The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-17
Outlines of Oklahoma.


The Ponca Indians recently received an
interest payment OF 1874 per capita
The water has been turned into the
Ponca City waterxorks. The system
cost $500
Everybody seems to have information
that Flynn VIII now pull for statehood
with all his might.
There doesn't seem TO be any question
about Fiynn's cinch on the first United
States senato-ship.
In six months the men who are against
Flynn viii be saying that anyone could
have passed free homes.
The passage of free homes will make
hundreds of thousands OF acres OF and
subject 10 taxation soon.
H. t.. Mcknight OF Greer county has
withdrawn from the congressional race
in favor OF Dennis Flynn.
1t is claimed that Lee Patrick, agent
of the Sacs and Foxes. DISCUSSES Himself
as an Indian IN order 10 capture whisky
peddlers.
A big rain struck the strip the same
night with the news OF the passage Of
free homes. This is going TO be the ban
ner year.
Many OF the Democratic papers in Ok
lanoma are going 10 support Senator
Pettigrew hard this year as against Den
mis- Flynn.
Somehow or other 1t is the Republican
papers which are making the biggest dis
play out of the news Of the passage Of
free homes.
the line to be constructed between
Weatherford and Cloud Chief have been
put in place.
Hfa~a E-rr
Oklahoma during the month of May, and
the air gets BANNER and the sun warmer
every day.
The Southwest Progress Of Mountain
View reiterates its statement that the
Kiowa and Commanche Indians are eat
ing deceased cows.
Il see." said a man at Chickasha the
other day, that those dog-gone con-
gressmen are contemplating changing the
name of this territory TO Jeffries."
In western Oklahoma arbors are being
erected in the big towns. In that part
of Oklahoma these arbors are used in
place OF halls for public entertainments.
The country is saved At the recent
city election Keokuk Falls, Oklahoma,
went overwhelmingly Democratic. They
call Republicans radicals" In KeOkuk
Falls.
man at Oklahoma City has an auto
mobile cyclone destroyer As the cyclone
approaches it releases the machine, which
drives a hard right to the bosom Of the
cyclone, lifts its tail off the ground with
a left hook and lays the whole whirling
mass out cold.
In an Oklahoma paper a country cor
respondent announces that Farmer So
and-So has moved from his dug-out TO
his new frame house and that Ibis
daughter is now satisfied" That means
that the old man liked a sod house best
and that as soon as the daughter is mar
ried and gone he will sell the house to
some tenderfoot and 90 back to the
warm, neat, little, old house under the
soil.
Guthrie Capital: The city OF Perkins
had an election the other day that has
made it impossible for President McKin-
ley to be reelected. This may be aston
ishing, but we have the word of the
editor Of the Perkins Guide for IT, 1t
happened this way Perkins held an
election of city officers. Two tickets
were put up, a Citizens and a straight
Republican. There were 136 votes cast.
The Citizens ticket won. Thereupon the
editor Of the Guide announces in big
headlines: "McKinleyism turned down
w. - DRY an iilUOlSSQ ne fusion
ticket was elected by overwhelming ma
jOrities." Mckinley and imperialism
not very popular" Local questions also
probably had a slight effect on the re-
suit" This is the whole matter in a
nutshell. The national issues have been
tried by 1876 votes in the citv of Perkins
and Mckinley has been defeated by an
Overwhelming" majority. There is no
necessity of a national election. The
matter has been settled. Let the band
play Annie Rooney up Pennsylva MIA ave-
nue. and escort Mr.. Bryan to the steps
Of the national capitol.