The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-06
Outlines of Oklahoma

| G. s. Wiley OF Kildare, the new post
master, has made his daughter deputy.
| In the course OF few deadening months
/ that postoffice row in FL Reno doesn't ap-
pear half so dangerous
| The Chandler News wishes all its sub
| scribers Happy New Year, but excepts
| the delinquent subscribers
| Senator P D. Marum, of Woodward.
| and Miss Jessie Walton of Terrill, Texas,
| will be married January T.
| The Jefferson Rustier denies that Ok
| lahoma has woman boot-leggers as the
ladies down here don't wear boots"
farmer in eastern Oklahoma feeds his
horses peanuts, eats peanut bread himself.
and in local affairs is a peanut politician.
Marsh Lambert of Newkirk is turning
that good postoffice salary ne receives
| from the government into slab-sided cows.
Uncle Elijah Smith is visiting in Wood
ward. IN 1858 he whacked 1t 10 the big
| necked buffalo in the Woodward coun-
| Try.
Christine Points, who lives on Pole Cat
creek in the Greek country, tried 10 COM
| nit suicide one night last week because
her fellow kissed another girl
The Gushing Herald, which tells a num-
Der of pTismatic tales. says that Alexan-
der Won Gliten an exiIed Russian noble
man. lives among the Creek Indians
The Populist paper at Blackwell is
pleased over the appointment of George
l.. Lage as postmaster there. Lage has
been deputy postmaster for two years.
The Sac and Fox Indians have no hell.
They believe that the bad Indians be-
come idiots and sit on log in an ice cold
stream from which log they are continu-
ally falling into the water.
At Waynoka, Christmas eve, Santa
Claus took fire and created in the minds
of the children present great big, pot
bellied doubt as to his ability to ever
get down tin stove-pipe and through a
cooking stove.
Lincoln Mckinley says that Bill Walker
has his eye on the Usage nation. Which
is all right. Bill Walker can see more
of the insides of political situation with
that one eye than the average man could,
had he fourteen eyes.
Local literary note from the Perry En-
terprise: The bright. active lad. Victor
Hugo. has been employed by the Perry
steam laundry to take the place of Ed
Bruins. Vic is good boy for the position
and will be hustler for the laundry.
1t is pleasing TO see community stand
by a man as Tecumseh is standing by Mr..
Lee, their fellow-citizen who is accused
of murder. Lee conducted himself as
gentleman in Tecumseh and the town is
not going to go back on him because
some Texan seeks TO make him trouble
The question of free homes in Oklahoma
is above politics. Everybody ought to give
Callahan a boost. He needs a whole lot
more boosting than Flynn ever asked. As
a matter of fact, Callahan IS not over
competent and the people should get be-
hind him and push him or they will have
no free homes at ALL
Ponca City Courier: Coroner Germain
was seen by the Courier today and addi-
tional information was secured of the
murder of Prof. W. S. Carver. The coro-
ner's jury returned a verdict that death
was caused by a bullet fired by r. Harley
Fair. The testimony given by Fair was
to the effect that Carver owed him $50
He came to collect the money and re-
mained over night with Carver and they
slept together. In the morning both got
up together. Fair went to feed his horses
while Carver was to get breakfast. While
at a nearby neighbors he saw smoke at
the house and started. From that on all
the testimony is confusing and prompt
ed the jury 10 render the above verdict
without hesitation.