The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-19
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

II is believed BY some politicians in Ok
lahoma that as Kansas goes 50 goes Okla
homa.
+ Il has rained so much in Oklahoma late
" that rus. has attacked sam over
I streets waiskers.
According TO the Enid Wave. the kick
that the wheat IS growing in the stack
( IS due next week.
\ wild eontagion for renovation and dec
Grafton IS now abroad among the hotel
E keepers Of Oklahoma
Jerre Johnson OF Kildare thinks that our
destiny is not towards Cuba. but towards
+ the annexation OF Canada.
Several farmers have reached Medford
: recently with their latest hogs dead from
overheating. The safest way Is TO travel
az might
/ Bertha Stutsmsn. the woman whose tes-
timony convicted her husband. Doc Suits
man. at Oklahoma City Of murder. died
this week al Shawnee.
+ Perhaps the man who was captured Ia
Blaine county wearing = Mother Hub
bard last week was in an awful conspiracy
+ with himself TO keep cool
Conclusion Of marriage notice in the
Enid Wave: The Wave joins in wishing
Mr. and Mrs. Cogdal many years OF happy
L
The Medford Patri0t SAYS harvest Is In
fun blast and harvest hands are plenty.
but they all demand hlgh wages and me
farmers VIII not pay over s. per day.
This does my heart good. said an east
ern visitor in Kay county as he rode along
the wheat fields. In Massachusetts We
have 20 plant wheat with shot guns"
The Democrats are making a hard aght
on Callahan. but they will not succeed.
Callahans defeat would be a fiat-fo0ted
concession that his iacapacity defeated
free homes
The Oklahoman at Oklahoma City
charges that Governor Barnes is attempts
Ing 10 add part Of oklahoma City land Of
fee territory 20 Guthrie and remove the
land office itself TO e Reno.
There IS no telling how popular or how
unpopular Callahan Is with the people.
Since Callahan beat Flynn there is no tell
Ing what hidden possibilities there are IN
him. The logic and Justice OF the situA-
ton was with Flynn. yet Callahan beat
him. beat him with the vote OF people
who We're voting money out OF their own
pockets.
The New York Evening Post. whose
especial delight is in roasting Indian
agents, saws OF the case Of Asa Sharp.
whom John Jensen OF Enid has succeed
ed as agent Of the Poncas. Other glar-
ing Illustrations OF the absence OF an re-
form principle from the management Of
Indian affairs may be found IL a case
which has just arisen IN Oklahoma where
the United states government has begun
the prosecution Of Asa G. Sharp OF Mary
land. who was appointed BY the present
administration agent at Ponca Reserva-
ton. Sharp IS accused OF eNtorting money
from cattlemen who were leasing Indian
lands. lie has been removed % course.
but the point Is that there Is no good rea-
son why he should ever have been appoint
ed. lie had formerly been a clerk at the
kidwa agency. while George y. Day Of
Maryland was agent there. and had mar
ricd into Lays family. Day was one e
tHa class q agents whJ arc not fn The
service for iheir health or for benevolent
reasons yet find it proa;ab', % ieave the'r
homes in q prosperous neizabot hood ia The
east. and ccCept a political office in an
Isolated place in a half-civilized territory
al 5000 a year. The type IL familiar "a all
persons who have spent much time Ia tina
Indian field, and the more they know 81 u
the less thev ike &c. when the present adj
ministratiou came fl Day IVES willing TO
90 back % his old place. but the friends
of the ki1wa and Comanche Indians. IN
Guiding some ~ the Bbiest officers ~ tho
war department. induced the president NOT
TO name him for that place. and be was
accordingly siie-tracked 90 another
equally ass good 90 and offered the Pouca
Agency. with "a salary q 81 500 At that
time he was serving in tho Maryland 1egis-
lature. SO he arranged that his son-ln-law.
Sharp. who Is also hts business partner az
home. should be nominated So bis stead
The result ~ this family affair is now be-
fore tho public. and the spectacle q At
tgrusy General BRIGGS prosecuting for
bIsckmaa "a man whom The president and
Secretary Bliss bad appointed after turn
ink out his predecessor for politics sake.
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