The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
Outlines of Oklahoma

Callahan telegraphed the Guthrie Lead
| er that hopes for free homes is SLIM
| Guthrie, by a bill recently passed. re-
mains the capital for another two years.
The senate will not confirm carpet
| baggers, as a rule. They have just crack
ed Mr.. Powers Of Perry.
| The contract for the building of the
Alva Normal school has been let to John
Volk of Illinois for sSS.eoo
| There is still hopes for free homes. The
| senate in the conference with the house
| committee may stand out for it.
| II Governor Barnes will let Major Ro-
| senbaum stay the Major Will show him
| that he Will not use eggs on the Span
/ ish.
President Mckinley was so illustrated
over the Spanish news day before yester-
| day that he forgot 10 appoint Bill Walker
| agent for the Usage Indians.
One Populist, a man from Alabama,
| voted against free homes. Jerry Simpson.
who never favored free homes came out
| to Kansas 10 escape voting on it.
1t is no josh about the Choctaw build
ing west of Ell Reno. It will find one of
the hveliest towns in the country of a
railroad when it reaches Arapahoe.
Some of the friends of the bill are talk
ing about standing by free homes in the
next congress. 1t may be that another
fight will be made. but it is not likely.
You can travel from Woodward direct
south 10 Vernon, Texas, without crossing
railroad track. AS soon as the Choc-
taw gets west you win not be able TO do
IT,
What made the road of free homes so
rel w in the house was the increased
amount it carried. Few people realize
what an immense amount OF money $685.
000, coo is.
Grosvenor of Ohio had no business vot-
ing against free homes. He has had his
way so far as appointments for Oklaho-
ma were concerned and he should have
stood by the territory.
Curtis. the member from Kansas. who
made such a hard fight for free homes
last year, would not listen to FIynn's
prayers this year and worked against the
bill and helped defeat it.
Leslie Niblack, major, o. n. c., has
been ordered TO wear glasses, by his doc
tor. The doctors assures the major that
if the government gets gay and wants
him for Cuba, he will make affidavit.
The way Dennis Flynn worked free
homes through the house before was by
going to each member personally and
begging him to support it. in fact get
ting down on his knees 20 the member
And that is about the only way the bill
could be passed.
Pleasant S. Shelley, 70 years old, of
Ponca City, is dead. Grandfather Shelley
had been quite rover in his time and
when he came to Ponca City decided to
settle down." and always advised his
friends here TO stick to their Oklahoma
homes. When about % years of age, he
emigrated to Washington county, ILL.,
nois, and few years later to Cedar coun-
ty, Mo, only to move again in little
while to Jack county, Texas, where he
engaged successfully in the stock bust
ness. At the close of the civil war, his
sentiments were so much at variance
with those of his southern neighbors that
he sold out and went in 1869 10 Humboldt,
Kansas, where he became a successful
merchant. In 1877 he went to Kansas
City, Mo-, where he lived till 1892 when
he went to Arkansas City, Kansas, to
await, with other thousands, the opening
of the Cherokee Outlet. In the meantime
he had made frequent trips TO California
and elsewhere to visit his children and
see the country.