The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-20
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Eewkirk uses q large triangle weighing
80 pounds as a fire gong.
Last Monday night the prisoners n both
the Kinghsher and Chandler jails escaped.
The Pawnee Times Is publishing daily
while the district court - in session there.
Pottawatom.e means fre-blowers. That
used TO be the Pottawatomie's Job IN camp.
The Medford Patriot wants Medford to
have 2.ooD population before next January.
Colonel johnson of Oklahoma City Is an
cid school-mate OF Senator Mason OF ILL.,
NOS.
The foundation for the new mill al Enid
is up and the mill VIII be completed In
June
didate for the agency Of the Pouca In
dams.
The city council of FL Reno has been
talking of making the mayor be police
judge too.
AT Enid large number OF tsck-knives
and marbles changed hands on account o.
the prize-fght.
d. L. F. Blank OF Enid is a candidate for
one of the regencies of the Langston color
ed normal school
Nineteen new places were created by the
last legislature and the governor already
has 80 applications.
Governor Seay does not recover from
his illness rapidly. He has not been able
to visit Washington.
The Enid Wave estimates that at least
$500 acres OF cotton will be put in in Gar
field county this spring.
Oklahoma has IN some respects more
sense than Kansas. There is no talk OF an
extra session IN Oklahoma
The fellows who are making fun of
Franklin Heads candidacy for governor
do not know what they are doing.
Under the provisions of the new cleo
ton law for cities 1t g now too late TO reg
lister, according to the Pond Creek Vidette.
Leo vincents trouble is that he has al
ways been too willing 20 lay down. Since
Callahan smashed him he hasn't opened
his head.
A good idea would be for Callahan 10
write letters to the Klngfsher ReforIner
telling the people how things In Washing
ton impress him.
Henry Snap of Geary was herding cattle.
A rain came up and he sought refuge in a
dugout which caved IN, imprisoned him
and brought on his death
An Oklahoma City young man stole his
girls spectacles. He tried 20 explain II 10
her, but as she was without spectacles
she couldn't see it that way.
Chickasha Express: We acknowledge an
invitation 10 attend the unveiling of por-
ton of the National Indian Museum exhi-
bit at 81. Patrick's mission. Anadarko.
yesterday. The exhibit is being collated
by Mr.. James Mooney, ethnologist for the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington, and
will be taken 10 the Tennessee exposition.
Mr.. Mooney has been in this field for a
number Of years, and is an indefatigable
worker, and has collected a fine collec-
ton of Indian curios. whihc are given place
in the museum at " ashington.
Chickasha Express: Two gentlemen Of
Chickasha left here to take a long drive
over into the reservation inspecting the
grass lands for pastures, and accidentally
fell into the gold mining region of tn
Wichita mountains, saw where parties had
PANIED auriferous beds of sand. prospect
ed leads looked down into deserted
shafts, and saw every evidence OF a once
prosperous mining camp. but not the face
of a single white miner did three-days'
drive disclose. There may be gold in those
it may be as rich as Cripple
Creek, but the miners are not there In
swarns, nor digging in thousands, they
are conspicuous by their absence. When
you are looking for the truth. also for the
to the Comanche reservation, the
mines, ETC., come to Chickasha.