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


AS lively town as FL Reno is. is try
ing to get slShty acres for a cemetery.
Governor Barnes says emphatically that
| Flynn had nothing to do with the fight
on him al washington.
Demand has swallowed the supply at
| fOkiahoma City, and now the town is fig-
uring to get distillery of 6,eeo barrels
| capacity.
II looks bright for. free homes. Gov
ernor Barnes says Flynn is sweating
with the proposition every tday and is
making progress.
Governor Barnes doesn't look ike he
| lost any sleep in Washington, nor does
he look like q man who has been pale
with fright within the last three weeks.
| Governor Barnes is back from Washing
ton. and he says the fight is over. Sec
rotary Hitchcock had only one piece OF
advice to offer. and that was that the
| bond of territorial treasurer be increased
The Anti-Saloon League begins its pro-
gram by holding up the saloon license
of Knipe and HASTE, who have picked
out a good pasture in Guthrie, on the
ground that the men went out Of their
ward to get signers for their petition.
Judge Yancy has found robust echo
| of his expression that the Indian terri
| tory needs more attention from congress.
| The sentiment has taken the shape Of a
call which viii, it is said, be issued in
! a few days for convention at Purcell.
| Nearly every paper in Oklahoma is
! helping to pile up the enthusiasm for the
| free homes convention at FL Reno Febru-
airy 16. II congress could get a peep at
| that convention both the house and sen
ate would fan over each other TO vote
| for free homes.
| Frederick A. Abbott, a member of the
| faculty, has written a college song deGi-
| Gated to the students Of the Northwestern
| Territorial Normal school at Alva. It is
entitled ''Hurrah for the II. T. NJ and
| fits out Of the first stanza with this adj
mirable movement: We've got the
crowd. we've got the town, the building,
| too, at Alva. So, sing aloud. come up,
| come down to the normal up at Alva."
! Oklahoma City Gazette: As a result
| of too much cruel hazing, Henry Wede-
meyer has returned home from the Lex
| ington, No, military school. being one
| of fifty boys that were compelled 10
| rebel and leave the institution. During
/ all of the present school term the fresh
men, or rats as termed by the older
| Students haye been at the mercy Of the
! haZlng process. the colonel IN command
i at the institution forbade the practice,
/ but it was continued, nevertheless, and
| increased gradually in severity. The boys
| put up with having ink bottles. pieces
! of broken glass, etc, put in their beds,
but when recently their Hppressors en-
tered the rooms, took the boys from bed,
| bound them hand and foot and carried
them out where they were mercilessIy
beaten with straps and sticks, until they
were sore from many wounds the boys
| rebeued, and justly so. AS a result of
the rebellion a battle royal followed. One
freshman was wounded with a sword,
another lost several teeth and still others
suffered broken noses, fractured bones
and other casualties. Wedemeyer was
struck in the back of the head with a
heavy shoe. The air was full of flying
missiles of every description. The fresh
men, in council, ordered strike and
fifty students, including eleven officers,
left the school and returned home. The
colonel, commanding. has written a per-
sonal letter to the parents of each of the
strikers, requesting them to return the
| boys to school. The boys did the proper
| thing in rebelling; the hazing process was
carried into cruelty and injury.