The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-01
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

John Dunn and wife and ". L Walters
and wife of Ponca City will soon leave
for Klondike.
In the big storm at Fl Reno Frank Gil
lette's house was partly unroofeo, but
up TO the hour of going TO press no light
ming had struck Frank himself
The town that builds up without a rail-
road and coaxes the railroads TO come 10
it. is the daisy. That is the way Arap-
ahoe has done.
Lincoln Mckinley of Newkirk says that
Secretary Jenkins and Governor Barnes
should both boost for free homes with
all their might.
a pedestrian walked through Watonga
the other day who claimed that he had
started from Florida on November IS, and
was bound for California.
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman is in IA
yor of abolishing the land office at Guth-
RE and attaching its territory 20 that OF
Perry and Oklahoma City
California has just celebrated the fifth
eth anniversary of the discovery OF gold
there. Some day the Wichita mountain
country will be doing the same thing
Lewis Hornbeck says that the govern
ment does less for the Wichita than for
any other tribe OF Indians and that the
Wichitas deserve more care than any 9TH
er tribe.
There has not been an issue of an Ok
Iahoma paper in the last year that
subscriber should not have sent TO an
eastern friend with the single line: no
for Oklahoma"
Bob Dunlap, half-breed Caddo. was
delegate to Washington for the Cad
does and Wichitas last winter, and he is
now demanding pay. The Indians are
holding a council TO see about it.
The big stock of P. E. Dean, a mer-
chant at Medford, was taken charge OF
by creditors last week. Mr.. Deans trou-
Bile began with the Medford fire when his
place of business went with the flames
There is talk of an independent tax
PAYERS ticket in Blaine county this fall.
Tom Ferguson says that it is the plan OF
the fellows who haven't succeeded in get
ting the regular parties 10 nominate them
for Office.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The free
homes bill will undoubtedly become law.
Free homes, s1.1O wheat and the earth
soaked through to China all in heap
are apt TO make the Oklahoma farmer
slightly dizzy.
The Wave says that Enid would rather
have small trains of farm wagons filing
into town than few big, brutal freight
trains dashing through in wild madness
to get to some other town. There is
whole lot in that.
An eighteen-months-old baby of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. H. Hardy of Hennessey pull
ed a tub full Of scalding water down up
On him the other day. He was scalded
on his left side from chin to feet and
his life despaired of.
S. ]. Arnold of Jefferson is a man who
believes there is no place like home. He
used to live in Anthony. He now lives
in jefferson. Last week he went to An
thony, tore down his home, shipped it to
Jefferson and is now rebuilding II there.
Oklahoma is hoping that Mckinley will
stand as squarely on the free homes plank
of the St. Louis platform as he does on
the gold plank. And if the bill reaches
him he will sign it. Grover Cleveland
would not have done so, according to
many peoples opinion.
This is from the Norman Transcript. 1t
means that something is coming: over
q month has elapsed since that outrag-
Gus rotten-egg assault upon Colonel
Stiles, and not a step taken TO invesu-
gate it or to punish the scoundrels who
planned and perpetrated it! 1t looks as
if it Is TO be smothered. Why? Was 1t
all fake? Did the assault ever occur?
Or, will an investigation hit in such high
places that such a move would nhot be
prudent? What's the matter with Stiles?
Does he propose to knuckle down and al
low the scoundrels to escape?"