The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-13
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

Judge burIOrQ mas 10 pass AIdAA9 nh
about all the legislature did
The members of a family named Crutch-
er. near Chandler. have died Of small
pox-
The depot at Alva was broken into re-
Gently and robbed Of a small amount Of
money.
There are a great many cases Of in
| hammatory rheumatism throughout the
| territory.
Deputy Marshal sissOn recently arrested
and landed in prison an Indian named
James G. Blaine.
The Kingasher hotel and the Okla at
Guthrie have grounds for a libel suit
against Mrs. McAtee.
Judge Burford can face almost any
thing in this world but a smallpox scare
al Chandler put him 10 rout.
A telegraph station has been opened on
the Santa Fe az Britton. point between
Oklahoma City and Edmond.
Tom Ferguson OF watonga, who is get
ting UP on such matters, is betting that
Jefries VIII lick FItzsimmons.
Harry Gilstrap Of Chandler and Miss
Harriet Adelaide Patrick were married
at Sdllman Valley. Illinois. April 9.
The murder of Captain Day in the post
office at North Enid is d mystery which
the authorities should clear up speed
lily.
The McKinleys have cinched the post
office at Kingfisher. The young man is
TO be retained as deputy and all is Sc
rene.
If council bill No. is not a law 1t
should not be published in the statutes.
as Secretary Jenkins intends. He should
knock it out.
Amos Ewing has a new instrument
which he can jab into q can Of coal oil
and tell whether IL belongs 10 the pale
zoic or the tertiary age.
The issue of warrants can not be linn
tied by law apparently. but il would be
| a good idea TO issue them with loyal
| leaning to thrift at all times.
A form of April fool at Hennessey was
to cut a cent into four and then go into
a store and call for quarters worth Of
something and pay a quarter Of the coin.
No one squealed.
The story that Dennis Flynn is going
to become a banker is mistake. Dennis
| Flynn couldn't tell a certified check from
| a letter of credit If he should meet both
| on the open prairie.
Territorial Treasurer Thompson did not
need the office ne fills. He would have
| been happier and more peaceful in pri-
waite business. There is a lot of gum
about holding public office. It is more
of detriment than anything else.
Editor WEIGH of the Perry Enterprise.
who hasn't missed an opportunity in the
| last two months TO swipe Governor
| Barnes, was down at Guthrie the other
day getting the governors Endorsement
for the Perry land office. Politics is q
| funny thing.
Wallace Rivers, a colored man, entered
the home of Mr.. Shively, near Guthrie,
to rob him. Shively detected him, Crap
pied with him and in the scuffle upset
a lamp. The house was in imminent dan
ger of burning and the burglar turned in
and helped the man put out the fire. He
then escap ped, but was arrested later.
With Dakota's abolition of the thirty
day limit for divorce, has brought LaDru
Guthrie into prominence again. The Chi
cago Tribune says: Fargo, they say
should have kept better control over its
riotous visitors and not permitted them
to go across the river TO Moorehead in
Minnesota and become convivial until
the custodian Of the public morality had
to rise up and take the matter in hand.
The attorneys may talk about divorce
cases being only incidents to their prac-
tice,' said L. Guthrie Of Grand Forks
and as one of the most successful divorce
attorneys in that territory and in North
Dakota, but it was a case where the
incidents were a deal more than their
other practice. The fees were exorbitant
and the time required practically moth
ing. 1t was Fargo's fault. If they mad
not advertised the thing so thoroughly
down there and had not worked up the
people to think that the fair name Of the
state was being dragged in the mud, they
might still be making easy money"
aside from the advantages Of not at
tracing notoriety," continued Ladru
Guthrie. Dakota has been d mecca, be-
cause Dakota divorce laws have been
more civilized than the times. Dakota
law does not provide many more grounds
for the granting of divorces than that Of
many states Dakota Is simply more lib
eral in Interpretation of the grounds. Da-
kota is ahead of civilization in recognizing
that mental injury is as good a ground
for divorce as physical injury"