The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-01
Outlines of Oklahoma,

A man having a claim near Perry has
been offered s.. coo for REIMBURSEMENT
The opening of the public schools OF
Guthrie has been postponed until Sep
TENDER L.
There is a good deal of hope az Fort
Reno that the volunteers will yet be sent
10 Arizona
The Guthrie Free Press has enlarged.
Apparently II has financial backing and
has come to stay.
What is the Wheat Buyers association
OF Oklahoma which the Republican plat
form takes z crack al?
Rough Rider cigars are already on the
market in Oklahoma The Rough Riders
themselves smoke pipes.
W. S. McGinert. NJ. r. McGihert. and
]. l.. Lair of Mcpherson county, Kansas.
bank with a capital OF 5000.
Dick Richardson, employed with q
threshing gang near Edmond. was killed
on the Santa Fe railroad near tina town
the other day.
A community In Cleveland county has
already sent a man. g Mr.. Price, 10 Porto
Rico 10 look over the ground and see II
it IS any good.
Company F, First regiment Oklahoma
ton 20 fill The vacancy made by the res
ignatton of Captain Barrett
T X Bell has been nominated for the
legislature by the Republicans of Kay
county in the first district and James
Wilkin IN the second district.
Judge Keaton does not impress the
general reader as man against whom
capital can DO made by ridicule, although
some of his opponents are trying it.
The city council of Norman has en-
ployed Mr. Harris, Perry lawyer, 10 help
City Attorney Wolf defend the city in
the Wallace damage suit and the Tran
script is bowling IN behalf OF hons tai
ent.
Ben Vaughn, the Perry man who got
year in the penitentiary for shooting up
Sunday school picnic in a most dare
devil fashion, is asking for pardon. The
people of Perry with good sense are pro-
testing against any pardon.
Scott Reay an Oklahoma Rough Rider
says that one of the Oklahoma City
Rough Riders deserted at the battle OF
FL Caney. The Oklahoma City Times
Journal demands that the Capital name
him. 1t says the report Is not true.
Paul Hunter, Rough Rider. writes to
the Leader: Word from official source
has come TO camp that we are 10 be mus
tered out on the 9TH of September and
parade in New York on the eth. The
news was better medicine to the boys and
has helped TO brace them up consider
ably, for if there ever was an army
that wanted 10 quit and 60 home il is
the volunteers at Camp Wikoff. The
work of the Red Cross IS the only bright
spot in the hospital service and but for
the noble and sacrificing work of this
organization there would have need be
no mastering out of the army OF Cuba
No condemnation of the United States
hospital service can be too great.
Perry Enterprise: Todays train brought
in as a passenger direct from Montauk
n. Y, Claire Stewart from Pawnee, one
of the Rough Riders, who was with
Roosevelt throughout his entire cam
paign in Cuba He is thin and wan and
Of a saffron colored complexion and looks
quite different from what he did the Sun
day some three months ago when he took
the train from here on his way 10 join
his troop at Guthrie. He was clad in the
regulation duck suit we have heard so
much about and from its appearance it
has seen equally as hard service as the
wearer He is glad to get home and rest
and recuperate and when his thirty days
furlough has expired he will report back
at headquarters unless sooner discharged.
He says Dick Shanafelt has asked for a
discharge and that he would probably be
home in few days. The Red Cross So
ciety furnishes the boys transportation
and C,are's praise Of them only equall-
ii to that bestowed on his colonel. We
are glad 10 see the boys returning home
but sorry to see them so changed from
the hearty, robust fellows they were when
they started to the front.