The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-21
Outlines of Oklahoma

If there is one thing Tom woclsey OF
MuIhan would rather do than another II
is 10 write up wedding
The Saltwater claim that the sugar beat
industry Will not flourish in Oklahoma VIII
meet with a mountain Of refutation-
If there was a Populist governor OF
Oklahoma he might be inclined TO call
special session CT that old legislature
too
Tom Ferguson Of Watonga is betting
that Cuba will become province OF the
United States and will have a delegate N
Washington.
Under the marine laws of Oklahoma
Enid claims an appropriation from the
next legislature for removing the mines
from the Enid Harbor.
Callahan has just started for Congress.
Already, before he gets there. Pettisrew
has tackled on free home scheme 10 the
Indian appropriation bill.
There is going 10 be trouble over the ter
ritorisl printing some day. Where the
amount is so large il should be divided
up over the territory or cut down.
The Guthrie State Capital has received
the contract for the. territorial printing.
which calls for $4,000 1t IS said the
printing could be done for $4,000.
The father of Al. c. Fulton. found muir
dered last week at Enid. has been loeat-
ed at Topeka. His name Is w. s. Fulton
and he works in the state house.
The soil Of Kansas and Oklahoma is
totally unlike. The red soil of Oklahoma
extends into Kansas but at one point
in the southeast corner OF Cowiey cOun-
IA.
A waiter IN an Oklahoma town said TO
Judge Tarsney at Breakfast last week:
How'll you have your grand jury this
morning, judge-straight up or turned
over?"
If Frank Greer doesn't soon become the
richest man in Oklahoma il is his own
fault. He has been awarded the terri
torial printing again, and that brings him
in $4,000.
Senator Haven has just refused 500 for
his famous bull calf. Ii is not generally
known that the calf swallowed a tomato
can last May and has lost the sense Of
touch in his horns.
Tommy Abbott of FL Reno has his por-
trait as a critic in the Christmas number
fthe Dramatic Mirror. Tommy looks
fierce in the picture. but most OF the
theatre companies feel safe. as they rare
ly reach II Reno.
TIE Watonga Republican is kicking on
the allotments held by Indians. These
alIotments are not cultivated. and besides
being waste of good land preven- free
range which should bring cattle into the
country and increase the taxable proper
| ty $1,000.
The last business to advance in the
growth of any new country is the hotel
business. A lot of men Will take some
cheap buildings and make fortunes out OF
| them when the country is new. sell out
during hard times, and then a new set
of men come in who put up beautiful inns
| and make no more than a living.
| Guthrie Leader: OF al the FIVE ma
/ tions of Indians the SeminOles seem the
most happy and contented The census
which has just been taken reveals the
/ fact that they have no troubles about cit
| izenship cases and their lands will soon
/ be allotted to their satisfaction. One
/ thing that helped them so much in get
I ting satisfactory terms was their wiling
/ ness from the start 10 treat with the
/ Dawes commission.
The Oklahoma CITY Times-Journal is
/ throwing bombs at Judge Tarsney. Lis
/ ten 20 this: The FL Reno Globe takes the
/ proper course in protesting against the
( brow-beating of juries by the presiding
Judge. Such a course, while not viola
ton of the letter Of the law, perhaps. IS
/ certainly a violation OF its spirit. II a
presiding Judge has reason to suspect that
a jury has been tempered with. he should
/ instruct the grand pury 10 inquire into
the matter If he has grounds for Such
belief he should keep his convictions tc
! himself for he has no right TO beSmirct
a Juror with insinuations.