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

Even the galleries in washington ap-
plauded when the free homes bill went
through.
If Oklahoma were a state Dennis Flynn
could go over TO the senate and pick out
any chair he fancied-
Old Man Galusha Grow would be
given a great reception should he ever
come cut 10 Oklahoma.
The men who have paid up on their
claims should join in a shout out Of SYM
pathy for their neighbors-
By the end OF May, free homes viii be
q law or 1t viii not The whole thing
win be settled this month.
Flynn in Washington is acknowledged
tc be the best posted man on public
land on the floor of the house.
Old Joe Cannon kept his finger on the
trigger at the last moment He had
Dennis scared up lively.
The man who has said all along that
free homes was d political fake. IS think
ing on the other side OF his brain just
row.
Maddox. the Georgia Democrat who
fought free homes on the last vote in the
house, must have been talking to Hoke
Smith.
Eddy of Minnesota, who helped Flynn
On the free homes bill, is said TO be the
homeliest man in congress But pretty
is as pretty does.
Chester Long was in the chair during
the consideration Of the free homes bill
Southern Kansas and Oklahoma have
hooked up pretty tight.
Joe McNeal carried the primaries at
Guthrie Joe doesn't get into politics
often, but when he does he has a COW
catcher on and ten-foot drive wheels.
Adams, the man imprisoned for shoot
ing Captain Couch, and who is now con-
testing the Higgins claim Of Oklahoma
City, has been defeated in the district
court again. But Adams VIII never let
up. He will fight all his life for that
land,
It is wonder what confidence can do
There were hundreds OF men in Oklaho-
ma last week who did not believe that
free homes would ever pass the house ;
il is hard to find a man now who does
not think that it is as good as passed
by the senate.
The most important thing ever done
for free homes was the Insertion Of D
plank favoring it in the Republican plat
form at St. Louis in 1896. That forced
the Democratic and Populist conventions
to do likewise and caused scores of con-
gressmen to vote for it who would have
otherwise opposed it.
Gates, OF the steel trust, is being writ
ten up extensively in the New York pa
pers. In reciting incidents of his life
they tell about his identification Of Jes-
ter in the Shawnee jail. The New York
Herald illustrates this scene in the Shaw
nee jail The illustration has the turn
key at Shawnee dressed up in a uni
form like an admiral. The turnkey who
wears a slouch hat should get that pic
ture and frame it,
Ponca City Courier: Frank, the Ia
voTite hunting dog Of John Roller, has
faculty of securing choice bits of meat,
which is possessed by few dogs. His
victim is usually a travelling man. whom
he can recognize on sight. He picks
up a bit of paper and performs all sorts
Of maneuvers to attract attention, even
crying pitifully. He wants nickel wrap
ped up in that piece of paper, and he
usually persists until he has won his de-
sire. When he gets the money he gives
a thankful acknowledgment and darts
away to a meat counter, and being a
good and paying customer, he gets a nice
piece of meat, carefully wrapped. in ex-
change. He picks I'D his meat and goes
bank to the person who gave him the
money and presents the package to have
it opened. Frank often spends twenty
to thirty cents a day for meat from
money he begs from strangers and 9th
crs who like to see him exhibit his in
telligeuce.