The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-11
Outlines of Oklahoma

The battle for free homes is now on If
1t is killed this time it will never be re-
yived.
Mr.. Harm. the new clerk Of the court at
Newkirk. will keep his residence In Okla
homa City.
The Choctaw's extension westward will
go right through Mr.. Skunk Neck's farm.
This is pathetic.
If the free homes bill fails, the Guth-
RE Leader says a Democrat will be NOM
mated for congress.
Reed was not in the chair during the
discussion of the free homes matter last
Wednesday. That Will make Oklahoma
feel easier.
Major Rosenbaum is in a heap of trou-
BILE. Right on the brink of war when his
| title would be some pumpkins he is liable
| TO be bounced.
President Morrow of the Saltwater Col
lege is at last trying an experiment which
will knock him down and walk on him.
He is attempting 10 grow a blue grass
lawn.
The Guthrie Leader points out that
Judge Hainer got out of the city attorney
! ship OF Guthrie just in time to escape
a reprimand from Judge Burford. his coll
league.
| Jerry O'Rourkes friendship for Gala
han has a just cause Callahan got Mr..
o Rourke's bright little boy appointed to
the naval academy. II pays TO pay a
political debt.
| Mrs. H. w. Nichols of Saltwater is suf-
| fering from peculiar accident. She was
going down into the cellar with an arm
full of crooks when she fell. One of the
crooks rolled beneath her and she fell
on it and broke two ribs.
Some of the papers will criticise Gala
han for not talking on free homes. This
/ is unjust. The other fellows want TO make
the speeches and Callahan lets them do
| il. To make man friend of a bill you
sometimes have TO let him make a speech
man at Enid says that people in the
country surrounding that town do not re-
spect funerals enough. They crack their
! old mules and swear horribly while the
! procession passes them. He wants them
! to drive to the side of the road bare their
| heads and bow them in silence while the
cortege goes by.
The Oklahoman at Oklahoma City calls
the location of a branch of the Normal
| school at Alva a mistake. 1t is not a
mistake. Eastern Oklahoma will make
big mistake if ii attempts TO take every
| thing and leave western Oklahoma hold
ing the bag Eastern Kansas is just now
paying the penalty for that sort of &C
ton at an early day.
Abner Mckinley. the brother of the
president. was to get a commission in the
leasing of the Commanche Indian graz
ing lands. Indian Commissioner Jones
threatened to resign if Abner got the COM
mission, and he didn't. Jones insisted on
the Indians getting a high price for the
dc II, r1rHf III I'll.
ing The New York Herald is authority
for this statement.
The following obituary is by the editor
of the Saltwater State: After weeks of
untold agony, Judge Carpenter yesterday
laid down lifes earthly burdens and quiet
ly passed into the great beyond. He was
more than an ordinary man. OF his early
career little IS known, save that he came
from sturdy New England stock. For
some years he enjoyed a lucrative law
practice in Northern Illinois and was a
colleague of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A
Douglass and other eminent men. He has
often danced with Kate Chase Sprague,
Mrs. Douglass and other celebrated
Washington beauties, and took great de-
light in musing over his many happy
days while enjoying life at the nations
capital He was appointed federal judge
by Grant and assigned to the San Antonio
Crex.,) district. While in Texas in 1873. |
he was stricken with yellow fever. Life |
was saved by cOpious use of morphine. |
but he came back to health slave to the |
habit Wrecked by illness and torn with |
pain, he lived on and suffered till death |
came with its welcome release. The lact |
night talked to him, while he was intel |
hgent, he expressed his belief in a future |
state. L should hate TO think, said he |
that this was the end of life. l believe !
there is some kind of a great beyond. |
Progression in the future life. A some |
thing; l don't know what to call il. l |
don't believe the human race will be con- |
demned TO torment. l do not think God |
could be such Il monster as TO hold such |
a fate in store for his children. I believe |
we will progress into grander and no.
bier state of being after the grave. Any
way, l am willing 10 take my chances. I |
have never been very good man and |
the judge paused as If TO measure his
thoughts, but then ! have never been a
very bad man He was man Of gener- |
Gus impulses, highly learned in the law,
and a most cOmpaniOnable friend. He was
IS years Of age, had been married three !
times and leaves a daughter in Chicago
and two sisters in Abilene, Kansas. II !
is understoon that his last wife lives at
Guthrie Centre. Iowa. He was a lood
man and will be missed by those who
knew him"