The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-15
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

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The postmaster appointed at Guthrie /.
! held up m Washington.
The Tanner farm just east OF Newkirk
sold the other day for 5000.
The first canielopes OF the season art
/ on the market al Guthrie.
Almost all the farmers in Oklahoma IN
| loaded their wheat before Letter did.
| The Ponca City Democrat says thai
| Callahan is away IN the lead at present
| The nineteenth anniversary OF the Cad
| do Indian schools is being celebrated TO-
day.
Frank Beebe. postofice inspector, II is
said. may be Governor Barnes protege
| for congressional nominee.
Not content with knocking the picnic
| out" says an Oklahoma paper. ''the storm
| scared whole towns 10 death
Deputy Sheriff Jennings OF Kay coun.
ty has TWO blood hound pups the daddy
Of whom has captured So criminals
II the newspapers and printers at Guth-
RE would quit writing editorials at each
other they could probably get together.
Up 70 date no men going into Oklahoma
as harvest hands have been arrested for
traTnps, and the officers should be very
careful
Away out in Roger Mills county the
fields are SO Doggy that farmers can not
get into them. Mark that down, ys
drouth prophets.
The thermometer at Kildare reached 1oz
degrees last week and the man who ex-
amined 1t, then fed in fright. II may
have gone higher.
Every town in Oklahoma Ghould start
boulevard. Nothing looks so inirm as
a boulevard for the first ten years, but
after that IL IS a JOY forever.
Our complexities with Germany have
been greatly increased by the Kildare
Journal coming out openly and accusing
Bismarck with being a back number.
Jerre Johnson of kildare got up the
other night and wept tear out on the
pavement below his boudoir window over
the thought that Ireland doesn't happen
to belong 10 Spain just now.
After Sept. Is IL a two-thirds majority
OF the people in Grant county want Q
county seat election they can have H.;
the town winning then must have a maj
ority over all other contentants.
Pollock. agent Of the Osages, has issued
this pronunlciarmento; Whatever rights
a person may hereafter acquire in the
Usage reservation by marrying a member
OF the Usage nation. viii terminate i'm
mediately upon the cessation of such mar
riage relation"
Jason Betzena, an Apache and nephew
OF old Geronimo. the Apache chief al Fort
Sin. Is working IN the blacksmith shop of
the Seger Indian school. He has made a
pair of hair clippers. pair of skates and
plow share that would do credit TO a
great many white men who have worked
for years in shop. Nacoo Washge, an
other Apache boy. has been working in
the tailor shop two months and in that
time he has learned how to cut out and
make pair Of pants.
Guthrie Capital: VISIT 10 the rooms
of the territorial library IS the only argu-
ment needed to convince the most casual
observer that the space allotted is very
much too small. Tn hampered and cramp-
ed appearance of the surroundings is real
~ painful. The present quarters are
wholly Inadequate and change should be
made as soon as rooms fitted for the pur-
pose can be secured. Librarian bod
son in speaking of the matter says he is
TO properly care for the library
in the rooms assigned. II is believed that
the supreme court win make some provi-
sion for larger. better and more cornmo-
dious quarters. Librarian Dodxon saws
when he is provided with proper rooms Of
surncient size he will put the library in
excellent order, which he cannot do IN
der the existing circumstances.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Yester-
day Mr.. T. A Conner, express agent. re- |
ceived a cage of thirteen carrier pigeons
with instructions to take them out to a |
place in the city free from wires and turn |
them loose, providing it was not raining |
The pigeons were from O. c. Lane, Ster- !
ing, Kan. and were all registered each
having a small band on on leg, on which |
was its number. Mr.. Conner took the pig |
cons this morning and turned them loose |
II Z o'clock. They all few upward for |
/ while and then slowly westward TIL |
vest OF the city when they turned direct |
Y north and were out OF sight in three /
minutes. The pigeons are all very fine /
md the object in sending them her is TO /
peed them. They were sent few days |
lgo to Perry, from which point they few
Jack 10 Sterling Kan, a distance of 100
niles, in four hours, an average rate Of |
peed OF 40 miles an hour.