The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-09
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| The Oklahoma City Champion carries the
name OF Bryan for president in 1862
The ice in the vicinity of Alva reached a
| thickness of seven inches. A great deal
was put up.
| irgton IL 1t is ever TO come, that Speaker
Reed has relented-
| At FL Reno they have agitated the ques-
ton Of building a gin for seven years
This year they viii get IL
| We would Ike to know if Senator Ravens
has got his net set near Canton for any,
thing? And If not, why not2
| The Oklahoma City Champion. which IS
| Populist, calls it the .'honey-boy militia =
and hopes it viii be abolished.
| Mrs. Hopkins the famous hostess of the
hotel at Watonga has written a piece OF
| poetry in honor OF Dennis Flynn.
| 1t is rather strange that the gubernatori-
al fight should narrow down where Guthrie
| has the only candidates in the field.
| Tell Walton of Pond Creek has with
drawn from the postoffice race in the inter-
est of harmony and somebody else not men
| toned.
J The Tecumseh Republican. the King
| fisher Free Press and the Newkrk Repub-
lican are the big three behind Barnes for
governor.
II Barnes gets TO be governor, Governor
Seay don't want a thing. But he will have
something TO say or the heavens will peel
! up like a scroll.
! 1t should be said in fairness to Dennis
| Flynn that he can never do as much fo-
Oklahoma as governor as he has done as
! delegate TO congress.
| Jay Yuseiess Callahan goes to Washing
! ton this month. And in about two days ne
VIII find that the hardest job in the word is
succeeding useful man.
| The Tecumseh Republican IS for Barnes
for governor. 1t says il has the impression
that Dennis Flynn wants the world with a
| three barb-wire fence around il.
The Oklahoma City Champion thinks that
if the bill passes the legislature prohibiting
| intermarriage between the whites and IL
dams, single statehood will be impossible.
Arapahoe Bee: The Wichita Eagle was
| the first paper to adopt Custer as the name
of this county. After the EDITORS visit here
in September he adopted it as foregons
conclusion.
/ Nike Berry and VIII Hamilton escaped
/ from the kingfisher jail last week. Both
were being held 10 await action OF the
| grand jury; Berry charged with burglary
and Hamilton with horse stealing. After
| their escape they stole two horses, one be-
| longing to Ex-Governor Seay.
| At Tecumseh recently Frank Delaney
| jumped on Bob Motley and before they
could have the fight out friends separated
| them. Later in the day Tom Motley AMI
| Delaney got at it and friends separated
| them. A man who is on the war-path can
| have good many too many friends.
A young country lad called on girl in
Enid and ted his horse on the outside. Her
| city fellow came along and united the
horse. The country lad had TO walk home.
The Enid Wave says the moral TO this Is
| that the country lad should have taken
his horse inside and tied him to the piano
| leg.
Arapahoe Bee: Fred Miller OF Grant
Township committed suicide about three
o'clock last Wednesday morning at the
home of his mother. Mrs. Louise Miller. He
had taken young lady home from dance
and they had a quarrel. On returning 10
his home he placed the muzzle OF a double
barreled shotgun against his left side just
below the heart, and shot a hole through
his body.