The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-14
Outlines of OkIahoma


The old county buildings at Tecumsen
viii be sold al auction today
A pair of Hindoo takers have struck
Blackwell and asked not to be confused
with takers.
The Oklahoma Courier al FL Reno VIII
soon be out It VIII be printed in German
A. H Geissler viii be editor.
Ex-County Treasurer Durkee of Nor
man. has 20 acres OF cotton which has not
been touched. Lack of p:ckers.
II IS understood that Commissioner
Jones got tangled up In the Billy Wal
ker sentiment while he was 4 Oklahoma
Ella. Israel Kirchner died at Perry last
Friday. Her husband. William Kirchner.
formerly of Saltwater. and four children
survive her.
Charles Harrington Of Lexington traded
his farm OF 80 acres near that place for
a farm of 50 acres near Norman and re-
ceived SLIGO 10 boot.
There has been added 20 the Historical
collection a photograph Of W. j. Lurty.
| Oklahoma's first United States marshal II
came from North Carolina
Joe Mccartney of Cleveland county calls
his farm Poverty Flat" This year he
! had 7,aO0 bushels of corn, $50 bushels OF
wheat and 1900 bushels OF oats
| In one part of d county free range was
voted for last week by 1o3 10 80. There Is
| a general howl about country bridges IN
| Oklahoma Some of them are very weak.
Dan Dwinnei OF Mulhall, who has trav-
! eled all over the United States in the last
six months. has come back to Oklahoma
| to stay. He says the rest OF the country
| isn't in it.
| At Perry when Bryan passed through the
band played so long that Bryan did not
have chance TO say much. The commu-
nifty IS calling on the band to get some
! short pieces.
| The mother Of Miss Angelina Betterbox
| Of Shreveport, Louisiana, writes this Of
| flee denying the report that her daughter
| will be married to VIII Bolton Of Wood
ward, January 8.
| Kickapoo Berry, a peculiar negro-Indian
who has been arrested more times than
| any other man in Oklahoma, not except
ing Butterfly Kid. is initiating the new
| steel cells at Tecumseh.
| Don Quixote Hews says he has been mis-
| understood. He did not intend, he says
| to defy the United States with his army.
\ l.
| He will locate a shoe factory there.
Ell Reno has sounded the tocsin OF wa,
against Guthrie. The Star claims that &
| Guthrie man came over to FL Reno the
| other day and threw a beer bottle through
one of Ell Reno's plate-glass windows.
There is some talk among the Indian ma
tions of asking TO be annexed to Arkansa:
instead Of Oklahoma. One editor. how
| ever, says that rather than go 10 Arkan
sas, he would plead to be annexed to Ha
| waii.
Hennessey Kicker: T. Gather. Evini
four and half miles west of town. whil
| digging a well this week on his claim
found a human skeleton at a depth of
feet from the surface. The bones wer
in a perfect state of preservation.
Jerre Johnson in kildare Journal
CHANGING to go to Newkirk last Saturda.
morning we found ourself, when we ar
rived at the depot TO take the train 70
home, amongst a lot of prosperous-lookini
Democrats and Populsts, who were ther
to greet the great apostle of free silver
| Hon. w. ]. Bryan, VINO was on his wa.
to Mexico TO become the guest of Pres
ident D,az. First on deck and the frs
to purchase a ticket for Guthrie wa
Alonzo A Byers, who hopes by ass!diou
attentions now. to secure a fine ohic
should Mr. Bryan ever become presiden,
Byers was rigid with dignity and his elab
crate spread of shirt front and diamen'
pin paralyzed the free silver hosts VIII
were beginning to gather.