The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-03
Outlines of Oklahoma.

A tip has reached Guthrie that Judge
Strang has cinched the chief justiceship-
There is another good point about greas-
cattle look slick
The big live stock convention at Wood
ward begins next Tuesday. A big attend
ance is expected.
Bixby. one of the Dawes commission,
confesses that the commission hopes 10
accomplish but little.
The grounding saw his shadow in Ok
lahoma yesterday and the base burner
should be kept fired up
souri,, neither one OF which ever appre-
ciated St Louis help" said St Louis
man in the Eagle Office yesterday.
The Guthrie Leader is calling on Guth-
RE people 10 keep away from Oklahoma
City and not invest money in property
there.
st. Louis people, il is reported, viii es-
tabIish daily paper at Oklahoma City as
soon as the Sapuipa extension is COM
pleted.
When free homes is passed and Okla
homa is banqueting Callahan, it should
also invite Pettigrew and Dennis Flynn
to attend the banquet.
There is some sort OF a sensation brew
ing over the eggfng of Colonel Stiles at
Guthrie, but just what that sensation is
no one seems TO know.
Oklahoma City is surely right up in
front of the pie counter. permanently To-
Gated there. The next thing that city is
to get is a compress oil min.
Oklahoma City seems to be onto the
fact that one railroad is like one fly on
| 1y-paper. 1t invites other railroads as
the one fly invites other flies.
The way in which Colonel Freeman
/ hangs en- to that agency, makes it look
like a race between him and Bill Walker
| to see who will live the longer.
Those arrests of the Indian-burners do
( not seem to be coming very quick. The
| rnatter will probably be dropped If the
! government at Washington will forget IL
! AS an indication Of the hard work Mr..
! Jones of Oklahoma City and Mr.. Over
! holser have performed, it can be stated
! that the Sapulpa extension viii cost 81
LEG, 000.
Oklahoma is taking her money out OF
Kansas City banks. The Capitol Ma
tional bank of Guthrie recently took out
| of a Kansas City bank in one check
| $114,S14.75.
"St. Louis is helping the territory. II
does the business men of st. Louis good
! TO help Oklahoma. after our city's Ions
companionship with Arkansas and Mis-
souri,, either of whichcmfw
F. L. Laverty of Guthrie has been ap
pointed receiver of the Guthrie Represen
tative The present editor. Hudson. viii
be bounced There is room for the papel
and some one with brains at the head Of
it will make it go.
This item from the Ell Reno Star is pc
| culiar 1t reads diplomatic: There viii
be no road b uilt west from FL Reno thi.
| year by either the Choctaw or Rock Is
| land railway companies. The ChoctaV
has decided not to build, and of cOurs'
in that event, the Rock Island will no
build The Choctaw oontemplates ex
tending east TO connect with the P. G.
and north from Shawnee to Saltwater
This is about all the company can stanC
in one year, and that, taken together will
| the Rock Islands bluff is pretty gooC
reason for not building the western ex
| tension
Guthrie Leader: "The morning serv
ices at the Congregational church wer'
interrupted in delightfully."- novel man
ner Rev. Charles Dibble. the pastor, wa
at the climax of powerful and mastery
discourse on Truth and Freedom" wheT
the door of his study was suddenly open
ed and his bright little three-year-olc
boy came bounding in looking for papa.
The little man, seeing a large congrega
ton, beat a hasty retreat and the minis
ter paused in smiling embarrassment FOL
a moment but he was equal to the coca
sion: I am glad said he, that my boy
likes to come to church, but if he Ia:
! driven this thought from your minds az
! thoroughly as h e has from mine 1t will
be we'll for m e to commence at the be
ginning of the topic again. After the
laughter which greeted this remark haC
subsided, he soon regained the attention
of his audience and finished his sermon
TO the satisfaction of his hearers"