The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-20
Outlines of Oklahoma.

John P. ST. John calls theFumors about
his son Cruel"
1t now looks as IL free homes would have
| to- be put through as a rider.
An artisan at kildare paints houses and
bugg;es and takes corn for pay.
The colored Republican league Of Garfield
county has indorsed Flynn for governor
The Oklahoma legislature has wasted
hundreds of dollars by fooiing with female
suffrage.
An attempt to Jail stormy JIM for
stealing bottle of mustard al Oklahoma
CITY failed.
Miss Minnie Wright of Oklahoma county
has been adjudged insane and has been
sent to Norman.
Harry ST. John requested that he be
buried in Olney. Ills. because his little girl
vas buried there.
1t is claimed that 9. " Points of Shaw
nee has promise from Mark Hanna of the
sovernorship of Oklahoma.
The Enid Wave insists that all the roads
in Garfield county be burned Of The roads
are the winter home OF the chinch-bugs.
The Ponca City Courier wants the present
legislature as soon as IL adjourns arrested
for securing money under false pretences.
A dispatch from Washington says that
Grover Cleveland will surely veto the free
homes bill no matter how it comes TO him.
The Gushing Herald thinks the present
legislature resembles the Lime Kiln club
| more than anything else. And that is
true.
section gang on the Choctaw is made
up of five brothers. The mother of the
boys keeps a boarding house and boards
them all.
The cohctaw read gives mileage books to
patrons. After purchasing them, the pat
rons must go to the depot and exchange
mileage for trip ticket.
Walter Fields of Oklahoma City has just
returned from Washington. and he says
the impression there is that Dennis Flynn
has cinch on the governorship.
Elmer Whitley Of Red Moon was cutting
logs the other day. He got his hand in
the slit of log and the log held him pris'
oner for an hour. He suffered terribly.
Major Whittingill of Enid dropped over
to Guthrie the other day. and having moth
ing else to do. drafted bill naming Enid
as the location for the next penitentiary.
The postoffice at Martha. Greer county.
was broken into the other night and every
thing, Including the goods in the general
merchandise store Of the postmaster, taken.
An Indian territory paper referred TO a
man as .Fweddv Smith" The W. was
the typesetter's fault but Smith thought
he had been called a dude and licked the
editor.
The Newkirk Democrat which has no say
in the governorship matter at all and should
be quiet, accuses Barnes Of absenting him.
self from his legislative duties in order TO
rush about over the territory. Barnes can
do more in day in that legislature than
four Pops can In six months.
Oklahoma City Times Journal: Some peo-
pie doubted j. Ewing Prices statement
that he had been in the Cuban army. but
staff correspondent of the Scripps- McRea
league writing from the Cuban mountains
says that he visited The little printing Of
flee established by Msceo and there found
on the wall of the cave in which the paper
is printed, the name of j. Ewing Price.
Perry Enterprise: Eugene Ballard COM
pleted his filing upon Sc q 1-22-2w Saturday
This is the land over which he and Jerry
Ogle have contested for the last three years
The local office decided in favor OF Ballard.
the commissioners recommended division
of the land, but Oge took the case TO the
secretary OF the interior who decided in IA
vor of Ballard. Ogle got a re-hearing, but
has finally lost and the filing of Ballard or
dered allowed. This has been one OF the
most hotly contested fights in this district.