The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-21
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Clyde Mattox's only show is at his trial.
He will never get another pardon.
There vii be mighty few cotton gins
in Oklahoma this year that will run all
the time.
Oklahoma City is rejoicing The rain
clouds called truce and let her pull of
the big race
A food of counterfeit dollars struck Ok
lahoma City this week along with the
street fair camp following.
1t was just like Elmer Brown OF the
Oklahoma City Times-JournaI to take
up for the Uitlanders in the Transvaal.
Eli Admire, lieutenant Of Twenty-sec-
chs infantry, is new n san Francisco.
lie will join his regiment IL Luz0n at
cnce.
Bill Walker thinks that Joe McNeal,
despite his denials. was down in Washing
ton to get Governor Barnes rocking
chair.
What perplexes lots of Oklahoma fell
lows is why the UitIanders in the Trans
wall do not have the Beers thrown cut
on the ground that they are sooners-
There will be three days of fine racing
in Taloga, Dewey county, beginning Oc-
tober 10. They know how to pull of
horse races in that part of the country.
The government has had plenty Of time.
and might appoint that supervisor for
Oklahoma as an evidence that the terri
tory will be included in the national cen
sus.
When a reporter of the Times-Journal
called on John R. Gentry the other day
Gentry tried to bite him. This shows
that Gentry is on the Barnes side of the
fence.
The Ponca City police have been ac-
coutred with solid rosewood clubs. The
obstreperous drunk who is smashed will
have the consolation of knowing that 1t
was done aesthetically.
Dennis Flynn ought to accept that IN
vitation and make few speeches in Ohio.
Dennis breezy style would be a great
relief to the Buckeyes who have to sub
nit generally to a heavy statesman style
of oratory.
The Wichita mountains gold miner al
ways has hard luck. Dan O'Shea, at
Oklahoma City, was showing people on
the streets a fine mineral specimen
through a magnifying glass. And some
galoot took the magnifying glass and
walked off with 1t.
Postmaster Sam Murphy has issued a
ukase to his subjects in Oklahoma City
notifying them that unless they have
their their letters addressed TO box o.
street number the epistles will go 20 the
general delivery and thence to tn dead
letter office.
About seventy-five men witnessed the
recent duel in the street at Tonkawa. One
bullet went wide of it's mark and al
though htose seventy-fve men were scat
tered all around, every mothers son Of
them claims that the bullet missed him
only half an inch.
At Cordell the other day a postoffice
inspector swooped down on ]. NJ. Foss
and went over his books with a mysteri-
Gus air. After bringing the postmaster to,
the inspector notified him that every
thing was in tip-top shape. And that
night the postmaster slept IA hours.
Romantic marriages are still In vogue
in Oklahoma The Cordell News says:
Last Sunday evening a buggy and two
couple on horseback stopped at the resi-
dence of r. T. Johnson and called him
to the gate, and he was requested to
tie the connubial knot between H x. Nc
Cormick and Miss Alice Gillian, both Of
the Dugford neighborhood."
There is a man out at Arapahoe who
believes that the only way to get free
homes is to fight for them. He told a
writer for the Arapahoe Bee: The peo-
pie of this country will only get free
homes in one way. and that is by fight
ing for them. They must arm them
selves and when the government comes
to put them off-fght! Do you know
what makes the government spend so
much money on the Indian and treat the
niger so mean?" he asked US all who
were listening and giving him the right
Of way 1T Is because the Indians have
stubbornly fought every inch Of ground,
while the niger has said: What next,
boss? Here's a fifteen-thousand dollar
worthless Indian school building In the
western part of this county, built out
there to pacify the Red Moon Indians
who have always caused trouble. Could
a peaceable tribe get it? Not by a jug
full! You will never get free homes till
you fight for them"