The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-05
Outlines Of Oklahoma

Joe Pentecost is being tried at SILVIA
ter for the murder Of James Bowers
The Frisco took out its first load OF
stock yard cattle from Oklahoma City last
evening.
There is no doubt that the acreage OF
| cotton in Oklahoma this year IS much
reduced.
The Dewey day celebration at Perry
had 10 postponed day on account of the
| weather.
Oats in Oklahoma this year have made
good growth, but are still short and
backward.
Charles Chamberlain Of Oklahoma City
has gotten out a map Of Greater Okla
homa City.
Governor Renfrow is manager Of a min
| ing company at Joplin with a yearly SAL
airy of $1,000
The Republicans won the city election
at Newkirk c. W. Wooden was elected
Braught police judge.
Vaughn of Perry, who was recently
pardoned. is TO be let out only one day
| before his sentence expires.
The Oklahoma City people have orga-
| nized baseball team and selected a man
named Barnes TO manage it.
The Democratic ticket at Weatherford
was successful over the Citizens ticket.
except in the case of marshal
One man at Ponca City was defeated
for councilman and had the wind blow
his barn down all in one day.
Work has begun on the bridge across the
Arkansas, east Of Newkirk. Carpenter
and Andrews have the contract.
It doesn't take very big cloud in Okla
homa these days TO make peoples memory
turn to the moss-covered cycave-
-
trical house at Chicago. is in Oklahoma
| looking into the Kinghsher-Guthrie road.
Lightning struck the barn Of James
Van Wrinkle near Ponca City, the other
day. just after the insurance had ex-
pred.
At Tonkawa the Republican ticket was
| elected. W. J. Crawford was elected
clerk, ]. G. Cuddy treasurer and William
Pickens marshal.
At Ponca City the Republican candidate
| for treasurer was defeated by only two
votes and the Republican candidate for
marshal by only five.
The Citizens ticket IN Alva was elect
| ed. 1t was made up of people who want
to see the saloons restricted. but not abol-
ished, according 10 the reports from there
Ben Butterfield. boy, was bitten by
rattlsnake east Of Perry. His uncle put
him in a buggy. sucked the wound all the
way to town. and there gave him whis-
ky. 1t is thought that little Ben will
come out all right.
John F'urrow of Guthrie has a contract
| with the city TO set out shade trees. He
was at work a this noble task the other
day when a woman came out and notified
him that her husband didn't want any
| trees set out in front of their house
| FurrOw concluded that he would wait
when the husband himself came out and
! objected. Furrow explained to him and
| the man went back into his house, when
| his wife instructed him TO go out and
| drive Furrow away. This the man at
| tempted to do, and in the quarrel which
ensued the man got revolver and blazed
away at Eurrow. The shootist has been
| arrested.
Perry Enterprise Times: The effort is
being made to organize another militia
company in Perry. An order will soon be
| issued disbanding the present organiza-
ton, If indeed anything is left of it, and
a new organization proposed. There is
| material in this city for a good com
pany and there are about twenty young
men who were in the volunteer service
andfhave had the advantage of discipline
| and drill. The company must have thirty
| four members and may have more A
meeting Will De called TOT some night IN
the near future TO perfect an organization
| If there are enough interested to join.
Col. John F. Stone, of Guthrie, IS orga-
| nizing the Oklahoma National Guard with
nine companies in the territory. II. G..
Barnes is adjutant general, Roy V. Hon-
man lieutenant colonel, and BOynton OF
Kingfsher and McGinnis of Newkirk will
| be two of the three majors. 1t is pro-
| posed to have the companies at Perry
Ponca and Newl1irk in the same battal-
ion and viii have as many as possible
of the Oklahoma volunteers in the new
| militia organization.