The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-20
Outlines of Oklahoma.


The defeat OF Callahan was an awful
rebuke TO the manufacturers OF Peruna.
In their first brush the Rough Riders
had nine killed and thirty-one wounded
Callahan left the conventions long before
keaton was nominated. He knew IL was
up with him
Oklahoma ought to meet every return
ing, wounded Rough Rider at the depots
with brass bands.
Captain Capron Of Oklahoma was sho,
once through the bowels and once
through the heart.
make the race for congress on Galatians
record in congress.
And TO think that during all this ex-
element Jake SchweiZer is still a. Tampa
guarding those biscuits.
II there IS any woman in Oklahoma lone
iy it is Mrs. S. w Switzer of Enid. Both
her husband and son are in the army.
The paper the typographical boys are
editing al Guthrie is getting the repuia-
ton OF being the neatest publication in
the territory.
One Oklahoma editor says OF another
editori The uphoistering Of his thinker
has become fuzzy with the unfruitful ap-
plication Of tany.''
In making a point of order at Oklahoma
City Frank MCMaster said: This
wouldn't be genuine Democratic conven-
ton if there weren't a fool or two in
It."
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal says
that two years ago the Republican party
fought an alliance Of the Democrats, Pop
ulists, and frenzy. and that this year
the frenzy is absent.
A buck Indian weighing $50 pounds
strolled into Pawnee the other day and
sat down on a beer keg. He was so big
he tumbled over the edges and touched
the ground all around.
On August "a, at Ell Reno. the Repub-
leans OF the territory will select candi-
date for congress. They ought to taxa
a patriot. a Rough Rider, who has dem
onstrated his patriotism, and nominate
him.
Isenberg says that if Garfield and King
fisher counties had voted as they should
have voted in the Democratic convention
a west-sider. Bob Forrest of FL Reno,
would be the nominee for congress to-
day.
Emmett Collier OF Shawnee, wounded at
Santiago, closes a letter to his mother
with: Mother. don't worry about me
liCI liill4h tAdl WOGil hllAuptu any L4l4uE
from you, for have told you the straight
truth
Here is a fine letter from Emmett Collier
to his folks at Shawnee He was a Rough
Rider and wounded at Santiago He
writes: Il will now tell you briefly about
our fight and how I am wounded, and
how the attack was made on Santiago de
Cuba. We left our camp at a. m. and
moved up into the firing line so as to
open the engagement at daylight with
our artillery and smaller guns which we
did, the first gun being fired at 5:A a. IN.
on July l, our regiment (the Tenth was
right in the line firing all the time and
advancing on the intrenched Spaniards.
We drove the three miles We only had
one more hill TO capture until we would
be in Santiago. l had fought hard all
day and at about $3.50 p. m, while hand
ing wounded man drink of water /
received a shot in the left side and one
through the f1eshy part OF the right leg,
my hat having been shot off an hour be-
fore by a sharpnel shell. Well, the fun
of it was how to get TO the hospital I
crawled and hobbed along three miles
through swamps and over hundreds of
dead and wounded. some with their heads
shot off and some with holes through
them big enough 10 see through made by
u dpIISlS Silt4iS, Jul viii
draw the curtain over the awful scene.
May God grant that / may never be called
on TO witness such sight again. I A.
nally got TO the hospital and was loaded
into ambulance and hauled eight miles
over the rocks, roots, gullies and hills to
Siboney, where the hospital boat was. and
that night with S25 pounded men aboard
we sailed for Key West. Out of our en-
tire regiment only three officers were able
to give commands at the close of action,
and only ten men left of my company"