The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-06
Outlines of Oklahoma.
Bill Walker Is sure Of that appointmer
TO the Usage agency. he saws.

Bill Walker Is sure of that appointment
to the Usage agency. he says
The water-works plant at Guthrie is
putting down a second test well. It is now
rs feet towards China
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. York last week
at Oklahoma City gave a reception 10
Senator and Mrs. Marum.
Logan White is after the postofice at
Higgins. Texas. and If there is anything
| in political justice will get it.
1t has been discovered that the lower
part of the state of Arkansas belongs
TO the Choctaw tribe of Indians.
Ex-Postmaster Johnson OF Alva last
week settled up with the government He
found he owed Uncle Sam nine cents.
]. Fouchart OF Guthrie. the architect of
the Normal at Alva, is there this week su-
perintending the work on the founda-
tions.
The ice cream season in Oklahoma is in
| full blast, while people in southern Kan
sas are still shivering around IN over
| coats.
| The ex-oonfederates of Oklahoma City
have met and resolved that they are ready
against
1
homa will be made until fall and the cam
/ paign will be as tame as a domesticated
antelope
! While IL is against the law longer to
sell lemon extract to Indians, 1t is perfect
| ly legal TO give them barb-wire dissolved
in vinegar.
| II is not true that any one who smokes,
chews or drinks will be barred from en-
I I'll Cak,r -
pany at FL Reno.
| There is no artillery at Fort Reno and
| the infantry there has not yet received
| a single order from Washington since the
! Spanish difficulty arose.
Sam Overstreet is so universally liked
| that the boys in the other towns are
willing to overlook that his appointment
was another plum to Guthrie.
At Guthrie a high school boy who has
/ been studying botany for two years was
! sent for mess of greens and brought
| back lot of weeds that nearly poisoned
! the family.
! Seldom Simpson, son of Lowry Simpson.
of Alva. writes back from Alaska that the
snow is ten feet deep. They scrape hole
in the snow and pitch the tent on the
ground. making steps in the bank of snow
to get in and out.
Jim Kelly, who is out In Greer county
doesn't get to see the war news until
it is four days old, and three times now
| he has imagined that the United States
navy had met Spain's and wiped it off
the face of the waters.
The name Houston" is ordinarily SPELL
ed that way. But two Illusions have re-
ceived appointments within week in Ok
/ IoIn h.
! in the secretary's office and Robert who
succeeded Colonel Stiles.
Ponca City Courier: The air pump man
is worse than the lightning rod man. The
A. P. man came along the other day and
sold to the Newkirk school board an air
pump for one hundred and seventy-five
dollars, then he came down TO Ponca City
and sold the same thing for one hundred
and fifty dollars. OF course we need one,
/ but what in Kingdom come does Newkirk
need of more air pumps?
Cushing Herald: No-wa-she Jack-Pots,
an old Indian, who resides with his four
| squaws on Snake Creek in the Creek ma
! ton, is one Of the greatest living curl
| osities in this country. He is said TO be
| 100 years old, but judging from the diff
ferent events which he claims happened
| within his lifetime, he must be even
older. The most remarkable features
about No-wa-she are that he has already
| lost two sets of teeth and now has grown
a third set complete. His hair is jet
black, with no signs Of turning grey; his
| step is firm and bearing erect; he has bu-
ried % wives and is now living with four;
| he was originally a Delaware. but was
captured by the Apaches when young and
held for a number of years; he was adopt
ed by the Muscogees when a middle-aged
man and has been regarded as the Oldest
man In the tribe for many wears