The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-23
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| Oklahoma City is the victim of band OF
! thieves who enter rooms in the day time.
Still no news comes from New York as 10
/ the volume OF business Judge Scott is do
ing.
croqliAt The game continues the year
| around.
! Nellie Kneeland, otherwise ''Bucksiin
Nell is in jail at Guthrie, charged with
perjury.
1t would be interesting TO know. for his
! torical purposes. II Woodward ever really
| had a soap mine.
An Oklahoma City man recently pawned
his valise at a saloon and afterward stole
| il. He was arrested.
Judge McAtee will repeat his Kansas City
lecture. THE American Conflict in Guth-
rie on Linecln's birthday.
Grover Cleveland will not veto the act
giving Greer county people the option of an
additional l6O acres at one dollar per acre.
If the Guthrie Populists attemp. to ostra-
cize everybody in Oklahoma who voted for
Flynn they have Zig job on their hands.
l. Nathan Golf is made attorney general
the sosttern Republicans are liable TO
make bulge at breaking the home rule
plank.
Austin Grereton, a London dramatic
critic. tried TO get divorce from his wife.
an actress, at Perry the other DAY, but the
court turned him down.
The Oklahoman notifies the legislature
that the members were elected on a pledge
10 reduce taxation and the people will re-
sent any deviation from the pledge.
L. tn
ley county and viii establish a law partner
snip with j. c. Pollock of Winfield. taking
j. Mack Loves place in the old law firm.
The dssgraceful anti-Flynn meeting al
Guthrie is doubly shameful when it is re-
memberej that Flynn is in Washington
doing MS best TO give Oklahoma a ssft OF
sl5. COG, 600.
The Oklahoma City Times-Jou-nal thinks
that the Legislatures OF Oklahoma. Kansas
and Texas should act together for freight
rates to the Gulf. That is fine idea and
should be pushed.
II Oklahoma gets free homes, it should
try to understand that it will never gain
such legislation through congress. The
legislation was a unusual thing TO attempt
and VII never be accomplished again.
Platt in his speech against the free homes
bill in congress SAID it mad been passed
solely because of the persistency OF the
Oklahoma delegate. not because the peo-
pie OF Oklahoma wanted it particularly.
Mel Bow'egs. a Seminole, recently put a
tie on a railroad track 10 see what would
happen when tire train came along. A
section hand discovered it and had Minister
Bcwlegs arrested. He was perfectly limo
cent in what he did and will be released.
Lewis BingwAnger OF Davis, Indian Ter
ritory, has scheme. He is going to take
that People who wish TO receive letters
from him telling all about what he sees
send him one, two, three or four dollars,
just as they are able. He will then write
them letters. He says he will take the
trip whether any one puts UP any money or
not.
Guthrie Leader: The townsite board yes
terday sold all the unclaimed lots in the
townsites of Capitol Hill, East Guthrie,
Guthrie proper and West Guthrie, forty in
number. The bidding for these lots was
quite spirited, and although they were out
side lots and had been sold for taxes by
the city, they brought over 81 piece on the
average On account OF an order from
the department reserving lot 6. block 50.
is the Hance-Frink lot, on which there
were nine applicants and after two long
and tedious trials. the department decided
that neither were entitled to ii, and direct
ed it 10 be disposed of as an unclaimed lot.