The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-08
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Joe McNeal and Billingsley viii be
prosecuted for contempt Nix.
Mrs. Dr. vandevoort Of Guthrie is dead
at Guthrie. She was a noble woman
Postmaster Mckinley OF Kingdsher,
who has been dangerously i'll. is recover
ing.
will have harder time than ever in get
ting statehood
Governor Barnes VIII sign the woman's
suffrage bill If II passes And he VIII
thereby make a mistake.
Edgar Jones has slapped Leslie Nib
lack in the face. Spread the saw-dust on
the floor and stand back.
A l. Strough OF Toledo. Ohio. while
visiting his brother-in-law Mr.. H L. Nil
Ter at Guthrie died Sunday.
II is said that Judge Irwin. who has
arrived at Guthrie will pick clerk from
Illinois. He might better not
There is going 10 be a row over confir-
nation Of Governor Barnes appointees.
The council will not confirm them
Enid is building hall and giving prizes
for tickets purchased The first prize is
Senator Ravens bull calf or $500 in
gold.
Oklahoma will have an exhibit at the
Louisiana Centennial Exposition at 81.
Louis. and it should not spare money in
getting II Up.
William Pollock. the Pawnee Indian who
was a Rough Rider and who was COM
plimented so highly by Roosevelt. is dead
OF pneumonia
Tom Doyle has a scheme TO get the Ok
lahoma convicts to build a penitentiary
at Perry. Tom is running 10 thrift in an
exceedingly extreme manner.
Leslie Niblack is in trouble, and is hav-
ing his arms put in pullsys so that he can
get Edgar Jones' reach. which now ex-
ceeds Leslie's by two milimeters-
McElrath tried to prohibit the practice
of Christian Science in Oklahoma by IN
sorting a section against il in his bill.
The council thought it was interference
with religious belief, and killed Neil
rath's section
There has been. no doubt, big provoca-
ton for all kinds OF violence in political
circles in Guthrie in the last two months.
but to think that the first pugilistic en-
counter should come between Edgar Jones
and Leslie Niblack.
The kaufman boarding house at Enid
is quarantined because OF case Of scar
little daughter arrived at Enid from
Guthrie and put up at this house. The
next day the child was taken i'll with
malignant type of scarlet fever
The inclination of the legislature at
Guthrie is to give women suffrage. Wo-
men do not want suffrage Those few
who do viii make themselves obnoxious
when they do get 1t, and the Republican
who votes for it now will rue the day,
the next time he runs for office.
Near Cordell live Mr.. and Mrs. A. E.
Dawson. Mr.. Dawson left his revolver
on a chair. Mrs. Dawson in seating her
helf to nurse her baby, knocked the re
vOlver off on the floor. dscharging il,
the bullet passing through the bottom Of
the chair, the baby's foot, and into Mrs.
Dawson's leg.
Judge Burford was recently In Wash
ington and on his way back was inter
viewed at Indianapolis, where he told
the reporter that he received little en-
enlargement for statehood for Oklahoma
in Washington, being assured that until
Populism dies out neither party in power
will favor the admission Of Oklahoma.
Guthrie Capital: Sometime ago CORE
spondence opened between a number Of
Rough Rider boys here and Buffalo Bill,
for he wanted a few of the boys 10 join
his Wild West show. for they would be
a great attraction and still more so com
ing from Oklahoma. The correspondence
closed the other day with the signing
of a contract between Bill and twelve
of the boys. they agreeing to be in New
York by the Hst of March. where they
viii appear in time for the opening Of the
company's season on March 18th. The
Wild West show will leave in the early
summer for Europe and will not again
return TO America until after the Paris
exposition in 1900. Among those who are
going was VIM. Pollock, who died Sun
day of pneumonia. He won especial fame
in the Rough Rider troops as the best
horseman of all. Those who compose the
company are Francis Byrne. Gerald
Webb, Ben Miller. Dorsey Miller, Mr..
Faux, VIM McGinty, Lon Muxlow, Fred
Beal Ed LOngmiller. Walter Cook, and
Charles johnson. The company viii be
under the management of Gerald Webb,
who is a master hand at cavalry drill and
craftsmanship.