The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-30
Outlines of Oklahoma

J. NJ Hayden. a popular merchant at
Ponca City, is very i'll with pneumonia.
Major ". P. withers of Garfield county
is dead He was born in Kentucky in
1919.
Flynn got e.ssS plurality Most OF his
friends actually believed the election
would be close
Judge Stevens Of Hennessey and Tom
Reid Of FL Reno, aspirants for speaker.
should pool their issues.
Hankins got votes in every county in the
territory. But he only received one in
Day county. Must have been relative.
When Holland girls come to Oklahoma
again. they should hang on 10 their pick
et-books while passing through New York.
Hankins got 3ls votes in Greer county.
scarcely a hundred less than Flynn's vote
there The politicians should make a
mental note of this.
Callahan has several punches OF cattls
out in D county. Callahan may never
be congressman again, but he viii never
be poor again. either.
In Logan county the ballots in Black
Bear township were burned and It is on
this ground that Strsng is cOntesting
Jones' election as county attorney.
Oklahoma has so little ice that when il
at Jefferson, Pauline Brain fell on the
ice while skating and cut a great cash IN
her forehead
Ke&ton may or may not come up in poll
tice again. But his example should be
lesson. He started out his campaign by
abusing his opponent, and it does not pay.
II never did and never viii.
Catherine Frinkt may be an imposter.
but she has defrauded no one so far unless
it is the Oklahoma City boarding house
which is putting up her board on the 70
mantle complexion of the thing.
Three of Nagle's deputies have pleaded
guilty and been fined for making fraud
ulent returns in their vouchers as fol-
lows: II. H. Callahan. 500; 7. H. Mich
ell, 500 and costs; J. a. Steel, so and
costs.
An Oklahoma paper has a story 10 the
effect that ]. D. Chambers was recently
found guilty of robbery in New Mexico
the evidence being that he had confessed
to the robbery frequently while talking
in his sleep.
Willie Matthews. the colored boy on trial
for murder at Guthrie. has been acquit-
ted. 1t viii be remembered that MAI
thews. fourteen years of age. was ar
rested for killing Everett Bridges, four
years old. The evidence was elrcumstan-
tial and Matthews could not be con-
v.cted.
Roberts, who was pardoned by Governor
Barnes Thanksgiving, was sent TO the
penitentiary for two years for stealing
a horse. The man who stole the horse
and turned it into Roberts pasture has
since confessed. Perhaps society hasn't
committed a crime against Roberts and
perhaps there is no retribution for the
court which convicted him, but the
chances are there is sure penalty for the
mistake.
Isenberg of Enid, on his grandson: That
little Shoemaker kid who arrived Thanks
giving day has been named Charles Lewis
Shoemaker; the first name is after his
Uncle Charles of Iowa, and the middle
name after his grandpa. No one has
given us a hint, yet We think that middle
name means a baby buggy. Bids Will
be received at the Wave office from baby
buggy dealers until p. m Saturday, De-
cember Ord. the fellow agreeing 10 fur
nish the finest buggy for the least money
will catch our trade
Kildare Journal: A family named Nc
Cray, while driving overland from Ne
maha, Kansas, to saltwater, had the
great misfortune TO lose their ten-year-
old daughter at this point Saturday morn
ing at daybreak, jus as they were
breaking camp The little four-year-old
boy accidentally discharged a flObert ri
file, the ball striking the little girl in
the abdomen, penetrating the bowels.
causing her death after several hours Of
suffering. The ladies of the town rem
dered every assistance in preparing the
body for shipment. 1t was a deporable
affair-the little girl being a most beauti-
full child.