The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-17
Outlines of Oklahoma,

Ex-Governor seay and OIL Inspector
Amos Ewing have Joined the Guthrie
| lodge of Elks.
| W. NJ Mccoy. Of Grand. has been added
| to the Omaha exposition commission BY
Governor Barnes.
! Governor Barnes was included in the
list of names of honorary members Of the
Oklahoma Press association
The Okishoma rough riders are already
writing home for money. Uncle Sans
pay days ale three months apart.
| There will be so-called fusion between
/ the PopUIists and Democrats this year.
but the former will dictate the terms.
In appointing John Golobie member Of
the Omaha exposition commission. Cover
nor Barnes anticipated the request OF the
| press association four weeks.
il Fft.bggh Lee becomes governor gen.
eral of Cuba, Professor Murdaugh ex-
poets 10 be appointed commissioner OF ed
| ucation lie is first cousin TO General Lee
Oil Inspector Ewing declares that oil
sold in Oklahoma City is below grade and
that he is powerless to prevent the sale Of
rejected oil. as the law is defective in not
providing a penalty.
IL OhlduOIlld lily - u tUedA1 ASc ~
tige as a convention city 1t will have to
provide additional hotel facilities The
four conventions last week considerably
! strained tho hotel accommodations.
IronicaI filings at the convivality Of edi-
tors are no longer in order. At their re-
cent meeting in Oklahoma City the edi-
| tors set an example Of temperance and
sobriety that would have done honor to q
prayer meeting.
Paul Jurdt manager OF the ice plant
system in Oklahoma, emphatically denies
that the price of ice viii be raised this
summer On the contrary a considerable
reduction TO consumers will be announc-
ed In a few days. he asserts.
Owing TO washouts on the Choctaw rail-
road during the recent high water. the
town OF Shawnee was completely isolated
from the outside world for a period OF
nearly a week Imagine the agony Of sus-
pense the inhabitants must have suffered
while waiting for the latest war news.
Colonel Yates. the military critic Of the
Perry Enterprise-Times. fretfully In
quiress where's the fellows who were
so rampant for war and what's become Of
the fellows who wanted to march right
on to Cuba and not wait for President Nc
Kinley or congressG Where are theyg We
have heard OF none OF them enlIsting. No
danger of any of them goingG''
Chandler News: Andy Branderson. con-
stable of North Keokuk township. brought
into Chandler Monday the old man Girls
som and his two sons. Guillom and Car
field, charged with kidnapping the Lur-
tons last year at Stroud There seems to
have been feud existing between the
I.urtons and Grissoms for three or four
years, which originated in the Greek coun-
try, where they owned adjoining leases.
1t has already resulted in the death OF
John Grissom, who was shot by Deputy
Sheriff Bentley, while resisting arrest.
and a great many fear that there will be
others killed before the matter is settled.
Guthrie Leader: While Bart Barnes
was attending Annapolis naval academy he
had three staunch friends, Breckenridge,
Bagley and Bennett. The quartette was
termed the -Four Busy BIS" After leav-
ing Annapolis all four became ensigns and
kept up a correspondence until few
weeks ago when the chain was broken by
the drowning of Breckenridge in foreign
waters. Yesterday another link to the B
chain was broken by the killing of En-
sign Bagley blythe Spaniards at Carde-
mas Only Barnes and Bennett are alive.
Last week the Vicksburg, to which En-
sign Barnes is attached, was caught in
trap I'm Havana hsrbor and came near be-
ing sunk"