The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-29
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

The actual loss Of the Chandler cyclone
was $looeoa
The stutsman trail at Oklahoma City ts
cow the sensation OF the day.
Bailey Isbelrs family has arrived IN Ok
lahoma City, and visited him In the 1ail
there the other Gay.
Barnes has done only one foolish thing.
He ought not 10 have veni vidi v.cied when
he went 10 Washington
The relief committee at Chandler has ex-
pended S,s3 Of the amount contributed.
which runs about ss,o0o-
All school children will be interested in
knowing that Oklahoma is 10 have a
Barnes who will make history himself.
1t is probable that the Santa Fe VIII at
tempt 10 make a big city Of Purcell The
read is now projecting big depot there
Major George Herr:ott was back in Guth-
RE the other day walking around the streets
and signing. He now lives in St Louis.
Jimmy Tague Of Guthrie Is snare
drummer and can give perfect imitation
OF barrel of bullets falling on tin roof.
TIE Oklahoma City Oklahoman Demo
cratic) does not Ike loves action. letting
the printing go TO the Guthrie Leader, q
bit.
The Chandler News, the bir,erest enemy
Barnes had in the Territory, has extended
its hand TO him, but TO date Barnes has
not taken it.
The Greys. Anderson and brother. were
taken 10 Kingfsher from Enid and gavs
bond there and consequently Old not go TO
Guthrie To jail.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal is un-
discouraged. 1t says the Sapulpa road VIII
be built in 1927 and says it gets the infor-
nation from headquarters.
The council at Oklahoma City is Republi-
can while the mayor is Democratic. AfteG
some monkeying the council has confirmed
the mayors appointments.
An Oklahoma implement dealer practical
ly tells prospective patrons that unless they
intend TO provide shelter for their ma
chimes it will not pay them 10 buy.
On the court house square at Chandle.
there IS now in course Of construction an
official cycave which will be maintained a,
in the same place.
Over two-thirds of the total number OF
voters in Kay county protested against
the erection of a new court house but the
county commissioners went right ahead
and called for bids.
Kelly has left for Greer county overland
and Mcknight the other land Office oficia
is enroute on a railroad car. They will
both arrive about the same time. They
will open up for business June /.
In the Stutsman case II is testified that In
his gun all the cartridges but one were
'cankered' that it, corroded; while ore was
fresh. Another witness testified about
measuring the hoof of Stutsman's horse
and the tell-tale tracks Of the man who cor
m:tted the murder; another little girl sa "
Stutsman Immediately after the murds.
and he looked wild and queer; another wit
ness said that Stutsman accused a mar
named moneypenny and wanted TO help
lynch him. All this goes 10 show that ef-
forts TO find the murderer in the west are
much more searching than the methods
used by the officers and Pinkertons In the
east.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The com
press is now a certainty. the subscription
to the stock being so far advanced as to
warrant this declaration. II will DO this
city incalculable good. The advertising Il
will give this place as cotton market will
bring here a large amount OF cotton that
would outherwise be taken to surrounding
towns. The compress, too. will enable local
buyers to pay from fifty to seventy-five
cents bale over surrounding towns. and
this, also, will draw cotton this way. The
building of the compress will assuredly be
the means of adding 1000 bales to the cot
ton sales of this city. The compress VIII
require a good force of workmen 10 ope-
rate it. and additional buyers and dealers
will be attracted here. adding a goodly
number TO our employed population. Fol-
lowing the compress viii be an Gil mill
which will manufacture the cotton seed
and thus give better market also for that
part OF the crop. While everybody has
been interested the success OF the enterprise
has been due to the City club. and 10 that
organization congratulations should be ex-
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