The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-18
Outlines of Oklahoma.

i
Chief Keokuk, of the Iowas, delivered
a sermon 10 the Baptists at Shawnee las
| Sunday
Reverend DR.. o. L. Fisher, of the Fer,
Worth. University, IS lecturing in the
territory.
Bob Nen says he is in the congress
! sional race TO stay until he wins or IS
knocked out
Oklahoma City is now working for a
| big vote al its bond election for munich
pal improvements.
! The stillwell road cannot reach al the
towns in western Oklahoma, although
most Of them are expecting it.
In Custer county the county commits
sioneTs have divided every township, ex
I cept enc, into two voting precincts.
+ It is reported that Taylors announce
ment at Guthrie for national committee
? an has forced Judge Brooks out of the
race.
1t seems that the selection OF Tom
: Ferguson for chairman OF ;he RepGb l.
can territorial central committee VIII b.
unanimous.
/ The FL Reno Democrat says that when
10 Wisby was defeated for congress al
most any other DeEocrat could have
( been elected.
A bulldog owned north of Independ-
ence. went mad last week and bit TWO
/ OF George Hopkins children and a child
of John Recate's.
| On August s, at the territorial congress
! sional convention in Guthrie, the cd
! fight over the Endorsement of the adm n
! istration will come UP.
There is no end to the chapter of &C
cidents on a farm. Louis Lang. Of
Ponca City, fell from a load of straw
/ Monday and broke his wrist
! Richard Davis, Cheyenne Indian
! lives in a house and refuses TO talk In
| dian to his family, compelling them 10
carry on conversations in English.
The Arapahoe Bee thinks there are pol
! iticians who are ready to stab Dennis
| Flynn in the back. Dennis wears a
patent, free homes. stab-proof back-plate
| There is a terrible story out in Okla
! homa that Mark Hanna expects TO buy
up most Of the country weaklies in the
! United States for this campaign. This
/ is awful, indeed.
! On the Fourth, at Arapahoe, a lot Of
! boys stole the government rain gauge
and made a cannon out Of it. The sher-
/ If recovered the property and scared
the boys nearly to death.
In Custer county j. A. Dean, who
resigned as county commissioner, is run
ming for the office again and T. A. Rob
| erts. who was appointed to fill the va
| cancy, is also a candidate.
! When Harper Cunningham resigned,
| Judge Strang was quoted in an inter-
view in the Arapahoe Bee as saying that
| both Pugh and Amos Ewing intended TO
resign. Pugh resigned last week.
The story of Miss Hopkins suicide at
Gushing is that she protested the check
of a regular customer because he had
overdrawn his account, and that he
made a roar which upset the girl s
mind.
At meeting of the Democratic cen
trail committee at Arapahoe the other
day there was row and a good many
| speeches, and according to the Bee,
gestures were made very close to one
another's noses
The Populists at Oklahoma City July 81
will ask the Democrats to Join in the
nomination of a congressional candidate
! first, and let the Populists go home.
They don't want TO wait until the Demo-
Gratis have settled that national COM
mitteeman trouble.
The commissioners at Oklahoma City
| have granted some new saloon licenses
! and the Anti-Saloon league is still fight
ing. The county commissioners declare
that the league must show that the
citizens before they will refuse to grant
licenses.
Rev. James has made the following
statement: Il went first TO Southamp-
ton, arriving May II, thence to London
thence to Liverpool. where 1 was taken
sick with pneumonia, and was confns
to my lodgings for about four weeks
I found the estate was involved in some
legal complications OF which I was m
informed before sailing Through disap
pointment and sickness, ] suffered from
nervous prostration and am yet suffering
and under the care of my physician 1
do not care to make any further state
ment at this time. But later on when
my physical condition win warrant my
doing so. 1 will prepare a fuller ST p
mont for the press. l feel the disap-
4. pontrrent for myself and family keanly,
but more so for those TO whom l have
! made promises. I am not hopeless re-
garding the ultimate outcome. but found
the case much more complicated than
anticipated.