The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-21
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

OutstUoS Oi OktdffOfHds
The Guthrie Capital Is publishing
sketches daily of the members of the leg
| islature-
| Senator Marum's mileage to and from the
legislature is 251 miles. There's money in
/ Il for him.
| Bill Grimes of Kingisher was in Enid
the other day and the boys there gave him
| an ovation.
| The story that Hennesssy would vote
bonds for the erection of statue to Pa.
| Hennessey is false.
| The Perry Enterprise. which is Rerubli-
| can paper, says frankly that Renfrow's
message possesses merit.
| ]. p. d. Mouriquand,. one of the two Re-
| publicans IN the house. was born in the
| department of Drome, France.
| In recently township election in washi-
| ita county the Lay free grass scheme"
| was voted down by the farmers.
| 1t is one of the strange things Of Okla
| homa that the jewelers. are the best adj
| vertsing patrone of the newspapers.
Dave Lytton, member of the legiisla-
| ture. is a son of man who fc1ght Stone
wall Jackson's brigade during the late war.
! DR.. Applewhite of Tecumseh bid lowest
| for the county physician work OF Pottawa-
tonne county. His bid was S120 per an
mum.
| The Populist papers now confess that
Callahan led about Flynn in his campaign.
They did not confess it during the cam
paign.
The Arapahoe Bee thinks it will take Cal
lahan about six months before ne can ap-
proach the Washington hotel clerks grace
fully.
The eastern papers are protesting against
free homes. They say it costs more to
pacify the west than il does to pac:ty
Cuba.
Judge Tarsney overruled the motion for
new triai in the Alfred Son case. II
will be taken to the supreme court on this
ruling.
The Enid Wave warns the legislature
that the territory will not brook any pro-
STATIONS from overwork among the legis-
lators.
Otto Kekemeyer is writing up the pro-
ceedings of the council for the Guthrie
Capital and John Golobie takes care of the
house.
The free homes BIZ, has passed the house
once. II it does not pass again 1t Will be
because of the result of the election IN
Okla homa.
Had Secretary Francis failed OF confir-
nation many in Oklahoma believed that
his rulings would have been invalidated.
Is that true or not?
Charles II. Hill has bought the Pswnee
Times Democrat of the Stennetts. This
is the paper of which Mrs. Stennett was
proprietor and MIR. Stennett editor.
The free homes bill is now on the house
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without Reeds consent. Flynn will get
Reed TO consent, depend upon it.
Jim Corbett will give a sparring exhibit
ton at Guthrie in February. TIE story
that Dick Plnkett would attempt to put
him out in two rounds is fiction.
1t is likely that the Dawes commission
will never again come TO the territory, the
Choctaw treaty being used for the ground
work of a bill to apply to all the tribes.
Colonel Barnes went over to Kingfisher
the other day to talk to Governor Seay,
who is sick in bed. The two men will
probably pool their issues against Flynn.
The Oklahoma Sentinel, at Saltwater.
says that Miss Eckes was not entitled to
the oratorical prize; that her grafton was
simply grim recital Of the horrible in
history
Inc fellows down IN Greer IN conformity
with the bill which Flynn passed for them
can now have. each. farms of $40 acres.
Texas. when il gave Greer county away,
let each man have loo acres.
Near Independence a colored man was at
the bottom of deep well when he struck
a big stream of water. He yelled Ike mad
and they hauled him up almost dead from
fright. The well is half full of water.
A faker is travelling over Oklahoma with
a black board paint charging high for it
and claiming he Is the sole agent. He is
working lots of school trustees who could
go into any of the towns and buy the same
thing cheap.
The Greer county man who forbade the
school children from skating on his irriga-
ton pond because they fiuffed up the ice
and let lot of 1t blow away, is almost as
mean as the Georgia man who is described
in local paper follows: Any man who
would keep dog that would jump fence
and break a rail and scare a mule that
would throw a niger and break a jug OF
whisky in a dry country is too cussed mean
to live.