The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-18
Penitentiaries and Plagiarism

Perry Is playing the role Of the early bird.
! by having introduced the first bin. but
Pond Creek. Enid, Newkirk and half a
dozen other places will soon present them
selves as candidates for the place Perry.
by right Of having a very strong candidate
| once before, seems TO be more strictly in
it than any other place. Besides. It has
! very able men to look after its interests
in each house. Tom Doyle is the strongest
man in the lower house. much stronger
than any other member. with the possible
! exception of Mr.. Barnes. and IL there Is
any show on earth TO carry q measure
! through locating a1penitentiary. he will do
IL. In the upper house Senator Henry
Johnston mas a strong pull and viii be
found TO be powerful champion OF the
| interests OF Perry. No other municipal
candidate for the penitentiary has such an
| able delegation In both houses. The only
obstacle Messrs Doyle and Johnston VIII
| encounter is a sentiment that Oklahoma
does not need a penitentiary at this time.
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| II becomes the painful duty of the cor
respondent of the Eagle TO charge Rev.
MIR. Newman. chaplain Of the lower house,
| with plagiarism. As not more than four
| or FIVE members OF the lower house know
the meaning Of that word 1t is but right to
1 say II does not mean that the chaplain has
stolen any horses. broken into any store
| or postoffice or done anything that would
subject him to the criminal laws OF Okla
homa Plagiarism is word that refers
| solely to theft in the mental realm-the
stealing of another's ideas and appropriat-
| Ing and using them as your own. The good
| Rev. Newman on Monday morning stole
| the prayer Of one of the chaplains Of the
| Missouri legislature and used IL as his own.
The prayer was originally offered at Jeffer-
| son City on February 10. and Nj Newman
| used it in the Oklahoma legislature on
Feb. Is. 1t is pretty tough when one preach
| er will steal the prayer of another preach
| er and offer il TO the Lord OF hosts, who
knows everything. as an original thought
| 1t would be far better for him to do that
which Rev. Jones, the singing nightingale
from Enid, did yesterday. and that was
| not to show up at ALL The Office of poll.
| teal chaplain is fraud and ought to be
abolished. Their prayers never go farther
up than the ceiling and have no more in
fuence on the actions of member of the
legislature than they would have on the
course of the stars. Their salary is money
thrown away. In Oklahoma the prayers
OF the chaplain are the initial jokes of the
day. They hurt religion. Mr.. Newman is
man Of apparent honesty and Christianity.
but there lie no doubt but what he pilfered
the prayer of the Missouri chaplain with
| out giving him the proper credit for 1t.
Speaking about chaplains Mrs Rev Henry
Cheeseborough of Perry has Joined her hus-
band. When Rev. Cheeseborough came
here he offered his services to the lower
house to mediate between that body and
heaven, but the lower house objected to
him on account of his color and did not
give him the job. Since then he has been
offering prayers in job lots to street corner
loafers and all kinds Of congregations of
people, and if he failed to get 10 cents he
would call things square for cigar. This
man Cheeseborough Is a peculiar type of
the American negro. He weighs about 100
pounds and is somewhere between 90 and
100 years of age. He wears the smallest
size silk tile made. and 1t is fully four
sizes too large for him. He wears a pair
Of glasses the eyes Of which are as large as
the face of an alarm clock. and the coat
he buttons about him is at least eight sizes
too large for him. 1t is the discarded
Prince Albert Of Dr. Brengle of Perry. who
is a man that weighs at least 80 pounds.
He wears a poka-dot pocket handkerchief
for necktie and when II Is tied around his
slim neck Ii makes him look like butter
fly with its wings partially opened. What
the object of Mrs. Cheeseborough's visit
to Guthrie is cannot be stated, but the re-
port that she came after her distinguished
husband to take him home TO their eighteen
children. If ever there was VAIN pus-
son" born in the colored race Rev. Cheese
box is one Of them.
A story was told here last night which
illustrates how little things sometimes are
far-reaching in their consequences. Captain
Henry Baker of Ponca City and Captain
Jake Admire of Kingfisher had been warm
personal friends for thirty years in Kan
sas and for six or seven years in Okla
homa after leaving Kansas II is now said
that they are at outs and don't talk as
they go by. 1t was all on account OF
jovial song Of seventy-two verses, each
verse of which Is repetition Of the other.
The first two lines of the first and all sue
ceeding verses are:
There came from the woods
An old squaw and her Indian"
This was Captain Bakers version Of the
song but Captain Admire took issue with
him by insisting that the lines are:
There came from the plains
An old squaw and her Indian"
The only difference between them was
whether the squaw came from the woods"
or the plains" but each one Of them Is as
headstrong as the other and neither of
them would yield to the other ones version
and the result was the eventuation OF bad
blood between the two old friends. Their
friends are trying 10 get them together
again and to have them renew their old
friendship. Both OF them have been life
long personal and political friends.
MI Garrison has introduced a resolu-
ton in the council resolving that IL is the
sense Of the senate that no changes shall
be made in county lines. This resolution
was introduced for the purpose Of forestall-
ing an effort that Is said TO have been
Matched by combine organized among the
senators and representatives to make new
counties out Of old ones and TO establish
new lines that will materially change the
complexion OF the map OF three or four
counties in the eastern part OF the territory.
Who the members OF this combine are could
not be learned but II Is pretty well settled
that such combine exists. Mr.. Garrison
- man with a pretty level head on his
shoulders.
". T. Walker of Norman was in the city
yesterday looking over the political sstua-
ton. He says that inside OF three weeks
bcnfres will be blazing in every part OF
Oklahoma for Dennis Flynn and free
homes. He does not doubt for . moment
but what The bill will pass and become a
law He offers 20 bet all kinds OF money
on that well on the statement that
Flynn viii be the next governor OF the ter
ritory OF Oklahoma.
The story Is now in circulation tha. Nc
Kinley VIII appoin; a governor for Oxisho-
ma by telegraph on the 5ih Of March II is
alleged that this viii be done so as to have
a Republican governor in Oklahoma in time
10 veto the radical legislation proposed by
the legislature. As 20 how much truth
there Is in the statement is a hard matter