The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-07
Outlines of Oklahoma

Jake Schweizer Of e Reno has gone
| into the read estate business.
1. Photis. a candy-maker, a Greek, at
Shawnee was ruined by q fire the other
day.
| his interest in Coming Events, a paper
at Enid
Mrs. Hankins was at Alva the other
day wearing a Flynn badge. Great Cae-
sar, What does Il mean?
| Clyde Mattox is visiting his mother,
Mrs. Hatch. in Noble county. He has
been very sick with malaria
The tussIe over the territorial assess
rnent will be going when Oklahoma has
been a state and IS dying like Rome,
The Santa Fe has agreed to help the
metropolitan air OF Oklahoma City out
| by putting IN a switch engine there.
A Typographical error makes an Ok
/ lahona paper end birth notice as fol-
! lows: Mothers and child doing we'll
The Times-Journal says that more cot
! ton is to be seen ON the streets Of Okla
horna City this year than ever before,
The FL Reno Star says that IL Vesu-
vius was near that town the heat would
| be run down into town and used for fac
tory purposes.
John Waner, near Choctaw City, was
stretching wire when IL broke. the re-
coil tanglins him all up and nearly put
ting one eye out.
The town OF Chandler Is 50 crowded
| that man has TO go outside the city
! limits to get his watch out of his peck
ct TO see what time IT is.
The other night al Ponca City the Their
mometer fell 20 degrees in about an hour
and a lot OF people froze TO death rather
than get UP and hunt a blanket.
The Guthrie Leader has made a wonder
| full statement. 1t says that there are
! newsboys in Washington who have more
| influence in congress than Dennis Flynn.
II is charged by the Enid Wave that
Webster Davis in his speech at Enid con-
! fined himself to monosyllables. Possibly
he knew Sy. Oberla-nder was in the audi
| ence.
The officers of the High School Cadets
at Oklahoma City have resigned because
of report that they would be compelled
| to march with negroes during the street
| fair.
! 1t is to he hoped that the fad OF
| granting pardons before trial in Okla
homa has died out. 1t may be according
| to law, but it looks a little bit shaggy,
/ just the same.
| Callahan insisted during his campaign
| that free homes was not an issue. As a
| plain truth 1t was an issue. Dennis Flynn
and Free Homes were then are now sy-
nonoGnous. The defeat of one meant the
defeat of the other.
| The Perry Demcrat-Patriot is the au-
thor of the following story printed in its
Mondays issue: Rev Doty has been
holding quite a revival near CARRIER
northwest of Perry. Nearly everybody
has professed religion in the commu-
nifty except James Moreland, who gets
drunk every time he gets where whisky
| is kept, and often he keeps his jug under
the bed. For weeks Morelands neighbors
have been trying to get him to attend
church and Friday night Moreland con-
quite a warm sermon. and night in the
middle of the exhortataon Moreland jump
ed to his feet and cried out: I've got III
I've got it, This brought the whole aud
fence TO their feet. Some thought More
land had really professed religion. willis
others knew he was fooling and making
fools out of the whole audience. More
lands antics became quite ridiculous and
several strong brethren attempted 10 drag
him out of the house 50 that the services
could continue. This caused a great dis
turbance. Moreland turned over one-hAlf
of the seats and later whipped out a Az
cahbre revolver and the brethren and Sis
tiers scattered in every direction. On be
ing asked what he meant by saying. I've
got It," he said: H, why religion, of