The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-19
Outlines of Oklahoma


Judge Shannon McCray of Woodward Is
dead.
Barnes ard Flynn are both in Washing
ton Trosper seems to be lost
The codifying committee of the iegisia>
ture it stiH at work in Guthrie.
1t is the best information that Renfrow
VIII serve out his term complete
DR.. Kimberly who assaulted White In
1895 got four months in the county jail and
costs.
The Populists and Democrats VIII work
the old Citizens gag at Guthrie again this
spring.
The last thing an Indian gives up is the
Medicine Man. Next to that comes the
noccasin-
1t is feared that while Dick Plunkett did
not bet on Corbett if he had had money he
would have.
The Perry Enterprise says that the re-
cent legislature added 10000 to the taxes
of the territory.
The railroad officials all claim that a
boom will come to Oklahoma in home
seekers this year.
Roy Hoffman has got well enough to so
into court and play with nisi pr.uses and
totidem verbises.
The Guthrie papers are at 1t again. The
Leader demands that the Capital apologize
10 the supreme court.
Cole Martin OF Guthrie has been sent to
the penitentiary and disbarred in the ter
ritory for embeZzlement.
Rev. Wellman lectured at Perry the other
evening on the Inauguration OF Mckin-
ley" which he witnessed.
The funniest thing in long time Is the
Guthrie Leaders special from Carson City
which tells Of Fitzsimmons action after
the fight.
A crank passed through Perry the other
day in a wagon on which was printed:
THE strange young man returning from
Jerusalem
II is singular fact but the Republican
newspapers are doing most OF the COM
plimenting of Renfrow for the use OF his
veto power
Seymour Price Is making hot race for
secretary of the territory and Jake Admire
better rub down his steeds and get into
bis chariot and shove off.
The Perry Enterprise says that IL will
take Oklahoma twenty years 10 recover
from some of the laws passed by the leg,s-
lature. Not half that long.
The daily papers of Oklahoma are rus
tiers. They all published good short sy-
nopsis of the fight They had TO pay for it
and pay we'll, but they got it just the same.
Colonel Freeman will keep at II until he
gets in trouble. Right across the Usage
line the Cleveland Bee is published and
Freeman has ordered its editor to keep OFF
the reservation.
Guthrie Capital In 1851 David Trovince
enlisted in the First regiment West Vir-
ginia volunteers as a private and fought
under the stars and stripes for four years.
In 1864 he was commissioned first ser
geant of his regiment, and shortly after
his regiment was engaged by the enemy
and driven back. When the smoke of bat
tie had cleared away he found that his
commission had been lost during the en-
sagement. He used every effort to find
II, but of no avail. Imagine his surprise
when about one month ago he received a
letter from an old comraie of his regf-
ment stating that ne had his commission
safe and sound His comrade said in the
letter which followed that he had repeated
ly written 10 the pension department and
different pension examiners over the coun-
try. but had always met with the same
reply-that no such person was known 10
them. He heard that Mr.. Trovince was in
Oklahoma, and wrote TO Guthrie and found
his comrade after thirty-two years. Mr.
Trovince had also written TO many of his
comrades endeavoring 10 find his commits
sion. but none knew of its being found,
and he had given up hope of ever finding
IL when he heard from his comrade. He
owns a fine claim about fourteen miles
west of Guthrie, and is well known in this
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