The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-23
Outlines Of Oklahoma

Most Of the fish 10 be caught in the
Wichita mountains are sun-pereh-
The fusionists n Oklahoma concede l.
500 majority TO Hawkins in the territory.
II HanKlns gets 1000 Keaton is gone COS
ling.
Saturday night the citizens OF Arapahoe
gave a reception TO Burt Hardenorook,
Custer county's only soldier IN the late
war.
Mrs Mccain of Perkins. while speew-
ing, caught her foot in the carpet and
stumbled. stepping on her baby's arm and
breaking il.
According to a party from Cloud Chief.
now camped in the Wichita mountains.
there is a gorge there the sides Of which
are 900 feet high
II there is 10 be joint debate, why not
have it three-cornered and let Hankins
in? Haakins will stack up beside Flynn
and Keaton both.
Both parties in Oklahoma are acting
measurably sensible this year. They ore
not going 10 complete their poll until
within a month of the election
Isenberg of Enid is sure of one thing. II
there is ever F. F. O. in Oklahoma il
will be cinch that the ancestors came
to the territory in covered wagons.
Ginners IN Oklahoma, through q law
passed by the last legislature. must keep
a book and note down in it the land on
which every bit of cotton they buy was
raised.
The campaign in Oklahoma is very
close Everybody comedies that. Keaton
is not TO blame so much as his managers
who have been outmanaged badly from
the start.
Webster Davis, who is to speak for
Flynn in the territory is assistant secre-
tary of the interior. and whatever he
says about free homes Will have great
weight in Oklahoma
A poll of Woods county would. il care
fully made, almost give the result in the
territory. II Hankins and Flynn can get
as many votes in Woods county as Kea-
ton. Keaton is beaten in the territory.
The talk that Dennis Flynn is afraid
to debate with Keaton because Of Kea-
tons superior ability is a mistake. Flynn
tackled Hoke Smith without a wink and
he could keep above water around Kea-
ton.
Jim Taggart of Enid has composed
song entitled: Goodbye, dear Dennis.
Goodbye" which is said to be so terrible
that it would make a buffalo-robe shed
feas
1t is said that in the last two years
5000 voters have come into Oklahoma,
mostly from Texas. and mostly Popuists
They have been educated 20 fight Demo-
Gratis and Keaton better rustic down there
and see them.
A sheriff of one of the Strip counties
teegraphed the superintendent at Nor
hof he
with his insane brother. The superintend-
ent locked both men in a cell and tele-
graphed back to the sheriff: Dave and
Bill have both arrived and L have locked
them up. Dave talks about building an
airline railroad TO the moon, and Bill
says Keaton will pass free homes bill
through congress. Which one shall /
keep" This story comes from the Arsp-
ahoe Bee.
A party of people picnicking in the
Wichita mountains write back to the
Cloud Chief Herald follows: Just
south of the camp about three-fourths
of mile was an old Spanish fort 1t was
a mound on which there are rife pits
a half dozen in number: by the side OF 1t
was a hill a little higher on which the
Spaniards had a mountain howitzer or
cannon. This fort commands the gaps
opening into the valley from the east,
west and south. Here the Indians say
is where XIII heap Indian. Kill heap
Spanish by which we understand a great
amont OF fighting was done here in the
past. Here also was, to the southeast, a
mountain, grass-covered. and ore which
grew cedar trees in the form OF the cross.
MIR. McMaStcr of Oklahoma City took
photo of this and dubbed it Mount OF
the Holy Cross" We could see Mt Scott
ahead of US in the distance"