The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-07
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| Dennis Flynn appears to have got free
homes started with a whizz.
The Catholics of Okeene have secured
a site and will build a church.
| Mr.. Overholser Of Oklahoma City Is
| asking for q street car franchise
A dentist at Taloga advertises cheerily
| Have your teeth fixed up for the win
| ter
Near Bristow. in the Indian Territory.
| the other day, a mountain goat was kill
| ed Its fleece was u inches thick
The library site matter at Oklahoma
| City is still unsettled. There seems to
be more or less feeling in the matter
The jury in the Clyde Mattox ease, hav-
ing been secured. the case is now in pro-
gress and is being fought. inch by inch.
A young man named Given was mar
ried recently, near Renfrow. The bride
was given to Given, and naturally became
Given.
Dennis Flynn succeeded in having free
homes one of the first bills introduced and
got into the Associated Press in conse-
quence.
A petition is in circulation at Oklahoma
City asking the county commissioners to
buy the postoffice building for use as a
court house.
There is no way an Oklahoman can pue
in a spare moment better than by drifting
letter to some congressman for free
homes. And the women might join in.
Work on the construction of the Okla
homa and Eastern is being interrupted
by the fact that the mills which make
the rails are behind with their orders.
Last week Jake Admire in an editorial
defending Mr.. NJ. a Low, fired a load of
shrapnel into Harry Thompson without
mentioning his name, with terrible eff
feet.
The recent heavy rains have been hard
on Ehe dug-outs in western Oklahoma,
and many have fallen in, happily, how
ever, without any attendant catastro-
Plies.
That man Kirk, who murdered his sis
ter, kicked on Judge Irwin at Fl Reno for
a judge, and another judge will have to
be secured. Kirk has already had a
change of venue.
Uncle Sam is potential, but he is not
the whole cheese. The other day the
mail in Beaver county did not go out of
town because the driver Of the wagon
just up and quit.
The people in western Oklahoma would
like to see something done with the Fort
Supply reservation, and many of them
would rather see ii a soldiers home than
an insane asylum.
At Gushing a notice is published an
nouncing the dissolution of the partner
ship existing between Left Newry Cro-
Zier and James Lee Nutter, Lief Newry
Fitzroy Crozier continuing the business.
The Okeene Eagle says that Oklahoma
is sure broom corn country with a sea-
son in advance of other sections, and ad-
vises farmers to plant it, and get 1t to
market next year as speedily as posi-
bic.
A Missouri man recently wrote the ed
itor of the Taloga Advocate asking him
to designate some good Republican coun-
ty where he could locate The editor re-
ferred him 70 Blaine county. Dewey
county is Populistic.
A whole family Of poor people near
Gushing were taken down at the same
time with typhoid fever. daughter,
aged Is, and son, aged II, have died.
but the rest of the family will pull
through. NeighboIs took care of them.
Dennis Flynn has written the following
letter to Sidney Clark: Permit me TO
say that I do not think it necessary to
urge on you and your statehood commit
tee the necessity of sending repre-
sentative down here this winter to assist
me. Not but what I am willing and will
do everything in my power. A man like
yourself, with the experience you have
had, can be Of inestimable value to the
cause, and I hope and trust the commit
tee will see it this way. I believe we
can secure statehood. You aided in Sc
curing it for Kansas, and I shall expect.
as 1 am serious in the matter, TO see the
committee act in the same good faith