The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-23
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Choctaw officials deny that they
are going to extend westward at once
There are many farmers in Oklahoma
who have not threshed their wheat yet
| The wheat in the Strip is getting splen-
| did root: and that is one-fourth oE the
| game.
No one has heard of any school chill
| dren rushing out Of the school building
| to greet Bob Neff.
On January 1 the postoffice at Oakdaie
! will be finally and irretrieveably known
as Mountain View.
Cotton pickers in Pottawatomie are
plucking 81 for every hundred pounds
| they grab off the stalks
At Hennessey rain made Flynn retreat
to hall and half the people who had
| come to hear him couldn't get in.
If those allotting agents in the Com
anche country have been suspended no
one viii weep. They were too slow.
John Holt. a leader of the Barnes fac
ton in Custer county. and holding an
appointment, is openly fighting Flynn.
In Custer county the Repub leans have
no nominee for county attorney. The
Republicans are supporting the Populist
nominee.
In dispute over $3.50. four men in
Custer county are in the peniteutiary,
one man is dead, the county is out
$1,000 costs.
Mrs. Ashby, the wife of DR.. Ashby of
Weatherford, who was recently convicted.
is in poor circumstances and fund Tor
her relief is being taken up.
1t IS said that less money is be ne
spent on the campaign in Oklahoma
than ever before. The Republicans see
no necessity for 1t, and the Neffites know
it would be no use.
The editor of the Manchester Journal
who has fought Flynn harder than any
man in the territory, finally acknowl-
edges that he admires Flynn for his
pluck. his energy and his courage.
Whenever Dennis Flynn says in his
speeches that the man who says he de-
serves no credit for passing the free
homes bill is nine times out of ten a
man who maintained for months that
the bill could not be passed, and scma
one in the audience gets up and walks
out, it IS a sure bet that Dennis has shot
a bolt that hit that man.
Dennis Flynn has never beeen corner
ed yet. In every'eampaign the opposi-
ton has fixed up some plan to have a
man arise in an audience and knock
Flynn out with a question 1t has never
been done. The trouble is that Flynn
says what he thinks, and he is think
ing so much on sensible rational and in
telligent lines that the audience gives the
interrupter the merry ha, ha!
Stroud Messenger: Most of the Sac
and Fox squaws are in the adjacent
Creek nation gathering flags in the
swamps, for the purpose of using them
for mats and the constructing of wig
vans. The Industrious squaws lords
in the meanwhile fool away their album
dance of leisure time in gambling and
drinking all the 'fbug-juice" they can
manage to get.
NHennessey Clipper: Election bets are
now in order. We have heard of few
that are something on the sure thing
order. Here is one of them: A city of
10000 or more IN the United States can
be named in which Mckinley will not get
a single vote. As Washington, D. c.,
does not get to vote at all, the assertion
is probably true. Another: -Four months
from the day that Mckinley is inaugu-
rated half the banks and business hou es
IN the United States, will be closed. Since
four months from the fourth of March
is the fourth of July, we don't doubt it.