The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-09-24
Outlines of Oklahoma

| The grand jury at Oklahoma City exon
Grated the county jailer in the recent jail
! break.
/ At Oklahoma City the grand jury advis-
| ed that the city curfew ordinance be en-
| forced.
! Oklahoma produces two lawyers peculiar
I iy named. Ore John Crank, the other Chris
/ Swindle.
| The El Reno postoffice force the other
day received and dispatched SIS pieces
of mail matter.
II MCKINLEY knew the conditions in Ok
lahoma he would appoint William Grimes
| marshal tomorrow and let il go at that
Mr. DeIesdernier OF wash.ta county came
into FL Reno the other day. took one look
at prosperity and then fed back into the
wilds.
D. P Brown. the trader who was
elected from the Wichita reservation. has
succeeded in securing an order resembling
the eiectment.
Everybody viii be glad TO learn of the
prosperity OF the Normal school al Ed
mond. The school is ably managed and
ought 10 succeed.
A crowd of 200 men went from Shawnee
to Tecumseh the other night 10 lynch John
Anderson, a negro. For few minutes the
Tecumseh people thought they had come
10 capture the town.
Everything would come as serene as a
Blaine county sunset if Governor Barnes
would call off all deals and take his coat
off for Bill Grimes for marshal.
The way IT which Secretary Jenkins
tries to get to see the president and fails
ind hat bl
fer him in order 10 consult with him.
Governor Barnes says he viii give A c.
Scotts man the most favorable considera-
ton. Scott should tremble. Favorable
consideration is what John Goiob!e got.
Jake Schweizer is making the hotel bus
mess al El Reno hum, since he entered II.
A man who board with Jake three months
and still remains thin, is regarded as
personal enemy by Jake.
AlonZo Ketchum has appeared in the
marshalship fight. Where did he get tha;
name, and by what right does he use il?
A. A. Byers has the patent right for
"Alonzo' in Oklahoma.
John Anderson, the negro who killed Da-
vid Estes at Shawnee the other night
came mighty near being lynched. He is
now in the Oklahoma City jail, 10 which
place he was removed with great haste.
1t viii not be a good plan to boycott the
carpet-baggers socially. The carpet-bag-
gers VIII come to Oklahoma principally for
the purpose of associa ting with their sal
aries and they won't care whether they are
boycotted or not.
Mr.. Brownlee, who goes into the King
fisher land office. is IS years of age, q
graduate Of Ann Arbor and a capital fel-
low Some of his enemies have been try
ing to 40 him dirt. He is a hard political
and most OF the boys at Enid are
glad that ne was rewarded.
l.. W. Wentzer. who lives in Oneida.
in the western part Of Kinghsher county.
has invented a compass for steering vessels
under water. He says that a torpedo boat
can be conducted with IL 10 an enemy's
vessel miles away unerringly. 1t can be
operated on the surface or submerged with
equal facility. Wentzel hopes 10 make his |
fortune out of il.
Guthrie Leader: The territorial normal a 4
Alva opened yesterday with an enrolment /
IF sixty-one. This beats the first days en- |
of the opening of the normal and 1
Edmond by half and the complete success |
# this normal Is now assured. President /
Amount is more than pleased He told a !
'eporter for The Leader that twenty more !
lad assured him that they would start in !
few weeks. The territorial regents arc
low advertising for bids for the erection
4 a building.