The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-04
Outlines of Oklahoma


Frank Greer says that Oklahoma OBJ
jects to being coupled with Southern Kan
sas.
II is said that Judge E B. Mentz will
be United States commissioner al Paw
huska-
Says the Guthrie Leader: After all,
Mckinley is pretty much the whole
thing"
Bill Knipe. who was knocked out by a
pump handle al Perkins IN one round. has
recovered.
The Alva Courier says that a very
small part of the peach crop IN that sec
| ton is injured.
The farmers OF Garfield county have
formed a mutual association 10 insure one
| another's crops.
The Perry Democrat says that the far
mers in that vicinity say there are a
few peaches left.
The extension for the payment on
claims in Oklahoma has been extended
one year by congress.
The Alva Courier Endorses ". T. Sher-
mans sentiment: WAR is hell. II is saw
age and can not be refined"
In excavatlng for the foundation OF the
opera house al Enid last week a bed of
gypsum was found and had 10 be blasted
| out.
The bond for the erection of the Alva
Normal has been made by Rock Island.
Illinois, bankers. 1t will be approved by
the regents today.
Oklahoma has reached that stage where
people paint their houses inside and
| out" For long time it was the excep-
ton to have them painted on the outside
alone.
Now is the time for Oklahomans to
write to eastern friends 10 come to Okla
homa and settle. A good many of the
eastern friends would like to get inland
| just now.
Kepler. the fellow who was shot at in
the Brann row. at Waco, Texas. was the
same tourist who passed through Okla
homa some time ago on journey around
the world.
A lot of the settlers took up and piow-
ed up and settled down on portions of the
Eastern Saline reservation in Oklahoma
and made the government mad. Washing
ton has ordered them 10 get off.
Callahan writes to the Enid Wave that
he will tack the free homes bill onto the
war declaration as rider Callahan ought
not TO make fun of the defeat of free
homes in that way. 1t Is too big a loss
to be humorous.
The county treasurer's Office at Enid
was closed all last week. There is said
to be a whole lot OF kicking. Why was
it closed? Unless the treasurer was put
ting in corn or cotton on his farm, he
had no right to do it.
C+,-O,rd
its first batch of prisoners to the county
jail-two for fighting and three on charge
of robbery. The three latter are charged
by L. c. Schwemly with having robbed
him of a pocket book containing $4,000
The parties charged with the robbery are
John Hayden, John Freel, alias Coyote
Kid" and Henry Ward.
Guthrie Leader: S. n Hopkins, terrific
rial auditor, has reached the conclusion
that all vouchers issued for expenses OF
the quartermaster general of the Okla
homa militia and approved by the gov
ernor as commander-in-chefo of the mill
tia, can be paid in warrants drawn up
on the general fund. When the expenses
of the quartermaster's department, under
General Phil. c. Rosenbaum, began pill
ing up Auditor Hopkins hestated TO is
sue warrants. He fortified himself by get
ting an opinion from Attorney General
Harper S. Cunningham. Not quite salts
fed with this, he took the matter be-
fore Governor Barnes, and he now de-
clares he is satisfied that the vouchers
are perfectly legal.
Unusual way for a stranger to intro
duce himself. From the Earlboro Plain
People: Having just arrived in your
town I thought it just and right to eX-
press myself as to your country. First,
l am a stranger in this country / hail
from Clark county. Arkansas. You have
a fine, fast growing country. An enter
prising, thorough going sociable people
as any country affords; 7 am delighted
with it all. 1 take this method of an
nouncing to the people that I am an evan
gelist and shall make your town my
headquarters. I am a missionary Baptist
and churches in town or county desiring
my services will please address me at this
place 1t will be my pleasure as well as
a duty to respond. Fraternally.
Il. T. ROGERS