The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-19
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/ Dennis Flynn speaks al Ava this after
noon and ar Byron. Woods county, to-
night.
/ All through southern Kansas and Okla
hona there is stIn scarcity Of farm
hands.
! In nearly all the snerif fights in Okla
hofna the question OF nerve is dragged
Unto the campaign.
Grandma 'shotwell of Gushing is piec-
ing a quilt for each OF her grandchildren.
lwho number twenty-five
Bob Forrest and Bill Cross. it is said,
say that Bob Ne1 has made a poor cam
paign, upon the whole.
George Miller, a laborer whose home
was in Texas, committed suici6e at Ok
lahoma City by taking iaudaAum.
An Oklahoma weather prophet says
that the first blizzard viii come down
between November and election day
The Pfllsbury fight on Kansas wheat
includes Oklahoma as we'll Oklahoma
will probably hand Mr.. Pillsbury a hot
one.
over at Glencoe Bob Nen's meeting
was so poorly attended that you could
see your breath in the air while he was
speaking
A good many of the Democrats In Ok
IahoIna believe that when Neff IS defear-
ed this year Popuhsm in Oklahoma will
be ended.
In the county campaign in Woods coun-
ty the result of the race for county at
torney viii be Close. That is the Re
publican candidates name.
As matter OF fact, the expected ex-
cdus from GaIvestou TO Oklahoma did not
take place. Very few people from the III
fated city settled in the territory.
campaign orators in that county TO quit
talking national politics and talk terri
torial issues on which people have a
vote.
The county commissioners of Oklahoma
county have refused the application of
the Anti-Saloon League to cancel sew
eral saloon licenses. The League viii
mandamus them.
The Augusta Headlight announces Itself
for Mckinley. "A hero of the Civil
War" for Roosevelt, "A hero of the
Spanish-American war" and for Dennis
Flynn, "A hero of the free homes war"
1t is about time for Leslie Niblack to
begin his great act of trying to make
the people of Oklahoma believe that
Bryan will carry New York. Leslie had
Bryan carrying New York before the
election in 1886.
GeOrSe ROpp was detained at OhidHCilih
City by a telegram from the sheriff Of
Marion county, Kansas. The sheriff
charges him with cattle-steslins. Popp
came back to Kansas TO stand trial vol
unfairly. He says there is mistake.
Country correspondence in Gsary But
letin: A great deal of wheat is spoiled
in the stack since the continued rain OF
the past week. This same wheat would
have been threshsd long since If the
farmers had not been under obligations
to thresh with a certain machine We
predict all kinds Of trouble for the next
man who tries to sell q machine in this
neighborhood, secured by farmers notes,
and advise him, quietly, to look little
out
Perry Enterprise: Mrs. Fred Kretsch
received word yesterday from Wurtem-
berg, Germany, that her mother, Mrs.
Retchenberg, had died the 18th of Sep
TENDER. She had not seen her mother IN
IA years. When Mrs. Kretsch was -
years old she came to America, her
mother intending TO follow the next
spring, but i'll health and other matters
prevented from time td time. The long
ing of the little girl as she looked for
ward TO her mothers coming never fal-
tered and as she grew 10 womanhood
still that same longing hope that some
day her hearts wish would he realized,
and the sad intelligence yesterday was
a crushing blow.