The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-29
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| The Enid Wave is now being edited under
a sonwdrift five feet deep.
| II is about time that Manitoba let the
fine Italian climate OF Oklahoma alone.
There are 1900 white, 800 colored and
400 Indian children enrolled in the schools
of the territory.
All the Oklahoma lumbermen are going
/ to attend the convention of Hoo Hoos in
/ Wichita next month.
| Barb-wire gangs are operating in the
vicinity OF Manchester. They will strip
miles of fence in a night.
Isenberg, of the Enid Wave. has long
made it rule TO speak Of the condition OF
the weather in every issue.
Rev. Holt, aged 66, and Miss Fannie
Hawkins. aged 16. both of Chandler and
colored, We're married last week
Henry George has been arrested in the
Indian country for selling whiskey. What
do the single taxpayers say to that?
Judge Scott and Governor Renfrow just
at present appear TO have a monopoly
of the privilege of being investigated.
A bald-headed man from Enid since Sc
curing place in the legislature has begun
to grow hair. But this is no reason why
the legislature, next time. should be turn
ed into balditorium.
patches about Ponca City. All the daily
papers Will sooner or later have TO hire n
special corp of men to scrutiniZe dis
patches from rival towns in Oklahoma.
II Judge Pitzer refers bill for the re-
lief of lame tomcats to the committee on
sub-soiling during the next three days the
council of course will overlook IL. 1t is
not every man who can keep the reins of
government an and irrigation convention
in hand at one and the same time.
When Perry was surveyed by the gov
eminent surveyor just before the open
ing, Sept. 16, 1898, the surveyor gave the
Santa Fe railroad 300 feet through the
entire city for depots and sidetrack privi-
leges, but as the company kept their depot
at Wharton for so long that hundreds of
people settled upon and claimed the right
of-way in excess of loo feet, and the town
site board gave them deeds on the ground
that the law only allowed the railway COM
pany 100 feet right-of-way. The property
is in the center of Perry, and the railroad
company on Friday began twenty-five
ejectment suits against the parties who
secured the lots. The suits were brought
in the district court and will likely end in
the supreme court of the United States.
Oklahoma Star: In the district court
yesterday, Mr.. ]. Frank Mann filed a
petition to be divorced from Carrie n.
Mann. He says he was always a man in
more ways than one; that he and Carrie
were married in Haywood county, North
Carolina, in June, 1894 He asserts that
prior to marriage Carrie was of unchaste
character and that her parents and others
had knowledge of this fact; that Carrie
and her parents conspired together to
take advantage Of plaintiffs criminal
intimacy with the defendant He says
that the family worked him for all he
was worth, and when he had put up about
$50 he began to catch on and refused
to put up any more. Then they had him
arrested for bastardy and held him under
heavy bond. BY and by that kind of
thing played out, and they got him drunk
and while in that intoxicated condition
they induced him to marry Carrie. He
says he never lived with her after he
sobered W.