The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-09
Outlines of Oklahoma.


Anon Ewing appears TO have signed a
protocol somewhere along the line.
The house has refused TO indemnify a
cattle man for COWS lost by dipping.
A bank viii be established at Arapahoe,
it is said within the next thirty days
Senator Hutto one OF Barnes chief
supporters. says the governor was wrong
in his veto.
County Clerk Carrey of Oklahoma City
is still in jail and the taxes OF that coun-
" are still unpaid.
The charge that old Geronimo Is going
Bill Walker teaching him how to play
poker.
An Usage payment of 500 per capita
is said TO be coming soon. and the pay
ment VIII be IN government bonds. it is
claimed.
Rudyard Kipling would also call the In
dams ''futtered fork and wild" But they
amt. Give 'em beef and you can do any
thing with them
Charley Hunter is still working assid-
uously 10 locate territorial institutions.
Enid and Perry are said 10 be in q row
for the penitentiary.
II Woods county is cut in two Or three,
one of the new counties viii be called
Roosevelt county. Senator Ravens has
introduced a bin 10 that effect
A blue denim jumper. covered with
| blood, has been found near the place
where old man Nulk was murdered out
side Oklahoma City, the only clue so far
picked up.
E. F. Cochran resigned as chief Of po-
lice at Oklahoma City and G. W. R
Chinn, a councilman has been elected
TO his place. Cochran and the city au-
thorities have cIashed considerably Of
late.
E. o. Love Of White Rock, near Paw
nee, went crazy; wanted 10 kill his broth.
er's wife. He escaped his guards. raT
into White Rock with his pockets full oil
stones and broke fifty-two window panes
The Custer Clarion says that Senator
! Biddison has been "a lifelong Democrat
until recently" That doesn't hurt hin
a bit. There was a good many lifelong
Democrats who voted the Republican
ticket in Oklahoma last fall.
c. W. Dawson, of Arapahoe went W
on top a house in a blizzard TO fix a fiue
Having fixed the f1ue. he started 10 ge
| down. when he discovered that the vino
! had blown the ladder away. He sat w
on the gable for two hours yelling hi.
| lungs Jul OGAOAC 4lC4p Sdlilc
! Sam Bartell was chief witness agains
| DR.. Stutsman in the latter's trial. The
other day at Oklahoma City, Dr. Suits
man was walking along, his hand in hi:
overcoat pocket; he turned corner and
ran into Barteli. BartelI. seeing DR.
| Stutsman's hand in his pocket. covered
| Doc with his revolver. Stutsman had NJ
! weapon and the two men parted.
! Ponca City Courier: Nick Nelson is un
der arrest, charged with stealing or as
sisting in stealing VIM. Councils harnes.
| and mules. He is now at Newkirk II
! durance vile. One of the horses was re
covered last week in Pawnee county
which indicates that the thieves wen
south. Mr. Council has offered a reward
of so each for the return of the horse:
and 500 reward for the conviction Of this
| thief
Mamie Seward, a Custer county poet
ess says:
Cannon Numbered; pillows trembled;
| See Columbia prove her worth,
For that day the guns of Dewey
Tolled SPANS death-knell round tht
earth.
| Though great deeds may be forgotten,
AS the ages wear away,
| Spain will ne'er forget the lesson,
Taught in fair Manila bay.
ecretary OF Agriculture James Wilson
may be present at the livestock associa
ton meeting al Woodward on the 18th ant
! 18th inst. He wrote w. f. Bolton as fol
! lows: Dear Sir: I acknowledge witt
! thanks the receipt OF your letter Of tn,
! 18th, inviting mem to attend your fiftl
| annual convention on February IA and -
I 1899. am expecting to go south in tina
month, but 1 do not know whether l car
! L.
| If I can, will. Very truly yours Jane!
! Wilson secretary"