The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-08
Outlines of Oklahoma

Just one piece Of the monster cotton
compress at FL Reno weighs 20 ton.
Judge B:erer IS not worrying about his
successor. he has taken his family on q
visit 20 Ohio.
1t may be that the territorial equaliza-
ton case Will go 10 the supreme court OF
the United States.
Medford should not be discouraged over
her Big fire Fire has been the making OF
more than one city.
lumber company at Kildare publishes
the names Of thirty farmers who are at
present building granaries.
The Ponca City Daily Courier IS new
one. Ii IS bright and neat and Will be pub
lished during the reunion there.
Judge Tarsney makes things hum when
he gets out into that western country The
toughs have great respect for him.
The news from the west side is SIN
meagre and the public is still wondering
If Senator Havens has found that bull calf
OF his yet.
Alonzo A Byers says that Bryan's eyes
are losing their brightness and he must
take things easy or he will break down
physically.
Every time citizen OF Blackwell wakes
up ne has a new railroad scheme. Black
well viii soon have more railroads than she
knows what TO do with.
In Pretty Prairie district Of Canadian
county the farmers can not secure thresh-
ers. and they can not sow wheat because
their seed is still IN the stack.
The Guthrie Capital has information
from Washington that an effort Will be
made TO bounce Major Woodson. There
must be a mistake about this.
Out west Judge Tarsney fined man 800
for carrying concealed weapons. He also
made the officers of the court put theirs
aside. In this latter decision he was wrong.
No paper in the territory within the last
month has made SO marked an improve
ment as the Pond Creek V.dette. The ed
tor says that cash IN advance subscribers
are thick.
The Pond Creek Vidette says that the
man who hung the jury in the Frank Wor-
cester case and prevented an acqu.ital pub
lcly stated that his neghbors expected
him to vote for conviction, and he did 1t.
A Blackwell girl told her sweetheart that
she first knew she loved him when she
got mad because others called him
chump. He IS still wandering around try
ing TO figure out whether to be mad or
pleased.
The first church bell ever heard in Pond
Creek rang out from the Methodist church
there last Sunday. The editor OF the VI
dette heard II, turned over in his bed and
went to sleep and dreamt that he was in
heaven.
All arguments to the contrary. when Ok
rnl T. l. f-f1 -,
made to add the Indian nations 10 the
state as they become fit. Congress VIII
never listen to making two states out OF
the two territories.
Ponca City Daily Courier: Ed. Dosh and
WEI Wishard were both bound over TO the
grand jury by Judge Neff at Newk.rk yes
terday. for passing forged checks upon
two Ponca City merchants. and attempt
ing TO pass them on others. The evidence
was plain and direct and bal was fixed
at $1,000 in each case. which neither one
will likely be able TO give. Dosh acknowl-
edged upon the witness stand that both
he and Wishard. who is mis- brother-in-law,
had recently came out of the pen.tentary
at Lansing. Kansas. and both are under
indictment in Pawnee county for grand
larceny.
wave. new SCHOOL mouse dslO
furniture insurance act passed by the last
legislature is now attracting attention for
the reason that it is about to be en-
forced is one of the most ridiculous and
outrageous steals enacted into law that
has ever came under out observation. For
instance, school house setting out in the
country on the prairie all alone is taxed
about seven per cent as an insurance pre-
MUM, while the old line companies took
such risks for = per cent per snnum as
against fire, and cyclones or tornadoes in
surance comes lower. This true compar;-
son should dam the territorial insurance
act from the face of the statutes without
making auy further accusation against it,