The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-15
Outlines of Oklahoma

The jury in the Douglass case at Pur-
cell stood 10 TO for acquittal-
The next legislature can put IN all its
time profitably just repeating.
Reid. the candidate for speaker from
Fl Reno. IS said TO be coming strong
1t has become so cold at Enid that the
officers refuse TO ring the curfew bell.
The peculiar habit Of seeing Harry St
John alive has disappeared from Okla
homa-
Isenberg's grandfather has upset him.
He now claimes that Spain is Columbus
native country.
c. G. Jones OF Oklahoma City is out
for the speakership in earnest and :
making the fur fly.
II Reid OF Fl Reno gets to be speaker
ne promises not TO be car. He doesn't
spell his name that way.
c. ". Sewer. a member of the bar at
Perry. is dead. aged SO years. He was an
old settler in Noble county.
Judge Tarsney can initiate a cyclons
before a grand jury better than any
other man on the Oklahoma bench.
The Twister is popular local cigar a.
Woodward, and one doesn't make a man
feel like a cyclone had accosted him.
either.
Major Crozier of Gushing has deserted
the Indians as a Christian teacher and
has now added another inch to his Van
Dyke beard.
A telephone line has been built from
Woodward fifteen miles to w. p Wright's
ranch. The common. everyday pasture
wire was used.
In Wsshita county cotton seed is only 10
cents per bushel and corn from Is TO 20
cents. A great many men are wintering
their cattle there on that account.
In the excitement all that was saved
from a fire near Optina, in Beaver coun-
~. was a lounge and a sewing machine.
should count the ballot, otherwise not.
A good many people believe that the
way to treat the Philippines is 10 allow
the natives to hold it until the country
gets ready TO open il 10 white settle
men.
Since becoming county attorney, or
rather being elected to that place, Ed
gar Jones of Guthrie has steeply gone
into the three-room law office extrava-
gance.
An Oklahoma judge said In reproof Of a
prisoner, dscharging him: Hereafter
never want to see you in bad COM
swered the prisoner.
Out in Blaine county one of the negro
judges in the booth did not want to count
any of the votes for Keaton in the box.
He said that he had canyassed the town
ship and no voter intended TO vote for
Keaton, and that when the judges could
arrive at the intention of the voter they
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: At about
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an aged farmer. who lived II miles south
east OF the city. committed suicide in
Tony Bachle's saloon at % Grand avenue.
The old man has been boarding with
family on his farm, his wife and family
living apart from Inn. Hiee brooded over
his family troubles and took TO drink.
His son Joseph. who arrived in the city
today from Guthrie. where he resides
and is secretary of the Electric Light COM
pany, often tried to persuade the old man
to go to Illinois on a visit and he had
promised to do SO, and was trying to stop
drinking. The climax was reached in the
old mans troubles today when his daugh-
ter swOre out q warrant for her father 5
arrest, accusing him OF poisoning her
horse. He came to the city and wander
ed into Tony's saloon, going into the back
part he sat down at a table and ordered
hot whisky into which ne poured strych-
nine. No sooner had he drank the stuff
than he began to reel and fell in a fit
on the floor. He called Tony 10 him and
said: Let my folks know I'm going TO
die. I've taken strychnine" Tony and
John r. Blair were the only ones in
the saloon at the time besides the old
man. They tried to raise his head and
Immediately summoned medical assistance
but life was extinct before anyone arrived.
na hot xa-hfc eli had he's ha -
work of the strychnine. The old man had
Threatened to end his life.