The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-09
Outlines OF Oklahoma

Seth Welborn. q Canadian county
farmer has FIVE sulky plows at work In
his wheat fields.
Sixty-nine people registered for dinner
the first day q the new Hotel Frantz's
history at Enid.
r. E. Woods has been nominated for
representative by the Democrats OF Pot
tawatomie county.
Dennis Flynn is stronger in Oklahoma
than any congressman In the un.tsd
States is in his own district
It is said that the biggest business
done in Oklahoma since free homes pass
ed has been In the windmill line
Flynn will poll over 5000 majority In
Oklahoma this fall, and that will bring
statehood at the short session next win
ter.
Dennis Flynn isn't himself ur'ess he
is after something. When he gets his
coat OF and goes after statehood he
will get il.
]. F. Todd, formerly labor commits
sioner OF Kansas, has been nominated
for the territorial council by the fusion
lists IN Lincoln county.
Isenberg thinks that the reason Leslie
Nfblack Is supporting Neff 50 hard IS
because Leslie has been fascinated by
that frilled shirt front
The Popuiists generally know that Bob
Neff wears fancy shirts, but when II
gets out that Bob's night-gowns are en-
broidered there will be a stampede.
George johnson Of Fay, Oklahoma,
took up a rattIesnake and said that II
wouldn't bite him because he had TAI
that it would not. The snake bit him.
Nen used 10 run paper in wichita
the sheets Of which were so long that a
man had to hitch up and drive when he
wanted TO go from the local 10 the edi-
torial page.
The twelve-year-old daughter OF w. T.
Mccoy of Ardmore passed through her
fathers room the other night, and he
mistook her for 4 burglar ard shot her
in the arm.
Morgan Toland, of Aliceville. Kansas,
has arrived IN Perry and taken charge
Of the body of his brother, c. G. Toland,
who was found unconscious on the rail-
road track in that city.
The Indians who move 10 Mexico viii
have a good time You don't have to
work in Mexico. Your food grows on
trees. But those Indians Of ours will
have q hard time switching from a beef
diet to one Of sickening sweet tropical
| fruits.
The Republicans have given Dennis
send him clear across the campaign and
land him high and dry next November
with the biggest majority any Republican
ever received south of Mason and Dix
ons line.
A rumor circulated in Weatherford a
week ago last Wednesday that w. D.
Cardwen had been nominated for con-
gress by the fusionists at Oklahoma City.
and CardweIFs friends celebrated until
the mail arrived and announced that
Neff was the unlucky man.
In Oklahoma there is a silk stocking
element which has never believed that
Flynn would last" They talk IL pFi-
vately among themselves. They think
that Flynn hasn't enough dignity, that
he isn't cold and distant enough 10 keep
afoat as the leading man in Oklahoma
politics. These men think that 1t IS i'm
perative for a big man to wear plug
hat, Prince Albert coat, and talk poInp-
ously Flynn doesn't do these things.
He win talk with any man. He dresses
as other Oklahonans. He mixes, not
for political effect, but because he likes
men. He never has posed and never viii.
The people believe in him, and for good
cause. for he has been true as steel TO
them. He has a stronger hold on Okla
homa than Plumb had on Kansas. And
he will keep ii.