The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-13

| Populist do such a thing before and
was considerably interested. One old
| man, probably IS years of age, a Tex
an, came up to Flynn and said: Il
have never voted for a radical (Repub-
| lican) in my life, but I'm going to vote
| for YOU. young man." When We had
passed on four or five miles four horse
men came peltering along after us at
| a breackneck speed When they drew
t rein the older man, who was leading,
said to Flynn: young man; we are
| four Democrats. We have agreed
among ourselves TO vote for you, and
we wanted you TO know it They then
whirIed around and dashed away"
These were unusual experiences. They
were new to the candidate, who had
never had anything like it happen TO
him in his life before.
As evening approached, we left all
traces of Oklahoma. Greer county as
we saw ii, differed completely from
all the country we had passed through
in the preceding week. The sand and
the shin-oaks disappeared and in their
place came black heavy soil and buffalo
grass, with the country less and less
rolling. Towards sunset we glided
down into great basin. Opposite sew
eral miles great cliffs appeared OF var
iegated colors, green, red and chalk
white. They are capped with stone.
Separated from them is a volcano-like
cone which rises several hundred feet
from the ground L did not get near
this, but 1 was told later it was not of
volcanic formation. AS we ratified
down into this basin a new growth
appeared. This was the mesquite bush.
This is not unlike young honey-locust.
On it grows a long pod full of beans
This bean is used sometimes as sub
stitute for coffee and is said to be SUI
perior to corn as a food for horses.
The mesquite bush is very green and
it stretched away in this basin for
miles and miles, making a heavy I'M
dergrowth. There is none OF this
bush in old Oklahoma. 1t is unknown
there. but in Greer county it starts in
and increases in size towards the south
until near the Gulf it grows to large
trees.
Greer county constantly improved as
we progressed southwark this after
noon. The hills disappeared and with
them the sand. and the soil looked
promising. Houses came into view
now for the first time this side of Delhi.
These houses are low, Of log with
matched and sod roofs, a large CHM
ney being built on the outside at the
back with an immense fireplace in
the end of the single room. Corn came
into sght agan, both Indian maize and
Kaffir. The houses were fenced OF
and the people looked prosperous. Dc
oasionally an open cellar indicated a
desertion of the country by some set
tier.
At night we camped near a wind
mill around which five or six hundred
cattle are believing waiting chance
to drink at large reservoir. Away IN
the distance, thirty miles perhaps, with
q smoky haze of blue before them, with
apparently no foothills about them,
arise majestically, their craggy tops
against the violet glow Of an evening
eastern sky, the Wichita mountains.
at this distance they are beautiful
&c
tops while down here where we are
the silken. shimmering strands OF heat
still float above the ground
But the great cool mountains. even
when so many miles away neuuaIlze
the torridity of hot wind, which has
made my eye-balls burn and my nose
peel
We have poked hole out of the
prairie and have built fire and are
getting supper. Flynn is turning the
meat in the skillet, and as it is dark, he
is accomplishing this more by the feel
than by the sight
1t occurs to me that tonight there are
about six hundred men running for
congress in the United States, but
among them all, there is only one that
is cooking his own supper on prairie
among cows, ninety miles from rail-
road. Flynn doesn't know of his an
cesu.y, but if when they lived they
had a crest it was probably ornamented
with a Latin line which when trans
lated read: Rustic and you'll get