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

Outlt00S Vi OhidTlOIld.
The Citizens Bank Of Ponca City has
increased its capital to $4,000.
The State National bank OF Oklahoma
City has in deposits subject to check.
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It is going to be pretty hard for Taylor
Kirk to get reprieve. pardon, or any
thing else.
The Enid Wave. which doesn't like
Governor Barnes little bit. indorses his
statehood ideas.
Judge Stone of Oklahoma City had been
missing chickens and set a trap. He
caught grey wolf.
An advertiser at Pawnee credits So
crates with saying: When you're in it
right you're right in it,
Hayes. the fraudulent whisky salesman,
seems 10 be as slippery as an eel. He has
been discharged again and fed.
Pawnee Times-Democrat: VIII Gala
han remain in Washington this winter to
assist Flynn in free homes work?"
In the Oklahoma papers the real estate
transfer column is in large type and the
matrimonial column is much longer.
The best thing the Oklahoma newspa-
pers are doing at this moment IS to agi-
tate the necessity of planting shade trees.
Opossum suppers are all the vogue out
at Arapahoe. and opossum is all right
after a gallon or two of grease is ex-
tracted.
The city council at Saltwater has de-
cided to sell the old jail property and buy
new lots for city hall, Jail and fire de-
partment.
A Saltwater firm has a window display
which consists of a freshly dug grave
with a tombstone above it marked, ''Old
High. Price
Judge Burwell and retinue have taken
the stage at Weatherford for Greer coun-
ty, where they will busy holding court
until Christmas.
1t was only because congress wasn't in
session that Flynn didn't follow Dewey's
plan and introduce that free homes bill
before breakfast.
J. w. Golsbay's grocery at Perkins has
been closed up under mortgage. 1t is
thought he will be able to satisfy his
creditors and open up again.
The Saltwater Gazette half thinks that
Dewey decided that house away in order
10 bring on reaction and force the pub
lie to give him and his wife much need
ed rest.
G. H Ray of the Methodist church.
South at Oklahoma City, Sunday,
preached on the relation of penalty 10
crime, and issued a special invitation to
the lawyers to be present
Il all the men who are in the business
should suddenly resolve to introduce no
more liquor to the thirsting red men some
of the sessions of the courts on the Dor
ders of Oklahoma would have to be pass
ed.
Mrs. J.. W. Scott of Mulhau has sued
her husband for divorce, alleging that her
husband insisted on treating their sick
child with Christian Science and that she
had to leave home in order to secure
proper medical treatment for the baby
In arguing about when the century ends
one Arapahoe man said to another the
other day: "Oh, that was settled long
ago by the French astronomers" It may
be settled in France" said his companion,
but it isn't settled in Custer county
yet"
Cleveland Triangle: A week ago Mon
day Jake Chepherd was out on the hill
south of town, when his dag began bark
ing up a stump. Jake went over and
broke up the stump with his ak. There
were only sixteen copperheads in It. The
largest was four feet and eight inches
long, and the rest were about two feet
end a half in length.
Ponca City Courier: Christian Henniger
of this city is hale and hearty. and
though his beard is white and his head
is hoary with the frost which never melts
he bears his age remarkably well. He is
perhaps, the only man in Kay county
who is on the pension rolls of the Mexi-
can war. Mr. Renniger enlisted from
st. Louis and served under General Tay-
lor in the invasion of Mexico in 1916. He
served principally along the Rio Grande
from it's mouth TO the far interior, also
in campaigns to the interior He gets
his pension from the Topeka pension
agency.
saltwater Gazette: Over Quarter Of
a century ago Miss Mary Hastings left
her eastern home and went 10 Pachuca,
the capital Of the state Of Hidalgo. Mex
leo, as a missionary Of the Methodist
church. She became a teacher In a
school there. and raised the attendance
from a very small number to over GOO
students. Nine years ago, at a public
function, Miss Hastings was pIesen II
with a beautiful silken scarf made in
the national colors of Mexico-,a1. write
and green-her scholars as a testimonial
OF respect She died az her post about
a year ago after twenty-five years CT
missionary life, and in the partition Of
her personal effects, her brother. John
J. Hastings, of this city, requested that
he be given this scarf, which was done.
and he received It by mail last satur-
day II IS a beautiful piece Of work and
a priceless relic to Mr.. Hastings.