The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-04
Outlines of Oklahoma

Lowe has a precedent In 1880 a COVER
nor of Pennsylvania granted a pardon
before trial
The Guthrie fair begins this week. The
high-diving horses are there among other
attractions.
NJ. Drury was convicted OF murder at
Enid last week and sentenced 70 the PEN
itentiary for life.
The Purcell Review accuses candidates
OF fishing for the Prohibition vote by
powdsring their noses.
BY the way. that gold in the Wichita
mountains is still there. And what mas
become of Colonel Hews?
Some of the Indians who come into
Perkins only know four words OF En-
gIish: Five dollars and costs
O H. Bowman, a veteran living on
farm near Newkirk. died last week. He
had been in the west since the hfties-
Governor Barnes has received requests
for his annual report from Boston. San
Francisco. British Honduras and Mexico.
The FL Reno Star says there wasn't one
passenger on the special train run from
FL Reno to Enid. where Webster Davis
spoke
Captain Seaton of Guthrie has secured
81, 100 job as paynIaster in the army.
Major Houston. OF the Rough Riders.
obtained the place for him.
Lincoln Mckinley of Newkirk says: ut
looks as II the demon OF county seat agi-
tation were about to fasten Its blight
on our prosperous young county.
Some of the lawyers contend that q
pardon can be granted before trial The
history Of the world might have been diff
ferent il Martin Luther had studied law
The Oklahoma City T1mes-Journal
printed letter from ]. G. Bennett at
Manila. the other day which should have
been edited In the interest of family read
| ing.
| The Indian missionaries at Geary the
| other day sat on a poor man who said
| he favored civilizing the Indian some
| before Outstanding him The man was
right
| Roosevelt said TO Pollock. the Indian
| Rough Rider: Pollock, you were one OF
the bravest soldiers in my regiment. l
could not wish for a better soldier. l
would have liked some more Pawnees Ike
YOU"
Two small boys named Lusbaugh and
| Robb were picking cotton near Cush-
ing. They quarreled and Lusbaugh stab
bed Robb in the prm. The Rob boy
baugh's father took him to Iowa to avoid
| arrest.
1t was proposed at the Indian mission
ary meeting near Geary the other day
to get THE Indians to come to church
by offering them a dinner. This idea
| was fought bitterly by a missionary who
knows the Indians stomach Is stronger
| than his soul.
Al Watonga paper. The Republican
saws that MaHaffie, who killed MacDon-
aid of d county was once sent to the
penitentiary in Pennsylvania, but es-
| capped from the deputy sheriff ON the way
| TO prison, MaHaffffie's father being sher-
IF at the time
Last week George Soeken, near Man
chester. shot his wife She, with her lit
tie girl. rushed out of the house. She
soon became weak from loss OF blood and
the little girl went ahead and raised the
alarm When people. came TO the house
| they found Soeken had killed himself. Hi:
wife may die. They had agreed TO get &
divorce. They were simply living in the
same house pending a division of prop
| erty.
All the Rough Riders are to have med
! ais of bronze, and IL will be a circle the
size Of IA half dollar. 1t will be engraved
'Tst u s. Vol Cav" and surmountet
by a pair of eagle wings with horst
shoe at thetpoint OF joining. the emblem
of the cavalry division. The medal viii
bear a cross section of a baston whicr
is the insignia of the Fifth army corps
and the name of the battle in which th'
regiment distinguished themselves.