The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-10
HE HITS EN- HARD
ENID EDIF0R TALKS ABOUT S0L0NS
WITH a CAUSTIO TONGUE

hNiO LII W. % bAD hDOU OUbOEk
WITH a CAUSTIO TONGUE
Most of Them Have Gone Home to Kansas,
He Says, While Others are Amusing;
Themselves by Shooting Their Families
He Thinks Blackstone Bowied From
Thinks That's the Name CT Fluid Old
Settlers Speak About--other Gossip
About Oklahoma.
Hon. ]. l. Isenberg of the Enid Wave
| was in the city yesterday. He came
here to meet his boy-a real chip off
a the old block-who was coming in
I from Colorado. He had to remain over
all night because the boy and the train
both were stuck on a snow bank way
out in Colorado somewhere. Now then
such a sympathetic gentleman as J. L.
IsenberS could not go to sleep with the
knowledge that his boy was in snow
bank nor could he remain on the
streets after the proper retiring hour
for the head of family and the teacher
y
so he beat midnight by five seconds
into the Eagle office and commenced TO
study the principle and mechanism of
the great typesetting machines. He
sat on the nail keg and watched the
wheels turn and the great big iron arm
distribute the type. like an Indian set
ting in his wigwam door watching the
first iron horse speeding over the virgin
prairie. Mr.. Isenberg is a printer as
well as an editor, and he doubtless was
dreaming Of TIE time when pieces Of
dumb iron viii grind out editorials work
by the furlcng, when all at once he
concluded that a visit to the repOrtial
rooms was in order.
Mr.. Isenberg. or "Isey," as he is more
frequently called, is a great character
He has big heart, big head and. 5y
the way, no Trilby feet At any ra te
he has big head and there is lots in
It. His enemies say it is cussedness. his
friends say ii is gray matter, the boys
who know him best say il is genius
he has been an editor and printer most
OF his life, but has found time to be
everything else, but a horse thief. He
has been director in a railroad and
there We're times he would like to be
when walking was bad and the distance
long between towns. He has been a
coal oil prospector in Pennsylvania, a
gold hunter in California, a justice of
the peace in Utah, a peanut vender in
Colorado, and a county seat fighter in
Kansas. He can write everything
from spring poetry to a philippe against
railroad corporation and can make
an after dinner speech or preach q
funeral sermon He is "A man that can
play many parts. well. l guess yes"
said he in reply to an interview ok
lahOma is all right Ii is what Us poor
impoverished. everyday. common peo-
nj IN eaa Tlxar., J.
country. 1t has only one affection that
| know of, and that is the Iegisla ture
good many Kansas fellows came
down there at the various openings and
settled.
In time they worked their way into
the legislature causing an apparent
divine neglect of duty. so TO speak
However, there are enough Missourians
and Texans down there to make Rome
howl till the alarm goes off and |
think they viii save the country yet.
Then it will be Gods country sure
enough.
What do ! think of the legislature.
anyway? Oh, it was a daisy. / would
tell you all about but I know YOU have
rot two or three days time to fool
away listening to me and l could not
fully express my contempt for it in less
time than that. To make a long story
short hey rewarded themselves and
friends to the extent of $40 900 of the
peoples hard earned wheat money at
IS cents a. busheL They mixed up the
statutes till the spirit of Blackstone
howled with rage from the clouds. and
that is not the kind of thing we eX-
pected from the clouds. A little rain
j believe that is what old timers call
Its what we most needed from that
source. They tried to put all the coun-
~ seats in the territory on wheels and
cl, hr-, oh
er board. Thank God their work is
over. Most of them have returned To
their homes in Kansas while others
are amusing themselves shooting their
families and killing their wives
How about Enid and Garfield coun-
ty?"
Enid is undoubtedly the best 10
Gated city in the strip. drawing the
trade of the homesJeaders for sixty
miles west and over thirty miles east.
hfing in the geographical center OF the
best lands i'm the territory and the
surrounding country lies beautiful and
Is Well WateTed: in fact there are only
eighty acres of land in Garfield Coun
~ that has not been fled on, nearly
every acre is tilible. The farm i'm
provementS are way above the average
for new country. Several good-Sized
brick farm houses have been erected
six miles from the city. Owing To the
fight Enid had with the railroad to
procure a depot the city il not over
done and the business men are all do
ing Wen under the circumstances, a.
you will remember the country has got
produced anything yet except may.
stove wood and ice
How large a city do you thing Enid
will make
"Oh. about ten thousand In time
there will he at least - eco people tTih-
utary To the city which Will sustain
10000 in town nicely. The people /
Enid are Il little slow except when il
comes 10 working a cross cut saw.
How abaut the saw
''Whay. don't you read your paper?
The Eagle spoke of the accident that
happened to a bridge last summer"
rs Jonesville peaceable since she
was admitted 10 the city,?
quite peacoa BILE except on election
day when they started out to elect their
share OF the aldermen. For time We
thought We would have to send down
to the fort for troops. Every vote WAS
polled The TammanY hall outfit went
out 10 the cemetery and duS up four
Jonesville citizens. brought the stiffs
In and voted them. giving the boys a
clean majority
Mr.. Isenberg treats of topics and per-
sons at Enid in a highly spectacular
manner. particularly the fellows who.
evidently, are not subscribers 10 the
Wave.
MARRIAGE y FAILURE.