The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-21
Outlines of Oklahoma

| Mr.. McEvan McMaster has taken charge
| of the Oklahoma City Sunday Globe
/ Robert West, near Gushing, has one
| wheat STACK three hundred feet long.
| II Hainer is turned down. TO Oklahoman
! will ever so 10 Washington in a Prince
| Albert coat again.
The farmers about Gushing do not Ike
| the advent OF the negro. but they mus,
have him for cotton.
Some of the people in Oklahoma tnot pol
| itic:ans) who are tired of the political
serapping, are glad that Mckinley did ap-
point his cousin.
Governor Barnes says: II was surprised
at Seymour Prices appointment" II
may be that Price was himself. The Flynn
men certainly were
1t is said that Jake Admire wanted the
reg.stership Of the Kingfisher land office.
He was made receiver instead. and his
friends do not like il.
The boards OF health in southern Oklaho-
ma are keeping sharp eye on the south.
There is no danger from yellow fever but
they are taking no chances
Brownlee, who gets the reGstership OF
the Kingisher land office. IS but y years
of age He graduated from the High
school IN Kingman. Kansas, recently.
Every time anything happens some one
says: We'll, that will knock Orput out ="
The Orput boom looks ike an infant that
viii never be able 10 get over the second
summer.
Sam Murphy seems 10 be hot He made
harder speeches for the gold standard than
anybody in the territory, but everybody
seems 20 have failed 10 communicate that
fact to the president.
Henry knight, who has been practic!ng
law IN Arapahoe. has returned TO his home
in Battleboro, Vermont, to reside. He Will
realize later that he has pulled out OF
the west at the wrong time.
Bobby Burns, who lives near Gushing.
has written a history of the civil war. He
says ii Is written in the manner in which
the war VIII be viewed in 1850, one hun
dred years after it occurred.
Is this story a fake? Probably not. II
is from the South McAlester Capital After
reading il the citizens of Oklahoma should
reflect that the Indian Territory doesn't
want TO be joined in statehood with Okla
homa because Oklahoma is SO immoral:
Three weeks ago Wiley Ross married a
CARL whose parents live near Coalgate. WI
ley Ross is a non-cit.zen and partially deaf.
Some say that Ross Is not in his right
mind. but many think he is only s!mulat-
ing 1t and under the mask IS hiding a
devilish cunning. Saturday last the father
and brother OF Mrs Ross, who is a mere
slip OF girl ID years OF age, went over
to her house. They did not find her and
a search was instituted. About quarter
of a mile from the house they found her
tied to a tree. in which position she had
been for three days. and in ali that time
she had received but three drinks of water !
from her husband, who had tied her 10 the |
tree. Her relatives cut the rope and took |
her 70 their home and then 10 her parents |
she related the horrible treatment she hal |
received at the hands of the incarnate dew |
II, her husband The first i'll treatment she !
received was some ten days ago, when her !
husband tied her TO a wagon wheel. After /
he had thus secured her he fired of his |
Winchester over her head several times and |
proceeded 10 beat her with club. How
long he beat her she does not know, as she
nercifully became unconscious after the
first few blows. His next outrage was 10
Re a rope around her neck and pull her
Up 10 the joists N the cabin. This ne did
until he supposed she was dead. After
she had survived this treatment he tied
her TO a chair IN the house. He brought |
beside her a large can OF giant powder,
INTO the spout OF this can he stuffed paper
ana then set fire 10 the paper. He ran
,ut and remained away for fifteen minutes.
When he returned to the room he found
hat the paper had burned down only 10 !
he top of the spout. Finding himself foil
ID in this he then tied her tc the tree where
the was found unable 10 speak. famished
and IN a condition of insanity. II is feared !
hat the fend's work wiz prove fatal,
IS Mrs Ross is in a precarious condition.
clubs and ropes were found in the house
~ people who searched the premises. COW
red with blood. Evidences OF the brutal
reatment she had received were apparent
IN every side. Her body is one mass of
.ontusions, bruises and decorations. Her
yes are sunken and her bps stand apart
Is II gasping for the breath of life. In
Ter brief moments OF sleep horrible convul-
ions seem 10 take hold of her and she
wakens with eyes staring and horror de-
,:cted in every lneameEt. The muscles OF
Ter body become drawn and rigid only 20
elax when she awakens with a smothered
cream and looks up 10 be assured By kind
y faces and fearful eyes and soothing
words. that she is not in the power Of her
endish tormentor"