The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-01
Outlines OF Oklahoma

Newkirk has started to build an opera
house on the convention hall plan.
The slot machines at Newkirk have
been plugged by the county attorney.
oe ost OF ingisher is an aspirant to be
superintendent of the census in Okla
boma-
The corn land in Oklahoma is lying black
in the sun with the sunshine tickling the
little weed-roots.
There is livery stable at Blackwell
named The Red Hot Barn" Where do
they store their hay?
Jerre Johnson thinks the towns in Kay
county should be friendly rivals. That
only comes with age
Ell Admire. local editor of the Kinghsh
er Free Press, is still sick with that fe-
yer he contracted in Cuba
Enid Wave: "A circus man says gi-
RATES. are worth s.. 600 each No wonder
they hold their heads high
Mrs. r. H. Alexander of Macon. Mis-
souri,, is talking of putting in wholesale
drug house at Oklahoma City.
A lot of the young men of Oklahoma
are wondering If it will be warm enough
by July TO spring their new spring
suits.
can: Rough Rider Amrine serves fresh
oysters al all hours and to suit your
taste"
The fruit tree man Is all powerful in
Oklahoma at present. And how he is
standing in with the local editor every
where.
For the coming city election at Pond
Creek fifty per cent more people are reg
istered than usually register for county
election.
1t is said that twenty out OF the twenty
six members OF the new territorial COM
mittee are for Grimes, as against Cover
nor Barnes.
The Oklahoma people are coming TO be-
iieve implicitly in Hicks. There is hardly
a paper in Oklahoma that does not men
ton him weekly.
The Grant County vidette in speaking
of the johnson poisoning case, says that
the case was the best tried ever before
court in Oklahoma
The Kinghsher Reformer is Of the opin-
ion that without a mouth the politician
would be a wanderer on the face of the
earth and go down to an unhonored
grave.
The rumor is again persistent that Ma
jor Woodson and William Walker are TO
be removed as Indian agents. The ru-
NOR must get tired sometimes travelling
around so much.
Mrs. Lulu Johnson, who was acquitted
of poisoning two husbands, has taken up
her residence on her claim near Caldwell.
She says her long Imprisonment has
greatly impaired her health.
The Newkirk Democrat recently report
ed that W. r. Duvan of Blackwell had
died DuvaH is alive and Colonel Black
well is threatening to sue him for in
fringement on Blackwelrs only patent
and harmless death.
1t is said an effort is being made to
GUST William Grimes as chairman Of the
territorial central committee. The GUST
ers will find that job they can not &C
complsh, if it is true that any such move
ment is on. The chances are however.
that il is another case of 'ribbing a
thing Oklahoma Republicans should soon
begin to frown upon.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: This af-
ternoon Glen Aston, a young man about
"A years old shot himself in the head
with a 45-calibre Colts revolver. The ball
entered the center of the front part of the
head and came out at the back of the
head on the right side. The boy died at
$3.50. The boy has been suffering with
la grippe for several days and has been
irrational at times, but no one suspected
that he had any intention of committing
suicide. 1t was not known that he had
revolver in his room. He had been under
the care of DR.. Beard. The young mans
parents are DR.. and Mrs. Aston of Edin-
burgh, Miss, and are well known by May
or Allen, who telegraphed them this after
noon the sad intelligence of their sons
death. He has no relatives IN this city.
The young man was employed on the
Frisco section. The only excuse that can
be given for his terrible act is that ne
became despondcn- He had SIS in money
and a gold watch.