The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-18
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| Colonel Melton. a prominent lawyer OF
Tecumseh. has committed suicide.
| Harry GAstrap is with Bill Walker at
! Anadarko. going over the books of the
former agent of the Indians.
The Cheyenne Sunbeam advises all its
readers 10 vote against any candidate
! who promises to get free homes through
John Borrows OF Oklahoma county held
100 bushels of wheat until II locally reach
ed a dollar bushel. Then he unioaded it
The lower house of congress has re-
ported favorably on the opening OF Bill
Walkers new kingdom-the Kiowa coun-
try.
The family OF Newt Stanley. living near
Hennessey, was recently poisoned with
milk. II is supposed the cows ate poison
ivy.
1t costs a man 500 to steal a copy of
the Oklahoma City Oklahoman from a
doorstep. 1t would have paid him to
subscribe.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal ed
itoriaIly advises farmers to sell their
| wheat at any time the price is above a
dollar, locally.
Isenberg Of Enid says that the vocabu-
| larry of Clark Hudson, the mtsft Populist
editor of Guthrie. died with Brann, of
Waco Texas
For one whole week Tecumseh was shut
zens feel like sending coincidence 10 Blan-
CO in Havana
Away out in western Oklahoma, the Wa
shita, a stream with high banks and a
trickle OF water. went out OF its banks
a. n
J. H. Widemeyer, the weather man at
Oklahoma City. has just returned from
Texas where he has been for his health's
sake. His own weather in Oklahoma
knocked him out
Lots OF heroic actions are lost sight OF
during the war In Canadian county. re-
Gently. a man jumped into Johns creek
and saved Mrs Cerney and Miss Rose
Clark. who were drowning.
Callahan is pretty smooth. One OF
these days. while everybody is watching
war, Oklahoma will wake up TO learn that
congress has made Guthrie the permanent
capital of the territory. II will surprise
even Guthrie.
One country correspondent in Oklahoma
says the farmers have been having a ter
rible time In the first place they couldn't
work in the fields. and they couldn't get
10 town 10 buy papers containing war
news. The rains have been prodigious.
A man came in from Blaine county last
Sunday and in the evening walked
straight into the Methodist church al
Enid and stood up front looking the min
lister IN the eye. The minister kindly ask
ed the man if he had any announcement
to make, but the stranger still stood ST.
lently. The sheriff happened to be in the
church and arose and took the stranger
and put him in Jail.
Guthrie Leaders correspondent from a
Rough Rider in Texas: "OuT captain is
doing his best to make our troop the best
in the regiment, and Is succeeding. as the
major told him yesterday that his troop
was the most efficient in the bunch. Lieu
tenant McGinnis' popularity increases.
Our horses are all here, tied on a long
rope, and are the best bunch yet on the
grounds. They are the grays, and will be
ridden by the Collar company. which will
be troop D. II leaked out some way that
our boys had been thrown right and left
when the order, prepare to mount
mount! had been given. This is not so.
and not a boy in our troop has been
thrown or shown the white feather when
1t came 10 riding. II is true that we don't
look as tough as some Of the other troops
but we are rough riders Just the same.
The horses belonging 10 Captain Huston
and Lieutenant McGinnis came in yester-
day in good shape. They are the best
horses have seen on the grounds. Hats,
leggings and undershirts were issued to
the boys today. We received our blankets
and utensils yesterday. Our provisions
were poor and not of the best variety. 1t
has been pork. beef, cabbage. beans and
bread ever since we started, without any
surprises in the way of desert. The In
dian Territory troop has not arrived but
will be here in the morning Two fights
have been recorded, with no serious re-
suits. The boys are all training up AMI
look like Indians. 1t is very warm here.
The first sergeant is a good fellow and is
liked by all the boys. The Harvard and
Yale boys have been distributed among
the various troops. Private Thomas is
still at the hospital. but in no danger and
will be up tomorrow"