The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-21
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Outlines of Oklahoma.
The Guthrie Board of Health is after peo-
PIE who dump dead animals into the Cot
tonwood.
Perhaps Callahan can rake up pull with
Mckinley on the ground that he Is fellow
Methodist.
Mr. T J. Virgins of Norman Is getting
national reputation on the strength OF see
ing that airsfip.
Six years ago tomorrow the Territory
from one end TO the other celebrated the
original opening.
At Ferry the Queen OF the May VIII be
voted for by ballot. This suffrage idea is
going little bit TOO far.
There is general demand that Ira Ter
I'll be let out and allowed 10 try his cy-
clone killer on that airship.
The Oklahoma contingent In Washington
for the most par, paid their cash fare to
Washington from Oklahoma.
Henry Friedlander is getting up vol
ame Of endorsements for himself for the
place OF Coal Oil Inspector.
The Probate judge Of Beaver county car
ries an advertisement asking people 10 pat
ronize his office. There's enterprise.
An invitation has been extended to the
ex-ConfedeT5tes TO join the G.. A. r in its
annual encampment at Hennessey-
Jade Adnlire's prophesy that Callahan
would turn Republican has not come true.
Perhaps Jake meant 10 say Presbyterian.
Now it is said that Bishop Meerschaert
will go TO Belgium, not for vacation. but
purely in the interest OF the Catholic
church.
Cassius Barnes smokes better cigars than
Dennis Flynn and the fellows who intended
to call on the new governor should not
back out.
The Enterprise at Perry calls on the fire
chief to flush the mains and get rid Of the
water that has been standing so long that
II has become impure.
The declaration from gentleman IN Ell
Reno that the United States troops will not
put prospectors out of the Wichita noun
tains is tr.fie ragged.
In the Beaver Herald there is already an
advertisement for a Fourth of July cele-
brat:on In Hooker's Grove. Stand privi-
Ieges at bedrock prices.
Most of the editors in Oklahoma who have
been entering the local postoff1ces as sec
ond-class matter now want 10 enter the Of
fee as first-class officials.
The editor of the Pond Creek News IS a
f1nanc.er who puts preach into practice
He Will accept 80 cents on the dollar for
what his PopulEt friends owe him.
There is no doubt that all the Wichita
country will be taken up the first day. The
rush will not be like that of the Strip. but
1t will be larger than the Kickapoo opening
Judge Tarsney having decided that It is
the wife's duty 10 milk the cow will please
nose around in Blackstone little and find
where the responsibility of the kindllng
falls.
The county commissioners OF Pottawato-
mic county have decided to build $4,000
court house and the towns of Tecumseh
and Shawnee are growing at each other
again.
A majority of the Judges OF the supreme
court are disqualified from sitting in the
Paine-East Guthrie case and for that rea-
son the case can not be heard until a new
supreme bench is formed.
Ned Forrest. the FL Reno minister who
went TO Illinois and got into mix-up with
q woman. has returned to FL Reno with his
family, repentant. He has left the ministry
and the papers there give him a warm well
come.
Many Western Oklahoma people can not
understand the stock market quotations
from New York. But neither can the New
York people understand an Oklahoma item
like this: "Bill Smith of the CCC IS visit
ing the KIT"
w w Wall OF Alabama came TO Okla
homa and on invitation of some deputy
narshals went with them to the Usage
country. They got it into their heads that
ne was detective and gave him the slip.
He returned ~ Guthrie az mad as hornet.
It is believed by Santa Fe men that
conductor on one of the Rock Islands
fast trains jumped out of his car. ran
ahead to a stream, got drink and fished
until the train came up. caught four bass
and was back at the lever again cussing
the brakeman for letting her out so.
A Perry advertising firm has a good ad-
vertisement. It starts out by telling
most mysterious story OF suicide which
was suppressed. 1t then relates that the
reason the lady committed the act was be-
cause after selecting some elegant carpets
at this establishment her husband refused
ID whack up. 1t IS in the Enterprise and IS
well written.
The much taiked-of Connors divorce case
has been disposed OF a: Pawnee and the |
gossips were all disappointed. There was |
nothing sensational about the proceedings.
es had been reported by the papers. The |
charges of infidel!ty on each side were with !
drawn and the divorce was granted upon |
the grounds OF abandonment by Mrs. Con- |
nors, who gets the child and slimeny. Con- |
nors IS well-known here TO our business |
men. He Is a hSlf-breed Usage Indian. |
His wife is a Cowley county girl She was !
the daughter OF a poor farmer who lived |
near Dexter several years ago and ali re-
ports that she was a daughter OF rich /
merchant and a society belle Is untrue.