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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
OKLAHOMA STATEHOOD NOW.

While he is culpable for the negli-
gence if it was that, in all probability
Governor Renfrow's failure to men
ton statehood or to make any recon-
mendatiOnS in that line in his report
to the government was an oversight.
Nearly every man in Oklahoma
wants statehood and it would have
been a material aid to Congressman
Flynn when the question of statehood
comes UP, to have been able to have
referred congress to the official COM
munication Of the governor.
The chances for statehood for Ok
lahoma this winter are very good, and
as the lightning so often strikes when
it is least expected, it may be that in
another twelfth month Oklahoma will
be territory no longer. Some change
in sentiment on the natter of state
hood has certainly taken place in Ok
lahoma, helped along to some extent
by current events. Once the Senti-
ment of the territory was for the max
ing of the Indian Territory and the
territory Of Oklahoma one state. This
idea was combatted by the Republi-
cans of Oklahoma because they did not
like the idea of making Democratic
state of Oklahoma, and a union with
the Indian Territory would have had
that effect, they declared. The OPP
ponentS to this idea of two states. or
double statehood. held that it was Il
mistake TO divide the original Indian
Territory and make two small states Of
it. one the Indian state and the other
oklahoma state. There were many
strong arguments for this side of the
question. and the single statehood
crowd have hitherto held the upper
hand. But the single statehood men
have become discouraged. Before the
Indian Territory can be included in 4
state the Indians must arrive at some
definite idea in regard to what they are
going 10 do. This they have not done.
The Dawes commission dilly-dallies.
The Indian tribes delay in accepting
allotment. And the national govern
ment mods and goes to sleep over the
whole affair, and the sentiment in
Oklahoma is growing into 4 desire to
break loose from the Indian Territory
and take statehood alone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

the sense Of teetotalism, and finally the
choice fell upon one who had been a
most conspicuous enemy of the law, and
nificent banquet at which liquors were
openly served and publicly drank by Pro-
hibitionists and Observation-Disclosures alike
all in open defiance Of the spirit, II not
Of the letter Of the law! This Is all very
funny, John; seemingly ridiculous. and
1t is really difficult 10 think Of II seriously
as the work Of sober. honest. candid. self
respecting men. Yet. We are not the
judges-I express TO opinion-I only state
a few facts too we'll established to ADMIT
Of contradiction. You had better let
what have said go in at one ear and out
at the other, because any attempt TO SER
your head worse wool-gathered than 1; is
at present.
But. here we are at Wichita-l0 O'Clock
no way 10 get TO the main line of the
Santa Fee until about o'clock. These
rival railroads have a great fashion of
missing connections with each other Why
this is SO. IS past finding out and there's
no use to talk about IL. Wichita IS really
the most important commercial town in
Kansas. and yet the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe sidetracks X without ceremony
You may look over the town, John-be
careful to keep out of the 'joints"-be
wary OF the bootleggers. and be az the
Santa Fee depot at 6. We vii go via the
St. Louis and San Francisco 10 Burton
and then catch the California express"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
AN OKLAHOMA CONVERSATION
Reported in the kingfisher Free-Press

Reported in the kingfisher Free-Press.
Even now, after fifteen years OF trial
and failure. prohibition IS the principal
question that agitates the Kansas public
mind Il does not seem 20 be any nearer
settlement than il was IN the days Of St
John All OF the towns OF Kansas are
kept in continued uproar, and. in Wich-
ita the wa- over it has become so bitter
and so furious that the towns prosper
ity has been seriously interfered with
Every legislature for fifteen years has
been for prohibition first last and al The
proposed for It's enforcement When the
roll is called upon any phase OF the GueS-
ton. legislators will drop their glasses
and bottles in the cloak room. and hurry
10 their seats, wiping the nqEor from
their boards and lips as they 60. m order
10 lose 70 Opportunity OF making record
in favor Of the law. 90 not believe there
ever was another instance OF legislation
which develops such strange. absurd. de-
ceptioGs, irreSoEcilable freaks % human
nature. Ard. yet when il comes 70 tire
election OF public Officers. governors. con
gressmen. senator's. the personal haa.ts
OF the candidates. so long zs they are
within reasonably decent bounds are a.
most wholly 6-ssegarde5. For example,
Las, winter none % the prominent Pc
publican candidates for IRE Tni.sf States
senate we're temperance rro6Shs .Scc&s4 *
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

will drink from one to three quarts of
beer without feeling any harmful eff
fects. the same amount of coffee drank
in the same time woul' be dangerous.
Yet there are conscientious coffee
drinkers who would raise great howl
if the prOhibitory law should include
also in its denial the use OF coffee, as
it has the use Of coffee, as it has the
use of cigarettes and tobacco in some
localities. AS to all these things, it
better to leave their uses to intelli-
gent individual discretion, to enlight-
enment The Nebraska woman was
as much a victim Of ignorance as the
man who fills up" ON any beverage,
be it a narcotic or a sstimulant. As
surely as that enlightenment removed
the decanter from the sideboard Of the
minister of the gospel, where it was
commonly found in the first decades Of
the present century, so will the moral
DEGREES Of enlightened society restrain
all intemperance In time. As no pro-
hibitory law could be made SO effective
against the use of coffee as that OF en-
lightenment showing it's use to be in
furious, so enlightenment is the most
effective prohibition Of all moral
WRONGS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
COEEEE AND BEER

Intemperance is intemperanee.
whether. il be OF Stimulants or OF mar
cotics. whether OF opiates, of eating.
or Of action or what not The Cap
ital tells of a Nebraska woman who
had for years been excessively addict
ed to coffee drinking. and who sudden
ly and sQuarely broke of from the
habit the other day. The next day
she be. .me sick. and on the second
day was completely Frustrated and in a
collapsed condition. The physicians
pronounced il a clear case of attack
of delirium tremenS. There is no doubt
Of il Very many of the people who
denounce the beer drinker are them
selves coffee drinkers and coffee drink
ers 10 that extent that if suddenly de
prived OF their daily beverage they
would be sick. Coffee * more power-
full, and effects the nerve centers more
sensibly than does beer. Some men
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
CKLATCMA OUTLINES

Will Nix will start a wholesale grocery
house at Ardmore.
The Oklahoma Presbytery meets at Ok
lahoma City next week.
The Territorial Pharmaceutical associa-
ton met at Perry this week.
There are now five buyers Of cotton on
the streets at Oklahoma City.
Dennis Flynn hit the welkin a crack or
two at the Perkins fair this week
A boy named Lahue died at Guthrie the
other day, from the bite of a centipede.
Jacob Ender fell from a load OF cotton
the other day. east OF Guthrie. and was
killed.
Perry ought to be glad 1t didn't get that
prizefight. 1t might have had 10 put up
so, go forfeit
The daily paper venture has appeared
at Shawnee. II is called the Chief, and
should succeed.
Governor Renfrow ought to have given
the government a turn or two On state
hood, and not ignored It.
The report that the city OF Cross has
consolidated with Ponca City has not
been denied, so it must be true.
Since Judge Scott knocked out the
wrightsnan gambling law the shops have
begun to open up again IN Oklahoma.
There is a paper in the Indian Territory
called the Cherokee Air. It IL not az
free as air. as the subscribers know.
II Dick Plunkett had known what was
coming he would have moved TO Texas
and had himself elected governor a year
ago.
Professor Anton Louis Dahl, pianist
OF New York City. has fled a divorce
against his wife az Guthrie. Come one.
come ali.
The leading actress OF travelling COM
pany at Arimore went out before the cur
tain the last night and roasted the town
TO the audience.
Since Judge McAtee's decision in pro-
lection OF the timber-cutters the deputy
marshals will not take 20 the woods 60
often as formerly.
Leslie SIblack % Ire Guthrie Leader.
publishes complimentary notices OF him
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
MARLBoROUGH'S MASH.

An English duke, or a French count,
hold it to be pretty tough business to
marry q plebian American girl, but
they seem to think it a more honorable
way to get money than to steal it Of
course these rich descendants Of eX
peddlers when married are never treat
ed as equals, by their husbands, but
then, for them, it is such a great privi
lege to consort with and bear children
to a faced, yacant-minded scion of q
line of played-out nobility. The noble
dukes and the like being 'bust" its
marry some fool rich American girl or
starve. It's a desperate emergency
to be compelled to take ''plebe," just
elevated a generation or SO above the
common herd, to their aristocratic
blue-blOod embrace, but royal lines
swapping scrofula and warts and the
like and intermingling diseased and
corrupt blood that they excuse their
American girls upon the
ground Of the necessity for crOss-breed-
ing. So they all do it. Its because
the fad to accept the girl for the sake
of her swag. Besides Americans will
sell anything they have. So impecu-
NOUS dukes, earls and counts are COM
ing over on the score for fresh blood
and the money that goes with it. Next
will come the lords and the princes,
and it is no wild dream to expect to
see the daughters Of American pork
packers and sOap-sellers chewing gum
on thrones Of Europe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
LET THE WORLD KNOW 1T.

Few people in Kansas, or anywhere
else for that matter. realize that a
Kansas county grows more apples
than any other single county in the
United States. Leavenworth county
produces this year 1000 bushels of
apples. This Kansas apple has gained
such a reputation for perfection that
they were bought last year for the
queen Of England's household. The
Times suggests that the occasion OF
starting the first train load Of apples
from Leavenworth City east, this fall,
be celebrated in an apple carnival.
The suggestion is good one. The
world is very slow in realizing that
for many productions Kansas is phe-
nomenal. "Down East they decant
on our ''hot winds" and "drouths'' and
hard times, and sneeringly allude to
Kansas as 1.-The grasshopper state" yet
the fact remains that in many respects
Kansas is without peer in the sister
hood Of states. The millerS OF Amer
lea unite in the declaration that Kan
sas wheat makes the best -four and
bread in the world. Her hogs are the
latest, her horses the fastest Her
herds are subject to no diseases except
such as are imported from other states
through the shipment Of diseased ami
mails. The "grasshOpper" fake should
have fallen twenty years ago, for it has
been twenty-one years since any fight
of these Colorado and Montana in
sects have visited Kansas. And now
comes Kansas as the greatest apple
state, at least one of her counties is the
greatest producer Of apples Of any
county in the United States. The
fact as the Times says, ought to bA
in a way that would attract
the attention Of everybody.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
OPEN UP THE MINIS.

open our minus 10 the unllmltoO
coinage Of silver, says the Philadelphia
American, and Immediately with the
increased demand silver would rise,
while gold, for which there would be
no demand for coinage SO long as one
ounce of gold was worth more than six
teen ounces Of silver, would rapidly
fall in value with the consequent de-
creased demand. That is true It is
simply common sense, commercial eX-
perience and logical. No one knows
the relative commercial values Of gold
and silver. The present variance from
the old ratio Of sixteen to one is en-
tirely due to the discrimination against
the one and for the other. We are
told by the goldbugs that were the
mints thrown open to silver the cOun-
try would be flooded with silver, and
that the increased demand for silver
would have no effect upon its market
price. Demand makes prices for
everything. Free coinage, as Harvey
shows, is an unlimited demand The
silver now in use in gold standard
countries would not certainly be melt
ed down and sent to America for it's
present value, as token money is al
ready more than 16 to 1. Nor would
silver in works Of art and virtu be
melted down, for the reason that the
labor expended on the most Of such
productions is of more worth than the
metal they contain.
But aside from all this, Europe must
import silver from America to make
her settlements with India and the
East They haven't got the silver.
RECOMMENDATION enables them to get it
and SO use it at an enormous profit The
opening her minis to silver would be to
force Europe to pay more for the silver
with which she annually pays India
for her cotton and wheat, and as silver
approached the old standard of 16 to
there would be no advantage left in
buying Of India, and Europe would
turn to America, at least until our pro-
ducts had again risen to a ratio with
the higher standard Of prices for pro-
ducts which would inevitably follow
a greater abundance Of money. For
the fall in the price Of gold means the
rise in prices Of labor and the pro-
ducts of labor. With rising prices
money always seeks investment, which
simply means good times. Only with
the restoration Of bimetallism and
true protective tariff that shall crush
the power of foreign monopolists over
both our producers and consumers can
true era of prosperity return. Under
an approaching gold standard we will
ever be in dependence on foreign
powers, and our great natural re-
sources will remain undeveloped to the
infinite los to the people of the United
States.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

self In order 10 offset the charge Of mod
esty so often made against him.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. f. Sheriff are deaf
mutes living at Guthrie. Mrs. Sheriff
has sued her fa;her-in-law for alternating
the affections OF her husband
After trying 20 get a Spanish class at
Guthrie Don Pedro has given ii UP and
gone to work teaching music. Guthrie
people can understand music better than
they can Spanish.
There is some bank uneasiness IN the
territory at present, but the newspapers
should be careful In their assurances TO
depositors. Complimeting a bank IL
sometimes dangerous
Harry Lowe. a Santa Fe fireman. was
to have been married TO Miss Eva Nc
Cormick at Guthrie last week A. the
wedding hour a note was discovered from
Miss Mccormick bifdirg the crowd aaieu
and telling them that she did rot love
Harry. Harry is 10 be congratulated.
Divorces cost money.
Judge Stewards resignation In The In
dian Territory is said 10 be on account OF
his wife. Since he has been In the ter
ritory one Of his beys was Killed a.
baseball game, the other and the remain
ing son was cut 20 pieces Oh a railroad.
Mrs. Stewart cannot bear the idea OF re-
manning In the territory any more.
Two soldiers pretended 20 arrez, a set
tier near Fort SlIl a day Or two szo AMI
took him on towards the fort. One OF
them turned back and entfcef the set-
tiers wife into the creek bottom on the
pretense that her husband wanted 20 see
her. There he committed an Assault on
her. and she was almost dead when dis-
covered The soldiers are Il custody AMI
will be punished
Over On the Rock Island. n he Cbick-
ssax nation. preachers sand prepared 70
shoot something beziies saiwz;lon bullets
into the urgo9Iy. as witness the following
eroJ hunsor seraoGziy expressed ~ The
Co-naEchs Chef: "Fsven the followers y
the Lord and the aThoIters OF fhe church
viii break The laws srd carry Deadly
weapons. Sometimes when they lay down
ca the ground and thea Eet ~ rlg>:
quick. these deadly weapons fan crt %
their rocksss. and zhs; = scrzn1oslrS s.1
scratchfrr Until they secure The weapon
zad get x ouee more safsiF hidden 81
their picket. a1f VIVA. a rsls;y Jook ;hsy
have o. their fare zrtsr tkey turn around
20 zee x anyone has seer Shzt was zoing
c."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
TIE HABIT OF READING.

NJ. Albert Gin. 4 writer in the Revue
Encyclopedique. tells Americans that
il is injudicious To rush into publica-
ton with new works just now. Oc-
tober was formerly considered the best
time for launching books upon the
market. as with that month vaca ton
time usually terminates. and people
settle down 10 work and reading in real
earnest But all this has changed
October is no longer desirable month
in which 10 issue Rew books. VI. Gin
declares that the present preponder-
ance of opinion inciiHes in faver OF
March. April aud May, for 4 variety
OF reasons People have no time 10
read in winter. They are then too
largely occupied with theatre scinS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

Statues OF Carnot are springing up like
mushrooms throughout France. Nearly
every town council in the republic has
ordered a monument TO the deceased
president, and all the sculptors OF conse-
Quence are busy executing them.
The 91st birthday anniversary Of Al
heusp Fetch, the sixth Of the thirty gov
ernors Of Michigan, is to be celebrated by
the people OF that state. He was born
in 1876 in Limerick, Ne. He is graduate
OF the old Fryeburg academy.
The death is announced at the age OF
81 Of Joseph Bell, who was the first rail-
way engine-driver in England. having had
charge OF the old Rocket. which is now
on view In the South kensington museum.
The pope is now the possessor OF prob
ably the mos. valuable chair on earth.
1t is constructed of solid silver and is OF
the value of $4,000. 1t is the gift of Mr..
Troop, :. wealthy American banker.
There is a movement on foot In London
to secure the pardon of Oscar Wilde. on
the ground that he has lost twenty-five
pounds in weight since his Imprisonment,
and that his health Is undermined.
Captain c. W. Thomas. Of Cole county,
Missouri, has produced the largest water
melon ever known-weigh hing seventy
three pounds-which he has christened
"the Defender. the world-beater."
Queen Sophia of Sweden Is one Of the
most enthusiastic friends and promoters
Of the Salvation Army-a distinction
which she shares with her niece, the
queen regent of Holland.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, who wrote Spar
tacus,' is still living at the age OF So.
He breaches on Sunday in little church
in Harpswell. Me-, and cultivates a small
farm on week days.
In Rome, Ga. on Sunday, a railroad
man, a telegraph editor. and a newspaper
MANTLE latter also being a lawyer-were
ordained deacons in the Baptist church.
The next president OF the British assc-
citation will be Sir Joseph Lister. He is
famous as the discoverer OF antiseptic
treatment.
Police Commissioner Roosevelt Of New
York City, purposes TO build a 500, 600
summer residence near Green's Farms.
Conn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
TREASURY LOOTERS.

1t was announced the past week on
Wall street that the members Of the
late bond syndicate will resume the
business of shipping gold to Europe.
The house Of Rothschilds having made
one profit by bringing gold into the
United States on contract is now pre-
pairing TO make another profit by ship
ping the gold back to Europe again.
The Bank Of England puts a premium
on gold for export and thus protects
the British treasury.
These combination of facts is start
ing a discussion in the interest of a
Bank Of the United States for this
country. The way the financial prob
lem is working now the people of the
United tSateS are taxed To pay the
principal and interest on bonds issued
to buy gold, for no other purpose SEEM
ingly than for European bankers to
get at lower rates or upon conditions
more favorable than they can obtain it
anywhere else. Gold will not remain
in the treasury so long as il is worth
more in every country than this, and so
bonds will be continued TO be issued
so long as anyone can draw gold out
of the treasury without paying any
rate of exchange
But United States bank is out of
the question probably. 1t was over
such proposition that President Jack
son Went wild. and the people of this
country fear bank power and influence
more Than they did in 1884 or in the
days of Jackson.
Taken altogether the financial prob
lem in this country is a very mixed
and perplexing one and far from settle
ment.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

"lf these spoons are not just what
represent them 10 be. you can take them
home" the fakir should have said. To
invite Wichita crowd 10 throw them
back into his face was not only indiscreet
it WAS ifinric
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

Berlin has shorthand writer with a
unique speciality. He attends funerals of
prominent persons and takes down YER
ba.im the addresses of the officiating
clergyman. Then he prepares highly or
namenfed copies of the addresses and
sells them TO friends of the eulog izeG dead.
His business is so good that he has taken
one assistant and has advertised for an
ether.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

Europe is mad with a mining boom.
A financial crash will follow. Our fnan-
cial life is mixed up with Europe's and
we viii suffer. We get none of the bene-
fits of the boom exciteme.t, and lots OF
its injury
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

great majority of the people in this
town are willing TO have comet strike
the earth just for the sake of seeing about
six Prohibitionists scared out of their
boots
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

The Dawes commission would strike the
nail on the head by reporting to congress
that the American Indian is chiefly use
full as an ornamentation for the one-cent
aiacp
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

Judge Hanford, of Washington. threat
ems to imprison railroad manager just
as he did some common tramps. Has
the judge no heart in him at y?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

The carnival parade at Kansas City took
one hoGr in passing given point and
TO some of the kansans in the parade the
given point had horns and purple eyes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

The best preventive for catarrh is said
to be a .night-cap-taken externally, OF
course.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

In Oregon the preachers are making a
fight against the growth of hops. Let
the preachers have their way, and sun
flowers would grow in place of corn in
Kansas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

The anti-prizefght bill has passed both
branches of the Texas legislature and has
gone TO the governor. He will not veto
1t. This is also official.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

M.rrEz DkNsEL fas TIER yszss tee Goa
seryatoryt--ssIBear ne What q delicious
smell Of s-chiv g--orsose bsosso-2s" I4s
re Mr. Tipssns tzisrrness Oh. sso-rs@llJ
i assure ySs, nothing Of Tie sors =
Pucra
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

The melancholy days have certainly
come, and the wind is on the program
with whistling solo whiskers abligato.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05

Charley Sings honor has again been
vindicated, although he has several large,
undulating bumps to the credit of the
national banking system.