The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-29
Outlines of Oklahoma.

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Biedler, ex-postmaster at Oklahoma
| City, VIII go TO Honduras to hunt gold.
| Teddy Roosevelt staked ali his Rough
| Riders with hve-doilar gold piece each
| The Idlan Territory volunteers have ar
| rived al Fort Reno and the full quota
on the last call. COO. is now there.
Major Eskridge of Fort Reno. who was
badly wounded a Santiago. is at Fortress
Monroe at present. and is recovering
The war department has given Okla
homa permission to recruit twelve men
for the third regiment volunteer engi-
neers.
Judge Tarsney is of the opinion that If
Geary doesn't straighten up morally ne
Will go out there and hold a term OF
court
Mr. Gonaulus. living near Medford. is
hunting for his wife. who Is believed 10
have run away with a farm hand named
Jim Shaw.
Frank Greer says Dennis Flynn and
Governor Barnes Will unite on cadidate
for delegate They might better take a
Rough Rider.
Grist Mill Jones dozen know whether
he will run for congress or not He wants
to see the boys first. Jones Will not run.
He will be for Rough Rider.
The Indians are catching the white
mans ways. Sixty Indian children walk
ed in from the ChilOcco schools to Ar
kansas City the other day to attend q
circus.
The county commissioners of Oklahoma
county have ordered the county clerk rot
TO record the "a per cent raise in Assess
ment demanded by the territorial board
of equalization.
The Oklahoma City Street Fair has been
incorporated II is trades display and
all the newspaper men are among the
incorporators. What big part news
paper men take in pushing things in a
community.
The Oklahoma City News, which is Kea-
toms organ, says that President Cleve-
land knew that keaton was a silver man
when he appointed him. How did Glove
land come to do it? The explanation
would be interesting.
William Whitworth. the Populist editor
out at Alva who recruited a company OF
volunteers and talked so big about war,
slumped and would not go to war him
self. He has been dismissed from the ser
vice, as he wanted 10 be.
Four Usage Indians walked into hotel
and ordered rooms at Arkansas City the
other night. The clerk demanded pay IL
advance, the Indians became hot and
made faces at him and the clerk screamed.
Oklahoma is no longer the Wild and woody
west.
The Oklahoman says that Oklahoma's
troops now in the territory Will be sent
to Fort Whipple, Arizona. and thence 10
Jacksonville where they will join Lees
command and go to Porto Rico or Cuba.
The chances are that they will do nothing
of the sort They will in all probability
be sent to Hawaii.
Enid Wave: For some reason or other
the man who can tell a good tale or sing
a good song can never get to the front in
Oklahoma, politically speaking. 1t IS
gentleman in possession of the elephants
check, who is continually belchiDg forth:
81 won't do thing to you If you don't
follow me- who takes the front seat in
the synagogue and brings his party INTO
disgrace In the end.
w. w. Painter of Guthrie, just returned
from Klondike, says to a reporter for the
Free Press: How about the stories of
Joaquin Miller, the California poet. who
writes for the st. Louis Republic"
''They are the most outlandish conslomer-
alton of lies ever told. He has been writ
ing in the interest Of an investment. com
pany there. His lies are outrageous and
have cost several who took stock In them
all they had and in some instances their
life. The miners came very near hanging
him this spring at Dawson City. The
United States officials should see TO those
fellows writing from there"