The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-26
Outlines of Oklahoma.

One restaurant at Oklahoma City last
| Wednesday served 1850 people.
The chances are that Barnes will not
be removed until he IS removed
The attraction at Gushing last week
was a medicine dance In the old Indian
village.
| 1t is thought that a carpet-bagger viii
succeed the late Captain Hassler OF the
Enid land office.
| Senator Thacker, the Democratic lead
er of Greer county, says that fusion in
Oklahoma is dead.
1t would seem that the Cheyenne In
dams also have an Eggleston- Dennis
should call 'em down.
| The anti-saloon league Of Oklahoma,
having finished up with Kingisher, will
next tackle Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma City street fair left a
great litter on the streets. which the au-
| thorities are now sweeping up.
| Sixteen young Shawnee and Kickapoo
Indians took the train at Shawnee Fri
day night for Carlyle, Pennsylvania
| The Choctaw road will reach Little
Rock. Arkansas. about November Is, and
thereafter service clear through will be
| inaugurated-
Captain Hassler of Enid was a good
man and a progressive one. He had just
completed his fine colonial home at Enid
when death called him.
A restaurant at Perry the other day
displayed prairie chickens. The chickens
are said to be more plentiful this year
| than for some years past.
| Having finished with it's street fair Ok
iahoma City Will now begin preparations
for the entertainment Of the Rough RI
ders, which begins next June.
A man broke into saloon at Shawnee
| and stole eleven bottles Of booze. He
has not been captured. The authorities
might shrewdly search the gutter.
Abe Sommers' letter to the chiefs OF the
cheyenne tribe and Jake Admire has
more unconscious humor in it than
anything ever written in Oklahoma.
Ponca City Courier: The tallest stalk
! in the grain exhibition which Ponca City
sent to the Worlds Fair department in
Washington measured a little over 20
| feet.
TIL race for queen OF the carnival at
Guthrie still shows an increasing vote
Miss Jamison is first with 2,414 Mrs. Har-
ry Ardery has 2,4O2 and Miss Lillian
Laux 20S1.
Kramer of the Oklahoma City race
track, made the newspaper people pay
their way into his show and the news
papers are now mining the harbor Of
Mr.. Kramer's future.
w. J. jackson of Watkins tells the
Perry Enterprise that he has just finish
ed threshing AZ acres of wheat which av-
eraged q bushels to the acre and tested
60 pounds to the bushel.
Because fusion was permitted to stand
Frank McMaster vows never again to
attend a Democratic convention or serve
on a Democratic committee. He has re-
signed from the Democratic territorial cen
trail committee.
Recently Dennis Flynn said at Wealth
erford: What do you think? The New
England fellows are championing state
hood for Oklahoma. I am getting papers
from there daily with editorials urging
their congressman to admit the territory.
This is a change of sentiment and the
people of Oklahoma are almost sure OF
statehood at this session Of congress"
Here is a new free home scheme. The
government paid the Cheyenne and Arap-
ahoe Indians 40 cents an acre for their
| land and desire to sell it to the settlers
for SIPS. If the government gets its A2o
the Indians will have a claim and appar-
| emily a just one. II IL gives the iaiu ~
the settlers, the Indians can not sue for
the difference because there will be no
| difference.
| A funny thing recently took place In an
| Oklahoma town. local milliner start
ed east to buy goods. The local paper
announced that she had gone to South
McAlester. Her husband told people that
she had gone to New York TO buy goods.
| In two days she returned and the local
| paper said that she had returned from
South McAlester. OF course, this made
! the husband out a liar and he called on
the newspaper to clean it up. He met the
wife of the editor and bounced onto her
| ard drove a harmless reporter in among
| the cogs Of the Gordon job press when
the editor entered. rolled up his right
shirt sleeve and issued a strong, acid u
timatum. The kicker fed.