The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-25
Outlines of Oklahoma

The other day Judge Tarsney fined
juror ten dollars for being late at court.
The railroad surveyors have completed
their work between Blackburn and Paw
nee.
The grand jury at Saltwater has found
fifteen indictments. many OF them indict-
ments formerly quashed-
The Anchor barn at Taloga runs this
for an advertisement: Whip light, drive
SLOW. pay cash OF don't go
Flynn this week is Grating TO the people
of Greer county. He got them free homes
and is receiving great ovation
II viii be interesting TO see whether
the Rough Rider candidates in Oklahoma
VIII run ahead of their tickets.
The people are with Dennis Flynn this
year and the politicians do not seem 10
be standing by Keaton 10 any extent
The county fight in Oklahoma county
resembles Chinese riot A close peru
sal of the local papers reveals nothing
The Taloga Advocate wants curfew
bell rung atsixo' clock. at which time all
bell ruEg at six O'Clock, at which time all
lawyers must go home and stay there.
George C. Pitney. OF the Farmers and
Merchants bank OF Hennessey. and Miss
Laura y. Oliver were married last week
Bill Walker says there is no danger
Of an outbreak In the Fort Sill country.
The eastern papers insist there is danger.
Caliahan's incompstency and the open
antagonism of Keaton's friends links Den
Mss name with free homes tighter than
ever.
The Laverty letter is serious incis-
ion in Keaton's political anatomy. II
Keaton gets through II Will be wonder
full recovery.
The campaign in the counties waEeth
hotter and hotter and the candidate who
can not be swerved from duty by fear
or favor" Is greatly increased.
If Keaton is elected Oklahoma will not
become a state before 1904. 1t is lament
able but true that Republican congresses
will not admit as states Democratic ter
ritories.
A Populists's wife at Pawnee has bro
ken into the papers and says that her
husband and nearly all the Populist wives
husbands in that section are going 10 vote
for Flynn.
The Frisco track laying force was paid
off the other day and moved on Okla
homa City. carrying IT by storm. And the
next day the section boss had no one to
work for him
In one township out in D county there
was only one Democratic vote. and the
Taloga Advocate, a Populist paper. says
the man who voted that has since gone
TO the penitentiary. The Taloga Advo-
cate, with this slap at the Democrats.
turns around and supports Keaton. This
is the worst mix in the territory.
Enid Wave: The following verse was
written by Ben l.. Rector. one of Ends
soldier boys at Camp Hamilton, near
Lexington. Ky. 1t expresses the truth
concerning a soldiers life and death:
A man. a hat. blouse. gun,
Call this a soldier just for fun;
A dog-tent. blanket. candle and match.
His home is built with rare dispatch:
With bareback, bacon and navy beans.
This fellow lives within his means:
A damp. cold night and aching head,
The next day fever-soldier's dead.
My story is brief; I know it well.
And plain this moral. war is heH.
In closing his magnificent speech at
Watonga urging Populists TO stand by the
principles Of the Omaha platform. Hon.
A s. Hankins said: And shall the fond
bud Of hope of the toiling masses that
has gone forth be blasted by the blight
of fusion or will you stand firm on these
principles of eternal right until the vo-
tiers come to our cause as the winds come
nation from center TO circumference and
proclaim the glad tidings OF the birth OF
a new nation that has emblazoned in i'm
perial light upon its brow defiance 10 ty-
rants. and the people as they realize
the mighty triumph may say OF one ac-
cord this is truly a government OF the
people and for the people"