The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-04
Outlines of Oklahoma.

A Guthrie colored woman claims sh
'un heard de cioud-burst"
In all. nine bridges were DESTROYED 4,
Logan county by the recent Hood.
The Enid Wave win give a years sub
soript.on TO any one who viii dig it cy
cave.
| Every modern cycave In Oklahomi
should have a drain pipe from the DO,
tom.
The new water-works well at Guthri
caved in the other day and the city is on
sl.oN
| Guthrie made a ten-strike all over th'
country by refusing aid from outsid'
points.
Oklahoma City land ONCE. is now IL
charge.
Judge Keaton is now holding court IL
! Norman. having finished up the term il
| Oklahoma City.
The cowboys now say that the Cotton
wood valley at the site OF Guthrie Wa:
similarly flooded in 1879
A delegation of Chandler citizens the
day after the Guthrie club arrived on the
! scene and proffered their assistance.
Grosvenor d.sl.kes Flynn so much thai
Callahan may persuade him TO help him
along with the Free Homes bill.
Perhaps Callahan has come home 20 see
:; Il is really true that the Wichita noun.
tains are not in the Wichita country.
AS the political campaign for mex. fall
approaches George Gardenhire of Payne
county has begun to show signs of LIE
again.
People who are now saying the Guthrie
flood accounts were exaggerated were the
very people who strobe around the streets
ard said that 200 were drowned.
The Kingfsher Reformer says that CAL
lahan did right when he permitted jurs-
dict.on over the Usage Indians TO be ia
ken away from Oklahoma justices OF the
peace.
1t is said that there were men on the
streets of Guthrie begging aid as food
sufferers who had no, lost a thing in the
water, who In fact did not live on that
side Of the river.
Congressman Hugh Belknap OF Chicago
will marry Miss Meta Steele, a pretty
young woman who attracted attention in
Oklahoma when she accompanied her IA
Their. the governor.
In the Saltwater Jail the grand jury Wis
tied young man named Daugherty. He
jumped on one OF the jurors, an old man
named Walbrdge. and knocked him down.
Daugherty is now in a cell
The Ell Reno people might attend to
their own papers little. The FL Reno
news this week IN notes on the big rain
there says: lei Reno looked more like
Venice than an Oklahoma town."
The Saltwater Sentinel assures its rea-
ders that the Free Homes bill will at
once pass the congress and be signed by
the president. 1t says it isn't necessary
for Callahan TO overwork himself
In as great a catastrophe as the Guth-
RE food seemed 10 be the newspapers in
their first account must judge from ap-
pearances. And the appearances at Guth-
RE the day after the flood indicated that
fully 50 people were gone.
FL Reno News: Last Tuesday Mr. Nc
Cracker. Kingfisher county blacksmith.
was searching FL Reno for his wife, who
has mysteriously disappeared.
Mr.. MoCracken, who has q claim In
kinSfisher county, put in the greater part
of his time away from home working at
his trade. On payday he either sent or
carried his money home to Mrs. McCrack-
en-. who kept a boarder in the person OF
a bachelor neighbor who owned a claim
several miles wes:, who was very nice
gentleman and friend OF the family.
Some time in February Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Cracker decided 20 go 10 Chanute, Kan
sas, and go into the restaurant business.
On February 23r6. Mr.. McCracken took his
wife to Kingfisher; she was going 20 Cha
mute, he to follow soon as he got some
business matters arranged. AT the same
time he took his wife TO the train he also
took the trunk OF the boarder, who In
tended TO take the south-bound train for
Since then the poor husband has heard
naught Of his helpmeet Neither has the
ady's son in Missouri. The dear border
ike wise non est
Foul play is feared by the husband. who
with a little locket picture OF the miss
ng woman in his pocket. IS making DILL
gent inquiry as 10 her whereabouts. Blu,
{ is now six or seven weeks since her
disappearance, and II promises TO be one OF
hose mysteries that Will ever be a mys-
ery-to him.