Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-01-19
SENATOR CURTIS.

Senator, now serving as Congressman
from the First District, stands unique
among all the members that Kansas
has ever had in Congress. in that he
is native of the State, having been
born in North Topeka, January 25,
1860. He is of French and Indian
blood from his mothers side OF the
family. His father. Captain O. A,
Curtis, was born in Indiana, is vet
eran of the Civil war, and saw wide
service. His mother was formerly
Miss Helen Pappan, and her father,
Louis Pappan, was native Canadian
Frenchman. and one of the great
Hudson Bay Fur Company. His wife,
Julia Gonville, was daughter of
Louis Gonville, who was named in
the treaty between the United States
and the Kansas tribe of Indians, in
1925, he being one of the heads of the
tribe.
Mr.. Curtis received good education
in the public schools of Topeka. He
is pre-eminently self-made man,
and has good reason to congratulate
himself on the result. While work
admitted to the bar in 1881, passing
a rigid examination.
Almost Immediately he entered poll
tics, for which he has nataral apti-
tude, and was elected County Attor-
ney of Shawnee county in 1884, and
reelected in 1886. He made criminal
law speciality while in. the practice,
being engaged as counsel in the cele-
brated Spendlove and some twenty
five other murder cases. In 1892 he
ran for Congress on the Republican
ticket and was elected by $500 over
the fusion candidate in u district that
had given the fusion candidate of the
campaign before a majority of 5000.
He was reelected in 1894, 1896, 1898.
and agIn in 1900, 1904. 1906.
In 1897 the Populist Legislature re-
districted the State, so as to throw
him into the First District with
Judge Broderick, SO as to be sure OF
defeating one orthe other for re-
nomination.
Mr.. Curtis is the second member OF
the committee on Indian affairs in
the House, and is It's acknowledged
leader in all matters requiring tech
nical knowledge of the subject it has
in charge, to which he has given his
earnest attention He is an ardent
friend of the old soldier, and proud to
which organization he is a valued
member. He is easy to approach,
dignitied in manner, with much of
the reserve of his Indian parentage,
but always frank and obliging He
speaks easily and well, and commands
attention where the majority s'talk
to the record
As campaign speaker, he is prim-
ed with good stories, which he can
tell with much of the homely pathos
which made Lincoln famous. Among
his colleagues he is often referred to
as ''John A. Logan H." his resem-
blance to the .'Black Eagle" of Illi-
nois being most striking, although he
is slighter figure. He is welcome
visitor at the executive mansion.
Mr.. Curtis was married November 27,
1884, to Miss Anna E. Baird.-Capl-
tai.
J. NJ. Rinker, of wa-Keeney, Kans.,
an early day settler in Trego county,
came in this morning with a carload
each of cattle and hogs. When Mr..
Rinker located out in the short grass
country, cattle raising was the only
occupation the few people there were
engaged in, and the country was one
large open range. The only corn seen
ia the country for many years after
he landed there, was shipped in.
"But bumper corn crops, and millions
OF bushels of wheat are raised there
now. said Mr.. Rinker. "And the
wheat crop never looked better at
this time of the year than it does
now, large acreage is in, and the
ground is full of moisture. Cattle
feeding is also being carried on there
more extensively this winter, and we
are well supplied with hogs, which Is
going to make the farmers big
money. We have plenty of corn and
all kinds of rough feed. and things
look very promising all around i
never saw that country SO prosperous
in ALI the years that / have lived
there.-K. c. Drovsrs Telegram.
Food Don't digest? Because the
stomach lacks some one of the essen
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