The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-10
Outlines of Oklahoma.

At Woodward wolf scalps bring SO; ten
derfeet scalps, S.
The first part of the week Shawnee and
the southeastern portion of Oklahoma had
a fine rain.
Ell Reno, Blackwell. Tecumseh and
| Shawnee are now the only railroad ter
mini in Oklahoma
At Saltwater the marshal lassos stray
hogs with a hair-rope and drags them in
triumph tp the dark dungeon
Judge Burford has set in 10 clear up
the moral atmosphere Of the Latin quarter
in Guthrie. And he Will do it.
DR.. Fee. OF the board OF health at Ok
| lahoma City, says that every day a lot
Of unwholesome food is sold in that city.
Callahan made a war speech in congress
the other day The silence during his talk
was so profound that you could hear 4
cough-drop.
T. P. Bingham of Roger Mills county.
| has called a meeting OF the ex-confeder-
ates in that county. There is no organi-
cation there
| Speaker Tousley will call a special ses-
sion OF the legislature in order to form
/ ally extend TO the government the services
of Major Rosenbaum.
| The Jonesville case at Enid. which has
been in court six years, and will finally
! be decided in February. 1885 or March,
| 2000, is on the docket again.
| 1t took four beeves, five hogs, 100 loaves
of bread. three barrels of pickles and 20
gallons of coffee TO celebrate the arrival
OF the railroad at Blackwell.
One way for any Oklahoman, who does
not wish 10 go to war, to escape is to go
over and sell liniment 10 the Usage In
dams and get jailed for introducing
Mckinley has mind of his own. Spain
asked him to recall Lee from Havana and
he acted just like he did when De Ford
asked him TO recall Barnes from Okla
| homa.
L. A. Haynes, one OF the most prominent
farmers of Greer county. has been taken
TO the insane asylum. His insanity was
caused by over-exertion in fighting prai-
rie fire.
Out near Woodward the other day a
little girl walked into a muddy pool and
fell forward on her face. smothering TO
death. She was the two-year-old daughter
of August Thanscheit.
Remark by the Blackwell Sun on the
personality OF Colonel Blackwell: "Old
Red Whiskers is hot stun. He thinks he
but the facts are he is only a jail-bird."
A noted case in western Oklahoma was
recently thrown out of court because pros
ecutiOn had not been begun within one
year. The case was that of John Case.
who was charged with branding cattle
belonging to other people.
The present session of court at Newkirk
is more largely attended by lawyers than
u, he hi ~
Strip. Lawyers have been as thick as
flies, and Dick Plunkett, the court crier,
has kept them in the best of order. In
the evening after the court Dick hires the
finest team in the Strip and proceeds to
fit and frisk the new judge through the
suburbs, TO the great wonderment of the
yeoman and the rural animals. The court
crier has also secured the names of all
lawyers attending court and will on next
st. Patrick's day present to each a sprig
of shamrock In fact, Plunkett is becom-
ing the greatest crier in the country. The
following lawyers will receive souvenirs:
Kansas City, L. F. Bird; Dexter. II. c.
Hargus; Perry. ]. p. Digs. II. B. Mar
tin, J. w. Quick, G. w. Ransom, D. T.
Morgan Judge Musseler Capt. c. A. Nor
ris; Winfield, S. D. Pryor, Judge G. H.
Buchanan, F. c. Johnson, ]. T. Laggerty;
Arkansas City, c. T. Atkinson. J. l.. Laf-
erty. ]. V. Beekman; Wellington, Jim
Lawrence; Wichita, Otto Eckstein: Black
well, D. S. Rose, Virgil Brown, Col. Peck
ham, NJ. ]. Holt, w. C. Tetirick, Ed. l..
Peckham; Cross, J. F. Stoneking; Ponca
City, E Bee Guthrie, W. L. Barnum, D.
Lafe Huber. o. ]. Stowell; Newkirk. ].
r. Scott, S. A. McGinnis, r. n. WoodsOn,
H. S. Brancht, ]. F. King, A. A. Byers.
f. A. Hurst. T. ]. Blevins. d. l. wier,
Ira A. Hin, Frank Exline, c. L. Pinkham,
Robert A. Neff. J. L. Robertson, w. S.
Cline, Geo. ]. Mechling w. II. Emart
Sam Gilbert; Guthrie, Henry Asp. John
W. Scotthorn.