The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-21
Outlines of Oklahoma,


The okIahoman Is betting that Lee VIII
lick the Spaniards as quickly as Dewey
did.
Il might be good idea for Callahan to
appoint q board Of strategy. He may need
il yet
By this time Judge McAtee must realize
that he is great favorite with President
Mckinley.
BY hard work tbs present war has sue
ceeded in drowning out the Grant county
seat fight.
The clerks at Enid have pursuaded their
employers TO close up shop at eight
O'Clock in the evening
Pedro Latina Of Kildare has been ar
rested for gambling. He probably had
king or queen regent up his sleeve
The Alva Review says that the price Of
wheat is all right. but II is cruel and
unjust to the wage-earners Of the east
The war viii be over just about in
time for Oklahoma City's jubilation over
the arrival Of the Sapulpa TO gain nation
al attention
Last Tuesday evening q cyclone struck
the town of waynoka IN Woods county.
and totally wrecked three houses and
injured the school house.
A cyclone picked out the farm of Mr..
Wright, seven miles southeast of Alva.
| the other day, and played top with his
| barn, but did not touch his house.
| People on a Cboctaw train saw a fun
nel-shaped cloud the other evening and
! two women passengers grew historical
and begged the conductor to stop the
train. He wouldn't do it
| The Oklahoma man who is thrown ten
! blocks by a cyclone can have the satisfac-
| ton of knowing that he has gone through
more than he would have, had he joined
the army, and received no glory either
| The devil Of the Enid Wave office is sick.
His red-hea6ed, freckle-faced girl lives
nineteen miles our of town and he Is
afraid that a funnel-shaped cloud will
! take after her some of these afternoons.
Ned Sisson has purchased a new re-
volver and is still chasing that bad out
law, Bill Scribbins. Unless Sisson finds
| him pretty soon people will begin 10 think
| that there is no such man as Scrib-
bins.
| A man near Kildare, who must be cow
ardly. says he is building an arched cell
lar. OF course it is q cycave and he
ought to have the courage 20 come out
and say so. The man who owns up he has
a cycave is Drawer than the man who
has one and won't own it.
The Populist central committee OF
Woods county have issued an address in
which they say that II Is not so much a
question as to who shall govern the coun-
| try as whether we shall have a country
90 govern at all. 1t wasn't very long age
that Spain had the idea that we didn'i
have a country over here.
Purcell Register: The compress start
ed up this morning with fifteen hundred
| bales of cotton on the platform and more
TO come in on evening freights. The dark
les were happy as clans, and at o'clock
loudly singing the most patriotic wal
songs they could remember, they began
hustling the bales around for a big ard
brisk run-the last perhaps, Of the sea
son. All of the cotton now being com
pdessed goes direct to the Atlantic seq
board, being shipped TO New York, IRON
which port it Is sent to Fall River. Mass.
Bremen, Germany; Liverpool, England
and Kobe, japan.
Guthrie Leader: Who knows but ir
some meek and lowly cot this very instant
the testimonial and honest, out-spoken
half-tone worm panegyric OF Rev. Gala,
han are being devoured, metaphorical.y
by poor over-worked mother whose love
light beams on the flesh. pin and tape
wormed faces Of her young loved ones
We can see her now as she stoops TO her
stocking and dispossess her ralment oil
her mipted eagle and soon after, trem-
blingly calling for a bottle of "Pe -ru ma
mo substitute. please"-of the corner
druggist. Immediately the precious lives
of the young ones are saved-through the
charity, benevolence and graciousness Of
our congressman.