The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-26
Outlines of Oklahoma.

John Boyle, who lived near Pawnee,
| last week died from the effects OF can
| Ger, aged 81.
| A negro attorney was admitted to
! practice at the bar in South McAlester
| the other day.
The Indian Territory will get its free
schools all right. Congress intends 10
| provide for this.
Two members OF the school board were
| elected at Purcell last week The Demo-
cratic candidates won easily.
Garfield Black. the boy orator. is again
making tour of Oklahoma He was in
the eastern counties last week.
1t is reported that a white girl eloped
| with colored married man from an
Oklahoma county farm the other day.
II is said that if the Democratic party
should entirely disappear. the last place
in the Union it would have nlajorities,
would be the Indian Territory.
The man who win be appointed 70 sue
| coed the late County Attorney Williams
| of Pawnee county will be a Popuiist, and
| there is Populist scrap for the place.
The Cuban smallpox, which 1t is assert
ed so confidently by all but physicians
is smallpox, is also known as elephant
Itch in some parts Of the Indian terri
tory.
Those returning from Washington say
that Dennis Flynn has got a whole lot of
encouragement for free homes somewhere
and is just prancing around over the
prospects Of passing the bill.
Frank Fox, a marble cutter at Shaw
nee, died last week His father was a
marble cutter before him and designed,
| executed and erected the Oliver Perry
monument at Cleveland, Ohio.
One Pawnee editor said of another Paw
nee editor that me couldn't be elected
commissary clerk to the chief dog skin
ner of the F'lat-head Indians" That is
probably what lead to the shooting.
The Pawnee Times Democrat asserts
that T. NJ Grant, recently appointed
sheriff in Pawnee county, is a Repub-
Hcan and points out where he served as
d delegate in q Republican convention.
Levy Busby and Grace Hill OF Anadar-
ko resolved to get married. They got
into a buggy and drove for Chickasha
in the evening. They heard there was
smallpox in that town, so drove around
it and went to Purcell, the drive consum-
ing the whole night They were married
in Purcell the next morning.
The Republican band in Oklahoma is
getting nearer in harmony every day.
Bill Grimes and Jake Admire have
brought the tubas into note and Cover
nor Barnes and Dennis Flynn are get
ting the comets toned down and Judge
Scott Of Perry viii probably soon quit
solo work on the trombone and get the
proper key.
Shawnee Quill: J. NJ. Meek, the butch
er, bought a couple OF cattle some SIX
weeks ago. They were stolen from an
Indian, and when the identity was estab-
lished Mr.. Meek promptly turned them
over to the owner, and then he went az
ter the man who sold them 10 him, get
ting his money back that he paid for
them, but losing the feed. 1t seems that
the cattle were stolen by different par
ties than the one that sold them to Mr..
Meek
Enid Echo: Thomas NJ. Mcbride. who
had homestead four miles east of Alva,
was lately taken to Kingman. Kansas.
where he died. He was unmarried and
his homestead must descend to his heirs.
Upon investigation it is found that he has
p brothers and sisters, several of whom
are dead, leaving a large family as their
heirs and representatives. Two or three
of his brothers who died, each left fami-
lies of IA or 10 children, and it is learn
ed that altogether there are about 80
heirs to the estate.
Carwile Journal: James Campbell. our
humorous friend east Of town, tells a
pathetic tale of an unfortunate young
man of sixty summers, who came east
from Pennsyltucky to seek his fortune
(Which he left behind HIM in the dense
forests Of the western prairies, and re-
gain his health, which he had lost just
before his death several years afterward