The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-11
Outlines of Oklahoma,

Bob Nen Will have TO emhaln that sena-
torial ambition OF his with salicyiic acid
The expert accountants JOB didn't last
half as long as the expert accountants
counted on.
II must cause Auditor Hopkins 10 won
der why he was ever pulled and hauled
around so.
The directions and advice Of the inves-
| tigating committee are good and will re-
suit in good
The statehood bin is gone. and there
Will be no more political territorial con-
ventions in 1893.
It is not AT all likely that the legisla-
| ture will pass the Ravens bill over the
| governors veto.
1t would be joke now If at the next
session congress should pass an enabling
act for Oklahoma
Senator Ravens viii wait a long day
hereafter before he will try 10 help the
territory become a state.
The report Of the investigating commit
tee does not suit Sidney Clarke az all. It
was not expected to suit him.
When Oklahoma does get a constitution
she should include in il a section making
| deficiencies in public offices misdemean-
ors
Governor Barnes was not acting up to
the dignity of his office when he accepted
| expense money for a trip down 10 Wash
ington.
It would now be a good idea for the Re
pubIicans Of the territory 10 quit inves-
tigating one another at the request of the
leaders of the opposition.
Unless the legislature passes the Ha.
vens bill over the governors veto. ii will
be a long day before Oklahoma has an
other statehood convention.
Sidney r. Ribber of Oklahoma City wa:
an agent appointed to get the Republican
party in Oklahoma to Kill itself. Re
seems to have fallen down.
The investigating committee gave the
| Normal school at Alva j swipe because
sit was located in a sparsely settled coun-
try" That is a great objection for any
westerner TO make.
The report of the investigating commit
tee was not a red-hot political TRADE, com
posed for the dedication if the Democrat
| ic papers, but a paper full Of senslble
counsel.
In line with the suggestion Of the in
vestigating committees report, the libra
rian should go to his library and stay
there during library hourA or relinquish
his salary.
Harper Cunningham, attorney general
should quit taking fees for work perform
ed for the territory. over and above a
salary. The investigating committed
reasoning on that point is sound.
If there were jobbery in the contract
for the erection of the Normal school at
Alva, it was the business of the investi-
eating committee to discover it. But the
committee merely recites over old suspi-
ciOns.
The territorial administration Will do
well hereafter to keep within appropria-
tons If the investigating committee
work results in nothing more than a
closer pratice of thrift it VIII have been
of service.
Tecumseh Republican: The civil docket
here contains $50 cases. A good many OF
the civil cases, of course, have been and
Will be compromised. withdrawn and dis
missed, and such cases will not takeup
so much Of the courts time as the import
ant criminal cases. Among the civil cases
are sixtyfour divorce suits. A majority
Of these, no doubt, will never go to trial
In one of them, that Of Bertha Stutsman
VS.. Nicholas Stutsman, a decree has al
ready been granted by a higher court
Mrs. Stutsman having died at Shawnee
shortly after fling her suit. Her hus-
band, Doc Stutsman, has since been
cleared out of the charge of numbering
Aaron Haning at Keokuk Falls, of which
he was convicted on first trial.