The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-09
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

OKLAHOMA OUTLINES
Guthrie is talking of sinking an artesian
well agUin.
Henry Asp is candidate for one of the
judgeships.
Ell Reno is the first city in Oklahoma to
get water-works.
Leo Whistler, the Sac and Fox Indian,
is in Minneapolis.
Ed Brown of the Oklahoma Times-Jour-
nal is in Minneapolis.
The Blackburn perjury casa will be
carried to higher court
Up to late hour last night the train
robbers had not been caught.
Edmund will have stage for theatricals
erected in Que of its buildings.
The farmers of county sc" are putting
in a large crop of corn, millet and alfalfa
A young cyclone passed through the
timber fifteen miles from Chandler last
week.
Who will be the next governor OF Okla
homa if Blaine should be nominated and
elected?
The Methodist church at Guthrie has
scored point by putting in stained glass
windows.
Colonel Wade of Fort Reno is said to
own the the finest team of horses in the
territory.
A new postoffice has been established at
Thompson, B county, John Z. Roberts,
postmaster.
1t is stated that the express messenger
hid $50, 900 and left only $40 IN the SAFE
which the robbers took
1t is openly reported at Guthrie If Meth
er Flynn nor Harvey get the nomination
for congress, it is likely to go to some one
else.
Guthrie News: Should Governor Seay
call the legislature together that body
will have to complete its work before
Aug %.
Jim Brennan, the slayer of Sam Wood,
applied for the commissionership Of coun-
ty ii, but Governor Seay would not ap-
point him.
Item from the Chandler Warrior: Court
Crier Babcock's bull dog from Guthrie is
in attendance at the district court in
Chandler this week.
During the recent convention OF the W.
c. L. U. at Tahlequah several hard drinkers
signed the pledge, among the number
being the editor OF the Telephone.
The man who defeated Colonel Mansur
for denomination in the Second Missouri
district is brother to Captain Hall of
the Fifth cavalry, who is well known to
all the older Oklahoma settlers.
Fred L. Dodge. chief detective of the
Wells, Fargo Express company, says the
exact amount secured by the Red Rock
train robbers was $751; He is disinclined
to think that the job was perpetrated by
the Daltons
| Tue Norman people are very solicitous
for the use of their building stone in the
territorial buildings there. Some MEN,
bers of the board oppose it. Neither side,
| however. has gone beyond mere disputa-
lions. The matter can easily be settled by
expert examination of the material.
Guthrie News: The man Mundis, with
his pretty Indian wife, has come TO the
surface again for sensation. Saturday
| night he appeared before the police office
and offered to give up to the officers no
| less a man than Bob Dalton for reward
! of 500. The officers jumped at the
chance. Constable Baliou thought that
| perhaps il would be- possible for him to
pocket the whole reward, and therefore he
tried to make single-handed play, but
before he proceeded to go very far be was
scared out and got the assistance of Mar
| shall Kelly and Morris Robacker. Mundis
was to take the men to the place where
| Bob was and make Bob throw up his
| hands, and get his reward: but there was
| a misunderstanding between all the gem
tlemen, each trying to get the best OF II,
and so when the officers rode down 10
! Muudis' house it WAS without his
| knowledge They surrounded the house
and watched bat little while when
they saw n tall horseman ride away.
| They placed themselves in his way
and made him throw up his hands.
When they came to look at him they
were pretty sure he was not Bob. but
thought that he belonged to his gang from
| the letters and other matters on Els per.
son. They didn't want anyone to whisper
a word about tie matter until they caught
all the parties connected with the affair,
and SO the News promised not TO print the
| matter. All day sunday men went to SEE
Bob Dalton. Finally they mads SO much
| trouble that = Zee of 10 cents was charged
to see him. Everybody who saw him pro-
nounced him a decoy duck But some
men who know-who used TO belong to
the United States marshal service-said
that if the truth was known the man
Cochran, for such is his name, might be
held on several charges. The man is still
in Jail and it is not decided what 10 do
with him. Fred Dodge, the Santa F.
railroad detective. and Simpson, also Of
the Santa Fe, are here aud have seen tht
man. When Joe Jennings saw the man
he simply laughed and told the officers
they had a tender-foot-
| FycH.nGE SHOTS