The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-12
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Over one thousand chickens were display
ed at the Guthrie poultry exhibit last week.
Jim Dent announces that the basement
privileges do not pay. He does not want
them again.
Tom Stumbaugh has gone back to the
Earlboro News, having tired of the Shaw
nee Capital.
The Woodward contingent at the open
ing of the legislature will occupy ten rooms
in the hotels of Guthrie
Governor Seay sent his regrets TO the
Bar association POSTMASTER Seay Is not
after toasts now. He wants pie.
Dennis Flynn has got for the people of
Greer county just what he promised them
in the campaign. They are happy.
Judge Stewart of the Indian Territory
criticizes the Dawes commission. He says
its treaty with the Choctaws is no good.
Somebody should have suggested to Plat
that the place to fight free homes was in
the Republican convention in st. Louis.
Colonel Johnson gave his presidency of
the council boom lift by lecturing on An
drew Jackson in Guthrie one evening last
week
W. r. Asher A c. Scott, Judge McAtee
and G.. r. Reddick are. in Frank Greer's
opinion. the post-prandial leaders of the
territory.
Horace Wilder of Shawnee. tried to kill
himself the other night. He isn't a banker
but he must have imagined himself one,
temporarily.
Captain Harry Hicks. one Of Clusters
scouts, has been allowed $4,000 by the gov
ernmcnt. He will establish a cattle ranch
in Oklahoma.
The new county commissioners Of Kay
county announce that they do not want
a jsnitor-that they viii build their own
fires. They should.
The boys in Oklahoma never forget Roy
Hoffman. At the lawyers banquet they
drank his health. although he was very
sick in bed at home.
The Duncan Banner. which is pretty
good authority. says that the Choctsw trea-
ratified by congress.
Before the legislative caucus was held
the boast was made that Charley Hunter
would be the only free silver Republican
to get job in the body.
In Kay county there is a family named
Kiplng. The name is very rare in Ameri- |
ca. Rudyard should visit his relatives In
Oklahoma and write EN- up.
The lawyers banquet at Guthrie last
week cost s. plate. They had three |
kinds OF wine topped of with champagne
Who says law doesn't pay in Oklahoma,
In Kay county the Republican officials |
went in with county warrants worth ~ /
cents on the dollar and went out with them |
at par. But they went out just the same. |
Rev Newman Of Lincoln county was a |
candidate for sergeant-st-srrns OF the house /
but the boys 'trew i'm down They /
didn't want A minister making bluffs al /
them.
The free homes bin may end In CON-
promise. allowing each state and territory /
TO manage the public lard in its boundaries.
This would be a revolution N the country's
land policy.
Jerre johnson says the foundation OF the /
worlds prosperity IS the farmer. and the
World having turned SIS back on the far
ner is having hard tine. Jerre says The
world deserves H.
The new county commissioners o, Kay
county have $500 in cash and Jerre Johz-
son says Il viii prove their ruin. for II
they dom: spend IL they viii lose x s7d
get thunder for Il from the people.
The Gu;hri. Leader The store 81 Dr
Partridge aud TIE PzrtrisSs posiof.1ce. stu
ated twenty-five miles east az this city On
the Chandler road was looted By deSp~rz-
does and burned 70 the ground q, o'eiock
Friday night D.. Partridge Is TIE pest
master. and THE postof.cs was located y
his store I. = The general inprssSion |
that ussmbers OF The Doolin gang Of des-
perzGoss forced AT entrance 20 Ire store
ana after roboiax TIE tiE and gang through
TIE mall s@t FIRE 20 the p.ac~- TIE store
and its contents were totally destroyed. 80
failing = loss OF tssc- While TIE b1l1-
inx was bsbrni-g the ne.xnoors for niles
around E~Ts sS.kentd By q terrific *
plcsson There vas 10 Insurance or the
oyIi1irg o. contents D.. Partridge had
JUS recslvec Two car ioafs of rev goos.s-
he vas ss<t q beS - fs> tine g fbS Ere.
AL Was snake u maze an sfzc-t % save
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