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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

tiently and tireless he waited for the
exhaustion of his game, and then with
ont effort brought it to the side of the
boat and lifted it in, rock OF inn
mense size, by means of rude gaff.
He had been carried distance up
wards a mile, and being now near
shore landed and triumphantly dragged
the trophy after him to his clapboard
cabin. While his wife and children
were admiring with loud CALCULATIONS,
'Briny Ann, his sister, whose house
was but few yards distant. entered.
.sWhuh Wash?" she demanded.
''Fo' de Lor, done furgit Wash"
Turning quickly aside. Rot was near
to running for the first and only time
in his life as he made for his boat.
Springing IN ne padded vigorously to-
wards the original fishing grounds :"
''Golly, I done reckon Wash ill git
plum torred out afo' I git back he
said refectively.
Utter amazement and measure of
reproach filed him as he reached the
place and saw no signs of his brother
in-law. He stood upon tiptoe and
looked over the waste of waters, fell
upon his knees. and peered into the
dark depths of the sluggish stream,
calling out repeatedly:
',Whuh you is, Washin'ton Jefrson?
Git outen yer hidin', Wash. Oar now,
l sees yer"
Finally the truth dawned upon his
obtuse understanding and with a
heavy heart Rot turned his boat shore
ward, muttering aloud:
81 done telled him / woz er comm
back; wot fur him didn' hol' on?"
'Briny Ann burst into loud 1amenta-
tions when Rot broke the news and re-
fused to be comforted for some time,
but her tears finally dried when Rot,
in burst of generosity declared:
''Shet up, 'Briny, N you shin sho'ly
hab de whole entwire rock, dat you
shill, n I suttingly wish Wash wuz
heah ter holp yer eat de grub
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16
ELRuT-sHouLn-YEr

Tonight Kansas will elect a senator
that is, caucus of the Republicans
will choose the man, and the Kansas
Republicans have long ago passed the
stage of political infancy where the
action Of caucus is liable to be bolted.
The senatorial fight has not changed
in conditions. Every candidate has
private advices that he will be selected,
and every candidate duly suspects that
his advices are wofully weak, without
saying so. The newspapers as rule,
securing their information from the
valuable agency of reporters, have
given ]. Ralph Burton prodigious
strength. This has been the case with
the newspapers from the first. Bur
toms boom has been lately modified by
the discovery that his proves is likely
to funk after the first ballot.
Just where his strength will flop on
the second ballot is not yet determined.
Along with Mr.. Burton in the first bal
lot viii appear Mr.. Leland with a
strong healthy boom at his back and
Joe Ady and Thatcher and Calvin Hood
and some scattering favors in the way
of complimentary votes in which list
on the first ballot the name Of John J.
Ingalls, will undoubtedly appear
If the first ballot does not settle it,
and nobody believes it will, neither will
the second. The second ballot, barring
an obstinate deadlock, will be hasty
rush to covert. Booms will crash and
collapse. Fond ambitions will crumble
up and fade away. The pie-counter
will pulSate with new demands made
upon it-and the third ballot will come
Always barring the deadlock more am
billions and more booms viii curl up
and die. The fourth ballot and prob
ably the next four or five ballots will
witness similar destruction. Then, the
strong man will be known and the
strongest man will win, always provid-
ing that some one of them hasn't it
already cinched, or that the legislature
will pick up dark horse, or that the
man who has said the least has the best
show, or that the man who has made
the biggest showing has no show at ali.
To sum it all up on this senatorial
matter
IL Burton should
Or again should Hood
And Leland
Still Ady might
Then Ingalls,
Where Thacher might be able to
In such a case it is plain that some
body would be selected as the chosen
choice" of the caucus for senator.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Pat Egan, Jr., the son of the famous
Gillian minister. is in Guthrie.
Will Bolton of Woodward, is making a
pull for ingalls, for United States senator.
AS soon as Beadle, the dime-novel man,
died, Bill Cook allowed himself to be
taken.
Helen Hyde and Jennie Murphy are the
names of the pages Of the Oklahoma
council.
The commissioners of Woodward county
met the other day without Judkins being
present. Isn't this unconstitutional?
In all probability the pay of the Dawes
commission will cease after the present
session and the commission itself will con-
sequently cease
A Kingfsher young lady distinguished
herself at the inaugural ball in Guthrie
by losing her Astrachan cape and she Is
now sorry she went.
1t is said that some of the most infiu-
entail sQuaw-men in the five civilized
tribes invaded the nation originally as
sewing machine agents.
If the marshals who have had Bill Cook
surrounded so long in the Indian Territory
will now close in on him, they will prob
ably. find that tits an old burnt stump
The place where the Oklahoma Iegisla-
ture meets was formerly used to learn the
young idea how to shoot, and some of the
members claim they can hear the echo
yet.
Milligan is mad that the newspapers
are discussing the justice and injustice
of his repreive. If they were not discuss
ing it Milligan would probably not be
found on hand.
Chief Keokuk is making a fight on Mar
shall Nix at Washington. 1t is a cold day
when an Indian cannot make a fight on
somebody. The whole red race has be-
come a race of winners.
Tom Woosley is running the Perkins
Journal during Editor Hinkle's absence
in Guthrie, but occasionally Hinkle will
straddle q pony and go over to Perkins to
look after the editorial policy.
John Humphrey, the young lawyer of
Purcell, ct committee meeting in Wash
ington the other day informed the seno-
tors that one of the Indians who was
talking through an interpreter could
speak as good English as anybody and the
committee was shocked and made the In
dian speak English after that.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Chauncey NJ. Depew has lately writ
ten an article for the Magazine of
Travel" in which he says that on many
European roads there are no toilet ac-
commodations for the use of pass
engers. On the French roads there
is one car attached to each express
train, provided with this convenience,
but there is an extra charge for the
use of it amounting to about double
fare. In England they have saloon
carriage" fitted up with toilet con-
veniences,tbut it can only be engaged
by applying in advance, and then only
by party Of a certain number. While
intelligent people stick to customs as
ancient and cruel as this is it any won
der that the Mexican greaser still cul-
tivates his soil with a forked stick
drawn by patient OK, with a rope at
tached to his horns?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16
GOVERNOR MoRRILL,s MESSAGE.

The first message of Governor Nor
rill to the legislature, which we lay be-
fore our readers this morning in full,
is an admirable document 1t is state
paper marked for observation-disclosures,
and for full and concise declarations
set forth with such moderation and
wisdom as only could come from a
large experience in public affairs and
an intimate knowledge of all the in
terests of state with the political and
material concerns of whose people he
has been both closely and prominently
identified ever since its admission TO
the Union He does not demand i'm
possibilities nor expect the unattain-
able, but clearly defines in what con-
sists the extra burthens Of the people,
prescribing the remedies in plain and
unequivocal language.
He recommends among the very first
things, a constitutional convention the
arguments in favor of which are num-
erous as they are unanswerable. Kan
sas has not failed of a new constitu-
ton because of any lack Of conviction
that the state had long since outgrown
he old fundamental law. but rather
from a fear Of certain elements that
the more desirable things, to them, in
the old instrument might possibly be
eliminated. The governor would in
corporate in the proposed new consti-
tuition a practical limitation to sessions
of the legislature, the reorganization
of the Judiciary, the prohibition Of con-
tract labor, better defined limits to the
powers of corporations, the abolition of
passes, franks and special privileges to
pubic officers. greater safeguards for
the public school fund, etc.
In reviewing the extra burthens and
expenses which have been imposed by
statute under the present constitution,
he sharply defines the unequal and I'M
satisfactory workings of the law for
the assessment and collection Of taxes,
the abuses in the state printing house,
the fees and salaries laws, the large
of unnecessary judicial dis
tricts, the mortgage and collection laws,
etc, but he says that there is demand
upon the part of the people for an in
termediate or appellate court whereby
the supreme court may be rendered
more effective and at the same time be
of attempting the impossible.
In addition he advises the adjustment
Of the Office of silk commissioner and
a complete overturning Of that of coal
oil inspector.
In short no citizen Of Kansas should
fail to read Governor MorrilPs mess
age, emitting no portion Of a state
paper which commends itself in every
word and line to every patriotic citi-
zen
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

be found in the New York and Indiana,
the Ohio and the Virginia legislatures
but not in the law-making body of
Oklahoma. The gamblers who expects
to monkey with the average Oklahoma
legislator had better be careful. In
a full deal he may find that his four
kings will fizz and collapse before the
broad, overwhelming production of
four aces in the hands of the poor leg
islator. Or again he may be wiped out
financially on a ten-story bluff with
Venetian fret-work, based on pair of
deuces in the paws of the Oklahoma
Scion.
The Guthrie gambler better go slow.
Poker is national game and most of
the Oklahoma legislators are all pa
triotic. At least when it comes to the
matter of any poor unsuspecting NOR
tai being feeced, tears for the Okla
homa legislator should be restrained,
and lavished in deIuge on the weak
minded gambler of Guthrie
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

On last Saturday Illinois and Indiana
had the luxury of a blizzard which sent
the mercury down to 16 degrees below
zero. 1t was accompanied by snow
fall Of some eighteen inches. 1t was
an ideal winter day in Kansas, but a
Chicago paper draws a contrast by pro-
claiming to the world that Kansas was
even denied the comfort of covering
of snow for the winter wheat If the
conditions had been reversed this same
paper would have seen nothing but
dire calamity in impossible snow
banks. The prejudices that do affiict
people who claim to have common
sense are but sorry proof of the fact.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

We are panied to learn that the habit
Of reading the Eagle at the breakfast
table has become very prevalent This
is fragrant violation Of good manners,
and cannot be excused by the fact that
it is first-class reading.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Hinshaw, one OF dwellings APP
pointees, played Pussy wants-a-corner
with the girls in the State Reform
school and the Populist senate didn't
want TO confirm him. A party that
could stand Pitcher ought to be able
30 put UP with pussy wants-a-corner.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

or all Americans David Christie
Murray says that the eolored men APP
pear the most wonderful to him. 1t
was the autocratic air of Pullman
porter that impressed Mr.. Murray.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

There is 10 calamity in Governor
Morriil's inaugural address, and the
picture he drew Of Kansas is that of
q state from which anyone would be
proud 10 hail
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

1t is probably true that Bill Cook has
been captured, but there are several
other men in the Indian Territory who
are capable Of demanding your money
or your breathing apparatus.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

1t said that four times as many men
as women are afflicted with stammer-
ing. The moral to this is that the
dryes joker is the statistician.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Senator Lobdell is using Reeds rules
and as there is only one Democrat in
The house and he doesn't wear boots
the doors are all intact.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Florida has made June 3, JEFF Davis
birthday, legal holiday, and Florida
viii probably be panied to see how
little the north viii say about it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Here is where we trot and If the
other towns and the balance Of the
state wants to be in the procession
they must get a move on.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Kansas win soon touch the senator
LAD button and if you want the light
ming to strike you, you had better get
hold of the end of a live electric wire,
ny,;nlr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Real financial difficulties face the re-
public. Are PETERS financial schemes
so absurd that he himself has not now
the courage to champion them?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

David Christie Murray says that the
time is ripe for tire real great Ameri-
can novel-but unfortunately the man
to write it has not budded yet.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16
An Obvious swindie. :

Tommy is an awful fellow to play
Swind1ing schemes"
Whats he done now
''He got an accident insurance policy
IN his life and then joined football
tean."-Chicago Record
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

If the people Of Kansas wanted In
gals so badly, they would have prob
ably said so when they elected the
present legislature.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Ingalls, viii never throw off his coat
and jump into a fight He is too
strongly welded to that long ulster.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

The trouble with the elasticity in
Carlisle's plans is that the elastic is so
weak that they would be distended all
the time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Perhaps, in appointing new board
Of health, Lewelling meant to intimate
that he hadn't been governor all the
time for his health.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Mr.. Statutory Effect is not stalking
about Kansas with ''be it enacted"
card attached to his coat tail.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Mr.. Lewelling will now settle down
on East Douglas avenue and wait for
posterity to come and applaud him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

A man who has lived a third Of a
century in Kansas can say good
many more nice things about the state
than a tenderfoot
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

-"MyT' said the bald-headed man,
looking over the hairy heads of the
football team, ''how secure l would
feel with few Yale locksr'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

If China pays her indemnity in sill
yer, the white metal will have boom.
And the indications are that China will
pay silver
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

ingalls, may not be statesman out
. of job, but a statesman out for a job.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Kansas has a greater railroad mile
age than all New England and New
England helped to build a good por-
ton Of Il.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Bill Cook allowed himself to be taken
without resistance. This was Bills
way of being spectacular.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

There can be little doubt in the sena-
torial contest that the otner fellows
boom is made UP largely Of wind.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Bill Cook made no fight. He prob
ably thought it better to be covered
with a revolver than six feet Of earth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Carlisle would like to handle a sur
plus a little while just to experience
how dangerous it is.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

The homeward fight of the cuckoos
after the 9TH of March will mark the
beginning of prosperity to American
business interests.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Bill Cook has gained a point from
Breckenridge. He declares that the
newspapers have not treated him
fairly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

The minute Ingalls, boom began to
show itself, a Wichita bookseller put
all his unabridged dictionaries in the
front window.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Instead of reciprocity the new tariff
is causing retaliation and it is hurting
a good many interests.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Governor Morrill, says wash your
dirty linen at home or words to that
effect, and its good sensible advise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

To correct the mistakes of the Demo
cratic administration would mean to
repeal everything they have done.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

The damp moist winter presages a
great crop year for Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

The first Peoples party government
on earth is now 1of the earth"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

The legislators will tomorrow night
drop san act entitled an act' and pick
a senator entitled chosen choice"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16
THE OLD FLAG.
1a3 and 127 Main Street.

The old trade flag that we unfurled to the breeze
six weeks ago. telling its story of the spot cash dissou
ton SALE yet little while you welcome to the
gttering bargains within True it's little torn and
battered with age but it still tells its useful and truth
full story
pieces 52-inch all wool covert cloths seasonable
dress goods; formerly S100, now 40 cents.
A few dozen mems wool undershirts formerly SL95
now 5S cents.
Mems wool hose 80, 40 and 50c now your choice at
"a cents
Still few dozen chldrens wool eggings at % cents
Only few blankets and comforts and cloaks and
furs-but that heavy hand that little for what
right now, has been laid them. It's mercess
hand Lucky the buyer who profits by this last chapter
of truthful story Bargains galore throughout the
house.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

Since Cleveland is short of crumbs his
flock of cuckoos are roostng somewhere
nlca
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

This Academy established in 1887 boarding school
girls possesses every advantage that parents desire for
the general improvement of their children
The site attractive and experience has proved most adj
yangeous for the promotion good health The grounds
spacious aordng for the enjoyment OF nygorating
The of study includes everything necessary for
pete and systematic training in all the branches OF rend and
practical education The Academy Conservatory affords every
facility attaining highest proficiency
For particulars address SISTER SUPERIOR
All Hallows Academy, Wichita Kansas
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-09-03
THAT WAGER

Some weeks ago the Catholic Mon
it0r and the Tribune had a wager rel
alive to the 4. P. 4. organization.
The APPEAL agreed to hold the stakes.
In its last issue the Monitor says:
The Carson APPEAL seems to be I'M
der the impression that the hitch in
the proceedings is caused by the fact
that the stakes are not in the hands Of
Il person. Mr.. Sam Davis kindly
says: Now if the Monitor and Tri-
bune will place the stakes in our
hands and then select three impartial
referees we will guarantee give bonds
If necessary that the money will be
paid as the referees direct after the
talking match is over"
We assure the APPEAL that we are
delighted with its offer, We will most
willingly place the deposit with it and
will ask nothing but a simple receipt.
If this suits the Tribune We are
ready to receive the money at any
time
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-09-03
o QUITE SO DEAD.

The Eureka Sentinel thus defends
it's town against the charge that it is
dead:
Senator Gregovich OF Eureka was
in Carson the other day and when
asked about the crop ana mining 0
now looks As if every one would move
out bag and baggage. The mines are
not gold producers and as silver
mines ale no worth working, it is no
gone back on Us We have had no
rain since early Spring and the con
sequence is a light crop OF hay
throughout the county. Diamond
Valley is cutting an exceedingly light
crop.
Senator Gregovich, if correctly re-
ported i'll the above paragraph, which
has been published in several news
papers in the western part OF The State
has a misconceptiOn Of the real state
of affairs in Eureka. Through the
extremely low price of silver the prof
its of mining have beeen very much
reduced in the district employment
for wages is very scarce. and those
who are leasing and tributing in the
mines are not doing very we'll as a
rule: but the Senator's assertion that
our mines are not gold producers
shows that he is not as we'll posted as
he ought TO be. Our mines are all
gold producers to a greater or less eX-
tent, some of them yielding three
fourths of their entire product in gold.
The average output of the ore from
the district gives One-third Of its value
in gold. and the profits that have been
derived from our mines since the great
depression of silver have been based
on the gold contents. Our products
have been classed in the records Of the
I. S. Geological Survey as "aurifer-
ous-argentifer0us lead ores" which
simply means that they are composed
OF gold, silver and lead.
Dull times We have here as else
where, the Spring and Summer have
been cold and dry, and the hay crop
has been lighter than usual There
are people who talk OF leaving il they
knew where to go and find a better
place, but in spite Of the improvement
in trade reported by the great news
papers of the country. they do not
knOW where 20 90.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-09-03
Five Ignorant Bankers.

4 letter was recently received from
q man in Boston who asked for some
light on the silver question. saying
that the subject seemed to be very
little understood in his section Of the
country.
He called on five leading bankers
and asked them what was meant by
the free coinage Of silver"
The first banker said he didn't
know.
The second said its meaning had
not been defined. or rather, that it
was not settled just what it did mean.
The third said that if a person took
4123 grains Of silver to the mint it
would be coined into a dollar for him.
The fourth said that any person
taking one dollars worth Of silver al
the market rate to the mint could
have it made into a dollar for him
The FIFTH says the Boston man was
go muddled that | could not make out
what he meant"
Finally he came into possession OF
the "Silver Knight published by
Senator Stewart and became enlight
anaI