The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-26
Outlines of Oklahoma

There is pne soldier at Fort Reno from
Guthrie who has four life insurance poll
cies.
Amos Ewing is back from Washington.
He says Joe Roberts will be appointed
judge,
Governor Barnes is riding around in a
| handsome new phaeton he bought IN
Chicago.
One Oklahoma Rough Rider sent home
$50 with instructions to the folks 10 buy
calves with IL.
Bill Grimes had his thinking cap on
when he came out for Captain Houston
for delegate 70 congress
The FL Reno News claims that Bob
Forrest could have been nominated at Ok
lahoma City if he would have put up
money.
II there should be cyclone the inhab-
itants would have to take an ak and cut
their way through cob-webs TO get into
the cycaves.
According TO the Chandler News. an Ok
Iahoma woman whose husband enlisted
and went TO war has sued him for di-
vorce charging desertion.
Amos Ewing and MoCabe have Joined
the Rough Rider movement The Perry
Enterprise Is kicking on It. II thinks it
is Governor Barnes scheme. Barnes is
for Beebe.
Tom Holmes writes home 10 Nswkirk
that he was wounded IN the knee at San
tiago and that Starr Wetmore was also
wounded They are doing fine and viii
be out IN a month.
The Republicans in the territory do not
want TO bank TOO hard on the idea that
Populists will not vote for a Democrat
nf had
to learn that lesson.
The PopunsJs are praying that the Re-
publicans nominate a Rough Rider. The
Populists would vote for him and tell
the Democrats that they always put patri-
otisrn before partisanship.
The Kansas City Times Acknowledges
that Houston would be a strong candi
date for congress, but accuses him of once
being a school-teacher. What queer ar
guments Democrats make!
Theodore Miller wealthy young man
from Ohio, graduate of Yale, came to
Oklahoma and tried to get into the Rough
Riders and failed. He followed them TO
San Antonio and got in. He was wounded
at Santiago.
Bryan went to war to help himself po-
litically later on. 1t will help him. No
one disputes that. The Popuhsts ex-
pect Republicans to vote for Bryan on
that SCORE. Will they vote for Rough
Rider Republican for congress?
a man should not have TO pull and haul
and promise, Halter and cajole 10 get
noUrnauon. The best nominees are the
men who are nominated without their
permission. If the Republicans Will Sc
lect Rough Rider for congress they will
get just such a man.
Two Greeks have taken out naturaliza-
ton papers at Oklahoma City. They
have lived In Oklahoma for FIVE years.
During all that time their kin-folk in
Armenia had to pay s. annually for them
to the Turkish government. Now, having
become United States citizens, the Tur-
kish government will come out $40 shy
this year.
Manchester Journal: A mullin weed 5
feet inches tall was brought to this
office on the 18th by E. G.. Armstrong,
which grew about five miles southeast
Of Manchester. The plant was set out
and cultivated by Mr.. Armstrong. Null
lin grows wild all over the east, but this
is the first we ever saw in the west, and
was the subject of much surprise and
among many of our visitors that
day.
Ponca City Courier: Charles A. Cook
Of Blackwell, aged about twenty years,
was shot and killed last Friday night
about ten O'Clock in Collins barber shop,
by Adolphus Hackley, the coIored porter
and boot black. The ball which caused /
the death was p calibre. from a target
rife anditentered the frontal bone. direct
y over the right eve of young Cook. Cook
passed away an hour after he was shot. |
Lyle Stewart and NJ. A. Patrick were the |
only eye-witnesses to the affair, and their |
description of it verifes young Hackley's |
THAT il was accidental