The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-12
Outlines OF Oklahoma

The announcement is made at Guthrie
that Frank Prouty is in love.
The new town OF Cashion already has
a Republican club OF one hundred and
twenty five members.
The newspapers hammered at the ped
dIers so long that they have practically
rid the territory Of them.
From all appearances Nef viii also
lose Greer county. He is not going 10
make as coed a race as Keaton did.
The Nefites are claiming Oklahoma
county as a tie county. They are book
ed for large, purple-eyed surprise
there.
At all his meetings in Greer county,
Nef was introduced as a Democrat The
Populists in that county are against him
/! TO man.
The Ponca Indians, with several hun
dred members of other tribes their
guests, have Just concluded their annual
hoe-down at White Eagle.
Frank Greer says that Bob Neff was q
great man until ne was discovered. that
is. that his speeches are always great
until you happen to hear one.
Ike Wiykes, a fine horse belonging to
Charles Colcord, of Oklahoma City, was
recently badly hurt In being shipped
from Shawnee to oklahoma City
Mrs. Alice West is suing for di-
yorce at Guthrie from H c. West They
were married in 1858. Mrs. West wants
her maiden name. Thornton. back.
Somehow. or other the Nef papers
have quit making fun Of gratitude. Per-
haps they discovered that one way to
make gratitude glow is 10 deny that it
exists.
B. F. Newkirk, a deputy sheriff at
Oklahoma City, has resigned and VIII go
TO South Dakota, where he has received
a job in the United States Industrial
school at Flandreau.
The Woodward Dispatch says that
''people are tired OF Flynn's bnncoe
game" All that ais the Dispatch IS
that il does not know free homes has
passed, believes it is still pending and
thinks the measure a fake.
According to the belief of the fusion
management in Oklahoma, Neff, II elect
ed to congress, will work against the ma
tional banks. What a powerful influence
territorial delegate TO congress would
have against national banks
Major Breckenridge, member Of the
Dawes commission, says that the Chero-
kee nation will be allotted and made
ready for statehood whether the Chero-
KEGS act on the treaty or not. The Cher
okees might better rustic into line.
People who confne their reading to
the Guthrie Leader must by this time
have pretty firm impression that Flynn
will get about 43 votes in the whole ter
ritory. The Leader is preparing itself
for big horse-laugh from the public.
FLYNN don't know me-" said a man
at Blackwell, the other day. He couldn' t
tell my name. I am a Democrat, have
always been one, but Flynn didn't in
quire about my politics before he gave
me my home free. And I am not going
to inquire about F'lynn's politics when
I give him my vote"
A special dispatch from Oklahoma City
says: "a deal in railroad building for
the coming year has just been completed
in the contract that has been made be
tween the FL Paso and Northeastern and
the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf rail-
ways The plans of the two compan'e
will compel the building of nearly 4 0
miles of standard gauge road within the
next twelve months. after the election
in November The FL Paso and North
eastern is a line 153 miles in length. run
ming from El Paso to Capftan, n. NJ.
It passes through the best part of that
territory. This road will, under the con-
tract commence an extension 10 Texline
Deaf Smith county, Texas where It VII
be connected with the extension Of the
Chactaw, Oklahoma and Gulf to be butt
from Weatherford. o. r, the present
terminus of the road. The line that the
White Oaks road will build will be prac-
tically 100 miles in length and the Choc-
taw extension will be about 900 miles.
The Choctaw extension viii commence
at Weatherford and will pass through
some Of the richest grazing and farming
land in western Oklahoma and the Pan
handle of Texas. 1t will have it's first
terminus at Amarillo. Texas, where it
will connect with the Denver and Fort
Worth, then 1t will be built on to Tex
line and connect with the El Paso and
Northeastern. This will make the whole
system about LOO miles in length from
Memphis. Tenn. to FL Paso."