The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-02
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

About seventy-five horses were drowned
IN the Guthrie flood.
Touching the marshalship, Grimes stock
is apparently going up.
Six new mills are running near Sapulpa
making ties for the Frisco.
Two Of Guthrie's bridges went BY the
town OF Perkins Thursday afternoon.
Buffalo Jones is in Washington and re-
ports that he has sold the last Of his. buff
faio.
When the Sapulpa extension Is built Ok
lahoma City will be within 10 miles OF coal
fields.
j. Y. Callahan and his wife arrived in
Kingisher from Washington Thursday
evening.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal wants
a distiliery at that place to work the cull
peaches.
Five bridges at Kinghsher. valued al
about $500, hace been washed away the
last week
the Cottonwood flood with his fainting wife
on his arm.
For the first time in the history Of the
Territory that set Of Marine laws began 10
look natural.
The usually classic Enid Wave saws tina,
the people OF Guthrie were aroused BY a
NOISY sound"
The Ell Reno mill win close down this
week IN order TO refit with machinery of a
greater capacity.
Hereafter the outside world should I'M
derstand that FL Reno isn't inundated un-
til Pixies Peak is.
The Kingfsher Reformer is publishing .
legislative history by Tom Willis entitled
who Got the Boodle?"
Barnes is fighting jenkins OF Newkirk for
secretary of the Territory, and has fled
papers charging him with general incompe-
tensy.
A hot fight is on for assistant commits
sioner Of Indian affairs between Walter S.
Field Of Oklahoma and Judge Pollock, for
merly OF Kansas.
". s. Field of Oklahoma. il is said. will
be appointed assistant commissioner of In
dian affairs. Ten Indians in Washington
have endorsed him.
The kinghsher rescuers who tore across
the prairie for Guthrie with two big boats
got on the scene too late to do anything.
But their intentions were praiseworthy.
At Seward the telegraph operator got in
boat and rowed to a telegraph pole.
climbed it and wired Oklahoma City that
the postoffice had floated away.
The persistent way in which fire pursues
the Oklahoma county court house has con-
jured up dark suspicious in the otherwise
pure and innocent breast of the editor Of
the Enid Wave.
1t turns out that Jim Kelly did not get
out of Ell Reno before the rims set In and
he is consequently not imprisoned on a
bleak hill eating buffalo grass and sleep
ing standing UP.
Mr.. K. Davis tried to get a marriage
license TO marry an Indian girl at Pawnee
the other day but he did not have the par.
ent's consent. which is Necessary under the
new law of Oklahoma. and vas refused By
the probate judge.
1t is given out at the hotels in Washing
ton that Ex-Governor Seay is opposed to
Flynn and every friend of Flynn's receiv-
ing any recognition whatever, and, It Is
intimated, is a standing candidate for each
and every Office they are likely to receive
A queer question came up in the Suits
man trial at Oklahoma City. Mrs. Suits
man was about to testify when an objec-
ton was made. 1t seems that the Suits
mans have a probate court divorce and the
old question Of the legality of that sort OF
decree came up.
An interesting fight .is now on concern
ing the Newkirk postoffice. Lambert, broth
er to I. e. Lambert of Kansas is strongly
urged by the Kansas influence and, in adj
dition, has strong local Endorsements. B.
F. Hobbs of the same place has splendid
Endorsements, but Governor-to-be Barnes Is
insisting on the appointment of Mckinley,
who does not appear to have anybody else
indorsing him.