The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-21
Outlines of Oklahoma.

So far the market In Oklahoma this year
! has been terribly oYerstocked with cy-
/ caves.
Frank McMaster and r. Q Blackney Of
! the Oklahoman are pounding shells into
/ each other.
The Oklahoma druggists say that the
! sale OF Peruna has not increased since
Callahan indorsed it.
Last week al Chickasha two men had a
| duel. One had a revolver. the other a
| Winchester. and both missed.
The southern part OF Garfield county
was visited by q hail storm last week. but
most OF the fields were insured.
The Rough Riders from Oklahoma are
all in Cuba and on foot They viii not
| have far 10 drop when they dodge.
The Republican league meeting takes
place al Perry today and a whole lot Of
dark green medicine will be puddled
Lawrence Parker of Oklahoma county
has been sent 20 Norman. His insanity
induced him to butt his head against
trees.
The printers at Guthrie claim that
Frank Greer also owns the Leader. and
that the light between the two papers IS
fake.
When the Oklahoma Rough Riders en-
camped al Mobile over night some Span
lsh sympathizers ham-strung five of their
horses.
Colonel Bradley OF Kingfsher has made
arrangements to be present at Perry to-
day, and viii give an imitation Of the
Vesuvius.
II don't blame EN- said an Enid min
lister TO himself last Sunday. as ne look
ed at his congregation. Il would 60 10
sleep myself
Perry sympa1hizes with Oklahoma City
in its trouble in keeping its land office
from the voracity of the Mckinley family
in the Guthrie land Office. Perry was
scared once itself.
Ten little Indian girls from the Kick
apoo tribe, with their teacher, are resid-
lng in Oklahoma City. They will re-
main a month in order to see how the
pale face does things.
1t is not known how far Sidney Clark
is in the race for delegate, but he would
make a most excellent congressman, as
much more excellent than Callahan is as
marble is more excellent than mud.
When the Rough Riders went to Cuba
Jake Schweizer was left behind at Tampa
in charge of the military stores. The
government knew that 1877 individual
d
at Jake.
Last Sunday Editor Cook of the Cloud
Chief and Sheriff Morrison. his friend.
were sitting on bench talking politics
Suddenly and without provocation Morri-
son threw Cook down and beat him I'M
mercifully. Cook is in bed aud his friends
are trying to get Morrison to explain.
Soldier life is not all pleasant. An Okla
hnrna RnIl0h RidaY writing bnDaa
When we started we had three days
rations issued. 1t consisted OF one can of
corned beef for eight men, and three
hard tack a piece At noon a can of
baked beans was given eight of us,-that
IS what they fed us on for thee days
but when the three days were up they
didn't feed us anything but hard tack.
The fourth day began at Tallahassee, so
while the horses were taken out OF the
cars and fed, which took about five hours,
us boys made up foraging party. Well,
the guard had strict orders not 10 let any
of us off the train, but he was as hungry
as the rest Of us, so we got him to stand
with his back to US while we crawled out
the windows. We went up town and Wis
tied the stores. Some of US would crowd
around the storekeeper and tell him all
about cowboy life while the rest of them
did their duty filling their blouses with
everything good to eat. We got better
grub than the government had been feed
ing us, too. As we were going back to
the car with our spoils we ran into Major
Brodie. He gave Us sly wink and pre-
tended to be awful mad. He said we
hadn't ought to come where he could see
US with stuff like that, as II was his duty I
TO keep us from II. He said just so he !
didn't see us it was all right. Then we /
visited a lot of chicken houses and got 1
ten chickens and two geese. Then we 1
eft Tallahassee. At several small towns /
along the way we managed TO get enough |
pies and stuff for supper. or course we /
had them all charged to US till after we /
got back from Cuba. We crossed the ]
Swanee river at about 10 p. m. I stayed /
up to see It, as 1t is talked so much |
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