The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-27
Outlines of Oklahoma

Elmer Houghton. OF Oklahoma City, has
a parrot which says: ''Lordy. amt 1t hot!''
Bushy Headed Wolf. aged 81 years. is
the only old bachelor in the Sac and Fox
tribes.
Its claimed that Judge Ollie and Henry
Asp VII be the Big factors in the naming
Of the judges.
Dennis Flynn says that sooner or later
free homes VIII become an established fact.
1t is very doubtful.
10 McNeal IS about as quiet as II = pos
sible for happy man TO be since ne got
those territorial deposits.
The Perkins Journal says that the Okla
homa farmer is so busy he has got TO get
up before he goes 10 bed.
John Oman, near Oklahoma City. has
just threshed out LOO bushels OF wheat
and $500 bushels of oats
The cotton in Kay county Is said 10 be
the finest m the territory and superior TO
any in the United States.
The provision which prevented the Okla
hona legislature from removing the capita.
from Guthrie has expired
a daughter of Captain Payne OF Oklaho-
ma fame is Mrs. George Davis and lives
On a farm in the territory.
There is something in the story that
Governor Barnes will not be permitted 70
name tie Oklahoma judges.
1t took three hours TO unload a freight
train at kildare the other day and the de-
pot platform looked Ike a steamboat
There will be an awful fight for the next
legislature. An attempt viii be made
TO remove the capital from Guthrie.
The Gamer crowd at FL Reno threaten 10
publish another letter from Governor
Barnes office which is said TO be terror.
1t was not true that there was meet
ing of the Flynn crowd in Oklahoma CITY
the other day. No such meeting took
place.
Mark Hanna, for some reason or other,
is mad at Barnes and shifted the air the
other day angr.ly when Barnes name was
mentioned.
The boys say that Acting Governor Jen-
kins is filing the place very creditably.
Some of the "organ.za tom even hint that
Barnes ought TO stay away.
The only member of the Sac and Fox
tribes who ever committed suicide was
Kaheegay, who cut his throat on hearing
that all his horses had been stolen.
Lincoln Mckinley of the Newkrk Re-
publican announces that he Will publish
only two pages until the subscribers who
are owing HIM a lot Of money come in and
whack up.
A Mr.. Lowe was bringing wagon-load
OF furniture from Guthrie TO Perkins. The
team ran off. The furniture was torn all
to pieces but every looking glass in the
outfit was uninjured.
B. ]. McCollum, near Yukon. put his
coat containing papers and money under a
sheaf OF wheat. Later he could not find it.
He searched the field over and concluded
that some one had stolen it. At the thresher
later the coat was found with the money
in tact
Governor Barnes should remember that
many a governor has broken his neck by
allowing newspaper articles to be written
in his Office by his employees. Newspaper
men make good secretaries for governors.
but they have killed more than one Official
by writing political stories.
Cushing Herald: The old Nancy Yarchee
place on Polecat creek. near Tulsa, is said
to be considerably haunted. The house
was formerly occupied by Mr.. Sans. who
died there last winter, and his remains
were buried N oklahoma. Two months
ago a widow of the name Wilson and
some Of her relatives moved into the vacant
dwelling. But they moved out shortly
after they had moved in. Different noises
were heard during the night right in the
corner where Uncle Sans had given up
the ghost. Riddles were screeching, chains
were clanking and dragging over the floor;
and there was hair-raising moaning and
grooming all night. After the Wilson's
moved out of the badly disturbed house
the valiant old bachelor of the name Har-
ris took possession of the Ill famous domi-
Gle. He says that something makes just
as much uproar in the building as the
Wilson's claim 10 have heard. But having
true western grit he is bound to hold the
reputed ghostly fort, and has silver bull
let ready 10 shoot into any nocturnal, SUI
pernatural peace disturber that may ap-
pear. He has got so used TO the noise
that he doesn't lose any more sleep on
account of the racket. Like a thoroughly
chilled Kickapoo, the bachelor is evil
ghost-proof.