The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-08
Outlines of Oklahoma

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A buyer at Pond Creek last week bought
a load Of kaffir corn, thinking il was cane
seed.
OF names of people who owe delinquent
personal taxes.
! The superintendent at Pawnee county
recently rode on horseback 125 miles in
one week. He visited ten schools
| In the last Sundays Oklahoma City
Globe Frank McMaster applied the cheese
knife to the classic scalp of Frank Dale
! Phil. Lennon. formerly Of MuihaH. has
been cnvicted of burglary. Lennon mixed
with whisky andthe combination was not
good.
Judge Hainer's first order was that To
newspapers must be read in the court
room. The new judge wants all the at
tention himself.
The people Of Kingfsher are making
a fight for new oil company which, they
say. the railroads are trying 10 drive out
Of the territory.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal says
that war would pain so that Oklahoma
wouldn't be able TO feel the meeting OF
its next legislature.
General Rosenbaum has issued an ad-
dress thanking the Oklahoma militia
men for standing up and owning they be
longed to the militia in this the hour of
the countrys peril.
The man who overloaded that free homes
bill or permitted it to be overloaded with
$40. 900 600 additional expense to the gov
eminent is responsible for the present
condition of that bill.
During his sojourn at Stroud, Ed. Over
holser's whiskers have become so long
that the other night he poked most of
them into his pipe with some tobacco
and smoked them up.
In event of war with Spain, and II is
more likely than most people think. Jake
Schweizer will raise a company at once
at FL Reno. Most such announcements
are Josh. This is not.
Coyotes do not like TO associate with
Pond Creek people, evidently. Harry FL
bridge had one for a pet. He got loose
the other day and Immediately hied him
in the direction of Enid.
The prettiest advertisement Of its shape
ever put up is that by the printer in the
Hennessey Clipper Office for the firm Of
Griffin & Griffin. The advertisement Is
a full single column and the printer got
a border around it and kept it sretty.
If the worst comes to the worst and
Spanish fleet tries to come up the CT
marion, Bill Knipe has discovered that
under the Maline laws of Oklahoma he is
privileged to stand on that bridge of his
and drop rocks down the smoke-stacks.
The David Progress has an account of
Colonel Blackwell's recent experience in
Blackwell. 1t says that the Colonel took
five negroes into his barn and that night
was attacked by the outlaws" He took
his musket and after a hot fight with
the insurgents, put them TO flight.
Chandler News: Tramps are very nu-
merous. During the past month more
weary waysides have visited Chandler
than in the previous six years of her eX-
istence But the hoboes meet with a
chilly reception generally, being told TO
Ego to the railroad contractor, thou
sluggard." Some seem really DESTROYS of
finding work but more often they are
much affronted by the suggestion Of labor.
AS regards representatives in Washing
ton, Oklahoma has the right idea. All
western states send men to congress with
instructions to talk tariff and make
names for themselves. New England
sends men to congress with instructions
to take care of New England CONNER
cially. This is practically what Oklahoma
tried with free homes, and although that
measure may fail, Oklahoma doesn't
want to give up the New England idea.
Pawnee Dispatch: Three little boys at
Cleveland. Willie Herbert and Dent Ram
sey's two little fellows. aged from to
10 years, concluded last Monday TO see
the world as it is beyond the confines
OF that bailiWick. They left home unan-
nOunced at about 4 p. m, and by 9
O'Clock almost the entire population were
out searching for them. They were n
west Of Jennings. They had walked all
night, were tired, foot-sore, hungry and
chilly, and gladly accompanied the search
ing nartY homo again