The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-27
ouAzo,eA OUTLINES.

Oklahoms can boast slo5 more votes this
year than she did in 1894.
One firm at Manchester shells one thou
sand bushels of corn Q day.
L. NJ ConkIing. the lawyer. has formed
a partnership with his SON at Enid.
It is feared that heavy shipments have
almost exterminased mistletoe In the ter
ritory.
The Aiva Pioneer Is fighting the device
at the head of a ticket on the Oklahoma
ballot.
The Ponca City Courier has figured out
that Oklahoma cast more votes than eight
western states did
The Noble County Sentinel says that the
original Mckinley men are no longer q
curiosity in Oklahoma"
Thank the Lord" exclaims q cores
pondent in an Oklahoma paper. "the
chinch-bugs can't eat cotton"
Az Oklahoma paper IA speaking of Gala
hans illness said it was fatal but not
| serious" That editors mind must have
miscued.
The last item in this weeks Gushing
| Herald reads: while we are writing these
paragraphs the fire has gone out and we
| are nearly froze''
The postmaster at Guthrie recently re-
turned a paper to the editor with the note:
Forward another in an asbestos wrapper.
| The man is dead"
| The Ponea City Courier emphasizes its
love for Flynn by saying that all the
| democratic papers of the territory are
| against him for governor.
| Captain William whitworth OF Alva
wants to be chief clerk OF the territorial
house and unless he gets 1t he Is going 10
feed somebody to the pigs al the next
election
| The bachelors OF Guthrie, headed by
| Otto Bekemeyer. Harry Pentecost. Leslie
| Niblack, L. r. Dulaney. Paul Jundt and
T. NJ. Tarlton, gave the poor children oi
/ the city a Christmas entertainment
/ Representative Scranton of Pennsyiva-
nia. chairman of the house committee on
territories, says that the Oklahoma state
hood bill is dead and will not become a
| law in either this congress or the next.
| Hennessey Democrat: A party OF movers
| from Kingman, Kansas. arrived in Hennes-
| sey, Tuesday, en- route for Florida. Moth
| ing unusual, to be sure; but after then
arrival trouble was encountered with one
| of the mild-eyed, pink-complected lasses
i who accompanied the party 1t seems thia
! fair daughter of the sunny Sunhower state
| had done considerable kicking over the
removal, and. in fact, stated that In Kan
| sas she was born, in Kansas she would
wed, die and be inferred. At any rate the
move movement was started and every
F! thing rolled along smoothly until after the
camp had been pitched in one Of the alleys
| of our wonderful city, at which time the
| aforesaid young lady, whose heart yearned
| for one glance into the face of her desert
ed lover, excused herself from the teepee
campfire on the pretext that she wished
| to feast her eyes upon the beauties OF art
| to be seen in the windows Of our mercan-
| tile establishments and sniff the bracins
breeze which swept from the northland
Thus she bade farewell to her paternal
| ancestors and unmindful brothers and sis
| ters, and sailed forth alone and unknown
| In an unknown land. The allurements OF
our city are numerous and varied, and Sc
| sudden was the disappearance and COM
| plete that it is presumed that 10 the Kissei
| of Bud the Hugger nabbed the thoushtless
| Kansas fairy and stealthily stole her away
to come dark rendezvous. The mother and
! father made a thorough search OF the
| haunts Of Chinatown and Rag Alley, as
| sisted by fifteen OF our efficient policemen,
| but not trace could be found of the SUM-
| flower beauty. The sorrowing party moved
on, and it is presumed viii reach their des-
4 tination In due time.