The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-19
Outlines of Oklahoma,

After October !. the people OF Gray
Horse. Usage Nation. will have daily
mail.
Alva is still kicking against old Okla
hema assuming a protectorate over the
Strip.
An Oklahoma City man advertises HIM
self as the best sausage maker on
earth"
But wouldn't the Populists be strictly
in Il in the future II Keaton should be
beaten?
One hundred and thirty-two students
are recorded at the present county normal
in Enid.
The recruits at Ell Reno just got over
being raw when the war ended and they
became sore.
Isenberg figures that as Harry Gilstrap
is for c. G. Jones, Jones must be Flynn'S
candidate, too.
The Indian burning sensation seems 10
have died out completely. The Indians
were burned last January.
The Greer county Republicans in their
county convention Endorsed Governor
Barnes and Secretary Jenkins
The first well at Geary went down sew
enty-two feet. The supply of soft water
therefrom seems 10 be inexhaustible.
1t is reported that Oklahoma City is
to have a brewery. The Chicago Tri-
bune makes editorial mention Of the
fact.
According to the Guthrie Leader the
Frisco offers 10 build from Luther, rear
Sapulpa. TO Guthrie, for bonus Of
$50, 900.
Oklahoma City will grant a franchise
to a street railway company. Judge Dale
is said to be one OF the promoters in
the matter.
1t is said that Sidney Clarke may be
in the next Oklahoma legislature. The
average legislature needs some one TO
counsel with.
Frank Greer says: Let every man go
to FL Reno as a Republican. not as
Barnes or a Flynn man." That would
be the sensible thing to do.
The candidates for Republican nominal
ton for delegate are CARRIER. Jones, Nor
gan, Haven, Roberts. Mcknight, Ste
vents, Asher. Yickers, Beebe, and few
others.
Washington Irving wrote about his trip
in Oklahoma nine years after he made
the journey and his memory miscued at
is dispute over the exact route he took.
Joseph Bubser had a fine farm near
Seward He died. Now his son comes on
from New York to get the title quoted,
claiming II was the intention Of his father
to become citizen of the United States.
One of the signs of prosperity in Okla
homa is the number of aspirants for
office who publish announcements in pa
lof nv
man escape. A man who thinks he ought
to run for office ought to publicly an
nounce il in a newspaper.
Cliff Scott, Rough Rider, writing from
Santiago. where he says the boys have
not had a shave since they left the
states and where he has the only haircut
in the company. a feat accomplished with
a pen-knife, relates this: ut is funny to
watch us fight bugs we've got them
good and plenty. Here are some Of the
different methods we use. We can't boil
our Clothes for we haven't anything
larger than a canteen to hold water in,
so we turn our shirts inside out, and it
keeps them busy hunting for the inside
and keeps US busy turning our shirts.
A funny thing happened this evening.
Some one told us that IL we would put
our clothes on an ant hill, that the ants
would clean them out; one of the boys
volunteered to try it; he left ii in for
couple of hours and put 1t on without
shaking out the ants. Well, the way he
got out of that shirt wasn't slow. Then
we have prize-fights. We get couple
of large ones and put them together.
They fight until one kills the other and af-
ter one kills dozen or so he is considered
prize and is Immediately in demand.
One of the boys has one that he calls
Uncle SAM" that has whipped every
grayback in camp. Oh, We have lots of