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

Ransom Payne loses his case. He would
have been millionaire had he won
Postmaster williams of Norman gave
on his bond for $500. bondsmen who are
good for $4,000.
Chief Justice Burford says that he will
resign if he can not name his own clerk
That is the talk
Governor Barnes says II will be mir
acle if, under existing circumstances, free
homes becomes a law.
Colonel Blackwell has been let out of
jail. He was not insane Colonel is sim
ply an unique money-maker.
The men who are loading up the free
homes bill with trust and every other sort
OF land. are doing it 10 kill it
The Hutchinson Southern went into
Blackwell yesterday and the road gets
the bonus offered by the town.
If the passage of the free homes bill
means a loss of S42 o00.0o0 TO the govern
ment. free homes will not pass
Judge Burford viii select his own clerk
Judge BUrford is one man who never lost
his self-respect by going into politics
Cunningham and Chopper. of Enid,
cleared $4,000 selling farm implements,
vehicles and windmills in the last twelve
months.
The supreme court says that Ransom
Payne was a sooner. II paid only very
few men 10 get on the inside Of the line
before twelve o'clock, after all.
Jim Kelly is getting in. ont in Greer
county. He made speech at mass meet
ing at Mangum the other night at which
the citizens were talking railroad.
T. ]. Ellison at the Franklin gin. nine
miles northeast of Norman, was caught
in a whirling rod and thrown about IL
200 times a minute. He was literally torn
all to pieces.
1t doesn't take half of a very near
sighted eye TO see that one of the men
| in Oklahoma who is TO be big man for
a good Itany years 10 come is Chief JUS
tice Burfprd.
/ Dr.. G. W. Oglesby. a horse doctor at
Norman, used 10 live in Texas and was
| official executioner at Paris, Texas. He
! has hanged 100 people. He received an
average of $25 for every person hanged.
Almost any other politician would have
| quit if he had been in Flynn's place. But
| Flynn went down TO Washington and has
! been honestly trying to pass the free
homes bill. The opposition papers now
accuse him of fighting 1t. Politicians will
! tell you that it never pays TO break your
neck trying to do something that you are
not paid for.
| Long ago the older politicians Of Okla
! homa told Flynn this: Let free homes
| alone. If you pass il you will get no credit
for it; if you don't you will be damned in
every county in the territory" But
Flynn told the old politicians that he
would take the chances; the people needed
/ it and he would get it for them. 1t would
have been a law today had he been re-
/ turned.
At a dance in Avoca, in Pott county.
last week, Peyton Perkins, a saloon
keeper, shot and killed John Blackwell
and Joe Stewart, of Lexington. Black
well and Stewart had two women with
| them about whom Perkins made some re-
marks. In a fight Perkins shot them
down. He is now in Jail Blackwell was
the son of an an ex-county commissioner
of Cleveland county.
Perry Enterprise: A day or two ago f.
J. Stroud, of Red Rock. had a runaway. j..
O. Young Mrs. Goode and baby and
some other children were in the wagon.
| They were all thrown out. but just as the
wagon began to upset Mrs Goode threw
her baby into the grass, and the strangest
part of the affair is that the fall did not
awaken it. Mr.. Stroud got his arm and
shoulder strained; the balance were not
hurt.
Perry Enterprise: The balloon ascension
Saturday afternoon drew a large crowd,
but the balloon was not properly filled
or managed, and it came down after it
raised. The balloonist escaped being
dragged over the tops of buildings by cut
ting loose and lighting in Seventh street.
His dog which he intended to take up
with him came near getting killed by
striking a building. No other damage ex-
cept a new buggy was smashed up in the
great crowd of teams. The horses to
farm wagon became frightened and back
ed the wagon into the buggy and crushed