The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-15
Outlines Of Oklahoma.


Jim Diggs Of Perry and Tom Doyle are
a great team in a convention
Sheriff Overton Of Greer county stands
six feet two in his stocking feet
AS rule. parties are superior to men IN
Oklahoma. This is not true Of Kansas.
The territorial Democratic platform also
stands by the Typographical union OF
Guthrie.
Tom Doyle tried hard TO act as one Of
The pail st the burial of fusion IN
Oklahoma
Alonzo Byers in spite Of that Spanish
name. "Alonzo." got 10 be permanent
chairman OF the Democratic convention
Ned Sison has quit chasing Bill Serb
bins. Scribbins swears that he will shoot
Sison's eyelashes on the FIRST time he sees
him.
Governor Barnes is in Chicago. Every
editor in the territory is betting that he
will never stop TILL he gets 20 Washing
ton.
The Republicans should nominate a
Rough Rider for congress. BY the time
he Will take his seat the war will be
over.
Fusion will annihilate the Democratic
party in Oklahoma. Just as II did In Kan
sas, II The Pops get the legislative nomi-
nations.
Callahan really wanted TO act square
an fair with the Democrats. But Gala
han never did and never will control the
PopuIist party.
A man named Grimes at Enid was ar
rested for carrying concealed weapons.
taken before a prize court, according TO
the Wave and heavily fined.
With success in sight there will be no
kind of fight for the Republican nomina-
ton for congress at all. The Republicans
should nominate a Rough Rider.
Charlie Wrightsman notified the Demo
Gratis that as chairman he wouldn't toll
crate a Rough House" Nothing but
Rough Riders go in Oklahoma this year
Bob NeR was chairman Of the Populist
convention. AlonZo Byers OF the Demo-
cratic convention. Is Kay county running
the territory? Logan county should look
into this.
Near Waynoka is a race Of giants. Mr..
Hotchkiss is six feet four inches; his
oldest son Jessie IS six feet six inches;
Clarence. the next son, is six feet five
inches, and Sidney. ten years old, is over
five feet. George ". Ferguson is six feet
two; w. II. Olmstead is six feet two and
a half; Mr.. Dew is six feet three. All are
neighboring farmers.
Guthrie Leader: The Oklahoma battal-
ion may not be held at Fort Reno as long
as many Of the boys feared it would.
Part of the uniforms and equipments have
already arrived there, and others are ar
irving daily. From the character Of the
material out of which their uniforms are
made, it would seem that the boys will
soon be on their way to the tropics.
Ponca City Courier: Lieutenant Musel-
Ter is not very old at military evolutions
and usages, but he has the capability TO
learn everything very quickly. The other
day, after he had received his commits
sion, he wanted TO get a manual Of arms
10 post himself for service and he couldn't
possibly think of the name of the book
so he wrote his captain to please send
him copy Of that book on military ETH
quette." 1t has already cost him haDy
a cigar and the end is not yet.
Guthrie Capital: All day yesterday af-
ternoon Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Tarrants. their
friends and the city police were out In
the city looking for Luther, their little
5-year-old boy, who had been missing since
o clock in the morning. The little fellow
said he was going boat riding and this
made his parents very uneasy as they fear
ed he might have gone 10 the river. HIS
dog was also missing. After hours OF
suspense II was learned that he had gone
on visit to the country with an old lady
who was passing the house and asked
him to go. not thinking it would cause
any trouble.
r. A. Hume writes home from Santiago
to FL Reno: The poor Cubans are a
sight They are half starved and most
of them have no clothing at all. They
were the happiest people on the face of
the earth to see US land. In the fight
it was TO l in favor of the Spaniards.
They had trenches dug, but we licked
them. If they come around us now we
will more than wipe them Off the face
of the earth. I was shooting from behind
a large rock. and the bullets ratified on
the rock like beating on a snare drum,
but we kept shooting into the Spaniards
our hardest Eghr will be when we go 10
capture the city. We are among the noun
tains and in some Of the most beautiful
scenery l ever saw, We marched through
a cocoanut grove five miles wide The
ground was covered with cOcoanuts. and
the boys didn't do thing 10 them