The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-14
Outlines of Oklahoma

The merchants and businessmen Of Chan
der have during the last year paid out
$ia.000 in freight.
Pat Nagle doesn't want that salary but.
of course If President Mckinley insists.
he will have to take it.
That tribe of Indians who get drunk
only once n year. are rapidly dying out
They are too good for this earth.
The Rock Island Railroad company is be-
hind the new cotton compress at e Reno
and it is bound to be a success
Isenberg thinks the Indians are secretly
planning an attack on Ell Reno and tbs
snatching Of that fine chestnut, clustering
scalp OF Judge P,tzer.
While Governor Barnes is in Washington
he is scing to get the crow-bar under Judge
McAree and Judge Keaton and have them
pr:ed out of their snaps.
Charles Hunter is now hot because he
wasn't treated right at Guthrie. The trou-
BILE with Charles was that he didn't IN
srect the ground before he Ieaped.
Nothing viii satisfy the harmonists in
Oklahoma but that Governor Barnes and
Dennis Flynn shall meet in Detroit and
drink out of the same champagne glass.
The Mangum Star is for state out Of In
dian Territory and Oklahoma united. The
Greer county people would feel more a.
home in a state that had few Texans.
Fred Wenner has frozen Charles Hunter
IN the ante-room. People who know Wen
ner say he has a Ward McAllister glazy
stare that ]. Addison Porter can not dupli-
cate.
Lincoln county has $1,000 acres Of corn.
sn,Ooo acres of cotton, $1,000 head of cattle
and its old soldiers get 10000 year in
pensions. and its farmers shipped LOCO head
OF cattle last year.
Indians in a mass do not make a bigger
crowd than white people but when a news
paper correspondent sees one hundred In
,lians congregated he at once concludes
that there are 5000 there.
Foley and Grant of FL Reno should re-
member that home rule is a comparative
term. 1t isn't necessary for the governor.
in order to live up 10 home rule, to appoint
a man postmaster who lives in the same
block with the postofiice.
Orputs strength is from Allison of Iowa.
1t came about in this way. When dele
cations were being selected to st. Louis the
Rock Island railroad undertook TO get ALI
son men on the delegation with the idea
that il Mckinley withdrew his name after
a hard fight Allison could swing. the dele
cations. Orput was q delegate OF that
kind. Mckinley was nominated without
trouble. Now Allison is staying by his
friend
A poet, ". W. Scott, in the Shawnee
Quill thanks God for the power to forget.
The best thing in many papers is the
country correspondence. Here is an item:
"As strange as it may seem Miss Leona
Davis is always glad to see a Hale COM
ing Imagine Miss Leona's blush as she
reads this. Imagine her fears that Hale
may think she inspired it. Imagine his
pride when he reads it, and imagine how
deiicately he mentions 1t to her the next
evening ard says that it has become so
prominent he might as well out with a
proposal, and outs with it.
The Enid Wave says: Mr. Harry Thomp-
son Of North Enid and Miss Alice Billings,
daughter of Hank Billings, were joined in
matr;mony Saturday night July 10, 1897 at
Marion, Kansas, where the bride was visit
ing relatives. They intended to leave Sun
day morning on wedding trip to Detroit
where the groom expected TO attend the
Republican league meeting, being dele
gate from Oklahoma. but early Sunday
morning Mr.. Thompson took suddenly and
severely i'll with hemorrhage and at last
report was not expected to live. This will
be startling news to Harry Thompson's
many friends in Enid and elsewhere.