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

Mayor Hensley Of FL Reno is making
| one of the best mayors e. Reno ever had
is said that the Anheuser-Busch pso-
pie are making investments in FL Reno
L. F. Laverty was hned.SS in the Guth-
RE police court the other day for yio-
latins the herd law.
It is not known how Henderson. the
next speaker, Stands on free homes. but
he is probably ali right
The Skeedee branch of the Pawnees
gave a dance the other night and The
people Of Pawnee attended.
In digging a well at Chandler last week
some rock was brought TO light which
looked very much like zinc ore.
It will hold good in Oklahoma. as all
over the west, that the bigger 8 mans
| cistern, the more civilized he is.
If he keeps on improving as he has in
| recent years, Frank Greer viii be the
| orator Of the west in another decade.
Harry Gilstrap. taking a pointer for
Bryan, suggests that statehood conven-
tons be dropped and a statehood dinner
given.
Alexander Denham, a young Rough
Rider Of Oklahoma City, has been grant
| ed Sl7 month pension for ounds received
at La Quasina.
Charley Tinker, the young and wealthy
I
on trial for the murder of Jesse Pore. has
| been acquitted.
| Since meeting with Oklahoma ar the
| Mississippi Congress Texas has a
larger opinion Of her northern neighbor
than she ever had.
Miss Anna Triska, living on a farm near
Oklahoma City, has mysteriously disap-
| peared. She left the house bareheaded
for little stroll and did not return. The
neighborhood is greatly excited.
The county of Greer, now part Of Okla
honna, claims that all the debts contract
! ed by Greet county when a part Of Texas
are void. The question Will come up be-
| fore the supreme court Of Oklahoma this
week
An excursion on a recent Sunday was
run from a point in Texas TO Dougherty
| in the Chickasaw nation. After the excur-
| sionists arrived ar Dougherty they en-
gagged in a riot and lot of people were
very badly hurt.
The sheriff Of Pawnee county has been
| restrained from selling the cattle Of cat
1lemen in the Usage reservation for
taxes. The cattlemen held a meeting yes
terday with the county commissioners at
Pawnee and tried TO arrange the matter.
Chandler IS talking Of drilling for gas.
Before signing any contract Chandler
should see that no pay Is provided for the
| man doing the drilling until ne has gene
to a prescribed depth. Men who drill oil
wells have a way of dosing the drill at
about 300 feet.
The Arkansans in Oklahoma should
organize and defend themselves. The
Pawnee Democrat says an Okahoman
visiting recently in Arkansas asked for
some ice and the keeper of the hotel said:
Gosh. What gall Whoever heard Of
ice in the summer tine2P
Oklahoma City and the Santa Fe are in
a fight over some lots. The city decided
some lots to n. S. Sherman for him TO
construct foundry on them. The Santa
Fe put a switch on the lots and has pos
session; the Santa Fe officials say they
desire law suit 10 settle il
Harper Sentinel: In letter 10 his fam
lily Peter Murphy. who is in Oklahoma
described a cyclone which ne saw near
Cleo last Saturday night. Cleo is on a
hill and, the storm was seven miles north,
and was partly visible to the citizens OF
the town. ST saw the awfulest sight
ever saw-a cyclone came from the west
an dtraveled east. 1t seemed to be only
three-quarters Of a mile off Saw the
tunnels as plain as a nelephant's trunk al
ten steps. II travelled about twelve miles
an hour, it's dreadful trunk swung TO and
fro as If in search for prey. When the
tube struck the ground il sent black stuff
down on the east side and elevated every
thing on the west side of the tube. While
coming down it looked solid, but the mo-
ment It would strike II would commence
to operate. I never in all my life saw
such a monster that seemed 10 want to
deal such destruction"