The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-30
Outlines o. Oklahoma


J. Thompson Of Hennes.ey has named his
baby Flynn Mckinley Thompson.
A correspondent in the Enid Wave uses
the old expression taking the rag OF the
BUSH
IL the verdict OF innocence tor Miss Grace
Allen was just. the laugh is certainly On
the Eckes family.
Miss Eval.na Miller has sued Thomas
Robinson. street commissioner OF Perry. for
breach OF promise
Japan VIII change her mind about our
right 10 Hawaii if she gets glance az
General Rosenbaum's rhetoric
The man who can tell why Marx Hanna
became angry at Governor Barnes should
step forward and tell the story.
The judges VIII not be appointed until
after Judge Ollie has gone 10 Washington
And Judge Ollie hasn't gons yet.
While Mss Grace Allen has been scquit-
ted, her experience Is warning to Kansas
girls 20 keep away from Oklahoma rivals.
DeFord will be appointed marshal. Barnes
has Sc; his heart on this and viii get il
through. He VIII net get - name the
judges
A man al Hennessey has figured out that
the amount of the wheat crop marketed
at Hennessey which viii be spent in saloons
will be s., 20.
Guthrie feels pretty sure that even in the
absence OF capital noE-removal provision
from congress. Governor Barnes would veto
any removal bill
The appointment of United States mar
shall in Kansas is being held up just es
Oklahomas marshslship is. Perhaps Cy
Leland had a hand in both
Some OF the boys predict that before he
can have anything TO do with the naming
of the judges Governor Barnes Will have 20
make his peace with Henry Asp.
Two boys, aged Il and Is, i'll Lincoln
township, Garfield county. prepared the
ground and drilled in gs acres of wheat
which Is yielding about 5000 bushels.
Guthrie. according TO the Oklahoma City
Times-Journal, has offered 10000 in casn
and $4,000 worth of real estate al asses
sors' appraisement for the Sapulpa extern
sion.
The most rab:d antagonist to Oklahoma
statehood has been the Chicago Tribune.
The Tribune is very powerful and its
change of front on this question means
much.
Colonel Ravens of Enid Will get to be
United States district attorney unless some
one is mean enough 10 bring up his COM
pact with Charley Hunter made year ago
last June.
F. J. McGI;nchey, the merchant at Okla
homa City, used to room with Joseph Ladue
in the Black Hills. Now Ladue is owner
CT the town of Dawson which lies near the
Klondyke fields.
The Lincoln County bank, at Chandler.
is now located III its new and commodious
stone building. This bank has been re-
organized and is now one of the solid insti-
tutions OF that city.
Dennis Flynn says that no man ever
treated him with more courtesy than Pres
ident Mckinley does. But he won't let
kim name any posImasters and that was
what Flynn wanted 10 do
Miss Eckes and Mr. Smith. the couple
which caused Miss Grace Allen al her
trouble. were to have been married day be-
fore yesterday. VIII they be married now?
If Smith has influence he should postpone
1t for Miss Aliens sake.
The following changes have been made
in fourth-class postmasters in Oklahoma:
Blackburn, Pawnee county. William kei-
ley, vice c. A. Bradley, resigned; Ham,
mon, Custer county, G. F. S.son, vice l.
NJ Harmon, resigned: Vance, Woods coun
ty. NJ B. Rouse, vice NJ. E. Wooster. re-
signed.
Guthrie Leader: The immense saline
reservation in the northeastern part OF
Woods county is a remarkable sight in
summer. The reservation is many square
miles in extent and the surface of the earth.
go far as the eye can reach, is encrustsd
with salt from half an inch 10 more than
foot in thickness. The absence OF dust
storms this year has left this plain OF sale
as white as snow and al distance is re-
sembles a vast lake of water. The salt
comes from the evaporation of water from
countless salt springs that bubble up in the
low. marshy land. The reservation was
leased from the Cherokee Indians in 1884
by d syndicate Of politicians, Senator Man
derson of Nebraska being one of the num-
Der. The syndicate was to pay a royalty
on all salt taken from the reservation. but
not a pound has ever been shipped away.
Stockmen scoop IL up by the wagon load
and feed 1t 10 their cattle. The reserva-
ton is about twenty miles from railway.