The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-24
Outlines Of Oklahoma

A dozen new recruits have been added
to the Oklahoma CITY militia company
this week
In the coming election az Cross. where
there are only fifty voters, there VIII Do
two tickets in the field.
FL Reno and other oklahoma towns are
no more in danger OF the Indians tnat
they are OF the Spaniards-
The war ships 1T out for Cuba on April
=. Just ut a lick that the sooners took
on April q. good many years ago
Colonel Freeman. the Oklahoma man
war. looks Ike General weyier. He may
get killed by mistake.
a dispatch from an oklahoma town call.
ed Sweeney says that the people met
last evening at dawn" and hanged Gen
eral weyter in effigy.
| There is still a hope that Dick Plum
/ kett will set % be chief Of police In the
Usage country, although some District OF
Columbia man may Slip in.
Occasionally In the midst OF this scream
/ ing war Popuhst paper ia Oklahoma will
break out in an editorial against the re-
| tirement of the greenbaeks.
The only two asplrantS for the Repuhli-
Morgan and Grist Mil Jones. No one on
the West Side has appeared.
The county attorney OF Pottawatomia
county has ordered assessors TO assess I'm
provements on Indian allotments the
same as on white mems farms
The Perry Sentinel says: u. ]. Hous-
ton shipped his family and household
goods TO Guthrie yesterday" That Is
surely pleasant way or saying II.
At Guthrie yesterday a Republican went
UP to a Populist and said: "oh. no: there
won't be any war; the money power
won't allow it." The Populist kicked
him.
Perhaps the presidents refusal 70 ap-
point Bill Walker agent OF the osages
was a delicate hint that the government
expected Bill 10 so to war and defend his
country
An Irish Democrat st Perry created
CONSERVATION among a lot OF Populists
the other day by claiming that Callahan
had turned Republican and changed as
pame 10 Callahanna-
The Oklahoma board Of health Is max
ing an investigation 10 discover whether
o. not cigarettes are injurious. IL they
lind they are. the members Of ths board
VIII begin crusade.
Through the remarks OF the old Okla
homa papers there IS rapidly growing
chasm between Oklahoma proper and tho
strip. II is too bad. II Is coming about
over the Aiva Normal.
Saltwater State: The new patent for the
townsite OF Saltwater. duplicating the one
burned in the court house FIRE. has been
received by Chairman Of the Board Eyler.
and will be recorded and filed in the
archives of the city.
Ponca City Courier: George How. tho
boy who was run over by an engine at
Whiteagle a week ago last sunday. IL on
the road 10 recovery. His ear was patch
ed up and his broken skull and jlw-bcne
are being reset nicely. He Is minus few
toes, but otherwise he viii be COMPARE
lively free from the marks Of his terrible
experience. He insists that he will Join
the militia as soon as he can get about
and be mustered IN. IL WAS this purpose
which was bringing him TO Fonca City.
He was directed at Guthrie 10 come here
TO enlist and he stole a ride north for that
purpose The train he took carried him 10
Arkansas City. and the one he took south
took him 20 Whiteagie. lie then deter
mined 20 walk to Ponca City. and u was
Just then that he nearly met bis death.
George is a neTyy lad, and II be should be-
come a soldier he will make a valiant