The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-03
Outlines Of Oklahoma

The loss from the fire at Alva last week
is estimated at 5000.
They are putting up lots of natural ice
in western Oklahoma this winter.
Miss Rice, the prize orator of the terri
tory, received $50 in gold as her prize.
Reverend W. Rowe Of Chandler has the
smallpox This is the only case in town.
II is said that at present c. G. Jones of
Oklahoma City is easily in the lead for
speaker.
Bill Tilghman has gone out Of politics
and outIaw-hunting. and is buying corn
TO hold.
Bids win be opened January for the
construction of fifty miles of road west
of ,Chickasha by the Rock Island.
Kingfsher is stin strictly in it. Miss
Mamie Rice. who won the intercollegiate
oratorical prize. is from Kinghsher.
The Hutchinson Southern expects 10
build eastward and viii touch the Santa
Fe at Ponca, Red Rock. or White Eagle.
Tt is too bad that Katherine Kintz has
skipped out. There was certaily a clerk
ship in the legislature for her II she had
waited.
What is the matter with the young
men OF Oklahoma? In recent years all
the first prizes in oratory have been taken
by young women.
The fractional fight in the Usage country
is probably still in progress, but the news
from Pawhuska is as old and scarce as
the news from Pekin.
Swift & Co, the packers, have invaded
Oklahoma, taking out letters Of incor-
poration. Charles W. Sherwood OF Okla
homa City is their agent.
Flora Drake has sued Richard Drake
for divorce at Guthrie. Drake is in the
penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. They
were married in Gushing in 1898.
The editor of the E,l Reno Democrat
confesses that he took a trip 10 Kansas
City last week for the express purpose
Of using up the rest of his 1885 mileage.
Temple Houston is down on the pro-
gram for the banquet with the toast:
Expansion" He is a Texan, and is in
favor of expansion, as all Texans should
be.
A colored boy named Grover Teberry
climbed under the mouth of a cotton
gin at Shawnee the other night and went
to sleep. He was there when the cotton
was piled on top OF him and he was
smothered to death.
Marshal Randolph'of Chandler last week
was struck over the head by club in
the hands of young man named Price,
whom Randolph had arrested about a
year ago. Randolph is not seriously hurt.
Price has been arrested.
Shawnee News: Bob Galbreath. who
has lived in Shawnee for some years and
been identified with Shawnee's interests,
and been a central figure in the county
and territorial democracy, left last even
ing with his family for Oklahoma City.
where they will locate. Bob is a first
class fellow and good citizen, and has
a fine family. The people of Shawnee
and the county regret TO see Bob and his
estimable family make this move, but. if
Bob can better himself financially, We will
have 10 give him UP.
Governor Barnes granted a New Years
pardon to Marion Massey, a claim holder
of Washita county, convicted at FL Reno
of stealing several spools of barbed wire
from cattlemen in the Wichita Indianres-
ervation, and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for three years, having served near
ly year. Under a recent decision Of the
supreme court the territorial courts really
had no jurisdiction in the case and he
should have been tried under the United
States law under which the extreme pen
atty would have been six months in jail,
but his poverty prevented him from get
ting the matter up in the courts, so, on
hte plea of his wife and petition of a
large unmber of citizens, he was par
doned.