The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-16
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The swine breeders OF Oklahoma Will
q.
Oklahoma City now IS to have a new
! opera house. The opera house fad is
catching.
Four years for chicken thievery. a SEN
tence given recently at Guthrie, seems q
little severe.
The Choctaw railroad does not expect
to finish its survey to Albuquerque, New
Mexico before June l.
Clyde Mattox will be kept in the Kay
county Jail for thirty days before being
taken TO the penitendary.
It Begins TO look as though the terri
torial convention would ask the federal
oficeholders to stand aside.
The editor OF the Stroud Star chronicles
the fact that his human linotype has
been out painting the town a gorgeous
red.
1t is said that the Santa Fe railroad will
take no part in the selection of delegates
to the national convention from Okla
homa
That friendship between Jim Kelly and
Speaker Henderson may help free homes.
Jim should get letter of to Henderson
at once.
The Ponca City Courier announces the
marriage of Mr.. VIII Bolton of Wood
ward to Miss Opal Gliancoe of Topeka,
Kansas.
William Pappan. a prominent citizen OF
the Kaw agency, and Miss Jetty BRYAN
of Ralston, Oklahoma, were married
Wednesday.
The sentence Of Prudens, six years. will
serve as a warning to constables gener-
ally that they do not operate under q
military code.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal,
which is pro-British and anti-Boer. is
busy explaining Dundee, and Magersfon-
TEN just now.
Sheriff Butts Of Grant county since he
was captured by the man he went TO
capture will find himself the butt of a
good many jokes.
William c. Afilliken, a returned soldier.
told the Ponca City Courier the other
day that Oklahoma as compared with
Luzon was Sahara.
Jake Admire, who is a federal office
holder he himself thinks that the federal
oficeholders should let the other fellows
go TO the national convention.
The sheriff of Grant county and his
posse were captured by an outlaw and
locked in a cycave. And there was no
sign of cyclone in the sky either.
Jerre Johnson of Newkirk thinks that
on the day of judgment the front rank OF
the hosts waiting for admission into
heaven will be made up Of "sooners.'
II President Mckinley has really ex-
pressed the wish that federal officeholders
be not delegates to the national conven-
ton there will be weeping in Oklahoma.
]. P. Birschchild from Ardmore, J. e.
Wason from Atoka and Jack Bowleg
from Vinita escaped from the federal
prison al Leavenworth the other day.
The Choctaw passenger train with 300
souls aboard came mighty near being
tumbled into the Canadian river the other
day. Just at the bridge the locomotive
jumped the track
In two or three hundred years the only
aristocracy in this country will be what
is left Of the Indians. They can prove
that their families are Old that their an
cestors' names were on the Dawes COM
mission rolls.
At Oklahoma City Mrs. Dagley asked
for the custody of her children in posses
sion Of her husband. The court granted
the application. The two children ran 10
their mother and Mrs. Dagley's women
friends who were present to the number
of twenty, clapped their hands and three
or four of them cheered.
Newkirk Republican News-Journal:
Assistant Superintendent Or. NJ. s.
Thomas was in the city Saturday last
measuring the distance between the de-
pot and postoffice. It Is still an open
question whether the railroad or govern
ment has to carry the mails at this sta
ton; so near the eighty-rod limit.