The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-29
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Raw recruits at Oklahoma City are call
| ed rockies
Some wheat near Perry is already over
two feet high
It ought 20 be a sure bet that Temple
Houston win enlist
Callahan is again in Washington trying
TO get the free homes bill on its feet
The city building az oklyahoma City
floats the American and the Cuban flag.
A correspondent OF the Saltwater State
urges people TO rustic around and build
cycaves.
Daniel c. Miles of Massachusetts has
temporarily succeeded Major Woodson al
Darlington.
About the only western volunteers sure
TO get TO the front is Oklahoma's COM
pany of cavalry.
Good for Bill Walker. Agent OF Kiowas-
The president has given the Klowas
new guardian-Bill Walker.
Bill Walker rushed OF TO washinton TO
get the Cheneyne and Arapahoe agency
but another fellow got IN just ahead OF
him.
The governor has accepted three OF Jake
Schweiter's Ell Reno troop The three men
selected will be put in Colonel Woods cav
airy.
General Hews offered 10 raise ten thou
sand mon and invade Spain and take Mad
rid, but the president refused to let him
do it.
Henry ASP viii witness with Joy lo1
of Oklahomans going east-the volunteers
who have not previously bored him for
passes.
There will be a riot IN Saltwater some
of these days. The town Is blessed with
an editor who is inclined to deal Viciously
in personalities.
Lots of cotton has been planted In Ok
Iahoma this year, but the cool weather
has made it slow. All crops except wheat
are behind-hand.
Anna Burda. Bohemian woman in Lin
coin county. has been sent TO the peniten-
tiary for life for killing her husband
The husband and wife quarreled over the
marriage of their daughter.
]. E. Shansfeh of Perry denounces
local library as a sham. He says that all
it had had to read In two years Is a
cheap pamphlet. Mr.. Shanefelt should
come off the perch and buy books
At the pharmacists examination at
Guthrie six out of twenty-five applicants
passed A woman. Claire E. Norris. OF
Norman got the best grades. 100 in phar-
macy 80 in materia medica and II in
chemistry.
Lieutenant Catanza, Spaniard, challeng-
ed Lee to a duel. Captain Summers Of
Oklahoma City writes to Catanza that
Lee is busy and that Captain Summers
is at his service for anything from how
itZer to brick-bats.
Guthrie Leader: By reference to the mil
itary law of the territory it will be learn
ed that the National Guard have the abb
solute right of way on all streets and high
ways, save only for the fire department
and police in the discharge of their duty
and the movement of the United States
mail. A recollection OF this fact may save
one the unpleasant embarrassment of get
ting run over by the soldiers while execut-
ing their evolutions.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Hon. j.
Y. Callahan, Populist delegate to congress
from Oklahoma. has appointed as a West
Point cadet a young man named Dicus,
of Springfield, Ohio. He is the son Of
millionaire manufacturer. This appoint !
ment is most peculiar. 1t is customary 20 |
appoint one of the bright young men of
the district represented by the member |
Of congress. In fact, this is the first case /
known for years. And then, the fact that /
Callahan is a rank Populist opposed to |
in general, and particularly /
rabid toward such men as Carnegie and /
Dicus, makes the appointment of Dicus /
son appear in a strange light