The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-05
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The young Christian gentlemen OF Ok
lahoma City are taking steps to orga-
nize 7. NJ. c. A
/ Sid Clarke held conference with Dan
Perry and Frank Gillette at e Reno Sat-
urday on statehood matters.
MeHaffey. the slayer OF Mcdonald Of D
county. was given sixty days in which
to secure his bond of SO. 900.
Bill Walker has received word that his
accounts while agent of the Kiowas and
Commanches balanced TO a cent.
Peter Maytubbie, Chickasaw. and one
Of Roosevelt's Rough Riders. shot man
the other day and is in trouble.
The Dawes commission in its report
got in some French words, but merci-
fully omitted any Choctaw language.
The regular panel for a jury in the
Clyde Mattox case has been exhausted
and new list of Jurors is being sum
moned.
The result of the Douglas trial at Pur-
cell would indicate that in this part Of
the nation offended poets can not commit
murder.
Nearly every weekly paper in Oklahoma
last week made special mention OF the
extraordinary favorable condition OF the
growing wheat.
Oklahoma City is a fortunate town.
Mrs. Selwynn Douglas is as successful in
securing libraries as c. G. Jones is in
ensnaring railroads.
1t would be tough on the farmers II the
wheat in Oklahoma this winter should get
high enough TO joint. 1t threatens TO do
that in some sections.
Judge Irwin doesn't think that capital
punishment Will be done away with IN Ok
lahoma- The next legislature is liable
to knock it higher than a kite.
Bert Concannon of Oklahoma City was
found guilty at Arkansas City Of taking
$40 from a hotel Those acquainted
with the case say that the verdict is
unjust.
1t is dangerous to wear diamonds. A
man at Oklahoma City had one on his
hand when Ehe struck another gentleman.
and 1t cut the gentleman up so that he
has sued for damages.
Jake Admire also says that the fight
on Sydney Clarke and his trip to Wash
ington is uncalled for. and rejoices that
it is being made. not in Republican pa
pers, but in Democratic ones.
The editor Of the Hennessey Clipper
notes in the dispatches that Aguinaldo's
rear-guard has been struck and adds that
he had the same thing happen to him fire.
quently when he was younger.
Perhaps George Gardenshire of Payne
county is leaving Oklahoma on the the
DRY that he doesn't want to change his
politics, and man can not sell claim
farm for $500 and be Populist effect
lively.
Reverend Boles, an evangelist at Guth-
rie, is violently forcing the public to no.
tice him. OF Dewey and our other idols
he says: Il condemn war as l would
a bull fight. Glorify our heroes? 1 will
never glorify murderers!
This world is full of possible accidents
Fred Widemeyer of Oklahoma City was
pulling down some old vines, when the
point of a wire with which the vines
were tied, tipped over and struck him IN
the face just below the eye.
Oklahoma has produced some strange
scenes. Here is an early morning one
from tn Oklahoma City Oklahoman: Ok
lahoma City Is cosmopolitan. Yesterday
morning before the north bound passen-
ger arrived, a reporter happened in at the
Santa Fe depot. In the ladies waiting
room were a number of ladies and gentle
men bound for the north. On blankets on
the floor, sound asleep. were fourteen
Salvation Army lads and lassies. They
had bought tickets for Seattle, Washing
ton In the mems waiting room dozen
blanket Indians were enjoying sweet re-
pose on the hardwood floor. When the
train came in the Salvation Army people
sang a rousing song with cornet accom-
paniment, the bucks grunted and gath
cred their blankets about them and a mo-
ment later the train bore them out of the
station.