The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-03
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Farms ii Kay county, ii is said, are
being priced at s4.eoo each.
| A Medford minister last Sunday took
| for his text: Fishing for 8uHnies-''
Ex-Postmaster Boggs of Shawnee has
filed his transcript Of appeal in the sI-
preme court.
The Hamblin Brothers are 70 start a
new Democratic paper at Newkirk. Il
| viii be inclined 10 fusion.
The Enid Wave hints that the grond
jury which is TO investigate the cake
walk is being put up 10 indict.
Woodward has a rising artist In the
person of l. D. Baker, who can draw
anything from a mountain 10 a mouse
II is now the period Of the year when
Oklahoma can not get along with a whole
lot Of sunshine and a mighty little rain.
J. B. Gribble, who has a claim In Kay
county, makes q lot of money on the side
by training church coirs, in which work
he is an expert.
TIL = Iewkirk Populist doesn't like the
man who inherits his fathers politics.
But wait till the Populists have been in
existence a generation.
1t Is announced that Amos Ewing will
deliver the Fourth of July speech az JEFF
gestures which he Will turn loose on that
occasion.
Stroud will use seventeen car loads Of
lumber in her oil well Stroud is a good
ways east and the people who puncture
the earth in that vicinity are liable 10
strike something.
One Populist paper in the territory &C
cuses Mark Hanna of keeping the western
troops in the Philippines so that they
viii lose their votes in the next national
convention and not get 10 vote for tree
silver
The way Jerre johnson of Kildare puts
ii is this: Among Oklahoma RepublI-
cans there is harmony in the ranks and
not among the leaders; IN the opposition
there is no harmony among the ranks
and lots of it among the leaders.
They tell it at Newkirk that some one
accidentally left a mandolin in a hotel
bed at Blackwell and a Ponca City man
awoke in the night and felt il. He grab
bed a bed-slat and broke it all TO pieces
and then went down stairs and told the
clerk that he thought the house ought
TO use insect powder before they got as
big as that.
Before the war John Spoons and Thomas
Davis were friends in Tennessee. When
the civil war broke out Davis went into
THE Sixty-first East Tennessee Confeder-
ate infantry. while Spoons went into the
Tennessee Union infantry. They never
saw each other again until Spoons and
Davis met each other on a country road
near Newkirk. They recognized each 9TH
er Immediately. Both have claims in
Kay county.
Enid Wave: James e. Hough and his
kidnapped bride returned home Tuesday
morning. Through the keen scent of De-
tective John Stanton. Mr.. Hough WIS
enabled to trace his wife to a point elev-
en- miles west of Mead Center, Kan,
where she was in the custody Of her faith
err, Mr.. Fin Hail. who was engaged in
clipping sheep. Her wherea bouts was dis
covered last Thursday sfter chase or
search for about two weeks. Hough in
duced the Mead Center ca. marshal 70
go out and arrest Mrs. Hough with
bogus warrant. After she arrived in town
HOugh procured a writ Of habeas corpus
for his wife and after quite a hearing
the probate Judge declared the marriage
legal and gave the girl over to the Gus
tody of her husband. and they imme il
ately returned to this. their future home.
Mr. Hall seems to be sort Of reconciisd
to the marriage Of his daughter. but Mrs.
Hall will not soon forgive the truaut pair.
The fatted calf was killed at the Hough
home on "Kenwood Heights" on the re-
turn Of the prodigal son and newly sv
quired daughter. The nervous system or
Hough, Sr., has cooled down to a normal
condition and everything seems 70 be love-
ly in this loves young dream. This es-
capade mas proven quite expensive TO both
sides The Halls spent about So in spirit
ing their daughter through Kansas about
300 miles. The young groom bowel In
about $50 following the trail including
the salary of Detective John Stanton. OF
course, young Mrs. Hough was glad TO
Join her husband and they will soon es-
tablish a home of their own.