The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-01
Outlines of Oklahoma

Ponca City has fourteen dogs. ten horses
and three babies named Dewey.
The Santa Fe is at last TO give Guthrie
decent depot. Il will be Of brick.
John Woods Of Woodward says he saw
elk Wild in Oklahoma as late as 1857.
In an Oklahoma town the other day
Mrs. Comforth visited Mrs. Goebach-
Blackwell will have a big Fourth. All
the railroads to that place Will make spe-
cial rates.
The chances are that a dark horse will
cut good deal of a figure IN the Repub-
lican congressional convention.
Frequently e. Reno and Oklahoma City
people marry each other. but Oklahoma
City and Guthrie people never.
II Is said that the contest for the Re-
publican congressional convention IS be-
tween Oklahoma City and FL Reno.
Editor Biakeney of Oklahoma City: The
war revenue tax has made ten-cent plug
of tobacco smaller. Let us have peace"
Callahan has received message from
Washington saying that congress will
soon adjourn. so he will not return to the
east.
A man at Lexington has been arrested
for shooting another mans sorghum mill.
torpedo boat
The Perry Enterprise-Times says that
| Governor Barnes son, recently appointed
captain. Is a carpet-bagger. But he isn't
| going TO stay in Oklahoma long.
The Fusionists will have their racket
at Oklahoma City July 13. and the Re-
| publican committee will ladle out some
| warm stuff at Kinghsher on July 10.
I
/ knocked Editor Cook down. says that
1 Cook was giving him advice he didn't
want. 1t was probably good advice.
J. J. Wallace of Oklahoma City took
/ a negro down TO Norman TO help him roof
a building. Norman doesn't like negroes,
! and mob attacked Wallace aud the ne
/ gro, and Wallace was badly hurt.
The article about the supposed case of
smallpox among a carload OF Galveston
tourists which was copied IN the Eagle
the other morning. credited 10 the Guthrie
Leader, was from the Oklahoman at Ok
lahoma City.
No man ever felt as good. not even Ma
poeon, as the gentleman who stands on
the platform of a threshing machine trac-
ton engine and slowly moves over coun-
| try road, while the country dogs get out
in the front yards and have fits at the
sight.
The Oklahoma and Indian Territory hot
/ tamala is described in the Atlantic
Monthly as "a molten, pepper-sauced
chicken croquette. covered with coat
of Indian meal and an overcoat of corn
husk and steamed in a portable boiler,
the result being a diabolical combination
that tastes like a bonfire.
Dispatch in Guthrie Free Press:
| "Kingfisher o. T.. July 29.-Hon. J. Y.
Callahan has returned from Washing
| ton. and is at the bedside of his sick
/ wife. Her condition is considered critical.
and all that medical aid can do is being
done to bring her out. Many anxious Wis
! itors are continually calling at the Gala
han home. Mrs. Callahan has been In
poor health for some time.
Guthrie Leader: 1.-The two-year-old
| child of George elmer. living near Null
/ hall, disappeared from its home at
/ o'clock Saturday. The child has not been
seen or heard of since that time. a.
/ though searching parties have been scour-
ing the country. Today a request came
to Guthrie for bloodhounds 10 put on the
trail of the lost child. The belief prevails
in Mulhal that the child was stolen, but
Mr.. Grimer thinks the young one strayed
into the hog lot and was totally devoured
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