The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-02
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Outlines OF Oklahoma
1t is now or never with the Free Homes
bill 1t must pass today or tomorrow
In the new adultery laws of the terrific
rs the wives or husbands wronged only
can prosecute.
The city council OF FL Reno have in
structed the city marshal 70 close all the
gambling shops
The Oklahoma Times-Journal says that
ninety per cent of the voting negroes OF
Oklahoma can read
The little child OF Mr.. and Mrs. Byars
near Tecumseh. was burned 10 death while
playing with fire last week.
The Ell Reno Democrat says that several
shafts in the Wichita mountains have
reached depth of eighty feet.
Jen Williams, who was charged with
killing Bob Moore in Washita county,
some months ago, has been acquitted.
The North Carolina legislature has kill
ed the bill invaldat;ng gold contracts.
which the Oklahoma legislature passed
Rev. Ned Forrest. formerly of ElReno.
who lives in Illinois. has disappeared. Il
is claimed there is a woman in the case.
Major Simpson OF Ell Reno has been at
torney for the Indians now six months,
and has already mastered their language.
Most of the runaway horses in Oklaho-
ma VII hunt for miles for some barb-wire
10 run into before they VIII consent TO
stop.
The papers which say they have no
fight to make on Mr.. Barnes" are the
papers that are giving him the hottest
cracks.
The legislature has already arpropri-
ated ten thousand dollars to pay its clerks.
one thousand more than the preceding leg
stature.
The other day at Shawnee some boys got
hold OF the turn table and began 70
whirl Il One boy fell and was horribly
mangied by the wheel.
There is likelihood that IL the police
men of Ell Reno do not treat the soldiers
OF Fort Reno right. the Fort boys will re-
fuse 10 spend their money in town.
Some concern has published portrait
group of the editors of Oklahoma. The
only thing recognizable in the thing. ac-
cording to the Purcell Register. is Frank
Greer's ears.
n. V. Mccain, north OF Pond Creek, on
the old Wichita and Fl. Reno government
freight road, ploughed up last week sixty
countefeit silver dollars. They had prob
ably lain there forty or fifty years.
The Oklahoma County Colored Mans
Protective league has decided in resolu-
tons TO 90 after the scalp Of a man who
"encroached upon the sacredness of the
family circle of one wilson" by seducing
his daughter.
The body found on the South Canadian
south of Norman, was not that of Happy
Jack. who turned up alive. but of a young
German who had quarreled with his wife,
divided the property and started with
team back to Texas.
D. ". Jones published a card in the
Grant County Vidette denying that he had
gone cunning for the editor of the News
and declaring that If he went after that
editor he would use nothing stronger than
a pea-shooter, and would not expect 10
find vital spot above the suspender but
tons.
Manchester Journal: L. c. Buckles, the
blacksmith. had thrilling experience with
coyotes last Saturday night. He lives
about two miles southwest OF town, and
says the coyotes have been proving about
his place quite often of late. Mr.. Buckles
has a shed stable in which he keeps
young calf and a hound up. each tied with
at the dead hour of night by the believing
of his calf and the bowling OF what he
supposed to be dozen coyotes each bent
on taking the very lfe-blood of that calf
Buckles didn't stop 20 dress. and made
for the stable at a lively gait. o, what
a sight! The calfs rope had In some way
Wound three or four times around the
pups hind leg and In scramblinc TO get
loose the calf very naturally became fright
ened and set back on the rope, one end
of which was tied about four feet high.
The harder the calf pulled the higher the
hound pup became suspended In the air
by one hind leg. and OF course this caused
the rope to draw tighter and tighter
around the pedal extremity of the pup.
which scrambled and paved the air,
bowling as hound pup never howled be-
fore, and in turn the calf became fright
ened more and more. straining every
nerve to get away, but all TO no avail
Both calf ard pup were in a predicament.
the pup couldn't work the combination and
tie calf wouldn't. Buckles laughed until |
his sides became sore and then cut the |
rope and went back TO bed.