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

Pottawatomis county viii this year
have its first county fair.
The Oklahoma editors viii go to
Eureka Springs on an excursion Angus
Il.
There were fewer than 200 original
Rough Riders in attendance at Oklahoma
City
Ponca City IS adding 10 her fine stone
school house. the first permanent school
building in the Strip.
Colorado Springs had no trouble in
getting the plum as the place OF nod
ing the next reunion
A. Ray, chief of detectives Of Fort
Worth made 10 arrests in four days at
the Oklahoma City reunion.
The men of Newkirk are planning 10
have this fall the biggest county ia r
ever given in the territory
The comeback rubber bali nonsense
became uribearable in Oklahoma CITY
the last day OF the reunion.
Ed Loughmiller, a Rough Rider, was
struck by a wagon tongue at Okla
homa City and painfully hurt.
The roping contests at Oklahoma City
were as interesting a part Of the pro
gram as the entertainment afforded.
The Rough Riders, while at Oklahoma
City, presented the widow OF Bueky
O'Neill, Rough Rider. with badge:
About the oniy big territorial event
left for the present summer Is the fusion
convention TO nominate man for con-
gress.
George A Outcalt, of Teeumseh, has
been appointed United States court com
missioner for Pottawatomie county, By
Judge Burford.
W. NJ. Collier of Kingfsher county
7 T-rT- rh,~
day for the first eleven days with his
new threshing machine.
Okiahoma's vote on the committee on
resolutions. it is said, was necessary 10
get sixteen TO one in the national Demo
cratic platform.
AT Oklahoma City a colored man hit
a Rough Rider with a rubber ball and
the Rough Rider made for him. The
police at once arrested the colored man
Colonel Wood of Havana wrote to the
Rough Riders at Oklahoma City: I'D
rather be colonel of the Rough RIDERS
than governor general of Cuba or presi-
dent of the United States"
The Chicago Tribune, in a long dis
patch from Oklahoma City, says that
Governor Barnes insulted Roosevelt in
that city in a dispute over which crowd
should have some horses to ride in the
parade.
The Eagle is in receipt OF a photo
graph from Perkins of a man who is
labeled as the only homesteader in those
parts who declares he viii vote against
Dennis Flynn. The photograph will &c
sent TO the Historical society.
The lola Register says: AT Oklahoma
City Governor Roosevelt looked over
Governor Barnes richly caparisoned
staff of officers and said: I'D like 10
take them into a campaign on SOW
belly and wear little OF that off.
Every boy who was at Oklahoma City
took home with him the cry of hawker
and can give it for the benefit Of his
friends: "Have you seen him? Bosco,
the Australian snake eater! Eats EN-
alive! Eats 'em alivei A dime; ten
cents! Hey! Hey!'
Perkins Journal: Ore evening early in
the week a half dozen young ladies went
to the Cimarron for a plunge. In wad-
ing about they got beyond their depth
and in their excitement each prevented
the other from getting out. During their
struggles, all went under. The father
of one of the young ladies was near at
hand, and after some pretty hard work
succeeded in getting them all 10 the
shore It required considerable rolling
and rubbing to get the young ladies into
a condition to bring them home.