The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-09
Outlines Of Oklahoma

The Arapahoe Bee protests that Judge
Tarsney Is too severe on 1ur1es-
There is said to be man near Cushing
known as Vinegar Fritz, who lives wholly
on saver krauI
James Lester of Chandler had his liquor
license shut off by the county commits
sioners last week
The Beaver Herald roasts the school
teachers for not taking the newspapers
and reading them.
Seymour Price IS taking care Of Harry
Gilstrap's Chandler News in land Office
publication notices.
Several thousand acres OF mighty good
grass went up in big prairie fire in Gus
ter county last week
Pat Magic ought to have run down the
dav-ught robber gang so that Thompson
would have had a clean start
More than a hundred warrants have
been issued in Guthrie against men who
are delinquent in their poll tax.
Oklahoma's exhibit car on the Santa Fe
has returned after two weeks trip in
the east II went as far as Chicago.
Eight boys at saltwater who confused
Halloween with the French Revolution
The Arapahoe Bee says it doesn't ex-
pect to see any more outlaws IN Custer
county carrping deputy marshal commits
Sicns.
W. D. Fossett OF Kingisher, gets TO be
chief deputy under Thompson. No man
in the territory is more competent than
Fossett.
4 rock-ribbed Democrat at Arapahoe
says that he win 90 10 jail for contempt
rather than sit on a jury before Judge
Ta7sney again.
While most Of the farmers are holding
| their PRODUCTS the bank deposits keep RICH,
on growing Perhaps they are not hold
| Ing their money.
| The hottest political point in Oklahoma
| Is in Custer county. The spunkiest. most
COURAGEOUS Republicans in the territory
| are located there.
1t is still impossible for the Enid Wave
to see anything good in Mark Hanna II
says that he may be beaten in Ohio, bu
he is still president
The farmers of Lincoln county are slow
| ing Up on marketing Gotten. Taey have
raid up their small debts and VIII hoo
| cotton for a better price.
| Culliscn of Enid got his position with les'
| trouble than any other Oklahoma office
| seeker. He went right after it without
telling the world beforehand that ne wa:
| in the race.
The Enid Wave says that two-thirds o.
Hlte fine new buggies purchased by farmer:
| In that town during the last three month:
| are today standing out in the weather.
Chandler gets its outside election news
| over a telephone.
Al Norman the trial of Bob Sloat, Pot
tawatomie Indian who shot an Indian a
Big Jim's crossing about eighteen month;
ago. has been held up awaiting the returr
to health of juror who was taken III ant
| the case was postponed.
Lew Hornbeck of the Minco Minstrel ha:
| awakened TO the fact that if the lndiar
| Territory does not join Oklahoma in state
hood. Oklahoma Will get statehood alone
and afterward attach the Indian Territor!
! This viii be the exact result.
The Mangum Star. out in Greer county
| saws In commenting on some prisoners who
were being taken TO the Kansas peniten'
| tia-y, that 1t ought 10 be punishment
enough to just turn a man loose in Kan
sas This is a Texas sentiment
Cloud Chief Herald. Last week We gave
an account of the Indians in cotton
patch. We have since learned more partic-
uiars about that days work. There were
ninety Indians enrolled, and they picked
400 pounds of seed cotton in less than
twelve hours. Thirty of them were under
eight years of age. Coosch, a woman
nearly ninety years Of age, picked over
ninety pounds during the day.