The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-08
Outlines of Oklahoma.

When Oklahoma becomes state she
viii be entitled to two congressman,
The Perry Republican charges the
Guthrie Leader with using sorghum for
ink.
The department at Washington is
little slow in giving out Governor Barnes
report.
The Enid Wave complains that some OK
the butter sold in Oklahoma is Pre-
Adamite.
The first Philippine money order reach
ed Carney last week. II was from Luther
Wright 10 his mother.
Farmers warnings against trespassers
are appearing all over the territory. The
hunters must be thicker than the quail
Bill Purneu, when he visited his barber
shop in Cushing the morning after Hal
lowe'en, found in the bath tub burro.
Walter R. Patterson. Lincoln county
boy, is in the Philippines and writes the
Carney Enterprise an entertaining let
ter.
Blackwell and Manchester do not know
whether the transfer of the Hutchinson
Southern to the Santa Fe is a good thing
for them or not.
Last week on the Santa Fe in Okla
homa holds the record for the last four
years. The travel was so heavy that all
trains were late.
The Shawnee Quill says that the ef-
feet of the price OF cotton is already Wis
ible on the farm in that vicinity which
are being greatly improved.
At the statehood meeting at Oklahoma
City Bob Neff Of Kay county will set his
congressional boom on its feet and see
if it can walk across the floor.
The boys of Gushing mistook the Hal-
lowe'en night and got one night ahead,
and as a consequence the town had to
stand two Halloweens Handwriting.
There will have to be a modus vivendi
between the hunters and the farmers in
Oklahoma some day. And when IL is
fixed up the hunter will be shown 10 have
a few small rights
1t is reported that ex-Delegate Callahan
has bought and will move on 10 a ranch
in Dewey county. Callahan is said TO
be well off, having taken good care Of his
congressional salary.
The case of Mrs. Morris of Chandler,
who sued her husband for divorce one
week and took II all back the next in
public statement is something strange
and new, and it is hoped the practice
will not grow.
to knock grand jury out because the
under-sheriff who summoned them had
never had his appointment confirmed by
the commissioners. Browns contention
was overruled.
Frank Greer has another question to
answer. II is asked by the Cleveland Tri-
angle as follows: why does Frank
Greer pay the hotel bills of certain Payne
county individuals when business calls
them to Guthrie?'
Emmett Collier Of Shawnee dropped $3.50
in bills and some notes on the street the
other night. Soon after he discovered his
loss and thorough search was made with
ia soline torches. The notes were found.
The money was not located.
The Gould-Sylvester case is still on in
MulhaH. and the factions are throwing
type at one another and quoting the Bible
to prove themselves right. The case IS
one where a parishioner hit a minister
over the head with a hoe, or the minister
hit the parishioner.
Chandler News: A movement Is on
foot among the charitable ladies of Chan
dler to raise a fund TO pay the expense
of an operation upon the little daughter
of James Nash The little girls feet are
deformed and physicians say that they
can be Strengthened and made natural
The ladies will hold a fair and dinner on
Thanksgiving day, the proceeds to be de-
voted to this worthy cause.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: satur-
day, when the 13 prisoners were brought
before the grand jury to challenge the
! jury they were in charge of long haired,
| bewhiskered Populist deputy, who. after
he had brought the prisoners in and seat
ed them, leaned over to one Of the grand
| turymen and began talking with him.
/ Judge Burwell. who is always very care
| full to guard the jurymen from being ap-
| preached in any way, by any one, saw
the deputy talking TO the juryman. and
with terrible bang of his fist down on
the desk in front Of him, said: Here
| stop that. What do YOU mean, sir? SIT
Eown." The deputy, thoroughly fright
ened gasped, Why, what is the mat
| ter?" Aren't you one Of the prisoners %
| asked the Judge. Guess not" replied the
| deputy, while everybody in the court room
| audibly smiled