The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-07
be persuaded to try some
thing you know nothing
about for a remedy that has
stood the test for twenty
years.

| kinley writes me among other things
| il is being said that Mr.. Powell Clayton
! is going to command patronage OF OK
/ lahOma; | want 10 say 10 you there Is
| not a shadow of truth in the report
| | have also seen a letter from Mark
| Hanna who is managing Mr.. Mckinleys
campaign in which he says: Il have
no wish and / am sure he, General
/ Clayton has none TO dictate any fed
| eral appointments in your territory or
| anywhere else in the event of Mckinley
| nomination You must be prepared
| TO have all kinds of foolish stories cir
| culated in regard to such matters.
never had any conversation with Mr..
Barnes on the subject in the presence
| of Mr.. Clayton or anyone else in which
we undertook TO apportion out the fed
eral offices in Oklahoma"
81 desire to add for myself that the
above statements are true so far as my
| connection with the matter is concern
| ed and no man in the territory has ever
| heard me intimate that there was any
understanding about appointments,
| that would justify the slanderous state
ments that was being circulated. Yours
| truly, c. NJ. BARNES.
WORKED THE WIDOW.
Guthrie. o. T. March 6.-On the sew
enth of January, J. H. Mcknight ap-
peared in Purcell and visited Mrs. Ma
ry Mcknight, widow. To her he rep
resented himself 10 be the brother of
her dead husband and told glowing
tales of his we'll stocked farm and COM
Portable home in the vicinity of Center
also claiming 70 own a large herd of
cattle feeding in that vicinity. He as
Sured Mrs. Mcknight that she and her
little girl would always have good
home with him and finally proposed
marriage which proposition she accept
ed and the next day they were mar
ried, he promising to take his bride
and her little daughter to his country
home But the day following his mar
riage the groom was taken down with
d bad knee, which kept him confined
to bed for five weeks. much of the time
entirely helpless. BY the representa-
tons he made as to his property, Mrs.
McKnigh was enabled to obtain cred
il 20 considerable extent, living well
and having the best medical attendants
Finally a suspicion arose that all was
not right and inquiries were made
around Center by interested parties,
which developed the fact that no such
man was known in that neighbOrhOOd.
AS soon as Mcknight was able to get up
ne assured his wife and his creditors
that he had only to get out and do some
collecting TO make matters right. One
week ago Tuesday he hired a buggy
of Dan Warwick and a team of John
Thomas. also employing Thomas to go
with him as driver, and started off.
claiming he was going to MCGEE and
Center. Next news that came from
him was in the shape of a postal card
from Thomas, written at Guthrie, stat
ing that Mcknight. by some means.
had got away with the team and bug
gy, sold the whole outfit. put the money
in his pocket and boarded a train Tor
parts unknown.
E-SHO-WALLO
Josephine Che-Sho-W dllO has sued
her husband, Joseph Che-Sho-Waiio.f for
divorce. Both are Usage Indians and
live at Pawhuska. Joseph is a very
prominent member of his tribe, but JOS
ephine swears in her petition that he
is drunk half of the time and often runs
around after strange ladies. She says
she and Joseph were married in 1SS9,and
that Joseph is nearly always away
from home, but viii never let her go,
but makes her stay at home. and she