The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-21
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Newkirk Republican News-Journal
has come out against the Ravens bill
The Oklahoma volunteers are drifting
back from Georgia in twos and threes-
Conrad Masse. the Blaine county man
who so horribly hutchered his wife, has
| been found insane.
Mrs. Margaret Shollenberger OF Alva
died last week, "A years Of age She was
born in Stark county. Ohio.
I twould be an awful joke now IL the
experts should find nothing at all the mat
ter with Hopkins vouchers
The AIva Courier puts the loss Of cattle
during the cold spell in Woods county AT
not more than per cent
Senator Biddison recently amended a
bill with the phrase farmer by profess
sion" 10 farmer by occupation"
The Arapahoe papers reached their ex-
changes quick this week. The new mail
service over the Choctaw is the cause.
Sidney Clark must laugh at the Repub-
lcans a good deal. when he is in Soli-
tude. He has become an expert ribber-
Pemberton. OF the FL Reno Wholesale
Grocery company, turns out 10 be the dis
coverer OF the lantern under the lap-rObe
scheme.
The Cleveland Triangle thinks that Ok
lahoma should keep her eyes on free
homes and let statehood slide for the
present.
Harry Gilstrap says that the work OF
the legislature has not been seriously re-
tarded by the veto cutting down the cler-
ical force
B. F. Hartman, superintendent OF the
board of health in Lincoln county. has
resigned He found the burdens Of the
office too great.
Latin phrases have become so thick at
Guthrie that Nose Weinberger is liable TO
get duces tecum mixed with drink and
choke somebody.
Mrs. Teramn died at Jennings last week.
She was over one hundred years OF age,
and had evidence of having known George
Washington. She was from Maryland.
The Norman Voice says that E. E.
Brown of the Oklahoma City Times-Jour-
nal is at heart a Populist, and secretly
hopes 10 see that party in power in the
nation.
W. ]. French, receiver OF the Alva land
office. used gasoline instead of kerosene
in starting a fire, and was very seri-
ously burned last week. He is under
care of physician.
F. I. Cook of Cloud Chief has a bale of
cotton stin unpicked. 1t is half a mile
mile from the gin, and he will give
three-fourths of it to any one who will
pick 1t and deliver il al the gin.
country correspondent of the Man
chester Journal says; "A few months
ago every body wanted to buy shoats and
now nearly everybody wants 10 sell out
of the hog business. Don't do it. Hogs
will be hogs next year."
Asa Crippen OF Custer county was
chasing some coyotes with his dogs. FL
naHy loafer wolf turned and took after
the dogs and put them to rout. He then
tackled Crippen. but Crippen sickened
him with a pocket-knife and having dis
comfited the animal, fed.
F. S. Cashion, father of Roy Cashion,
writes to the Hennessey Clipper: II have
often been asked if l expected to get
Roy's remains. / win say for the infor-
nation of the public that I have been
kept posted by the war department as 10
the return of his body. The last advice
February Z, stated the underta-
kers' boat, ROumanian, left New York
February 4th, TO commence the exhuming
task. We expect his remains TO arrive
here within two weeks"