The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-20
Outlines of Oklahoma

Whist Is needed among Oklahoma Re-
publicans more than anything else is an
"Anti-Ribbing society"
General J. r. Warren. agent at Ana
darko under Clevelandt's first term. died
the other day near Lexington
One of Judge Bierer's great grandfath-
ers. the one named Bierer, was made
baron in Europe about a century ago.
The supreme court did not declare the
newspaper part of the Grant county seat
fight unconstitutional. and it goes on mer-
rily as ever.
At FL Reno. Fourth OF July. two train
ed rabbits, Aguinaldo and Lawton, win
| run a race. 1t viii be patriotic to bet
on Aguinaldo.
The Norman State bank has a new
| contrivance into which the cashier scoops
| the money. each piece distributing itself
| into the right apartment.
The Ava boy who put his finger in an
automatic cigar clipper to see II II would
operate, reports 1t is in first-class work.
ing order. Part Of his finger Is gone.
Before Tom Ferguson pulls on that
Mexican chicken race al Watonga on the
Fourth, he ought TO look the thing up
in the Organic act. Maybe It's prohih-
| tied.
The newspaper correspondents should
| be careful or they will sprain their intel
| lects trying TO explain to their readers
why Governor Barnes wasn't investigat-
ed at Washington.
Greenfield, the Cleveland young man
who list in the rubber fields of South
America, win be sought by a relief party
| which will do a little rubber-necking it
self.
The people would like 10 know what
Tom Fergusou's Mexican chicken race"
| at Watonga, July 4, will be like. Is a
Mexican chicken short on feathers as a
Mexican dog Is on hair?
The number OF anti-horse thief associ-
atoms in the territory Is increasing. The
association usually charges 81 in tiation
| fee. ana an assessment OF 90 cents every
| time the crowd turns out to hunt a
| horse.
Some of the enemies Of Judge Hainer,
| who are anxious to make trouble for him,
| are saying that the Judge recently over
ruled the supreme court of the United
States in regard to the clerks fees In his
| court.
The house flies in Oklahoma are less
| bOthersome than they have been for years.
| The extreme cold last winter killed of
| some of the old dodgers who have been
| filling the place OF grand-dad 10 a good
| many generations.
The mayor of Perry stole a march on
the Democratic members Of the city
| council who are trying TO obstruct legis-
lation. by getting them to attend a meet
| ing to open a street. Once present the
mayor promptly opened his appointment
box and made a policeman.
II Bill Grimes Is knocked out for CEN
sus supervisor, 1t Is pretty fair evidence
| that the way not TO get q place in Ok
lahoma IS to go out and work your head
| off as territorial chairman during a cam
paign. If Barnes is fighting Grimes he
| IS making mistake, and will suffer
for II.
The recent cyclone at New Richmond
followed almost identically the same track
that a cyclone did thirty years ago, the
one that picked Bill Nye up and dropped
him. breaking his arm. at a time. too.
when. Bill Nye says, he hadn't done a
thing TO the cyclone" Nye also said that
he could have struck back IL he had
| cared TO.
The Iowa Indians have an idea that
they would like to be transferred to a
| reservation in New Mexico. This Is a
| slight request and ought to be grant ed,
| but next week the New York papers will
| be publishing a dispatch from Perry to
the effect that 354 9Ss Iowa Indians are
marching straight for Old Mexico, walk
ing over the wheat fields and trampnng
down locust groves.
Gushing Herald: jess Carter. the big
| gest Saukie Indian in the tribe. who lost
| his wife during the smallpox plague, has
now married Lille Grey-Eyes, who also
| lost her husband by smallpox. The court
ship was short and the marriage ceremony
shorter. Jess was in town with some OF
! his Indian friends the other day and set
| them UP to the boys. They couldn't get
| anything stronger than soda pop. but sue
ceeded In getting away with two cases
| of that.