The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-26
Outlines of Oklahoma

This is going TO be a year when Okla
hona's cyclone record viii remain blank.
The payment to the Iowa Indians has
been delayed by the presence OF smallpox
1t is said TO be rule OF Henry Asp
never to give interviews TO newspaper re-
porters.
II is reported that the chase for Clyde
Mattox has been abandoned Did il ever
begin?
Roy Hoffman and John Embry have
formed law partnership at Chandler and
unfurled a shingle.
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman got cut
a beautiful souvenir edition on Okla
homa's tenth birthday.
Seven people have gone insane in Lin
coin county since January l, and have
been transported to Norman
The Dawes commissioners have an over
land car in which they live and store the
census rolls and roll from place 10 place.
The first act of the newly elected coun-
Gil at Rush Springs was to declare all the
acts of the previous council Illegal and 10
repeal them.
The men who are trying 70 pry Judge
McAtee out OF his place are simply break
ing their crow-bars. OF all cinches Nc
Atee's is the heaviest in Washington.
Harry Gilstrap in reply TO his calmina-
tors calls attention 10 the fact that his
bride had moved 10 Oklahoma and was
virtually an Oklahoma young woman be-
fore the marriage.
The prisoners in the Chandler jail made
their weekly attempt To escape last Wed
nesGay. They dug hole in the floor and
then concealed il with sawoust- But the
TAILOR saw and made them surrender their
saw.
1t is reported that the Greer county
teachers have at last received pay from
Texas for their services during that time
Greer county was supposed 10 be part
OF Texas.
The same cloudy, smoky veil which
spread ali over Oklahoma and Kansas
about a week ago was also dense out in
Beaver county. No one claims to be able
to explain it
Herbert Craig. pioneer ranchman and
saloon keeper at Liberal. Beaver and
Hardesty is dead He had a good heart
but drank 20 excess. He never belonged
to church, but believed in immortality.
Smith Allen and JOB Tharp of Cim-
AKRON, recently followed she wolf seven
miles, and the beast carried cub in her
teeth all that distance. The two men
captured the mother and the babies in
their den.
Governor Barnes, together with other
western governors. wrote a letter 20
| President DiaZ of Mexico, asking for the
pardon of Mac Stewart, western cow
boy. now in Mexican prison. President
Diaz has written a reply and declines to
interfere.
A man at Purcell went into a barber
shop and the barber had just finished the
job when the customer grew angry in a
political discussion, jumped out of the
chair and left the shop, hot as a hornet.
A barber across the street finished the job
and whacked up with his fellow-cTafts-
man.
The Oklahoman prints a terrible story
to the effect that recently a hermit died
on his claim in Greer county who years
ago as the son of a rich eastern merchant
was engaged 10 marry very beautiful
woman. Just before the wedding day a
doctor examined an eczema on his hands
and told him he had leprosy. The poor
man fed from the world. The Oklahoman
might have given names while ii was
about il.
Following are the rules which govern
the cemetery at Cleveland: 1. All want
ing lots in the cemetery must purchase a
lot and pay for the same in a reasonable
length of time. 2. In digging graves dirt
must not be put on anOther's lot. The
dirt and rock out of each grave left after
filling tht same must be removed by the
owner of the lot. 8. Only the hearse or
wagon containing the corpse and carriage
containing the family of the deceased viii
be allowed to drive into the cemetery. e.
All lots occupied and not paid for are
liable to he sold to some other person, ex-
cept enough to contain the grave.