The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-13
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

The Kildare Journal viii lend its support
to bill for free school books
Prsngle's Opera company is now RECALLING
Oklahoma with one week stands
The new probate judge Of Woods county
issued his first marriage license gratis.
The new school building of Woodward
was occupied the lirst day of the New
Year.
A big snow storm came down on Wood
" ard the day after New Years. II did no,
extend east
Gus Hadwiser, the famous undersherif
of Woods county. handed in his res-gna-
ton to the new sheriff.
Jake Admire has traded one of his farms
for a two-story brick in kirgnsher and
moved his paper into IL
The third annual meeting of the Okla
homa Live Stock association takes place
in Woodward on February and TO-
An Oklahoma poet in telling his solitude
says he is like the lore fawn which stray
ed behind the social circle Of its kind
kildare is mighty close onto Norman $
heels for culture. People down there play
the Sontat Pathetique and are not mob
bed.
A Hennessey poet speaks OF that season
of the year when birds mate and plights
are most sincere That 10 pretty good.
too.
Mrs winars Of Oklahoma City had re-
Gently laid away 500 with which to visit
her husband in Washington. Burglars
vetoed the trip.
Agnes Young. the Oklahoma City woman
who was arrested on the charge of steal
ing a suit of clothes, has sued her persecu-
tors for $1,000 for false arrest.
A Ponca City man never saw a bicycle
until last week. Then he ran into his
wife and yelled that he had seen wagon
wheel running away with a woman"
Rev. o. P. McMahan, the new pastor Of
the Christian church at Oklahoma City,
preached in Oklahoma City for the first
time Sunday. He is from Louisville. KY.
There is a county commissioner row over
in Woods county. too. 1.-THE county COM
missioner is mighty important officer and
should not leave the county's business to
incompetent hands too hastily.
County commissioners in Oklahoma are
getting very particular. The coroner OF
kingfisher county furnished bond for
s., 900; the commissioners kicked, asking for
more names. What can a coroner steal?
In Woodward county Judge McCray still
holds the Office of probate judge. ]. Law
thon, who was elected, did not qualify un-
der the statute that probate judges must
practice two years in law before being ELI
gible.
The first thing Bob Neff did when he took
the office of probate judge of Kay county
was to seize the seal. And he st!ll holds
it. The supreme court of the United
States and the Queens Bench of England
can't force him to give It up.
In Texas west of Woodward are a number
o. bottomless lakes. This story is a fake
to begin with. Don't be deceived Colonel
Usher, a cattleman, owns these lakes. He
got man 10 dig an artesian well. Last
week water was struck and il gushed out
1000 gallons minute, with cat fish, sun
perch and black bass by the million.
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: Oftimes the
most unique and analogous results occur in
the efforts of attorneys TO make their petit
tons in suits as strong as possible for their
clients. In divorce cases this has been
especially the case and while occasionally
some lawyer gifted with an unusual flow
of eloquence viii recite his clients woes in
sufficiently pitiful manner to bring tears TO
the eyes of the deputy clerk, as often his
efforts fall from their intended sublime TO
the veriest ridiculous. The following is a
verbatim copy of a portion of a divorce
petition recently filed in an adjoining coun-
ty: THE plaintiff has conducted herself
towards defendant as faithful and dutiful
wife, hitherto: that defendant dsregarding
his martial duties towards plaintiff has
wholly neglected the same and is impotent
and unable to perform that duty and on
account of i'll health and impotent condi-
ton is cross and makes life to plaintiff a
weary drudge and miserable state of exis-
tence. Wherefore. plaintiff prays for a
decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony.
for the costs OF this suit and other proper
relief"