The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-27
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Clyde Mattox win be tried October z
There is little question but that be Will
be convicted.
1t is said to be Secretary jenkins plan
If he should become governor, not TO ap-
point a man to office who drinks.
From all appearances Secretary Hitch
cock and the attorney in the interior de-
partment are dead set against Governor
Barnes.
Some Of the races for office IN oklaho-
ma could be decorously postponed until
the man who is to be succeeded was at
least buried.
The postoffice inspector has rummaged
around in the records of the Arapahoe
postoffice and declares that everything
is straight.
| Jake Admire now has chance to make
| himself solid with the Indian vote forever
| by taking hold of Abe Somers' complaint
and doing something.
| Tom Doyle is said to be set in his pur-
pose Of plunging headlong into the news
paper business. He has increased his life
insurance and viii soon buy a paper.
| A man who once learned the newspaper
business under Bill Bolton. said that Boil
ton once told him: Young man, stick to
the truth. but If you must tell a lie, tell
a whopper."
1t is said that President Mckinley has
sent another special agent cut to Okla
homa to verify the charges against Gov
ernor Barnes. Mckinley has done nothing
of the kind.
Quinn of the Hardesty Herald, declares
| that the cowboy habit of carrying tooth
| brush in the upper left hand vest pocket
| with the brush end up and out, has clear
gone out of fashion.
Jerre johnson is preparing a lecture en-
titled, Public officials I have met who
drink to excess" He will be accomDa-
MED by a local company of militia when
he tours the territory.
"Pshaw," said Mckinley 20 his private
secretary, the other day. They talk
about US not being able to govern the
Philippines Why. it viii be a whole lot
easier to govern the Philippines than 1t is
Oklahoma
Jake Admire attended seance the 9TH
er night, in which the medium said that
Jenkins would be governor and E. f. Nc
Kiney secretary. The medium is regard
ed as being a smooth article by both Jen-
kins and Mckinley.
Ex-Governor Seay of King1sher visit
ed Enid the other day and when a re-
porter for the Wave asked him what he
was doing in town Governor Seay gave
him look that melted the bone buttons
on the reporters waist-coat.
The speech Reverend Morrison made
to that Texas court is a wonderful one,
considering that the man is guilty. The
finest speech ever made before death
sentence in the west was that Of Adams,
who shot Couch at Oklahoma City.
Some one calls Frank Greer's attention
to the fact that he has been calling Les
lie Niblack "the boy for five years now,
and suggests that Leslie put eyclometer
on himself and register a few years, just
to show Frank and other Missourians.
In speaking OF the way his own party,
the Democratic has treated Frank Nc
Master, Elmer Brown says: "Renfrow
refused to speak to NcMaster so long
as he was governor. and all his satellites
were instructed to keep him from any
share of advantage of party success. For
daring to hold up to public view their cor
ruption, the judges fined him, disbarred
him and sent him to jail. The city and
county administration gave him the same
treatment in aIopathic doses with a
club"
Hardesty Herald Geo. Ray OF Caple,
takes first place over ayone in this sec