The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-28
Outlines of Oklahoma

The election to ratify the Creek-Dawes
| treaty viii be held May 1.
| South NcAlester has named one OF her
town extensions '.Mistletoe Addition
There viii be Dewey day exercises on
the government acre at Guthrie May L
Judge Scott q Newkrrk expects to take
his place in the Perry land office this
/ week
| P Quinn Harrison a relative Of Ben
| jamin Harrison is thinking OF locating al
Ponca City.
After long delay the work on the
water works system Of Shawnee began in
earnest last Monday.
| Governor Barnes showed up in Topeka
the other day but ne would not tell the re-
porters what he was there for.
The slot machines have broken out
again at Blackwell and Kildare and the
county attorney is hitching up his horse.
The White House club saloon at Ponca
| City has been re-opened. Il was closed
at the time Clyde Mattox shot Swinnie
The Enterprise says that there are sew
eral men in Perry who want TO enlist
and are anxious to see recruiting officer.
Perhaps when the government captures
Aguinaldo it viii send him down with
Geronimo for Bill Walker to teach farm
ing.
Secretary Jenkins is back from Wash
ington and is being congratulated for
having won out in the Perry land office
matter.
There is a woody story abroad that
Clyde Mattox is offering 10 give himself
up under the promise that he will be ad-
mitted TO bail.
Amos Ewing is in full sail after the oil
companies. They will have 10 improve
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somewhere and die.
Scott Cooper of Guthrie awoke the other
night and found white man in his
house. The man explained he was drunk
and Cooper let him go.
While Leslie Niblack of Guthrie was
sharpening a lead pencil the other day
deputy marshal came UP and threatened
to arrest him for timber-cutting.
a paGmist at Kansas City has read Gov
ernor Barnes hand and says that he is
a man whose conduct of public affairs is
greatly admired even 10y mis- opponents.
Jesse Shaw of Enid, who was sentenced
to the county jail for gambling by Judge
McAtee, has been pardoned by Governor
Barnes. after having served half of his
sentence.
The Oklahoma City lodge Of travelling
men, which gained 50 per cent in member
ship in year has been awarded the prize
Of mahogany altar by the cancellOr to
the lodge showing the greatest increase.
Oklahoma City's lodge now has ~ mem
bers.
The Waters-iPierce Oil company got
restraining order at Oklahoma City pre-
venting Inspector Eweing from throwing
out their oil. Ewing went before Judge
Burwel and had that order set aside. The
oil company will now appeal to the su-
preme court.
The law passed by the last legislature
permitting farmers mutual fire insurance
companies with a membership Of 1000 10
organize has been interpreted by Secre-
tary Jenkins to mean that foreign mu-
tual insurance companies with less than
1000 cannot operate in Oklahoma.
Matt Duhr, secretary Of the Oklahoma
BimeraIlic League. sends in the follow
ing invitation You are cordially in
vited to attend our mass convention at
Guthrie o. T., May u. If you are an
island grabber you might have a chance
to grab a chunk of an island in the Cim-
arron, between Langston and Perkins.
The wild and woody crowd will be kept
orderly by Major General Jack Stones
army and the Oklahoma navy. whic his
anchored in the muddy Cottonwood, IN
the somber shadow of Pabst's beer depot.