The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-02
oUTLINEs OF OKLAHOMA.


Frank Greer must certainly feel proud
Of his friends in Guthrie.
Bill Fossett is also an Jrishman- The
Irish is the ruling race in Oklahoma.
The wel-driliers at Blackwell have
packed up their tools and decamped, ard
Blackwell is pretty mad.
Speaker Henderson IS dead set against
that statehood bin and he is going 10
make il world OF trouble.
Blackwell should get that gas II she has
to shave the top OF the ground and ball
that salt water out by hand.
General s. 3. Bradford. OF Ardmore.
was partially stricken with paralysis last
Monday. His condition IS critical.
The water-works bond proposition at
saltwater did not get twc-thirds ma
jority and was consequently defeated.
Marshal Thompson's resignation was
not announced from the White House
until Bill Fossett had been appointed
There have been so many fires Of late
in Oklahoma that an insurance adjuster
shiveTs every time he picks Ip an Okla
bona paper.
What Horace Speed really went 70
Washington for was 10 carry the indoTse-
ments OF Governor Ferguson and the
judges for Bill Fossett for marshal
Mayor Prettyman. Of Blackwell. be-
heves there is "a niger in the wood-pile
in the gas well difficulty. that somebody
doesn't want Blackwell TO have gas.
Occasionally It is possible in Oklahoma
TO keep a political secret. Not q halt
dozen citizens knew that BIZ FosseJt :
appointment as marshal was impending.
The Oklahomans and Kansans are Iopk
ing for a big boom in corn on the specu-
sas and Oklahoma corn cob is a curios-
ity just now.
Bill Fossett knows every hiding place
of outlaws in the territory. He has met
them face 10 face on occasion and ad-
dressed several large. harsh Smith &
Wesson remarks in their direction.
Two men in Blackwell claim 10 have
cobnted 800 geese in a flock that few over
Blackwell. As geese get along at the
rate OF a mile a minute, the Blackwell
men must be a good deal swifter than
cash registers.
Civilization has It's drawbacks. Take.
for instance, the Guymon Herald Dick
Quinns newspaper. This paper has
twelve columns of home print. In the
old days before a railroad struck Beaver
county. and people get into the nadding
crowd, there used to be eleven col
ten, fun of local color, crisply original
And there used to be one column of adj
vertisements, a lot OF branded steers
with jingle-bob ears, and hieroglyphics
all over EN-. Now there are eleven col
Ums of advertisements in the Herald
and all the advertisements are trying 70
edge up next to a column Of reading mat
ter relating that J. Boggs OF Spikevills
Iowa, has arrived to settle in Beaver
county, and others OF his kind. In Oh
lahoma and this part of Kansas the vel
dict is unanimous that the Oklahoma Ma
tional Guard be called out and directed
TO drive civilization back east and let the
Guymon Herald resume In its OLD form.
The Shawnee Herald thus prepares
dish OF fricaseed Populist: Now that
the territorial central committee of the
Populist party has wisely accepted the
fraternal olive branch rendered by the
Democratic committee, 1t would appear
that no possible reason could arise for
any future friction. AT every primary
the leaders of a united Democracy should
see to it that every anti-Republicsn has
the opportunity to participate In the
privilege of electing delegates and that
TO distinction be made on account of
previous political utilization when IL
comes TO selecting the personnel OF the
delegations. The time has come in this
territory for a perfect union aid amSSga-
nation into one militant and aggressive
party OF all the earnest and honest OPP
penents Of the Republican party. and
10th committees are to be congratulated
upon the suspicious outlook for a har-
mOniOus and successful union OF the al
lies along lines that in no way detracts
from the self-respect and political princi-
pies of the unionists.