The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-20
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Wichita mountains are not In 1t with
Alaska just now.
Howard wssb at Perry got six months IN
jau the other day for stealing steer.
Mrs Jenkins of Newkirk win take up her
residence with her husband In Guthrie this
week.
A. W. Lung of Custer county takes
seventeen newspapers. fifteen OF which are
Republican.
Fred F. Mercer Of Custer county from
five-acre field Of wheat got ffry-two BUSH
els to the acre.
Shawnee Blade: The Tecumseh Herald
associates It's marriage notices with Cham
berlain's collie remedies"
There is little doubt that Governor Barnes
viii have at least McAtee's scalp when he
returns from Washington.
Maddux, the Taloga editor who has Just
teen captured after breaking jail. Is to be
gifted. He Is the victim Of drug.
Deputy Sheriff Younger and Sheriff At
kin at Perry have had their difficulties set
tied, Younger getting so Judgment from
Atkin.
Chief Engineer Hinkley OF the Frisco
will make his report on the Sapuipa extern
sion to the Frisco officials in st. Louis this
week.
The Arapahoe Bee says that there are
enough men in that county alone TO whip
every Indian in the Territory. and the In
dams know It.
The best advertisement ever put out In
Oklahoma was Cooks windmill power for
his paper. The little item is travelling all
over the world.
The Arapahoe Bee Is shout the only paper
In the territory which Il really tickled over
the way Tom Reed slams into Oklahoma
for beating Flynn.
It is said the supreme court Of Oklahoma
has an opinion ready denying the Terri
torial board OF eQu;lization the right to raise
the valuation Of the counties.
II is now proposed to erect a monument TO
Dave Payne, who is buried in Harper coun-
ty, Kansas. But monuments are never
erected in the west. 1t is all talk.
The Perry Enterprise calls the Wichita
mountain gold bubble. The Perry En-
terprise once had q gold mine itself and
| 1t knows what it is talking about.
James Martin, an Usage Indian, was con-
| victed for the fourth time Of selling whisky
to the Indians the other day at Perry and
The postmaster of Cross wants to be le.
| out. He says a Populist has no business
holding Office under Republican admins
| tration. That it what Pat Maggie thinks.
but they can't spare him.
Coleman and Mills, the government al
| letting agents who were recently ordered
| to discontinue their work IN the Wichita
reservation, it is now ascertained are the
| owners of several large herds of cattle.
| which are grazing in the reservation.
Enid Wave: Coal Oil Inspector Ewing
rolled in last night to attend to Official bust
ness. With the assistance Of Ned Sisson
| and John Buckles he tested the oil in the
| Eagle office at late hour. As near as We
can figure it took four quart bottles OF
Pabst best tester to get at the flavor OF the
Oil.
| Kingfsher Free Press: A one-eyed far
mer was in town the other day and got
| full. He sought rest IN the back yard OF
| a saloon. He first got sick and threw UP
| his last weeks meals. Then he went to
! sleep. One Of the proprietors Of the saloon
| happened out In the back yard and noted
| his condition. The space around the sleep
err was cleaned up and it was discovered
| that he had dropped his pocketbook on the
ground but he had his money (about $l4, 0oo)
| in his hand. The bar keeper took the
| money and the pocketbook and saw that
| the sleeper was as comfortable as possible.
He thought he would wake up soon and
come in and ask for his money. In the
course of an hour or more the sleeper awak-
ened and slipped out the back way. The
saloon man does not know him-says he
came into his place full-but he wants to
return the money to its owner. So the
one-eyed gentleman has only TO put In ap-
pearance, prove his identity and receive