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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-15
Gave HIM SIXTEEN YEARS.
!, n. Thompson Convicted for the
Sugar Land Robbery.
DBLATT'S BOND WAS REDUCED.
,.w. ". the n dironds SIM on Trial.
s.,sraI Dam ,re safe Fled Yes-
terday An Arrest,

:. ~. criminal district court yesterday
.,,v az twelve American citizens de-
m.,sted for three hours and fifty min
~. and finally reached a conclusion
AZ, assigns j. NJ. Thompson to sixteen
,.ars' penal servitude.
r,,omnson has been on trial for three
-. mast charged with the robbery of
~ ,s.ptl OF the Wells Fargo EXPRESS
.srnany at Sugar Land. Texas. January
III the story OF the robbery. which APP
s..r.d exclusively in The Post the day
srnox,ns its commission, is familiar TO
M readers OF this paper. Agent Adams
ras brutally beaten by the men, who
s,.d him with. drawn revolvers and
,orced him TO hand over the contents Of
hs office safe, amounting to SIPS. %
rhompson and one Grain were arrested.
Grain recently died at the St. Joseph's
,aarmary, having been removed from jail
u the hospital on account of serious i'll
ness.
During the trial OF the case one wit
ness testified that he saw Thompson and
Ma associates divide the spoils of the
robbery and that he held their horses
xh,le the "swag'' was being split. This
evidence went hard against THOMPSON
nd the defense did not recover from the
Bow 1t dealt
The evidence IN the case was concluded
Ii the session of court Friday night and
he argument was opened by District
e. has followed by Mr.. j; b. Brockman
ttr the defense. MIR. /. p, Hutchinson
next spoke for the State. end Captain
Mitchell, Of Richmond closed for the de.
Tense. The closing argument for the
stats was made by Hon. h. f. Fisher
Judge Gavin read his charge and at i:l0
o'clock the case went to the jury. They
F-entered court at o'clock and their
ix,een years in the penitentiary assessed.
The following other business was dis
posed OF in the same court
]. NJ. Thompson, robbery; verdict OF
|rlliiy penalty fixed at sixteen years.
John Leu2, theft of cattle; reset for
Otto Armbruster, theft of cattle; resc.
fY Monday,
Otto Armbruster, theft. felony; reset
kT murder.
chares $. Barry. embezzlement, four
bases. continued.
John Coleman, carrying pistol; fined So.
CIVIL DISTRICT COURT.
The case OF Williams W.. the Houston
I'D Texas Central, the Missouri, Kansas
ni Texas and the Texas and New Or
slhs Railway companies, is still occupy
ns The attention of the civil district
Gai' me iestinony l9 not yet nm
~ ~ A''' '''V''N"S own
The apnlicatlc1 of Henry Goldh,ptt for
reduction nf bond eff SIM IN whicb ne
hed on charge of theft IN Waller
Eyunty. was cons dered nv Hon, sam n
caabatf Seine nr4ored ~ e9ne tT u H..
M the court 1'5ursdnv newt 40 ia he
81 npr,sented by Hon. II Il Fisher.
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
9 81, - -, 80
80. euHill Vs. tne tuH' CoIoiauo ana
1aA Fe Railway company, Is suit for
drau filed n, the office of I n Waties
~ ~, x src c.eIk, YESTERDAY, by W FL
fkrllH IS the owner OF lots 8 i. g. ii
sm IN block 1874, south side of But
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If you are out driving don't fall to
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AS USUAL
Baldwin has The best selected stock OF
Christmas goods.


ON A HUNT.
Justice j. j. Hussey. County Attorney ]
l.. Schwan err and Nh Henry Boseonette
left yesterday for Cypress Creek, where
they VIII srend a day or two hunting
They are wen s'lrpled with blankets and
ammunition md were accompanied nv
Possum, the colored chore boy for the
Justice courts. who will offciate as mas-
cot on the trip.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05
DANISH THE GRUMBLER.

Ii grumbling was the highest duty
in life there are those who live up to
4 religious observance of it 1t is a
mystery, not easy of solution, how an
intelligent person will so pervert every
faculty for enjoyment as to render
existence one continued round of
misery and self-persecution. 1t is even
more than mystery that all instincts
and tendencies toward the normal con
dition of happiness are, In some ma
lures, habitually crushed, and how,
from sheer wilfullness, not cheerful
thought, or hopeful aspiration are ever
allowed TO enter the brain. Such a
person is, indeed, an object of pity.
He breathes perpetually the air of
melancholy, and feeds upon the husks
and the Offal taken from the inesti-
mable good things provided for this
life. The mystery of such 4 life
merges SO nearly into positive crime
that it would seem blessing if such
perverSion Of the moral code might
be restrained by legal enactment.
The example Of such a life is. in
the highest degree injurious to society.
The man who sees no good in his fell
low, and who poisons the mind, and
diStortS the hope of others, is n moral
criminal, most dangerous to the peace
of his neighbor. In just so far as he
draws upon the happiness of his friends
he takes that which he cannot restore.
His plants and his groans are but the
vehicle through which he purloins the
real pleasure which, Of right, belongs
to his associates, and which, untram-
meled make up the real enjoyment Of
life on earth. 1t seems a pity that
there is not some far off Dry TortugaS.
where such malcontentS might be herd
ed, to dole out heir melancholy plati-
tudeS 10 each other 1t would be
an infinite saving of patience and for
bearance TO those who have something
else 10 do. 1t would rid society of the
worst moral malaria, not excepting the
so-called evils and abuses which have
long been the subjects of legislation
1t would Introduce the era of national
and international cheerfulness. 1t
would contribute more toward the
Inauguration OF millennial light on
earth than all the laws, prohibitive or
otherwise. than were ever enacted
Let the reformer try his hand, for
once on the chronic Crunblpr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05
NOT ALL EROTIC,

The Eagle has set no great store by
the Investigations Instituted aginst the
Pop officials, but we have been i'm
mensely amused over the developments
brought out in the testimony. What
ever Of touches of criminality and
turbitude the evidence may have dis
closed, there is no denying that the
Pop official is Interestingly. if not
guiltlessly, human, male or female it
makes no difference. OF one thing
everybody is at least convinced. and
that is the Pop crop of the future
promises to be n full one. The gay
old Lotharios, how they kept things
aglow. 1t was a continual round of
chin-chucking, waist-presSing and GRO
embarrassing throughout the old
pocket district which holds all the
state institutions. Stenographers, type
writers, matronS. assistant mdtr0ns
cooks and the like, wherever there
was 4 female employee. from the state
house to the penitentiary. including
the asylum for the deaf and the dumb
and the blind and even the insane
it was all the same round of invit-
ingly attractive scenes and interesting
situations. No wonder the gay brother
side of the Pop contingent show such
reluctance TO let up on the situation
or that the Pop editors find SO little
TO condemn in the festive sisters. sly
Dick Chase with his daShing Lou Will
Jams and her convenient bath room no
doubt imagined that he was the en-
WED Of the entire Pop administration.
but it turns out that what with tick
ling Maud Park and squeezing Mrs
French. Householder was an easy win
ner. Pitcher seems 10 have been the
only Pop whose official acts tended to
curtail the general leaning for an in
crease. As for Rogers il was all the
same N him drunk or sober. The
information has cost the people OF
the state something but where is the
man or woman who feels that they
haven't got the worth OF all that il
Individually cost them. especially in
view of the chances that we never
shall have another Pop administration.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

girl from country town secured a place
as enrolling clerk She felt grateful 10
| her benefactor and called on him 10 ex-
press her thanks and the old brute told
her that he wasn't in the habit of re-
ceiving that sort of pay for his services.
The girl replied that she had not yet
received her wages, but when she did she
would pay him whatever commission he
deemed proper
The cur then turned upon her and told
her that she could pay him by coming TO
his room that night.
If this is true the official who is
meant is rotten, putrid rursing sore
on the body polite of Kansas. A
man who would wallow in such depths
of foulness and moral degradation is
infinitely worse with apologies to the
fool Prohibitionists) than the drunken
Rogers.
Now in regard to the newspapers
who have published this charge. Those
editors are very indignat naturally. 1t
is to be expected that their cheeks are
flaming with shame for the state in
which such a thing has occurred. But
what OF their courage? If the needs
Of the community demand bold, scath-
how much more does it need, that
which these cowardly editors have
Sneakingly shrunk from publishing
his name.
What is that officials name? 1t is
his name the public would know. The
surgeon who would cure a polluted
system does not use a snickersee on
the whole body-he goes for the seat
Of the trouble with very small, keen
blade and cuts the affected part out.
If such a thing happened in Topeka
it is the name of the official the people
want, and not a sputter Of indignant
generaIitieS. The brave editors will
be considered much holder. much more
serviceable to the commonwealth of
Kansas, much more sincere and less
vengeful if they will drop the cross
roads style Of venting newspaper
spleen, and, being for once newspapers,
make their protest without ramparting
their Indignation with innuendoes that
harm the whole state and shield the
culprit.
OF course all editors cannot be brave.
1t might not be that such a thing ever
occurred at Topeka. To publish the
rumored name might mean libel
suit. Or the friends of the man
whose name was so published, might
make it particularly hot for the brave
editor. These drawbacks are to be
seriously considered. At the same
time the editor who sets himself up
as a moral censor should also defend
his own good name and reputation
by displaying enough moral courage
to escape the charge Of being d cow
ardly bushwhacker.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05
THAT MAN FROM TEXAS.

For months the deputy marshals OF
oklahoma have been on the track of
the Right Honorable Slaughter Kid
and his majesty Dynamite Dick. The
chase which at first was diyerting
had become tireSome. on several oc-
casionS one posse Of deputies had
mounted lin hot haste" and given
desperate pursuit to the outlaws. find
ing at the end Of the running battle
that they had simply been soaring an
other posse Of deputies who thought
they were pursued by bandits In
another instance, well known 10 all
Oklahomans. two deputy marshals who
wer hunting for the Kid and Dyna-
mite Dick and Nitro-Glycerine Ned,
unfortunately found them and had to
swelter in the attic OF farm house
for three days.
Some three weeks ago. the deputies
We're becoming discouras ed. and they
We're not 10 he blamed. The romance
which attaches To being bumped forty
miles on the back Of Il broncho in
order 70 test a bandits reputation for
being Il dead-Shot Is mostly confined
10 the book-Stails Of eastern cities.
There was gloom among the depu-
ties three weeks ago. gloom that was
gathering fast and coating itself In
thick plaster on their usual con
tent a man from Texas appeared.
Name, Schslfer. Occupation, killer
Age. antique He had whiskers that
bristled- not waved, in the breezes-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

He had lived in Texas in an early
day, when Texas was Texas; and when
the man who shot the straightest got
the most votes; and the player with
the longest dirk took the jackpot
Civilization has pushed down into
Texas. The charm of settling all diff
ficultieS by citations from Chapter 16,
of Winchester's great work. entitled
Aid TO Immortality" is gone, They
have courts in Texas. a lot of thin
legged, long-coated lawyers, addicted
to sobriety, guilty of the most artocious
forms of decent citizenship. totally
without Il record of single man
killed, argue and dispense equity. All
Of which made the ancient Texan
weary and exceedingly disconsolate.
So he came to Oklahoma, leaving his
native state. now sunk TO the depths
of civilization. He stepped into the
Office of United States Marshal Nix
at Guthrie. Make me deputy. he
said with q cultural determination
which shot culver through the air
that ratified the window panes. He
was made a deputy; given posse and
the next day he was gone.
|. over III Payne county, Oklahoma,
the battle ragged. The bullets ripped
the air till the landscape looked like
sieve. The crimson blood of the out
laws and the deputies stained the
beautiful green Of the prairie, luminous
from a recent rain. The Texan had
been shot through the hat. His coat
was riddled to shreds. One of his
ears was Tapping torn and bleeding
IN the breeze. And with a cool but
enthusiastic aim he picked the last
outlaw off, and, turning. his face to
the south. TO the state that had fallen
TO a condition of courts, white shirts
and hard-boiled hats and all the degra-
dations of civilization, he jerked the
remnant Of the injured ear loose from
his head, and wiping the blood from
his teeth, murmured: This is life"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05
STICK TO THE TRUTH.

Ten years ago no member of con-
greSS could be found who would ad-
nit that he knew, at the time of its
passage that the coinage act of 1873
demonetized silver. In fact it was
three or four years after before many
who voted for the measure realized
its import. Senator Plumb declared
that he had been unable to find a
single member of the senate who would
acknowledge knowing the result OF
their respective votes ON that bill. In
the after debates and up to within
five years many senator's and con-
gressmen have openly declared that
they did not know, at the time, that
the '13 act demonetiZed silver. Yet
there lies before us an answer TO
Coins School, issued by the Bank
er's Magazine which declares that the
minting and coming act of 1873, which
made gold the single standard. was of
public notoriety and widely discussed.
This only goes to show that with all
the subterfuge, manipulation and jug
Cling over the silver question that
there is also a deal of plain straight
forward lying.
The gold rings and money combin-
atoms of the world are at last aroused
TO the demand of the people. Being
confronted by the industrial, CONNER
cial and productive interests upon all
sides they have at last opened out in
an opposition fire all along the line,
but they and their hirelings are warned
that lies will not avail.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05
THOSE cowARDLY EDITORS

Several Kansas newspapers are now
telling, with vocal cords taut with
Shrieking Indignation. Of an instance
of shameful immortality and unblush-
ing crime which took place during the
last session of the legislature at To
peka.
This is the story as published by
Ewing Herbert and reiterated by sew
eral editors who now declare that they
have known all about il:
We have been told that during the leg
islative session. through the inffuence.of
a Republican state of1iciai. pure Young
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05
PURLOINED PINIONS.

Mr.. Gladstone makes il a rule never TO
travel on Sunday
Florence Nightingale will celebrate her
18th birthday May Is.
It's said, alas. that Amelia Rives Chan
Ter is getting prosaicaily fat.
King Humbert and Rudyard Kipling
are both said to be accomplished cooks.
Slow old Salem is discussing whether
the curfew bell shall be rung in the fu-
ture.
II Lord Rosebery gets four hours sleep
in twenty-four he feels that he is doing
we'll
August Belmont paid 500 for single
copy of the women's edition OF the Al
bany ArugUs.
James A Garfield is a candidate for the
same seat in the Ohio senate once filed
by his father.
John Lincoln. aged S6, a cousin of the
martyred president, is an inmate of an
almshouse at Reading, Pa.
Ex-Speaker Peel will write a volume OF
parliamentary memoirs. the rough notes
of which he has been putting together for
a long time.
City Marshal Trickey Of Portland, Me-,
displayed his authority recently by order
ing a glassblower out OF a store window,
as he drew crowd"
A London firm. which has manufactured
eight of the eleven cables linking the
United tSates to England. makes fifty
hours.
Mrs. Hetty Green has peen declared a
legal resident of Hampstead. l.. l., but
nobody ever expects 10 find her at home
there unless all the lawyers in New York
have their offices shut up.
Not long ago Mrs. Elizabeth II. Stick
ney of Chicago, gave a parish house to
St. James Episcopal church, in that city.
and now she has decided to build for the
parish a rectory. TO cost $4,000
Major General Merritt. McCook's sue
cessor in rank began his cavalry career
in the Second Dragons. now merged in
the Second cavalry. II was Harvey 5
regiment and an ideal troop for a cavalry
man.
Miss Rose Cleveland sister of the pres
ident has recently returned from a Eu-
ropean tour. She is gray haired and has
a pleasant face. She is rather stout, but
her taste in dress is excellent and she is
invariably attired according TO the latest
fashions.
Among the many historic landmarks
which are disappearing in Europe are the
ancient gateway at Calais, built by Car
dinal Richelieu and so graphically pic
tured by Hogarth, and the famous mills
OF the River Dee, in England, which date
back to the days OF King Edward VI;
while in London the Seven Dials, so
familiar to the readers of Dickens. Smol-
lett, Fielding and other novelists, is
about to make way for St. Andrews cir
Gus.
Miss Jane Adams of Hull House.. has
been appointed one of the garbage in
spectors of Chicago. Miss Adams has
devoted her life and means to the moral
and material betterment of those too poor
and too ignorant TO help themselves, and
she has done a noble work in a modest,
womanly way Chicago may justly con-
graduate itself on having procured so
worthy and conscientious a public SER
want. While the title of her official po-
sition may not be inviting. II is certain
that Miss Adams will make 1t a badge of
honor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Slaughter Kid was q years of age.
Colonel Blackwell has left Oklahoma for
Europe.
The total valuation OF Oklahoma City
is Sl,912,057.
Governor Renfrow is out at Woodward
looking into the cattle troubles.
The Choctaw has filed its new charter
with the secretary of the territory.
The boots Of Slaughter Kid are on e1-
hibition at the Guthrie Leader Office.
Ponca City is now lighted with electric
lights, the moon, Saturn and Jupiter.
Bill Doolin appears destined 20 live 10
read how all the other outlaws met death.
Down near Enid where they had those
dust storms. they call a rain mud-storm.
The Oklahoma City Star is on the track
OF a local poet who has accused the
prairies of being verdant-
There are S1O.s05 worth Of pianos in
Oklahoma City. according TO an assessor
who had no ear for music.
Judge Beekaman Of Arkansas City. will
make a speech TO the Republicans Of the
territory at FL Reno the 9th.
An effort is being made to release Tom
Jones, the outlaw. from the Kansas peni-
tertiary on a writ OF habeas corpus.
It is claimed that the foes OF Judge
Scott have injured their cause by being
too importunate 10 President Cleveland.
All the Oklahoma papers put line
head over the Nicaragua sensation and
placed a six-deck blazer over the rain.
No explanation has ever been offered
for that burning mountain in the Choctaw
nation. Perhaps IL had a defective fue.
Sylvester Fitch built a fence around
the house of Lille Powers near Ponca
City and Judge Blerer fined him for con-
tempt.
The elders OF the Guthrie Presbyterian
church az Guthrie declare against Sunday
afternoon sacred concerts with an adrnis-
sion fee.
Il is understood that the religious castle
which Blackwell is 10 build viii be made
by placing ycnuiatiES holes on top Of
one another
At Ponca City last week a strawberry
social was given 70 build a church Three
Strawberries were sold AID the church
viii be built.
The latest BIT OF cheer a; Ponca City
is embodied n the statement that every
day IS a gala cay IN Po1ca CITY" made
BIZ the Courier.
United States Marshal Nix and his men
did comrreudable work 81 the killing o.
the two outlaws and should Be praised
for their bravery.
TIE Insurance companies say that after
September iEt. they vii insure 70 more
shaoks or frame buildings On the Main
stree; OF Ars.Eore.
There Is a peTfurue-y famine n IRE
drug sIores a. Guthrie. 4 yog-g lazy
-
her owa hands tEe other Eiga--
Guta-ie Is % have a Ladies Ns-strsi
show ard thsrs j. & hot fight among TIRE
mea as 20 Who - gong . smear tkk
face of Ire troupe with burnt cork
b. the use q q gong Professor Hal
lex can eu9sy every school in O3lahs-ns
City II less than Minute u Is
n1e prezsEticE against Ere aid b also
makes TIE chil3rea cool and r1ethodsczl
in tlEne e danger. TIE Frofsszo- =
nizEsy valuable laan % q conra1-ify-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

The supreme majesty, the regal ser
entity with which Senator PETER has
planted his feet at the base Of the
Washington monument and silently
waits for the world to come around
to his views on finances is indeed ap-
pallingly splendid.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

Money" said the Kansas farmer.
who had just given a man So for ac-
cepting the animal that had eaten
Its value FIVE times over during the
winter, makes the mare GO
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

Dan Voorhees, has declared straight
out for silver and burned all bridges
behind him. But then he may expect
the insurance companies TO rebuild
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

PostmaSterS who disagree with
President Cleveland on the finance
question VIII not be fired because Of
that but it is just as safe for them
10 be careful not to throw their mouths
around like 4 laSSoo.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

"If there are Democrats" says Gro
yer Cleveland, who suppose our
party can stand on a platform embody-
ing such a doctrine, or If there are
Democrats But the assumption
is ridiculous. There are no Demo-
cratS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

A Kansas editor has told a fearful
tale. Everyone in Kansas is fearfully
shocked. The discovery is that there
are instances of immortality during
sessions Of the Kansas legislature.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

Cleveland calls it 'silver aberra-
ton and phantom light" This is
powerful argument. crushing and
mansling every proposition which the
silver advocates have made.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-05

A suicide in Massachusetts wanted
to know if he would see Trilby when
he went TO heaven. 1t is hardly likely
that she has got the foothold there
that she has on earth.