The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-26
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| A man at Ponca City is advertising for
| all the corn-huskers he can get.
The Cleveland Triangle has two full
| blooded Osages on its subscription list.
Jesse James Jr., is in Guthrie and is
considered perfectly safe. il not annoyed
Item in a Kansas paper, the Atchison
| Globe: Charley Albright. a rich farmer
of Oklahoma, is in town"
Cleveland is building rapidly and fine
stone buildings are taking the places OF
the frames the fire fed upon.
1t is reported that the town Of White
Rock was moved 10 the new site on the
Rock Island railroad the other day.
Blanket Indians are becoming suffi-
GENTLY rare at Oklahoma City TO attract
curious crowds when they do appear.
A brother of Captain Sigsbee OF the
Maine is a travelling man who occasion
ally visits Oklahoma. He sells corsets-
The government gauger at Cleveland
has a badly poisoned hand. The Cleve-
| handmade whisky didn't do it. but poison
ivy.
Ponca City is figuring on being i'm
mune from the coal famine this winter
on account of the supply OF wood near
at hand.
]. M. Butler was at Tulsa Creek ma
ton when Cleveland had its big fire and
Butler could see the reflection miles away
in the sky.
L. W. Kitten Is now operating a dis
tillery at Cleveland. He makes whisky
from corn and goes through the process
from start to finish.
The Guthrie Leader accuses Mr.. Conk-
ling, census supervisor. with smoking ci-
garettes. He doesn't, and he Is getting
ready TO kill Niblack
The city council at Oklahoma City is
having a siege with the sidewalk cues
ton, People are building board side
walks when the ordinance prohibits IT.
The people of Oklahoma and Kansas
can now take their eyes off the southwest
and turn them to the North. That IS
where the wind lives from this time on
until March.
An old man at Enid sent an insulting
note to a school girl. and her father call
ed on the old man and hit the warm
bosom of mother earth with him.
Dennis Flynn says of Judge Irwin that
there are certain hangers on that the
president has got te get rid of some
how, so he dumps them on Oklahoma"
The Enid Wave has defined it's position
on medicine takers. A man who cadges
medicine on the street and hawks 1t, &C
cording TO the Wave, is a faker; the man
who holds forth in an hotel room is
not
Jacob Mort Of Pawnee county fell into
well. A doctor attended him and
charged him eight dollars. He wouldn't
pay. The doctor attached his team. The
whole thing got into court and was con-
tinued.
Are there charges against Governor
Barnes in the department in Washington?
1t seems doubtful. No one has ever seen
them who will say so. and the purport-
ed list of charges published In the news
papers some time back are disputed
Charley Baion of Oklahoma City found
a gold watch. He told the police about
it and asked that inquirers be sent to
him. No one came, and after ten days
he sold it. Then, Mr.. Pike turned up
and said the watch was his. and recov-
cred it from the purchaser. Then Bacon
was arrested. He thought he had right
to sell 1t after holding 1t ten days. He
ought to go free.
Arkansas City Traveller: The identity
of the man who was murdered and
thrown into a pond three miles north OF
Perry, has been established. He is known
to be Walter Davis, a peddler. His faith
er was in this city yesterday, on his way
to Perry to look at the remains and iden-
tify the dead man. Davis, the father,
lives in the eastern part of the state.
He says his son has been following the
reunions and fairs about the country for
some time and that he had considerable
money. The father says he heard regu-
larly from his son until about four weeks
ago. He some way got hold of a paper
containing a description of the dead man
and he was satisfied that it was his son.