The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-15
Outlines of Oklahoma.

! pawn-broker at Oklahoma City is in
trouble over having received stolen goods
Judge McAtee's remarks in sentencing
Taylor Kirk will be widely read in Okla
homa.
I The new brick hotel at Oklahoma City.
! it is thought, will be completed by
March L
/ The sentence Of Taylor Kirk will have
+ beneficial effect on the criminal class in
+ the territory.
The government seems determined not
I to let the politicians have any more IN
dian agencies.
The territorial poultry show win take
place at Oklahoma City the four days
following Christmas.
About the only hope that Taylor Kirk
now has is to escape and he will watch
for a chance for that
In Oklahoma despite the warnings of
the newspapers good many mortgages
are being filed and very few released.
Judge ]. T. Lamm. one of the editors
of Judge. New York. has filed suit for
divorce from his wife in the court at
Perry.
Oklahoma City could profit by sending
a committee to Wichita to find out a few
things in regard to bonuses TO railroads
and other enterprises.
Judge Scott and Supervisor Conkling II
seems are having trouble over confirm
alton, and Dennis Flynn is acting wisely
in keeping his hands off.
Horace Speed has put in a formal appH-
cation for the appointment Of United
States district attorney. Governor Barnes
is backing Scothorn for the place.
Taylor Kirk believes that the court is
numbering him. The court Is simply
~ ~ Of
the coldest-blooded murders in criminal
history.
Four thousand quail billed to the Ar
mours of Kansas City have been seized
at Guthrie. The Armours do not respect
the law very much more than the quail
hunters.
The foundation is preparing at Okla
homa City for a $4,000 residence which
Governor Renfrow will build. 1t will be
of pressed brick and will be located in the
center of a square.
Miss Nitsel of McCloud recently became
vexed at her brother and left home. He
has since been searching for her. 1t is
known that she is in Oklahoma City, but
the officers have not been able to locate
her.
Before departing for the penitentiary
the prisoners in the Oklahoma county
Dixon, their jailor, concluding with this:
''Au the inmates of this Jail agree in say
ing that you are the best jailer they have
ever heard Of"
Dr.. iDagley and his wife at Oklahoma
City are in court IN a quarrel over their
children, aged IS months and years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dagley separated, Mrs.
Dagley taking the children. Then DR.
Dagley got possession Of them and now
Mrs Dagley applies for a writ Of habeas
corpus to secure them.
When Mr.. Carnegie heard from Mrs
Douglass that the council had made the
appropriation for the library, he wrote
her as follows: de lighted to receive
the resolutions Of the council. The prop
er library authorities can draw upon my
cashier, F. A. Franksn, Carnegie building,
Pittsburg, for such sums as are neces-
sary from time to time TO pay for the
building, up TO $4,000. Mr.. Franks has
been instructed to pay such drafts"
Enid Wave: Judge Canot, an old-time
friend of the writer in Harper, Kansas, |
is a witness in the district court in the |
Hamilton murder case. Judge Canon is
now a citizen of Grand, Dayton county. !
The judge is quite hale and hearty at the (
age of 70 years. He was formerly the |
first and last settler of Farwell, Hans /
ford county, Texas, away up close TO the |
clouds in the extreme short grass coun- |
try. For a long time he was justice of /
the peace, postmaster and landlord of the |
only hotel in the town. He stayed there
until he didn't see a human being for
two weeks at stretch but when it came
to staying alone a whole month he de-
serted the camp, giving the owls and
prairie dogs full possession. Mr.. Mum
ger, the father of Mrs. Ed Weatherly,
was the founder of the town, but only
visited ii once for the reason that in
staying over night the owls bothered his
sleep and he never returned.