The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-04
Outlines OF Oklahoma

A butcher at Oklahoma City serves bar
becued beef daily.
Dr. e e Kirkpatrick has been elected
president of the Oklahoma dental assoei-
alton.
At Edmond. George Fox was elected
marshal over John Gohagen. This was
the hardest fight.
Logan and Snow. the dry goods men Of
Kingisher, viii put in a branch store az
Okeene, in Blaine county.
At Ponea City Grove was elected mayor;
Cullen marshal; Slane clerk; Sullivan
treasurer; Erwin police judge.
1t is said that the grand jury wanted
TO indict Governor Barnes, but Judge
Burford wouldn't let them do it.
Isenberg. of Enid. pronounces negro
cake-walk as uninteresting 10 an Anglo
Saxon as an Indian ghost-dance-
At the Dewey day celebration at Guth-
RE last Mondey, Governor Barnes an
nounced that he favored expansion
"A plenty" is an Oklahoma expression.
For instance. an Oklahoma merchant ad-
vertises: I'VE have shoes a plenty.
Dennis Flynn has persuaded President
Mckinley 10 appoint Eli Admire of King
| fisher lieutenant in the regular army.
At Norman May II, Frank Greer will
reaQ a paper 70 the OhldHDillei 1 AcSS e'S~O-
citation on The Editor as Politician.
The Enid Wave has Joined the war on
| old Oklahoma because of its monopoly
| in the location OF territorial institutions.
Mrs. Judge McAtee was granted d.
vorce in default; given her former name.
Mrs. Pratt. but granted no alimony, this
week at Kansas City.
| The Norman amateurs are putting on
| 'Chimes of Normandy" and Guthrie oo-
jects on the ground that the Guthrie ANA
teurs cracked the bells.
! Bob Parker Of Perry heard some one N
| his barn the other night and went out
| to investigate The robbers feled him
with a rock and skipped.
| by cable and at cost Of SIS, Mr. Wa
geek OF Ponca City has received in
/ formation from Manila that the wound
of his son George is not serious.
Blaine county is getting up a subscrip-
| ton for railroad and the Okeene Eagle
saws the total amount subscribed so far
would not pay the railroads taxes one
year.
The Perkins Journal recently offered 90
| cents as prize for the best map OF Okla
homa drawn by a pupil IN the Perkins
school. and so cents for the best map
of Payne county
gressional investigation into the political
affairs in Oklahoma-that is, into the IN
| vestigation OF the Barnes administration
by the legislature.
The mayor and city marshal at Enid
have clashed over the liberties allowed
| men who hawk their wares on the
street The mayor is for revenue, the
marshal for excluding the hawkers more.
r. O. Blakeney of the Oklahoma City
Oklahoman, has sold a part interest in
his paper to c. S. Dulin, who becomes
editor and Cash Sirpless. who becomes
business manager. The paper has been
enlarged.
Lightning struck the house of Clayton
Dott in Enid the other night and ran in
TO the kitchen stove. near which Mrs.
Dott and her baby were sitting. The
shock made the baby unconscious for a
few moments.
Governor Barnes says OF the Filipinos:
| These people are not half civilized" and
of the Philippine islands: These islands
are ours and we have become charged
with the solemn responsibility for the well
fare and care Of the people who innabit
them"
The program of the Oklahoma Press as
! sociation which meets at Norman on May
II, is given out by President Campbell and
Secretary Wharton. 1t follows: Address
of welcome. mayor of Norman; response,
President Of the association; Character
of journalism" T. F. Hensley; cut
Rates." Roy f. Stafford; County Print
ing" Tom Woolsey; "A New Editorial
! Cult" L. G.. NibIack; Personal Column -
Tom Jarboe; Newspaper Legislation. -
VIII II Little; cash Subscription Plan"
Bert Campbell THE Subscription List"
J. w Lawton; Newspaper knowledge
Of School Work. D. r. Boyd; The Ed
itor as a Politician" F. II. Greer; Duty
of the Newspaper to the Public" J. Y.
Admire; "a Good Impression" H. 3.
Gnstrap; Relation Of the Newspaper TO
the Home Candidate" Edgar Brain;
Our Association" W. E. Bolton.