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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

W. Wright. one of the earliest settlers
OF Guthrie, died last week.
The Fort Reno football team fed the Fort
Sill team to the pigs the other day.
The Choctaw railroad has the worst habit
of changing its schedule of any road in the
west.
The eastern papers say that dennis
Flynn was spanked by Oklahoma. For
what?
The kildare Journal says the correct way
to get Office is to keep away from the pie
counter.
The county Jail OF Pottawatomie county
is too small. AS 1t Is, the prisoners have no
comforts.
Callahan said at his reception that he
wanted il understood that he is the friend
of Guthrie.
Jere Johnson OF Kildare dreamt the other
night that 1t had turned out Governor Jen-
kins and Marshal Flynn.
The mailing clerk of the FL Reno Star IS
taking every precaution not to die of over
work. He mails the Star in punches.
John Messenger and John McCandless
have been indicted at Kingfisher for a vio-
lation of the territorial quarantine laws
The McIoud Reporter one week urged the
citizens to lay out a cemetery. They laid
out the Reporter. for the next week IL died.
Cassius n. Barnes is in the race for gov
ernor for keeps. So is Mr.. Scott Of Okla
homa City. 30 is Governor Seay. And SO
is Mr.. Jenkins OF Kay county.
The Shawnee Capital says that the Indian
Territory will have 10 take statehood with
Oklahoma: that Indian Territory wants the
earth. and that includes Oklahoma
Judge Tarsney IS getting 10 be a favorfte
all over the territory. He is what they call
in Oklahoma zone of Natures noblemen.
which means that he is an ail-around good
fellow
James r. Humphrey Of Purcell. who is
first class man all around. viii probably be
a candidate for United States district at
.or,ey for the southern district OF Indian
Territory.
The Tecumseh Republican has explained:
THE Lillian Russell Is the name given 70
one OF ths passenger trains on the Tecun-
sch Railway companys new line from Te-
cIulSe1 20 SHAWNEE Il NdS 81 vi
BIZ the Shawnee Daily Capital The Lillian
makes three trips daily between Tecumseh
ana Shawnee. and is doing a ushlng ousi-
ness" II Is reassurins to know that pas
senser train can not get divorce Then
why that name?
Eufala Journal: The Republican club OF
Eufaia met last Saturday night pursuant
70 call OF iae president. Ar. j. c. Belt
The object OF the meeting was 10 take some
action concerning the postmsstersnip OF
Eafaia. and after some discussion resolu-
lions were passed TO the effect that Pri-
mary election would be held in E1fsla OF
January 70, for the purpose OF nominating
a suitable person for the national commit
tesr1sn to eadorxe- No enc but members Of
the Republican club and those who receive
mail at the Office viii be allowed voice,
and il vas agreed that the Gibbs decision
would be nal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Cszrie= Nsresa Hsrrer IN ire Chfcsxe
TIn---Hsrsi1. on Kansas Heroes"
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the streets % prairie town t1s otssr cay
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tEa chGarsn. a boy walked asonx s.niad
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state. and Jlen -zs 20 Ksa>roas- f;s veas
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02
cLEyELANp.s nrw home

President Cleveland win settle down
in life at Princeton, New Jersey. AS a
citizen of that town he will become ia
miliar to other citizens; the local report
ers win come to know him for friend,
and will in their double capacity OF rep
resentatives of local papers and cores
pondents of New York City papers, in
terview him On all public events He
will retain his presidential dignity. and
will make reply to the reportorial ques-
tons with that stiffness which always
makes an official interview less interest
ing than hasty or careless one. The
discriminating telegraph editors the
country over will put small head over
his utterance, and put it away down in
a corner, and so, gradually, quietly but
withaI tragicaIly, the great Stuffed
Prophet will pass out Of public sight,
knowledge and belief
A party, wandering in the wilderness,
without leaders and without hope, after
a quarter Of q century found this great
man and placed him on a pedestal ana
worshipped him. He had not expected
to be worshipped. The idolatry was
new to him. He accepted it as matter
Of course and graded the whole Ameri-
can people by the passing and temporal
devotion of this aimlessly wandering
party. He came to believe that all men
were mental. And so he bossed, bossed
everything and everybody, accepted No
advice. counsel or suggestion. His cab
met became his footstool; his compeers
pages. bis friends slaves.
And his party deserted him. The re-
cipieEts of his own benefcence turned
on him and helped rend him. His for
mer worshipers reviled him. One of his
cabinet slaves deserted, which was to
defy him. But he has never for an in
slant surrendered the conviction which
came to him with his first elevation
that men are, after all, only to be con-
trolled by imperial will. He will step
from the White House without the
knowledge that while the Constitution
of America youchsafes its chief execu-
tive kingly powers, it does not vouch-
safe him political prosperity if he uses
them like king-without fear and
without tact.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Inadvertently remarks On his local page.
'saurrzh for Mckinley
Confidence Is restored az vl.hsla TIE
wheels have begun TO rsvoiys- a new STAT
ing rink has been started
Both .B-es1snthzFs deputies ssii b. AFTER
as place as bzak connlsssooes should
Brs.5snfhsl 20 70 TIE senate
There xa be 70 tramp nonsense from
rs.~ IE.ty said 20 hlrns>if ths oshsr dsy-
TIE tramp a. an issue u certainty fail
IRE
John Davis ana GA MAJ Baker ard Ben
clsxer az rsTsr bad from airy ESrs
Tas-s are .-bzrnsc8es-' is ne Pop party
roz. zffe- al sxszseEce &C o-,y 81 ys4TA-
TIE Lyons Rs,ssglzss says e a rssa h
,sszt county ~ho shoi yogzz woman sssd
vas sej1axee azsane that y = e2ser c2ss
% -Dzrziyx.z. izxzn5ty ana a~rsl-ssrrss;-
Ts~ Africa Eudepezs~-s ssyz tAst Kansas
RAY t,e rezey 70 t8rrp s-zS ~ campaign &C
80 nov. BIT iaz. Hs-P-- rcSEty 3 go-zx
% --ocee4 "a razEs cora and Spsst Scr .
sr.l-
Kansas Po1szr.s are Synzritss compared
q VIA. 80 gAIEzsce r1ez we're Tre Feopa-
SITS ST. rot trz~~ fn pst-s = Topeka fs-s
z~.-sr 70 kee7 froz A~tng sseierl- s< IA
aHlz-es zsss ca T. 80
Al ~ osszs-s ooTrss.oa3eziz n Ess-
szs 4aaeszeez ass 1ssx iszt re tz-Asg
"a ssserreses tse e2ssse - = z@.sg2-sl s-r--
rs sse-s-z--1 FzEz<zzssa<rs 81 az Is 80
CIR az.ls1s q. sEs .-ssS tt1@s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

way, but as between Populist rule and
the prophesied rule of Tammany under
the direction of Croker, Kansas is to be
congratulated and New York commiser-
ated- On the score Of bad government,
New York can't offend Kansas by re-
ferring to her Populist state govern
ment. They can walk on our grass and
Day no heed to 'signs." It's really no
offense. gentlemen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Senator Chandler of New Hampshire
IS against the gold monometallism and
says 1t can never be. We might better
start in right now TO settle the question
whether there can be more than one
standard. 1t has never been settled.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Should PETER cut his whiskers off.
the United States senate next winter. be
elected. he would not be more Of sur
prise than he was six years ago.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

John Sherman is mad He doesn't
propose to be switched off into the cab
met in order to make room for Iianna
In the senate. Think of the terrors of
being switched off into the cabinet :
But, then. no one in Kansas could think
of that.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Most of the men who call on McKin-
ley nowadays DO it TO pay their respects
Those who do not call for this purpose
bring raccoons, birds and vases. No one
at all seems to want Office.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

The nation is going crazy. The latest
fad is 10 make wollytags. or something
like that. Spatter some ink on a piece
of paper. fold the paper into n crease
just at the spatter. rub the place hard,
and see what you get.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

My" said Bryan the other day, ''but
the American people do love me-" But
they have just defeated you" said his
friend. 'Oh. that was only a part Of
them," said Bryan.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Cleveland. after his term is out. viii
locate in Princeton. New Jersey. Nc
kinley, when his term is out. will To-
cate in Canton. During the public's
knowledge of Cleveland he has practi-
cally been without home OF his own.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Two large wings may soon he added
to the White House unless Jerry Simp-
son. Jerry Botkin. Jerry Mitchell and
Jerry WhaVoumaycallem, Esquire, of
the Third district should reckleSsly vote
the Appropriation down.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Great Britain is either counting on our
aid for something or is fool;ng us into
quietude so that she can better prepare
10 crack us hard. Britain's Venezuelan
surrender had some Interior object.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

The Washington dry goods store which
refused to ''charee" something to Presi-
dent Cleveland was probably aware
that the old man lad been charged with
enough beforehand.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

One young football player gets his pic
ture IN the papers as boy who tack
led with shoulder dislocated." His
father should take him home and dislo-
cate the seat OF his pants with plank.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

The man who invented skates must
have been a tailor or a tailor's friend,
for he made the thing that is the great
est enemy to the well-being Of an over
coat pocket
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Mckinley was member of the Tween
ty-third Ohio: was elected by the vote of
twenty states, and is the twenty
third president. Thirteen falls down
completely when you add ten TO it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Mr.. Dawes of Illinois has been select
ed by Major Mckinley, it is said, as pr
vate secretary. Dawes was one of the
leading members Of the national execu-
tive committee
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

There is great and growing scope of
country which will sooner or later find
it advantageous to get supplies of i'm
ported goods at the port of expectation
of home products.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

If his attempts to find Maceo are a
fair sample of Spanish acumen, it is
well, perhaps, that Columbus was an
Italian, or he would not have ever dis
covered America
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Some galoot named "Casemiranda"
sneers at the United States as "a nation
Of shop keepers If we only all had
shops,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Three months is quite a short time,
but Cleveland will do his best to relieve
ell anti-CIeveland postmasters of the
humiliation of holding office under HIM
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Bryan gets another elector-one in
California. Wake up, Mr.. Jones of Ar
kansas, and "concede nothing"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

One newspaper correspondent declares
that a week from today Spain will de-
clare war against the United States. We
won't fight Well slap her.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

According to Parkhurst, there are
some good people in New York City-a
very few. Be it said. too, they do not
Dlav lean frog
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Steinway is dead, and the make Of
harps on "the glory shore" win probably
be improved.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Senator Lodge ION his way to Wash
ington" dropped off to pay Mckinley a
social call at Canton. Lodge lives in
Massachusetts. 1t was quite drop.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

The man who makes pull for con-
sulate and finds it is under civil service
is liable to remark that a monarch is
only civil service president.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

McKinley's election has settled one
thing. You can now be reasonably GER
tain of reading something occasionally
without running onto Therefore, Be
it resolved"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02
shops.

For shame. We can find out what
Weyler had for breakfast-omelette-
hnd can not discover who won the last
battle,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

A court of inquiry will soon report on
the battle ship Texas, and the builders
viii, true to their ability, read it with
sinking hearts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

The awful fight is not over the cabi-
net. 1t is over the Canton postotfice.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Those eastern papers have now most
" forgotten about Kansas, and are
Blamming it into Spain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

A Kansas man has numbered the yanes
on his windmill one vane IS No. !. the
next .. and an all around the whole six
tsSn-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

Maceo fits into Pinar del Rio Just hike
4 needle does In hay stack.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-02

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The morning times., 1896-10-04
IDENTIFICATION BY THUMB.
Superiority Over the Bertillon system
of Measuring Criminals.
Nelr York ,JOuTndI

Nelc York Journal.
The Berllion anthropometric system will
probably be discarded in Whole OF in part
gal, If not through all India, aud identifica-
tion by the imprint of the thumb he used
entirely in its stead.
The principal objection to the Bertillon
system lies i'll the falliblity OF the meas
urer. The measurer, for instance, may
take incorrect measurements through in
attention; or, having accurate Results
may read them incorrectly or having read
them correctly, they may be incorrectly
transcribed: or. the measurements of
may be transcribed as BIS measurements.
Despite the checks that have been adopted
the margin for error is still considerable.
In India. owing the the slips OF the meas.
urer. no positive deduction is considered
safe unless the innuInerable details which
make up the pattern of the thumb i'm
preston coincide.
So superior has the tn umb print proved
as u means of Identification over any sys-
tenn of measurements that Mr.. E. R.
Henry, the Bengal inspector general of Do
lice is seriously considering doing way
with measuring altogether and relying
solely on these selr-made signatures.
The other advantages of thumb identifl-
cation over the Bertillon system are enor-
nous. A piecf of tin and some printers
ink give impressions which are utterly free
from possible errors. Any person Of or
dipary intelligence can learn to take them
with little practice after fe W minutes
The morning times., 1896-10-04
RATS DISPLAY WISDOM.
Frustrnte n Plot 10 Drown Them by
Their Own CIteness.
Nnrark DaiIN .AdcertiseL.

N"rdIE Ddtty AdceFtdSer.
The employees of the Jersey City Printing
Company have Tor long time been troubled
with rats The rodents are OF unusual size
and are extremely bold. They are buldcst
after dark and think nothing of running
over the feet Of the employees
Several cats We're placed in the building.
with the hope that they would cxtcrninatc
the rats, but the latter made 1t SO warm
Tor the cats that they were driven away.
Various schemes have been worked to en-
trap the rodents, but with little success
Finally Engineer August Krone hit upon a
scheme that for time bade fair to be
just the thing. He secured an old zinc
oil tank, about three feet in height, and
then fastened on the edge twO-fcot piece
OF board. Then he arranged the board 80
that it would swing up and down, with one
end inside the tank. He placed Il piece of
bologna sausage, fastened with a rubber
band, on the edge OF the board which
projected over the inside Of the tank. and
half filled the vessel with water. y few
pieces Of cheese were placed along the OF her
end of the board to coax the rats on.
The trap WAS set where rats are thick
est, in the basement, aud i'll II few minutes
rat climbed upon the end OF the board
which prOtruded outside the tank aud
rested upon a support. The rodent ate the
cheese and then went for the bologna As
it reached the bait the other end of the
board tipped up, and the rat, with a
squeal, fell into the water and was dro wned.
oh, that's the trick" said the engineer,
and his assistant said August had great
head.
within ten minutes six more rats walked
the plank, and theu there was a remark
able display of rats cuteness.
Two rodents climbed the pie of papers,
and, while one stood on the safe end of
the board, the other carefully made its
way to the tempting bologna aud devouIcd
half of it. Tie rats then changed places,
and the other ate the rest OF the bologna
and half the rubber band.
The engineer scratched his head aud the
other spectators said something about pee
pie going to a lot OF trouble for nothing
During the afternoon no more rats were
caught. but Il lot of cheese was eaten by
them. The engineer sOlcnuly AYERS that
lie saw the rats not only balance one an
other on the board while the tempting bait
was devoured, but that the rodents actually
engaged i'll Il game of scesaw simply for
amusement. August still has faith III his
patent trap, but nobody else has.