The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-26
Outlines of Oklahoma

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The Barnes banquet tonight WIN be given
at the Capitol hotel
Mr. William Jenkins Of Kay county has
assured his friends that he WIN be the next
secretary Of the territory
DON Lawhead Of Newk;rk arrived at
Guthrie Monday to attend the inaugural
Don believes in going early to avoid the
rush.
Now would be an excellent time FOR
Flynn to make an inventory Of his friends
suggests Harry Gils,rap in the Chaidler
News
Among all the names mentioned IN con-
nectien with the inaugural tonight there is
gaping void where the name Of J. Y. Cal
lahan ought to be.
II Isenberg Of the Enid Wave is not
| liar hail as large as cows hoofs fell ives;
Of that city Saturday night. They drilled
holes IN the ground several inches deep
North Enid viii not be called the tank
town any more. The tank has been moved
&c the south town and it would not hold all
that was drank in celebration of the event
John Pitzer Of Ell Reno will be appointed
United States district attorney. This Is
certain. for Mr.. Pitzer says so himself.
Mr.. Mckinley will have a little something
10 say about IL later on.
Brooks Forrest viii strike hts best Shake
srearean attitude tonight when he Is re-
spending 10 the toast The Incoming Ad-
ministration.'' If the wine is right Brooks
will do honor to Cassius.
Lon Cameron of Woods county. at the
banquet at Guthrie tonight, will respond
to the toast, Terra Gotta Landscapes"
II it's an extra dry affair Lon can paint
any kind Of a landscape the festive crowd
may want.
II Is vehemently denied by the friends Of
Major Crozier that he has been elected a
lay reader TO the Episcopal congregation
at Gushing. That part OF the item relat-
ing 20 his abifty 10 tell good story has
not been challenged.
It has been properly recorded by the
Newton Republican that Dennis Flynn
passed through that town yesterday en-
route to Guthrie. Dennis is too true an
Oklahoman to be absent during the inau-
gural Of the new governor.
Henry ASP. rational committeeman for
Oklahoma, rode into Guthrie exactly twelve
hours in front of the new governor. and
Flynn went in twelve hours ahead OF ASP.
fore night, including Pat Cassidy
Rev. DR.. Strobe. a colored preacher. pre-
sided a a meeting Of Guthrie food sufferers
that declared for more aid and Endorsed
that man Tandy whom both papers de-
nounced- The man who stands up for aid
ing people will be Endorsed every time when
the vox populi has anything to do with it
Clyde Mattox has become so unmanage-
able in the United States prison at Lansing
that Marshal Nicely has been instructed to
place him in the Kansas penitentary for
safe keeping. This is the first act of recog-
milton On the part of Uncle Sam that Kan
sas IS more powerful than the United
States.
]. NJ. Wheeler has been appointed quar-
termaster OF the first regiment Of Okla
homa National guards, vice L. r. Delaney
resigned. man filing that position has
a chance to be very sociable II he is so In
clined. Paul Jundt or some one with a
brewery standing behind him should have
been appointed to the place.
Everybody Will remember the capers Of
George Elwood in Oklahoma. He Is dead.
Something like dozen years ago." says
the Clay Center Times, washington coun-
ty had a tough citizen in the person OF
George Elwood. Elwood was mixed up in
a lot Of shady transactions. cattle stealing
and such like. finally becoming an outlaw.
On the opening OF Oklahoma he went 10
that country, soon making record as for
ger and all-round bad man that forced him
to leave. and he drifted east. When Sheriff
Lands was in Providence, r. l.. a few
weeks ago he learned that Elwood had
been a prisoner in the state penitentiary
there. and on further inquiry found that he |
had been killed by guard while attempt |
ing to escape something like a year ago. |
He had been prisoner for a year or so, |
and one morning while being taken out 10 |
work made an attempt TO shoot a guard |
having by some means gotten hold OF a |
revolver. The guard was too quick for /
him. however, putting three bullets into |
his body and an end to the career OF the |
former Washington county Desperate"