The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-08
oatIins. Of oklahom,

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i Oklahoma City seems to be = pivotal
point IN Oklahoma for mysterious MUIR
i ders.
George sifrord Of Ponca City deposes
and says that he raised AS bushels Of oats
on four acres.
George, SON OF Adam Wageck, Of Ponea
City has arrived at San Francisco from
| the Philippines.
jenkins says he aid not hear Governor
Barnes investigation mentioned while he
was in Washington.
The completion OF the Hutchinson
Southern to Cross Saturday was cele-
brated with much joy.
| Clyde Musgrove Of the Il Reno News,
doesn't think that Secretary Jenkins II
against Governor Barnes.
Oklahoma City succeeded In morphining
her law and Order league ana she ought
to make the cure public.
The saltwater Gazette refuses to ex-
tend sympathy to the Oklahoma farmer
who let rain damage his wheat In stack
| this year.
] The Ponca City Courier has noted that
| the nearer home Dewey gets the less en-
| thusiasm the anti-expanstonists show re-
garding his reception.
Johnny Hudspeth Of III Reno, who was
blown up on the Fourth OF July, has re-
covered. The sight Of one eye + entirely
gone; the sight OF the other Is bad.
Lee Hermann Of Ponca City, has re-
ceived two alligators from Florida. each
| i've feet in length. When disturbed they
hiss. They are not disturbed more than
| once q dag.
jenkins says that the reason he kicked
on the conference was because Barnes
and Flynn had agreed before they went
into the conference. jenkins Will md
that q very poor excuse.
Bob McReynolds is publishing at Lin
| coin, Nebraska, a paper called THE Last
Hope Of the Republic" This week 1t pub
fishes q story about Leslie Niblae< that,
If the government should see 1t, may mean
the last Of the Last Hope.
Probably the greatest baseball club In
the territory Is that OF Enid. In twenty
seven games the club has lost only one.
In their game against the FL Reno team
Friday tweuty-seven hundred dollars Il
said to have changed hands.
The native cottonwood lumber house In
Oklahoma Is disappearing. Cottonwood
lumber Is one of the jokes Of the plaina
A man going out in the field and coming
back In the evening will find that his
house has twisted itself on the town
ship.
In a western Oklahoma town. according
to the Arapahoe Bee, q young farmer
was elected to Office. He proceeded TO
bowl up and celebrate with the boys. he
Is economical and when he found that
he had foolishly spent lot Of money. he
resolved that politics would sooner or
later impoverish him and refused to Qua.- |
fly and take the Office.
The other day near Arapahoe, two men
IN a wagon met a man about their age |
in another wagon. The two men were |
feeling good and yelled at the stranger |
Hello, UncleT The stranger got down |
of his wagon and allowed that no two
old moss-grown, antiquated grlsshoppers
as they were could call him uncle" ard |
Dig fight came very near resulting.
frank Merrick of Oklahoma, son OF
member of the Oklahoma legislature, went
to Joplin, Missouri, became a friend OF
young man named Milton Strouse from
Delavan, Illinois. Merrick telegraphed old
man Strouse for $50 and signed Milton !
Strouse's name to It. Old man Strouse |
telegraphed a bank to pay him so at
once. Merrick went to the bank, got the
money and skipped
That the Indian is learning but has still |
to get q cinch with the courts, Is shown
by the following item from the FL Reno
News: A few days ago Raush Hess. an
Indian, missed his horse and a S5 sa die.
Almost as soon as Il was missed Richard
Grandy, a negro from Darlington. offered
to produce the horse for fifty cents. The /
Indian agreed to pay the money. Within
twenty-five minutes from the time he
made the offer he returned with the horse
but failed to bring the saddle. Meanwhile
the Indian had sworn out a warrant for
the arrest of Grandy on the charge OF
stealing the horse. Next morning search !
was made for the saddle. which was found |
in the weeds where Grandy had found /
the horse. At the preliminary examina-
ton held before Judge Franklin. the ac-
cused was discharged, as there was moth
ing but circumstantial evidence to prove
that he had taken the horse. though the
Indian says II Is not the first time he had
worked this scheme to make money.