The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-09
Outlines of Oklahoma.

It is cold week in Shawnee when at
least one councilman doesn't resign.
The Perry Enterprise has information
that Judge Scott and Jenkins has fallen
out.
The fine new opera house at Guthrie
viii be given grand opening April q.
next.
Hennessey had a big fire last Sunday
night and the people had hard time
checking it
1t is announced that Pond Creek Is to
have a new opera house OF large capaci-
Gus dimensions.
John Wilson. the colored man who kill
ed VIII Austin in the oil mill at Oklahoma
City, claims self-defense-
In the extreme western end Of Beaver
county small pox has broken out in a
small Mexican community.
There is a belief In Guthrie that the
Frisco Will soon begin To survey for a
lire from Chandler to Guthrie.
W. H. Pottle. the business man OF Ar
kansas City. known both in southern
Kansas and Oklahoma. is dead
Selwynn Douglass of Oklahoma City
says that Sydney Clark did not sign the
charges against Governor Barnes.
President Ripley says that railroads do
mot build especially TO help towns. But
they do help some and smash others.
Tom Ferguson, who happens to be one
himself, also roars on excluding Federal
office holders from the national conven-
ton.
The statement of President Ripley that
Guthrie is to be headquarters for the San
ia Fe in Oklahoma is good news for
Guthrie.
Amos Ewing was right about Nash.
Amos said Nash would be elected and
Nash sailed in and saved Amos reputa-
ton as a prophet.
The postoffice at Reno City has been
discontinued and the place. which was
one of the coming city of the south
west" is no more.
The county commissioners Of Oklahoma
generally are having TO send a good
nany women and children back to Mis-
souri, and Texas these days.
A lot of people in Beaver county failed
to show up in answer to subpoenas re-
Gently, and Judge Hainer had bench war
rants issued for their arrest.
The editor of the Hardesty herald says
that he never saw a bale OF cotton, and
protests against being made the recipient
Carrie Chapman Gait. who came mighty
near fooling the last Oklahoma legisla-
ture, has been elected president of the
National Equal Suffrage association.
1t is predicted that the biggest row that
ever took place in Oklahoma will occur
at the next territorial Popuiist conven-
ton. Everybody is said to be loaded with
vitriol.
Civ - I-Ta
herates that he believes Governor Barnes
will be removed. He says that unless the
President considers the charges the mat
ter will be taken before Congress.
The Kingfisher Free Press recently an
bounced that the rainfall there. accord
ing to the Pabst guage, was AS inches.
YThe Arapahoe Bee arises to ask if that
allows anything for the
foam on top and the bulge in the bottom
of the glass.
The city council of Oklahoma City has
adopted a resolution annuling the fran
chise of the water company. The water
company in 1892 was granted a franchise
for twenty years. but the city authorities
that it is not living up to 1t
and want it TO quit.
The Hennessey Kicker on the part Of
the West Side, and the Newkirk Republi-
can on the part OF the East Side. have
registered a kick on railroad officials
special trains dashing through Oklahoma
towns without regard to the ordinance
limitations of speed
Hardesty Herald: An old man who |
passed through this place several days
ago accompanied by a small boy was held |
up by a masked man last Sunday night
and robbed of $50 and his team. The rob-
berry occurred about forty-five miles west
Of the CCC ranch between Sand ranch
and Buffalo Springs. The robbery was
reported at the CCC ranch and several
Of the boys started out TO trail the rob-
Der. Suspicion fell on a "snaky" outfit !
eamped near the Dee Edwards wind mill. |
II Is very seldom that a robbery of that /
kind occurs in the range country.
1t will be remembered that the Har-
lesty Herald recently chronicled the dis |
appearance of a boy in that county. The /
Herald now says: B. P. Ward of Hans
ford was in town Tuesday night, and |.
while here informed us that he had re-
,ently heard from his son Bob who
quietly disappeared several months ago.
Bob enlisted in the army and was en-
cute to Manila on the transport War
EN-. The letter was written from a port
ouched by the transport and some Of the
Joys had been allowed TO go ashore for
,rief spell. He wrote that all aboard
we're fat and hearty and getting along
licely. When Bob slipped away without
cling anyone where he was going. his
friends felt satisfied that he would join
ha