The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-18
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The rental for telephones at Hennes-
sey is only 81 a month.
1t is said that Dennis Flynn will back
WEIGH for the Perry land office.
The Western Union has placed twelve
electric clocks in business houses in Ponca
City
William Hughes has been appointed
deputy of the district clerk at Arapahoe,
by Judge Irwin.
Cannon Ball Green's show IS on the
move 1t struck Enid first Isenbergu says
il is a good show.
The men who robbed the mails between
FL Reno and Cloud Chief have been taken
TO the penitentiary.
The man who is doing the paragraphing
on the Ponca City Courier is ringing the
bell good deal Of late.
". ]. Gault. one OF the leading citi-
zens of Oklahoma City. died Saturday.
He had been i'll six weeks.
Jim Kelly, out at Mangum. might occa-
sionally let rocket go just TO inform his
friends that he is still there.
City Marshal John Cooper Of Hennes-
sey. dropped dead of heart disease last
week He was Kentuckyan.
Captain Ford. who has tired OF the
tangles of politics and its ingratitudes.
will remove from Oklahoma City.
The organization is behind Welch for
the Perry land office. and Governor
Barnes is behind Dan widmer of Guth-
| rie.
a doctor at stillw tare sued for his fees,
| $3.50. The patient claimed he had neg
lected the case. The court gave the doc
tor $3.50.
BY this time Clyde Mattox is either in
/ MpYiCn nP he
| schedules with view to becoming Bill
Doolin's successor.
The press of the territory is extending
its sympathy TO Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Ferguson of Watonga, who recently lost
their little daughter.
From a point five miles south OF Wei
| lingtOn, Kansas, the wheat is in tip-top
shape. This includes Oklahoma, which
will have the greatest crop in its expert
ence
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal has
| Gail Holding on its staff as poet, and next
TO Lon his father Gail is the best poet of
the western country covered by the south
wind.
Every time any one calls for Jim in a
Ponca City grocery store there is a riot.
| James McGraw, the grocer there, has in
his employ James Repetto. James Welch
and James Cravitt.
Another movement Is on to Gust Judge
McAtee from the bench. It is regarded
as about as easy to do as to paint the
| face of the moon with nothing but four
| foot ladder al hand.
Charles Bays recently arrived in Still
water and paid all his bills in nickels. The
nickels turned out 10 be counterfeit, and
the sheriff took out after Bays and cap
tured him at Perry.
George Boggs, the Shawnee postmaster,
who was convicted Of embezzlement, is
| in Jail only constructively. which means
| he isn't in at all. His attorneys are try
| ing for a re-hearing.
The Oklahoman is stirring the Okla
homa City merchants up on freight rates.
Great heavens! Oklahoma City knows not
| what it does when it begins the agita-
| ton of freight rates.
Albert Long, a Pawnee, recently mar
ried into the Cheyenne tribe, and he is
now known universally as "Pawnee." 1t
| is mighty hard TO make the Indians use
| American nomenclature.
Guthrie Capital: Yesterday morning a
young colored fellow named jackson
| brought to the city a huge beaver. He
| did not know what it was, but upon close
examination it proved to be fine speci-
men of the Canadian beaver. 1t weighed
p pounds and measured from nose to
| tip of tail nearly three and a half feet II
was so large that he had considerable
| trouble to kill 1t after II had whipped three
or four large dogs. 1t was found on the
creek south of the city and its presence
| is unaccounted for. No evidence exists
on the spot or its immediate vicinity being
its habitation. II may have followed the
Cimarron river down from the mountains
in Colorado, for these animals are fire.
quently caught there. They prefer a cold
climate and sometimes work their way
quite a distance from their natural habita-
ton In Canada they are numerous and
delight in the cold waters of the streams
of that country.