The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-23
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Justly proud of that boy is Governor
Barnes. He wants to lick Spain. He has
the right spirit.
Young Barnes speaks of the coming
war a settled thing. He no doubt
voices the general sentiment on hoard The
man-of-war.
AT Pawnee Mr.. Herman walked into
Mr.. Ripley's house and pounded the day
lights out of Ripley. And a jury gave
only $50 damages.
Harry Gilstrap has been appointed Uni
ted States commissioner at Chandler Gov
/ ernor Barnes ought to weep a couple of
ears and then quit.
| Pawnee is long way off the railroad
and telegraph, but it had the rumor that
| the Montgomery was blown up, along the
/ rest of the country.
Alva has selected the site for its Nor
NAL school, going out of the corpora te
/ limits for it, which is bad, although gem
| eral custom in the west.
| ]. J. Burke of Norman wants the deputy
cierkship for Cleveland county under
Judge Burford and all the newspaper men
are hoping he will get it.
We want peaceable man for mar
Shall says an Oklahoma paper. Not
necessarily gun toter, but man VINO
will enforce the ordinances"
The farmers of Oklahoma are liable to
make the mistake of not planting cotton
this year. and, about the first of Septem-
Der, cotton will go sky-high in price.
At the home Of Jay Montgold in King
fisher county the other evening, neigh
bors swooped down upon him, in honor
of his twenty-frst birthday, and present
ed him with a Bible
Edward Everett Vail. editor Of the
Saltwater State, has formally protested
to the authorities against a honk-atonk
which is conducted next door to him. Ii
is too bad about poor Edward Everett
Vail.
Near Hennessey one night last week 70
head of two-year-old cattle were standing
about a feed rack which was struck by
lightning and all killed. It seems that
people will never learn that that number
% is loaded
The famous Shoemaker case in Blaine
county has at last been dismissed. Shoe
maker has been tried three times; he
has been confined in most of the 1ails in
the territory; the case has cost Blaine
county SO 600.
Senator DooTn's retirement from the Te-
cumseh Leader is said TO be because he
violated Populist doctrines BY playing the
dude, sleeping on a goose-hair bed with
springs under II, using silver tableware.
and white table-cloths. and having a car
pet on his floor.
Ponca City Courier: a private has been
found TO enlist in a company to be or
gained in Ponca City in case OF war
with Spain. Chas- Bryant says ne viii 60
as q private and he stands alone so far.
Everybody else demands a commission be-
fore they viii enlist 10 fight the countTy's
battles.
The meanest thing on earth for a crowd
to do Is 10 take a vote on the pretuest I
girl present This was done al a box
supper in the Lone Star school house IN {
Kingfsher county the other evening The
result OF the voting was. Miss Deborah /
Haines. 81; Miss Pearl Sponsisr, 8; Miss /.
Cerilda John =. 1t is dollars 10 dough /
nuts that Cer7}Ga cried her eyes oct after 4
she got home
Guthrie Leader: Dean STift wrote in i
.C;ulliver's Travels And he gave * for 1
his opinion that whoever could make tEo
ears Of corn. or two blades Of grass, 20 4
grow upon 9 spot q ground where oniy 4
one grew before. would deserve better =
n II kind and CO more essential service
10 his country. than tae y h04s race q
politicians put toserher TIE thought
nav vel be bourne n mind D. sserg
Guthrie citizen a. this the q tree, flower,
sar15 aid grass planting