The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-16
Outlines of Oklahoma

The receipts Of the Rock Island at e.
| Reno exceed 5000 a month
| Over 10000 has been paid out for wheat
| at Yukon in the last sixty days.
Fifty men are picking cotton on Mr..
| Shermans plantation near FL Reno.
| Judge Strang ought TO pull up his line
ard change bait The fish are not Bit
| ing.
The dreadful chances are that no one
viii care to say it to Cousin Mckinley 5
face.
Sixteen hundred pounds Of cotton seed
sold in FL Reno the other day for sec a
hundred.
1t begins to appear that the boys are
angling the chief justiceship away from the
Rock Island.
If Burford has been switched from chief
justice 10 district attorney, Hainer will
probably be chief justice.
Major Crozier of Cushing mislaid his
Bible last Sunday and no, being able 10
find it, did not convert single Indian.
The Oklahoman fears that should Mark
Hanna visit Oklahoma several people might
attempt 10 steal those dollar-marks of his
clothes.
In few days the Hutchinson Southern
will begin building again and then there
will be scrap along the Santa Fe for the
junction.
The FL Reno Star says an Oklahoma
man took two loads of wood off govern
ment reservation and then sent 20 cents TO
the conscience fund.
Burford wanted TO be chief justice and
would not listen 10 anything else. Cover
nor Barnes has persuaded him TO take dis
trict attorney. and that settles it.
The editor Of the Ponca City Courier
notes the name OF every farmer who pays
his subscription. and these days ne is writ
ing nothing but subscription locals.
If any Oklahoma farmer has a weakness
for signing papers without reading them.
ne should take his pen and ink out IN the
backyard and solemnly bury them.
The news from Washington indicates that
President Mckinley took one look at that
Prince Albert coat and then and there
made up MS mind that Ha.ner was the
man.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal says
that isolation is necessary for the produc-
ton Of types. Does the Times-Journal
dare TO intimate that Kansans and Mis-
sourians are the same?
Bill Walker is going 10 attack President
Mckinley with special brand OF cigars.
If that doesn't bring the Usage Indian
agency Bill expects TO set out at once for
Klondike, where fellow-feeHng has more
of a show.
Shawnee Chief: A farmer near Dent
started for town with a load OF hay, and
thought he would have a smoke, so he lit
his pipe. He lost his pants by fire, and
everything else except the lynch-pins and
tires of the wagon. The team was still
on the run at last accounts. He says smoh
ing is not conducive to health.
Enid Wave: Excitement still runs high
at Round Pond over the murder last week
of F. O. Belheimer, the barber. The par
ties that were arrested have been released
and they now have Fatty Oswald and
Fannie Baker IN jail. who are supposed
TO be implicated, and other arrests will fol-
low. There is strong talk OF a neck-tie
party when the guilty parties are caught.
Enid Wave: There is a gang of regular
hold-up gamblers operating in this city
and every now and then they take IN some
God-fear.ng stranger who thinks ne can
play poker against a sure thing. The
Wave has no sympathy for a man who
loses his money at gambling. but this thing
of simply stealing such a victims money
must be stopped or the Jail will contain
about four more prisoners one OF these
fine days.
Oklahoma City Globe: The writer Is
well acquainted with Hon. NJ. c. Hart.
member of the Oklahoma board OF post
office referees. way back in Trumbull
Ohio, more than twenty years ago.
and he was then. as now. one Of the most
hard-work1ng, stalwart Re-
publ;cans in the country-and he has al
ways maintained that high character. Mr..
Hart is deserving OF something good at
the hands of the admin stra ton.