The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The public is not particularly in love
with the latest Stiles In military rows
The father of Congressman Curtis of
Kansas died on his farm near Newkirk
this week.
Out AT Gushing when a dance is adver-
tised the manager gives the dimensions
of the hall.
Erastus ]. Clark. member OF the Fourth
territorial council from the Tenth dis
trict, is dead.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
wish that Major Woodson would recon
centrado them
1t is barely possible that the present
congress will give the Indian Territory
congressional delegate.
Isenberg OF Enid speaks OF the being
of a local citizen as the black soul of
that WORKOUT old fossil
Oklahoma does not want TO see any OF
her forts emptied just now. Once emptied
they are liable to be abandoned.
One man at Oklahoma City has sued
another for calling him just common
swear names, asking $50. 900 damages
II is said in the temperance columns
that last year Oklahoma paid out as
much for beer and whisky as she re-
C6lFeu IOT neE cotton crop.
The Guthrie Capital wants Colonel
Stiles tried on the charge of having hired
some one 10 throw those eggs at him that
he might have a case against Rosen-
baum.
Last Monday a rumor spread along the
Rock Island that Mckinley had ordered
Spain 10 take back her torpedo hotilla.
that Spain has refused, and war had been
declared.
A three-story brick building is TO be
erected at Chandler. Bids are advertised
for. The man bidding must put up $3.50.
and in case he gets the contract must
make bond for S, go.
Oklahoma people have lost all interest
in politics. The Democrats are planting
d mine under the keel of Callahan and
the public is standing by watching the
scheme and yawning.
W. A. Knipe, of Perkins. member OF
the legislature. is seriously hurt. He
was struck on the head by a pump han
die last Saturday and Monday had not
regained consciousness.
Reverend Porter has just completed a
revival in the Methodist church at Enid.
So many sinners wer out on the streets
cussing the Spanish that the revival was
not as successful as desired.
At Enid the other day a Justices court
was being moved on wheels while trial
was in progress. IF 1t pleases your
honor" said lawyer. I'VE move" y
should think we do said the judge as
the ink-well tipped over on him.
The city pastors of Oklahoma City run
a column headed: Oklahoma church
notes" in the Oklahoman. The first item
in ba OIL do fol
lows: Never trust blear-eyed person;
they can't keep secrets" What the pos
tors meant to say was He can't keep a
| secret" The sentiment in addition is
frivolous and unworthy the column in
which 1t appears.
Chandler News: ION the evening of
March Goth our city was visited by one
of the most destructive cyclones on rec
ord" One of the hitherto unpublished
anecdotes of that historic occasion relates
to a woman and cyclone-shield, so to
speak. Just at the time when the cyclone
| struck. a woman of small stature was
marketing at a well-known grocery; SO
was colored man. When the earth and
everything on ii appeared to reel, the wo-
man put the colored man between her
| self and chaos. In vain did the man strug-
gle to free himself from her terrified
| clutches, the better to protect himself
! from the fury of the storm The woman
held on with firm, unfaltering grip.
The colored man prayed for freedom with
| as much fervor as his ancestors ever did.
Fob Gawds sake. let go. nom, it's a
KILN me-" he walled as debris battered
| him. ''Pll not let 60" quoth she. and she
didn't. When things ceased to fly through
| the air this ingenious woman released
her unwilling protector and emerged I'M
hurt. But alas for her shield! He was
SCARED and cut and bruised and for many
days he was known to the hospital ply
sicians