The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-18
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| The latest joke at Guthrie is that a
| prominent legislator is wounded.
| The feeling at Guthrie is that Barnes
! viii surely veto the Havens bill
| Bertha Smith, a variety actress at
weatherford. committed suicide the other
| day
The peaches OF Oklahoma are pretty
well gone The wheat is yet to be exam
ined
There are about three more weeks Of
life for the session OF the present legisla-
ture.
Secretary Jenkins. wise man. continues
to keep pretty close TO his political cy-
cave
In architecture the Alva school is IN
doubtedy the finest Normal school in the
country.
Judge Burford has instructed mis- grand
jury to investigate territorial and lesisla-
tive officials.
When the legislature was at Alva il had
| a banquet in the basement Of the magnii-
cent Normal building.
The location scheme for the territorial
institutions IS alive again. II may be push
ed through. after all
The young people of Chandler viii give
bail and reception 70 the Oklahoma voluE-
teers when they return home.
A number of legislators had 70 remain
in Guthrie to keep the session alive. That
IS why more did not go 10 Alva-
The pictures OF the Alva school make
it look like the Queens palace on the
Isle Of Wight. This is probably its mo-
! del
That investigating committee Will have
q hard lime forcing witnesses TO reply
to questions. The whole matter Will prob
ably wind up in court.
Bill Allison of Chandler was caught in
the veto cyclone. Harry Gilstrap escaped.
Such are the vicissitudes OF cyclones in
general, veto or otherwise.
Banker Bnlingsley of Guthrie refused 10
say whether the school land monies de-
posted by Governor Barnes and Secre-
tary F1lson draw interest. The next thing
he will be in contempt, too.
The Populist papers are now mourning
over the statement made somewhere that
if Dennis Flynn had kept away from
Washington, Callahan would already hzge
had the free homes bill through.
Dr. Embree, nominated by the Republs-
cans to succeed the late Dr.. Scott of Lin
coin county. has followed Roy Hofman's
Fead and withdrawn from the raee. 1t Is
good sense not to hold an election.
Expert Pfaff Of the INVESTIGATING COM
mittee, says that 1t will take three months
to examine the auditors books. The in
vestigating committee is liable TO be alive
at the death of the Dawes commission.
The other day the eergeant-at-arms OF
the council, Hopkins. being absent, served
a subpoena on McCabe, assistant. TO pro-
duce the vouchers in controversy before
the investigating committee. McCabe said
they were locked in a safe to which he did
not know the combina tion-
Ponca City Courier: Hologany. the In
dian who is supposed to have killed Cow
ah-shenka, has been arrested, and Will
have a preliminary trial this week in the
Pawnee county court. The only white
the probabilities are that the court will
only find out from the Indians that ne WIS
frozen to death.
The following grand lodge officers were
elected at the grand lodge: Grand mas
ter. W. l. Eagleton. Ponca; deputy grand
MASTER W. w. Anderson. Enid; grand
sey; grand junior warden, Mortimer Still
well, Ponca; grand treasurer, II. H. Wat
kins, Enid grand secretary. ]. S, Hunt.
Saltwater; grand assistant secretary, ".
e. Brown, Ell Reno; grand orator. A. r.
Garrett, Mangum; grand marshal, ". II.
Mead Kingfsher, grand bible bearer. A.
s. Barber, Alvaretta; grand senior stew
ard, G. E. Taylor, Orlando; grand junior
steward, Fl. D. Young, Cordell: grand pur-
suivant, w. ". Spawn, Tecumseh; s. 8.
D., James Hutchlns, Ponca; G. j. w, 3.
r. Ryland, Crescent City; grand tyler, J.
n. Merrell, Tecunseh.