The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-28
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

The Purcell Register. during the war, Is
getting out daily edition.
Mr.. Cox Of Cheyenne has purchased
cotton gin and is setting II up.
In one Oklahoma town WeyIer is known
! by the nickname OF Butch.
From all appearances the late frosts this
year killed the young budding cyclones.
Walker Martin. pioneer in the Choc-
taw nation. committed suicide last week.
Everybody on the outside has proclaim
ed neutrality in the Grant county seat
fight.
/ There is a surprising increase in the
number Of fish in all Oklahoma streams
this spring.
/ The FL Reno Star says that 1t IS a fact
| that there has been no desertion from the
regular army.
! There is man in Lexington who is
/ fortyfive years Of age and has never voted
| fer a president
J.P. Baden. the miller al Winfield, Kan.
! it is said, is preparing 20 erect an eleVa-
/ tor in Blackwell.
/ Purcell will put big steel bridge across
/ the wachita- The bridge will be paid for
/ by local subscription.
! It is easy enough for anybody in Okla
| homa to come to Kansas and enlist, and a
whole lot of patriots will do it.
! The Enid Democrat says it believes that
had a Democrat been in Callahan's place,
the free homes bill would have passed
White Eagle, chief of the Pawnees, has
| just returned from Washington wearing
a badge which reads: TO Hell with
| Spain
The Oklahoma farmers who are stiN
holding their wheat are smart Those who
followed Letter got left Letter unloaded
too early.
This has been one Of the coolest Aprils
! Oklahoma has ever known. Even the
house flies haven't had the courage 20
come out and inspect the lay of bald
heads.
The Perry Supper Bell had dispatch
from Key West the other day saying that
Havana was in flames, but the cable was
! 'rumpled," and details could not be Sc
cured.
Jerry Bailey in Texas wants TO go 10
war and he wrote his father az Oklahoma
City asking permission, saying; Shall l
be a dude in peace and coward in
war; The old man told him to skin out
One Oklahoma City citizen can't find any
other complaint against the city council
men than that they don't show UP till S
o'clock when the hour of meeting is $50.
He should thank heaven and shut his
mouth.
The Cheyenne Sunbeam, away out in
Roger Mills county, where the Spanish
have never been since Coronado's time,
and where they could never get again, alb
hors war, and says it honors the Pope for
trying to prevent it,
Oklahoma City Times-Journal:-The ter
ritorial w. c. T. L. convention meets IN
the Methodist church in this city on
Thursday and Friday. the 2Sth and 18th
The day exercises will be devoted TO the
business of the organization, but outsiders
are welcome The evening OF the 18th Will
be devoted to Frances Willard memorial
exercises. An interesting program mas
been prepared. The evening of the 18th Is
TO be devoted to a gold medal contest
Shawnee News:-Company F had a live
" skirmish out on the Kickapoo reserva-
ton Sunday afternoon. The boys are
making rapid progress in their manuel OF
arms. and are anxious for orders to move
on to the war. A large squad of recruits
were also being drilled under Captain Bar
rett. These boys are mostly volunteers
from the country. a fact which shows the
patriotic feeling existing in our rural dis
!