The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-03

to the support of the public schools, a uni
versity and several normal schools, and
the public lands which were reserved for
school purposes are going to be the source
Of rich permanent endowment. We have
$40, SIC in taxable property; we have
public debt of 49, 900, which represents a
schoolhouse; we have $454,574 invested in
that sort Of real estate; We have 1873
schools; we have O,5S5 boys and girls at
tending them; we spent last year $4,000
for teachers salaries, $4,000 for new build
ings and furniture, $32, 900 for rents, repairs
and other incidental expenses; $1,000 for
books and apparatus for our school libra
ries, and total of $3.50, 900 in round num-
bers for educational purposes. I do not
know Of an eastern state that did as much
in proportion to its population.
I'VE have daily newspaper for every
%, 90 people, a weekly for every 5000 and
regular publication for every 1900, while
Colorado shows one for every $500, New
York one for every 200, Ohio one for
every 1920, Massachusetts one for every
$500 and Mississippi one for every 500"
The names of some of the Oklahoma
newspapers show a high range of original
nee Daily Dinner Bell. The Rustler is a
favorite name and there are several papers
so called in different parts of the territory,
although in the cattle trade it has a
dreadful significance. The Sunbeam is also
popular as a name for newspapers. and
there are several down here. The King
fisher Kicker is an influential Populst
organ, and its rival is the Pottawatomie
County Plain People.
Another unique feature of Oklahoma is a
town of considerable size in Logan county
settled exclusively by colored people. It is
called Langston, IN honor of the late John
NJ. Langston of Washington, who was an
orator and scholar, for two terms a mem
Der of congress from Virginia and for sew
eraI years dean of the law department of
Howard university. Although Mr.. Lang
ston passed for a colored man, and his
life was spent IN promoting the welfare
of that race, it is nevertheless true that
he had very little negro blood in his veins
and was descended from the Indians Of
Powhattan's tribe, who met the first Eng
lish colonists that landed in America His
hair was straight, his features were more
like the Indian that the African type,
and he took great pains to trace his line
age back to the aborigines, the first fam
lies Of Virginia as he used to call them.
The town of Langston is prosperous.
well behaved, and has a new schoolhouse,
of which it is especially proud. Governor
Barnes says it is one Of the model COM
munities of the territory.
have been much interested in reading
in one Of the local papers an account of a
regular meeting of one of the woman's
clubs Of Oklahoma, at which the members
were asked to express their opinions as to
which were the ten greatest short poems
in the English language and the twelve
greatest paintings in the world. The result
Of the ballot that followed is a good index
of the literary taste of the people of Ok
lahoma. The ten greatest poems, as thus
determined are:
William Cullen Bryant's Lines to a
Waterfowl and Green River" Longfel-
lows Excelsior" and THE Chambered
Nautilus" Burns ITO Daisy and '@The
Cotter's aSturday Night" Tom Moores
ooh, the Days That Are Gone" Mrs.
Browning's Elizabeth" Tennyson S
"Locksley Hall" and Kipling's Recess
sional."
The vote as 10 the twelve greatest paint
ings IN the world resulted as follows:
The Sistine Madonna of Raphael, Correg-
gio's Holy Night" Rubens' Descent
from the Cross" Guido Renfs Aurora
and Beatrice Cenci.' Volterra's Descent
from the Cross" Michael Angeles Last
Judgment and TRANSPORTATION" De
ssv,
munion Of st. Jerome" by Domenichino,
Titian's Assumption" and Murillo's In
macUIate Conception"
The program Of the next meeting Of this
frontier society was announced as follows:
A paper on The Life and Work of Count
Rumford," by Mrs. Harrell, a paper On
Housekeeping in the Twentieth Century"
by Mrs. Rock, and a discussion upon the
advantages OF the study Of domestic sci
ence.
This shows what the women OF Okla
homa are thinking and talking about.
Clyde Mattox IS in trouble again. He
was pardoned by President Mckinley a
year or so ago against the protests OF his
best friends in the territory. and the prom
ised reform has turned out exactly as they
said It would. Afattox Belongs TO Texas
family at Oklahoma City-respectable.
weI-to-5o people-but the devil got hold
Of him early and has worked him overtime
Although under % Nattox has already
killed five men. and there x no telling
what viii happen wherever he may be
Three years ago he was convicted Of muir
der and sentenced II he hanged, but rs
mothers prayers and tears touched the
usually tough heart Of President Cleve-
land who committed the sentence % i'm
pr-Sonment for life. Then she sought
fun pardon from President Mckinley.
which was formally refused upon the rec
ommendaton q the judge. the district
attorney. the attorney general. the gov
ernor and everybody else who knew about
the character % the man and his record.
Then Mns. Nattox came 10 WASHINGTON
again and hung around the Waite House
day after day. trying 10 obtain an inter-
view with the president and begging every
one she met 70 help her ger 4 pardon for
her boy. her only son. the idol Of her heart
who had been unfustIv sent to prison. she
became Wei known A. the capital -
anxious face and gentle manners made
great impression and awakened general
sympathy. Finally. The day after he re-
turned from the funeral Of Ms mother a.
canton. when Ms heart was soft. Ms.
Nat5oN obtained al opportunity "a tel
Her story 10 rhe president. and she PROM
SEQ La her soc Mould reform ard De