The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-13
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Outlines OF Oklahoma.
This is a bad time for trial in Okla
homa- Convictions are coming fast.
Some Of the older boomers who have
taken a look at Billings. say It is the
best new town they ever saw.
The Oklahoma City Gazette says that
the city council. at its next meeting, may
raise the saloon license from $50 TO $1,000.
The first travelling medicine men have
reached Beaver county and they are bra
wing the suspicious looks Of everybody
in the county.
at which steps were taken TO complete
the grade now building between that
town and Augusta
Cattle sheds are going up fast in Bea-
yer county. The North Star" remarks
the Hardesty Herald, has ceased TO be
the main wind-break in this country
Opinion prevails in the west that the
terrible wind in winter is the North wind.
But il is not. The East wind is. II
makes a man have doubts about wanting
to go TO heaven.
The mail between Optima, in Beaver
county, and Shade, is carried pony ex-
press fashion with relays. This is prob
ably the only survival of pony express
in the United States.
So far the men charged with murder
who didn't want Irwin to try them and
got McAtee, and the men who didn't
want McAtee and got Irwin, have not
gained much by the change.
A would-be assassin fired through a
window at John Finley, in Maugum,
while Finley was at a desk writing. The
bullet hit the side of a stove and was
nd inia har ad
The Hardesty Herald says that II the
new railroad rate OF per pound instead of
car load lot in the shipment OF cattle pre-
walls, the cattlemen of that part OF the
country will let the rate alone until fall.
The Cushing Herald has problem in
sociology which is causing that paper to
pine. There is something witching in the
atmosphere in that section which induces
all the Irishmen there 10 drink beer and
all the Germans to drink whisky.
The young folk at Cloud Chief have
put on a new temperance play, called:
Three Glasses a Day, or The Broken
Home" This play must be plagiarized
from that other great work: Ten Glass
es a Night, or The Broken Nose"
In/Wishita county some of the Demo-
ocrats have organized and declared
against expansion. Lots of the Demo-
Gratis in that county are from annexed
Texas and are Thomas jefferson expan-
sionists, and these are warm under the
collar.
merchant in western Oklahoma in
dites these determined lines: ION and
after December II, 1899, shall close my
books and sell my goods for cash, and
cash only. No use to be asked to be
trusted; can't do it and run business,
l.,v-e
business
The other night, near Waukomis, a
highwayman prsnced up on his steed to
a Mr.. Kendall and demanded his money
or his life. Mr.. Kendall, valuing his nfe
promptly shelled out all he had, 81. and
with firm resolve to put the highway
business and go into the rag trade. the
highwayman haughtily rode away.
Hardesty Herald: Bill Lowe. an old
resident Of Stevens county. Kansas, COM
mitted suicide November 18th. at his
home, near Lafayette, by shooting him
self through the head. It is said that
he watched friends shooting hogs and
remarked that they appeared to die easy.
He then asked for a charge for the gun,
walked into the house, and shot him
self Financial troubles are reported as
the cause and II is also stated that he
made an unsuccessful attempt at sui
eide twelve or fifteen years ago.
The further south one goes, the more
the newspapers are used for the correct
ing of false rumors. Here. for instance,
is a letter from Tullia, Texas, TO the
editor of the Review at MARROW, Indian
Territory: Dear Sir: 1 hear that there
has been report circulated about Mar
low, / T, that Miss Cora Thack came
to Tullia, Texas, some time since and
passed herself as a widow. I want to
say that this is as false as could be. I
have known Cora for about nine years
and have known her to be an innocent
good girl. have known her intimately,
and always found her modest, inno-
cent girl. If any one doubt this, refer
him to the county officials and some OF
the most prominent people Of the coun-
ty. who all know Cora well: T. w. Tom
linson, Judge; James Garrett, assessor;
Ray Price clerk; F. W. Scott, sheriff;
S. r. Cox, treasurer; Messrs. and Mes
danes S. B. Lotion. c. T. Wood. c. @.
Hale, H D. Barner, NJ. D.: ]. L. Can
treu, w b Hutchinson. all Of Tullia.
Texas. Will you please put this in your
paper and oblige Miss Cora Thacker's
friends. of Tullia, Texas. Respectfully,
Mrs. W. G. Conner"