The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-04


card before me reading: Hopkins
1 hotel First hotel established in Wa
tonga; Mrs n. Hopkins, proprietress.' y
| Mrs Hopkins here is mime hostess
/ She runs a popular hotel. with a good
commodious front porch shaded by
vines. and so advertising to every tray-
| eler that a feminine hand is about.
| Everything is as neat as a pin; her
| table is excellent, and the kitchen has
never been invoked in vain at any
hour, no matter how uIseemly. A
man bound for Taloga, taking grocery
orders, gets an early start by tumbling
out at 3 O'Clock in the morning. He
must have breakfast and he gets it.
Cash Cade and Tom Farrar steal a
march on the coming sun and pull for
Kingfisher at O'Clock. They also are
served At 6 We trundle along to
Okeene, thirty miles away, and we
must be served. But the proprieteSs
never grumbles. Here when aocomo-
dation of an hotel is spoken of, accomo-
dalton is meant and nothing else.
Hold dem feet to do fire.. In all
political speeches published, from
Bryan's down, the parenthesis is being
used. 1t is sometimes (applause), some
times That's right, sometimes QIit
'em again. Today 1 heard this inter
pollation at Flynn's meeting. 1t was
from an old colored man. In his speech
Flynn d1ifted into a condemnation of
certain men who had tried to defeat
free homes in congress, and as his de-
nunciation grew higher and higher,
this old negro suggested his approval
by an awful mode of punishment, yell
ing (''Hold dem feet to de fire.')
saw today the peculiar, tenacious
hold Dennis Flynn has ON the people
of Oklahoma The feeling they have
for him is, as l SAW it, parental. They
ali know his history. He was con-
signed at an early age to an orphan
asylum in New York. Apprenticed to
cruel man namAd Kelly, he bolted
and came west Oklahoma adopted
him. They view him as their boy.
They appear to take the view that they
have sent him ON visit ''back east"
and congregate to hear the news from
the folks" Everything is praise of
Dennis and show he has improved"
and show fat he is getting" and what
a fine speech he made" in precisely the
same tone that mother and father
speak of a fiOuriShing son. l saw tears
in the eyes of two old ladies, simply out
of qualification for the applause they
themselves helped to give him.
Such devotion is not political, as 1
have seen politics elsewhere.
The music was furnished today by
one family. This is the Berkey family,
which reyolyes itself at will into a
brass band, and their arrival was
awaited today with a stupendous antic-
iDation. They rode in sixteen miles
and came up the main street, hugging
their horns, to the great delight Of the
people of WatOnga. On summer even
ingS this musical family assemblies at
their home on the farm and discourse a
concord OF sweet sounds on the air
where many flower has its vanity in
vain.
The people of this county are sup
plled by Nature with salt within their
own boundaries. A salt laden stream
fed by springs bubbling up from saline
deposits is dipped into large pans by
the settlers and the brine evaporated
by boiling. This salt is very fine and
is used exclusively here, and supplies,
too. some of the tables Of Oklahoma
City and Guthrie.
! heard a joke on the medical profes-
sion today. A man told men OF doc
tor who was called to attend q negro
in far western Oklahoma The negro
had no money. The doctor to secure
payment Of his services took a mort
gage on the negro's total chattels and
his farm Treatment began. The
negro died.