The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-19
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

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| A series of horse races win take place al
| Woodward February .. 10 and IL
| H W. Bailey. an authority on cows. has
associated himself with the Woodward
News.
| 1t showed the other day in the country
| just west of FL Reno and nowhere else in
| the territory.
| Perry is a pretty nice town. When free
homes passed the senate the people held
an impromptu blowout.
The motion for a new trial for Alfred Son
of Taloga was argued before Judge Tars-
ney AT FL Reno yesterday.
| In the two last weeks of 1895 the post
master at Alva paid out 1886 in money
orders and issued orders fer SIS.
| 1t is said that the school land iessees of
| the territory are getting ready 10 hold the
balance of power politically in Oklahoma.
William Jenkins. the original Mckinley
man, had a letter from Mckinley the other
day which he says is mighty encouraging.
The Shawnee Quill roasts the Guthrls
club for its inhospitality TO the Editorial
association at its recent meeting in Guth-
RE.
Some one says that Mrs. Tarsney Is the
best politician in the territory. But 1t isn't
politics with Mrs. Tarspey-it's just good
ness.
H. A. Baslam OF Ardmore has set up as
a lawyer in that town, having recently re-
turned from a course in the Alabama uni
versity.
The Manchester Journal says that the
west end of Grant county has grown two
bushels of corn every year to the east
ends one bushel.
1t is proposed in Oklahoma to build sew
eral baled hay houses. They are very
warm and comfortable. They are not I'M
known in Kansas.
The Chickasha Gazette says that the
Choctaw treaty resembles political plat
forms. In several places ii can be inter-
preted to mean almost anything.
So much building is going on at South
McAlister that the citizens kick on the I'M
tidiness of the streets. They ought 10 stop
that. That kind Of untidiness is profitable.
If there is a man in Oklahoma who used
to play marbles with Tom Reed now is
the time for him to write him a beeseech-
ing letter telling him TO let up on free
homes.
Colored men have at last got into Black
well. For a long time they were prohibit
ed from locating. There Is now a big
kick because they are being brought in as
laborers.
The district clerk at Woodward publishes
long list of timber cutters notifying them
that their fines have been reduced to 81,
and asking them to remit at once. Cleve-
land reduced their fines.
The supreme court has decided that In
Noble county VanAuken can continue to
hold office for two years more. The man
who thought he was elected last November
is biting the earth in anguish.
A college-bred young man told an Alva
cattleman that one of his cows was affect
ed with actinomycosis. When the cattle
man was about TO strike him dead the
young man explained that he meant to say
big jaw"
Governor Renfrow has refused 10 pardon
Charles Rider, lately register of deeds OF
Canadian county. Rider took some fees
thinking they belonged to him and was
convicted of embezzlement. Public senti-
ment in FL Reno contends that Rider is
really innocent.
Hennessey Clipper: Charlie Mann, an
old-timer in this country bearing the bronz-
ed features of a man who has had an ex-
perience of thirty years Of life on the from
tier, dropped into see the Clipper a short
time Monday morning. In 1879 he first
came to this country as a bull-whacker
for one of Beard & Vance's bull trains,
engaged in freighting from Wichita TO Fort
Sill. lie helped the government surveyors
to sectionize the Kiowa and Comanche
country and passed over the old trail
through here in the September following
the killing of Pat Hennessey in July of 1874.
He knew w. E Mslaley in those days and
lad the pleasure OF meeting that gentle
man here Monday. Mr.. Mann left Eliza
beth Lake. California. about a year ago
on an old buckooard drawn by two small
horses, and has sinced Travelled over 900
miles, crossing TIE Great Salt Desert and
Staked Plsns. and Is now heading for
Winfield, Kansas, where he has relatives.
lie has seen sights enough TO make an IN
teresting book. and expects TO write an ac-
count of his life some time.