The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-27
Outlines Of Oklahoma

All honor 10 Bart Barnes. who gets
scared and is courageous enough to own
! 1t.
| Senator Hunt of Perry has been ap-
! pointed deputy clerk of the district court
| OF Perry.
In some parts of Oklahoma weeds are
| getting the better of corn because il IS
too wet to plow.
Colonel Yates of the Perry Enterprise
| has Quit that paper and departed for new
| fieIds-not Cuba.
James Shockey OF Perry. who went into
| the Rough Riders as g private. has been
promoted 20 corporal.
| The best letters from Cuba so far are
| those of Governor Barnes SON He
writes just as he feels.
With big normal majority against
| them. the Republicans in Oklahoma this
year have hard fight. But they are 60
ing TO fight.
Harry Moore. farmer OF Noble coun-
ty. has q pair of mares which are seven
teen and a half hands nigh and weigh
$500 pounds.
While free homes Is probably done for,
the next delegate TO congress from Ok
lahoma Will have more 20 do than all his
predecessors.
The indictment against Fred Farrar of
Perry for receiving deposits In rhe Rich
ardson bank after 1t was maribund. has
been dismissed.
with a growing sentiment in favor Of
taxing in the Philippines and Cuba, II is
nor going to be very difficult 20 make
Oklahoma a state.
Inc school house insurance department
OF the territory Will discontinue The on
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the last legislature.
Ihings continue to advance at Oklahoma
CITY Even the dog catcher will get 25
cents head for every capture, instead OF
Is cents as heretofore.
Two men assaulted Colonel Saunders Of
shawnee with sack filed with wet sand
the other night, with the idea Of robbery.
He yelled and frustrated them
On Oklahoma editor recently filed up.
played poker and lost SO. He at once
adroitly laid his coat aside and licked
the daylights out Of the man who won it,
1t is reported that Deputy Marshal Ned
Sisson has the outlaw Bill scribbins bot
tied up at Woggleville, Woods county.
has cut the cable and Will starve Scrib-
bins out.
A Populist editor at Perry was arrest
ed recently on the charge of stealing a
little can of paint. The Republican edi-
tors came out and roasted the man who
caused the arrest to e FRAGILE. 1t IL plea
SAINT to see the editors stand by one an
other.
The Shawnee News believes that Nc
kinley is only making a bluff at war in
order to carry the election this fall, when
he will abandon Cuba to its fate" II the |
man who wrote that will think again he |
HI b. g.
allowed 1t to be printed.
George Burgess correspondence from |
San Antonio in the Guthrie Leader:-We |
have all the horses needed here. Ser
geant Hunter and I went yesterday to Fl /
Houston and found that they had bought /
all that was wanted there. The require /
ments are fifteen hands high and up, $50 |
pounds or more and must be ridden be- /
fore the officers. / have a dark iron grey,
and he is good one. Several of our bows |
have been sick. There are five unable to |
report this morning. The water is very
bad. and the weather being quite warm.
II IS very trying. We took good run
yesterday. They call 1t drilliug-double
time on skin mish line, after which we had
fine quarter mile run. We were then
halted and had an opportunity to rest.
Our captain asked me now 1 felt, and I
told him l would like to run it over II !
looked more war-like here today. We had
our guns issued TO us yesterday. The
boys from New York brought two rapid
fire guns with them and I saw them test
ed yesterday. They shoot 81 times
is just like clock work l have
good one on Hunter. 1t seems he was out
late and had no pass. While he was try
ing to escape the guards he came in con-
tact with a barbed wire fence. The result
Is that part of his nose is gone. Just ask
him If his nose is we'll yet.