The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

Governor Barnes may soon 60 20 war
himself. The Barnes family is war-iike.
A suit club at Shawnee has gone TO
pieces with the members 500 In the hole
The latest is that Pottawatomie county
wants TO be attached to Oklahoma county
for military purposes.
Jerre Johnson OF kildare thinks that
the visible supply of colonies is increasing
instead of defeat diminishing.
II Will be now fully four years before
the supreme court will decide another way
on the assessment controversy.
The Kildare Journal says that the corn
is so high down there that lightning bugs
can be seen flashing through IL In the day
time.
Leslie Niblack Is now In complets con-
troll Of the Guthrie Leader. and 1t IS said
he will compromise with the Typographical
union.
The Hutchinson and Southern escaped
taxation at Blackwell through the cir
cumstance that It did not reach that point
until March L
AS matter Of fact. Oklahorna's Rough
Riders should have retreated according
to military usage But they just stood
up and fought
It is charged that since the Blackwell
girls began to make shirt-waists OF the
American flag there. the boys have no
trouble In rallying around 1t.
Captain Boynton Of Kinghsher offers
as an inducement for men to enlist that
the Philippine islands will be surveyed
and thrown open to settlement
If free homes is made an issue this year
Callahan will make It so. And he viii
weaken his campaign by doing IT, The
average settler has determined TO pay
for his land.
! Sam Overstreet refuses to take hand
! in the prosecution OF those citizens Of
| Norman who mobbed J. ]. Wallace of Ok
lahoma City for bringing a negro there.
| because, Mr.. Overstreet says, the offense
comes under the Oklahoma laws. not fed
eral.
| George Young Of Shawnee put his bob
tailed COW in Dave Fruits pasture. Young
later sent for his COW and received a
! bob-tailed bovine, which he butchered. II
proved to be Dawes cow. There happened
10 be two bob-tailed COWS and they got
into the pasture.
When Governor Barnes was appointed
governor every Democratic paper was for
him as against Flynn. Ever since that
| day the Democrats have been hunting an
excuse to fight Barnes. They have found
| II at last-the appointment as captain OF
Governor Barnes son.
Blackwell Sun: Capt. Weythman and
H. L. Vile were up from Carlisle town
ship Monday. Owing to the heavy rain
Of the previous evening they found II
necessary to organize themselves into a
| flying squadron. They found the wind IN
their favor coming up gently TO the lee
ward from the sou,' son'-west. About
/ three leagues out from Salt Fork Harbol
the Captain being in the lookout, sighted
the schooner acknowledgements, Captain
Patton off the star board quarter, flying
the signal of distress, Pilot Vile was In
structed to heave to and come alongside
the schooner, which had gone agrounc
near the Harbor de Sutliff, on account OF
a missing bridge and improper soundngs
After giving proper relief to Captain Pat
ton the flying squadron sailed on without
further adventure tin it reached Close
Straits. In Sweetwater Bayou. Here Pilo
Vile lost his bearings and run the squad
ron into the breakers. Heavy seas rolleC
over the forward deck, striking Captain
Weythman amidshps and rushing dowr
Pilot Wiles leggings over the stern
sweeping everything that was loose or
into the water. The gallant crew con
Quoted themselves as befitted their hith
erto heroic record and brought the squad
ron out with flying colors and not mucI
the worse for their perilous adventure
They anchored safely in Blackwell Har
bor about the eleventh bell and came
ashore to report at the Sun office and drS
their breeches.