The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-05
Outlines OF Oklahoma

The fractional fight in the Republican
party in Custer county still bubbles.
The Ashby murder case is on at the
district court in Arapahoe, this week
Nen told an audience OF $50. at Taloga,
that II was Eddy who passed the free
homes bill
John Gates. of Stroud, killed a rattle
snake the other day which had fourteen
rattles and a button.
Dr. G. NJ. Ellis of independence was
elected president of the Custer County
Old Soldiers Reunion association
Next week Judge MuseHer of Perry
Will go out into the Cheyenne and Arap-
ahoe country TO make speeches. Nu-
seller is an orator.
Out in Blaine county. there is a chance
that the Middle-of-the-road Populist
ticket will poll more votes than the reg
ular Po2ulist ticket.
A man over near Stroud who has been
for years writing a new Bible, has given
it up, and has decided 10 go into the
rabbit-raising business.
The Shawnee Quill, which is not gwen
to exaggeration. says that Dennis Flynn
VIII carry Pottawatomie county and
every other county in the territory.
Miss Fannie Harris, the best educated
woman among the Sacs and Foxes,
doesn't like TO teach Indian chiliren. and
will ask to be given white school.
A poet at Shawnee thus ripples.
Don't talk about Mckinley,
For he's a cracker-jack,
If he should leave the White House
We'd surely want him back"
The Guthrie Leader blames Dennis
Flynn because the sidewalks at Guthrie
are not in good condition, and the va
tonga Republican orders Flynn to go
get a Ratchet and fix 'em up at once.
A Pond Creek lawyer thinks that those
who fail to make application for final
proof on their claims within seven years
from the date Of entry are liable 70 have
plenty of trouble, according 10 the Grant
County Vidette.
abuse. few days later Flynn came
along and made a speech and the con-
trast was so great that he made votes.
In his speeches Flynn is not personal,
and does not abuse anybody.
Travelling by railroad is a good deal
cheaper than travelling by wagon.
Thomas Cooper and family started last
March from Maine for Greer county and
have Just arrived at Stroud. They have
lost three teams of horses. one team
drowned, one struck by lightning, and a
third stolen, and the trip has cost them
$500.
OF man on trial at Shawnee
for attempted rape. a man aged "a, The
Democrat says: we believe that when
he is brought before the Judgment bar.
that the devil will be on hand ready to
throw all kinds of vitrioIc acid In his
face and then place him in a museum
of bumblebees, retaining him In this at
titude until he learns something about
purity and chastity"
On the Choctaw route, in the terri
tory the other day, a young couple
bound for Weatherford, boarded the pas
senger train hurriedly and asked the con-
ductor if a minister was among the pas
sengers, as they wanted TO get married.
The conductor found the minister. the
engineer put on more steam, the brake
man took a fresh chew Of tobacco, the
passengers gathered around, and the
young couple stood up while the minis
ter spoke out the fateful words. II the
angry father was pursuing the couple on
foot. he is entitled to one, large, pink
Percheron horse laugh.
Hennessey Clipper: Yes, Jim's e born
argufier. and If he can't argufy law he
will disagree with you on any other
subject you may choose. II you don't
choose to choose, he will choose to
choose a CHOSEN theme himself IN 1acti
that choosing is a chosen vocation with
Jim. If no other subject presents itself.
Jim choose the rag, and armed with
vocabulary second in size only to the
amount of fine-cut which he can easily
accommodate IN the hole between his
nose and his chin; with a tongue whose
sharpness is only equalled by the tip Of
that same proboscis; with an accent
which he keeps bottled in vitriol when
not in use, Jim seldom retires from the
field vanquished. Today, however, Jim
started in motion a lecture on the Peer
war, in the office of the Forum hotel
When well under way he was interrupt
ed by a stranger and a disagreement
ensued. Jim's opponent seemed pretty
we'll posted, and at it they went, and
every time Jim slipped his antagonist
caught him left-handed hook, fgura-
lively speaking, and helped him up. The
argument drew to a close, as do all
things. and as a settler Jim remarked,
You're all right, but your information
is bad" well, perhaps So" replied the
stranger. ''but I've lived in the Trans
vaal fourteen years"
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