The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-10
Outlines of Oklahoma.

SiIVerS Oi1on Ied Sixty people on one
| Oklahoma watermelon at Omaha.
A. Lung of Custer county is a Repub-
lcan, not a Pop1list. committeeman
Lennie Sears time at the Kay county
fair last week in a free-for-an was Am
An Oklahoma City minister took for his
| text: IF not TO Christ TO whom shall We
go?'
Mrs. st. John, who is holding a revival
In the Methodist church at Guthrie. at
tacks divorce.
The contract for building the Frisco
| southwest from Oklahoma City to Acme,
Texas, will be let November Is.
AS her maids of honor, Queen Lillian
Laux of Guthrie has chosen Miss Louise
Barnes and Miss Blockie Jameson.
The farmers along the proposed line
from Kingfsher TO Oklahoma City are
doing their part by liberal donations
The Custer county term of court has
been postponed. owing the the illness of
Judge Irwin, VINO has gone to Illinois.
The management of the Kay county
races at Newkirk is being complimented
for the way in which it pulled the events
off.
Judge McAtee says that the temporary
court house at Pond Creek is unsafe, and
there.
Harry Gilstrap is one of the Oklahoma
editors who sits up at night trying to
make his paper brighter, and the paper
shows it.
The Jenkins-Thompson combination has
won out on its first effort. There seems
no doubt that Conklin will be appointed
census supervisor.
Conrad Mas, the Blaine county man
who murdered his wife, got life SEN
tence. The capital punishment law in
Oklahoma is imperative.
The street sprinkler man at Oklahoma
City has been asked TO pick up a little bit
on his technique and come to full pause
at the street crossings.
If Sidney Clarke signed himself to the
Barnes charges as ''ex-member of con-
gress from Kansas" there Is some sort
of explanation coming from him.
Near Alva there is a cave which is in
habited by thousands Of bats, which, from
the amount Of guano there is, nave used
this hole as home for centuries.
In behalf OF the devils of Oklahoma IL
should be said that the papers they issued
in Oklahoma while the bosses" were
absent in st. Louis last week were high
ly creditable.
Frank Mc,Master says he is a Demo
crat and will probably always remain one,
but he will never attend another Demo-
cratic meeting. 1t is thought that Nc
Master is an expansionist.
With the sentencing of Frank Jennings,
Pat O'Malley and Morris O'Aialley, at
Chickasha, last week, train robbing as
a business is spOnged off the CONNER
cial bulletin Of Oklahoma. AS a trade
it never did pay.
With Professor ]. W. Sharpe of Okla
homa City as chairman and Miss F. B.
Welsh as secretary of a temporary or
ganization. the negro teachers of the ter
ritory are forming a Territorial Colored
Teachers association.
An old lady in Rhode Island, hunting
for son in Oklahoma, sent a letter to
Oklahoma City and asked that It be sent
to Guthrie by a special messenger, as
she feared the Indians would stop and
loot the regular mail.
This shows how much in need the In
dian Territory is of an established ter
ritorial form Of government 1t is an
extract from an Indian Territory paper:
Lawyer Smith of Vinita was put out
of the territory because he refused to pay
hay royalties But he wouldn't stay
out and at last account was back at
Vinita, with the authorities after him
for the $1,000 fine to which he is sup
posed to have subjected himself by step
ping back on the sacred soil of the In
dian Territory.
Kilgfisher Free Press: The silence OF
the Honorable William Abraham Somers,
Of the Cheyenne nation, we are quite
sure, is ominous. We have noticed thrills
Of an earthquake from the west seyerai
times lately. We again assure Mr.. Som
er5 that the columns OF he Free Press
are still open to him, and another we'll
directed thunderbolt at Short Whiteran
would be quite welcome at this time He
might also, If he chooses. take a snap
shot at Lawyer Fields the luminous BEN
eficiary of Short Whiteman's cunning
Mr.. Somers made great hit, if he only
knew it, and We hope that he will soon
show up from the cave of gloom in which
he took refuge after his recent explosion