The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-04-17
Outlines of Oklahoma

It is now said that work on the Muskogee
and Western will begin May !.
Township maps of the Wichita country
will be or the market in a few days.
Mrs. Olson nee Gilooly Of Perry died
Monday last in giving birth to a child.
II is about time for the ghostly figure OF
Harry St John to appear in Illinois again.
1t is said that Bill Grimes is having
great success in quarrying IN Mark
Hannas heart.
II is estimated that there is only one
cyclone cellar 10 every $3.50 people in Okla
homa.
The Perry Enterprise now claims that Il
really did believe there was gold near Perry
at one time.
Photographs of the rack and ruin Of the
Chandler cyclone are now on exhibition N
Oklahoma towns.
Not member Of the Sunday school or
the Presbyterian church at Chandler was
hurt in the cyclone.
About eight thousand ash. box-elder and
maple trees are TO be set out in the court
house square al Perry.
Mr.. Pennington of Ardmore is in oklaho-
fever among the citizens.
Nora Harris. a young lady of Oklahoma
City, was arrested the other day for shop
lifting. She was sent to jail
The editors OF the Guthrie papers are now
going without their meals in order TO have
time to 'get back at each other.
There are still few people IN Oklahoma
who doubt that there is gold in the Wichita
mountains. They are simply mistaken.
It is hard for Dennis F'lynn's friends TO
believe that he is actively engaged in a
fight for a place on the Dawes commits
sen.
j. Coon Jackson of Perry Is under arrest
for making an application OF RIO del Bo-
vine granite on the head of colored lady
named Pearl Jackson.
The arrest of Cannon Ball Green, charged
with embezzlement. when he was treasurer
of Grant county is said TO be only starter
and other arrests will follow.
The Flynn papers do not like Arkansas
They now claim that recently an Arkansas
man who was fishing beat his wife to death
because she insisted on talking when he
had bite.
If that colored prophetress at Kingfisher
is right and the town is to be destroyed il
is likely that just as soon as Jake Admire
gets his commission the heavens will divide
as a scroll and gobble him up feet fore
most.
Blackburn Globe: The Usage Indian pay
ment commenced last Monday and continu-
ed almost the entire week. The only com
parison that we can make for the Usage
Payment is the branding of a lot of Texas
cattle. The agent sits in his Office and as
the Indians come they are grabbed by the
traders, who push them into a small pay
house, take their checks, and. after de-
duct;ng their portion they are turned loose.
This manner of payment has been the
Csage custom so long that the Indians ex-
pect IL, and though they know it is wrong.
are so in terror of the wrath OF the agent
that they meekly submit.
El Reno Star: II has been judicially de-
termined in FL Reno that married lsfe Is
a struggle" That was declaration of the
court yesterday morning in giving the de-
c.sion in the Hutchinson divorce case. NJ.
s. Hutchinson, jailer at the county jail.
filed his petition IN the district court asking
for a divorce His wife filed cross-peti-
ton and the decree was issued 10 her in
stead. The declaration of the judge fell
with dull thud on the ears Of the several
young attorneys, court attaches, and other
young men who happened TO be in the court
room at the time. Not one of them will
dare to think of getting married for at
least five years.