The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-04
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Dennis Flynn jumped into the big CUB
ernator.al race with bound
A company has beep formed at Guthrie
to put up forty-ton cotton seed oil mill
The experimental station has discovered
that it doesn't harm cattle to dehorn them.
The Oklahoma legislature pays more for
its clerks than the Kansas legislature does.
The Enid Wave wants law passed In
stanter making newspaper taking q penal
onense.
Dennis Flynn first wired Sam Overstreei
at Guthrie that he Flynn, was "a the race
for governor.
Probably the first appointment for the
territory under Mckinney will be sue
cessor TO Judge Keaton-
The county commissioners of Canadian
county have resolved 10 build vault 10
keep the county records IN
Judge W. W. Bush of ElReno has appoint
ed commissioners from Oklahoma to the
Tennessee Centennial celebration.
Alonzo A Byers has succumbed to poll
tics. He will make Guthrie his future home
and dwell among the truly great.
President Bacon of the Republican league
has revoked both calls for meeting. A
new one will now be forthcoming.
The Barnes combination which Cover
nor Seay arranged probably includes Jake
Admire as secretary Of the territory.
There is a wild clamor for a stenographic
report of the conversation Governor Seay,
Jake Admire and Cassius Barnes held.
Cassius NJ. Barnes doesn't care il the
legislature does abolish his militia. But he
wants 1t to leave the governorship intact.
Mr.. Beddingfeld. milkman Of Oklahoma
City. was dangerously wounded by a tar
get gun in the hands Of a boy the other
day.
jenkins OF Newkirk is out OF the gov
ernorship race and into another. What the
other no one but Cass.us Barnes and Jen-
kns know.
Cassius VI. Barnes is moving around rath-
er lively since Governor Seay withdrew
Barnes is not going to be put OFF the board
as a pawn too early in the game.
The Republican commissioners Of Payne
county have voted TO cut down the salaries
Of the county officers. The single Popu-
list commissioner voted against it.
Oklahoma will never hear the last of the
Magowan-Barnes trouble. People who saw
Mrs. Barnes when she was at Ell Reno say
she was the most beautiful woman who
ever came to the west.
The appearance of Temple Houston IN
Guthrie the other day brought out the In
formation from one of the members OF the
legislature that it was Sam Hous toms amib-
ton to be president of the United States.
Malcolm Douglass of Guthrie who had
been drinking heavily and was sent 10 Nor
man the other day died there. Four weeks
ago he was left 5000 by a relative in Scot
land in Guthrie he was known as Scot
tie
The Oklahoman of Oklahoma City throws
this bomb into the gubernatorial race: An
Oklahoman representative interviewed Mr..
II. G. Trosper yesterday on his chances for
appointment as governor, and found him
very sanguine indeed. He says neither
Flynn nor Barnes are "in it, and the only
man he fears is Carver, of somewhere IN
the strip. Speaking of the fact that a num-
Der of G. A. r. posts and veteran league
over the territory had endorsed c. NJ.
Barnes for the appointment. Mr.. Trosper
says he is surprised, because OF the fact
that Barnes whole military service con-
sisted of but four months. and only thir-
teen days OF that four months was spent in
camp; that he took part in no battles or
even a skirmish and saw no actual SER
vice. The fight is evidently ION" between
the rival candidates for governor.