The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-02
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Guthrie Leader is leading the
| fight for the Democratic ticket in Okla
homa.
Under Mitschner free speech seems to
be fiourishing in the Usage ressryat on
more than formerly
T. ]. Leahy, the prominent Usage res
eryatien politician, is on his feet agasn.
after having used crutch Tor six
months.
Several prominent editors in Oklahoma
| are Christian Scientists and give Mary
| Baker Eddy literature prominent places
in their papers.
Hah-wa-ho-tasa. a fulI-blood Usage,
draws annuities for a family o. ten
Frank Denoya, of the mixed bleods.
does the same thing.
Goyernor-elect Dukes Of the Choetaw
nation, who was thought TO have been
lest in the Galveston flood, has tunnel
UP safe and sound
The business men of Oklahoma City
have decided to pave. II is the only
thing 10 co, but now everybody sweats
while the tax is being paid,
The Democrats are appealing TO the
voters TO stand by Neff on national is
sues. The Democrats have got enough
of the free homes campaign.
If the house of Representatives were
Democratic, and the senate, and the
president, Flynn could get more bills
through congress than Neff could
The Usage mail was a day late the
other day because the driver OF the
hack attempted not only 10 carry the
mails, but a load OF copper-distilied.
According TO the Perry Republican,
one girl asked another: Are you gcing
TO the ball tomorrow night?" And the
other replied: Yes, if 1 get sub
poena-''
The boiler which exploded at Chick
asha and hurt so many people, had been
condemned in Texas previously. There
is no law for the inspection Of boilers in
the Indian nations.
The people on the Usage reservation
are becoming convinced that a separate
county organization would be the thing
The idea is opposed by the traders and
some of the cattlemen.
In Payne county the right OF way com
rnissioners allowed Frank Wittum,. a
farmer, 800 for missing up a strip
across his farm. He went into court
and asked $1,000 damages. He was al
lowed 900.
The Indian territory papers are at last
coming TO the realization that II the In
dian territory is not added to Oklahoma
territory it will be added to Oklah ma
state, greatly TO its detriment in public
institutions.
Cotton pickers are now in demand in
the Indian nations and in southern Ok
lahoma- There is no excuse for loaf
ing now" says q paper which spends a
good part Of its time weeping over the
unemployed.
Colonel Tom Seward of Perry. who has
been nominated for the territorial coun
Gil, it is said has a walk away. He
ought to have, There isn't man in the
territory who can be of more use TO a
constituency than Colonel Tom Seward.
Jake Stotler of Perry catches Bryan
up on this. He says that Bryan insisted
that free coinage be put in the Kansas
City platform, contending that a mere
Endorsement of the Chicago platform
containing il wouldn't do. but when an
income tax was omitted from the Kan
sas City platform Bryan says it IS all
right because ii is in ti1e Chicago plat
form and that was Endorsed.
The Waukomis Hornet boasts of hav-
Fng and now using the Washington
press which Governor Furnas took TO
Brownville Nebra ska, before the civil
war. At the opening of the strip the
press was brought to Oklahoma and used
several years In the publication Of the
Cherokee Republic. The press has been
through several fires and was once fish
ed out of the Missouri river, where It
had been cast by bushwhackers. The
Hornet has also a type case with ''F.
". Furnas, BrownviIle, Nebraska Terri
tory" on its back.