The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-19
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Work on the foundation OF the compress
az Oklahoma City has commenced
Track-laying on the Choctz~ to the new
| town OF Geary viii begin as soon as the
| iron arrives.
| Frank Greer says that his new paper is
purely q money-naking concern. and II
IL doesn't make money II win not run.
| Colonel Wood photographed Governor
Barnes the other day that the Oklahoma
Rough Riders were among the best men.
Mr. Redding and 3r. Beck OF oklahoma
City sent one train Of wheat consisting
OF twenty-seven cars to Chicago the other
day.
j. H. Watson. an old man who has been
| preaching on the streets of Norman.
dropped dead the other evening OF heart
| disease.
An Oklahoma City poet says Admiral
| Dewey is on every tongue" This is not
true in the case of the Spaniards. He is
on their neck.
J. c. White Of Oklahoma county has Eve
fine acres. which he put in wheat for SIX
years. The crop has averaged in that
| time SIS TO the acre.
The food the Rough Riders get Is rather
poor, and one Oklahoma man writes hack
! TO the Guthrie Leader that he has already
| forgotten how TO spell pie.
The Democrats in Oklahoma are becom-
/ ing pyrotechnicahy independent. II they
make the bluff strong enough taey may
be able TO make the Populis.s kneel.
Liberty will rise on it's hind legs and
snort. The Choctaw survey at SILVIA
ter runs through Bob Lowrys back yard
and he threatens to get out an injunc-
| ton.
| It is estimated that in Oklahoma county
al least one-third of the farmers held
some Of their wheat for a dollar a bushel
| on the local market. They are now un-
| loading fast
| II begins TO LOOK as IL Dehnis Flynn
had resolved TO stay in Washington Until
some one else is nominated for congress.
There would be nothing in II Tor FLYNN
in running for congress again.
The Guthrie Leader in complimenting
! Oklahoma City girls on their repartee,
says a young man in that town teased a
girl and she adroitiy came back ar him
by hitting him on the eyebrow with a
flat-iron-
Callahan and his friends the getting
that Dicus matter in terrible nx Why
doesn't Callahan come squarely out. ac-
knowledge his fault, point out that he has
rectihed Il, beg for forgiveness and let IL
go. The present tangle doesn't relieve the
cause against him at ALL
AS an example OF how a mans mouth
can run away with him the following from
the Pawhuska Journal is given. Pawhus-
ka is the capital of the Usage country,
which is now attempting to be segregated
from Oklahoma, Here is the article: IT.
n Broaddus, tax assessor of Pawnee
county, is around assessing the people OF
Pawhuska this week. Mr.. Bnoaddus per-
sonally is a pleasant and courteous man
to do business with, and that don't mean
that be is not there when you put down
the value on any asSessable property.
But that Oklahoma congregation. Were
we not afraid OF burning hole in Uncle
Sans mall sack we would let loose some
of our pent up spleen and give him h-I-
AS IL is our only regret is that the pfesi-
dent didn't call for Us, 900 men to be draft
ed from Oklahoma instead Of 123 to fight
the Spaniards. Were they all drafted from
Oklahoma we would like 10 see the Span
iards pour the shot and shell into thsss
till they were a thing of the past. AL
this we would ask and still claim to be as
patriotic as any one dare be-"