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The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15
Daily II Easle
NJ. NJ, MURDOCH, Editor.
OKLAHOMA, ALL HAIL.

The Eagle congratulates the people
of Oklahoma this morning on the pass
age of the free homes bill. The bill now
wants but the signature OF the presi-
dent. 1t is a measure which means the
saving of twenty or thirty millions OF
dollars to Oklahoma and its people,
measure which was introduced ana
championed by their faithful and inf1u-
entail delegate, Dennis Flynn, in which
effort the Eagle stood by him from first
TO last. During the past summer, ana
later in the campaign, the Eagle was
in receipt of letters and communications
from residents of the territory who were
fighting FLYNN, deriding the free homes
measure as a political trick and JOB,
and declaring that there was no posi-
bility of it ever becoming law. These
letters went to the waste basket, for we
had faith. first in Flynn and next in, the
generosity of congress for the struS-
cling western settler. Besides the VIC
tory of Flynn before the committee on
resolutions of the national Republlcan
convention at St Louis meant the GER
tain endorsement of the Chicago con
vention. No representative of people
pyer deserved better at the hands of his
constituency than Dennis Flynn at the
bands of the people Of Oklahoma, and
without regard TO party. Not one con-
gresham in hundred would have ever
undertaken the task OF assumed such a
responsibility After the passage of the
bill by the house, and before the ad-
journment of congress in the summer,
Flynn had, practically. majority OF the
senators pledged to his free homes bill.
Twenty millions of dollars saved is
worth double that earned, because OF
tie necessary element of time 1t means
Lot only that much money TO Oklahoma,
but the interest and development grow
ing out of such amount, leaving Okla
hona now where she could only have
been after years of struggle and lost
time. All this money would have been
eked from the savings of the struggling
SETTLER who at the end of his struggle |
would have been no better off than he
is now at the start. His earnings and |
savings will now go to the improve |
inent of his property and the enhancing |
OF the taxable values of the state, to say |
nothing of the benefits in the mean time |
to the business interests of the territory.
There is but one chance of failure, and |
that the possible veto OF Grover ICleve-
land Were Major Mckinley in the |
chair it would be signed as soon as pre- |
seuied. because free homesteads was al |
ways one of the cardinal tenets of the /
Republican party. Let us all hope that
the bill will be signed and become a
law within the briefest period. Mean
while the Eagle congratulates the pee-
pie of Oklahoma and their energetic, |
faithful and triIImDhant delegate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15
WICHITA AT TOPEKA.

The community or individual desiring
anything at the hands of legislature
should never take sides or mix up in
the contests of others, but stand neutral,
unless it is possible to become an in
tegral in some dominating combination
Wichita aspirants are taking sides and
mixing up in fights at Topeka in which
the city has no interest and at the ex
pense of an interest in which the peo-
pie of this city, not only, but of large
section of populous territory, are deeply
concerned. In being on losing sides it
Will cost dear. To be on the winning
sides can only benefit the individuals
concerned, and not the city. 1t can make
little difference so far as the people of
this city are concerned, who is speaker,
who state printer, who warden of the
state penitentiary. and so on, so long as
none of those positions are sought or ex-
pected by any citizen of this place.
Wichita is desirous of a State Normal
School. For this her people have work
ed for years, after being bodied out OF
another state institution Of intended 10
cation at this point. In asking for the
location of a State Normal School the
state is offered, in the way of an induce
ment, an equivalent TO $4,000 or $780,
900, or a property which cost S150,O00
for $4,000 or $4,000. This property.
built for the express purpose of such
like school, is permanent one of brick,
iron and slate. all of the best, and
which will stand for a century. The
educational people of this section of the
state have not only formally seconded
and endorsed the proposition. but the
people are we'll nigh unanimously asking
it 1t is therefore TO be regretted that
either individual or representative citi-
Zens should i'll any wise jeopariize the
enterprise in engendering enmities and
opposition by taking part in mere per-
sonal conflicts.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15
WOMEN AND CLERKS,

The Pop legislature has started out
resolving TO nut a stop 10 the clerk
steal. 1t is to be hoped that they will
stick to the resolve For several ses-
sionS OF The Legislature of tie past
every member of the senate was allow
ed a clerk. which was an inexcusable
extravaganza. The ways and means.
the Judiciary and the railway commit
tees should have competent clerks. But
the forty additional clerks was 4 clear
steal Another proposed policy of the
Pop administration is commendabie.
and that is the proposition that no wo-
man shall be put on the state boards of
control. Outside the police commissions
Lewelling's administration ran into
more troubles and scandals over woman
appointees than over all others put to-
getler
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15
Along the Kansas Nile.

Nine antelope were killed in the south
western part of Clark county recently.
The Argonia Clipper is for F. d. Coburn
for secretary of agriculture under McKin-
ley.
The number Of inmates on the county
poor farms of Kansas is gradually de-
creasing.
The editor Of the Clark County Clipper
is mourning the return of the coyote and
mis- howl.
A Kiowa man mourns for the good old
days when money was plenty and silk hats
scarce in Kiowa.
They say that Lyman Naugie IS out OF
It for state printer. Brown has the lead
and IS holding it.
The creamery at Argonia, Sumner county.
is receiving in the neighborhood of 500
pounds of mild day.
A Kansas man says that if the present
decrease in prices keep mp he will soon be
selling horses by the gross
Richard Dunn OF Hiawatha has voted
seventeen times for president He first
voted for John Quincy Adams
The stretch OF hard times has been so
long that even the Neodesha papers have
quit booming their gas and oil wells.
out of two hundred people who got mar
rage license in Cloud county last year
only about ten were over thirty years OF
age.
The city council Of Winfield demands
that the Missouri Pacific move its division
Headquarters back from Conway Springs TO
Winfield
AS a demonstration Of Kansas climates
superiority an open air religious meeting
was held in a grove in Mulvane on New
Years Day.
II is claimed for the Belle Piaine Defend
er that 1t is printed or the same press which
the Declaration OF Independence was pub
lshed from.
Before Morrill, went out OF Office l. Is
said he returned all the applications and
recommendations for Office, received By
him, to the applicants.
The Clark County Clipper tells its read
ers that the Bank ot England was estab-
Eshed by a pirate named Patterson and
that the bank is still IN that business
Abilene Reflector: T. r. Dewey - about
the only Republican IT the state house and
he ss there because he Is needed There
must be some one who is capable Of doing
things right
Judge o. L Moore of Abilene has taken
step forward IN divorce trials Recently
ne began the practice BY ordering all not
concerned IN the divorce trial about 10
ccrnc up 20 quit The Toom-
Harry Bone recently went from Ashlsn9
&C Topeka. From Ashland 70 Bucki1 hs
rode a horse. taking TIE Rock Island The
rest of the WAY. Hhzt could have csiay-
e. Hzrry's Santa Re pass
TIE grave q John 4. gzrtiE y unmark-
ed and the grave of william Phillips. once
prominent n Kansas. has cziy z-naD
heae-stone Kansas - rot much on nonu-
loents to men whose pun expired WIKI Their
breath
The northern department q ne kspsas
courts Of appeal has decsSAd tszt a decree
OF divorce - not operative Untli s1x months
after T. L granted This s 70 sh1s OF
marriages within the SIX nouths foiios-
Iaz divorces
Part OF ;he regular pst-0-sge q karsas
weekly newspapers j. tSe local ncfsce ~
which merchants dun thei- debtors % pas
CO. sc-De q TIC merchants eFen 20 -
far IN th-ss notsoes AZ % exSsszan sky hey
want tE= sSsnsy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL.

| The Pacific railroad squabble seems
settled, for a spell at least, but there is
difference of opinion as to what will
be the outcome. AS the case stands
now, the government can still foreelose
on the property and become its owner
and operator. This is a consummation
desired by the Socialists and probably
by great aiority of Populists. But,
as we understand it, an outlay of $780,
OO0, 900 upon the part of the government
would first be necessary before Uncle
Sam could be up to his ears in the rail-
road business, which business has
proved SO disastrous TO Austria and
burthensome to that people. The bill
Just defeated by the house. 16S to 1O2.
interests the west more than the east,
simply because the road is a western
interest. The California, legislature
passed resolutions against the bill. be-
lieying that the government should
show no further favors to the railroads,
but, if necessary, assume control of the
properties upon which it has so heavy
a mortgage and operate the roads itself.
The debt of the two railroads, the Cen
traI Pacific and the Union Pacific, to
the United States government amounts
to S115 100000, secured by second mort
cages. The government can arrange TO
give the companies more time for the
payment Of this debt, or it may fore
close its mortgages, pay the holders OF
the first mortgages for their interest
and become the owner Of the properties.
The bill which was defeated in the
house provided for the refunding of the
bonds. for whose payment the govern
ment is responsible. That majority
of the people of the country, while desir-
ing that the Pacific roads should be
brought to time, are yet opposed to any
step which would involve government
ownership and operation, there is little
doubt. Such operation would not re-
duce freight rates, but, probably, in
crease them. while it would lead to no
end of favoritism and political corrup
tion.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

does not contain single Populistic SEN
tence nor demand a reform that &yas not
urged by Morrill,. He stands for schools
and the care Of the state charitable in
stitutions in the same spirit and in al
most the identical language evinced
and employed by Republican governors.
But on the question which more than
any other has distracted the people of
the state he is as silent as the Abilene
platform. He does not mention prohibi-
ton. In that respect alone does his
message show any marked difference
from all the messages of twenty years
past Presumably he proposes that the
people shall do as the majority of each
community may elect. Whether such a
policy will exclude the rum issue from
politics remains to be seen.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15
PoPuLIsTIc PROHIBITION.

Governor Leedy's message is not so
radical document as was that of Gov
e-nor Morrill,. and if he does not do more
than he proposes in the direction of re-
forms ii is hard to understand wherein
his party IS 10 be satisfied. unless after
all il was only after the Offices. The
very questions which have been agitat-
ing the people he passes over in silence
Eesuhmission Dor a new constitution
are not even hinied ~ The message
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

While Governor Leedy is Just now Sc
renely confident OF continued peace, he
should realize that "open letters 10 him
from Pops who don't get appointments VIII
soon be pouring in
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

Governor Renfrow's message contains
wise invitation TO the homeless TO come to
Oklahoma. l. Is refreshing 10 see ore OF
cur governors able to ls, the pyramids and
the Egyptian DOGS have their night out 10
themselves
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

1t is settled finally that John Sherman is
TO be secretary OF state under Major Nc
kinley. He didn't want It. Is it TO be
Major Mckinley's policy 10 appoint men
who don't want it?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

Senator PETER with that proud iisaaln
Of continuity which IS the sign OF all great
minds, in advocating free homes for Okla
hona. gave most OF his speech TO a de-
fense of Kansas and Cuba.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

the Lord TO steer us away from the shoals
of conservation But omnipotence has
hardly signed for pilot to Populism just
W
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

Weyler has commanded that the sale Of
even medicine 10 the rebels be interdicted
Perhaps this is and underhanded attempt
to make them take their own medicine.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

Cleveland's administration will probably
be most notable for keeping Us at peace
with the world and getting US at outs with
ourselves. 1t viii Dc fortunate for Nc
kinlsy's fortune IL he reverses the ma
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

We must certainly be getting degenerate
when dinner guests are amused by naked
dancers. Nudity may be all right, but Il,
should not be on table-cioih. but mac
tive In an opera box.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

The Eagles dispatches from Topeka indi-
cate that Senator PETER Will soon feel 1t
incumbent upon himself to take the lee
ture platform.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

At any rate Wolcott is doing more for
silver by touring Europe than Teller is by
remaining at home and unlaundrying his
shirt with tears.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

The woman who danced at the Seeley
banquet in New York testified in court that
it was false she was nude. She had a lit
tie bracelet on one ankle.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

So long as Senator Money can keep the
public eye on him without talking he is not
going to talk But let that attention once
waver, and Money will turn loose.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

''Is it as Governor Leedy says" declared
a PopuI.st yesterday. 1.-The dogs of Egypt
have been barking at the pyramids un-
answered for fifteen years.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

John Sherman is against the retirement
OF the greenbacks. So are the Populists.
This can not last long. Either the Popu-
lists or Sherman must move from this po-
sit.on-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

We fail to see anything in the new arbi-
tration treaty which denies US the right TO
add to Fourth of July orations that We can
do il again.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

abolish any Offices. This procedure is al
ready making him intensely unpopular
with those Republicans who did not vote
him
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

If California likes our national congress
she might buy it and use it wholly for the
discussion of the person of young Mr..
Hearst.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

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The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15

Pennsylvania is by no means the only
state with the position of assistant United
States senator.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-01-15
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10 the stable He presently appeared in the
resplendent Towne livery. and '.han6somer
than Joe. too" the servants in the house
Whispered a. they saw him shuttle by.
Mrs. 1owne came out presently. Her nose
vas elevated The little girl al her side
gave the directions and the deSrsdatioa
os the boy was complete. He drove or. his
head down. his gallant Uniform weighing
him Gown as though is were lead.
II was an unhappy day for him. and sub
seauent events proved it more 50 than hs
kneS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-18
FIGURE OF WINGED VICTORY.
Commonwealth's Trophy to the New Bat.
 tleship Massachusetts.

Commonwealth's Trophy to the New Bat.
 tleship Massachusetts.
 Boston, June Awhile the guns on board the United States battleship Mas sachusetts were belching forth a salute this afternoon, Governor Roger Vol colt, accompanied by his staff, boarded the vessel to formally present to the officers and crew trophy from the commonwealth.
 The gift of the state to the battle- ship was a bronze figure of Winged Victory. The unveiling and presenta- tion took place just before o'clock, in the presence of about one hundred prominent citizens.
 The exercises were brief and simple. Governor Wolcott made the presenta- tion address and while speaking he pulled the cord attached to the drapery which yelled the figure, and thus re- vealed it, while national salute of tWenty-one guns was fired.
 Secretary of Navy John D. Long ca cepted the gift of the commonwealth in behalf of the government. The fg- ure of Victory was modelled by the noted sculptor, Bella l.. Pratt, and cast at the works of the Gorham Manufac- turing company in Providence, R. I. The figure is five feet six inches in height, and seven feet from tip to tip of wings. The head is poised proudly, and the eyes look fearlessly and dis- tantly straight ahead. The mouth and chin are firm and determined looking. She holds a sword in her extended hands.
 The figure is between the two 13-inch guns on the forward turret, with it's back squarely sett, and in this position it receives the full force of the wind as the ship runs through the sea. The cloak, clasped just beneath the chin, and the skirt, are fiattened against the turret sufficiently to display the hand- some modelling of the figure. It stands on a plinth, on which Is let- tered:
 Gift of the Commonwealth of Mas- saehusetts."
 Duty done is honor won"
 On the blade of the sword is inscribed the word Victory
 After the exercises were finished al collation. was served in the ward rooms of the Massachusetts.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-18
rRorrJNG PURSE OF se5,ooo.
Movement on the Part of Prominent
 American Horsemen.

New York, June 17-It was learned to-day that prominent horsemen in diff ferent parts of the country have prac- tically decided to stimulate interest in trotting races by offering a. purse of 5,00O open to all trotters, at an entry fee of $500 the race to be decided in New York or Chicago early in October, or a race in each city for half the entire purse, the entries to be eligible for both races
 Some of those whose names are men, toned as being connected with 1t are E. H. Hartman, owner of Stamboul; Nathan Straus, James Butler, president of the New York Driving club; ex- Mayor Hugh Grant, John D. Rocke- feller, President McMillan, of the park board; August Belmont and his broth CT, O. H. P. Belmont.
 In the east Colonel J. Malcolm Forbes, Colonel John F. Thayer and his broth CT, Bayard and Montgomery Sears are all taking interest in the big stake. At Cleveland O., there are Frank and William Rockefeller; at Lexington, Ky, Major Mcdowell, president of the Ken lucky Trotting Horse Breeders asso- citation and the far vests interests are cared for by Marcus Daly.
 Some of the horses already talked about as possible entries are Fantasy, William Penn and Cobwebs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-18
BODY FOUND IN THE THAMES.
The Seventeenth in Three Weeks Taken
 from the Water.

London June 1.-The body of a fash- ionably dressed woman, about thirty years old, was found yesterday floating in the Thames, near the tower bridge. In her purse she had some gold and silver, a gold wedding ring and two dress rings, a gold brooch and other articles, and on a key ring also found upon her were some American coins. All the clothing on the body was of tha best materials.
 This is the seventeenth body found in the lower Thames by the police during the last three weeks. They are believ- ed to be the bodies of suicides, as in nearly all cases valuables were found upon the persons of the drowned.
 There is nothing mysterious in the finding of the bodies, and the police account for the somewhat unusual number of suicides by the fact that the population of this city has been large ly increased by jubilee visitors from the country and by. the advent of many foreigners from nearly all parts Of the world.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-18

Yale Crew Putting in Final Training Work at Gales Ferry.

Gales Ferry, Conn.,, June 1.-The de- lightful conditions of favoring tide and calm water prevailed tonight when the Yale crews were taking their practice. No hard work was done nor were the crews sent over the four-mile course, but, nevertheless, more than eigth miles were rowed over in both the morning and evening work. To-nights practice was mostly half mile spins, MT. Cook following in his launch and coaching.
 Two half miles were rowed at a speed rate and were made inside of three minutes each.
 The crew went on the water at o'clock and remained out about an hour and half. George Adee, who has been the crew adviser for many years, was at training quarters to-day for the first time and accompanied MT. Cook in his launch while coaching. There were also several undergraduates and friends of the crews among the visitors to-day.
 As there is but two more days for the crews to remain here in training it is believed that there will be considerable hard work done during the next forty eight hours, and it is expected that the crews will be sent over the four-mtle course tomorrow night at their best speed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-18
SENTENCED FOR LITE.
Just Punishment Melted Out to a DastardIy
 Wretch,

Boston, June 17.-Frank Howard, who on April 27, with David Cummings, as- saulted Dr. Patrick Cummings, tha venerable Washington druggist. was to-day sentenced to states prison for life by Judge Fessenden. Cummings was given not more than twenty-fiva and not less than fifteen years.
 The doctor, r,who Is seventy eight years old, made a pitiable subject of tha stand. It was difficult to understand what he said, so weak was his voice. Howard went into his drug store at noon and under the plea of a wounded leg got Dr. Cummings to stoop over. Cummings came in and grasped tha doctor, the two men unmercifully beat ing him and stealing a gold watch and $37 from the till The assualt was seem by many people, but the men got away in the crowd. A description of them resulted in their arrest. After trial the jury almost immediately found them guilty.
 Howard expressed great sorrow for his part of the transaction and pleaded for mercy on the ground of i'll health. Cummings had nothing to say. The judge then imposed the sentences.