The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-24
Outlines of Oklahoma

Kingfisher had big trades carnival last
Monday night
The Rock Island VIII put in switch TO
the new mill at Enid
The appointment OF governor for Okla
homa viii be made about May 1.
There will be mighty little celebration of
April - in Oklahoma this year
Most of the Oklahoma papers call him
Captain Woodson. He is Major"
John Anderson. once city marshal of Enid
is down with stroke Of paralysis
The Hennessey Democrat bolts the re-
election OF Tom Reed to the speakership.
A F. Greenfield. postmaster at Cleveland.
has married Miss Alice Randall of that
place.
Some very fine obituaries are being writ
ten to the memory of Captain Baker and
his wife.
A man named Berry, horsethief. has
broken out of the Kingfisher jail twice IN
month.
The people Of Oklahoma are getting work.
ed up again to believe that they will get
free homes
The Kildare Journal says the motto OF
the last legislature was ''Zweisteinmug and
Wei Doodle
Governor Renfrow has said since the leg
islature adjourned that he did not expect
TO see fusion again.
Franklin Head of Chicago is a literary
man and the literary fellows are in high
favor with Mckinley.
There was a good deal more excitement
in Hennessey over the prize-fight than over
the national election.
The Kansas crowd at Washington is so
busy taking care of themselves that they
are leaving the Oklahoma contingent alone.
The Enid Wave is of the opinion that
Oklahoma jails need pewter cells as the
steel ones do not seem to hold the prison
ers.
In southern Oklahoma one gin man gives
a dollar to every man who brings a bale
to his gin and gins it and wsrps it for the
seed.
Mark Hanna and Dennis Flynn called on
Secretary Bliss the other day to recon-
mend J. S. s. Hassler for chief clerk OF the
interior department.
The Oklahoma crowd should not allow
Cannon to get consulship. Cannon
never did anything for the Republican
party in Oklahoma.
There is very little defense of the legis-
lature in any part OF Oklahoma. The
Guthrie Leader tired to get the ball to roll
ing but the Populist and Democratic papers
refuse to join it.
John Ogee who lives on farm near Nor
man, decided 10 play in one OF the Texas
leagues this year but his father decided
that he should play in the corn field and
John is now ploughing.
Sometimes the United States ships mail
Referring to the proposed daily mail route
between Cheyenne and Arapahoe. the Ara
pahoe Argus says: Just why the postof-
flee department has refused 70 establish a
mail route from here to Cheyenne is a
mystery that we have been unable to un-
derstsnd although sereval experts have
been trying TO solve the mystery for sew
eral years. 1t is about forty miles from
here 10 Cheyenne and a letter mailed TO
that place from here has to go TO FL Reno.
sixty-two miles east, from there u goes 10
Wellington, Kansas. over the Rock Island.
AT Wellington it changes and takes the
Santa Fe 10 Kiowa. Kansas. AZ Kiowa
Kansas, il takes the Southern Kansas of
Texas Crailway) and goes to Canadian.
Texas. From Canadian it comes back to
Cheyenne fifty miles in this direction. over
land, travelling about 100 miles 20 get a
distance of forty miles. The citizens of
Cheyenne, in order to get 10 the capital OF
the territory, are forced to travel through
two states before getting there.