The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-19
Outlines of OkIahoma,

Over one-half Of the Creek population
have applied for their allotments.
Reverend J. 2. Plat of Guthrie, who
has been a missionary TO Oklahoma for
five years. is dead.
In western Oklahoma, south Of Wood
ward, a prairie fire last week ran fifty
miles before it died out
The old story of 5 900 Indians leaving for
Mexico is again dragging It's weary length
through the unsuspecting newspapers.
There is already a contest on over the
North Enid postoffice, of which Captain
Day was in charge when murdered.
A local company at Guthrie viii orga-
nize for the purpose of boring for gas
and losing the drill in a hole 1000 feet
deep.
A man at Arapahoe Is advertising to
trade a bicycle for a pony. In a prairie
country pony has 2.457 advantages over
a bicycle.
Down at Commanche. Indian Territory.
it is not the neighbours rooster. but all
creations rabbit which plays havoc with
the garden.
The Oklahoma Bimetaliic League will
have a meeting at Guthrie May Is. II
and expansion.
ilization, as was shown when Mad Wolf
the other day permitted his wife to be
buried in a coffin.
The report of the investigating commit
tee will soon be delivered to President Nc
Kinley. Mckinley viii not waste much
midnight oil reading it.
In runaway at Guthrie, Monday. Mar
shall Thompson was thrown from his bug
gy and badly hurt. He was unconscious
for an hour. Mrs. Thompson was also
hurt
Owing to a misunderstanding in regard
to the specific gravity Of safe gasoline.
Amos Ewing, il is contended, is condemn
ing thousands of gallons of perfectly good
gasoline.
In Lincoln county a woman shot dog
which was chasing her cows. The owner
of the dog had her arrested. but the jury
acquitted her in about two shakes OF a
rams tail.
The city council at Enid is changing
the Electric lights around. A council
man who won't get an electric light near
his home hasn't enough gall 10 get along
well in this world.
Bill Bolton OF Woodward, who was re-
Gently in Chicago, says that nearly every
saloon in the city IS run by man named
Dewey. He says the whole Dewey family
has gone into the saloon business.
According to the report of Secretary
Jenkins, there was written in Oklahoma
last year $S,S39, 556 of fire insurance. The
premiums on this were s167, $50; losses in
CURED $24, 6S7 Losses paid, S1S,O1.
Judge Frank Dale of Guthrie does not
believe that Bryan is the right Democratic
candidate for president. He favors Olney.
biggest Americans who ever lived.
Out in Blaine county, near a country
road, some one has set up a fake coyote
Hunters going that way shoot at it and
as it does not drop, investigate, laugh at
themselves and pass on, leaving it to the
next sucker.
Woodward News: "a stock bin passed
by the last Colorado legislature requires
that bulls must accompany cows on the
range at the ratio of one to twenty-five.
and they must be of high grade and not
poorer than half-breed and of no inferior
beef stock
A kindly warning in the Hardesty Her
aid: Tommie Pierson informs US that last
Sunday his father, Samuel Pierson, saw
two men busily engaged in cutting and
tearing down Theo. Hedrick's fence on the
Coldwater divide. but he did not get close
enough to identify the parties, as they
rode rapirdy west when discovered and
as he approached. They had apparently
cut the wires and then broken the posts
by pulling on them with ropes. On Tues
day VIM. Talcott visited this office and
stated that his fence had been torn down
in places, also. ]. L. Grimmer's fence,
along the divide, was roughly handled.
That way OF doing business viii not con-
tribute to the good health of the guilty
parties If they are caught.