The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-21
Outlines of Oklahoma

This year in Oklahoma the trees came
into leaf practically overnight.
! The Bank of Commerce of Oklahoma
City has total deposits of S1o1.0S6.
The public schools OF Ponca City play
| the Newkirk schools a game Of baseball
| tomorrow.
| The Oklahoma Press association will
meet in Norman in May and talk over
excursions.
The Rock Island announces that it will
| begin Sunday passenger trains through
Oklahoma May II.
Captain J. S. S, Hassler OF Enid will
build a southern mansion at Enid con-
| tanning eleven rooms.
| Ten years ago at this time good many
| people were hanging over the line making
| faces at the regular army.
| A Perry policeman refuses 10 let the new
mayor remove him. He viii learn differ
| emily in the sweet bye and bye.
Colonel Samuel Billings OF the Okla no.
| tel. Guthrie, is recovering from the eff
fects of a surgical operation.
| The Ponca City Courier says that the
! fight the oil companies are making on
Amos Ewing shows that he is the man for
the job.
DR.. Ebert McElrath, father Of DR.. c.
T
his sons home last week. He was 81
years old
DR.. A. Walters, a dentist at Ardmore. it
is reported, has been arrested. charged
| with rape. His niece, Maud Luckett, is
the complainant.
The slot machine which paid money for
investment of a nickel-somet imes-haS
| been driven out of Kay county by the
county attorney.
If Clyde Mattox Is fool he will be
caught loahng somewhere in OkNloma.
The chances are he is a fool. His past
life has proved it.
The merchants of Ponca City have
agreed for the benefit of their clerks 10
shut up stores at O'Clock, except on
Saturday evenings.
If Governor Barnes had signed that Ha-
vens bill, by this time the territory would
have been pulling and hauling over a con-
stitutional convention.
Senator Garrison of Woods county, the
only Populist in the last Oklahoma coun-
ell, claims he passed more bills than any
other of his colleagues.
The Guthrie Leader believes that the
time is at hand when there will be a re-
vival of statecraft. The Leader must be
limiting at ST. Oberlander.
The girls of Chandler have held a mass
meeting and denounced Harry Gilstrap
for marrying girl living outside Okla
homa, as an arrogant example of carpet
ba gism.
1t is now charged that at the Chimes
Of Normandy at Guthrie the other even
ing, Leslie Niblack's fortune left him by
his great uncle in Holland was used in the
miser scene.
Two young girls named Rose. OF Okla
homa City, both less than ten years OF
age, are allowed to roam everywhere sell
ing flowers, and the newspapers are ealing
their parents down.
The Oklahoman recently published the
name of Miss Upon as Mrs. Upon. The
editor at once apologized publicly, saying
that he would never call her Mrs. again
That was a correction which went too
far
Out in Woods county is a neighbor-
hood consisting of fourteen families who
all moved TO Oklahoma together. from
Kansas, five years ago. In that time
death has visited all of the families but
four.
Judge Dale is getting IN shape to be
in line with the next Democratic presi-
dent of the United States. He says that
silver is dead issue. If German or Oh
ney should be nominated and elected that
utterance would be worth its weight in
gold to Judge Dale
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: U. S. Dep
uty Marshal \. NJ. Douglas arrived from
the west last night with Jim Jones, impli-
Gated in the Indian burning at Maud
Pottawatomie county, and who jumped
his bond of 5000 and fed to Old Mexico.
or the borders thereof. Jim Jones was a
posseman under his brother when they
arrested the Seminole Indians and brought
them to Maud, accused Of raping a white
woman there. On bringing the Indians
back-if indeed they were the guilty par
two Joneses, it is asserted. work
ed up the feeling of the mob to burn the
Indians, then sneaked out of all participa-
ton in the deed. and became vigorous in /
hunting down white men who were in the !