The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-16
Outlines of Oklahoma

The expert accountant of the investi-
eating committee wig receive ten dollars
a day.
The woman suffrage lobby has deserted
Oklahoma and is working with the legis-
lature Of Arizona
Ponca City has a Jack the Glass Smash
er. He haunts the streets before dawn
and plunges bricks through glass fronts
The Oklahoma man who discovered that
a lantern under iaprobe on cold day
is a great thing, should be awarded
medal.
W. T. Parker of Oklahoma City has
been selected as councilman from the
third ward, caused by vacancy from
resignation
The Oklahoma man who never lived in
an upholstered house during a cold spell
can never arrive al TT idea of how valu-
able plaster really is.
Garland Colrno and Hester Wilson. Of
Shawnee, won the cake walk at thar
place over competing foreign talent from
Oklahoma City and Kansas City
John Pfaff of Edmond will help the in
vestigation delve into accounts. Mr.. Pfan
is a good citizen whose ancestors dread
fully overworked one letter in the alpha
bet.
At Wichita Sunday morning it was %
below; at Oklahoma City II below; at
Dallas below. In any general storm that
variance in degrees of heat or cold viii
hold good.
The United States government, good, in
nocent old soul, VIII pay to the father OF
one of the Indians burned 5000 and 10
the mother of the other Indian burned
al Maud. $500.
Sunday morning at 4 O'Clock It was
fraction beneath seventeen below at Ok
lahoma City. 1t may be a century again
before Oklahoma City viii see the mer-
curry at that point.
In his paper this week Bill Bolton of
Woodward publishes a photograph show
ing a cowboy throwing an old-fashioned
long-horn Texan out in Beaver county.
The old breed isn't entirely gone.
A man from Missouri walked into the
probate judges office at Oklahoma City
and asked that official how long il was
before marriage licenses went into effect
after they were issued in Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma editor is the natural en-
envy of the peddler and the travelling IA
ker of all kinds. The Oklahoma iegis-
lature is going 10 drive travelling doctors
out of the territory. Why not travelling
merchants?
Saturday night, when the thermometer
was out of reach and the thought OF
sleeping alone made any man desperate,
a young couple awoke the probate judge
at Perry, just at midnight, and insisted
on being married, and were married then
and there.
The pullers and haulers at Guthrie
haven't yet succeeded in working either
Tom Reid or McCredie into a lather and
each presiding officer should change his
gavel for a club and proceed TO notify
the legislature to get down to business.
Isenberg of Enid is now consulting the
codified statutes of the land office. and
will soon advise the government that the
Fiipinos can be thrown out OF the is
lands on the ground that they are soon
ers. vid. Sec. 6, Ray VS.. McHurtle, Land
Decisions.
Mrs. Emma Sheriff, a dumb woman at
Guthrie, sued her husbands parents for
alternating the affections of her husband.
She got $4,000 on the first trial On a
second trial the case went against her
and the supreme court has affirmed this
second finding.
The big Baptist pipe organ at Oklahoma
City was ready for use last Sunday, but
not having been dedicated, il was not
used. 1t win be dedicated next Sunday.
Oklahoma CStys history follows that Of
Wichita. One of the events in Wichita's
history was a pipe organ dedication
largely attended, to Trte desertion OF all
other churches on that day.
An Indians obituary in the Ponca City
Courier: Cow-ah-shenka is dead. He was
an Usage Indian who thought as much
of his credit as the best white men.
Cow ah-shenka had good credit among
the merchants of Ponca City. He had
fine ranch about ten miles southeast OF
the city, with a big mouse in the edge Of
the blackjack timber. where the wind
was broken. He liked fire-water about as
we'll as the rest of his tribe, but on the
whole he was a good Indian.