The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-30

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General James LonSstreet Of Georgia e
In Enid. the guest Of Judge AcAtee.
Harry Thompson win start the Patchen-
Gentry race at Oklahoma City, and VII
do it wei.
The merchants Of saltwater have 90
much railroad on hand that they have de-
cided not to give fair this year.
Lawton, of the Arapahoe Bee, and Gil
strap OF the Chandler News, are throwing
ttiirteen-inch shells In the interest OF Den
mis- Flynn.
lightning set IRE 10 the prairie in
Beaver county recently. The FIRE was put
out after nIghtfall. Grass burns more
readily in the heat Of the day.
The recent census Of Ponca City shows
that the city has 2.Sso people. 80 more than
Is necessary to entitle the town to incor-
porate as q city Of the first class.
John Scott, a cowman in Beaver county.
accidentally shot himself last week. The
ball entered the thigh and coursed down.
ward through the leg. coming ont at the
calf
II Il about time for soce eastern news
paper man to announce that he saw Waila
Tonka and Harry st. John walking arm
and arm down a street IN Chicago last
week.
There IL trouble brewing in the Usage
Indian reservation again. The chances
are that It will not be long until Agent
Pollock will be having a Freeman time
OF Il.
Flynn and Barnes do not dislike each
other as much as they did formerly, but
1t would never do to have Barnes Umpire
ball game where Flynn was captain OF
one OF the teams.
There Is one thing about Flynn. When
he says q thing, he stands by t. he
doesn't sneak behind the reporter. as
Scott Of Perry did. Dennis Flynn never
threw q newspaper man.
An effort il being made at Ponca City
to find boy who found $ bill and re-
| turned It to the owner. The idea Is TO
reward him, evidently. That ought TO
have been done on the spot.
The Guthrie Leader has also jabbed its
helmet down over its brow and Is snort
| ing around for war. II has given secre-
| tary Jenkins Just six days to answer
Flynn's charge about that $500.
John Rhodes, who writes letters to the
5ennessey Kicker from Cuba will wind
up a newspaper man. He has the talent
and some newspaper will poke salary
at him some OF these fine days.
The Hardesty Herald says that nine
out of ten kids In Beaver county like Il
play cowboy 1t Is in the blood of the
| whole race. So do the boys in Massachu'
sets who never saw a brand and couIdn'
| tell an underbit from a jingiebob.
| Jake Admire thinks that Flynn made 4
mistake in saying that II ne does moi
pass the free homes bill he will not rur
for congress again. This is what Flynn
| means, however. The assertion at Jeffer'
son was not the first time he said 1t.
Mr.. Stonebraker, writing in the Aller
(Kan.,) Journal about Jake Admire. th'
founder Of Admire, says: Jake was tbs
homellest person in and about Hill creek
Once, at q social, a good lady remarked
oh, how did II come, Mrs. Admire, tina
YOU married Jake? Jake she replied
| he's the handsomest man In all these re
gions. 1 often get up in the night, and
light the lamp and look at him..
Every man who drives a herd of horses
or sheep In from New Mexico brings alonl
a group OF woolly burros. When N
strikes q town some boy or girl and per
haps several, will take a raving fame!
to one of the burros and II Is sold Il
their papas. The average child tires or I
burro in about a week. Hundreds hav'
been brought into Oklahoma and sold II
this way. Finally they disappear. VIVA
becomes OF them?
The world is rather small. after all
Listen to this from the Beaver county
Herald: I'VE regret TO notice the deatf
of Prince Cantacuzine at Yatkusk. Rus
STA. The Prince was long attached Il
the Russian embassy at Washington. Hi
wife is an aunt of Allen 7. Black o
Green Valley. The Princess intends Il
dispose Of her estate IN Russia and resid
In the United States"
Pawnee Democrat: A foreigner Of thi
territory was recently refused his natu
raIization papers because he did not know
who the president of the United State
was Foreigners holding claims shoul
post upon several things II they want L
save trouble when they 60 TO prove W
II they haven't got their second or flu
naturalization, papers they had better b
attending to It, as II Is required that the
have them before they can prove up. I
get them the law requires them to g
in open court with two witnesses to prov
their good citizenship. The witnesses
too must be parties who have know