The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31
Outlines of Oklahoma.

! Out near Cushing. an Indian has bull;
| himself a house wholly of cedar.
The agitation at marlboro is for the I'm
] preparation of the town.
J David Lytton, the legislator. is sick with
typhoid fever in Saltwater.
The places IN the Greer county land Of
| fee, it is said, will not pay over 5000 a
year.
So far all the appointments made In
Oklahoma have been to original Mckinley
men.
The Bonebrake Hardware and Implement
company of FL Reno has been granted a
charter
Mrs. Tom Robertson. a colored woman OF
Perry, dropped dead on the streets there
Saturday.
The Oklahoma City Champion has come
to the Guthrie Leaders help in defending
the last legislature.
S. Overholser of Oklahoma City says tina;
If he is elected mayor he will resign as
county commissioner.
The last legislature passed a law which
provides for the publication Of the names
OF delinquent taxpayers.
The Enid fellows are still leaking back
into Oklahoma from Cripple Creek They
will tackle Port Arthur next.
F. ]. Walker Of Enid recently paid sas
for fine blooded COW. The next day she
died and he got $50 for her hide.
Frank McMaster thinks that Lincoln was
the greatest politician. reasoner and thinker
the Republican party ever produced.
To the total ann:hilation of the custom
set by Terrill and ST. John not single
member of the last legislature has yet COM
mitted murder.
Texas rangers rode into Taloga last week
and arrested Bert Sexton and took him
away to Texas. Young Sexton is one OF
the best riders in Oklahoma.
John Pfaff of Edmond, Frank Worcester
OF Round Pond. and ". ]. Kirkpatrick of
FL Reno, who were after land Office posi-
tons. have been turned down.
The appointment of A c. Classen 10 be
receiver of the Oklahoma City land Of
fee pleases the Times-Journal 1t says
it is the best land Office position in Okla
homa.
John D. Purcell. typical westerner, died
last week at Cloud Chief. Purcell used TO
live in Abilene, Kansas. He has been in
the west for nearly half a century, coming
here originally as an agent for a buggy
house.
AT Plumb postoffice recently Miss Maud
Laughlin was helping her father when out
laws came in and help up her father. Miss
Maud grabbed a revolver and pulled 1t
Gown on the robbers She didn't understand
pistols. however, and only half-cocked it.
The robbers shot at her and at her father
missing both and then fed.
Purcell Register: The directors of the
Purcell cottonseed oil mills met and elect
go the following officers: President, r J.
Love; secretary and manager. George F.
Johnson; treasurer, L. c. Mainland Com
mittees were appointed for various pur-
poses. such as selecting site, ETC., and all
arrangements were made for going at once
actively TO work. Mr.. Johnson, the mana
ger. has been for some years connected
with the Purcell Mill and Elevator COM
pany, but expects to give up that position
He is good selection and under his charge
the work will be vigorously prosecuted.
Chickaska Gazette: Late Sunday after
neon three unique prairie schooners passed
through town. The front one had tied to
it three mules, couple of hungry dogs and
a calf, and on the wagon was this inscrip-
ton: Going Home to Nav" The mid
die one was half covered. and the rear one
was built on the plan of Noahs Ark, and
contained the remainder of the family cats
and dogs, and pasted on the outside was
large portrait OF W. j. Bryan. They were
all happy, ignorant and romantic and stat
ed that they were on their way TO Arkan-
sas. the easiest place IN the world TO make
q living without work.