The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-02
Outlines OF Oklahoma.


Guthrie certainly has her share OF SEN
sations in this world
It begins 10 look like a new deal In
the Democratic party IN Oklahoma
]. Y Callahan did not attend the fu-
sion conventions at Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma editors have decided not
to 60 10 Eureka Springs on August q
The Rock Island has assumed charge
of the Kingfsher and Guthrie railroad.
The Jambs faction had more votes n
the convention than they claimed before
a vote was taken.
Edgar Jones Of Guthrie has decided to
run for county attorney again on the
Democratic ticket.
F. J. Honman's mention OF the name
of Webster Davis brought forth cheers
at Oklahoma City.
The victory OF Jacobs ar Oklahoma
City makes the Wisby crowd al e Reno
boilers sure enough.
Frank McMaster believes that the coal
found near Enid is as good an article as
the Indian territory variety.
/ The Sipes crowd, who were knocked out
/ at Oklahoma City, have always been the
/ leaders in the fights on Flynn.
/ Fully one-third Of the Creeks. the full
bloods, refuse TO take their ailotments,
and viii have 10 be driven TO it.
I The new biographies, according 10
Leslie Niblack, make an island a body
l of land entirely surrounded by warshi9s.
The Jacobs crowd az Oklahoma City
didn't pull any of the pegs IN their
shoes before walking on the Sipes-Wisby
gang.
! When the Sipes men did not succeed in
getting the organization OF the conven-
ton they said they were saving their
strength
There is mighty strong Middle-of-the-
road Populist element in Oklahoma and
the Democrats who want 20 go it alone
are pretty numerous.
AT Oklahoma City the Sipes crowd
couldn't claim they were beaten by a
parliamentary ruling. They simply
didn't have votes enough.
Jacobs, the new national committee
man for the Democrats, and new fig
ure in Oklahoma politics, is a business
man al Shawnee, who runs d paper for
the fun Of it.
An Indian, educated, who was in the
/ Eagle Office the other day, was asked
where ne thought the Delaware Indians
came from. He hesitated a minute and
said: Isn't there state somewhere
called Indiana?'
| In order TO make the Sipes forces feel
! worse, before a vote was taken at Ok
lahoma City the Jacobs crowd offered %
postpone the fight 10 some future time.
And then the Sipes crowd thought they
had Jacobs licked.
The Democrats at Oklahoma City re-
solved in favor Of free homes for the
settlers-to-oe IN the Kiowa and Comancha
country This action was premature. It
would be well to wait for the country to
/ be settled before that agitation is be-
gun.
The settlers who took claims in the
beds Of the Washita river believing they
were in Washita county, but who were
actually in the Indian reservations, will
be given a preference right of thirty
days to select and file upon claims in the
Kiowa and Comanche country.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The In
dams that were at Kramer's park folded
their tents and returned to Fl Reno
early Sunday morning. The ghost dane
ing and racing was a failure financially.
and the advertised events for Sunday
were forever postponed. The day when
lot of naked savages full Of army ra-
lions and colored with poor quality and
great quantities Of bad paint can in
terest an intelligent community has pass
ed evidently in this part of Oklahoma,
U S. A.