The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-27

The citizens OF stiilwater have decided
70 hold county fair there September .
rs and 8.
There Is every indication that winter
win set in early and viii be long and Sc
we're In Oklahoma
Ponca City Courier: II was probably
case in which Mr.. Mckinley thought Il
best TO grab Root.
saltwater Is getting q world Of adver-
tiseanert out OF the fact that 1t Is q arst-
class city without railroad
Jerre Johnson's paper Is coming to be
known generally as the r. n. j.. It's
ndsAe is the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
John r. Hennessey. a cousin Of Pat
HennesSey, after whom the town was
named. visited Hennessey last Sunday.
ID. g. Thomas has been appointed grain
inspector for Alya and the southwestern
Santa re branch He recently moved from
Kinghsher TO Alva.
A Guthrie boy. Henry Barrett. who was
recently in Arabia, says that In compari-
son with Arabian women, an OKLAHOMA
squaw Is beauty.
1t Is said there was no danger Of Nc
Coskey being lynched at Chandler, al
though McCOskey thought so and plead
ed guilty to escape a supposed mob
The Tecumseh Democrat says that the
girls OF that town 80 with the fellows
presents. and marry the fellows who save
their money.
Mrs. Eliza A. waletmire died last week
! in Payne county. and death came TO her
as boon. In six years she had lost all
her children, six, by death, three OF them
being buried in one grave.
Burt Hoover OF Medicine Lodge Is hunt
ing his mother, who he has not seen for
twelve years. Her name Is Mrs Rosa
I IL L. la
Hoover can be found by addressing MIN
| at Enid.
John Johns, deputy, went to Sam Coop
er's house, near Ingalls,, TO arrest him
| for hoEse-steaiing. As John Johns got
OF his horse at the front door he saw
| Sam jump out Of a back window and make
| for the timber He fired three shots at
Sam; bat didn't wing him, and the man
escaped
The report is out again that Governor
Barnes Is to be removed at once. IL Is
now charged that Hitchcock tried TO sup
press the charges, but that the New. York
Tribune smoked him out OF his hole, that
| Handkerchief Of the interior department
| investigated the charges and decided
against Barnes.
The boys at saltwater fixed a pail OF
water so It would spill when the police
| fudge opened his front door. But IL caught
| a patent medicine faker. just come to
| town. instead OF the police judge. Drip
ping wet, the faker went out on the street
and wrathfully told the police judge about
| II. The Judge took him into his office
| to explain that the joke was intended for
| him. The patent medicine faker threw
/ himself into a chair and sat down on
seven pin points. He left town the same
| day.
The hardest blow ever given Populist
county administration in Oklahoma Is
| that dealt the Alva Courier. For years
Woods county has had Populist county
commissioners. In 1895 the Pop commits
! sioners made tax levy for salaries or
| 81, 1858; In 1896. the Pop board made a
/ levy for the same purpose OF f15,ss4; In
/ 1897 Of s1l,9s1, and in 1893, $3.50. or a
4 total OF e54.s41.3 3 levied for salaries. an
average of $l5,710.35 per year. There Is
not q Populist on the present board OF
| county commissioners. and II has made
\ a tag levy for salaries Of $500. Populism
! was a mighty expensive. fad for Woods
| county.
Essay on blood-hounds and kindness.
| from the Enid Wave: "Jail break at
Perry this week, Jail breaks at FL Reno.
| Cloud Chief, Norman. saltwater and Te-
oumseh last week. but nary break at
Enid, in fact. there has been no jail break
| here since Charley Porter was sworn In
as sheriff Of this county. Charlie Is quite
a watchman himself, besides he has a
| kennel of bloodhounds in the jail yard
that would alarm the town and capture
| the prisoners In case OF jail break.
| Sheriff Porter IL one OF the most palms.
| taking sheriffs the county has ever yet
| had; he Is a merciful officer; he don't
/ treat the unfortunates under his charge
| like dogs"