The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-13
Outlines of Oklahoma

1t is said that Hainer VIII be the nrst
judge appointed
Guthrie's new road viii make Guthrie
130 miles nearer St Louis
Oklahoma City has received its hrss
puma deputy marshaiship-
Deputy marshals get s1,5ae out Of fees
and have their expenses paid.
A colored man and his family at Guthrie
have earned s.02 picking cotton
Marshal Nagle had fifteen deputies. Mar
shall Thompson w.H nave only twelve.
The veterans of Oklahoma draw over
sell 900 annually from Cncle Sam.
Seward is TO have a new depot II Is the
Old one just torn down ar Winfield, Kan
sas.
The home of Eugene Henderson, sur
veyor, at Oklahoma City. burned down
Wednesday night.
1t seems to he certain that much cotton
in Oklahoma viii go 10 waste because of
a scarcity of pickers-
Manchester as talking of boycotting the
Hutchinson Southern unless that railroad
gives the town a depot soon.
Theodore Weise. the Shawnee man whose
pistol dropped from his pocket and sent a
bullet through his groin, is dead.
A United States marshal can not have
any more money on hand than the amount
OF his bond. Thompson's bond is $4,000.
McMaster's Magazine for this month is
in a green cover. Its front:spiece IS the
fine Bohemian feature of John Golobie-
The Oklahoma City Journal says that
four times as much cotton viii be mar
keted there this year than at any previous
season.
Guthrie was smart in getting that cheap
coal clause into it's railroad contract II
stipulates that coal shall not cost more
than $50.
Thompson's latest appointments as field
marshals are T. ]. Taylor of Perry, E F.
Cochran of Oklahoma City. and Frank E.
Smith of Norman.
Red Rock, from which Guthrie's rail-
road is to come. and Sapulpa, from which
Oklahoma City's road is 10 come, are
about ten miles apart.
Governor Barnes N his Thanksgiving
proclama ton talks about being kind 10 the
poor, but he offers no encouragement 10
the postoffice aspirants.
Sam Dial, an applicant to be a trader
in the Usage country, has sued w. G.
Martin OF Payne county, for writing scan
daIous letters about him and knocking him
out of the job.
The Grant County yidette has a boom
article for Pond Creek this week. II says:
MANY improvements and additions are
being made on buildings that year ago
were unoccupied and going TO decay"
Enid Wave: Yesterday. Wednesday. af-
ternoon two children OF Charley Walker,
who lives six miles south of CARRIER, went
10 the bachelor home OF his brother-.n-law
about a mile away. The little boys. aged
G and years, found no one about the
house and in some way secured some
matches which they proceeded TO play with
and SET the house on fire. 1t seems that
there was a quantity of giant powder
about the house, which the fire reached
early in the game, and ii exploded, killing
the boys. All of the house that was not
blow away with the powder was soon IN
ashes and the charred remains of The 1t
tie boys lay IN the ruins. Mr.. Walker was
in today to secure coffins for his sons,
man, indeed. The funeral
will take place tomorrow.
Guthrie Capital: A pardon was granted
today by Governor Barnes TO Albert VIII
son, convicted of killing his contestant,
L. Peyton, in Pottawatomie county, in 1892
Wilson and Peyton settled upon the same
land in that county at the opening. Pey-
ton fenced the entire tract and forbid VIII
son taking possession. Wilson, however,
continued to reside on a corner of the
land. Early one morning Mrs. Wilson was
approached, while milking, by Peyton,
who cursed her and tried to put her or the
land. Wilson came up and hearing Pey-
ton, shot him. He was tried and con-
victed and sentenced by Judge Clark TO
fifteen years for manslaughter. Judge
Clark and eleven members of the jury rec
Wilson's pardon. He has been
confined in the hospital ward for more
than a year with consumption: He came
to Oklahoma from Wichita.