The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-28
Outlines of Oklahoma

The ministers of Guthrie wants Reeves
variety theatre in that city closed
Several OF the farmers in Custer county
lost heavily IN the burst bank al FL Reno.
1t is said that the burst Stock Exchange
bank al FL Reno viii pay deposi;ors only
2 per cent
A Hawaiian paper has been received at
Enid. 1t is printed in English. japanese
and Chinese
Last Thursday evening the long bridge
across the Cimarron az Perkins was thrown
open 20 the public.
John Williams of Pottawatonie celebrat-
ed Christmas by going coon hunting and
shooting himself in the foot
Alfred Smith received the Oklahoma CITY
clubs award for the first bale Of cotton
this year and last year. too.
The Guthrie papers denounce the rotten
egg outrage on Captain Stiles. which was
committed al the Guthrie depot one night
last week.
In the Navajoe branch Of the Wichita
mountains there are three shafts. one
eighteen feet deep, one four feet and one
twenty-six.
A travelling company produced BLACK
Crook in FL Reno and the local papers
unite in denouncing Ii as the toughest thing
they ever saw.
County Attorney Houston of Pawnee has
sued Editor Morrow of the Pawnee Dis
patch for criminal libel, and Morrow has
been placed under arrest.
Harry Thompson will not be decorated
with the highest badge of popular appro-
val until he makes j. B. Nicholas or custer
county deputy marshal
oh far ze
mistletoe is the emblem OF Oklahoma. Ii
says that while mistletoe is parasitic, 1t Is
better than a sponge, any way.
Upon hearing that the bedbug is becom-
ing extinct in Kansas. the Arapahoe Bee
the aroma OF the bedbug has become ex-
stink.
The claim is made for W. T. Yeckley of
Navajoe that he is the original discoverer
of gold in the Wichita mountains. Soma
say Phil Sheridan was the first man TO
discover gold there.
Gushing Herald: There is little grind
stone strata on the eastern bluff of the
lower C.marron, which contains material
enough to supply every settler in Oklahoma
with all the grindstones he needs for the
next fifty years.
Norman, o. T., made application 10 Deputy
Clerk Green this morning for license 10 wed
Mr.. Green investigated ani found that the
lady had not been divorced from her sub
sequent husband long enough to entitle ne:
TO again marry.
Cushing IS having trouble in enforcing
her new ordinances. One of these provides
that no slaughter house sholl run inside the
city limits. Two firms are ignoring H. and
the mayor of the town, W. R. Little. will
go after them with the law. The two firms
kill 500 cattle year.
W. l.. Scott of Perkins. who was cured by
a maidstone, asks that Oklahoma purchase
a maidstone and keep il at Guthrie for
the use of people who have been bitten.
He thinks an appropriation should be
made to purchase one and an officer ap-
pointed to take care of it. We are for VIII
Little for the appointment of keeper OF
the maidstone to his majesty.
Cushing: Pashipaho, the would-be king
of the Kansas Sacs on Euchie creek. is still
as stubborn and stifnecked he was up
in Kansas twenty-five years ago. when he
refused to move from that country tc In
dian Territory The soldiers who were de-
tailed TO remove the Sacs 10 their present
abode had to tie Pashipahos hands and
feet and load him into a government wa
gon, and they had TO haul him down here
ike 4 wild hog.