The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-07
Outlines of Oklahoma

| Dennis Flynn IS still OF the opinion tnat
free homes viii pass.
| Ex-Governor Renfrow made $500 clear
on one OF his Joplin mine deals
Tom Ferguson of vatonga thinks there
is a Jonah on the ship OF state at Guth-
RE.
The investigating committee VIII prob
! ably now proceed 10 put Governor Barnes
| in Jail.
Bob Nen of Kay county is already be-
| ing doomed for congress. from the state.
| by his friends.
Abercrombie & Miller have asked for
an electric light franchise from the coun-
| eli Of saltwater
| J. H. Haines. a young man living on a
| contested claim four miles north OF Nc
Loud, has disappeared.
/ Black Dog. full-biood, has been declared
chief of the Osages over his smarter but
not so cunning opponents.
The investigating committee now has
| two national bankers and one federal gov
ernor to punish for contempt
| a man out in Custer county the other
day witnessed the novel sight Of a coy
ote in full cry after a squirrel.
| Hattie Brown Of Kay county. who is
sixteen wears Of age, has disappeared
Some claim it IS an elopement.
Governor Barnes will not answer SUB
| poenas. He is a coordinate branch and
coordinate branches are mighty independ-
| ent.
The Norman Transcript says that the
| people of Cleveland county are unalter-
ably opposed to the location OF territorial
institutions.
The Watonga Republican says that
Reed cannot have the Oklahoma delega-
ton to the national convention, that Nc
Kinley will get It.
When Billingsley and 10 McNeal go to
jail. there is going TO be trouble in Okla
homa, and lots of il. They are business
men, and not politicians
The hardest place in the country 70
fill comfortably is that of Indian agent
An Indian agents job is always in dan
ger down in Washington.
It is now believed that the burning OF
the house near Watonga in which Par
thena Smith. Mrs. Edwards and a small
boy met their death, was a crime.
An eastern paper says that in western
Oklahoma kaffir corn is used instead OF
rice to throw at newly married couples.
1t is just as good and lots cheaper.
W. y. Stahl of Perry is out in personal
communication explaining 10 the scandal
mongers that he was duly divorced from
his first wife before he married his sec
ond.
If the building scheme had gone through
Oklahoma City, it is said, was prepared
10 offer 100000 for the erection of a tenn
porary capitol. provided the capitol was
located at Oklahoma City.
T. NJ. Richardson & Son of Oklahoma
City have sold their lumber business TO
r. B. Ragon and Mr.. Atwood. c. NJ
Blanchard succeeds Mr.. Ragon in charge
Of Davidson & Cases business at Okla
homa City.
The Arapahoe Bee says Of the Arapa-
hoes and Cheyennes: In this district
the Indians have refrigerated more in the
past year than they had advanced in the
five previous years. so far as living on
their allotments and farming is con-
cerned."
Oklahoma occasionally has truant
storms. One took place at Ponca City last
Thursday evening. The wind came up,
howled ferociousIy the air was full of dust
and people looked for a blizzard. But the
storm was only about three miles long
and raced away and left the town quiet
1t was playing hockey.
Purcell Register: Congress has been
consulting the wishes of the Cherokees
long enough. They have been given ev-
cry opportunity 10 fix up things for them
selves; more favors have been extended 10
them than to any other one of the tribes
But in every instance they have played
the part of spoiled children and have ar
rogantly presumed to dictate terms to the
United States.