The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-18
Outlines of Oklahoma

Beginning with March I. the electric
lights in Guthrie will glimmer all night
one of the presents on Christmas tree
out at TaIoga was a fifty-pound water
melon.
It will cost the Rock Island railroad
s750 600 10 build from FL Reno 10 Arapahoe.
or SIS, 900 a mile.
A man is not true to Oklahoma If he
hasn't an some time owned fine bird dog
and had it stolen
Lieutenant Van vleet on the track at
Fort Reno the other day, made hun
dred miles in eight hours.
The postofice at Taloga took fire the
other day. The local paper says the loss
consisted of a few shingles
p. Chauncey Anderson, the New York
man who bought the Hutchinson southern
intends 10 continue TO extend r.
The Blackwell Town company is pub
fishing card telling all property holders
to file their deeds to protect themselves.
During the month of November, 1886
| the Choctaw road made SIS, net.
During November, 1897, it made S1hSoO
| net.
The Oklahoman of Oklahoma City says
| that Oklahoma City should get move on
and secure a branch Of the Chicago ana
| Rock Island.
| A Guthrie cotton buyer swore out war
| rant for farmer for ''in-stacking' and
''water-weighting" his cotton what 90
those words mean2
DR.. Vandervort of Guthrie. who holds d
| note of $50 against the Representative, q
| paper at Guthrie. has asked for receiver
! for that publication.
The fellows who held a kangaroo court
on a hobo at Oklahoma City the other
! day were yanked up before regular
court and fined. as they should have
| been.
! Frank McMaster says that the Kingflsh-
er statehood convention gave more
strength to the general desire for state
hood than any previous affair OF its kind
! in the territory.
The Guthrie Leader is making fight
/ to have the Western Union Telegraph
company handle its business at stations
in Oklahoma in better shape during rush
es. The Leader is right.
The subscribers to the West Guthrie
food sufferers have funds on hand and
have decided to give 500 to the cyclone
victims at Fort Smith. Guthrie is feeling
better towards Arkansas every day
| John RatlIH, the EOpOcrdtC SntEll VI
| Kingisher county, announces that he will
not be a candidate for reelection. He
has made a good sheriff and that is the
kind that usually do not want second
| term.
r J. ]. Virgins, who committed sui
eide at Norman did so. he said, because
he feared he was going TO lose his posi-
| ton in the bank. The bank said he had
no cause for such fear. His life insurance
amounts to $4,000.
Saltwater Gazette: A disgraceful row
occurred at the college last Saturday eve
| ming in which a number of students took
! an active part. 1t appears that there has
| been a considerable rivalry among the
| students as to who should control or be
| at the head of the college literary society.
| Finally matters grew from bad to worse
until the society became practically di-
| Vided into two factions. Each of these
| factions selected a president to take his
! chair at the first meeting of this year,
which was last Saturday night. When the
| appointed time came and the crowd had
assembled each of the newly-elected Of
! ficers took his chair, but instead of using
| it for the purpose it was obviously in
| tended-to sit upon-he undertook to crack
| the other fellows Uranium with it. Each
| of the parties were backed by his friends
| and things were flying around in the air
| for a short time. Finally order was re-
| stored and the meeting dismissed, but
| there has been a number of exceptional
| sore heads about the college during the
past few days.