The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-11
Outlines of Oklahoma

Outlines of Oklahoma
Pawnee viii erect a new county JAIN
which will cost 5000.
E E Brown has written Oklahoma City
up in Carter's Magazine this month.
W. C. Blanchard. a Republican. was
elected mayor of Purcell by majority
of 2
The experiment station at Saltwater
has purchased three colonies of Italian
bees.
The town elections come of in Oklahoma
in May, and nominations are now being
made.
The Guthrie Leader thinks the people
of its town should bestir themselves and
have a street fair.
Judge Strang has called in his contest
torney Of Logan.
AT Muskogee. the first Indian TO sign
for allotment was ful1blood maiden,
named Susanna Burnett.
Clyde Mattox, if caught. will not have
to be tried. His pardon was conditional
that he would keep quiet.
Occasionally Purcell suffers from a but
ter famine a thing not known one hun
edy it.
In the Douglass murder case at Purcell
eleven of the jurors were for conviction
and one for acquittal. The one man hung
the jury.
Oklahoma City now has within a radius
of one mile of the city fifty miles Of rail-
road track. The town will be talking
belt line next.
Territorial Secretary Jenkins is object
ing to Governor Barnes, instead OF the
full board, receiving and disbursing the
school land funds
There is a movement at Pawnee 10 erect
a monument over the grave OF William
Pollock, the Rough Rider. His portrait
appears in this months Scribner's.
Simon Simmons, at Guthrie last week,
was indicted, sentenced and was taken to
the penitentiary for assault with attempt
TO kill, all within twenty-four hours.
An electric line connecting Guthrie and
Kingfsher IS now the talk of the pro-
motors. Street railway lines inside the
larger Oklahoma cities will probably pre-
cede it.
Last week in the nation P P. Lowell
was elected mayor of Davis; ". c. Lee
mayor of Wynnewood; Hugh Campbell
mayor of Paul's Valley; w. T. Gardener
MAYOR of Ardmore; w. G. Blanchard may
or of Purcell
The old eight-foot plank stocksde around
the Saltwater jail has been removed ana a
new one of barbed wire, la Cuba, has
been erected in its place. The bano-Wire
trocha keeps the prisoners in. but does
not keep the air out.
Major Mckinley of the Guthrie land Of
fee. having heard that the Populists were
trying to grab the clerkships in the King
fisher postoffice under Mrs. Mckinley, has
gone to Kinghsher to personally intercede
for the Republicans.
Harry Sands aged seventeen, died at
Chandler last week of spinal meningitis.
He was known by another name. but at
the last moment gave his real name 70
those at his bedside. He came from Nash
Vile. Tennessee.
Charles B. Shinn. farmer near Still
water, from brooding over the loss OF his
wife and baby, last summer, was driven
70 an attempt at suicide. He tried TO
cut his throat with an old case knife. He
was prevented from doing so, adJudged
insane and sent TO Norman.
The Enid Wave says of the departure OF
Mrs. johnson, after her acquittal' MRS.
Johnson and her ever faithful grand
daughter, Miss Gertie Tanks. bid goodbye
TO the tender care of Sheriff Porter in
the Jail at noon today. Just as Jailor
P. w. Shaffer approached the jail door
to iberate Mrs. johnson, Miss Gertie
raised her right foot and kicked the jail
or's hat to the ceiling without injuring
hair of his head
Chandler News: On Tuesday morning,
shortly before l o'clock. the jailor was
awakened by an alarm from the jail, and
going to the door, found that there was
a fire inside the Jail, and the prisoners
told him they were being suhocated by
| the smoke and were about roasted from
the heat Tailor Weaver did not think the
| condition OF the inmates as critical as
| represented, however, and so he summon
ed aid before opening the door OF the
| Jail With the assistance of Benoni Rea
| and others he conducted an examination
| of the jail and found all the prisoners in
the corridor Of the Jail, the lock on the
cages having been broken. 1t seems that
when the prisoners were locked up Mon
| dav evening one of them was hidden In
| the corridor, and this one broke the lock
| and liberated the prisoners. They then
| stuffed papers between the timbers over
| head and set fire to them and raised an
! alarm Of fire. It was evidently the in
| tention Of the prisoners 70 get the jahor
| to open the door and then make rush
| for liberty. They failed. however, and are
! now being very carefully watched.