Lesere OF South Carolina Abel
2. UpshUr OF Virginia. Daniel Webster OF
Massachusetts,. AID Walter @ Gresham
OF Indiana ali secretaries OF state, died
while IN that Office
Senator Hill saws he is rot aware OF any
movement 10 nominate him for the press-
dency. II there were any such movement
Mr. HiIl would b. likely 20 receive advance
information about IL
The queen of Italy has made an cd fan
OF collecting old shoes. Slippers. s2d oools
thai have some historic OF romantic Il
terest attached 20 them A--onS oinsr
articls. SIZE has q pslr CT cozrSe, s<-Ey
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Editor Isenberg has q dehorned horny
toad for a pet.
The A. o. u. w. Grand lodge meets in
Oklahoma City in July.
The Yearer and the Wyatt gang are one
| Wyatt is an alias for Yeager.
County script all over Oklahoma Is
gradually increasing in price.
The Choctaw from this on contemplates
laying a mile Of track a day.
Shawnee becomes a money order Office
the first of the present month.
Leslie Niblack OF the Guthrie Leader, Is
said 10 be really Republican.
In Kansas the Santa Fe is assessed a,
$1,000 mile: in Oklahoma al 5000.
For downright vulgarity the Guthrie
Leader is the Sol Miller OF Oklahoma.
According TO the local papers the crowd
at Oklahoma City Memorial Day was aw-
fully small.
Hay fuctuates in Oklahoma. At Okla
homa City Il is % cents bale and In the
strip 80 cents.
Governor Renfrow has been sick for sew
eral days but will soon be able TO resume
his official duties.
Busch. the old man at Enid who has
been fasting. will be sent TO the Insani-
tarium AT Norman.
Ed Ingle sneaked out Of his hole the
other day and said with great timidlty
Spring IS now here"
In the opinion OF the Oklahoma City
Star front gates are principally useful for
night walkers 10 fall over.
Guthrie will hereafter require the prin-
cipal OF the High school TO do the work
OF the superintendent OF schools.
The principal bondsmsn Of Mrs. La Hare
OF saltwater. Is her husband. father Of
the woman whom Mrs. La Hare killed.
The Chandler Board OF Trades psnphIe;
on Lincoln county is ou- II Is a fine
document and wiH bring many settlers in
Judge Violet OF Oklahoma CITY. has re-
turned from a trip 10 Ho1dUras He -
stuck on that country and viii remove
there.
Young Armstrong OF Iogsn county. IN
a territorial race the other day proved
himself the chaupfon bicycle ridsr ot Ok
Ishonsa-
The Oklahoma City Star doesn'; think
that Il = half 50 Necessary 20 make hay
While The sun shines as II l. 10 pillow vhsn
IL rains.
Brass kruckles mar r. zIce ornaments
tyt = mar was fned - n Oklahoma City
the other day for being found with them
On his persoz-
The class II the Presbyterian church
a Enid zSs plain window glass last week
THIS week Il "a f.as sEo4at variety The
sand Storm Cd &
Z ". Sweeney % Sweeney .zrrh.
made famous - the EsckArSoo cp>nirS.
SAYS that i Is not true that - mate IL
our OF his foll o-iSgs a. TIE opening.
The Oklahoma CITY Journal says TIA:
there s. 8lsyosstl07 2Hn0-z ~ k1cEzPoo
boomers 20 settle their tis1cal;tss out q
cour. u selecting s1Sgss FROM sraoEg
tas.r Oxz E-Eo<E. AE9 sS<' meas
tz1as.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05

quire the massing of hundred work
ers or so for short time. but most in
dustries were carried on in little shops,
with less than dozen hands. There
was no employment for women or chill
dren except in house or on the farm.
Wooden garments were worn all the
year round with under garments of
linen. 1t was not unusual in the colon
les to see men clad entirely in deerskins,
and in the mother country leather
breeches We're not unknown.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
ghe aa1ehita Daily Eagle: aacnsday aorie gnme s. 1895

low prices of horses. The low prices
come principally of disuse and not from
over production. The disuse in turn
is directly traceable to the cable and
trolley cars and to the bicycle. These
combined cut the demand for horses
in two. or one-half. which fact COM
bined with the hard times caused the
price of the horse to shrink by larger
percentage than that of any other pro-
duet of the farm. So the price of silver
bullion was cut, not by over production.
but by disuse, which disuse was
caused by discredit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
KANSAS BEER AND KANSAS DUST
To the Editor Of the Eagle.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
The day was dark, the heavens drear;
The lonely cow bawled far and near.
Also the steer.
On, the wind ard the dust.
yellow spangle in the sky.
The sun shone dimly there on high.
Italian eli
Don't say IL.
With dust in eyes and dust in ears
The weary plowman, il appears
Drank three beers.
Oh, the wind and the dust.
Then darkness came in at the door.
The weary plowman paid for four,
And drank six more.
Oh, the wind and the dust.
And now he sinks deep into sleep.
Into his ears strange voices creep.
Nightmared complete.
Oh, the wind and the dust.
A speck Of dust up in his nose
In spectre-form, it seemed, uprose
And shrieked-in prose
IT am a part of the being of the great
cheif Walla-Woo; blew up from Texas
today; hard wind this: blows like thunder.
don't it? But say, old man, you ought
to have been here fifty years ago, in my
time. Then the wind did blow! This is
nothing
Quick from under his finger-nail
A voice. twas weakly thin and frail,
Did hail
ooh, come off the perch. won't you :?
Fifty years ago! What do you know
about this climate anyway. Friends. Let
en- tell you. This little atom who is now
speaking was once the part of the human
form of one, Chiwok, resident in these
portions three hundred years ago. Kan
sas was Kansas then. Wind! Why this
zephyr is nothing, This thing is an ele-
mental love-tap. Wind, You ought to
have been here three hundred years ago."
Then from the tip of black eye-lash.
With grunp voice and a manner rash,
A speck called
"Three hundred years ago, Rats, There
was no wind 10 speak of in this part of
Kansas three hundred years ago. Here
! have been blowing around this part of
the country for two thousand years and
] have never seen anything that Pi-e-too,
of whom / was part, would call wind
Why two thousand years ago We used to
have winds every day that made the earth
wave up ana GOWN ike man at one emo
of a carpet shaking it. Wind, Well guess
not-not within three hundred years any
way.
There was tumult then, and angry strife,
Each spirit struggled for his life.
Shrieked and snorted.-
Oh, the wind and the dust.
you're liar" yelled the three-hundred-
old.
That's the biggest fake that ever was
told
They took ahold.
Oh, the wind and the dust.
Fiercely they fight and battle and strain,
Now in the nose, on the eye, in the brain,
To his pain.
For the plowman fears that he'll be slain
He wants no fighting on his brain,
Nor raising Cain.
oh, the wind and the dust.
mo more beer for me-" he cries-awakes;
Il can stand toads and burning lakes,
And snakes
But oh, the wind and the dust"
-NEVERMORE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05

The story of the Kansas bees lighting
on a coffin and refusing to get off. being
buried with the corpse. is simply proof
that the Kansas newspaper man will
draw on funeral for sensation if he
1l1rfS n
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05

There are six millions of people in
this country who cannot read. Sub
tract this from the total population of
the country and the circulation author
tiles of the New York papers will read
ily be proved liars
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05

There is reason for Tom Reeds nom
appearance at the Depew banquet.
When Reed appears in public again
he viii come in like the man with
squeaky shoes who is late at prayer
meeting