The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-21
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

The Indian calls his allotted farm "a
set-down-"
The Santa Fe VIII put IN an elevated
switch tower ar Oklahoma City.
II there is to be joint debate It should
be at Alva- That is the storm center this
campaign.
Geronimo is having q gay time up in
Omaha He loves TO shake hands He is
80 years old.
The Dawes commission is discovering
| that some Of the most prominent Chick
asaws are in reality Cherokees-
Some fellow the other night stood IN
front of the Purcell Register Office and
spattered the front door AL over with
| eggs.
The Oklahoma State fair offers $50 first
| prize. $50 second prize. $50 third prize for
the best bale of cotton raised in Oklahoma
or the Indian territory.
The extension of time for proving UP
| in Oklahoma has been good thing. IT
has been virtually loaning money IN Ok
I iahoma by The government
| Dora Cox, the female horse-thief who
escaped from the Kinghsher Jail. did 80
with an old case-knife. Il IS wonder
! she didn't use hair-pin-
|
/ truth that had the colored troops been
absent at Santiago the Americans would
! have gotten the worst OF it
| railroad surveying party recently
went through Woods county and as Il
worked it solicited pay from the farm
! ers Some OF the farmers paid and are
now being guyed by their neighoors.
There are nine counties in Oklahoma
/ al
/ field If Keaton thinks he has pudding.
! he ought to step off few feet and take
a second look at his prospects.
Purcell paper predicts at the next
session OF congress territorial form OF
government will be bIanketed over Okla
| homa and the Indian territory. Some
thing of that kind is liable to happen
At Kinghsher the other day Council
man Mccartney walked in between Two
fighting men and stopped them With out
getting hurt himself This Is about the
| first time this ever happened in the
world.
If Keaton should be defeated the big
man in the anti-Republican forces OF Ok
| Iahoma would be Hankins. Dave Over
myer ran separately in Kansas once and
the anti Republicans have been feeding
him milk and honey ever since
Sam Smith, the Oklahoma City man who
claims he lost $1,000, has brooded so much
over his loss that his mind has given
away and he has been sent TO Norman.
| The police do not know whether Smith
! lost so large amount or not, but they
! think he lost something.
The Canadian Republican wants con-
gress to create a model for valor, TO be
| given soldiers and sailors for distinguish
ed service, such as the Victoria Cross"
| Rough Riders who returned home last
week discharged are r. B. Miller, Guth-
RE; e NJ Hill, Tecumseh; z. L. McMil-
| len. Shawnee; V. D. Miller, Guthrie: AL
exander Denham, Guthrie; Jake Schwei-
yer, Ell Reno; Sergeant Randolph, Wau-
komis Other soldiers returning were
! Theodore Folk of Oklahoma City and W.
w. Powers of Perry.
Judge Keaton's appointments are as FOL
lows: Kingfisher, September q. p. m +;
Omega, September %, 8 p. n; Watonga,
September %, p. m; Taloga, September
"a. 2:9O D. m Grand, September 6, p.
m: Cheyenne, September q, p. m; Man
gum, September g. p. m; Altus, Sep
TENDER 3d. 2 p. m; Navajoe. s p m ;
| Wood, October l. 1880 p. M; Cloud Chief.
October 8, 2 p. m; Cordell, 1880 p. m
| Arapahoe, October 4. p. m; Weather
ford, October 4. 7:3O p. m; Geary, Octo-
Der 5, p. m; FL Reno, October 6, p.
m; Okarche, p. m.