The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-09
Outlines of Oklahoma

Outlines Of Oklahoma
Every EFFORT is being made to prevent
a spread Of scarlet fever in Enid
The legislature has settled down TO bus
mess. and IS going TO quit with good
record.
Edgar Jones has apologized 10 Leslie
Niblack, and the harbor has been declared
free OF mines
If the investigating committee quits
now the general assumption will be that
it didn't find anything.
There is a belief that the investigation
has fallen through. This will be very
displeasing 10 Sidney Clarke.
Hutto and Candy. despairing Of a build
ing combine. are pushing through sepa-
rate appropriations for their Institutions
1t is said that the Populists are just
as glad TO get rid OF the old election law.
which tried TO disqualify negroes. as the
| Republicans are
Colonel William Jennings Bryan went
through Oklahoma the other day on the
Santa Fe. He was bound for Fort Worth,
| where he lectured.
Amos Ewing's Job has been saved. but
some OF the ostrich feathers have been
pulled out of II, by making it salary
instead Of a-fee office.
The present legislature should receive
good, warm pat on the back for passing
that law settling the raising Of the equal
| izatiOn figures, forever.
Lorraine Homer, aged three years. Harry
Horner's baby. who contracted the scar
let fever at Guthrie on the train between
| Guthrie and Enid. is dead.
| 1t will be very lonesome for Sidney
Clarke next week. He viii not be able
to spend his time getting behind Repub-
| licans, rubbing them 10 fight one an
other.
| If 1t cannot find anything else. the in
vestigators will probably announce gross
extravaganza. That Will not be bad. The
governor has rebuked the legislature for
the same thing and the legislature can
I come back.
George Osborne, who belongs to the
| Skeedees of the amalgamated Pawnees,
and has been out with Wild West show.
| discovered upon returning home the oth-
er day that his annuities had accumulated
until he could take SS45 in one payment.
The idea of the investigation was at first
to correct certain practices. which have
been followed for years in Oklahoma. The
| idea was not to correct the officials. Sid
ney Clarke played the Republicans and
set them out after Barnes with a scalp
| yell.
John D. Combs a member OF the house
at Guthrie, said in the course of the
! building combine Doodle talk that If the
news that he had been bribed (Which he
WASN'T should reach his mother, now 80
| years old, il would kill her Oklahoma
City at once sent his mother some cut
| flowers. Oklahoma City is hot stuff.
Kinghsher has had an excellent dele
cation in the present legislature. kink-
| Ter has not been extreme, but has been
intelligently active; Stevens has proved
himself 1s-caret and has honors awaiting
him in the future: while Van Kirk has
demonstrated that he can rustic and has
the confidence of nearly every man IN
the house.
Oklahoma should clear itself up on the
Alva Normal school matter The fight
on the Normal school is not against the
establishment Of a new educational insti-
tuition. which a part of the country Is
coming to think incorrectly, but the fight
is on contract for its building in which
jobbery is suspected. The last thing on
earth for Oklahoma TO get out over the
country is the impression that the terri
tory is not friendly in the extreme to ed
ucational institutions.
Ponca City Courier: The record Of the
police court Saturday shows somewhat
singular sentence. An individual charged
with wrongful possession Of a pair Of
pants was being tried before Judge Bry-
ant, and after hearing the testimony
the judge solemnly said: 1T Is :he order
of the court that you be fined so and
| costs and take off your pants" Upon
his refusal to comply with the latter part
of the courts decree. the sheriff pro-
ceeded to execute it without further for
mality.
Guthrie Leader: Last year Secretary
Cottingham, of the Liberia Colonizing as
ISOLATION. came TO Guthrie. selected his
agents and started them TO work among
the colored population OF the territory.
The agents made a success OF their trip.
for today at various points in the terri
tory the future citizens of Liberia con-
gregated to the number Of 800. They will
meet at Oklahoma iCty and in a body pro-
coed on their southern journey for L.
beria The inducements offered by the
colonizing association are fair, and peo-
pie taking advantage of the opportunity
are sure of success in financial and self
government ways.