The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-15

1880, the word was passed around, and the
next day enough Republicans scratched
cut the Republican" nominees name and
substituted that Of Beber TO elect the
latter. So he again went to the legisIa-
] ture.
| Heber was one of the leaders of the 1891
house, on the Republican side. P. P.
! Elder Of Ottawa was speaker, Brown OF
Pratt was in that legislature. Old Bill
Campbell of Stafford was one of the new
partys leaders. There were some Demo-
! Gratis. Many political battles were fought
. out on the floor of the house that session.
/ In nearly all Of them, Heber PLAYED a
prominent part. He made, a famous
speech, and it angered the Populists.
! They were going to mob him, they said:
TO keep him from speaking-but he made
his speech. In 1893, as an assistant ser
geant-at-arms. Heber had the same same
thrilling experiences that the other cam
patriots OF Douglass had, and he still tells
stories of the war as everyone does who
participated in il.
A natural promoter, Heber did not stay
broke" long. In Chicago he hitched up
to something or other. and soon had
money again. Since then he has been in
innumerable enterprises 1 is now pros
porous again. He is manager of a COM
pany that furnishes water for irrigation
purposes to half million acres of Cali
fornia and Arizona land. He is doing
well, and is here on departmental bust
ness. He is the same Heber who played
his part in Kansas history in the early
and bloodthirsty days of Populism.
When Andy Richards Of Wellington was
coming back to Washington from the re-
cent Wichita convention, he overheard a
man sitting back of him telling of the ex-
perience Of a former friend Of Cincinnati,
in Wichita in the early days of the boom.
and the dire results il brought him.
why" said the Ohio man. do you
know thar after my friend-his name was
Stewart-had accumulated a fortune in
the iron and foundry business in Wichita,
he built many business and residence
houses, some worth $4,000, and today he
can't rent them! You never hear Of
Wichita any more, and it isn't strange,
with such a condition as that"
My friend spoke up Andy Richards,
who lives too near to Wichita to stand
any such thing as that. will you not give
me the name of your friends who owns
so many fine buildings in Wichita and
cannot get any renters for them?'
The man inouiring whether he knew
anything of Wichita, Richards replied
that he did.
We'll" said the Cincinnati man, "I'n |
admit it was some years ago my friend
told me this, but of course 1 thought |
conditions were the same in Wichita to-
day"
Richards then got in his work for Wich- |
tia by saying: Il know enough about |
Wichita to know that you can't build !
houses fast enough for the people to uti- |
lie. 1 have just come from there, after |
having been away for six months, and |
scores of buildings and residences are |
going UP and have been all spring. Prices |
are up. too, and I think if you friend |
would do q little judicious work he could
find little trouble in renting his buildings
If he still has them"
All of which shows how hard a little
adverse reputation is to live down-but
Wichita generally has defenders every
where her name IS taken in vain.
Pensions have been allowed in the Sew
snth district and Mr.. Long notified there
Of. as follows: Catharine Gaskill, Wich-
ia; Charles Frazier, Hutchinson; Mary
Campbell. Sedgwick; Oscar p Rever, Mi
an, Sumner countp; Rebecca Potter,
Dodge City; also, widow Of Charles Ma
jors. Mound Valley Labette county; ia
cob c. Hartshorn, Medford, Oklahoma.
A Washington paper prints this piece
about the representative from the Fifth
Kansas district: For twenty-one years
Representative Calderhead
IF Kansas. has been unanimously invited
7y the G. A. r. post of his home town
II Marysville to deliver the memorial adj
iress. In all that SINE says represent
ative Scott. his colleague, the Msrys-
lille post has never passed Mr.. Calder
lead by. OF course, it has been impossi-
DE for him to accept the invitation year
Ifter year. but I should say, on the whole
lie has delivered the address about doz- I
n times-not always the same address.
mind you. On the contrary. it is counted '
o his greatest credit among his old COM '
AIDES that his versatility is SO wide that
Re never had to repeat himself Taken
n all, this is something of record to be
roud Of"
S. S. Redding Of Little Rock. Arkansas, '
pent several days here recently. Mr..
BEDDING is clerk OF the United States dis
riot court at Little Rock. He is also
resident Of the Republican state league :
Z Arkansas. and OF the state central 5
He is one Of General Powell I
'layton's proteges. and belongs to the b
-rkansss organization. or machine" if b
ou please. Mr. Redding was here on
apartment business and consulted with
be president several times. He is a b
ephew OF John Watts Of Newton. t
Sheriff kin OF Atchison was IN town g a
ay this week. f
S. P. Stubs. who at one time was a =
citizen OF Gray county. kan 2
as. was in Washington this week. ?
DR.. ". NJ. Martin and Mrs Martin Of b
wellington were here about a week. re-
lrning 70 Kansas this week. DR.. Mar
n attended the meeting OF the National G