The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-01
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Callahan says that he can secure no spe-
ciaI legislation for old soldiers.
More good luck for Oklahoma In case
of war with Spain, Clyde Mattox will en-
list
Rosenbaum is not the only military man
who is busy these days There are other
Baptists in the tank
The first railroad Saltwater and north
eastern Oklahoma will get will probably
be the Midland from Wichita
Judge Burford is now in charge of the
court at Guthrie, having squatted on the
wool-sack yesterday morning.
Jerre johnson Of Kildare is always doing
something original. He printed the news
of the Maine disaster between turned
rules.
The Enid Wave believes that wheat will
go TO s. in case OF war. II that is true,
weekly papers in Oklahoma will become
81 a year.
The Arapahoe Bee prints the picture of
a train and a depot. On the depot are
the words: "Arapahoe Station. New
York. 1867 miles
No number of attacks are going 10
turn Flynn against free homes. but the
vicious fight which is being made upon
him shows up one of the beauties of poll
tics.
The other day the Blackwell Sun roast
ed Joe Letter. This is the only roast that
has appeared in any paper in the United
States that has any farmer readers at
all.
G. T. Dulaney, once superintendent Of
the public schools at Arapahoe, will sue
the Bee. the bright newspaper of that
place, for $4,000. He claims he was SLAM
dered.
The Perry Enterprise, after studying
several newspaper portraits of Comman-
der Sigsbee, mourns that he never seems
TO have looked the same for very long
time.
A deaf and dumb boy is travelling
through Oklahoma for Texas. He walks
during the day and picks up enough
money to pay his fare on train the fol-
lowing night.
Julian Ralph, the newspaper correspond
ent, says that the country where the last
Graeco-Turkish war took place, is a good
deal like the Cherokee nation in the In
dian Territory.
At Arapahoe the other day the report
was received that free homes had passed
The Populists yelled; "'Hurrah for CAL
lahan." When this was denied. the Popu-
lists said Damn Flynn"
The Okiahoman has information that
Pottawatomi county will have federal
term of court only this spring, as the
county is too badly crippled financially
to have a territorial court term.
Mrs Big Snakes husband is trying to
get a divorce from her at Ponca. Mrs.
Snakes tongue is not forked. but it is
agile and that is why Mr.. Snake is trying
to kick the harness off.
An instance of commercial honesty
from the Arapahoe Bee: zone of our
merchants told a man that he had paid
for sack of flour the last time he was
in town and failed to take it out The
man acknowledged that he had been fun
and did not remember it, and that he was
ahead a sack of flour. That's what the
Bee calls honesty on the part of the mer-
chant"
Saltwater State: Fred Fields leaves
this morning for Stroud with a party of
bomers. After delivering them to their
destination, he will go on 10 Shawnee to
get a buggy that was left there by L. a.
Coombs, the horse doctor. Coombs hired
the buggy a month or so ago and disap-
peared. No word was received from his
for some time, and the liverymen were
beginning to think they were out the
value of the rig. when Coombs wrote them
that the outfit was at Shawnee and they
could have it by coming after 1t. He had
no money to pay for its USE and so feared
to return"
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: I'm dis
trict court yesterday an interesting di-
vorce suit was heard. In was entitled
VIM. Miller VS.. Mary A. Miller. The
plaintiff is Go years old; the defendant So.
although her husband stated that yester-
day was the first time that he had ever
heard her tell her age. The Millers have
been married three times. and yester-
days case was their fourth divorce suit
Each time a short time after receiving
their divorce, they would remarry. From
their appearance on the witness stand
both are high-tempered and the court and
spectators were greatly amused at their
accusations. Judge Keaton. in rendering
his decision, stated that he believed jus
tic ewould be best served by making the
parties live apart and also prohibit them
from re-marrying or marrying anyone
else. The judge then refused to grant a
decree to either party, but enjoined them
from living together; the husband to pay
all costs and attorneys fees, and the prop
erty to be divided "