The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-03
ouTLInEs OF OKLAHOMA.

! Everybody in Oklahoma is looking Tor g
big vote There is little talk of the stay
at-homsS.
whether Cross, home IS IN Kansas City
or Oklahoma City. he can do Oklahoma
no good in congress
Education is not being overlooked in
the new country. There are 70 pupils in
the High school AZ Anadarko.
Item in the Pond Creek Vidette; An
automobile was in our city yesterday. II
was brought in behind a buggy
There is no apathy in the Oklahoma
campaign. Everything is lively. The Re
pCblicans are making the canvas Of their
| lives.
The second crop Of potatoes ia Potta-
watomie county is booming. and viii be
bumper II frost VIII hold OF a few
weeks.
Coda Morris. the man who buried that
valuable hunk Of ice in midsummer al
Orlando. Will be tried in Emporia, kan
sas. October :.
Hensley. OF the FL Reno Democrat. Is
! looking for trouble. he calls the people
OF the Indian territory roadless. landiess
and schoolless.
Dennis Flynn viii make several speeches
IL Connecticut this month and he viii
advertise Oklahoma all right among the
New Englanders.
At Shawnee the other day a travelling
man named Bacon called at the store OF
a man named Ham. and standing near
was Mr.. Bean. who was introduced TO Mr..
Bacon
The editor Of the Purcell Register
thinks that II Job had been tried with q
printing office anu an erratic gasoline
engine he would have thrown up the
sponge.
Does anyone doubt what effect a big
Republican majority in Oklahoma viii
have on the statehood bin in the senate?
The bigger the majority the more it Will
help that bill.
There has been movement started by
Colonel ]. J. McAlester for the estab-
lishment of a home for INDECENT and in
firm Confederate soldiers within the
bounds of the Indian territory. 1t is
claimed there are $50 such in that terri
tory, in addition 10 mothers, wives and
daughters who will also be eligible An
association has been formed with $4,000
capital. which sas already acquired thir-
ty-one lots in South McAlester for the
home
The Chickasha Express recently said:
THE Indian territory has raised 10000
by private subscription for an exhibit at
the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Ok
lshoma wants TO tie up in single state
hood with an enterprising people like
that" This, for some reason. makes the
Purcell Register mad and It says:
Where is that 100000? a few people
got together and promised big things.
but not one cent has been actually
raised The rig AT Oklahoma is about
or a par with many other statements
made by the tenderfeet who would DO
we'll to take caution in their discussion
of unfamiliar subjects.
A candidate who is running for office
IL Pottawatomie county. for probate
judge. prints a card in the newspaper,
saying that he can't see all voters so
he Will give them his principles in brief.
He says he believes in free ballot; pro-
lection to labor; protection, to products;
protection 20 manufactures; protection Of
Americans abroad; free competition:
homestead law; free schools coast de-
Tense: navy; merchant marine; restricted
immigra ton; service pension; graduated
IT. come tax; uniform UivOrce law; reduc
ton of letter postage to one cent; civil
service reform an intelligent press; con-
troll of trusts; Panama canal taxation,
and assessment on fair valuation.