The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-22
Outlines of Oklahoma

| The Guthrie Capital has printed good
portrait Of Acting Governor Jenkins.
| Next to Oklahoma City. Hennessey pays
the best salaries 10 teachers of any town in
| the territory.
Governor Barnes preserves all letters
written TO him by politicians and has them
put away for future reference.
| There is a colored farmer near Hennes-
| sey whose name is really Ii Hung Chang.
| He should tell how ne came by f.
A. W. Tucker Of Perry, who has farm
| eighteen miles from town says his corn is
| now made and does not need any more
| rain.
| The fight in Oklahoma just az present is
over the Alva land Office. Cy Leland. OF
| Kansas, it is understood. will take hand
| in il.
Out at Woodward where the bravest men
| in the territory live. they do not beguile
the hours away with poker. but with cro-
quet-
Some scoundrel is travelling over Oklaho-
ma raising five dollar bills TO ten dollars
and passing them. He worked Perry last
week.
Captain Gamer in making his fight on
Barnes should remember that Barnes is in
pretty good shape 10 stand it for four
years.
Buffalo grass is a grain bearer, the seed
appearing close to the ground and impcss;-
BILE to harvest, except TO Illuminating ami
male.
Headed by Mayor Overton. the business
men OF Hennessey are putting all roads
leading to that town in condition for heavy
hauling.
McAtee is supposed TO be behind the fight
on the territorial board of equalization
His friends are claiming that that is why
he will be removed.
The Purcell Register wants TO change the
name of Lovers Leap" just north OF Pur-
cell 10 Capitol Heighths. Guthrie should
get out an injunction.
One OF the wheel horses of the present
congress is ex-governor Steele OF Okla
homa. He refuses 10 take any part in the
distribution OF patronage in Oklahoma.
: A crowd OF Texas gentlemen camped in
wagon yard in Purcell the other night
and when they awoke discovered that some
one had relieved them of their cash and
watches.
The New York Herald is the latest paper
to publish that Peary story about a relig-
ious reformation in the triangle. The Cush-
ing paper says the thing is not true; that
that section never was lawess.
News has just reached the railroad town.
that the Fourth of July was a bowling sue
cess at the town of Grand The local
paper says that even the scrap in the sa-
loon was IAN artistic affair and gave gen.
eral satisfaction
When Governor Barnes wrote Captain
Gamer of FL Reno that the Republican
party was beaten last fall in Oklahoma
through m!smana cement, he was badly mis-
taken. 1t was beaten because it was i'm
possible to overcome an opposition MAORI
~ of 1900.
Guthrie Capital: Treasurer Thompson
has not fully recovered from a. shock re-
ceived yesterday afternoon. He was Sit
ting in his office dreaming OF the COM
forts of summer resorts and mountain air
when young lady entered and placed on
the desk before him si2 in greenbacks and
silver. The young lady explained to The
surprised treasurer that in 1895 she had been
in the employ of the territory doing clerical
work When she received her salary she
discovered that she had been overpaid s42.
She tried to correct the error and was told
she was mistaken-the territory was indebt-
ed TO her TO that amount She has never
been satisfied in her own mind that she had
earned that amount for over time. Her
conscience pr:cked her and she decided to
return it. Before the astonished treasurer
could question her she had disappeared.
Treasurer Thompson is now trying TO de-
eide to what TO credit the amount, but
thinks of crediting II TO conscience"