The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-22

Secretary Jenkins says he VIII hold
Flynn to his utterances at Jefferson.
There Is good deal Of typhoid IN Ok
iahoma. as there is all over the country.
After consulting the organic act, Dick
Plunkett has announced that Sharkey viii
Lick Jeffries.
A big thunderstorm last week burned
out the telephone line between Pawnee
and Cleveland.
Clark Hudson has gone to Eureka
Springs. Arkansas, to run paper. The
territory doesn't lose much.
The Arapahoe Bee says that the man
with the hoe Is driving the man with the
lariat further west In that section.
Thomas E Berry Of Norman, formerly
county attorney and = prominent citizen
is dead. He was nifty years of age
Flynn is the only Republican member
Of congress who has been denied the privi-
lege Of selecting the census supervisor.
The Guthrie Capital is drifting away
from Dennis Flynn. It has been mighty
valiant in the past In the Flynn cause
The first locomotive TO arrive at Ton
kawa was No. 81. A, I. 4 5. Fe, ana
Harry Bennett had hold OF the throttle
Bud wardlcw of Tonkawa rang the bell
at the shooting gallery and claimed 90
cents. The man wouldn't pay It, 80
Wardlow kept the gun.
D. w. Graybin, a farmer hauling a
load of wheat into Arapahoe, fell out OF
his wagon and was run over. the wheels
crushing and killing him.
Personal in the Tonkawa News: ''Sey-
eral young men from the village on the
north were here Wednesday and tried to
bring about beer famine.
Horace Gilbert of Cross enlisted went
to the Philippine islands, was In the cam
paign 81 days, returned home and was
gone altogether but 1Ss days
Freeing, the patent rights man arrest
ed at Pawnee, has been landed safe In
Georgia. He had been arrested twice be-
fore and had escaped both times.
II Alger really does know of q chem
ical that will preserve perishable stun
he should send 1t out to Oklahoma and
let 1t be used on that political harmo-
n.y."
The editor Of the Blackwell Sun. who
has been nosing around after q quarrel,
seems to have found several all at once.
The Ponca City Courier Is after him and
so Is the Tonkawa News.
The steamboat owned by Mr.. Ortner
Cimarron last week. The people are du-
bious about its success. but the owner
claims that he will make it pay.
Hennessey Clipper: Born. to Mr.. and
Mrs w. H. Rose, on Saturday last, boy
! not with a silver spoon in his mouth, but
with a carpenters saw and hammer In
his hand. That beats silver spoons all
holler.
r.. A.. 1aa.i vntson. In kba Okla boVna
papers, 1t seems that the only hope Of per-
petuating the printing profession in Okla
homa is to send a regiment down and
take the contributed watermelons away
from them.
William Whitworth, of Alva accused Of
cowardice in failing to enlist before the
Spanish war, seems to have been wrong
ed. He enlisted at Fort Smith. Arkansas.
the other day for the campaign in the
Philippines.
c. G. Patterson OF Kay county made
the run for a claim bareback on bor-
rowed horse. This year 132 acres Of his
wheat ran 80 bushels to the acre; he
has 80 acres Of corn and Is building a
5000 residence.
Geary Bulletin: New railroads are all
the talk in Oklahoma. The extension Of
the Choctaw from Geary TO Woodward is
what Is interesting our people just now.
We have 1t from good authority that work
on this route will commence as soon as
the extension to Little Rock is completed.
When this Is completed Geary will be
made the division between Shawnee and
Woodward, and will also be the juno
ton for the weatherford branch. A great
future Is In store for this little town.
and now Is the time to invest before the