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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-28
BARNES FIGHT OVER
Judge Strang Back From
Washington, D. c.
TALKSOK OKLAHOMA MAT TIERS
SAYS Free Homes Bill Is Prog
crossing Slowly.

Judge J. c. Strang Of Guthrie, who has
been in Washington for several weeks,
stopped at the Manhattan hotel here yes
terday on his way home. He came in on
the Frisco and found. that he could not
60 home by a direct route on account Of
the quarantine declared against kansas
counties by the Oklahoma territorial
board Of health. He went TO FL Reno
from here. and from FL Reno he will so
across to Oklahoma City to day and up
home to Guthrie tonight.
Judge Strang was asked what the real
situation in the Barnes matter is.
ITS all over" he said. They didn't
prove anything on the governor, and be
sides the administration is tired Of the
fight. The sentiment in Washington
among those interested is that If there
were any serious charges to be made
against Barnes the men who are making
the fight failed to present thez1. And
that sentiment obtains in Oklahoma to
some extent Now the only thing that
ever enabled the anti-Barnes men 10
make any progress against him at all was
matters Of appointments in territorial Of
fees. These appointments, while they
might have been distastefuI 10 some Of
Barnes friends or the national admins
t alton, or may even have been improper,
was nothing more than loyalty to a
friend. And loyalty to friend, while it
Is unusual in politics. has never been &C
c1unted a crime in this country Barnes
%ent to the national committee meeting,
and at the request Of the administration
managers took off his coat arU went to
work He helped to locate the convention
a. Philadelphia, and he helped to de-
feat the Payne resolution 10 change the
ratio Of representation in the national
convention to basistor Republican votes
cast instead of population, as at present.
The national administration wanted this
resolution beaten. and Barnes helped to
do it. After that the hearing Of charges
c gainst Mr.. Barnes came on. Do you
suppose that the administration would
use him and then in the next breath re-
move him?"
mo sir. This fight is all over. Barnes
will serve his term OUT
."What about the free homes?"
Mr.. Flynn is making some progress,
b9t hes got a big Job. The free homes
bill has been made a general bill and 70
give al the territories free homes just
now means a direct loss of SCI 100000 to
the national treasury, and congress will
be slow to take the step. Lacey of Iowa,
who was a staunch friend of Mr.. Flynn's
Oh the measure when 1t applied 10 Okla |
homa, has deserted him in the fight for |
: general bill. and this is a serious loss. /
Mr.. Flynn is working hard, though and /
has some good help. almost believe the !
house viii pass the measure for its men, /
0ers are closer to the people. They /
would regard popular measure like this /
ravorabIy, while the senate, which is l
away of from the popular pulse, would .
think more about the effects on the ma /
-ionsl treasury
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-28
CITY IN BRIEF.

Pleasant Council Modern Tonties meets
Tuesday.
Mrs. S Harper Of Indianola, is the
guest of Mrs. E. Root.
Mr. and Mrs De Haven returned yes
terday from Shreveport, La.
Miss Elvie Walker Of Kansas City, vii
be the guest of Mrs. Adam Imboder
while here this week.
A cold wave with several days Of zero
weather is billed by the weather depart
ment to reach Wichita today
The funeral services of Mary WillmaS
Turner will be held at the First Presby-
terrain church at 2:30 o'clock today.
The L. of G. A. r. sewing circle will
meet with Mrs. NJ E. Snyder, 80 S. Main
St, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Miss EIvie Walker will be in Wichita
this week to sing in the PERSIAN Gar
den" for the Wichita Musical club.
Mr.. ]. C. Rose, agent for Wells Fargo
Exphess company at Salina, Kansas, IS
visiting in the city for few days.
HI Dean of Jefferson, o. T. who has
been visiting the family OF T. NJ. Bent
ley for a few days, returned to his home
yesterday.
Members Of Wichita lodge No. 20. n. r.
A. will call and pay assessments and re-
ceive for same at Bro. Edwards, jeweler,
on North Main st.
Mr.. C. c. Pierpont, who has been con-
fined to his room with a fever for sew
eraI days. is now out on the streets again
among his friends.
The Ministerial Association will meet in
regular session Monday 2:30 p. m, in the
Y. NJ. c. A parlor. Regular semi-annual
election Of officers.
Miss Mae Bolsby returned to her home
in Blackwell, o. T., yesterday She has
been visiting the last three weeks with
Miss Marie Casad.
c. H. Wareham Of the First Baptist
church this city and c. H. Stull Of the
-st Baptist church, Ell Dorado, ex-
change puipits today.
DeIbert Forward was yesterday grant
ed a divorce from his wife, who he &C
cused Of abandoning him. They were
married last August
Miss JekyII has taken up her residence
IN her home in Clearwater, Kan. and will
be in the studio Uewis Academy on
Thursdays and Fridays.
Dr. Johnson has recovered his six lost
Jerseys all safe and sound and desires 10
have the Eagle thank his many friends
who contributed to that result.
DR.. Mansfield, who has had his office
in the Zimmerly building, will open up
new Offices in the Scheetz building rooms
numbers . and ., on Tuesday next.
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is A GREAT GRAF
Women Can Travel Without
a Cent of Money.
HOLD UP CITY AUTHORITIES
Family Work Dodge in This
City Yesterday.
HOLDUP CITY AUTHORITIES

woman, giving her name as Mrs
Eldoes, accompanied by two young girls,
presented herself at the police station
yesterday and represented to Major Burr,
of the headquarters force, that she was
penniless and without means, and that
she wished to obtain assistance to enable
her to return to her home in Memphis
Tenn. She asserted that she had been
enticed to Winfield by person claiming
to be relative, who wrote her that ne
had in his possession $50 in money which
had been left her by some one, just who
she did not say. She said it took all her
means to get there, and she had been
unable to locate the party. The authord-
ties in Winfield, she stated, had given
her transportation here and she desired
further assistance
Her case was referred to the county
commissioners, who provided the woman
and her two children with transportation
TO Fredonia- They were fairly well
dressed and seemed to be intelligent.
Her story was quite plausible, and as the
authorities did not desire to have the
family in the city on their hands, they
decided the best thing to do was TO give
them tickets and send them to the next
point.
Major Burr says that while he has no
reason to doubt the woman's story. yet
he has so many similar applications made
to him that ne has become skeptical. He
says that it is a fact that families will
travel all over the country without
cent OF money. They will call on the
authorities as soon as they arrive in
town and force them to give them trans
portation TO the next point. In this way
they viii make long Journeys without the
expenditure of a cent. The towns can
not afford to refuse the requests, as the
people generally do not have a cent OF
money, and if they are not shipped out
of town at once the authorities are COM
PEELED to support them. It's a great
graft for women" said Major Burr.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-28
COMING LOCAL EVENTS.

Miss Fannie Parker returned yesterday
from a visit to Enid.
The Cooking club will meet Thursday
with Mrs. Potts, 1921 North Lawrence.
The officers OF Ivy Leaf Chapter No
| 70. o. z. s. will meet for practice at 20.
p. m. on Tuesday. January %.
There will be called meeting OF the
WeIles Circle OF Kings Daughters Mon
day at 40 .. N. Important business.
There Will be a melting Of the Htera-
ture department CT Hypaua Monday
afternoon at 3 O'Clock. at their rooms IN
the city building.
The Harmonial Society OF spiritualists
viii hold meeting in Hermann hall over
Mr. Tapp's grocery store Sunday even
ing at go p. m Free.
The Central Labor union will meet to-
day at 2:90 p m Important business. All
delegates requested % be present. j. W.
Brown. president; Z. V. Welchf secretary
The chorus OF the Wichita Musical club
viii meet az the First Presbyterian
church Wednesday. January q. 70 re-
hearse for the Persian Garden" con-
cert.
The Eon0ariel Embroidery club viii
meet with Mrs. Ed Seiover Friday, Feb
ruary A fun attendance IS requested.
as business OF Importance IS 10 be con-
sidereE
Special communication % Wichita
Lodge No. %. A. F. and A F. Monday
evening. January p. at 10 O'Clock Work
IN the first degrees. Visitors welcome -.
J. Parrett ". NJ
Albert Pike Lodge No SRA. ?, and A.
NJ. will meet IN special communication
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n 10 O'Clock Monday evening a. Scot
fish Rite cathedral for work IN the En-
tered Apprentice degree. Visitors vel
come.
/, Circle No. p ". A. Will meet Thurs
day afternoon with MISS Cox. In Laura
avenue The to-sic for thu day IT,
"Humor. Science or Philosophy" whicA
contributes most to the happiness of bu-
manity?
The Highland Cemetery Improvement
association viii meet IN the city building
next Thursday az ESQ p. m. February
An interested in the improvement of
Highland cemetery are earnestly request
e1 TO be present
There viii be- special music A. O. r.
No. Sunday evening Miss Msbel La-l-
mer win sing Tiny VIII BE Done nad
Afrs Ralph Robertson vtI also have ~
solo. West parlors ~ tie First Presby-
terrain church At s.i5 . m Everyhs ly
welcome.
Daily Eagle. BY carrier 10 cepts a week
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-28
IN THE SMOKE HOUSE
interesting Operat on m Pork Pack
ing at DOId Plant

ing at DOId Plant
Inc smokehouses at the Dold packing
plant are seven in number. They are
14x16 feet in size and four stories in
height. The bottom the smokehouse is
| known as the pit and it is there it is
| nred with hickory wood. The first floor
has large and heavy iron grating which
| Is placed there to prevent the meat fall
/ ing into the fire in case of accident. The
| other three floors, which extend to the
roof, are full of lodges, upon which are
/ placed four-by-fours, on which the meat
| is hung on smaller sticks.
! Each house has capacity of 90, 900
| pounds Of meat. Al meats are smoked
from sixty to seventy-two hours with
| hickory wood, thereby giving it that dis
tinct flavor which no other material will
The hickory wood is quite an item in the
I expense account of the Dold plant, as 800
cords were used last year
The side meats are first washed through
several hot waters and are then strung
on strings and hung in the smokehouse
and smoked for sixty hours. Hams and
breakfast bacon are put into watts in
which there is running water and thor
oughly soaked. They are then washed
and rinsed through three clean waters
and afterwards hung in the smokehouse
and allowed to remain there forty-eight
hours before smoking, so as TO thorough
" dry
The skins Of the Perfection hams and
bacon are scraped and thoroughly trim
med and squared up before being hung
in the smokshouse. They hang from two
to three days before being soaked and
are then thoroughly smoked with
cold smoke" which gives them a deli
cate straw color and al the same time
thoroughly cures them. The Perfection
bacon is not strung on strings as other
bacon. but IS put on nickle-plated steel
pins. All meats after being smoked are
allowed to hang from twenty-four to
forty eight hours in the smokehouse be-
fore being removed. so as TO thoroughly
cool and set before shipping. After be-
ing taken out all meats are run over
Chatuuon scale and each piece assorted
for weight, thickness and smoothness Of
skin into its proper grade.
This is one of the most particular
points in the work in packing house.
The greatest care is exercised that each
and every piece Of any particular brand
is always the same so that purchasers
when buying a given quantity OF any
brand. viii positively know what he Is
receiving. AL Perfection hams and
bacon are thoroughly inspected and any
pieces that are = little too fat. thick
skinned or blemIshed are thrown out
into a cheaper grade. The meats after
these operations are then ready for the
y1-r9 ming room
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-28

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having initiated 120 beneficiary member,
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those seeking protection, and II justly
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-28
STRIP OPENING STORY
Us Written in Form Of Drama by
Miss Harsiu

Miss Mary Harsin, formerly Of Winfield
bu- at present living in Wichita, on
East First street, has written play
which has for its subject an incident Of
the opening of the Cherokee Strip. This
is a novel theme, and no one has ever
attempted IT before. It deals with the
fortunes Of the Randle family. who 90
out from Caldwell. Kan, to get claim.
Everything is ready a the opening and
the start is described in this song which
Is given early in the play:
a Race for a Homestead In the Opening
of the Cherokee Strip.
The horseman is mounted, he stands IN
his place,
All ready to start to make the great
race
With his spade tied fast on and his fag-
staff i'm hand,
He is anxious to start for the long
promised land.
Opened at last by the boom Of a gun.
The signal is sounded, and begins the
wild pun.
With clatter OF wheels all hurry so
fast;
Buzz buzz flies the .spindIes; some scat
ter and smash.
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Edna LILLIAN Pechin

Edna Lillian Peaeheu. born July 8. lss9
died Wednesday. January - 800 agen e
months and q days. OF pneumonia The
funeral services viii be held al the hons
Of Mr. John \. Pastors. lsI7 North
Wabash avenue.
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The horseman dashed forward, the wag-
ons he passed.
Leaped the horse and the rider through
the tall burning grass.
The old trail he strikes. to his horse he
will trust;
He hardy can see through the great
clouds Of dust.
Over hill. over prairie, through valley
and glade,
Across the wide river the race it is made.
He hats. then dismounts, to his flagstaff
holds fast:
homestead he'll stake, for he's found
one at last.
The dry dusty sod he turns with his
spade,
For this is the way his improvements
are made.
His lunch he will eat and his horse he
viii feed.
It's twenty past one, and he has made
fastest speed.
Now, I'll settle me down; I will never
more roam;
win build me a house, and I'll make
this my home.
What have to thank for this dearly got
home?
The noble proud steed that's all covered
with foam"
Then into his saddle he leaps once again.
To the land office goes to file on his
claim.
Onward he rides, mile after mile.
He reaches at last where's he going to
file
After Ruth RandIe, the heroine, and
Jack Randle have staked claims. they
nave all kinds of trouble with soouers.
They have contest which is settled
against the sooners- Then one day
prairie fire breaks out and the scene is
given in a second song. which occurs in
act seven.
The Destruction Of The Prairie Fire in the
Cherokee Strip, the Day Of the Open
ing. September IS, 1893.
Out on a wide-stretched prairie
a woman went alone,
And staked a quarter section
To try to make a home.
Her friends, they were not with her,
No settlers were near. by.
Across the brown, dry prairie
Swept a raging prairie fire
The prairie fire came raging,
She bitterly did cry.
The angry flames enveIoped her.
And alone there she did die.
Who she was cannot tell you,
do not know her name.
She has a home in Heaven now;
Some one else has got her claim.
And in prairie schooner
A man he made the run,
And got as good a homestead
As in the Strip could be found.
He left his wife and children
\ holding down the claim, !
While he went to the land office
To file upon the same.
And when he got to Enid
He had to take his turn;
But soon there came a runner.
To tell him all was burned.
Oh. then in dark despair was he,
For all he had was gone,
Saying nothing Of his property
Or of his claim at ali.
For those he dearly loved so we'll
He strived 10 get a home.
Now they were taken by the fire,
And he is left alone,
Out on the lonely prairie
Four bodies there they lie,
A mother and her children,
Who persisted in the fire.
Then there Is more trouble, a trial. sen
-eace Of "a plotting claim jumper and
yuchiug. And the play winds up with
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Then there Is more trouble, a trial, SEN
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lyuchiug. And the play winds up with a
tableau.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-06-08
Useful Age Of Cow.

Many dairymen And others who milk
COWS for profit believe that when COW
reaches the age Of seven or eight her
useful years are over, and that she should
be replaced BY one younger. But, other
things being equal, this Is mistake. A
COW that has been we'll cared for, with
generous rations and proper attention
given to her comfort. through all seasons
Of the year, is better and will make a
more profitable return at eight years old
than at an earlier eye; in other words,
she is in her prime, and she will continue
in this condition several years. and will
not be considered an old COW until four
teen or fifteen years have passed Cows
with first calves-at two or three years
are generally Improbable in their milk
yield, and only really good COW be-
tween seven or eight years old will pay
q better revenue than two that are per-
forming their first years duties in the
dairy herd, and she will probably con
sumo but little more food than one o.
the younger ones. The fact is worthy o
the consideration Of those who are dairy
ing for profit. News.