The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-12
Outlines Of Oklahoma

Territorial Treasurer Thompson's trial
does not begin until November next
The first townsite commissioner for the
Chickasaw nation comes from Kansas
The Taloga Advocate thinks that this
year summer Will jump out OF snow
bank
The railroad track OF the Rock Island is
now completed hfty-one miles west Of
Chickasha.
A good many people viii believe that
Clyde Mattox had a hand in the North
Enid murder.
Callahan. It is said. secured the post
office at Kingfsher for Mrs. Mckinley,
who is a Populist.
The most excitable portion OF Oklahoma
just now is at the rail-head on the Rock
Island extension.
Dan Peery is now police judge OF Fl
Reno, and the Indian has at last true
friend in public office.
The case of Territorial Treasurer Thomp-
son and that Of Matt Quay in Pennsyl-
vania are somewhat similar.
Will Isom. colored man Of Guthrie, is
out searching for his wife, who has run
away with q handsomer man.
The grand jury will now adjourn. No
one knows what took place between the
fish and the net under the water.
Ned Sisson this week landed in the
Guthrie Jail a Creek Indian who is charg-
ed with ''feloniously carving" an Usage
Indian.
Sheriff Pierce Of Kay county is trying
to get Governor Barnes TO offer reward
for the capture of Clyde Martox. How
did it come that Clyde Mattox was per-
mitted 10 escape?
J. J. Power who was receiver at the
Perry land office. is dead. His body has
been taken to Rochester, Pennsylvania.
DR. Southland and A. r. Museller Of Perry
both want to succeed Mr.. Powers. The
place is worth sS,0O0 a year.
This is the way the Taloga Advocate re-
cards death: "Word was brought TO town
on Wednesday evening that man named
Christian had been found dead in the west
end of this county. The party or par
ties who killed him are yet unknown"
Dave O'Hair walked into the kitchen Of
the Grand View hotel at Ponca City and
began to raise a rumpus. Landlord
French entered. O'Hair turned the re-
volver on him and fired, but French
struck the gun and the bullet lodged in
the floor. That was nerve.
Ger must not only account for the prin-
cipal of a public fund in his hands. but
also for the interest it earns. The practice
of retaining personally interest on public
money is general over the United States.
and a great deal Of law is involved in the
matter.
Hardesty Herald: Monday I. P. Mulock's
son came over from Hansford county af-
ter DR.. Munsell, who was absent, so the
boy went on up the Beaver on the doctors
trail Tuesday Mr.. Mulock came oyer to
tell Doc. not to come, as the sick had
recovered But the doctor had cut across
the country via Eubank, slept out one
nifiht at Hitchs windmill. on blackberry,
and made the trip. A telephone line in
this instance would have saved lots OF
trouble.
A boy whose brother was in the Phil
ippines and whose father was IN the civil
war, was trying to get the old gentleman
to give the Manila member Of the family
some credit, without success. for the vet
eran said that fighting Indians was not
war. "Pa," snorted the youth, do you
mean to say that a man who was killed In
your war was any more killeder than
man killed in brothers WARP and the
veteran retreated.
The once powerful Farmers Alliance in
Kansas is managed almost entirely by
women. The state president of the or
ganization is Mrs. Emma Troudner, OF
Carbondale; the secretary is Mrs. Bina A.
Otis, of Topeka, and the chaplain is Mrs
Emma D. Pack. of Topeka. 2. NJ. Gilbert,
a Granville farmer, is treasurer. The or
ganization is still quite active in many
counties, and holds a state convention in
Topeka once a year, but its membership
has fallen from 10000 to less than 900.
Chicago Tribune: A manager who is
now organizing a comedy company in
Chicago says that the last time he played
at Waggoner l. T., the house was filed
with cowboys and other border characters,
who insisted on keeping on their hats,
smoking their pipes and sitting on the
tops of the chairs, with their feet on the
seats. Finally, the sheriff came in and
volunteered to keep order. Taking the
center OF the stage, the sheriff ordered
'Youse guys to sit down, stop smoking
and take off your hats" Only about half
Of the audience obeyed. Then the sheriff
walked back to the stove in the rear OF
the theater, near which stood a bucket of
coal Picking up a double handful of
coal he once more demanded obedience to
his order, calling each offender by name.
IF there was any delay he let fly chunk
of coal at the head of the delinquent
Having thus stoned the audience into their
seats, he called for the performance to
go ahead, and standing guard at the coal
bucket. kept order until ii was over. The
same man recalls a sign which hangs in
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