The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-09
Outlines of Oklahoma

The most beautiful thing in a new town
is the furniture in a bank.
Cloud Chief expects to get its mail from
Weatherford by the first of next month.
The less schemes the next legislature
| INDUCES in, the more happy It VIII make
the people.
and recommendation TO the schoolless
children of the Indian Territory.
An eastern paper says that the Cheyenne
| Indians could vote If they wished. but
they are reluctant" They are lazy.
gang Of thieves of which Ed. White
| is supposed TO be the chief has been bro
ken up at Perry by the arrest of White.
The Mangum Monitor has the idea about
Greer county that its luck consists in being
so big that the railroads can not miss IL.
Jake Schweizer of e. Reno has made a
mistake. He has moved to Kansas City
He Will be back in Fl Reno before year.
The first winter at Enid it is said there
were thirty-four saloons running and two
barrels of Tom and Jerry were consumed
daily.
Oversolser of Oklahoma City has de-
clared war on Judge Burford- He Will
find that Burford is first-class battle
ship.
Hereafter the Dawes commission VIII
have permanent headquarters at Musko-
gee. where they viii lease a building in
definitely.
Note from a correspondent in the Alva
Pioneer: "A certain young lady in this
vicinity says her fellow. who is teaching
her TO ride a bicycle, holds the bicycle up
while she rides it,"
Galveston has always raised a great
howl about what a great friend il was
TO southern Kansas and Oklahoma. Now
Oklahoma wheat reaches Galveston, il is
graded five points of
There are as yet no street railway
systems in Oklahoma. Local capitalists
should think hard before going into rail-
way schemes. They can gobble up money
faster than a slot machine.
Ned Sisson shot through Enid the
other day from the northwest TO the
southeast. Friends yelled at him. but
he paid no attention. He was in full cry
after Bill Scribbins, the outlaw.
The Seminoles are better prepared than
any other tribe for final allotment Ma
jOr AIcKenaon says that the work of al
lotment in all the tribes IS gigantic and
beyond conception, and no end 5 in sight
now.
In all likelihood the natives of the Phil
ippines will be governed just as the In
dams are governed. The eastern papers
are already plying the poor natives. As
cold matter Of fact, the Indian has
snap.
Clark Hudson has sued Callahan for
S52S for his services as editor. There are
lots of men who viii take the stand in
Oklahoma and swear that as an editor
Hudson's services are not worth one cent
per year. Huds0n's days are over.
An Oklahoma man gives it as his ex-
perience that the first paper he owned
he tried to run as Harper's Magazine.
lie failed in three months. The paper
he now owns he runs just as he would
a saw mill and he is getting rich.
Oklahoma City Times-Journai: County
Clerk Cafery is still in jail and ne has
many visitors, and Jailor Wineb-enner
says there is a regular matinee going on
in the jail all through the day. 50 many
visitors call to see Mr.. Caffery. The SUI
preme court has refused him bond and
he will have TO stay in Jail until he can
get habeas corpus proceedings before the
supreme court. II is understood that
Judge KeatOn, Caffery's attorney. has ad-
vised him to acduiesce in the courts
demands, as it Will take great deal of
money and perhaps two years OF lime be-
fore the case would be settled.
The grand lodge of the Sons of Herman
for Oklahoma and Indian territories, at
its annual meeting, which closed last
night with a banquet. elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year: Pres
ident, Frank Menten, Oklahoma City;
first vice president, II. V. kelIar, Coal
gate; second vice president, J. IL. Helm.
e Reno; secretary, John Buenting. Guth-
re; treasurer, Rich Pappe, Kingfisher;
trustees William Hoenscheidt, Il Reno:
William Zuchlag, Krebs; Pap Decker,
Lexington; guide. II. Wulf, Guthrie;
guard, J. Genulini, Coalgate; committee
on bylaws. Ferd Ritterbusch. Richard
Messall. Enid; Frank Pagels, T. Reno;
finance committee, John Jensen, E. Reno.
The grand lodge viii meet next year at
Enid.