The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-05

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| other things 1 was trying to remember
| of having ever seen the name Of Dennis
T. Flynn on any Of my endorsements for
the position of district judge. 1 failed to
remember having seen his name affixed
| to any such document and told him so.
l further told him that I was capable Of
| appointing my own clerks, and had, in
| fact, appointed a young man to the po-
sition of district clerk, with headquarters
| in Ell Reno, and that I did not propose to
turn him down and appoint a man I did
| not know.
Our interview was ended, and since
that time Mr.. Flynn has lost no oppor-
| tunity in giving it to me in the neck
whenever he could conveniently do So
| Anyhow, it all came about over Den
| mis- trying to take care of his friends"
Parson Job Ingram, late chaplain of
| the territorial volunteer infantry in the
| war with Spain, was in the city a day
or two ago "ongroot" to Oklahoma City
to attend a Baptist convention The par
son was rather non-committaI on some
matters, but he is enthusiastic for state
| hood
Statehood" said the parson. 'fs what
we want in Oklahoma, and I am sure that
if united effort is made all along the
line we will get it,
You will notice the parson used an old
army phrase. Old soldiers cannot be brok-
en- Of their habits in a few days.
I'VE are just as much entitled to state
hood as Utah, with her Mormons, Wyom-
ing, Colorado or any other new western
states that have not half the population
Oklahoma has. We must have statehood.
and now that eastern and western sena-
tors have expressed a desire to help US
out, we should lose no time in getting
the wheels working so as to be in on the
ground floor when congress meets next
winter
Ed Dunn was over from Oklahoma CITY
Wednesday and called on the Deacon. Ed
had some business with Ernest Blake
and from what I picked up it had no re-
lation to politics. Ed bemoaned the fact
that his residence was struck by light
ming when he was away from home Dur
ing one Of my trips in Kingfisher county
last summer l saw a house struck by
lightning and everything in il burned to
crisp, except one of my peerless separ-
ators that after the fire arose, Phoenix
like, from the ashes.
When Oklahoma becomes a state the
genial Edward is in hopes he will arise
from the ashes of a territorial govern
ment and be power in the land. The
old saying, ut is hard to keep a good
man down. may work to nicely in
Eds case. Ed says he will be on hand
November II, ar Oklahoma City and
raise his voice for statehood. Before Ed
left for home he went into an executive
session with Frank GiIlett 1t is a dead
sure thing church matters did not enter
into the conversation
The Eagle a day or two ago contained
an article relating to a difficulty between
George F. Swift of Chicago and Hezekiah
G. Williams of Chickasha. T. T. Hez. is
good sort of a man, and his neighbors
think whole lot of him. He is also one
of my best customers.
Last spring Mr.. Swift bought of Mr.
Williams large number of cattle. and it
seems that they have not all been paid
for. So Williams has sued Swift in the
$24. 900
After Mr.. Swift bought the cattle
ranches, etc, he placed Frank Mitchell
in charge of the whole outfit Frank
lives IN Ell Reno. Frank charges Will
Jams with selling all his wintered cattle,
less what died from a hard winter, but
his larger cattle did not die, his loss be-
ing the smaller and weaker cattle. Since
the sale cattle have gone up In price and
Williams is accused of cutting out the
larger wintered cattle and shipping in
from Texas a lot of small through cattle
which he tried to put in on the contract
holding out the larger and more valuable
cattle. After having put in about 1000
cattle he is accused Of trying to run in
the small, through cattle. Mitchell so il
is said, turned down the through cattle
and demanded the winter cattle as per
contract. Williams, it is said. refused to
deliver them. therefore a lawsuit is now
going to decide who is right and who is
wrong, unless the two gentlemen get to-
gether and fix up the matter
Blake & Blake are advising Hez.. and
Criley & Baxter are looking after
Georges interests. Mitchell still holds
hundreds Of cattle and wants more Swift
has furnished an indemnifying bond for
$50, 1000
Cattlemen at Chickasha say that Will
Jams was not aware that his losses were
as great as he has since found them out
to be. The SINE men also say that Hez
means to do what is right and that he can
not be bulldozed into doing anything he
doesn't want to do.