The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-21
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Horace Speed is for single statehood,
and will work along those lines.
The ice the statehood convention at
Muskogee cut has melted already.
The gentle and insidious horse-thief is
now getting in his work IN Kiowa land.
If the president tells Speed to take the
governorship Speed viii have TO take it.
Anadarko viii grade her streets and
make the property holder put UP for the
job
The politicians says that there VIII be a
clean sweep II he becomes Governor
Speed.
Perhaps in a few weeks Judge Merrick
viii break down the walls OF his silence
and tell all about 1t.
If Speed is appointed he VIII be the
second Guthrie man to land the prize
that is, If il is prize
The city council Of FL Reno has passed
| a resolution prohibiting police Officers
from taking cash bonds.
And now if some one should start up
rival asylum and put in a competitive
/ bid. what would happen?
FL Reno is drifting into the strenuosity
Of a row over a policeman. the meanest
sort of scrap in the world.
Horace Speed, the prospective governor
of Oklahoma, was brought up In the Of
a
Ell Reno is talking of going after the
Frisco road. The Frisco would be worth
more TO FL Reno than a court house
Governor Barnes is weeping no great
quantity OF tears over the present guber-
Material situation. He feels that laugh
! is coming on him.
An advertiser at Manchester makes the
unprecedented announcement that one Of
the brands of cigars ne has been selling
| extensively has deteriorated-
The suspicion is growing over the ter
ritory that Oklahoma. City Will not be
wholly satisfied unless both candidates
for congress come from that city.
John Cragg. who has lived at Anadsrko
fourteen years. says he has never been
sick a day, and Anadarko takes this for
grounds for setting up as a health re-
sort.
The warden o. the Kansas penitentiary
has issued an edict that'a all Oklshomans
who insist on getting into his institution
must be vaccinated before they viii be
| regarded as persona grata.
1t is said that Governor Jenkins, when
he made his explanation to the secretary
of the interior, told everything frankly
and completely, and it was this docu-
ment which has caused him his trouble.
Secretary Hitchcock and Kerens are
having uSnJ over the missouri patron
age. If Roosevelt should recognize Ke-
rens, Hitchcock viii resign from the
cabinet. Tams Bixby is said 20 have
aspirations to be secretary of the inte-
rior.
Lahoma is being organized with a ven
geance by the fraternaI orders. This is
the way the Lahoma Sun describes the
onslaught; Book agents. lightning rod
| men. and the fellow with the patent
clothes rack are out of the game in this
neck o. woods. Life insurance has the
right OF way over everything. Two or
three men ara working old line insur-
dnce; Mr.. Mccullough. of Kansas. is or
ganizing the knights and Ladies Of Sc
curity; lady is here trying 20 start a
camp Of Royal Neighbors; /. L. Magee,
of Curtis, formerly a newspaper man, is
endeavoring to institute an A o. u. W.
lodge, and We are expecting an attack
from a representative Of the Modern
Tonties. Life insurance is the tallest
kind of style just now. and II an cpl
deInic were to strike the town real hard
a food of money would pour in and make
the survivors rich enough to arouse the
cupidity of J. p. Morgan or Cecil
Rhodes"