The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-19
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The Hutchinson Southern branch runs
a mixed train from Blackwell on to
; Ponca City.
The government will not pay back
money 70 the man who has proved up
if free homes does pass
When an Oklahoma man goes down TO
| Washington and can not get his own pie,
he tries to get some ones else scalp
Ell Reno has one of those cases which
| is called smallpox and Cuban chicken
pox, but which is probably neither.
The Perry Republican is in favor of
| designating Perry's streets, saying: This
! system of lettering streets is punky and
reubenish.'
a man at MulhaIl has been under the
painful necessity of publishing the fact
| that he will not be responsible for debts
contracted by his son.
| Just at present Dennis Flynn, who
wants him for district attorney, would
| hardly subscribe 10 the sentiment of
more haste less Speed.
Colonel H B. Freeman, formerly agent
| Of the Usage Indians, was recently presi-
! dent of a court martial which tried
regular army officer for drunkenness
The cry against mortgages in Oklahoma
| continues TO grow. 1t is reported in this
! connection that the reason for proving
| up in so many instances in the Strip Is TO
/ enable the claim-holder to put mortgage
| on his place
! The Rock Island is doing a marvellous
/ business in Oklahoma and is giving ad-
| mirabIe service. The Rock Island is a
business principles as any painstaking
mans store
| Sam Matthews of Mulhall, who was
| a cowboy in Oklahoma before the coun-
! try opened, and has been for years
! prominent citizen Of Mulhal, has gone
| to Paris, Texas, to take the position or
superintendent Of the stock yards there
! Judge Preger of Enid was sitting in his
/ farm house, near Enid. chicken flew
kagainst the window and, breaking it, fell
! before Preger. He looked for the chick
! ems pursuer and saw grey wolf in the
/ yard. He took out his Krag-Jorgenson
! and for a minute the Tugela river wasn't
! in it. The wolf died.
! A young couple, foreigners, came 10
Enid the other day to get married, but
! couldn't find the probate judge. They
/ went to a hotel for the night and were
rousted out by mine host. who took them
| before the court. They explained that
| they meant no harm, and were released
! securing their license a few momnts Ia
| ter and being married.
The Purcell Register says: Put a dozen
surveying parties in the field preparing
| for allotment in the Chickasaw nation,
| put an appraising board in each OF the
| principal towns; do these two things and
| the Chickasaw nation can be ready Tor
statehood in one year. There is no rea-
! son why this business Of settling up
things in the Indian Territory should con-
tinue until Gabriel toots his horn, just
f,N s1t,r FaTHf
people.
Youth has a hard battle, but it usually
| wins Here is a note in the Bailey cor
respondence 70 the NARROW Review: IN
announcing the arivai of our minister
at the parsonage two weeks ago, We
were a little too plain in referring to the
| smoothness of his face and youthful ap-
pearance of our beloved brother, but at
| that time We had not heard the eloquence
| and sincere words of the pastor. He has
! an old head on young shoulders and the
! good he is sure to DO VIII be appreci-
ated.'
Wakita Herald: On Wednesday morn
ing a double carriage in good repair, with
two lap robes, one of them fur( full set
of double harness, and one bay horse
were found on Mrs. Dunn's place, S. w.
Il, 5-27-6, but no further signs of human
life. A rig bearing the same description
was seen to pass near there Tuesday
morning, only at that time there were
two bay horses instead of one. 1t Is
! probable that some man and the other
| horse went on. and left these to their
fate. 1t is likely that ne was in a
| hurry.
There is no use talking, the girls of
| this nation, Oklahoma included, are sur
passing the boys, and in generation or
two it will begin TO tell in many ways
10 the males detriment. Take the re-
port of attendance at the Mulhall
schools, for instance. In the lower grades
there are as many boys as girls, in some
grades more. But look at the disparity
| in the high school: First and second
grades: Boys 80. girls %; third and
fourth grades: Boys 20, girls "a; fifth
and sixth grades boys %, girls "a High
school. boys u, girls 90" Perhaps this
| will not change the way Of conducting
the commercial world and the intellectual
world, but it would be foolish 10 pre-
dict that it Will not.