The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-27
Outlines of Oklahoma

A CITIZEN OF Oklahoma City lost SIS
| ter in the wreck Of the Michigan
The county seat fuss is mixing up with
politics in washita county some.
Dennis Flynn ddn', wan, ina, nomins-
| ton. But he Is mighty glad now he
| took it
Through typographical error this
week the Taloga Times says: Vote for
Dinnis Flynn"
/ There are no vacant houses a; Ponca
! City and tent life right now is hard on
| the backbone.
Oklahoma Is on big boom right now.
but everybody is so busy with politics
it isn't noticed
The fight out in wash.ta county IS
whether the sheriff arrested Is men or 3
II Il very bitter.
In Oklahoma you mark a cross in the
square TO the left OF the person Tor whom
you wish 10 vote.
Trail is the name OF a new town in
d county. II has two blacksmith shops
and q Masonic hall
Mrs. Anna Digs of Kansas IS in Ok
Ia homa speaking in the Interest OF Judge
heaton and female suffrage.
Flynn is TO have a big meeting al
Blackwell on November 5. IN which the
ball will be given final push up HILL
The hardest fights in Oklahoma ere usu-
ally in the counties or railroads. The
fight is like a prairie fire in Custer. D
and Blaine counties.
Laverty is still urging the Popunsts 10
vote for HaRkins. II Hankins gets big
vote IN Oklahoma LaverIy will bs hero
among the Populists.
AT Mcleod the schools were dismissed
TO give the children and teachers a chance
to hear Dennis Flynn Oh. no. Flynn IS
not popular with the people.
A Blackwell man named Ford was hit
in the eye by a man named Columbia.
sked who had given him the black eye.
he answered: The Gem OF the Ocean
The fusionists made a mistake when
they didn't nominate Cromwell OF Enid
or AlOnzo Byers OF Newkirk instead of
Keaton. Either one OF them could have
made better race.
The delegate TO congress Is simply Ok
lahoma's agent. Dennis Flynn in com
mercial transaction would be the best
mercial transaction would be a better
agent to send out from a wholesale house
than Keaton. Everybody acknowledges
that.
Enid Wave: Gus weiner, a butcher OF
w dukOInlS. was convicted OF insanity ldSl
week and ne has been taken 10 the sSy-
lum. 1t seems that the unfortunate man
is suffering from the softening OF the
brain. and il is a question whether he
will ever recover.
The Democratic papers are now abusing
Lavet--. just as they abused Doom ana
Hankins 1t looks like the sensible thing
to do from a Democratic standpoint. but
it is not good politics POpulists, when
one of their number is abused fancy they
are all abused. particularly when Dem
ocrat IS the abuser.
"Old Geronimo" the famous old Apache
chief, in speaking Of the education of his
people and their possible conversion says:
Schools are good things for Indians, but
It takes many years TO change the nature
OF the Indian. II an Indian boy goes
to school and learns 10 be like a white boy
he comes back TO the agency and there
is nothing for him TODD but put on a
blanket and be like an Indian again. This
is where the government is to blame.
When il takes our children away and edu-
Gates them it should give them something
to do. not turn them loose to run wild up
on the agency. Until that time comes,
educating the Indian is throwing money
away. What can an educated Indian do
out in the sage brush and cactus?