The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-24
Outlines of Oklahoma.

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A man who Is watching the young girls
| of Oklahoma says they combine part Of
the dangerous beauty of the south with
| all the yivacEty OF the north.
Tom Farrar, who went from Kingfsher
to Shawnee not very long ago. dove on
the plank last Saturday at his new home
as temporary chairman of the county
| convention.
! A band OF Pueblo Indians passed
through Cheyenne the other day on their
way home TO New Mexico. They had been
visiting Bill Walkers Kiowas. and had a
batch Of gift ponies with them.
An Oklahoma Rough Rider named Sc
vile was suspected Of being a man named
| Redmond. of Kansas City. wanted for
murder. Orders were given to arrest him,
| but he skipped out from Montauk.
Walter Basest of Roseburg agency. Da-
kota, Is at Shawnee getting together a
| band of Indians for exhibition at Omaha
| He wants them in native costumes The
band will leave for Omaha September 5.
| In the Pott county convention some of
| the fellows tried TO prevent Judge Asher
| from naming his own delegates TO e
! Reno. But the Asher men gave the ants
! the razzle and Asher named his delega a.
| ton.
In Greer county last week a woman who
was standing by a camp fire was struck
! by lightning and killed. She was a stran.
ger and the local papers do not give her
name.
An officer from Hemphill. Tex, arrived
in Cheyenne the other day with requisi-
tons for the two Lackey boys, wanted
for bringing stolen property into the ter
ritory The boys got wind OF his coming
and skipped.
The Hardesty Herald wants the iegis-
lature to abolish the election Of a county
attorney and to empower the county COM
missioners 10 appoint him. That may be
a good scheme in the counties which do
not have large populations.
Cloud Chief Herald: Two Cheyenne
boys, aged Is. played with a pistol last
week near George Bent's. Seven miles
above Bridgeport. One of them was shot
and instantly killed. the bullet landing in
the left side of the forehead. The muir
derer made his escape and no trace OF him
can be found.
The other day near Jefferson, according
to the Rustler, it became so hot that a
threshing gang quit work and got under
the shade of a tree, when a big wolf came
by. 1t was too hot to surround him, so
tic CIOWQ CndSeQ itiIIl GVhn 10 a DOIld
which was frozen over and easily captured
him on the ice.
At the reunion at Jefferson last week
Miller Smith, president of the reunion.
wanted to get a man named Smith out of
the grand stand. He couldn't think Of his
first name, so he yelled out: rs Mr.
Smith in the audience?" sullen roar
from two hundred threats came back:
Yes; what do you want?''
An Oklahoma minister was decanting on
the beauties of the great Psalm. Think
Of its beauty" he said "'He leadeth
me by still waters How beautiful He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures
How sublime Hold on there" said
one of the congregation, 1.-The Psalm is
all right, but L don't want any chiggers
in mine"
Guthrie Free Press: Judge Bradford.
ex-attorney general of Kansas, but now
judge of the commissioners court at Ard
more, passed through the city today en-
route home. The commissioners court
takes the place of county organization.
The judge says he has tried over 1000
cases since he has been in office, less than
a year.
On September 1 the midile-of- the-road
Popullsts meet at Guthrie to nominate an
opponent to Keat on under the head of
Free Silver party. This is considered dam
gerous to Keaton. SO Virgil Hobbies has
called a convention OF the Free Silver
party at Guthrie at the same date. Hobes'
convention will indorse Keaton. The other
convention will nominate someone else
And then there will be q contest TO see
which Free Silver ticket will get on the
official ballot. Keaton is making a good
race himself, but his counselors are mis-