The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-02
Outlines of Oklahoma,

Ponca City always finds the front and
then gets theirs quick
Sid Clarke viii be the fusion nominee
for congress in Oklahoma next year
Governor Barnes has donned a straw
hat. and il makes him look Is years
younger.
II is reported that the Santa Fe is
| contemplating putting TWO feeders out
from Guthrie.
Sid Clarke is the only oklahoman who
keeps on pronouncing Oklahoma with the
first 90 short
When harmony az last comes in Okla
| homa the cement viii be found 10 be Tom
Ferguson OF Watonga.
Jerre Johnson Of Kildare has lately been
smiling the air for a scrap, but he can't
get anybody TO take him up.
Decker. the man who accompanied
| Constable Prudens when the latter shot
Miss Arnold, has been discharged.
| 1t is told around that the selection of
| Bill Grimes for census supervisor was the
| suggestion of President Mckinley himself.
| Colonel John r. Tate OF Blackwell says
that Blackwell would rather have cou-
| pie more of railroads than be the capt.
tai.
J y whole lot Of the eastern delegates
| 10 the congress at Wichita intend 70 run
| down TO Kay county just TO see the whea,
| fields.
At one time in Hemphill county. Texas,
/ there were only two RepublicanS-Mr.
! Virgins and Johnny Pugh, the two
! Woodward Adonises.
John a. Ross of Oklahoma City has sued
| his WIFE Carrie Ross. for divorce. They
were married in 1894. They have not been
| living together since 1S96-incompaubilty-
! Dennis Flynn is afraid of cyclones. he
( r4vf1e
house at Guthrie that looks ike the cell
the French king kept the Man Of the Iron
Mask in.
Cash Cade, on his farm near Shawnee,
| has a log cabin with a fire place in it
that holds four-foOt log and that good
| expectuator can hit at a distance OF
eighty feet.
The last seen Of c. C. Jones he was
making his way for Mexico. Al Denni-
son, Texas, he heard of the possibility
| Of an extra session Of the legislature and
at once increased his speed eighteen knots
! an hour.
The conductor Of a freight train one day
| this week picked up a negro baby near
Norman. Norman doesn't permit colOred
people to live in the town and it IS thought
that the baby just rained down as re-
| buke from heaven.
Frank Greer is becoming a voluptuary.
He is wen dressed and really has an eye
to the selection of becoming neckties. For
the first five years in Oklahoma Frank
was so busy he didn't have time to get
friendly with his own clothes.
| Joe McNeal Of Guthrie Is getting to
| look more like a Roman every day. II
the calendar could be slipped back 1000
years and Joe should happen TO wander
IN on the Forum, the crowd would size
him up for the delegate from Etruria in
| three minutes.
ID. C. Lewis of the Oklahoma City Dem
into a sleepy convention that wakes things
up. If Lewis should ever get to congress,
there would be stampede or something
! in the house of representatives about the
second speech he made.
1t is said that Bill Walkers real trou-
! BILE with the commissioner Of Indian af-
fairs was over a grade of -four. The
| commissioner wanted one grade of flour
bought and Bill knew 1t wouldn't answer
as well as another grade and insisted on
buying his grade. Those Indian commits
sioners are mighty touchy people.
Ponca City Courier: Otto Bryan, the g.
year-old son of James Bryan, the Okla
| homa agent OF the Annheuser- Busch
Brewing company, accidentally shot him
self in the breast Monday with a target
gun at his home in Perry. inficting a
WOuIlu Will pTOBdDiy NC 4dleL4 Ills
father was at NeWkirk when notified Of
the accident, and the morning train had
just left. He telephoned to Kildare and
/ Ponca City for fresh teams to be waiting
him, and started for home, hoping to see
his boy alive. He drove TO Kildare In
| % minutes. Changing teams, he drove
| TO Ponca City in 40 minutes. F. T. Nc
Carly had Glen Hampton waiting him
here, and he jumped from one buggy TO
the other and was driven on. In one hour
! and thirty minutes he was driven into
Otoe eighteen miles south Of here, with
the team fairly tagged out. A man with
a buggy was just leaving Otoe for Red
Rock and he changed vehicles. He reach
| ed Red Rock . minutes later, wher7 an
other fresh team was awaiting him. About
| an hour later he had reached home In
| time to see his boy resting fairly easy
and TO comfort his wife, who was about
| heart-broken over the accident. In about
four hours time he had driven nearly
fifty miles, drawn by the affection OF a
! fond fathers heart.