The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-08
Outlines of Oklahoma

| It is lawful. since November !. to shoot
quail and not call EN- snipe-
Save this paper and look at this tomor-
row: Dennis Flynn is elected
! Today will tell whether statehood for
Oklahoma IS a long way of or near.
! You will not hear much OF free homes
hereafter II Flynn is defeated today.
Hawkins vote is liable to be surprising
That Is the opinion Of many frank Popu-
/ lists.
in the fusion forces In Oklahoma Will be
Laverty.
There is no talk OF stay-at-home vote
| In Oklahoma Everybody apparently is
going TO vote.
If Dennis Flynn Is elected. Aonzo A
Byers Will not do little paradiIg on his
own account al all.
Up TO the very last day of the campaign
the word honorable occurred sarcastic
ally as honorable (O' il three Okla
homa papers.
Oklahoma never had an election so mo-
nentous as this Keaton's election means
that Oklahoma viii be a territory for
some time yet
The meanest place on earth to get re-
the central committees Will be quarrenng
about Greer county.
Dennis Flynn will be, elected You can
hear that sentence as far north as Chi
cago and as far south as Galveston A
good portion OF the nation IS keeping an
eye on Oklahoma today.
1t is almost a safe bet that Callahan
Will say. and ne viii surely think. If Kea-
ton hat
they get for not nominating me-"
In some cases in county elections in
Oklahoma when a candidate has succeed
ed It Is going to take him a week TO dig
his way out of the campaign lies.
Tomorrow Is . good day to remember
that no matter who is elected Oklahoma
Is one OF the very prettiezt spots on the
fact Of the earth.
The Populists might as well confess that
they id not make the feeling between
Flynn work TO their advantage in the
campaign. Had the quarrel been new and
growing it might have worked, but long
before the campaign both combants were
weary.
A Hennessey woman called at photog-
raphers with her nine children TO have
them taken. The photographer told her
his charge was three dollars a dozen. and
she replied: We'll, 1 will have 10 wait
awhile. then. as have only nine now
Norman Transcript: On the night Of
October 18th a babe of the female persua-
sion was left upon the doorstep OF ".
W. Alger in the southeast part OF town
1t was heard crying by Miss Nettie Bay
less, the housekeeper, who opened the
door and took ii in 1t was in G basket,
and with it was nete stating that 1t had
been born on October 11th- 1t was puny
little thing, weighing about five pounds.
and dressed in coarse and common cloth
ing. The note stated that its mother was
too poor to take care OF 1t, and took this
means of giving II home. Miss Bayiess
still has the little one and will keep II
until its parentage is ascertained.
In the district court at Oklahoma City.
in 1894. Charley ]. Blanchard was tried
and convicted of perjury. ana was SEN
fenced TO the Brooklyn penitentiary for
five years and to pay fine of $3.50. He
gave bond and appealed the case to the
supreme court, which at the last term
affirmed the decision of the trial court.
In the meantime the legislature of New
York passed law to prohibit the keeping
of prisoners from outside of New York
state. Blanchards friends saw the dim
outlines Of pardon for him, in as much as
he could not be sent to Brooklyn. On the
decision of the supreme court. Judge Bur-
well, last week, made an order changing
Blanchard's place of confinement to the
United States penitentiary at Fort Leav-
enworth. holding that the place OF con-
finement was no part of the judgment
and that the order could be made by the
court any time.