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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
Bright Touches From the
Tablets of Memory.

generally believe. A person OF even limit
Ned observation would. on viewing the said
pace, reach the conclusion. at sight. that
a respectable church body. society. asgre-
CATION. corporation or association wcuio
not have built such a '.wood-shedss snair
for church purposes even IN tho early cot
sonw0od-lumber. saw-min DAYS. when
''xet-pine" was luxury and seasoned
hard-wOods were as Tar beyond the dream
OF the dweners IN tho Happy VALLEY
as alabasssr and onyx are now barred in
the nocturnal visions OF a busted BOOM
er" who was on the bullish side OF the
market IN from 1876 20 lSSS-
I.aier on the Tabernacle was conveyed to
the CarhoIio church and was Is church
building for some ysaTs and until the
same was transferred unto The co.ored peo-
pie and II IS now The Centropoiis hotel
on Main street, between Elm and Pine
streets. Many memories cling round THIS
building. Children who were chriS,eaed
In il have grown 20 man and wonsanhood
and have been united In X untn death ~
DO part: from g. the tenement % clay
hath been horne 20 the silent city on "A.
eastern hills IN il many have turned Their
backs on the world. fieSh and GeyH and
pushed forward onward. upward. 90 a
nobler lie. 80 happy. sober saruestncss.
From the day It vas builded until ths
present time. a change: a transformation
hath taken place which the mist sanguius
never imagined: since il construction
single lot has sold FOR more money than
the entire ;ownsits at that date would
have brought In cash. Three Of tae elders
OF this Presbyterian church are o. lN<al
age as elders. viz:
Robert Z Lawrence. January 9. ISL
{. s. Caldwell. October q. 49,
n. A. Mitchell December Il. 1874
! am very proud 20 be goat" where
elders ''hold their job from generation -
generation. since the Australian ballot hss
become .aw. and the congregation. WITH
out fear. favor or espionage caa vote It's
individual sentiment
The history OF this church since 1875
I leave 20 Others. I long slnee determined
70 preserve a short sketch % this church,
FOR the generation 80 come after us
Note;-I acknowledge indebtedness %
Judge y a Mitchell for historical data.
He furnished the wool" but. the cardlaE.
well as the "shoady" are from uiino own
factory and loom. Much good Wool hatA
been ruined BY poor dye and hsd looms.
and forced on the ''tTade" by TIC loud
pattern and glib salesman
Dee :. lssS. CONTRIBUTION"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
A VIEW FROr1 THE PEW

, positive, comparative and superlaiive de-
gree In anything as 70 fIeness. quality,
length, breadth. thickness. good. vile, gor
geous etc, etc. Any one needing an adj
jectve to express any differentiation OF
a word can use these instead OF hackneyed
and commonplace terms which are worn
thin by the abrasion OF millions OF
tongues for ages.
TIE corner stone contains the ordinary
things put in corner stones since the Gay
Hiram of Tyre consigned his rats of
cedar and cypress to Solomon and drew
sight draft for corn and oil to liquidate
the balance OF trade, thereby establishing
amicabIe trade relations twixt SOL and
H." blaine no doubt was aware OF this
when ne few reciprocity eagle some
years ago. IN addition to the staple
articles" put in the corner stone here
IN before mentioned and heretofore re-
goods" to-wit:
1 letter to poste-ity.
letter to local editor wichita Eagle.
letter to money order clerk postofice.
Wichita
letter 20 register clerk postofice, wich-
tia.
1 Ielter 20 descendants or FRANK IKE
and Mary Carpenter.
1 letter 10 descendants OF w. ]. Eobson-
l letter TO descendants OF ]. p Harsen
and wife.
l letter addressed, ''To any white man
having the name OF Murdoch at Wichita.
Kansas. II none at Wichita, then 70
any man In Kansas OF that name"
NJ. W. Levy deposited two silver half
dollars.
All Of the above are TO be opened in a
D. 1876.
Frank Yike and wife lived. on the West
Side. W. J. Hobson was a bridge builder
| and clothing store man. He and Morgan
Cox, partners as Hobson & Cox. bought
out Hays Bros. clothing store. then known
! as coax Hail. ar 10s West Douglas ave-
nue.. in the fall of 1874 or 1875
Mr. Harssn received a salary of eight
hundred dollars per year, which prevented
his wasting his substance in riotous Mv-
| ing. He received thirty-six hundred dol
| lars for his claim. afterwards sold 10 Har-
~ Hill. Many OF his friends regretted he
cid not hold his claim until the boom
and lay it out in town lots. and then go
''buzted?''
This church was organized March -
! 1870. on Waco avenue. above Oak. at the
Munger House" The charter members
were Jno. NJ. Steele Jim Steele. f. a.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
Short SkitS of the Small
Talk of Wichita.

7 e-y staals "a ths west" Tt -vss y.nfrd
a. enes % g. ,. Coleman ara ~ 4 Az
1erzuann.
MISC Grace ans Mad nAr~rtT enter
taine8. Tas guests sera. I.ssss 3aar~r.
BRANDON. Calvin. Mgrpssy Ears 80
AessrE Caubb. smi.a. lily an1 Hun
Eats-
Miss Lew. NcSa1rf-rn rave ra~Y
Her guests were Moses Hyrfs gs~sa
EHfs ABt-n Isaita Ueaa 5ernis Dean
AMI Hsssrs. Hai Csl ttr. ~ HErNci. u
T. Baffnrran as8 Alner; Anbtr
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~ ari Mr. q E1ms. -. 80 Ers O. .
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
WEDDING DECORATIONS

Quite a good deal % excitement vas
caused in the adjoining usigh5orhood when
a black underraker's wagon vas seen 81.
one CT the Wichi-a churches few days
ago. Some hurried ard rather excited Cos
sip hoated around ABOUT Z for awhile. og-
me mater subs Se6 some when q Vzs
learned that a Horsst vas decorating ths
church far a wedding and had hire5 ths
'Biack Mar-ah- 70 haul the aowe-s be-
cause & vas closed ans woui5 9revens tie
flowers from freezing
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11

orator. His everyday life was sermon.
Mr.. Harsen always reminded me of the
following lines of Goldsmith:
Truth from his lips prevailed with double
sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to
pray
''He tried each art, reproved each dull
A1lur'd to brighter worlds. and led the
way"
The church. as a body, approved the
forced resignation of Mr.. Harsen, but the
people Of Wichita condemned the abdica-
ton and another generation shall pass
away ere Harsen will be forgotten and the
church ceases to be criticised for his re-
moval CNote.-This a pure goat view or
guess) There was no day or night too
hot or cold, TO prevent his leaving his
fireside or home to give solace 10 the
wretched or dying or perform the last
sad rites over the body of the sinful and
almost abandoned dead. His spiritual
makeup was of Him who said: Neither
do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more"
Mr.. Harsen did not, perhaps. possess
those ministerial characteristics required
gether; but he was possessed of a faculty
to gather under one roof the sheep of his
fold and the morally inclined goats and
form the constituent elements OF a future
church, grander than ne could hope to
behold. He perhaps belonged 10 a pioneer
cvilizatio where one-story wooden houses
are fashionable, where poverty is only an
inconvenience and by reason of its uni
versatility is robbed Of its humiliation, gen
eral condemnation and consequent degra-
dation. Mr.. Harsen owned one hundred
and sixty acres of land east Of Wichita,
afterwards sold to Harry Hill, the "Ok'a-
homa Boomer" and manager of a Wild
West Show that broke every man con-
nected with it and had the proud distinc-
ton Of being attached by creditors a great
er number OF times than any other show
that ever existed It is said that the
route Of this Wild West show can be trac-
ed from county TO county and from state
TO state by examination Of the court and
chattel mortgage records without any 9TH
er data to go by.
Unless I am at fault in my recollection
the music of the Presbyterian church in
1874 and 1875 was under the charge OF
Mrs. Catherine Russell, Mrs Emma J.
Simmons, Mrs. Theodore Parham, c. s.
Caldwell. W. B. Mead Mrs Mead and
Miss May Willard. Mrs Simmons was
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11

cowboys and those OF the landowners
lives were taken. The struggle continued
for several years. but me barsbeSs-wirs
fence ercpt on. shutting IN more and mors
or the ranges and cutting the smaller
herds out OF their feeding grounds.
In tfei- purchases OF lands hundreds os
oattlemen had been Obliged 20 borrow
money or their cattle. and % meet ne
debts they first sold or their s-yes.r olds.
then their 2-year-oida. and even their
yearllngs This was ono OF the causes
that led TO the great shortage Of cattle
a few years aEo. Notwithstanding thu
boom prices OF the 'sJs rad iod 70 over
stocking OF the ranges. other causes
were at work 20 compie'e tho great
change In the business. After a long Pc
Rod OF small losses from disease and
weather a succession OF hard winters con-
spired 20 deal a Heavy blow. The winter
OF 1851 was the elimination TAe losses
on the northern ranges that year wers
immense. Some msa whose herds mum
bered l0.oo0 saved Jess ts1an 10 per cent.
For years cattle thieves had committed
depredations. They called thennseisvs rus
tiers. and IN ne northern ranges bsd
a regular organization. wsh3ch grew bold
er each season. In 1873 the cattienea
banded together against them. and
war eusuo,k ending IN pitcaaea battls at
tho Powder rivsr. The foreman 81 tts
ranch own>d b. Il A. Blair % Chicago
and one other man was killed. u becsm@
necessary for Unltef s,aiss troops %
qiieI the disorder
IN re late 'srs ~ d>crns IN prices
losses % cattle ~ TIE w-atter. ara
losses following the purchases - land hsf
broken tursireds Of mon en- every cattis
state and territory. The magnificent Nv
ing al th> Big ranches came 20 ar end.
their splendid fDru. shInrs disappearsa.
The Cd cattle Business was srrs'ic. 70
was a pickup. PermsneE.cy was not "a
r.. TIE rev cattle trade - a business
where iadiLstry. thrIft ard management
-lii win
Included n shis article = a table show
snx me prizes % cattle own - isef. u
tie present year. if9s. fhs fizssest prics
reached was s5ost AZ per 10 poanss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
Wichita Presbyterianism
And It's Amenities.

Memory is the minds store-house: some
use a close vault, others a well-ordered
room. and treasure away things valua-
BILE; the generality of mankind use an at
TIC in which things" are pushed in hete-
rogeneously, and when called for the valu-
able and worthless are so mixed as to be
almost inseparable
Properly speaking this tale should be
entitled, Wichita Presbyterianism as seen
by a local goat in 1S74-1S75."
Though It was 'fore-ordained' that I
should write this piece il was not made
known to me until Thanksgiving day, A
D, 1898; having received the information
now proceed to evolve the facts; unravel
the ball Of memory. Germane to this
piece is the interesting fact that Presby-
terianism and grasshoppers landed in Kan
sas as twins on July 10 1925, according
to my Kansas history. Presbyterianism
stuck; grasshoppers. like lager" have
been intermittent. but are well remem-
bered.
When I first became acquainted with
Presbyterianism in Wichita, services were
held in Old Eagle Hall. The memories
of that festoon Eagle Hall are multifarious
anu LileLlStlg cosmopolitan III LlGlT IA
ture. As a church, convention hall, recep-
ton room, theater, opera. spelling-schooi
board Of trade room, court room, council
chamber, church festival and fair room,
political speaking place, It filed the bill
on all occasions. This hall was on the
second floor at the left of the stairway
over the Boston Store. The room was
about fifty by one hundred feet At the
top Of the stairway there was box-office
three feet square. At the south end there
was a stage, three feet high and adorned
on the front with a dozen dirty, dingy.
smoky, murky old coal Oh lamps. that
kept the audience in hot water at any
evening show for fear that the old drop
curtain would catch on fire OF knock over
lamp. This fact alone kept an audience
awake, no matter how dull was the plav.
There was no life insurance agent resid-
ing here then and people were more care
ful of their lives than since the "boom. -
The pulpit was on a movable platform
and was as handy as a pocket in shirt.
The Rev. John p. Harsen was the Pres
byterian minister. Mr.. Harsen was a
pioneer man. He was fitted to deal with
all classes. He antagonized no one and
was friend to all. black white, Copper
colored or tan; Jew or Gentle, rich, poor.
good, bad moral or vicious. He was a
student, pastor; but he was not pulpit
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BET \ CIGAR on LIFE SENTENCE
George Adams brought o.sar With him
from e Dorado Friday that be says he IS
going 70 wrap IN foi! and keep as long as
he lives II IS probably the only cigar
IN the world that a man BET on his HE
The cigar was Won by sam Smith az Z
Dorado Thursday IN the trial which grew
out OF tha robbery OF the Frisco train a.
Andover last summer and the killing of
VIM. Bedford by one OF she robbers When
the evidence was al n against Smith and
the jury had gone out Smith turned 10 the
deputy sheriff and said. IN bet you G.
gar that the verdict VIII be murder in the
first decree" The sheriff took The bet
When the jury came IN ard the verdict
was read Smith Suraed 90 Tie officer and
said: I've won that cigar and wan- IT.
smith formerly lived ii The western part
OF the STRIP where he COMMITTED several
thefts of horses ard cate. HIS frs dep
re6stions in Kansas began n Sumner
county. near Ashton. more t5an Two years
ago he had married a daughter q Tom
Hicks Wright OF Besle P,stne. 51t vas
Wild and reckless and refused % work
4 warrant vas finally issued Ter his az
rest on the charge O. having stolen some
farm implements. 4 constable wso vent
TO serve the warrant was shot a. by Smith
AS som as he was satisfied tha- offieials
we're afraid 20 coma near h-u. started
out % terrozize that section 81 the c0ur-
Try and saccseSeG 20 rs taE satisfaction.
He was finally sTres.ed 81 okiahorna ard
returned 70 sumner county ana g-eas gu
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bridges are not required. On the eastern
hiTl. from whose crown our own Henry
Clay Sluss first beheld the Happy VAL
ley and pronounced mis- prophetic apos-
trophe on the royal infant at his feet,
these pioneer patriaTchs sleep. There
was plainness, bluntness. directness and
honesty in their everyday life that COM
raanded reverence, even in a generation
where Honor thy father and thy moth
err is repealed statute.
eff death unto the noble dead
Is sweet as life 10 them that live.
Why mourn for those who worms ma fed,
Or salt the earth wi bitter tears
II Christianity is true the dead patri-
arch is the happy patriarch, and is now
in attendance at an eternal and universal
worlds fair compared 10 which the Chi
cago exposition was as feeble, meagre,
vapid and trashy copy as the tin crown
of the king OF one-night stand show in
a cove oyster town is compared with the
coronet of the Dutchwoman who rules
Great Britain.
OF others in this church one may say:
They are fast achieving the silver liv-
cry OF age, and though not clean past
gOuu.f, YET nave sumo SAleANA u oSS II
them
When one realizes that the babes chris
tened in this church have grown 10 man
and womanhood even since DR.. Hewitt 5
time we realize that the whirligig of time
is still a-spinnin-' One young married
woman had only one regret on her we'd
ding day, viz: that she could not be mar
ried by the Presbyterian pastor. DR.. Hew-
lit, who had baptized her when she was
three months old.
This Iife-growth affection by children
for a pastor is the outgrowth of the sys-
TEN of the selection of pastors. To our
mind the circuit rider system is not
conducive to the building up OF bonds
'twixt pastor and church.
with tendrils strong as flesh and blood
Round which our past-tsne and happiness
grow"
I nave read in history Of family doctors
and family lawyers who, from sire to son,
three generations or more have been in
one place. The pastor in a church should
be as fixed as the pulpit, metaphorically
speaking.
The corner stone of the-present church
was laid on July 4, 1876. My recollection
is that this day was the hot. hotter, hot
test, dusty, dustier, busiest, torrid tor
rider, torriderest day in Kansas. In fact
il was a catoose, serifacious, sevaguous
day. These last three words express tfle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11


TIE city police changed ehe.r hstFes
from shields 90 stars
4 ". Armour. oos = the tig cheap
packers. zas IN ths city ScoEinr lu.o a
IocaGoa- SIS decision vas against ~
7own.
Mrs. Frtz schni'z'.r - --s6'.
diamond ar rig
A. Dlliozs BRICK yETd r. the northeast
era pax q re city. = dynamite sonas va
fosaA A. BroEaSe4 took - - Sc
is.and znc expsosse g.
4 c. Hasey. taEosgh ar a6rnl1l strz,sr.
s3ggat re csx1r seaacas q =. 4 Case
maa. Sece2sed
TIE Colezs Isn ard p. cis5 orzsn-
ized AKA D. ~ PniIlgs prssiser4z. Afl=s
Fiore1es Allen Esrrs ~ AID Ge1 &g-.z4a
treasures.
TIE oosacH ;=ss % take -. si,nksrs
away from Ces.exs HlB. sst 20 Etlysrs
hgE.e3 - 1tat &c coszel baked eesr.
NJ s. " Hooas ard KS Noe Per
ki-s. 18th vel kzssa r. 10 CITY. were
zlar..c8
= vs. Dzv7s Ar n 2. gizrtzsz Esrs
fro 80 v7rsl'z Craek~r eozsaasJ ~
Gazz-x an4 Ar. ;. . Dzs..1-oa rs-z.a-
1-z tae- iltsrss-s-
a. So GeTuas Par a ga zzf-s -as
auz-Eel Kiss Fru-ces Harsrs IS go rnass
p5psla- Fssax iaaT 81 T.lHz. Master
jean Kelly zas vested tse aaesz z-sszi1f
bog 81 73eal1z 49, gsez s1l- -
cl1t5eA
Tee Eazs- - ea.s Ike so. .-Tas b-u-
sa.s - 30 Ezlae1 - Wrasa frar ffs
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Peck. VIM. Finn. W. H. GIL. VIM. Smith.
r NJ. Bowes. 3. 5. Dunbar. Lucy Green
way (wife OF d. r. 3. " L Y. GreenleS0.
Ella Boggs. Margaret. Mary and Anna
Peck and Mrs. Amy Sayiss twife Of NJ. a.
Sayles and daughter OF n }. Cook-) VIM.
Finn now lives az Sedgwiek City.
In $50 this church held services in a
livery stable and the flies. TIRE big blue
bottle flies; the pestiverOus gad-fies. the
rampant '.hoss-hles.'' the bIue-tan flies.
hlue-green flies. flesh. black. cheese forest.
bee. spider. wine. bat hessian. onion and
stable flies. and AL and singular the
multiform. the gregsrious and annoying
insects of every name and nature and
kind Whatsoever that bother man. wo-
man OF beast. that infest the fauna and
fora OF stables. that live. move and have
their being. that are born. baptized. edu-
Gated. married and rear progeny. In. under.
around. about stable and die and go to
the fields elysian OF "Flydom." al made
il their particular business on Sunday to
get Up early ard wash and dress their
kids" so as 70 be sure of a parquei or
dress-circle seat on large. CLASSY bald
head. at eleven a. m. and then hold the
common singing. on through 'preachin' -
on and on 70 the collection. aye. verify even
unto the doxology
And when the services wers DER.
And the flies. the said flies. galore.
Emerged in a body from the door.
And IN the air did soar.
The weary pssser-by was won't 20 exclaiul
That a hive OF bees had swarmed.
Editors Note:-This livery stable Incl
dent IS not based on any well authenti-
Gated historical sketch. preserved In the
archives OF the church. or in any nusty
tome. envelOped in Kansas 'Ioam." but Is
reasoned out from cause 70 effect. just a.
the scientist. from a bone. corstructeih
an animal: and gives &, characteristics
and habits.
Later on. afterwsrd. subsequently,. ac-
ccrding TO the chronology OF the church
he church caused to be huilded a tabar-
| nacle on the corner Of Wichita and Sec,
] ond streets. at the place where the Mis-
, souri, Pacific Railway company now stops
its passenger trains. The said tabernacle
was a well built building and In keepinc
with the size wealth and social position
| Of the congregation. This church was no,
small insignificant. "dnky' affair. as
many suppose. Il is not the building now
used by the Missouri Pacific railway rs
place 10 sell tickets and store baggage
at Wichita and Second streets as people
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
Story of the Great
Fortunes in Cattle.

Wichita has been greatly interested in
tho collapse Of the spectacular plunger.
Grant Gnlett Wichita has, in It's time,
seen much Of the cattle trade.
The residence here of Joe Mccoy, the
head of the great industry at one time,
the course OF the Chisolm trail and our
little creek which takes it name from the
great pioneer, the residence here of many
Of the cattle kings OF former days, and
the residence here OF many OF the prin-
cipal figures in the new era of cattle deal
ing wherein ranches have become fenced
and the dealers hotly refute the title of
king" all these make a cattle story Of
interest to Wichita
In the new era of cattle trading WSchi-
Ia today takes a 5 prominent a part as she
old in the days of the early seventies,
only in a different way. The men Of the
big ranches today live here in fine homes.
The old days were those where the town
saw the seamy side Of the business. The
cowboy whose iangling spurs made music
the hve-Iong night in the dance hall, and
NE random and abandoned shot, the
hunted and the hunting city marshal-an
these are gone, together with the long
horned Texas steer.
Still, back Of it all. is the interesting
story of the price of cattle, as it has
auctuated year after year, bringing COR
geous wealth now, turning its devotees
10 poverty again, and once more assum-
.ng the NIidas-touch OF fortune. with the
Increasing market.
In the early eighties cattle went TO their
highest pitch. Then came the years OF adj
versity. Cattle are again coming up The
failure Of Gillett was not indicative Of a
general condition, for there are fortunes
In the cattle business today. Giletts
collapse was an individual instance OF
rascality come to a fitting and inevitable
end.
The range cattle industry isn't at an
end. but it is carried on differently. 1t
requires larger capital and the ownership
Of greater tracts Of land and OF water
rights to represent even partially the old
Icale. The bsrbaric splendor Of cattle
barons. who got rich without effort. is a
memory. The barons themselves are gone
Ginett was only a reminder OF dozens
who rose in the eighties, and vanished