The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-12-02
Outlines of Oklahoma

There are five anti-fusion Democrats In
the coming legislature
John w. Fightmaster of Oklahoma City
Is dead. He was sixty-ftye years Old
Isenberg Of Enid has just eaten up an
other fake street doctor and Is signing
for more.
Another blizzard is predicted for Okla
homa to start in tomorrow morning or the
day after
John AlcMahon is the name Of a farmer
in Garfield county who is said 20 be COM
ing politically.
A great deal Of cotton in Payne county
has not been picked and never will be. II
will go 10 waste.
The adjutant general will disbani the
militia company at Alva- The company
has gone to pieces.
1t is said that the next legislature may
refuse 10 confirm some OF Governor
Barnes appointments.
AT one place in Georgia the Oklahoma
volunteers found moonshine whisky which
cost only fifty cents quart.
The geological survey Of the Indian Ter
rltory which has been long in progress
Will be completed December 10.
At Oklahoma City one boy slapped an
other and the second boys father inter
fered and came mighty near getEng lick
ed himself.
DR.. Herrington's house al Yukon was
invaded by burglars the other night and
it is said $1,000 in notes and mortgages
was taken.
A new road 10 run between Guthrie
ard Shawnee has been chartered Joe
MeNeaI and Frank Greer arc among the
incorporat0rs.
Joe Webster of Ponca City IS suing the
Santa Fe for s1.5oo for putting him on
a train at Sedgwick, Kansas. when ne
had ticket in his possession.
New Year in the Cherokee nation a
land office will probably be established.
and every Cherokee citizen can file on
his little eighty acres of land.
The Santa Fe has had three photo
graphs taken Of the crossing where Mr..
McClung was killed at Ponca City, which
viii be used in the damage case.
c. L. Pinkham, present county attor-
ney Of Kay, while making 4 speech this
fall was accosted by an old lady who COM
plimented his oratory. adding: You know
used to take your mothers pills.
Hose Kiser Of Ponca City says that the
failure of the plunger Gillett VIII do the
smaller cattlemen good, as the banks VIII
be more anxious to take the small deal
ers' paper and avoid the piunge-s' notes.
a Populism complained 20 Johnny Hin
kle at Perkins the other day that money
was so plentiful he couldn't pull his plug
of tobacco out of his pocket without
bringing a handful of silver dollars with
it
At place called Galletiu, in the South,
the Oklahoma volunteers discovered a
negro named Bud Rogan VINO is twenty
eight years old, measures feet inches
i'm height and has never been out of his
native town.
p. Freeley of Oklahoma City relates
this: "At the last term Of the district
court in Greer county, a young man un-
der the age of twenty-one, made appli-
cation to the court to have the rights of
majority conferred upon him by judicial
decree, in order that he might be abe to
dispose of some property waich he had
inherited. His application was taken up
by the court and in order tnat the court
might ascertain his general qualifications
necessary to his acting for himself, the
court asked him: I suppose you have
a common school education% The a2pli-
cant answered yes, sir. You nave
studied arithmetic. grammar, geography
and the history of the United States and
other common school studies?' Yes, sir
DO you know the multiplication tableg
Yes sir, l think do DO you know the
nines?' Yes, sir. some OF them How
MANY are nine times eight% 'Forty-two.
How MANY are nine times four2' Eighty
three How many are nine times six"
.Sixty-three' Who is president of the
United States?' Old John Sherman
The court asked him many questions, all
OF which he missed. The application was
denied, of course The young man got up,
crippled out of the court house on his
high-heel boots, took out package Of
Durham, which had appended 20 it a
tag on which was the picture Of the ani-
NAL from which the tobacco took its name,
and rolled a cigarette in brown paper and
remarked 10 his chum at the door:
I G.. / had the old judge pretty badly
ratified didn't - "