The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-25
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Republican who isn't In e. Reno
July / viii miss IL.
One day DeFord thinks himself dead sure
Of auooirement, and the next day dead.
sure.
McCabe hasn't got those ruby lips around
that plumb yet. Surely he IS not TO be
forgotten.
Governor Barnes named the three ana
then drove of the railroad into the ouietude
of Payne county.
Are they walking on Dennis F1ynns he
was no. down for a response TO toast At
tie Secretary jenkins banquet
oyernor Barnes will next week be asked
70 pardon John Carver Of Oklahoma CITY.
| who was sentenced two weeks ago.
Judge Tarsney is doing the heavy Swear
ing in" at Guthrie. Ii Is too bad that
Tarsney went Democratic in his youth
Hereafter jenkins viii be acting Cover
nor when Barnes is away. II has been
peculiarly Of Oklahoma's acting COVER
nors that they have acted
After a long and tedious prayer. Otto
Eekemeyer has at last persuaded Frank
Greer and Leslie Niblack to omit mention
Of his Sunday trips to Oklahoma City.
Tom Ferguson, who is as good a friend
as Dennis Flynn ever had, says there are
no longer any Flynn and Barnes crowds.
| II Is to be hoped that Thomas Is not mis-
taken.
Frank Thompson Of Pawnee pulled the
plum and II the fellows at Pawnee who
DON'T like 1t VIII permit him to do so he
will take the Office Of territorial treasurer
July l.
Attorney General Cunnin CHAM is working
like man digging out Of ccal NINE with
! fre-damp at his back. He Is doing more
| business in a day than any Of his predeces-
| sors did in a week.
The prediction Is made by those who
know him that Mr.. Jenkins will become a
very popular and important man hereafter
| in Oklahoma. Jenkins is not politician.
| but he is a tip-top man.
A colored gentleman named Knuckles OF
[ Hennessey, who was the father OF Moon
| light baby" was made to knucle down by
| the sheriff by marrying the mother OF the
| deserted child at midnight.
| The Oklahoma TImes-Jourlal is humane
enough TO suggest that perhssps the Indians
| have Just objection when they rebel at the
| order which breaks up their homes. Poor
Lo, Sympathy is very rarely extended him
| In the west
| The old soldiers at Oklahoma City are
considerably worked up over the sentence
| of John Carver, the gaoler who let the
| Christian boys escape. They say ne was
innocent and the community appears to
side with them.
| You would think, TO look at them. that
| there was room enough on the Oklahoma
| prairies 10 turn around in, but Bert Stees
and Emma Kicker of Saltwater recently
| met IN the country on their bicycles.
splashed into each other and tangled their
machines all out of shape
| F. S. Goodrich, who recently received a
1 fine plum, once talked saucy TO President
| Harrison because he would not appoint him
Later Senator Quay had Secretary Noble
| appoint him quietly TO a place in Califor-
| MIA. Eighteen months later Harrison got
| onto it and asked for Goodrich's res:gna-
+, ton.
| Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Miss
Sarah Bosworth writes to the Guthrie Cap
| ital suggesting the building of dams instead
| Of bridges across deep rayines and small
| creeks wherever Il is practical to create a
| reservoir above the road. This plan OF
| checking the flow of rainwater has recent
| ly been suggested by number of people,
| and is by no means visionary one. Such
/ reservoirs would not only hold back the
| water. but would in addition, prevent floods
| and disastrous washouts. Within a few
| years. too, 1t would result in an absolute
/ saving of expense to the road districts
| while improving the highways.