The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

In its prayer for statehood Oklahoma will
set up that is has the population of Rhode
Island.
The North Enid Telegram speaks Of
poison being the cause .of dogs prema-
ture DEATH
A meeting Of the iessees Of Oklahoma
school lands will be held in Guthrie week
from tomorrow.
The Kingfisher Free Press kicked the Old
year out. 1t says the year hadn't treated
it very well, anyhow.
The legislature, which convenes in Okla
homa city a week from today, Is the iour,n
In the history of Oklahoma
Callahan, IL he Is able. viii leave Tor
Washington on Feb. 10. But that interests
no one. Bryan is not president
It is now said that keaton. the judge
whom Cleveland appointed just before the
election, will never be confirmed.
The Republican territorial committee will
get together and see If any March SOON
ers can be discovered. next Monday.
At the last accounts Jake Admire's flag
pole was still standing and will soon De
called TO the attention of Major Mckinley
Tom Ferguson of watonga is out in a
long editorial defending the territorial CEN
trail committee from the charge OF being
a ring.
The girls Of Oklahoma bid fair TO grow
into a hundred Mrs. Leases. Up 10 date
all the prizes in otarory have been by girls
over boys.
Jerry Johnson has discovered that Free
Homes originated in England when Queen
Anne and King William gave pioneers
land grants.
E. ". Johnson OF the Norman university
In his Grafton on Education, the Bulwark
of Liberty" got second place in the terri
torial contest.
The Perry Democrat says that any Re-
publican who breaks over the line for the
victed of soonerism.
The Shawnee Capital is backed by the
Oklahoma City Oklahoman in the deciara-
ton that the clerkship in the legislature
should go TO newspaper men,
At Tecumseh last week G. A. Dunn was
on trial for practicing medicine without a
license, but the prosecutors couldn't make
the charge stick. Dunn won.
Jake Admire says he does not know what
it means to pick the fuzz or the future"
Can Jake tell whether quail is fat or lean
before he takes its feathers off?
InOSe VINO are Ddnklng on having IOlS
of fun out OF the new legislature in Okla
toma are not going TO be disappointed. II
is going 10 be woody from the word go.
Miss Phronia Eckes of the Edmond Nor
NAL won the territorial oratorical prize. Her
subject was Humanity Against Itself"
1t was pessimistic view of life. Were the
judges Populists?
The school board at Saltwater proposes
to rent the third or attic story of the new
school building to the Masonic lodge; the
lodge to fit up the room at an expense OF
$500 to apply on rent: the lease to run for
five years. A good many OF the taX-pay
ers are kicking. They believe the district
will need all the room continually before
the expiration OF the five years.
1t has been decided in Pottawstomie coun
ty that nursery must be paid for trees
ordered when they have been shipped. A
nursery company had an order for some
trees from a farmer. He countermanded
the order but the company sent the trees.
The farmer refused to pay for the trees
or to put them out. The court now de-
ci6es that he must pay for them.
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: Miss Nc
Crav of Blackwell, the young lady who
spoke 'Lasca' in the Evolutionary contest
Tuesdany night, is as brave as she is hand
some. All last summer she drove the mail
stage between Blackwell and the Santa
Fe railroad, a distance OF fourteen miles.
making the round trip each day.. 1t is ru-
mored that she will soon be married TO
Blackwell pedasogue.