The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-26
Outlines OF Oklahoma

The Cloud Chief gin has already turned
out fifty bales OF cotton
AS in the usual case of desperation, the
I Neff management is now claiming the
earth.
! Altus is out with f1sh-hooks, monkey
( wrenches and pitch-forks TO capture the
Orient road.
/ Frank Greer is warming Up the cam
paign and the splinters have begun TO
A.. fly in Logan county.
/ 1t is reported in the Greer county pa
/ pers that Ner got all kinds Of frosts
down IN that county.
/ The merchants have already begun 10
brag about the number OF heating stoves
+ they have sold in a week
/ There is one thing the Republicans of
the territory are undergraduates They
i are all going 10 get out and vote.
! About the most bitter papers against
/ Dennis Flynn are those published by
I Democrats down in the Indian nations.
I The ice plant at Pawnee which burned
/ last week was valued at twelve thou
sand dollars, and was insured for nine
thousand.
| The guessers who are now declaring
! that Neh has a show will be out the
| day after the election saying that they
were just stalking"
! The report that J. Y. Callahan recently
| said that he thought Neff would do as
much in congress if elected as he (cal-
/ lahan) did, is denied.
| The Ripley Journal thinks that hiding
| its broken promises of 1896 and making
/ new ones in 1900 is occupying all the
| time OF the Democratic party.
1t is beyond belief the way the fellows
1 who declared that Flynn never could
I pass a free homes bill are now abusing
him and claiming that he ''only did his
duty"
1t is said that the title Judge" cost
| Keaton hundreds of votes But the
| Democratic papers do not seem TO be
onto that fact. They call Bob Mem
Judge Mem.
The Orient road asks of Arapahoe
! good water; three tiers Of blocks along
/ the east side Of the town of Arapahoe:
so acres Of land adjoining, and $4,000 in
cash and a right of way through the
township.
Oklahoma will never again receive
/ from the national government gift OF
( SIS, 000,00O. She can live TO be a thousand
years old and she will never have an
/ other congressman who will do his
/ duty" to that extent
/ Enid Wave: We witnessed strange
! sight Saturday afternoon at the post
office. A sweet, dark-eyed girl came in
/ TO the office and, seeing the long line
Of men waiting at th4A general delivery
window, calmly took her place az the
/ end of the line and waited her turn to
get her mail. This is unusual-decidedly
so. 1t is customary, and right, too SO
] far as that goes, to do as several other
| ladies did, who came in about that time,
have the head man in the line give way
I RI hnr rsK.-r rrr-
/ independence and pluck OF this young
lady was inspiring in, the premises.
| Guthrie Leader: One Of the well
known Santa F'e conductors is Frank
McGlinchey. For thirty years ne has
been needle cushion. Saturday he had
surgical operation performed upon his
right wrist which revealed the fact that
for the past thirty-three years Frank
! has been carrying a needle about in his
anatomy. For some time past Frank
| has experienced excrrciating pains In
| the wrist mentioned. Lately the wrist
has been giving him much trouble. and
finally what appeared to be small boil
began to show up and Frank Immediate
/ ly took quantities of blood medicine. The
last trip he made he was almost POWER
! less to use his right hand When he
came in off the road Saturday he went
10 doctor and an examination was
made of the wrist. The doctor then an
nounced that there was something in It
and proceeded 10 cut it out He found
a piece of a needle about three-quarters
of an inch in length. The needle is about
half of an ordinary sized one. and the
half that Frank carries around is the
one that contains the eye It was COW
cred with rust. but the eye could be
plainly seen. Through the eye was a
small piece of thread but this had he
come wrapped around the needle To the
best of Franks recollection he has been
carrying the needle about with him for
the past thirty-three years. He says he
once ran a needle into his right heel,
when a boy going barefoot