The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-02
Outlines of Oklahoma,


l. S. Welsh, who Is publishing the Rex
ington News and Notes. Is striking a
Brann gait.
Nancy Johnson, a Virginia colored wc-
man 1o1 years OF age, who lived a. Ok
iahoa City. Is dead.
Mrs. aICCoy has been recommended for
postmaster at Guthrie. II 81 the Irish
again in Oklahoma
Geronimo has written to Washington
that Bin walker has been looked over
and is persona gratissIna-
Roy Hoffman has decided not 20 allow
his name TO come before the convention
as q candidate for delegate.
Beaver county. with a population OF
2,00a. has been assessed at $500. 9o0. There
is good deal per capita in that county.
Arapahoe has promise from the Chec-
taw that that road will be built in time
TO move the wheat crop of Custer county.
Tae discovery of the real murderer Of
Mrs. Laird. Il Is said, does not change the
legal status OF the case against the In
dian burners In the least.
An Oklahoma man is contemplating
building a big cyclone cave and selling
annual admission tickets to *. He should
not stamp them "NontTansfsrable."
While Governor Barnes is IN Wash
ington ne viii probably interrupt the war
long enough TO inform Mckinley that
Judge McAtee Is still on the bench.
Winfield S. Smith OF Guthrie, says the
Alya Normal is located in a desert. He
ought to travsl more and see all Oklaho-
ma. The west side Is now a desert.
In a Memorial Day address at Ponca
City, Dr. ". Schenck said: "Our very
civilization is a tree nourished, not by
rain or snow, but by the blood Of pa
triots."
The habit of naming town after your
self led to this personal in an Oklahoma
paper the other day: Mr.. Box Of BOX
was in the city yesterday buying boxes
for his cotton gin at Box"
Captain j. V Admire says he is tired
of the newspaper business, and might be
induced, by proper temptation, to sell the
kingfisher Free Press. Klnghsher is
good town and the Free Press is good
property.
According "a the Oklahoma City Times
Journal, the Santa Fe ran over a negro
at Edmond, crushing his leg. The rsi-
road brought him TO Oklahoma City and
turned him over to the city; the city
wouldn't care for him, and handed HIN
over to the county; the county discovered
he was a resident Of Lincoln county and
sent the man to Guthrie.
a
little short of news this morning on ac-
count of the machinists and printers
quitting yesterday, which is explained IN
the following letter to the Typographical
union 10y the editor: The Guthrie Typo
graphical union:-Dear Sirs: hereby de-
clare the State Capital Office an open Of
flee from this date. l will pay the ma
chine scale contracted by you-which con-
tract you have this day violated. 1t IL
useless to talk of new contracts WITH men
who will not stand by the ones they have
already made. made a contract with
your union on April Attn. This is signed
by your officers and by the national or.
ganiZer. It is a legal document -one
which you are morally and legally bound
to respect 1 have kept 4 20 this letter
You abrogated 1t without notice. There
fore 1 will from this date say who shall
work in this office. ana without the use
less waste of contracts which mean moth
ing to your union-whicn y0l keep when
It suits you and violate when you please.
We will pay the old scale and as much
more as we deem just-and will give any
union printer until 1880 tonight to takE
his old place in this office II he is not
here at that hour with a declaration that
he is ready to work at the old scale he
need never again apply here for work.
We were satisfied with tho men we had
and we think they were suited with US;
we believe the union has forced them out
against their own honest feelings. but
they will have to abide their action. The
printing office had a contract kept In
force by mutual consent-which says there
must be thirty days notice of contemplst-
ed changes. You gave no notice. Thus
you violated this contract.
F. II. GREER, Manager.