The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-25
Outlines of Oklahoma

Mrs. Johnson al Enid.
| Colonel Yates has hooked on again He
| is now commissioner a Pawhuska.
The Hutchinson Southern expects to ex-
tend right on southeast OF Ponca City
Timothy Donahoe. a respected citizen
Of Ponca City, is dead. He was So years
old.
1t is said that you can hear more talk
hear of Missouri.
| In some Of the woman societies in Okla
homa all the members take a pledge 10
read the Bible through within year.
The State bank Of Norman has gone on
Mr.. Walls bond Walls is Populist and
hitherto has not had much use for banks
One Of the things the Missouri papers
urge against prospective movers TO Okla
homa is that sand storms in Oklahoma
| are terrible"
The Kaw Indians have, decided TO make
everyone who is not a citizen and who
| lives on the reservation pay a loyalty Of
| so year in advance.
| May Craig of Guthrie, has secured a di-
vorce from Carl G. Craig and given her
maiden name May Sherman. Cruelty and
| abandonment were charged.
| Clarkes bill prohibiting officers from
issuing warrants for more than the legis-
! lature Appropriated, il is said. Will close
some of the territorial institutions.
| Medford is arranging TO make all
tramps work on the streets this spring
boarding and lodging them for their
trouble. No tramps will bother that town
Pelzer, the barber at Newkirk early
made a resolve never to talk politics TO
his customers. A pair Of nice new full
feathered wings are waiting him in
Heaven.
L. S. Ohler, in the Pawnee Jail. says
that Andersonville wasn't in II with that
prison. He says the stove has been so
cold all winter that he could hold his
hands on it.
Jerre Johnson says TO his readers: Let
the subscription price go. 1t is only a
small sum-" Jerre should marke that sar-
casm, or some day some delinquent will
quote it at him.
Some Of the very papers which spent
their time rubbing up the legislature TO
keep up the investigation are now de-
nouncing the legislature because it does
not pass more laws.
1t all gets back TO Judge Burford in
the end. When the legislature got after
Barnes. Burford had to settle it. And
now when the grand jury is after the
legislature Judge Burford has 10 settle it.
The people at Pawnee. according to
Senator Biddison, know not what they do
when they denounce him, as he did his
best to prevent the passage of the act
which cut off the Indian taxes from Paw
nee county.
The Alva Review. a Populist paper,
speaks of Mckinley as William Won Nc
Kinley. The POpulist papers in Oklahoma
have never forgiven the way the Ger
mans in the territory supported Dennis
Flynn last fall.
Territorial Treasurer Thompson is OBJ
serving Clarke's law prohibiting officers
from issuing warrants over and above
appropriations and has turned down a
debt Of S225 to the Edmond Normal. The
Edmond Normal will have to wait two
years and get it into a deficiency.
Hennessey Kicker: We learn from a
Honolulu paper that Bila Alaphai, All
Kui, All You. c. j. All Fat, Boo Sau
Tong. Bow Din. DOL Ak Goo, Iokepa. Ell
len Kaho!oholo, Lelhulu KeOhokaloIe
Northumberland. Not At and B. So are
behind with their taxes and that their
places are advertised for sale.
Among the most hotly contested cases
for divorce disposed OF during the past
term OF court at Tecumseh, was the case
Of Hugh Bohannan. In his petition for
divorce BOhannan charged his wife with
adultery. Mrs. Bohannon filed a cross pc
tition denying all the allegations made by
the plaintiff, and charged him with cru
city in threatening her life and asked
that he be refused a divorce and that she
be granted a divorce and custody of the
child. The court held that the defendant
was entitled to a divorce and granted it.
The parties TO the suit were very young
and had been married but few months
at the time of the separation.
Guthrie Capital: Yesterday morning
the jury reported that they had arrived at
a verdict in the case OF the Territory VS..
W. H. Smith for extortion and had found
Mr. Smith not guilty. This is the first
case of extortion between private persons
ever tried in the territory and is OF I'M
usual interest. Oklahoma is the only
state or territory in the Union whose
provide for the punishment OF ex-
tortion practiced among private citizens.
1t is specified and applies only TO public |
officers in other statutes. This interest |
ing case grew out Of mortgage deal IN !
which a man named Lewis and his wife |
gave a mortgage to a man named RAIDER. |
The property secured ythe motgage was |
sold from under the mortgage and in |
making settlement for the transaction this |
case OF eXtortion against Smith was /
made. The attorneys for the defense. /
MesSrs. Sewart and Brown and j. Q. 4
Strang deserve great credit for the able |
work they did In handling the case.