The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-13
Outlines o. Oklahoma

The Shawnee Democrat now tears that
Bryan can never be president
some of the Cheyenne Indians are Just
starting in on a i've days dance
The Republicans OF Grant county elect
ed LHneslnith commissioner By one vote.
The court house proDos ton in king
fisher county vas Overwhelmingly de-
feated.
There was 50 much excitement at 4ful-
hall election day that school was dis
missed.
The Oklahoma city oklahoman has a.
ready sprung Joe McNeal Ter governor
Of the territory.
J. ]. Barker. an Alabama man. eharg-
ed with murder has been arrested near
South McAl5ster
Il was a sad but glorious day for
Chairman Taylor. Evidently he though
Men was going 10 win.
Noble county did exceptionally well this
campaign. It overcarne a majority Of l7e
and elected its county ticket
Sheriff Butts Of Grant county had one
Of TIE hardest fights IN the territory
made on him, but he wen out.
The Anti-saloon league at the next leg
isIature WI devote rs energies mostly
TO a more stringent sunday law.
one Of The fusion candidates in OKLA
homa county got through with only
seven majority. and he is breathing hard
yet
Oklahoma would be much better OF,
and 50 would the Democrats Of the Ter
ritory. if no nomination against Flynn
had been made.
At aEuskogee. Tom Owens, city attor-
nev. shot and dangerously wounded q
young man named Noah Watts, Owens
claims self-defense.
Jake stotler notes that when man
tanks Up on election, after he has won.
he gets fuU;" if he tanks up after elec-
ton defeat he gets drunk
The five civilized tribes ought TO be
/ cleaned out and quickly that IS, before
/ 2g5. A. D. And they VIII be if the
/ Dawes commission viii hurry a little
Two suspension bridges have just been
+ comp letsd in PaWnee county. TIE longer
bridge has a span OF I55 feet and is
+ swung on two cables, each of which is
/ composed of go galvanized steel wires.
( The cost Of the bridge IS S1,7l0.
1 The Ponca City Times is disguised with
/ the way Kansas acts polsIically. e
notes that Kansas went for Mckinley.
4 but declares that If next year pair of
( grasshoppers stroll up to the state and
( destroy farmers SQUASH vines the state
/ will 60 Overwhelmingly Populist again.
j RIulhall Enterprise: Engineer Haas,
/ who runs a through freight over the ok
! lahoma division, is telling Of what he
supposed was narrow escape from a
head-end collision south Of Mulhall. ca iy
/ one morning recently. Re says he W 8
the worst frightened man on the santa
i Fe pay roll. The track at that point
makes a sharp turn to the west and for
( some distance goes almost in that d-rec-
! ton The track is down grade going
north, and engineers are sometimes
( given to making gold time on that
/ stretch Of road. On THIS morning Haas
had a string Of freight cars and was
/ chasing along at a pretty good clip. Just
+ as he rounded the sharp curve mentioned
4 above he saw a headlight looming up
on the track apparently not far in front
/ Of his engine. Quick as a fash he gave
her the air and reversed. Visions Of a
head-end collision flashed through his
mind and he was just preparing to
leave the engine to her fate when he
{ discovered that ne was wrong. All that
/ has been reported took place in few
+ seconds, and ne had hardly time 70 think,
/ when it dawned upon him that instead Of
being the headlight of another engine. il
was iust the moon that had caused hts
scare The moon was Just at the right
/ height to deceive the engineer and was
shining directly down the track so that
IL could be very easily mistaken for am
other engine. Tt is not an uncommon oc-
currence for this TO happen. and more
than once have engineers thought their
time had come IN just exactly the same
I way