The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-14
Outlines of Oklahoma.

J. ". sperry of the Sperry hotel at
Oklahoma City, died there last Tuesday.
Fred Fox, a member OF the Twentieth
Kansas, has decided to locate in Ponca
City.
Governor Barnes has set out for Wash
ington. He will attend the national COM
/ mittee meeting.
1t is safd that the new jail in Chan
der which is now building will be the
best in Oklahoma
There has never been time when the
Oklahoma wheat locked as fine. II is
almost like bluegrass.
Several OF the newspapers OF the ter
ritory are dining al the farmer not 10
mortgage their farms.
Jake Pecora has been arrested at Okla
homa City for whipping his wife and
breaking the furniture.
In Oklahoma, wher the disease IS in
your own town. it is chickenpox; when
it is in rival town it is smallpox.
The publishers of the Pittsburg, Kan
sas. Headlight. it is reported, will soon
start a daily paper at Oklahoma City.
II is said that Governor Barnes car
ries Henry Asp's proxy as national COM
mitteeman with him TO Washington.
In his report Governor Barnes sailed
into the people who have tried TO give
Oklahoma an unmerited cyclone -Zsputa-
ton.
There are lots Of men in Oklahoma who
would like to bet that Clyde Mattox viii
escape before he is taken to the peni-
tertiary.
There is a whole lot OF capital maneu-
vering in the railroad building in Okla
homa- There is going to be big fight
for the capital.
Carnegie tells Oklahoma City to draw
on him for $4,000 with the easy grace
of an Oklahoma farmer loaning another
farmer a match.
Major G. w H. Stouch Of Colorado. Of
the retired list of the regular army, will
succeed Major Woodson as agent Of the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes.
The Ponca City Courier SAYS that
Ponca City will ram her hand down her
stocking Christmas morning with the
hope of finding some sidewalks.
Dennis Flynn is pulling hard for Hor-
ace Speed for district attorney. 1t IS
thought that Mckinley will appoint some
one to the place within a week.
The Jeanette Lewis Theatrical company
was plunged on to the sharp rocks of ad-
versity at Guthrie and foundered with
great anguish and unpaid salaries.
A man at Oklahoma City has been ap-
pointed receiver of saloon. This is
what is regarded in many quarters as
snap, and in other quarters as schnapps
Near Dickson, Oklahoma county, last
week, H. c. Leonard and Albert Craw-
ford killed a large timber wolf They
fired simultaneously and both shots took
effect
Captain Bond Of Enid killed a wood
cock recently. On eastern bills Of fare
woodcocks are the highest price bird
that can be ordered; even higher than
canvas-back duck.
The county commissioners WILL not I'M
mediately issue a call for an election to
vote bonds for the purchase of a court
house The election will be postponed I'M
til next November.
Okeene Eagle: Wheat. why, wheat is
everywhere now. The fields are waving
a verdant smile to the breezes and the
roads are lined with loads Of 1T seeking
the markets of the world. The Omar
ron valley has it's share Of the bread
stuffs of the world and it can be counted
on for a steady supply one year with
another.
Winnewood Republic: The smallpox
situation in the Indian Territory is as
Stunning alarming proportions. Ten thou
sand dollars, the sum appropriated by
the Choctaw nation and put at the dis
posal of the medical board of that ma
ton for the purpose of defraying the ex-
penses incurred in suppressing the dis
ease has more than been spent and the
epidemic spreads. The little town of Cal
win, thirty miles west of South Meal
ester, has twenty cases, and the entire
town has been exposed. From four to
six cases develop there daily. The pres
Edent and secretary Of the board Of
health, whose office is at South McAles-
ter. view with alarm the situation OF the
entire territory. The quarantine law is
strictly enforced and no trains are al
lowed to stop at Calvin. The town Is
completely isolated from the outside
world.