The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-28
Outlines of Oklahoma,


Oklahoma City is now signing for 9
railroad northwest to KinghSher
Jake Admire stiH contends that "tc
equaAZe' isn't equivalent Ito raise"
There are people in Oklahoma who still
believe that Harry ST. John IS not dead.
! Fifty homesteaders win prove up or
| their claims in Garfield county this Aug
! ust.
| OkAhoma's cotton crop this year. II is
! said, viii not be one-third as large as
| that of last year.
Cell Newcomb the brave Rough Rider
| fired thirty-five shots before the Spaniards
| brought him down.
The people OF Shawnee are lacking UP
the mail clerks on the Choctaw who have
habit of carrying the mailsacks by.
A man never contemplateS Oklahoma
politics that he does not wonder what has
| become of the versatile Ralph Bea umont.
The Oklahoma summer breeze usually
discovers which side house has 10 win
dows and then blows from that direction
Leslie Nfblack is getting himself into a
political naelstrom, and he viii soon be
gin TO discharge fireworks with great ef-
feet
Corporal Jim Shockey, a Rough Rider.
who never got further than Tampa. where
the fever got him, has returned 20 Okla
homa-
Rough Rider for a candidate, Oklahoma
will have the greatest campaign in her
history.
Senator Haven came in from his farm
TO Enid the other day In Prince AL
bert coat. He reports the bull calf still
prospecting.
Sam Murphy is OF the opinion that Kea-
ton viii not have the ghost of a show
against Captain Bob Houston, If Houston
is nominated.
The Usage nation has two delegates
in the Republican territorial convention.
The Democratic convention had no dele
gates from the nation.
AT Stroud last Sunday a 12-year-old boy
traded his pocket-knife for whisky and
became dead drunk. The people are now
hunting for the men who took the pocket
knife.
The mayor of Knob Knoster, No. has
written TO the mayor of Oklahoma City
asking for pointers in regard to the re-
sources of Oklahoma This would indi-
cate that the Knob Knosterers were about
TO descend on the territory.
Welch Of the Perry Enterprise is sure
of one th!ng-the Republican nominee for
congress will not be a carpet-bagger. But
Welch should come out for a Rough
Rider. There are nfnety-six OF them.
and he ought TO find one to suit him in
the brave band
Teddy Roosevelt Is talked of as gov
ernor for the Indian Territory the ter
ritory TO be organized at once. and the
idea being that Roosevelt would work up
the plan OF one state out Of both terri
tories. But IL is a dream The Republic
ans will nominate Roosevelt for goYerno.
of New York.
Enid men, according to the Wave, car
offer evidence that money would have
bettered Bob Forests condition at Ok
lahoma City. The money talk is tire |
some. It doesn't have han so much to 90 |
with politics as people believe. Keaton |
was nominated at Oklahoma City be- |
cause he had the votes.
Guthrie Capital: Governor Barnes and |
Dennis Flynn have each declared for |
any man who can win Neither has any /
candidate. One is as anxious for Repub-
lican success as the other. They and the |
friends of each are united in the deter |
to elect a Republican delegate |
this fall and win back 10 the Republican |
party the counties OF the territory. Both |
the governor and Flynn will be on the 1
stump. side by side, this fall showing why
it Is better for Oklahoma to have Re
publican than fusion officers. The record
will bear them out in every such declara-
ton.
Guthrie Leader: II. s. lands, warden
OF the Kansas state penitentiary at Ian
sing. is in the city today. With his ac-
counts against the territory for the last
quarter, amounting TO only s., 500, morally
speaking, Oklahoma stands better than
the state of Kansas. considering popula-
ton. Oklahoma has 800, 900 inhabitants
and only $50 convicts in the penitentiary,
gainst $40 Kansas convicts, with a popu-
ation Of one and half millions. This
as made by Warden Lands
gives the territory a chance 10 slap back
At its detractors. Despite al the wild
tories of outlawry and crime, Oklahoma's
prison record shows how she stands.