The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • Page 19

ijptts WLitkitn gagtje: JmntTaij doming, pcrocmlwt 24, 1907 19 GliiLQ he had met Mr. Cog-dell probably orce in the past twenty yeara outside of Wichita. This Incident Is" fcut GASH HENDERSON WICHITA, A CITY OF ADDITIONS' their destination he was in such a condition that Mr. Hosford anticipated a repetition of his Medicine Lodge experience-expected him to run, away again that night. But the woman of the house, whose motherly heart was longing for a boy to love, gathered him in( and before bedtime the boy had capitulated- Twweeks later Mr.

Hosford visited the home again shown that he la enthusiastic in observ-i ins th law if he cannot bring in as many ducks as some of the other hunters, although this a mooted question. During the time that the law has been in effect in the state it i3 a noticeable fact that the real hunters, not pot hunters, or market hunters, are the'first to secure their licenses to hunt. The market hunter, or the man who hunts not for pleasure but for the profit of hunting, is not always on the list in the office cf the county clerk. The man who hunts for the money there is in it, does not get a license until he believes that the game warden is -watching "him. ITA HAN IAS IRON CROSS Also Has Commission From German Emperor.

INTERESTING RECORD 1 DrMTeuman Has Many For eign Medals. On of the few men in the United Btates only one known in this section of the country who has the Iron Cross, the decoration of the Kmjeror of Germany, lives in Wichita. lie is Dr. Paul Neuman, whose office is at 2U5 II a In street. The Iron Cross is a badge of honor which is hardly appreciated by the people of this country, but to the people "wV have lived in Europe, or to those vXj- have read history carefully, the Iron Cross carries a meaning for which there la nothing similar in America.

It means ven more than the button of the Legion of Honor or tho special medal from con-cress. There are so few of them given tht the man who has one is a man who looked upon with respect by all of the people of all tho European countries. Dr. Neuman is reticent when speaking of the fact that he wears the Iron Cross. He is proud of it, of course, but unless Borne one who is acquainted with his history should tell It, no onu would know the history of the medal or how he came ho honored by the German Emperor ymth the sanction of great German war generals.

Besides the distinction from the German ruler citne to Dr. Neuman, medals came from the King of Saxony and the Russian ruler, but these medals are not like the Iron Cross. In addition to the medals mentioned. Dr. Neuman has others.

lie got them 11 for services in the Germany army. In which he served through three wars: The war with Denmark in 1SCI, with Austria In 18. and in tho Franco-Prussian war In 1S70-1S71. It was In the Franco-Prussian war that he did the service which caused the Emperor to bestow upon him the honor fr.f the Iron Cross. -cln the war.

with Denmark rind the war with Austria, Dr. Neuman was not in the hospital corps, as It is called in the American navy In the Franco-Prussian war he occupied a position in that branch of the service and it was while serving In Alsace that he was badly wounded and displayed the bravery which brought him the Iron Cross and several other medals Ills camp of wounded was protected by but a few German soldiers. The physicians were all busy and it was late at flight. Suddenly the French country people who were uupposed to be non-com-fbatants, gathered and from under hay racks and old collars they dvtg up guns made an attack on the hospital camp, There were several hundred of the French and the Germans made a strong resisr- nr. Ku nmo 4 1 1 a c- i 1 1 v.nA VICH a reminder of the character of the men who builded in Wichita a town with foundation for a great city and who are fast passing away.

They see each other seldom and the clasp of their hand mans more to them than a score of meaning- less phrases. AFFINITY FAMINE HERE Temper cf Public Is Least Bit There is a dearth of a emit in Sedgwick county. That is the reason given by S. Bridgeman. deputy of the district court, for the increase in the number of the Nearly -a score more of these kind of cases have been filed than were last year.

Peculiar facts exist concerning the divorce cases of the present year. Many were filed soon after the parties were married. do less than three instances within thirty days following the issuance of the licenses. Why this is so is a problem for' pome one who loves to delve in such knotty questions. Some scientist may answer this by stating that the temperament of the public is unsettled.

Sedgwick county, like the rest cf Kansas, has been shaken in many ways, po- 1-tically. socially and financially. Whether this ha, it. i I tit itvi crease in the number of divorce cases is subject for the people to diagnose. One Interesting feature that might a.sslst iu deductions mad-; by, who may give this thought Is that abandonment and cruelty following quarrels are the common ground for th petitioners in seeking a decree.

But the increase of divorce cases is not all. There are more criminal cases and many more civil suits than last year. This yenr's record shows that there have been a few more cases filed slnco January 14 than there were uuric tha twelve months prior to January 14. Neatly" two mjnths remain to increase this number ar.d Ray Taylor, cleik of the di.striet court, thinks that the remainder two months will add nt leat a hundred to the number in excess of. hist year's record.

V7HO OWNS THIS LAND? Much Mooted Legal Case Is in City Council. The bringing up of the question of ownership of the three-cornered strip c-f land at the east end of the Douglas avenuo bridge across the Arkansas river, recalls to the early settlers, cf this county the fact that twenty years ago there was no land' where the old Fhsimy now stands, but the main channel of the river rusliod by there. In time the taking of the water from the river for irrigation purposes, harrowed the river channel and the land was made by filling in next to the river bank. Considerable trouble has ensued as the re-suit to this even making the land heing in court to determine the ownership lhe Property, HE DEFENDS HIS SCHOOL Says City Stole Skinner District Pupils. Exception Is taken to the report made by Superintendent Jv V.

Colviile of th public schools concerning the Fktnncr school ill the following com'muuication from Mr. W. Skinner, treasurer of th district: "The Skinner school district No, located In the outskirts of the city between Fairmount nrsd the packing houses, invites everyone to inspect Its ramhackl! old bui-dlng and cf how murh County Cohlli was laiklny hroi-gh lis hat In his report of the district last Tru there were four out the day of bin visit, and the fire wa to heat th l.unsli.ii kle old Lut It a trot owing to lack of prewure of natural gag in the stove; it was the trouble was with him. "As to the heavy on the windows, the object not to prevent th small boy depredation, but to prevent the weary Wilis from making this knowledge-box their ftoppir.j place. 'Mls I der.

th teacher, reports nlme-st per fee-1 nt tendance from the thirtn popijs In the district. Th- reason for tli pma'l enrollment Is the city in all of our territory last spring. W. SK INN Kit. "DUtri Treasurer." Over 1,200 Tracts Have Been Added to It.

SOME STREET HISTORY When You Pay Your Taxes Be Careful. The original townslte of WlcWt. has had to it no lesa than twelv hundred additions, and more ar tx-injf platted. O. W.

Jones, assistant to Ceun ty Treasurer Osi Webb, says that thrr aro vtry few cities in the Unitl Stalfc that can boast I so many wddition. This feature about the official blueprint pf tho city causes no little troubl with taxpayers and the county official. 11 u- in clerk, the county treasurer and the eouft- ty fonunisslonr. besides th troprtjr owners. For instaa.ee.

North Main street, north of Central avenue, is known by the official recorded plut of the city aa Court at reel. Not one In a tloiwn person knew this. Water strwt north of Central avenuo Isicnown as Church strw-t. anothtr fact not known outside of few. Market atret-t north of Central wnu la termed Chlshoim tret, and Lwrne avenue north of ntral Is known as Texas avenue.

Ths aro but a fc' ln-atanofs. There are niar.y more. When the city was first plattrd waa done by section. Central avenue, which 1 a section line, divided the city from the prairi to th northward. Th mm might said of the Arkanaaa river.

On tho south the lustn condition xUt4. there being little south of IXoiglaa avenue Many persons appear at eountjr treasurer's office and the mimbr of their lot, saying that It la on Texaa sirett, fur instance. They might paying taxes of a lot on North Utv-rente avenue, or if they give the number of their lot ott North Lawrence avenue above Central avenue they might paying taxes on property narar Douglus nvertue. BELIEVES IN BEING LOYAL O. K.

Spencer Will Not Purchase Foreign Goods. O. Ki Sponcer that on thould loyal to bis home town. does not stop here, but practice what prach es. Mr.

Hpencer will not purcha goods or groceries from other than a WlchH firm, nd when he doe lmbta on gat ting gcKKla handled through local Jobbing hoi'aos. lie tells of several intancea wher cornpollod his grorymnn to taka back grocer tea handled throujh for ltd" grocery wholesale ectabllahrnonta. Ha baa done IhlH no often that th rnn he know his feeling In thl matter and never offr him anythlnr n't handl4 by loca I jobber. A SHE HAENCOURAGEMENT Mrs. Mason's Plan for Home Meet-ing Approval.

Th campaign that 8. Mason lu entered lri, ar-cure a home for working srlrla In Wichita, haa ber by the gxd people of the city very favorably and he hit rclvl end of encouragement the announc-mnt ef her plans waa tubHhd by the Fugle last Sunday. Mr. Ms Hon eaya that eh will continue the werk Indefinitely. tjevr -atopplng for what to ame might rn fjiilure.

MIKE GOT HIS DRINK Incidents of Little Known Land Openirg. "I as In the rush when the Iowa and Pottawatomie rwervaUof! in th3 wi opt-ned iwMtmnt." re masked traveling rnti at the Hamilton la at nSpht, and who formerly lived In the territory, and 1 aw a norrdwr rf etrapfe tfi HrJp. thou- who wre in It were ust m' in -Jirr'rt aM tried to a yirt of wan at fStilhrfe wj.en the trtitH I if of -wrred. a4 meae the rw from that pife. Tt'r' wr tvsr of tie nw ln U'1 hl'm bn' Jn" tb rft a woman ad ttj eivl frj in even it aftff we wef all 5tet4 in eie aort of thpS'.

of what about! d-ne with the bod? re, ffbe ha4 ttU tvie nK--rc tVt tun Hlfe are fcfwn cf hr. ro'1y a rn rfc h4 tbe at hA that WWil4 wn. pt)m9 KM, Urt7'fte twi to eeJW? et atijvfc t'A br HOOD'S SUFFERINGS Trials of Little Ones That Touch the Heart. FREEZING IN A TENT Starving Eoy and Girl Saved by Qhristian League. world never dreams of all the sufferings the little ones endure, even though all have been children in the beginnin-g.

For there are phases and conditions in life to which all are not born and only those who deal with the abandoned and the orphans get in touch with them. An incident (happened near Wichita last winter which came near resulting in a lynching. It did drive the man out of town. This fellow te-cured some kind of a claim to a piece of ground nearly a score of miles away from any town, and pitching a tent upon it, left his thirteen-year-old girl and eleven-year-old boy in it to hustle for themselves. That was in May, and the two did their best to rustle a living until last November, just about a year ago.

It will be remembered that this section of the country was visited at that time by a snow-storm and then a succession of alternate thawing and freezing the worst part of the whole winter. These two children were there all alone, as they had been for six months, the father, a good for nothing loafer, idling away his time in town. But that cold week found them absolutely destitute of food and fuel. In this extremity the boy started to walk to town sixteen miles to see if a man he knew would not give him and his sister something to eat. It was a cold, sloppy road he had to travel, and he was by no means clad 'for such a trip.

He was hungry, worse than that, half-starved, he was half-clothed, and when he reache town was about ready to collapse. His knees were showing through his ragged pants and his toes through his broken shoes into which the Ice-cold slush was penetrating. The town marshal was the first to see him and the arrest of the father was the result. This only comment was that they might stay out there in the tent until they froze to death for all he cared. Here Is where Wichita becomes interest ed In the case.

George L. Hosford, the founder of the Christian Service league, of Wichita, an institution caring for abandoned and destitute children and finding them homes, was in town at the time se cured legal rights to the children and brought them to his home in this city The boy a bright little fellow who had attended school in Xew York and other cities, was filled with the ambition to se cure an education in fact, he wanted to go to college. So Mr. Hosford hunted around until he found exactly the kind of a home that was suited to such a boy, It was in the home of a wealthy widow who has. taken the boy as her own.

Last January he entered the sixth grade of the school and Is now in the eighth. Next fall he will enter the high' school. Dur ing the summer he acts as her agent, or messenger, taking directions out to his foster mother's farm a few miles from town and he does his work well. He will go through the high school and then will be given a course in college. His sister, who also had tho advantages of good schooling before her father drifted west, is developing In many ways, has been given a home and is attending school.

This is a sample of the class of work the Christian Service league is doing. Unlike many children's societies, it does not consider its work, done when it finds a family, no matter what its qualifications for making home comfortable, that Is willing "to take a boy to raise." Mr. Hosford studies both the applicants and the children, and many a woman who applies to him for children is turned away because he deems her unfit to train children, and in other instances refuses to allow the adoption of a certain child because he knows they would not be congenial. Then, there was a little fellow near Med-ielno Lodge. He had been dropped there three or four years before and his life had been worse than any bound boy" sensational writers have ever described.

He had been bundled from one place to another, always hard worked, poorly clad and never kindly treated. At last some one in the lodge wrote to Mr. Hosford and ho went down to get the boy. He got him, and then he didn't get him. For the boy had been so inhumanely treated that could not comprehend how a person could have any but the worst of intentions concerning him.

Mr. Hosford is anything but a terrifying man in looks and actions( but the boy feared some hidden motive and more brutality, and that night he skipped He had been engaged In herding cattle and so unpleasant had been his treatment in the "houses where he lived, that It had Income a customary thing for him to sleep out on the prairie night after night. The last man who had him on the treadmill had mad? an agreement to feed, clothe ard pay the boy wages. His clothing consisted of a pair of overalls and a shirt. He was half-fed so inhumanely treated that when found he was little more than skin and bone.

It is neediest to say that he received the money. He felt that every hand was against him. and in his feeble way, his hand was against every man's. Mr. Hosford was obliged tn return home the next day but Wt word that nctv should be sent him when the hoy did Fhow up, hapr-enod in two or three days, and one of the league's agent, a lady, was sent after him.

She gained the boy's confidence Pu1cientIyMo get to Arkansas City, where a big hearted mn had agreed to keep him for three or four months, but did not wish to adopt him. Well, the way that sVtn and bone lUt'e rajamuffn blossomed out was a caution. It was his first experience in a home, and his first taste of kindness. gci man bought him a suit cf clothes the boy' f.rM experience in that line also. the a so unacquainted wiih the usual habiliments of mankind thit he didn't know how to put a collar on and didn't know wh.it cuJTs were for.

But how proud he was wher? he did get them on and went out like other boys. He was rut to miking light boxe in the man's factory ar.d that was play for the bey who had been driven to uo a man's work cn half a boy's food. At tha end of a few rror.ths.Mr. II-is-ford found what he believed th home for his protejrt, but when he cailei to take the bey away the latter woke up. It had ben rV first sample of anything bit harshness and he didn't watt to gck.

All the way he waa allent, the old fear raturrhrg to Mm, and whea they reachej I killed in the first attack. Dr. Neuman, SOESTION Tales of Loral Sr-nrtsmpn i HIS IDEA OUTLINED He Learned the Game in the Forests of MicMgan. Cash Henderson, the retired dry goods prince of former days, has started a movement having for its object the 'preservation- of the hunting stories of the pioneer sportsmen of this southwest country. Mr.

Henderson believes In giving the early south Kansas history of gun and rod to posterity. For his own boy Cash Henderson, Jr. he has provided one of the finest natural history libraries in the state, and all It lacks is the local history cf Kansas. This local history is unwritten and can only be gotten by word of mouth as history was preserved In the times of Homer and Herodatus. Mr.

Henderson says he knows of at least 200 genuine sportsmen in southwest Kansas, each of whom has a hunting story capable of delighting and informing the future generations. This is what he suggests, that each of them, tell his story to the Eagle for perpetuation in its Hies with the ultimate hope that some benefactor will finally get them into book form. He wants this done before the old-timers die or lose interest in a subject dear to their hearts for a lifetime. He says he knows men who have hunting stories that he would give five dollars for if in print stories that will become incredible legends i not guaranteed over the signature of their relators. He says that all th? stories should be true in order to give them the character of credibility so essential to permanency.

Mr. Henderson, while always a man of strenuous application to business life, and a promoter of great business projects, never neglected to go into the woods and along the streams occasionally, especially in his younger days in Michigan where he really cultivated the spirit of sportsmanship that was always dormant in his youth. When a boy he was bound out under an apprenticeship to a dry goods, firm, as was the custom oif a former generation, and until that apprenticeship was served his oppcrtur.it ies for cut-door sports were not very good. A brother to one of the early governors of Michigan lost his wife a beautiful and charming woman and the be reaved husband in his grief was" ordered for change of air to the wcods and lakes and scenery. He selected the young dry goods clerk to go with him.

They sailed out of Saginaw Bay to the ncrth. and it was on nine river that Mr. Henderson Igot his first tastes of the pleasures of hunting. Michigan, in that early day. was still full of deer and bear and he went out loaded for them.

A few days ago lie found things more monotonous ti.an he expected and he concluded to go a little farther into the woods than the others. He came to a little path that had been made by the loggers and pursued it until he came to a stream. stream was crossed by a foot-log ar.d he proceeded to cross it. At that precise moment a on the other tide proceeded to clo-the self same thing. He wa look-ins down on that lg fo as to plant his feet right and did not dream of anything interfering with him until he heard a great big.

loud 'Ugh." The bear had seen him and grunted. When he looked up and saw the bear he said "ugh" also. Tho bear turned right around and ran. Mr. Henderson did the self same thing.

There was no issue that day between Mr. Bear and Mr. Henderson. The interests ran in opposite directions ar.d they followed them. That night Mr.

Henderson felt ashamed of himself for not tackling the bear and he went back next day and got two of them. It ii funnier than a circus to hear Mr. Henderson relate his experience which will probably be givc-jln full in a future lsue. The killing of two boars on one day gave Mr. Henderson a standing and he became poptilnr with the native sport men in that section.

In subsequent 'rip he- placed himself under the tutorship of a famous half-breed pportfman. who not only improved him as a huntsman but as a fisherman as well. One day this half-breed a sign to Mr. Henderson to stand stiil. He pointed his Run and tork careful aim.

Mr. Henderson for the- of him could not se what hff was aiming at. but when the rif! era ked saw commotion in the fifty or sixty paces beyond, A tine der had fallen dead with a bullet thrmnrh heart. It dvf loped that in that rias and tangle cf forest the' with his keen -ye paw the mr of a deer mcve among the Frr.n the ear he calculated where hi heart was thot a bullet through It. It was this same Irdian that tok Mr.

Hndiwn up to th Au Sable river region where he naid he wotftI how him some fine g3me ft3h. That wa th nt peri Mr. Henderson hid Th'i ft-" was Fupposed. to tx brook trout, hut Mr. Henderson, who had been a book stuJfit of th world's fi.hs saw li a jtt.u-ire grayling and tr.k a fine.

ig of tftetn to Bay Civy and gave- them to lift proprietor of the Frailer hens. In a fhort an eastern magazine had sn srtfol telling hw Mr. Frazier had diwvrr-! ofre grayling in Xllfctstan. The was thit th ditMjorery of the Identity of tr.e S.ih waj? made Mr. Hnoron.

Since corairg to the eoeifcwent Mr. Henderson ha." been ar-vp the tr.osrt swu- sportsmen. ay that Wirfclt and tiie nyrro-unlns ttm are rieh in the lcre of the fc-jntaman a fifl.rmin and that li fh'Ki'-i he preserved 5 rt m. VT ClOSC bTC2 JreUOWSiiip. A Rlebanl Cvi cw-I Mala tret ort Iou1a aveni-e Un re-Jay a rset Jwjh of Norwich, one of the early sttters of Wichita Mr.

Cnc ,11 i one of th pk.f-er cf Wichita and pn eeenif Kr. Fjeefcee. who he ha 4 Eot-tt for aowse time, he topp4 4 ehook hafiit wtth iC.h ar ra ef their errrr-ce. awf a reporter tr the t4 -catfeef wst tetetet- is; Ca tr After cre-Uc- tc- tfeer, Mr. aaii: vVLen re down tt.j wey.

VfrK Jjop In n4 ree." Tbet ait. Mr. CogsSeU -l ea ilr. rUehr recaarke2 tht HAS SOS a although a non-combatant, rushed from Ms tent and after a desperate fight in which he emptied both his revolves and knocked down some of the French with his sword, was shot through tho luns. Before he could be taken or killed a detachment of the German army arrived and found a worshipping boy following his new mother around, trying to anticipate her every wish.

Recently Mr. Hosford received the ol- lowing genuine boy letter from the little fellow who was so scared when he first tried to lift him out cf the depths of hunger and brutal treatment and misery which was sapping the life out of him: "I thought I would write you a few lines today. I hope you are all well. I wish you would come out and visit us some- time. Well, I have got three pigs.

We are getting a big rain here now, and I am glad ycu have put me here in this good home, and I thank you for all your kindness you have done me and I like Missouri 11 right "I go to Sunday-school every Sunday, but we didn't go today. "I have acher of ground and I am going to raise some corn and if I have good luck lam going to buy a sheep and I wi'J send you my picture sometime. I have a little meadow that is grass. 'I will be 14 years old Wed. I am going to get me a handkerchief and a cake and go visiting in the afternoon.

Well, I will close nowv. I wish to hear from ycu soon and it" is now fouij o'clock. Good by." If that boy had not taken up by the Christian Service league he would have developed either into a common tramp or a criminal. His future was all chalked out for him either the road or the peni tentiary. OLDEST RESIDENT NATIVE Bora in 71 Mrs.

Henderson Has Lived Here Continuously. Some weeks ago Mr. Thomas Sullivan, attorney at law, made the statement that he thought he was the oldest native of Sedgwick county now living in the county. He was born north of town in Jan uary, 1S73. At that time the suggestion was made that others be heard from with the purpose in view that the oldest native child of Sedgwick county, still living in the county, be definitely discovered.

Since then a great deal of useful local history has been contributed to the Eagle. But until a few days ago it was all away from the point. From minute inquiryfWKle by a reporter for the Sunday Eagle it is very likely that Mrs. Cash Henderson has the distinction of being the oldest child now living in the county. She was born two doors south of the Lewis academy on Market street early in January, 1871, and will be thirty-seven years of age in a few months.

She has resided permanently in the city and has raised a family here a true native second generation. Her children are, without doubt, the first second generation children in the city of Wichita. Mr. GriM, Mrs. Henderson's father, is positive that his daughter is the oldest resident native born child in, Wichita and very likely the oldest in the county Dr.

Fabrique and Judge Sluss are, it is saidt of the same opinion. Both of these gentlemen have known Mrs. Henderson since she was an infant. FIRST BORN IN WICHITA Old Controversy Calls Forth Ken-tuckian's Claim.) Who was the first child born In Wichita? This question has led to considerable discussion in the past and probably will cause mere in the future. There are claims and counter claims and to answer the question is to call forth a denial from some one.

Recently the Eagle said that Tom Sullivan, who now resides in the ciiy, probably is entitled to the distinction of being the first per.H,n born in Wichita who still resides here. It. M. Ch. lf, a mller of Colby, Kansas, says that his cousin, D.

O. Buike, of Bradfordsville, Kentucky, is entitled to the distinction of being Wichita's first born child. In support of this contention he submits the fc Mowing as proof:" Nov. 13, 10u7. I want to thank you for your letter and newspaper clippings regarding the first child born in Wichita.

Among the lirst things that I remember w-as that I was told that I was the first white child born in Wichita. My father and mother moved to Wichita in the spring of 1S7J. He took up a claim, opening the pchool section. The town company gave him a lot if he would build a house on same, which he did, a sixteen-foot house, hauling the lumber from Emporia, paying for. this lumber fit) per hundred.

In this house I was burn on September CO, 170. Tins house was situated on Church street (or that is the name he remembers it to be). 1 was named after Doctor who was called in nt the time cf my birth and who told my father and mother that I was the first child born in Wichita. Farther my father says that he wa.s congratulated by-several people as the father of the first child born in Wichita. On account of my mother health she had to come back hom she lived about two years before her death.

He stayed about five after she left, t.e came tack to Kentucky, when he I-arned that a man by the name of Record Jumped his claim. My father has never be-rt barK since and of course can not locate places by streets. At the time he wn there William Greif-fnstein r.ick-namd Dutch Bill) bought eighty acres cf land from a ram by the nam of Watterman and had it laid off with streets and lota and won id give any one a lot that would ijuiid a hous; en same, always reserving tsdjoming lot. I don't believe there ii? any question about my being the first chili born in Wich- ita- and If.r Oatley cr Mr. Greiffen- stem were living ti.ey would so arnrra.

However, I would te glad if ray father could be ther- and meet with J. R. Mead and Mr. I.eweUm cr.d Antony DavK who are oil re.ider.t.? of the place. Of cn-arse, ther may have beT, some birth' before ciiae out in th'i country on claims wh! new are in Wichita.

1 am firing you these poi-it-a as a taxt Sf you care to write it up. CAREED COm 45 YEARS Twenty Dollar Gold Fisce in Battle cf Frazldin. A. E. Ru has a ti3 roU pier which he enrrtM tl the battle of Fnsr.krn i the civil war.

He hss iven th oil pic to hi i-vsh'er is notr the coin. the battle e.iil Radi. "I ha5 ihr ii n.y Atrr the' battle I wr.t to Nas-b-villet anJ sont tie raor.ey by ex; r. to hi kpt tae corn f.ve year. when sen orie rf tii-ia to rr.e.

1 fsv it la zay datfc-ter. The coirs I dated lSCl- Mr. Ruii values th eila Lljhly and haa ak Ida diegfcter ke It as a pocket plec. JOHN DAWSON IS SURPRISED Thinks ths Great White Way Is a Great Advertisement. "There is one thing I notice about Wichita," said John Dawson, assistant attorney general of the state, "and that Is that the lights on Main street from the Junction of Donglas avenue are particularly bright.

I think that it is the lighted street that I have seen In the country." "Did you ever see anything like that in Scotland or w-'is asked. "N'o, I don't think there is another street like that In the country, and it is a great advertisement for this city." Mr. Dawson was standing in front of the Hamilton hotel when he noticed the brilliant light up the street, and when he walked up to the intersection of the two busiest streets in the state of Kansas he made more remarks regarding the lights 'of the city. When told that the street leading east from the Intersection, Douglas avenue, would soon be lighted In the same way, he said "If Wichita is to be lighted in this way the-other cities in the west will have to look to their launels. It will be the.

best lighted city that I have ever visited." While John Dawson is a Scotchman and is not expected to see things as soon as a full-blown American can see them, he can nee things much quicker than some of the lawyers in the state, and when he says that Wichita shows more evidences of a real city than any town in the west, his utterances will be given a great deal of credence. It would not do to print his remarks regarding comparisons between Wichita and Topeka for he might be put in an awkward position in Topeka. HE ISA NATURAL ARTIST Harry Loshbaugh Develops Skill as a Painter. Harry, the fourteen-year-old son of C. J.

is developing Into an artist of some note. He recently has penciled some of the finest etchings seen in the city for some time, that is coming from not one recognized as an artist. The boy can and has produced some fine work in colors, most Intrinsic of them all being the painting of the American beauty rose. Mr. Loshbaugh expects to give the lad special attention In order to develop his natural genius.

SPIRITED RIVALRY EXISTS Razooks and Stevens Are Now Confederates. Salem Stevens, whose rapid rise from a peddler to a leader of a Syrian colony in Wichita was told in last Sunday's Eagle, ine to the Eagle office last v.iek and stated that his people are in happy circumstances. Mr. Stevens said that Xamr Razook and he had always been the best of friends, and that It was another Razook who once was his rival, but who is now his friend. There seems to be a spirited rivalry over who is to be the leader in Syrian circles in- Wcihita and some interesting developments may be expected.

ONE EXPERIENCE ENOUGH Youthful Eoy Who Is Done With Being a Tramp. Stealing a ride on a train is no child's play, neither is it considered to be just the proper thing to do. It was done recently by a fourteen-year-old boy of this city who now says he has been through one experience and will stear clear of anotht.r. McKinley Rradshaw recently boarded a freight train at Raton, X. bound for Wichita.

His mother was here and the fourtc cn-yr ar-old lad wanted to be with her. lie said he succeeded in escaping detection by the train crew and rode to within eleven miles of I.a Junta, where the car in which he was riding was sidetracked. lie walked to La Junta. Not having had anything to eat since leaving Raton naturally he was hungry. V-nmf lirrrrvfr1 went eenta u.

i i- from a stnmgtr and bought a sandwich. cup of coffee, a piece of pie and some doughnuts. He then caught the blind baggage cf the east bound California-Chicago tjatn and rode to Newton. The next train so ilh brought him to Wichita. Thus he completed a five hundred mile journey cm one meal and without spending a cent of his own money.

He said he made as fast time as he wouKl have made by riding a passenger all the way. When he arrived here he found his mother gone to Raton, so now he is working for enough money to pay his way back to New Mexico. He says he is done with "bumming." Mrs. Lizzie B. Couch, secretary of the Associate Charities, is lookiijg after him.

TURN TABLES ON DELANEY Practical Joker Victim of a Clever Ruse. Nearly everyone in Wichita knew L. Tt. who for many years was agent for the Santa Fe in Wichita. He is best known because of his love for jokes.

From Wichita Mr. Delaney went to Atchison, and there he is widely known because of this same peculiarity. The Atchison Champion says of him: "Tin latter part of last week he had the tables turned on him so hard that he hasn't attempted a practical joke Friday nisht, three young fellows, friends of Mr. Delaney's. led from the narrow path of virtue and induced him to go to a chill parlor, "Seated at one of the tables in the Delaney got started telling about some subject that was dear to his heart, rrobably on the commercial superiority i the Santa Fe.

and had just gotten well when one of the young slipped one cf the tabl? napkins into th commercial agent's yocket. The r.cxt morning the mother cf one of the boys, who was In on the Joke, called Mr. Delaney up arl impersonated the lady who owne dthe chill parlor, sskinff Delaney to return the cloth had stolen the night before. reached into his pocket, fmi.d the nar-kin and at once h.srrie.1 to the cY.VA parlor. In-agine th- surpre cf the pro-pri tress when Mr.

De'aney rsrdfrd hr one of her own napkins. The ancaster Literary society, at a coming meeting, will take this for a debate: Resolved, That entertaining company cots aJ much a aicknesa. Atchison Glob. and he was saved. I It was on the report of this fight, of which but a small portion has been men- tloned.

that the Emperor gave him tho l-Ti Cross. jig. nothes honor which has been bo- 1 upon him since he came to Wich- Ita. is the appointment by Emperor Wil- if liam of Dr. Neuman to the rank of Colo-''v rel In the German army.

Tie has the ap- and amuaing end tH4est. NO REGRETS OVER "POLICY" ruh wu hear de-fte ribrd or la fon. ad ymi know Almost a Year Sines Shops Were MX of th" ClrCI f)e-arly day wr alrnSSar. The epn- Almost a year tg the Uw PotUwetotn run V. hl; iu a the openift 1JV the game ejtreifrrit fiatronfe among whites wll nfrw.

verv fw prwj regret ttsat they play the While it req iirp r.t a m-ail a meow to the. thouaand of dollar wcr ard i i hv ifoe WfrMta public. Ii is a Cr.at am' for tb rrro ana pt rf "bf f-k-" INVENTS NEW MACHINE Dr. Swarts Can Measure Flight of Dr. Rwartz.

rrofenarT -bm at I.rffi coU ba inrrr- fo a vry for ihm ea- XiT'r fi th tlea. The Is rooetruci of Kory -mtn. rwi ar-j ir.e wo" in i accura-f-y th mtr xx-riv Iratu. i a i -i ai efef-d ty the fcienf.fc American. for cowra and he Y.fts rgid to drsi tin of f.

A 1 teI by twelve lwV ajrdJ wfh a trmti-ig of A atAdaf4 la ks ra muj nr conreoief.t fi'om tbe fit. 1 A joiner fiirft.ar! ot of tbe ttm rlr. i i poimmem now. ii carries with it a ipennion which an American colonel would I think a large onei but he cannot draw It Unities he goes back to Germany, and he lins no Intention of so doing Dr. Neaman first came to the United States in 1SS7.

He want to Canada for I purpose of hunting. He hrul prcvi-j ously written to the Gorman representa-, tlvrt In the different countries asking regarding the hunting and flshlnpr. He learned that Canada as the best place IT the sport that he desired and it was Jmm there that he came to the United States. He made the trip on horseback from the Pacific coast near Vancouver to Lake Superior and this trip resulted i In his decision to make the United States his home "I do not care to say anything about i xny record In the Germany army," said I Dr. Neuman.

"I think that my record Is established without my talking now." 1 It was with difficulty that anything could be obtained from him, but he is the only man in Kansas, and probably in the States, who has a position in the jrman army as colonel in the medi- would take much space to tell of all 1 f.the experiences that a man like Dr. I Neuman has had. Recause when a man jea through three wars and then makes trip on the back of a hor.e over the Itocky Mountains he may be considered to have met with some sensational adventures. Regarding his adventures In America, the wearer of the Iron Cross was not so reticent because he thought every man 4n the had similar experience: but they have not. When he was hunting in Canada and the northern stares he killed nine bears one of them a grizzly.

This Is a record which but few men in the west hold. JS HAD UPS AND DOWNS Barney Levi Says Horse Dealing Has Been Costly. Barney Levi says that had he refrained I from dealing in "horses on a large scale anX have turned his entire attention to sealing in real estate he would be a mil- a. 1 ff a i 'Vn 1 1 i- twin Vi i 1 r. VPS ana aowns in nis me man any nore dealer of this section of the state.

He lias made money in handling horses locally, but ho says his business Instinct deserts him when he ships to other cities. LIB. COX GETS FIRST LICENSE Been Number One on List for Three Years. Wince the state legislature parsed the A law reouirlnc that hunters take out a license Derore mey van num. uu wirti he taken out I- M.

V. i of this county haa secured license a rt, 1 from the orfice ot tne county cierit. a rl Cox may not be the greatest hun-roauS th unty, but ha haa certainly I 1 fcaatht. Or- ron w. i I tfc? K.a ht 1 i.i.A 4 44 jrmrny prvniCir.g ttiVi make trip.

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