The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-07
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Down near Mountain View they are
propping up the peach tree limbs.
The weather prophets predict a dry
August for Oklahoma and southern Kan
sas
Some Indians ara dancing near Arapa-
hoe and are charging white people Is
cents admission.
The Guthrie Leader has torn itself
loose fer Bob NeT and is making hard
campaign for him
1t is claimed for Washita county that
it has 2o,000 people, without town OF
over 200 inhabitants.
The report that Mayor B. z. Berkey
had left Guthrie for good and al IS de-
MED by his friends.
Judge NcAtee delivered an address in
favor of expansion before a summer
school at Detroit one evening last week.
The Ponca City water tower is plainly
visible from Bliss. ten miles distant, and
from near Tonkawa, twelve miles dis
tant.
1t has not been decided yet whether
! the a" in Robert A. Neff's name
stands for Augustus, Aurelius or An
tonius.
/ The Oklahoma county Republicans IN
| their platform say they are heartily tired
of territorial government and territor al
conditions.
Because of his actions at Oklahoma
! City, Forrest Of II Reno will be the big
man in Oklahoma Democracy when Pop
ulism is gone.
The man who was found unconscious
on the railroad track at Perry is C. G.
Toland. Nothing has been heard from
( his relatives.
| Politicians who do not know Bob Neff
should understand that when Bob clos s
! his lips tightly and then blows hard
against them he is thinking.
Bill Cross took the road to sell goods
the day after the convention. The luck
lest thing that ever happened to Cross
was his defeat at Oklahoma City.
Something has gotten into the horses
| in this section of the country. Nearly
every Oklahoma town in the last two
weeks has had its serious runaway.
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman has the
gall to say that Neff will poll every Pop
uist and Democratic vote in the Strip,
and expects people TO think that ii
means it.
The Shawnee Quill has found a Popu-
list who says that the Republicans gave
/ free homes TO Oklahoma not because
they wanted TO, but because they had
to-"
The Cleveland Triangle says that Ar
thur Green, the bad. bad outlaw, sur
rendered because "he didn't want TO
carry a perforated hide to an early
! grave"
His campaign managers VIII warn
| Neff to quit being funny. They say
! that if he is to impress the farmers of
! Oklahoma he must be more serious
minded
! All the Republicans have to do to de-
| feat Nef by 25,e0O is TO hunt up his old
! stage parts and reproduce before Okla
homa audiences his old 'take-offs" on
| Germans, Irishmen and Swedes.
One man near Afangum promised to
give forty acres to help get an extension
/ of the Rock Island. He now says that
| he didn't think the railroad would come,
and that he won't give up his land. He
| is after the men who are surveying
across it for trespass.
Independence Courier: On the eve OF
the battle Of Bull Run a number OF SEN
| ators and representatives went down
! from Washington 70 see the COnfeder-
! ates run And when the Confederates
began to run after the panic-stricken
Union army, the valiant congressman
ran In advance for the capital One OF
/ them, arrayed in a linen coat, corpulent
and perspiring, glancing backward saw
q zouave coming and misstook him for
! a Confederate Suddenly he tripped on
! a root and fell headlong. The Zouave
/ fell on top of him. Unable to look
around, but believing himself in the
hands Of the enemy. he shouted, my
| God, can't this thing be compromised
| somehow"