The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-05
Outlines of Oklahoma

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The spur from the Choctaw at okarch.
to the Cement plant is about completed.
In Roger Mills county Christmas day
| fire-crackers were shot of. That's south
ern.
| There were more Christmas marriage:
in Oklahoma, 1897, than in any previou:
| year.
Ex-Judge Scott was not appointed cor.
poration counsel by Mayor Van Wyck OF
New York.
James Booth, living near Okarche
while breeching his gun the other day
blew of his big toe.
The Cyclone relief committee of Chan
dler have distributed the last piece OF
money they had left-51.S.
The old soldiers of Oklahoma are not foI
| the publication of the pension list. Nei-
| ther are the old soldiers anywhere else.
The postmaster at Kingfisher has receiv-
ed from the government blizzard fiag,
which he will hoist when notified 10 dc
| so.
Evan McMaster of Oklahoma City is
already guessing whether the chairman OF
! the statehood convention will die natu-
! raj death or not.
So sure is il that Bill Walker will be
appointed sovereign Of the Osages that
| Perry blacksmith is already making
him a crown out of an old copper wash
boiler.
Major Rosenbaum is rather slow in de-
tecting Captain Stiles egg-assailants.
Sherlock Holmes could have told who the
miscreants were by simply smelling OF
the eggs.
The paper published in the FL Reno
convention report in the Eagle as the
work of Miss Wooster. should have been
credited to Miss Jean Gilbert Cuppage
of Guthrie.
There are some men farmers in Oklaho-
ma who are betting with themselves that
there will be short crops this year. and
they are permitting the bank to be the
stakeholder.
1t is said that a number of people who
were running a retail store at Lexington
for the express purpose OF defrauding
wholesale houses will have big trouble
with plumes in II.
There are a few Democrats in Oklahoma
thinking how ii would sound to start a
report that Bushnell was taking revenge
on Hanna for oposing Flynn's appoint
ment as governor
Morris Cohen recently swept majestical-
ly into Shawnee with the proposition to
get up a business directory. He biffed
the business mems pocket-books and then
galivanted gallantly away.
Governor Barnes is accused OF plagia-
rizing McKinleys Il am glad TO meet and
greet you" Barnes must clear himself.
1t was awful when Mr. Mckinley used it
and it can't stand repeating.
The Kingfsher Free Press has set OUT
on the Herculean job of abolishing the
grand jury system. The Kinghsher Re
former says it isn't stuck on the system.
but it will wait while before it swoops
down on it.
There was good deal of intoxication in
Hennessey holiday week with some pris-
matte street monkey-shines and Editor
Miller very properly reads the young men
a lesson on temperance in the Hennes-
sey Clipper.
While returning from a Christmas tree,
F. NJ. Cunningham, one of the best men In
Roger Mills county, upset his wagon in
a draw. A Mrs. Brazel was the only one
injured. Cunningham mounted a horse
and rode back to Cheyenne for aid. a
Dcy Threw Il HIt-CfdCheT Oh the SlicSN,
Cunningham was thrown and badly hurt.
Norman Transcript: Indian Commis-
sioner Jones was very much disgusted, II
is said. when in Oklahoma recently. at
the evident violations of the law prohibit
irg the sale of liquor to Indians. and pro-
poses that hereafter 1t shall be rigidly en-
forced. When he was at Tecumseh, one
of the chiefs of the Kickapoos struck him
g -. 70
and invested in fire-water. He was bilin'
drunk when he returned to the commits
sioner. patting his big stomach and re-
marking. ''HeaD heIIv ROOd time >"