The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-27
Outlines of Oklahoma.

There is considerable opposition to the
| sewerage system at e Reno.
John Golobie of Guthrie Is charged with
| taking opera glasses into the Midway.
| The Anti-Saloon league has organized
at Enid with seventy-one members.
| The wheat in the strip needed the rain
badly and it got soaker for the long
wait.
The auditors Of the big lumber compa-
MES are touring the territory, checking
up again.
| The telephone company is stringing
wires between FL Reno and KinahsheT,
| this week.
The Choctaw thinks it will have through
service from Weatherford to Memphis by
December l.
Guthrie feels that her street fair was
| too late and next year will schedule it
a little earlier.
has decided to locate at Enid in the real
estate business.
! If this winter is going to be as hard
as last winter it has got to get In its
| work faster than It is.
! The Ell Reno News backs Dennis Flynn
in his move for statehood. and says the
| territory is ripe for IL.
L. G. Cobb of Ponca City has sold his
| English setter, Mob, to A &c. Palmer Of
Colorado Springs, for $125.
The two-year-old son of Tom Clouder,
near Frisco, fell into a wash-boiler tie
other day and was drowned.
Oklahoma City repaid Guthrie for her
attendance at the formers street fair by
sending a thousand people TO the Guthrie
carnival.
A large acreage OF wheat in the strip
ground dries bit the farmers will rustic
to get it in.
When Oklahoma is finally made a state
that fight for the United States senator
ships will form entirely new lines in Ok
lahoma politics.
The United States government and guar
dams of Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico. and
the Sultan of Sulu has decided TO carpet
and generally decorate anew the district
court room at Enid
A hardware commercial traveller from
st. Louis visited Tonkawa the other day
and when bordering on the evils OF a
great city and the virtues of a small
town was touched for his wad $3.50.
Ed Gilroy, a former treasurer of Gar
field county, has compromised with the
county commissioners, according to the
Enid Wave, for half what the expert ac-
countant found him owing the county
1t seems settled that Sidney Clarke did
not sign those charges against Governor
Barnes. But 1t is not settled that such
charges are on file. Ryan's letter to
Clarke does not say that the charges are
there.
In two towns recently men having slot
machines in their places of business have
taken them out and burned them. At
Okarche man set up a machine and the
boys came in and played 1t and won.
1t made him SO mad he took it out In
the alley and burned 1T up.
An amateur detective at Weatherford
hrrested man believing him to be want
ed for murder at Salt Lake. The OFF,
Ger from Salt Lake came to Weatherford
at an expense of $50 and found that the
man arrested did not in the least con-
form to the description iof the murderer.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: A white
man employed at the Saddle Rock yes
terday morning struck a negro woman
in the face with pitcher, cutting her
face very badly. The police are looking
for the imam, but at this time had not
found him. He will likely be severely
dealt with when he is brought into court
Quanah Parker chief of the Kiowa and
Comanche tribes, Is working heroically
TO increase the size of the allotments of
lands for his tribes. The government pro-
poses to give each member of the tribe
$50 acres, or an average of at least one
section Of $40 acres to each family Chief
Quanah wants each to have $40 acres. He
argues that the reservation is suitable
only for grazing and that less than a
section each would prevent pursuing the
avocation of cattle-raiser.