The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-30
Outlines of Oklahoma

Yesterday the great cotton compress al
Ell Reno started up
Ebert Hoyt OF the Ponca Courier says
that Thompson is all right
All the judges at the baby show at the
Frontier Fair at Oklahoma City have hid
den out
This is the time OF year that the vines
die in Oklahoma and leave the fields spot
ted with green citrons-
Ransom Payne should not stay any long
er in Washington. The lightning likes him
too well 10 strike him.
The worst part about Senator Ravens
lost bull calf is that Ned Sisson Of Enid
has a mortgage on IT.
Colonel A. S Loudermilk Of Indianapolis
has moved to FL Reno and formed a law
partnership with Judge Pitzer.
Business at FL Reno has become so
heavy that the Rock Island has placed
switch engine in its yards there.
Governor Barnes in his speech at the
Kay county fair roasted McMsster for his
speech 10 the old soldiers at K.ngisher.
Lucy T. Cummins at Oklahoma City has
sued her husband Robert Cumm!ns for
divorce. She alleges bad language and
cruelty.
The members of the legal bar at Alva
have thanked Judge McAtee for his stand
against the territorial board Of equaEza-
tons raise.
About the only people who came out
ahead in the marshalship fight were
Thompson and the ticket agents OF Guth-
RE and Washington.
The fight in the Populist party In Grant
county IS very fierce. On the other hand
all the Republicans want nominations. the
election is so sure.
The female suffragists are thinking OF
storrning Oklahoma again. They think
they will ultimately carry II. They VII
not carry Oklahoma in the next hundred
years.
The latest about Senator Ravens bull
calf is that Major Crozier OF Gushing has
found it, broke 1t 20 ride and is now trav-
cling around on its back converting In
dams into Ep!scopalian!sm.
Some day all big circuses. and all big
! dramatic companies Will go 10 Texas BY
| the way of Oklahoma. Ringing Brothers
| have tried it and found II 10 be success.
Other big travelling outfits will follow suit
| II you take the word of the Oklahoma
papers you will discover that the highes.
| price for wheat is paid in every town in
| the territory. that is, the price paid in all
| towns is higher than the price paid in al
| other towns.
Those Cheyenne Indians who are roam
| ing over Oklahoma and southern Kansas
| giving exhibitions claim that they took
| part in the Custer massacre. Editor
| Thomas of the Grant County Vidette
would like to see them all g.bbeted.
c. G. Brown OF Arapahoe was campcd
! on Deer creek in the Wichita country the
| other night when a real live bear attacked
| the camp. II scared the boys so they
! couldn't find their guns and the bear, az
| ter throwing a kiss or two at Brown, es-
| capped.
Guthrie Leader special from Newkirk:
| In a few we'll chosen words Mr.. Byers
| introduced the Hon. ]. Y. Callahan, dele
| gate TO congress. Mr.. Callahan, fresh
| from his vacation was in the best Of hI-
NOR, and pleasantly entertained the aud
| ence in a twenty minute speech. He said
| in opening: Mr.. Flynn and myself have
| been put on exhibition here as a drawing
| card for the fair. 1 for my beauty and
| Flynn for his intelligence" He compli-
| Inented the people OF Kay county on their
| prosperity and advancement, saying that
| the average Oklahoman improved 10 al
vantage in any capacity on account of the
| self confidence he by rights possesses. He
| said he was quite limited in his utter
ances by the. strict injunction Of the pres
| ident of the association TO ALLURE politics
| and religion. He paid Mr.. Flynn a de-
| served compliment by saying: mo man In
| the territory can be more interested in the
success of the free home question than
| my predecessor and myself" He scored
| M Reed for refusing to let the question
| of free homes come up before the house
| ard assured the people that in case OF the
| continuance Of the Reed policy the bill
! would be put on as rider on the appro'
| priation bill and would go through in that
| way. After Mr.. Callahan had finished. Mr.
| Lincoln Mckinley introduced Hon. d. 1
| Flynn, who made a very happy address
| and received the customary nearly atten'
ton and applause OF his audience. Mr
| Flynn said: This is the first time thd
| Mr. Callahan and myself have met on th'
| same platform and ! wan. to say he !:
| my Congressman as well as yours, and Il
! Is the duty of every good citizen 20 supper
him in his efforts to accomplish that which
| is of more consequence 20 every man
| woman and child in Oklahoma than th'
| election Of a president-free homes for th'
| people of Oklahoma"