The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-19
OUTLINES OF oNlAl,ohA

Tuesday in central Oklahoma the har-
Ntsters were driven out OF the fields bv
rain. :.
1 The fights over the claims adjoining
Oklahoma City would make a volume q
stories
Leslie Niblack is Just now persuading
himself that Dennis Flynn has defeated
single statehood.
There IS 10 question but what President
Roosevelt viii sign the bill for statehood
if it can reach him.
All the candidates for congress are
agreed on one thing-there IS 10 be no first
ballot eineh ~ Enid.
Governor Ferguson might get the gov
iesiI 70 lei hin have Camp supply Tor
q temporary penitentiary.
Young Johnson. the Rough Rider who
I was killed AZ Oklahoma City. was =
| great favorite with Roosevelt
! Dennis Flynn knows when he is tired
and wants rest. And he has worked
iafd enough Tor vacation. surely.
The Honolulu trip has been given Up
/ By Dennis Flynn. He Will return 20 Ok
l1homa and take part IN the campaign.
II would be 4 mighty good thing II II
were made illegal IN Oklahoma 10 sell
give away or have in possession firearms
Several editors in Oklahoma have been
/ II pistol duels. but up 10 date no editor
has ever hit any oEe- They are poor
InSrksmen.
Perhaps as soon as Bill Cross can de-
eide what chairman the territorial com
nittee viii let him have he WIN begin
! lis campaign.
/ Oklahoma viii not be able to relieve
Kansas Of those prisoners until she finds
place TO put them. nd finding the place
/ Ia not an easy matter.
The solution Of the penitentiary prob
/ lem VIII be probably reached by Okla
hona contracting with some other state 10
Keep her prisoners.
H. II. Hagan, OF Guthrie. AYERS that it
Is not true that the Democrats OF Guthrie
VIII vote against Cross because Cross
lives in Oklahoma City.
The drawing plan was infinitely better
than the old run. Oklahoma county has
had more tragedies alone over contests
than all the new country.
While Colonel Blackwell is in the
prOphesying business at Blackwell on the
Fourth he might kindly give up the secret
Of whether or not Bill Cross home is
really in Kansas City.
Senator Quay is proving a great friend
TO Oklahoma. He is trying 10 have the
committee on statehood discharged and
To bring the omnibus bin directly before
the senate. II he succeeds it is thought
that ii VIII be passed.
The present congress prohibited Okla
hcma's legislature from locating any in
stitutiOns. If it had not been for this
the next legislature. in light of the ac-
ton Of Kansas, would certainly have built
penal institution Of some kind.
Ponca City Courier: There is no safer
or better way to guide the policy OF
newspaper than TO keep close to the voice
Of the people When that Is formed from
facts and experience IL is sure to be right
And one has only 10 go among the people
with his ear 10 the ground and he viii
soon ascertain that voice is practically
unanimous for Flynn - succeed himself
In this we are not consulting MIR. Flynns
wishes, but taking the larger view that
the voice of the people should control.
hsshijaugshrdacmfw upjoup up
W. T. McAiichael. who shot and killed
z. W. johnson. a real estate dealer and
former rough rider, and who was himself
shot. died yesterday OF his wounds. L.
Il. Brown. editor OF the Times Journal,
who took part in the shooting and who
was released yesterday evening. was re-
arrested upon the death of McMichael.
and was held for bail. McMichael before
he died asserted that Brown had shot
him. while by-stander declares that Nc
Michaels wound was from a bullet fired
by Johnson