The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-01
Outlines of Oklahoma

Potatoes and succatash are on the bin
Of fare OF a Shawnee hotel.
There is a neighborhood in Woods coun-
" known as Sucker Flats.
There are IL negro school children at
Kinghsher and they have four teachers.
Jake Admire says that the peach buds
around Kinghsher are too dead 10 skin
There will be hot time at Taloga this
summer. There was no natural ice crop.
James T. Fryer, a farmer near Alva,
gave 40 acres towards the site Of the new
Normal school.
Mr.. A H. Allison. a book-keeper at
Hennessey. while crossing the street there
last week, fell dead.
The tramps have been making a render
vous Of Hennessey and the women are
afraid TO stay at home alone
I'VE have farm for sale" says 4 Hen
nessey real estate firm. BOX house, 12Xl4,
with shed kitchen and a splendid cyclone
cave"
The colored people Of Kiughsher have
arrayed themselves against the PROPOSE
ton to vote bonds 10 build new schoo!
house.
At Hennessey and in the vicinity. &C
cording TO an authoritative statement in
the Clipper, the fruit has suffered serious
damage.
Woods county has the greatest popula-
ton of all counties in the territory and
has the least number of men in the PEN
tentiary.
Most of the claims being sold az present
in Oklahoma are passing out OF the hands
Of the misses. The average girl gets
mighty tired of a claim.
Elijah O. Lyon. of Hennessey, who died
last week, was p years old. He had been
married three times and was the father
of 25 children, 16 Of whom are living
During the celebration accompanying
the selection of site for the Normal at
Alva the school bell was broken. 1t Will
take SIS to replace II. and the old bell
will be kept as relic.
There is a movement on among the ed
itors of Oklahoma TO refuse Indignantly
to be made secretaries OF any territorial
conventions hereafter. Nothing but the
permanent Craftsmanship will be ac-
cepted.
An Ell Reno society man was standing
by a piano singing Let me Like a Sol
der Fall" when the old man OF the house
nlOunlcQ IdDINlS dASoPPSoA'He 49,
rage. arose and hit him in the neck with
twelve-inch boot.
In a continued story being written by
the ladies OF the Current Events club
at Kingffsher the second chapter opens
as follows: Through hole in the can
vas he could see a star like the faint
light of a tiny candle. as 1t cleaned and
fickered, grew DINNER and yet more
dim
This beats anything ever recorded. The
fire bell at Oklahoma City was not rung
for a fire the other day, because Judge
Keaton had given orders that the bell
should not be rung while court was in
session. The building burned down. Fine
Mr.. Keaton's nerves! They must be pro-
tected!
Perry Enterprise: A large. stalwart ne
gro woman, looking a perfect Amazon in
type and scattering vengeance on all sides
came into Judge Aliens court this morn
ing and complained TO his honor that her
husband. ouash Ferguson. had just about
pounded her Ito deaf" Il tells you,
jedge can't bar dis way doin' no longer.
wants him put to de law. Does yu har
me, jedge?' Yes, the judge heard and or
dered a subpoena for "Quash" to be
brought into court on the charge of wife
beating In the interim. while waiting for
the wife-pounders appearance. Mrs. Fer
guson related in a touching and pathetic
manner her story and poured into the
ear of the judge her great burden of sor-
row. In due time the prisoner was brought
into court and his appearance created a
surprise His colored life partner. in this
worlds sorrow and pleasures, had painted
him pugilistic giant. but the man who
answered to the name of Quash Fergu-
son, instead of being a double-isted giant,
is little. old. dried up, lame pigmy, who
looks more like talking mummy than
anything else. Beside the stalwart negro
woman he looked like child. But this
was the man who had recently pounded
his life partner almost ito deaf" The
judge looked at the prisoner and told him
to "go his way and sin no more"