The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-09
Outlines Of Oklahoma

Frank Greer Of Guthrie win put In LIN
otype machines.
TIE statehood convention scheme may
veer around TO be a partisan AFFAIR.
The Oklahoman at Oklahoma City says
that Don Quixote Hews Is a nuisance
II is reported that ]. ]. O'Rourke OF FL
Rero will fight a caii for a statehood con-
vent:on-
Clarence Douglass. who murdered Editor
James Williams, at Ardmore, has been
let out on $1,000 bail
John A. Ware. of the e Reno wholesale
grocery and Miss Eta Miles, of Sedalia,
Mo-, were married last week
The real estate transfers at Oklahoma
City published in the Oklahoman Sunday
morning make a half column
Thomas Keene. actor. says that Okla
homa is all right. Like man the terri
tory that has money doesn't lack Tor
friends.
Ter years ago the people of southern
Kansas were unanimously of the opinion
that the opening OF Oklahoma was long
way or
The only Guthrie man who received an
appo:ntment from Marshal Thompson. 1t
is said. was Z. II. Furrow. guard in the
federal jail
A. Ei Reno a man who had been drunk
was liberated on the promise that he would
stay sober In an hour he was drunk again
and in he went.
So far as territorial conventions are con-
cerned. FL Reno appears to have taken the
soup tureen under her arm and walked out
OF the banqueting hall.
The first thing Callahan did in congress
was to introduce a resolution fixing day
| for the free homes bin. The resolution was
referred to committee.
The Oklahoma farmers who say that they
will not raise any more cotton because II
| does not pay, should reflect on the remarks
| of the wheat raiser year ago.
The day of hot factional fights in Okla
| homa has passed. The selection OF judges
| will be made without enriching the West
| ern Union Telegraph company.
| An old frazzled story is out that Cover
nor Seay will make a fight against the
confirmation of Marshal Thompson. The
| newspapers are always telling fairy-taies
on Governor Seay.
| When Mr.. McGlinchey, a merchant OF
| Oklahoma City. is dead, the Oklahoma City
| papers should club together and erect him
a monument. He is about as persistent
| an advertiser as there is in the whole word
| Before a statehood convention Is called
| it should be stipulated with Frank McMas-
te- that he will make a speech. A good
| red-hot speech from McMaster al state
hood convention is worth going half way
1 across the continent 10 hear.
! Guthrie Leader: Ernest Stephens. agent
| for the Wells-Fargo Express company a.
| this place, was yesterday appointed agent
| of the Santa Fe at Hutchinson and ieft
AT once to assume the duties OF the or
| flee. Mr.. Stephens is an industrious young
| man and his many friends wish him well
A reporter for the Purcell Review says
/ he met a young couple who had just beer
| married "and their guilt showed IN theil
| countenance." 1t is mighty hard TO fool q
| newspaper reporter. He can tell al glance
| a wedding party from divorce crowd OF
divorce crowd from funeral process
| sion
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: 1t Is diff
ficult for those who have never visited The
| Indian Territory TO understand TO what e1
| tent the Indians prosperity has resulted
| from the enterprise and money OF th'
| white settlers who settled among them b,
| invitation The big farms of the Indiar
| Territory would go untitled. the banks
| would close and the goods would rot or
the counters of the mercantile houses, i
| the white people were forced 10 leave th'
| territory. HIS white tenant has made Z
| civilized gentleman of the Indian, and i
| now furnishing him the means to live IL
| id;eness and luxury