The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-08
Outlines OF Oklahoma.


| They have quit talking about or count
I ing upon Reverend James at Oklahoma
City
! Dennis Flynn reached Guthrie at mid
night last evening. not IN time TO hear
/ Burton's speech
/ This is the day that the Republicans
VIII notify Flynn that they understand
free homes passed
/ When Bob NeT was Republican in
I Harper county, Dennis Flynn supported
( him for probate judge.
I Oklahoma is enjoying a complete rest
from amateur theatricals. Maybe the
Bull-tick board has prohibited en-
| The Oklahoma editor who found a gold
| en- sunset IN the Wichita mountains
should send It 10 an assayer at once.
/ An FL Reno picnic party which has
just returned from the Wichita mount
aims claims TO have heen seen by a
bear.
Mexico to look up q location The IN
dams are really in earnest about that
exodus.
Reverend Sugar George. a negro of
NIuskogee. left $4,000 in his wiz TO his
widow, and his sons viii seek to burst
il wide open.
It is not generally known, but the day
after the free homes bill passed there
was serious talk IN the senate of re-
consideration.
The thing which charmed Dennis Flynn
I about the Comanche country, he says,
was the little streams of swiftly run
ming clear water.
+ The late Mrs Helen Duvall, wife Of
one Of the staff OF the Orlando Herald,
was a cousin OF John p. Mclean and
Mrs. George Dewey.
Two years ago no one expected Flynn
to re nominated; today everybody ex-
poets it. Two years makes a lot of diff
ference in mans life.
No one knows vet whether Bacon Rine.
over in the Usage country. was crowned
with success, or dumped into the mud
puddle Of failure last Monday.
Bob Nen saying ne would not appoint
a Populist chairman, did. nevertheless.
naming French temporarily The COM
mittee will take this for his choice and
ratify il.
The man who carries the mail to Har-
desty got weary the other day and
threw Up his job. The people OF that
place missed their mail for two days in
consequence.
A new newspaper portrait of Dennis
Flynn is out. but It is not as good as
the old one. the one that emblazoned
the Republican banners all during the
free homes fight.
Bob Nef has been before the public
SO long in the show line that he is go
ing TO find it difficult in bidding adieu
to his audiences not TO lift one foot OF
the ground, and kiss his hand.
o. H Trayers OF Chandler. who ran
against Flynn in 1892, attended the Stroud
meeting TO make a speech. He notified
the managers that he would jump into
Flynn, who was present, and the man
ayers requested him not 10 make a
speech.
A Beaver county school marin adopted
the scheme of kissing the first pupil TO
arrive in the morning III order TO en-
courage prompt attendance. In a few
weeks the word got out, and the ranch
men had to raise the wages of their
hired men to keep them from going to
school to complete neglected educations.
Stroud Messenger: The united tribes
of the Sacs and Foxes numbered nearly
1,500 souls during the first few years of
their residence in this part OF the great
American desert, about thirty years ago.
The measles and smallpox killed several
hundred of them about twenty years
age, a goOdly number OF them were kill
ed during their sl1irnlish with Cheyenaes
near the junction OF the Cottonwood and
Clmarron: the 'sweIl-head' or malignant
erysipelas snatched away a goodIy num-
Der three years ago, and another small
pOx epidemic, two years since, killed
nearly fifty, so that they have dwindIed
down to a little over 400 members.