The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-22
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Jake Admire says that Major Rosen-
| baum is an expensive and elaborate up
start
Peach trees and apricots are in bloom
| in Oklahoma from one end OF the terri
| tory 10 the other.
a man at Enid has just walked back
ward into a buzz-saw in an attempt TO
backmail Editor Isenberg.
The Chautauqua circle OF the ladies at
Guthrie have decided that the greatest
work OF the year is Quo Vadis.
II Judge Grisby OF FL Reno runs for
congress he will have the support OF
| James Whitcomb Riley's famous poem
Postmaster Upchurch OF Arapahoe has a
| dog which sleeps on mail sacks, but which
will allow no other dog in the town the
like privilege.
The fellows who want TO be stenograph-
ers are just now camping on Judge Bur
wells front lawn and trampling down the
Bermuda grass.
Oklahoma is improving morally every
day. At Chandler man has changed his
pool tables into dining tables and started
up restaurant.
The editor of the Arapahoe Bee charges
Callahan with being responsible for the
s240 on the editors farm.
The resolutions for statehood passed at
Kingisher have been sent to congress at
last. How many congressman will take
the trouble 20 read them?
The railroad has been into Blackwell
nearly a month now and the people do
not run to see where the fire is every time
the locomotive blows its whistle.
the S.. 900 TO be used 10 build a Normal
at Alva was not put into a penitentiary.
Oklahoma has moro use for schools than
penitentiaries.
In order 10 delay the case about the
burning of the court house at Arapahoe,
a number Of subpoenas have been is
sued for people who have moved away
and can never be located.
The coal racket is worked more by pris-
oners than any other single game. a pris-
oner at FL Reno was sent for coal last
week. and never showed up again. The
legislature should pass a law compelling
the turnkey to carry his own coal.
AL. Jennings. the outlaw, has written
letter to friend in FL Reno in which
he says: Il can not say / am enjoying
my stay here as guest of the federal gov
eminent, yet 1 am doing fairly well and
have no fear of ultimate results
A cowboy got drunk at Norman the
other night, and riding UP and down the
street shouted: "Whoopee! I'm a wolf
with a long tail" Sheriff Downing
swooped down on him and the court ex-
tracted 81 and costs from his pockets.
Frank Greer says the reason old bucks
prefer their oldest wives is because an
Indians squaw is but beast of burden
and he likes the oldest because she is
a steadier and more experienced worker
but for sentiment he still continues to
visit the younger"
Chandler Telegram: Wednesday, on the
lot next to the Lincoln County bank-a
railroad tie, which had been used in a
platform chained down on the blasts for
the purpose of preventing the rock be-
ing blown too high, was loosened from
the platform and blown so high that, In
coming down, it lit on the roof Of the
two-story bank building and cut a hole
in the roof A double blast exploding at
the same instant through accident, was
the cause of the trouble
Chandler News: Mrs J. B. Rich of Car
ney, received a letter recently from her
brother. Mr.. Barnes, who has been in the
Klondike region for several years. He
secured a valuable mining claim there.
which has has just sold for $1,000, 900. He
has had enough of the hardships OF that
country, and having made fortune there.
has returned TO California, where he will
probably make his future home. During
the coming summer he will visit his moth
err. who lives with Mrs. Rich. near Car
ney, in this county. Mrs. Rich said to
the News that her father was one of the
gOld-hunters in the early days in Cali
fornia, where he mined with considerable
success. Her brother has spent nearly all
his life in mining camps and was there
fore equipped 10 make the most of the
opportunities which the Alaskan gold
fields offered. Mrs. Barnes accompanied
her husband to Alaska, and is the au-
thor of a very successful book on the
country.