The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-09
Outlines of Oklahoma.

1t is not going to be possible to get tes-
timony in the case of the Seminole burn
| ers.
The News confesses that the people of
| Chandler have the new disease: 'cyclonic
neurosis.'
A son-of-a-gun sneaked into church
near Perkins and cut the larynx out Of
| the organ.
visit his brother. He does not Intend to
return 10 Oklahoma.
| Little Indian boys do not take 10 mar
bles and tops. They prefer the bow and
arrow and other Indian games
One man in Oklahoma who expected TO
put up a crop of natural ice this winter
| has already filed three cisterns fun Of
wet weep.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal
! thinks that when Chandler reaches $500
/ population it will be the prettest town in
/ Oklahoma.
The Kingfisher Reformer is said to do
the county printing for nothing and give
| bond for $l000. That is certainly hot
! transaction.
| George s. Clark showed Editor Miller
| of the FSnnessey Clipper the other day a
| stalk of the Jackson limbless cotton Mil
Ter says il is ali right.
/ Isenberg of the Enid Wave has a space
in his paper which is wanting an adver-
| tiser and in the middle of il the editor
prints: Waiting for the spring boom"
| One of the last things Postmaster Rhine
/ said before he died was TO remind his
| daughter Of two registered letters under
his pillow which, he said, must leave by
| the morning mail"
The man who killed Rhine quarreled
with his wife, whom he had just mar
ried, and vowed 10 kill four men and then
| leave the country. After killing Rhine
he skipped out The other three men are
! thanking their stars.
Judge Bob Nen of Kay county married
160 couples last year. He is very popular
| and the reason for this is that he always
kisses the mother of the bride instead
| of the bride. Other probate judges are
said to be following his plan.
Tom AIcMeechan's story of the burning
of the Seminoes which he sent to Wash
| ington is probably overdone 1t is hard
to believe that Baptist minister prayed
for the two men as they were burning
Things are not done that way.
Upon the approach of c. G. Jones to
Chandler the other day the people rode
out in body and escorted him TO town
with flags flying and a band drumming
away like sixty. II was probably the
proudest moment in Jones life.
w. o. Cromwell of Enid is one of the
few lawyers in the territory who adver-
| tises. Cromwell is a brilliant young man
and should be nominated by the Popocrats
| instead of Callahan next time. If he can
be elected he will make an impression in
congress. He is built that way.
Ponca City Courier: John McFadyen
was digging a well on his place east of
Ponca City when the loose sand caved
in, burying him to the shoulders Dave
Reynolds, after eXacting some promises
proceeded to dig him out. John had an
idea of how it feels to be buried alive.
Oklahoma City has had troubles with
kickers just as every live town has. But
the fellows who stood around and said
that Jones merely had a scheme to line
his own pocket and that the Sapulpa
would never be built are just now keep
ing in their cellars and getting their wives
TO carry their meals to them.
Chandler News: 1t is said that the sec
ond wife of Chief Keokuk could not
speak Indian and that Keokuk himself
was unable TO speak English, yet the two
lived happily together for twelve years
or, perhaps, some people would say, hence
they lived together happily. Whether this
diversity of tongues was the cause or the
effect Of their domestic tranquility may
furnish grounds for a difference of opin-
ion and il is possible that some perplex-
ing problems may have arisen touching
the progress of their courtship under such
conditions, but the fact is certainly a tri-
butte to the nobility of character of the
old chief