The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-27
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

The hot stun Of the territory soon WI
be the wheat in sweat.
Judge BurweIl has never BEEN reversed
by the supreme court and he Is proud Of
| the record.
Major Crozier VIII address the Iowa
Indians the Fourth OF July on the evils
| Of ice cream.
Oklahoma City has raised $500 bonus
to get a fve-story brick hotel. o. G. Lee
win own the hotel.
Captain Price of Mountain View has
already got up q fight down there with a
| couple Of county officials
While cleaning a well near Gushing last
| week man was 81 a rhered by the walls
which fell In. HIS name Is not given.
E. n. Hilborn has just returned to Chan
der form Cuba. He went to Michigan q
year ago and enlisted with company.
The management Of the Fourth Of July
celebration at Tecumseh has been turned
over to the five Sunday schools Of the
city.
No one at Ponca City knows the pres
ent Whereabouts Of ]. W. Lynch, whose
land near that city has caused such a
hubbub.
Jake Schweizer, formerly the Rough
Rider OF e Reno. met Roosevelt at Kan
sas City the other day and shook hands
with him.
Mollie Hathcock, who lived with her
parents near Tecumseh, died last week
Of jaundice, an unusual malady In the
territory.
The high water this year has made the
life Of the county commissioner a miser-
able one. Everybody wants bridge 10
his front yard.
Revenue Inspector Howard Of e Reno,
q n
Oklahoma hunting for documents which
ought to be stamped but are not.
The Seger Indian basegall team last
week swiped the Weatherford team on
the face Of this mundane sphere. How
the Indian Is getting 10 play baseball!
The postmaster at Tecumseh threatens
to move the office out Of the building
which is furnished by the county commits
sioners unless the commissioners improve
the building.
The Star store and the Mascot store Of
Chandler In last weeks News printed
page advertisements in colors and made
probably the most attractive advertise
ments ever printed in Oklahoma.
Jake Admire in his paper last week
called down the men who are making their
fight on Bill Grimes appointment.
Grimes should have the appointment and
the chances are he will get 1t In spite
Of knockers.
The editor Of the Ponca City Courier
the other day saw two brothers walking
along. One was a cripple and the time
came when he had 10 turn back home
and the strong, well-formed brother
stopped and kissed him.
Frank O'Nell Of the Santa Fe at Okla
homa City. knows General Macarthur per-
sonally. When Mcneil was a clerk in the
he oil cd
to the General, then stationed in Okla
homa. This was the first letter delivered
in Oklahoma.
FL Dorado (Kan..) Republican: In the
case Of George w. St!nson VS.. Mrs. Angie
Becker, suit for s., 500 commission for sell
ing the Becker ranch, in Beaver county,
Okla, the jury returned a verdict this
mosning for $780, The case was holly con-
tested; Redden G. Kramer for plaintiff.
Altman. Leland &c Harris for defendant.
The jury was out two or three hours.
Perkins Journal: Last Monday on VIM.
Wright's place north OF town, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stonebrake were gathering black
berries. Their iittle son, while playing
about spied a revolver on a shelf In the
house. He Climbed up and got II and
went outdoors, sitting down in the grass.
In few moments his parents heard gun
report. ard looking about found that their
son had shot himself in the left side, the
bullet coming out in the back, two inches
to the left of the spine. Drs. Sharpless
and Holbrook attended in the case. The
boy is on the road TO recovery.
Ponca City Courier: Ore OF the most
inhuman acts ever committed in Ponca
occurred on corner of Grand avenue and
Third street yesterday Afternoon. In which
]. T. Hill brutally beat his little four-year-
old child until the blood ran down its
little legs. Ordinarily, the Courier does
not believe in meddling in other peoples
affairs, but this is an exceptional case.
The parent who Is utterly lost to every
finer sensfbility. to every instinct OF man
hood as to inhumanIy beat an Innocent
helpless child. has forfeited the respect
of every decent citizen OF the county.
The whipping post is the only right pun
ishment for such cruelty.