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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Hensley of FL Reno. is accused Of offer
ing TO run q Popul.st paper for $500.
An Oklahoma wolf hunt that will catch
the wolf. and not rabbits, will be entirely
original.
The Santa Fe paid its taxes to Wood
ward county in pure gold. The amount
was $1,000.
There is a Bill Williams township in
Garfield county. That is nearly as pretty
as Karl Charles.
Jim Cottingham has been elected direc-
tor of the Guthrie National bank. vice
Henry Linn resigned.
At Union City a ball was recently given
and the local paper announces exuItingly
that everyone was civil"
During this silence. let It be asked in
all solemnity: What in the thunder has
become Of Shoestring smith,
10 Wisely could hardly have run things
any more than he is doing now, had he
been elected over Dennis Flynn.
The other night the fellows at Enid tore
down the public fence and ran a street
through the government square.
II looks very much as though Perry was
taking the precedence Of the Divorce
Mecca away from Oklahoma City.
The Chandler News announces that It is
against both General Thomas "of Maine"
and Ralph beaumont "of New York"
Pat Maggie hasn't a knife up his sleeve
for anyone. but he could have one il he
wanted TO. The fight on Nagle was low
down
The Republicans OF Oklahoma viii be
the first into the field with a fight for the
chances 10 go to ST. Louis as national
delegates.
There are indications and unmistakable
ones that Reed is IN favor Of statehood
for Oklahoma Immediately. But he viii
not be for it If Mckinley gets the dele
gates.
When Sheriff Wilson was arraiEnei for
insanity AZ Watonga he demanded loudly
. know why the court had not got out
an Injunction to prevent him from going
crazy.
In the Flynn bin for two additional
Judges Of the Oklahoma supreme court
there is a provision that ali the Judges
must concur in reversing a judgment Of a
lower court
While the people o, Watonga are de-
S'aring their public officers insane, there
is a Widespread desire over the territory %
declare the territorial board of equalza-
ton the came way.
Chandler Is a new woman town Mss
G.-strap edits the paper. Ms. Champion
breaches the sermons and Srs. FueqIay
has just received = letter from Dennis
I.ynn telling Of the status o. certain bis
Does anybody make a practice Of wear
in- masks on s.. Valentines Day? These
masks are advertised for that day al
o'-- southern Kansas and Oklahoma. a.
though no one seems 20 wear them
The Enid fellows al have some great
JOKES on one another. and they are IRE
qIe-tly published IN the Wave. bur taey
are Copyrighted and TO one outside cz1
nn-s-sta11 thern. What id INA. JOKE
ep--- Henry avenue mean
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09
HAMMOND AND WALLER.

Mr.. John Hays Hammond, the Amer
lean mining engineer who was i'm
priSOned by Krugers government be-
cause of his prominence in the attempt
ed revolution, but who has been per-
mitted some kind of freedom because
of the precari0us condition of his
health, was very near the head of the
conspiracy, as now seems quite certain.
His friends have been asking for Amer
lean Intervention. His case is not a
John Waller affair. But of course he
must have the protection Of fair trial.
The demand that he must be promptly
released simply because he is an Amer
lean citizen will not bear elimination.
He must be treated exactly as we
would treat a foreigner who might be
caught INDUCING in similar pranks
here. That the Boer government needs
to be reformed on democratic princi-
pies IS undoubtedly true, but it does
not follow that Mr.. Hammond or Dr.
jameson was privileged TO take this
reform into their own hands, or that
an American warship should be sent
to Delagoa Bay as a consequence of the
miscarriage of their plan.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

The king of Corea has ordered all
queues cut of, and the minister of edu-
cation has in Indignation resigned.
There is moral in this. The most
abject slaves of custom have always
been professional educators.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09
HAIR AND HISTORY

Those who know anything ABOUT rs
tory al all. are aware q The way the
barber and civilization have i''si -.-
I'd down the corridors Of tine 'o-'''--'-'-
To such an extent i Jlis tue '-'-l' ~
razor has won more vici9r.sS 40 '
liza ton than the sword
one the primevaI mo-1 N-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Mr.. Foraker should not be misunder-
stood. lie would like to see the coun-
try put Mckinley in the White House
but he wants the country to ask Mr..
FOraker's permission first.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

LeavenworthS habit Of placing wo-
men ON the rock-pile is not very edify-
ing. However. there Is no great wrong
in the state of Kansas except filling a
glass with froth and accepting cents
4n,. 2
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

1t will cost this ountry SS50Oo0 to
find out whether 10 build the Near
aqua canal or no5. That is right 1t
is better 10 issue bonds on something
that VIII do Us some good. than TO issue
them for nothing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

An Iowa jury took just i've minutes
DO acquit 4 farmer for killing a banker
who had seduced his daughter Let il
be said against prejudice that had The
seducer been another farmer the yer
dict would have been the same.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

: man has just been hanged in Col
orado fer killing 4 whole school board
As he could only be hanged once it is
strange he didn't include the mayor
and the city council as well as the
street force.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Morrill, is between the devil and the
deep sea and as HOch is a Prohibition
list and the sea is water, the Resubmis-
sionists viii have to. assume the other
character
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Reed is speaker Of the house; Frye
of Maine, is president protein of the
senate. The people should kindly con
vey the country TO the state of Maine
by Il warranty deed. and be done
NTH
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Joseph Chamberlain notifies Kruger
that Britain still holds the Transvaal
as dependency At the time of the
revolution the colonies looked as I'M
important AZ the TranSvaal does now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

With great magnanimity the anti
ProhibitionistS have refrained from
claiming that the reason Kansas is for
Mckinley Is because Reed is from a
Prohibition state.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Foreign publications are to be ex-
Guided from the Transvaal Now is
PuIiZers chance to buy the whole
country in as personal property.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

The Morgan syndicate will get one
third of the bonds. This is the best
Grover cnHid do for them. American
patriotism. despite Grover. has a high
er marlle. price than English greed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

First Lord of the Treasury Barfour
says reduced agricultural prices are
largely due to the appreciation of gold.
If Balfour lived in Kansas he would
he called a fool by eastern naners.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

This is a fact. In Burlington. New
Jersey, 4 man last week was sentenced
for drunkenness to attend thirty tenn
perance lectures. He attended one and
has reformed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Chamberlain says Transvaal is indie
pendent internally but externally sub
ject TO Great Britain. This is rather
linked, but it is diplomacy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Newspaper correspondents will not
be permitted to accompany Miss Bar
ION; and she may prepare to be murder
ed several times from COnstantinople.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

1t is said that State Auditor Cole
viii be renominated unanimously. This
IS the first announcement that George
Z. Anthony viii not be delegate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Some men are born great Bill
Smith of Beauttown, always gets a
mention in the local paper on leap year
because he was born on the Doth of
February.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

If Transvaal desires, this country has
for sale a good secondhand declaration
Of independence which is no longer
used here
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

The queen has invited President
Kruger to come and see her. He will
he given a warm welcome You bet
He licked an Englishman.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

AS the ROutgen photography shows
the bones but not the flesh, a camera
should be fixed on a carving knife, and
we can all carve.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Harrison admires Mrs. Dimmick be-
cause ''she doesn't talk when he wants
10 think" But does she think when
he wants to talk?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Routgen's scheme is a light not a
lens. 1t cannot be justly said that the
Routgen plan begins where the decol-
cite left OF.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

People who oppose a standing army
will please explain how, if we had
none, we could prevent prizefghts?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

The cruel Venezuelan war is not
without its pleasant features. The
geological survey party will be given
an outing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Morrill, knows that he is wrong, but
he has to keep it up inOrder to be con-
sistent in his inconsistency.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

That Routgen camera settles one
thing. No more will the poor burglar
blow open safes that have nothing in
Them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09
4ailu - Eagle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.

From those bond bids it is plain
that several people have burglar-proof
socks.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

ingalls, is a grandfather. Will his
last forum be his own knee with his
audience perched upon it?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

Edison photographs the brain. Or
In other words the thinking brain looks
at itself.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-09

E+ Wave Ire Wichita EzE.e has
7i'-l- Eugene Ware. the celebrated Es7s--
% f>-7sas fo- governor, Which has starr
e -7z.dera5i= song e-ao.rz ossT ne
pl'A T--s writer has been running
Coos Murtock for governor o. Ea-szs
f2' 'a-ay years ard ze do ao- propose 90
give 4 The struggle Until Goyerasr 1l1--
-o'cA lr-alsura-s5
hans Cty S-sr; Marsh Mgr57ck SAYS
~''s-'' I>-syet---g - oat % the Pop -aee
lo9 - =-zc-. ard Walter Css--Ez1 Sap
he : Z j. N5w Ehay Goes ~ LsEe--izs
say
cA-@i "a Oklahoma. ne F-ss.-s=-
La BE- IS raging among the Esgs1--
cas- = }zi-11ua- TIE TsF IS pSTac1-
-@s-s S-isF = lie wlczl-z Eagle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-27
YALES YAWP.

There is a conviction prevalent in
the country, and which has been grow
ing stronger year by year, that old his
toric Yale has degenerated into a
school of snobs. sports aud roughs.
Coarse sons of coarser fathers, sons
whose inherited brutality finds shield
in the money of the parents, are sent
there by the hundreds for an educa-
tional veneer, for a gloss of that re-
spectability which is supposed to be
conferred by this school of once high
character. Yale is crowded with that
stamp of youth whose heredity is of
the vulgar, is brutal, whose ambition
is obtrIrsive display, and whose highest
notion of an education is one cOnsutut-
ed Of an expertneSs at the gaming
board, a conversancy with all the ms
and outs of the low-down and disreput-
able, the whole embellished by an &C
quired e1pertness with the boat-oar
and ball-bat. What with no end of
loud clothes, unlimited impudence and
an ineIhaustable money supply their
success at Yale is assured. A few of
them receive their graduation papers,
more do not but they all alike drift
back to the opulence of their city
homes, ninety-nine out Of every hun
dred Of them utter failures, TO become
either barnacles or society ulcers,
wholly incompetent and unclesn. A
mob of this character and makeup
Of Yale students, at New Haven, on
Thursday morning, attempted to break
I'D a citizens meeting which was be-
ing addressed by a candidate for the
most honored. if not the most exalted
position in the world OF today. What
with bowls, cat-calls, screecheS and
roars Mr.. Bryan could not be heard,
finally, as we should judge from our
telegraph reports, desisting and retir-
ing in disgust. These proletary mush-
rooms and ignoble shoots of ignorance
and money arrogance would have in
suited 4 nation had they been equal TO
such thing. There was a time in the
history of that institution when these
rowdies would have been made to an
swer for their outrage, but that was
when Yale was governed by brains and
exalted ideals. and not by servile cult
vators of the Drawn of the bruiser and
of mammon-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Callahan must debate now or acknowl-
edge he treated Flynn dishonesty.
John Daniels, who committed suicide IN
Guthrie the other day, came from Bryan's
town in Nebraska-Lincoln-
The FL Reno Star accuses John V. Moi
fit Of smoking a brand of cigars which
makes you smell him before you can see
him.
Fusion was a fine compliment to Dennis
Flynn. 1t was an avowal Of the fact that
he was so strong it would take two parties
to fight him.
homa this yea- ard - making success
of it. 1t IS the first time a big circus
his attempted Okliheina.
1t is said that Judge Ollie could have
received the judgeship Keaton secured II
he had been in Washington at the time
the appointment was made.
The Republican territorial committee
has established headquarters for the sotTh-
ern part of Oklahoma "a Oklahoma ,iiy.
with Seymour Price in charge.
James r. Keaton, the new judge in Ok
lahoma, IS 3s years OF age. He came
from Texas at the original opening. He
has fought Grover three years.
Clevelands first offered Judge Scott
place to Bynum of Indiana before he gave
it to Keaton. Bynum didn't want 1t.
Bynum is playing for something that will
last longer than six months.
1t was recently reported that Reverend
Fields, living near Guthrie, had gone crazy
over the financial question He now
turns up and threatens to make 1t hot for
the man who started the story.
Chief Bates OF Oklahoma City had a
colored man on the train the other night
Wy en- the prisoner jumped through the
door. Couch went after him, but hit the
ground harder than the thief and could
not overtake him.
Judge Keaton, whom Grover appointed
the other day. has been a bitter critic of
the national administration. But that
doesn't count. Grover has got 10 the
point where he can't find friends enough
to fill the places he has at his disposal.
An Oklahoma editor offers IN ease of
Bryan's election and the free coinage OF
silver unlimited at sixteen to one. TO ex-
change American silver dollars for Mexi-
can silver dollars even. He claims tina.
he will sign a contract 20 his effect I'M
der bond. HIS point Is that IL silver dol
lars will be worth 81 In gold after free
coinage, people by buying I'D Mexican
dollars now can make u cents on each
dollar.
Manchester Journal: Some people are
under the impression that the law prohib-
ting the killing Of turkeys, prairie
chickens and quail was up on the first
day OF September. This Is mistake.
The above mentioned game cannot be
killed in the territory except from the 1si
of November until the 1st OF February.
Anyone violating the game law VIII be
liabI. to a fine OF not less than IS, nor
NOR than 800.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-27
THE WHO AND WHAT OF him,

The months may be counted upon the
fingers of one hand since when the
name of Bryan was unheard, the mans
existence unknown to but compare
lively very few of the seventy millions
of people whose head and leader he
would be. Other aspirants for so great
an honor are wont to have the records
Of their lives and deeds printed in
books. But Of Bryan there was little
or nothing to print His speech at
Chicago constitutes the Alpha and
Omega Of his accomplishments. That
speech is all of his life, his whole his
tory. For a brief season he was in
Washington, the representative OF a
congressional district tn the interior OF
Nebra ska. No doubt he was pre-
sentable country barrister, but given
more to politics than to briefs. To
that season of public life in Washing
ton we must look for all that is known
of the man, for no where else did he
leave his mark.
Walter Wellman says that when Mr..
Bryan was in Washington he was well
known among the newspaper men as a
louuacious, efferveScent, intensely con-
ceited young man who loved TO exploit
himself in the newspapers OF the coun-
try. Ordinarily newspaper men are
well treated by Mr.. Bryan, partly be-
cause he is a newspaper man himself,
and partly because he is one OF that
class upon which reporters always look
with more or less suspicion, the men
who want to be interviewed. But Mr..
Bryan has his intervals of inaccessi-
bility.
A newspaper friend Of his met him on
the train the other day and they fell
into a conversation on the money ques-
ton. You say in your speeches, do
vou not. Mr.. Bryan" said his friend,
that free coinage will raise the price
of silver to $1.29 cents an ounce on
parity with gold at 16 to IL
81 do"
"You have not the slightest doubt
that this would be the result OF free
coinage"
''Not the slightest"
Then" pursued his friend, "wnat De-
comes OF your argument that free silver
will advance pricesT
The result was astounding Mr..
Bryan's face closed, SO to speak, Ike
the habitation Of an indignant clam
and he retorted, II decline 10 be cross
questioned; cannot be interviewed"
To be sure Mr.. Bryan's friend should
have known better. 1t is discourteous
TO ask such questions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-27
OKLAHOMA AND IT'S COTTON.

Few Kansans realize that Oklahoma
is not a part OF Kansas. 1t resembles
Kansas. in fact, only in its citizenship
for part OF its population came from
Kansas In soil, climate and markets
it has very little in common with han
sas.
Governor Renfrow's most important
word in his annual report is this: The
prospects for crops Is good and the
ante-bellum declaration cotton is king
seems applicable TO Oklahoma Okla
homa viii shortly rank among the cot
ton states OF the Union Unless the
present indications fail the present cot
ton crop OF Oklahoma viii be far the
greatest ever gathered and / predict
for the coming year one OF genuine
prosperity
These words were written some tine
IN June Since then the cotton has
broken from its boles in Oklahoma
While the prospects Of June did notiiasi
a complete fulfllnent in Augiss still
the cotton crop OF Oklahoma was a.
Governor Renfrow predicted, tie
greatest ever gathered
There are 10 cost0D-feids in Kan
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-27
The aaliehta Daily Eagle Sunday zorune IT. 1896

sas. In Oklahoma it is becoming the
principal staple. The profits from ii
are largely net; it is easily compressed
into a small bulk and can be trans
ferred with little trouble to distant
market In Oklahoma to every wagon
containing corn on the road are met
many wagons loaded with bales.
1t should not be overlooked that
while Oklahoma is new factor and a
big one in the cotton market, the cot
ton acreage in the old southern states is
constantly increasing. During the last
twenty years the total acreage of land
devoted To the growth of cotton in the
southern states has been more. than
doubled; but production has been in
creased in still greater proportion
There has been a wonderful improve
ment in the methods Of cotton farm
ing as well as in the extent of cotton
lands While the acreage has increased
lbs per cent in twenty years. the pro
duct has increased 1S3 per cent In
1915 the average yield per acre was
20 pounds; in 1885 the average yield
had increased TO 2e0 pounds. The
cotton famine which was brought
about by our civil war led TO the in
PRODUCTION and extension of the cotton
raising industry in other countries
where soil and climate were favorable
to production; but Notwithstanding the
increased supply, our average sales
abroad remain undiminiShed.
The increased capabilities of supply
and increased activity of demand af-
ford one of many gratifying proofs of
tht wider distribution of the things
that are necessary TO human comfort.
More cotton means more comfort and
less nakedness and deprivation in all
parts Of the world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-27
LINCOLN VS.. BRYAN.

Some of the Democratic papers are
comparing their new found Popocraiic
god. Bryan. to Abraham Lincoln. For
a sublime exhibition OF cdeek this takes
the whole confectionery, shop and all
In doing it they not un.y ca1 their own
words. but retract the very spirit Of
tie whole Democratic press as exhibit
ed during the lare war. The hack
files of every sheet of that persuasion
show that they denounced lincoln as a
tyrant- a usurper OF power, and, in fact,
everything that WAS exorable and
mean. There is not man or woman.
fifty years OF age. who cannot recall
the hostility Of the Democratic papers
toward his methods Of prosecuting the
war. Ii was announced N bold head
lines, anu in cold black type. that the
war was failure, and Ia very climax
of rage was reached when he issued
his emancipation Proclamation Moth
Ing was toe. mean. too ioS or too yitrp-
era5ive 20 aply TO him touching either
his pubiic acts or his private character,
VET these sane journals scsS now 10
canonize their ycathsII prodigy in Wis
dom and morals ~ comparing Tim 10
the man they so thoroughly despised
thirty years ago Gall iueffabie. cheek
sublime. Inconsistency personifed, thy
name Is Democracy
The fact Is there are 20 parallels IL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-27
NOT SO -FOUR YEARS HENCE.

The thing most conspicuous for its
absence in this campaign is consist
ency There is a lack OF honesty. n
want OF good faith. There have been
too many tricks covered over by too
much pretence. TOO many falSehcods
supported by lies Misrepresentation
and deceptin have ran riot. There has
been prevarication and equivocation in
platforms. shutting and mystifcation
upon the part of party papers and dis
stimulation and duplicity by both can
6idates and speakers. There has never
been anything Ike the political gam
mon and perhdy before in the history OF
the country. The very air is thick
with insincerity. The shrine OF the
average political stump is adorned with
a shade OF Ananias for its saint whose
worshippers profess TO believe that
black is white. The Chicago eonven-
ton repudiaIed every known Demo
cratic tenet and nominated a pro
nounced Popuhst as their standard
bearer. The Populist convention an
nulled their Omaha platform and
named the head Of another party as