The Wichita Breeze from Wichita, Kansas • 1

WEST KANSAS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1887. NO. 0. VOL.

1. A. G. JOHNSON West Side DiuEiist, Its total area comprises some acres, or over 500,000 acres more than the wholo state of Pclewnrc. Every foot of tho territory wo have thus taken some trouble to accurately locate and dofine bolongs to tho goner-sl government.

Tho ccsssion took place in 1800, and has never yet had its vulidity of feasibility denied by any sensible orpractical Indian. Perhaps tno government at ono time may have hud tho idoa of bringing to it and to other vast reservations in closo proximity such wild tribes ns tho Uto, tho Sioux and tho like, but if ever such an idea was entertained it lias long ago been abandoned. Railroads are now moving lliroiieh tlirco portions of Oklahoma. Tho land is fino for ail agricultural purposes. Tlm climuto is delightful.

IVater bounds, and timo presses. Wliat is needed powerfully in this congress is a long mll, a strong pull and a pull altogether. FOOTL1GHT ECHOES. Druggist Sundries, Toilet Articles, Books Stationary, School Supplies, Mixed Paints, Lead and Oil, Varnishes Japans, Window Glass, etc. Corner Douglas and Seneca.

31. L. SAll GENT. SARGENT ROBERTSON, Proprietors of Livery, Feed C. A.

ROBERTSON. and BOARDING BY THE DAY WEEK OR MONTH. Telephone 88, Also Headquarters for J. A. Benner, City Auctioneer.

211 West Douglas Ilarvcy Hills Old Stand. U. The Western Co-Operative Fuel AND BUILDING- MATERIAL Will deliver Coal to all parts of Ihe City. FULL WEIGHT GUARANTEED. Office'-- 7053.

Dduglaa AvK. -Vest Wichita Office: 1012 Chicago Ave. STCKIIOLDKRS RECEIVE TIIElll FUEL AT COST. Shr es $2.50 Each, for Sale at the Companys Office, 705 Doula3 Ave. Well tliiii i i mil, so Lad for Tom, either.

I guess I'll encourage thii.se two. while 1 lie others enu slide. This was I lm thought of the cautious young Miss, mi slm rolled her list of names into neat pm lingo and slepged on a westbound ear home. If this articlv is read by any of the suitors of tim young lady leferred to they can lm guided cnrrecUy by it, and any of them whose wealth does lint roach at least, $.0,000 might as well throw up 1 lie sponge. Tim sMielfew who have the desired ducats meanwhile may continue their suits, hut the favorite is tlm young man with the half million.

'lie wi lier hopes ho will ranse no trouble between tlm young lady and leiv. lie simply publishes tliis as natter of news, and as no names a mentioned he trusts no offense is given. Washington Letter, LFroin cur rctfiilai- Washington, 6, 1887. Secretary Fairchilds report i very voluminous and will lm read with general interest. It represents much earn est thought mid hard work, for I lie Secretary devolod a whole monlli's timo to tlm great task.

Tlm report i in tho Sooretnr.y's own hand writing This document will not lm submilted until llio second day after tho mealing of I luit body. Among tlm impnrlunt recommendations is the suggestion that Congress provide l'or llm ereetion of a lire proof luill of records for the bettor preservation of valuable government records Hut aro at present in loo much danger of destruction. Many of llm resident's friends are again concerned about liis health, on accouut of liis disinclination to lake outdoor exereiso. In this respect, Mr. Cleveland (litters greatly from his predecessors, for an early morning jaunt on foot was almost an invariable custom with Mr.

Arthur, Gen. Grant, and other presidents. During the inoiilh of November there was a considerable increase in tho national debt, chiefly because of the vast sum paid out for pensions, tlm amount being eighteen million dollars on thnt account. For llm period in question llm receipts were over a million dollars a (lay. Tim report of tho Postmaster General makes a very favorable showing, from winch it appeal's that there lias been a gain of 1,8 10,000 in receipts ns compared with tlm previous year, while oil tho oilier liund, tlm increase in expense is bat little more than two million dollars.

Tim deficiency which two years ago was $100,000, has been reduced about three-fourths, and it is estimated Unit it will almost entirely disappear before the close of llm current year, if tlm present promising coudiliou of tho affairs of tlm department continues. In tlm matter, of charging officers, this report shows that of tlm 2,007 presidential postmas ters who were in place March 1, but 310 remain, 1,807 new men having been appointed. Another feature, of postal business that will douhl less he of interest to our readers, is tlm official record of llm amount of money lost in dead letters which, for tlm' past year, fooled up lo of this amount tho sum of $33,037 was restored to llm owners; tlm amount of $0,073, which could not be returned to llm owners was deposited in tlm treasury trgetliur with 3,031, llm sum realized from auction sales of unclaimed parcels of merchandise found in Mm mails. Tlm report of tlm comptroller of cur reney is one that will be read, especially by the business mini, with more than ordinary interest, as nil import ant additiou is made in the praelieal suggestion of a new code of bank laws, a copy of which has been sent with an explanatory letter, to eaeii member of Congress. Up lo tlm 3ist of October, the total number of national banks organized was 3,805, of which H7 have failed, 022 have gone into voluntary liquidation, leaving 3,001 banks still orgrnized at that date.

In the Fiftieth Congress, political parties will bo more evenly balanced than for many years, Mm Republican majority having dwindle fq qimosl nothing in tho Bennie, and tlm Democratic majority having been reduced to about a dozen in Mm House. here are throe eloolion cases the Senate and eigiit in Mm House. The Republicans have been felipilat-ing thorn, solves, that they would ho' aide to control tlm presidential election, in tho event that Micro should be no popular choice, ns that parly claims a majority of Mm slates by eont'i'es-sioual delegations; but tbi by no means nu accomplished fuel, as Mm Democrats in settling the contested election cases from California ami Indiana, have it in tlmir power to transfer the majority of the stale congressional delegations (p, tut oiganLarinji. Since thelr'ai't'ival at Mte capital over one hundred eongi'ess'iioi, have been interviewed, and tho drift of sentiment is largely In fayor of tariff reform. The Democratic congressional caucus developed much excitement ami bitter feeling over Mm boated contest for doorkeepei'ship, and there ws up ocptp'veqeq yai, snggealeir ti' sllgiil rcscuulauce to Mm Donnybrook fair, riie'io was passed between the gentleman from Arkmisis and tlm geeMe.

man from Georgia, and then those menders camo io blows, and blood was drawn before tlm belligerent legis-latoa could bo separated by their fl'iotds. ll'e-mienL pro lint of llm Semite, John lug.iils, ui.i.v now be numbered with llm literary statesmen like Blame and Cox, ns lie will give to llm world a novel that will illiislralo Ids experience of public life, OKLAHOMA. don. Sheridan Recommends the Oocnlnsr Up of That Country, For actual Sottlement. Killians City Times.

For a while but few regular army officers were hi favor of erecting into a state tlm tcrritoiy of Oklaliomo. Some Imw they imagined, or believed they did, that tlm Indians needed all tlm land there. That it was not good policy to disturb thorn upon tlmir vast hunting and fishing range. That tribal relationship were things to be handled diplomatically, and Mint a treaty was a treaty, no matter whether it was wiitteu in hieroglyphics upon a piece of cottonwood bark or upon parchment, like a monks folio, to last three thousand years. At tlm head of theso military uoti-Oklahomist, was notably Gen.

Sheridan. Rarraek-hrod lm spoke lilio a sol diur. In many a report lm said no to any scheme of colonizing that was short and sharp like a pistol shot, lie did not so much arguo as 1m left syllables for and lines for ira-graplis. They all pointed in one di-rccMon, however total opposition as his horse's iron shoe trucks all pointed in one direction, when he galloped down to Winchester. The other day ho made another report to the scereetary of war, which is most conservative in many ways, and which will cause many a sincere old veteran to about face on the Oklahoma question.

Ho says in substance that troops liavo boon continually occupied in pitrolling the Oklahoma country, and that so far this entire region lias been kept clear of intruders. Tlie gradual spread of railroads, continues the' general railroads being constantly built aftd made to ramify through the territory in question can have but one effect that of opening it up to settlement. This congress should do, he thinks, at its next session, and tliii he shall he done in his regular annual report to tlm secretary of war. Here is a strong friend gained for one of the most righteous movements ever advocated tlm past by newspapers ami public speakers, both in and out of congress, and striven for by earnest sctlors who aetualy entered iu, but could not wait and work to the fullness of a sure pre-emption, General Sheridan lias now seen that the time has come to break down the barriers so strongly built and so stubbornly held. It will not do for such a valuable empire to go to waste, as it were, a mere foraging and rampaging ground, and ho says so plainly and frankly, And it is not an empire? The country which composes it lias an extent of about 1,800 square miles.

It can be readied from several directions, but perhaps tlm best way to get in is to go from the borders of Kansas, 120 miles westward through tlm Cherokee country, It originally embraced nearly 5,000 spqaro miles of territory, but from it so many reservations have been taken that its extout remains about as we first gave it, 1,800 square miles. Once made a territory for settlement, however, and the disposition of these rescvyafli.iis would bo a matter easily and amicably arranged. Oklahoma which, by tlm way, was named by Colonel 15. B. Boudinot, a highly distinguised Cherokee, aiguilles, in bis owq iqiistcal language, Home of- tlm Red Man, occupies a position nearly in the center of the Indian territory.

To jjiy its boundaries a jjwitae sweep and expansion, and move in the vernacular for homo or local purposes, which we have not done above its location, it may bo said that wliat is known ns tlm Cherokee Strip of laying west of the Arkansas river, bounds it an tlm north. On the east it is bounded by tho reservations of lawnoo, Kiowa, Kiekapoo and Pottawatomie tribes of Indians. On the south by the Canadian river, and on tho west by tlm reservation of ene t'yo Olmy-enne and riupahoo tribes of Indians. 'j'bo territory, therefore, within the boundaries thus described, is about sixty miles on a line running through its center north and south, and about forty miles east and west, except iij the extreme northern part, wliero it over readies eoiisideanbly both cast aud west. committed which has brought such woo into a house; inui'ib-r and suicide, an old limn bereft of a beloved daughter, four little children bereft of their parents, all caused by the temporary iusanily of a man for whom tlm wife at one timo sacrilicod homo and friends.

J. E. Johnston's father was postmaster at Warsaw, 111. In tlm same town lived Mr. and Mrs.

Robt. Black and their only child, Clara. Tho Blacks worn probably tlio richest people hi tlm town, and young Johnston and pretty Clara, then only sixteen, went about together, miieli against tlm wishes of tho hitter's parents. One day Clara was missing from Imr home, but slm returned tlm next day accompanied by her husband, J. E.

They had crossed tlm river, lmd been married, ami like prodigal children, had returned to ask forgiveness. It was not a very dillloult mailer to i ml nee tho fond parents to open tlmir arms to their only child, but they never forgave tlm abductor, and to the day of Imr death, Mrs. Black always said that "Johnston hud stolen his wifo. From tlm most intimate with tho family, it would seotn that Johnston was dovoted to liis wife, anil tlm probability is Hint lie, dolcrnilimd to take liis own life, could not bear to leave her behind. They lmd been in Wichita but three years, coming Imre from Kansas City, where Johnston worked in sorno government employ.

CHOOSINCI A HUSBAND, How a Pretty St. Louis Girl Managed the Matrimonial Business, Bradstreets Reports Called Upon to Aid In the Important Matter. St, Louis Suiitluy SayiuKs.l On Olive street, near Garrison avo lives a verv attractive young lady, wlm is a wide-awake American, and keeps right along witli the times. Slm is well known ami quite popular in society having been known to refuse proposals of marriage by ilic score. Her great beauty makes her a general favorite and Imr pretty manners adds to her captivating elmnns tenfold.

She can count her admirers by the dozens, yet not one of them can claim the affections of the lovely Olive street maiden. Among the many suitors that slm has refused are some of the most enterprising aud ambitious young men tlm city. Slm has disdainfully waved her hand to dozens that other young women of social standing would have accepted iiiHtaiUer. On many occasions imr lady friends have approached her on the subject of matrilnony, and endeavored to lliul out what her ideas were on that point without avail. Her parents, though well to do, are not rich, and tlmir daughter is as great a mystery to them as to the outside acquaintances.

"My daughter," said the mother one day, why dont you decide on taking one of your many admirers? I am sure yon have a good collection to select from. Soiqe of your friends would be glad to get any of them. Mother, was tlm reply, I am doing tho best I can by them. They are all very nice fellows, but I don't think tlm right man is among them ns yet. There are one or two, however, whom 1 Intend to inquire about.

What do you mean by inquire about, Mother, yon don't want urn to make any error in marrying, do you, and catch some good-for-noLliing fellow Who may have only a silk hat and one suit of clothes to ins back? Certainly nop, but you know tlm family records of every one of them. Yes, but family records dont go in my case. However, I will let you know to-morrow. I am going down town this afternoon, and look over tlm agency books in regard to their standing. Standmgl Agency! Wliat do you mean! exclaimed the astonished mother.

Never mind, mamma. If you don't know you had better not', for the reports may not all be satisfactory. The mother insisted on knowing, but the daughter in her characteristic way, bade imr be silent. The same afternoon the young lady entered a large dry goods store where slm was acquainted, and called for Bradstreets latest reports. Being a good customer of the house the request was granted, She turned the leaves until slm found tlm name for which slm was in search.

It was marked W. D. Turning to the key slm saw that W. D. meant that the gentlemans credit was moderate, but his wealth was only estimated at from two to three thousand dollars.

Her lips curled contemptuously. He told me he was worth live times the ameimt, she said to herself. Well, that settles his suit, as far as 1 am concerned. For fully an hour tlm young lady nursed tlm bort. She lmd brought a list of namojjVaul looked up Urn credit and csUryvO'ealtli of every one of them.

jOvtlie names was followed by which meant that imr suitors credit was high and liis capital estimated at from aeyeiity-livq thousand to one hundred thousand dollars. That, is more like it, slm cried. Now there Is one more. She again turned tlm leaves and this time found the letters were A. J.

meaning credit very high, and wealth estimated at nearly half a million. MURDER and SUICIDE. J. E. Johnston Commits A Ter-tibie Crime By Killing His Wife, and then Sends A 38 Calibre Through His Own Temple.

Wild with Paeion Shoots His Wife and Then Kills Himself, Leaving Four Children to Weep Over Their Parents. Lust Tuesday, Mr. Robert Mark was In the Hilling room of his palatial homo on E. Dougins nvenui ien lie heard two shots from a revolver com-iiilt from the room of Mr. and Mrs.

Johnston, which was immediately above him. 11c rushed to tlm room and found liis only child, Mrs. Johnston, lying at the west side of the room. She was unconscious and in a few moments died before ins ryes. Those about the house were so much excited Unit despite the fact of botb dead a number of doctors were telephoned.

Drs. Oldlmm, Graham, Jor dan ami McLaughlin were the first at the scene. The bodies lay in the position they had fallen after the fatal shots. An examination of Mrs. Johnston allowed thnt the ball lmd entered the head just in the rear of the left ear and passed directly through the bead coming out in the rear of the right.

Blood ami brainy matter had oozed from boll- sides of the bead. Tho face indicat that she had died without a struggle. The body of Mr, Johnston was next examined. The face was covered with blood the ball having entered at the left temple just above tho left eye and came out just in the rear of tho right ear. A 88-cnlibor bulldog revolver lay on the floor near his left hand.

As nothing could bo done by the physicians, they retired in a few minutes and Coronor J. W. Wingard was called, lie arrived near 10:30 and removed the valuables from the bodies, and in the afternoon empaneled a jury consisting of tho following gentlemen: Perry Crossen, T. II. Lynch, Gardner Wash, II.

T. Craven, II. Stumpf and 8impson. Mn. Rout.

Black. Tho miserable father of the dead woman is a subject for tlm deepest commiseration. Past shedding tears, he occasionally gives vent to a deep, heart brokon groan which causes tpars to soring to the eyes of those who hear and have feeling enough to be able to realize, in even a faint degree, how afflicted is the old gentleman. lie moves about from one to another of his friends, clinging to them as would a child ami tacitly praying for sonic sympathy, something that will relievo his overwrought mind. It.

is feared that his reason may not lie aide to hear the strain, and a very strong bond between tlm old man and life and reason is found in tlm four liltio grandchildren. Sim would do anything in the world for him, and now ho has murdered her, said tlm bereaved parent at ouo time, while tlm next moment he was thinking only of tlm Tom-dear little children." Tlm children rango in ago from live to twelve years, tlm two youuger being boys and the older girls. The two girls were at school when tho terrible tragedy was enacted which, at one moment, deprived ihcraUfaotli limit- parents. Grade, the widest girl, is of such ago as to bo ablo; to comprehend, in all its fullest gliastlines, the horror of the deed and tho oxtont of her boreavomont. Tears Lave fortunately oomo to her relief Poor child, she says, "my heart is just breaking, ami tlm intensity of her sorrow is such that nano can help her.

The other tots hardly realize what lias happened. Thoy aro frightened and look with wonderment upon tho strange and familiar faces looking on i them with such deep pity, but they will -hove to be older before they can understand all the dreadful features of tlm crime. At tlm breakfast table that morning, Mr. Johnston appeared in rather bet- ter spirits -than usual. Ho seemed gld that tlm timo was drawing nigh when the whole family would start for California and said be anticipated complete restoration to health after a winter spent in that cli-mato.

Tlm nioal finished, 3Jrs. Johnston went tip to her room, and flm rest pf the family, Mr. Black, Mr. Johnston and the two children, (the other two children having gone to school), went put to tlm back yard whore they found pr, Snake, strolled about, looked at the horses and linally ordered the carriage to be got ready. While the party was in the yard, Mr.

II. L. Holland, a farmer from near Garden plains, and (i tyion4 of Mr. Blacks, drove V)P tlm house and saw the whole parly together. Finding no place to hitch hisjhorscs, lm drove round to the other side of tlm house, hitched his team, entered through tlm door uf Mr.

Blacks room, as was liis custom, pass ed through tlm inner room and was about to go out into the yard whore ho supposed lm would still find his friends when Mr. Black rushed down thp stairs, grabbed Holland by the arm aud leading him up, stairs, disclosed tlm horrible tragedy. It was in the few moments occupied by Holland in driving around tlm house and hitching bis team, that ho dread deed was Fannie Davenport is playing Fed sia at Lincoln, this week. Emma Abbott is underlined at the Crawford tor December 10 and 17. Minnie Madden plays In Spite of All and Caprice at the Crawford this week.

Jennie Reaves, a burlesque artist of some renown, succeeds Loie Fuller in Arabian Nights. Henry Dixey is meeting with liis usual success in Adonis' at the Baldwin Tima ter, San Francisco. The McUibney family of musicians filled the Methodist cliurcli Imre Tuesday and Wednesday evenings this week. Tim vacancy loft in London society by Mm departure of Buffalo Bill lias boon amply filled by John Lawrence Sullivan. Geo.

Starr arrivod in Liverpool, Eng. on liis way to Russia, Tartavy and Thibet in search of new attractions for P. T. liarnum. Mrs.

Jas. Brown Potter 1ms dooided to add Jullt-o toiler repertoire, and will 'probably play the diameter for the first time during tier Baltimore engagement, Miss Cora Tanner, who presented in London at the Crawford this week, is the wife of Col. W. E. Sinn, manager of of the Park Theater.

Brooklyn, N. Y. Maude Bmnscombe was said, two years ago, to have been the most thoroughly photographed actress on the stage. But to Langtry and Mrs. Potter she has relinquished the belt, tire latter probably leading a little.

Ellen Terry, the English actress has a great many friends among her own sex, but she makes no secret of the fact that site prefers the society of men to that of women. She considers men bettor conversationalists than women. The account of the administrator of the estate cd Jno. McCullough, the actor, was filed recently. It shows a balance of $32,738 for division between bis widow and surviving son.

Henry Irvings povlortuniioe of Faust at Mio Star Theater, New York, the other night, realized $2,931.30 which amount was turned over to the Reedier Monument Barnum's loss at the recent fire at his winter quarters was nominally small. He will probably be even when he got in some of the ducats that the advertisement thereof will give him, the coming tenting season. Wicliit i is considered by the profession a good show town, but for the ast tea days the public have become exceedingly apathetic and have not turned out as the merits of different performances deserve. By the way. speaking sf Miss Loie Fuller, has decided to drop burlesque entirely and proposes to interpret the drama hereafter.

She no doubt thinks she is born to electrify the public in better representations than those which compel her to wear abbreviated Bkirta and silk tights. II, Rider Haggards strange, weird novel, She as dramatized, by Wm. Gillette, was put before the public at Niblos, New York reoently, It was somewhat of a disappointment to the majority of Haggard's readers, though Gillettes adaptation ia about the best one yet, and the only authorized one. Miss Lajira Clements She who mita-Oe obeyed, and Loie Fuller, late of Dixeys Adonis and Arabian Nights companies, does (Re Ammeter of Ust.ine, Wont yon buy my flowers, sir? My pretty flowers, roses, marguerites, geraniums and violets. Sweet flowers, sir, and very cheap.

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