The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-11
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

Sam Murphy in the trusting innocence
of his nature, has taken the measles
A Perry man had the cheek 10 give his
wife as a birth day present q sack OF
-four.
The world is still waiting anxiousiy TO
hear how HensIey has reformed Il
Reno.
Oklahoma owes the state of Kansas
over $4,000 for caring for and keeping
her prisoners.
Dennis Flynn denies that he tried 20
get Bill Walker bounced while he was
in Washington.
Temple Houston is building residence
at Woodward. II is not shingled with
harveyized steel
D. B. Robinson, OF the Frisco. is
mighty good friend 10 Oklahoma, and
! Oklahoma should tie to him.
There is only one thing less fraH than
! the life of a butterfly, and THAI is the
tenure of office Of on Indian agent.
The boomers are excited over fool
story that the Wichita mountain country
will be turned into national park.
Dave Harvey. Oklahonza's first delegate
10 congress. is now mayor OF the town
Of Wyandotte, in the Indian Territory.
| In the case of nervousness keep your
eye on the southwest. The other points
of the compass are not in il this time
| of year.
Louis Reward, a prominent lessee in the
| Usage nation, is dead. He had seen a
! great deal of the world, and was an in
| teresting talker.
o. S. Mitscher of Oklahoma City was
wading in a pond on his place the other
day and hunter came mighty near shoot
| ing him for stork-
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| farmers of Oklahoma go 10 bed at sunset
| and rise only at dawn in order 10 beat the
| Standard Oil company.
The Eagle made the statement the other
day that sixteen people were killed in
the Chandler cyclone. The Guthrie Leader
says only eight were killed.
The county seat fight in Grant has pro-
gressed to the point where the English
| Encyclopedia of law is quoted. Century
Dictionary may yet get into ii.
A honk-a-tonk which was started az
Chickasha lasted only three days. wnen
| the officers of the law closed it. And
| the next day the cyclone struck.
| It is almost certain that Sherman Of
| New York will be speaker Of the house.
The first time he was for free homes; the
second time against Il, because Flynn
mad been defeated.
1t is said that courage has made Rem
frow rich in the zinc mining business
He put all his money in right at the
start and if he had not struck il rich,
he would have been a pauper.
Bill Walker believes that his enemies
are pressing him close and that he may
be fired. The whole trouble is because
he insisted on removing some subordi-
mates in whom Jones, Indian commits
sioner, was interested.
Enid Wave: Joe Myers. Commercial,
agent for the Rock Island roailroad. says
the wreck near Dover was not caused by
spreading rails, nor rotten ties, but was
caused by defect III the running gear OF
a freight car belonging to another road
The roadbed of the Rock Island through
the territory to Fort Worth is one Of the
finest in the country. Every foot OF II
Is laid with steel rails, spiked 10 the
best ties that can be procured.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: There
is now a good prospect for the building
of a road from Daugherty to Lehigh, {
distance of forty-fye miles. In 1895 z
company undertook to build the road anc
got good part of the roadbed construct
ed and some of the bridge put up before
the crash came and the company's assets
were placed in the hands of a receiver
Railroad men are again looking over tn
old work with a view of finishing II
The completion of this road would be o.
great advantage TO Oklahoma City. Th'
coal mines Of Lehigh are but 100 miles
from this city, and II the road is con
structed it will be operated by the Sants
Fe, thus giving that road a chance L
compete in the coal business. The con
structfon of this road would, too, opeI
up a new field for our jobbers.