The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-10
Outlines of Oklahoma

Statehood vetoed. And that settles
that.
Oklahoma VIII probably have 10 wait
on an enabling act.
Those United States senate boons should
be placed in cold storage.
C. Finch. a prominent citizen Of Ha--
desty, Beaver county. is dead.
It is possible that the political career of
one Hankins has come TO an end
Senator Havens now probably wonders
why he has been working so hard
The Okeene Eagle praises Judge Tars-
ney for deciding in favor OF a common
law wife.
The statehood convention would proba-
bly, pass the Havens bill over the COVER
nor's veto.
a private telephone line viii soon be
built from Liberal to Hardesty, in Bea-
Yer county.
Joseph Miller a jeweler Of Alva, is dead.
He was born in Germany and formerly
lived in Harper.
Fred Arfey is at E. Reno. trying TO get
twenty-five Arapahoe Indians 10 join Buff
falo Bits Wild West show.
c. C. Jones and Governor Barnes have
come TO peaceful terms. This will keenly
pain Ribber-in-Chief Sidney Clarke.
In Kay county a claim contest has been
decided in favor of a man who made the
run from the Usage Indian country.
Chapman. Of the Okenne Eagle. says
that he used a lighted lantern under a
Iaprobe in western Kansas years ago.
Sidney Stagg. of Perry. fourteen years
old while catching on 10 q freight train,
was thrown under a car and his right arm
severed.
In nelghborhood in Woods county re-
Gently a cake was made and dime
concealed somewhere in IL. Slices sold for
ten cents each. The cake netted 81.
1t is whispered that one of the women
suffrage lobbyists at Guthrie Will marry
an Oklahoma legislator just after the
adjournment Of the legislature.
F. F. Shupe clerk in a school distric-
in Mustang township. in Canadian coun-
~, has been removed by the county su-
perintendent and litigation over the mat
ter may follow.
c. z. Billingsley, of Guthrie. the as
signee. has sold the building and fixtures
of the old Bank of Mulhall TO G. E. Bur
ford. cashier of the Citizens Bank OF
Muhau. for $2.227.
An Oklahoma correspondent writes TO
his weekly paper: Last week we had
dust storm. The streets were so fun
OF dust we could not see a man. l don't
believe there was man on them"
No matter what the investigating COM
mittee does it will be called a white wash
by the opposition papers who get their
cue from Sid Clarke who is easily the
anti-Republican leader of Oklahoma.
A mad dog ran amuck in the northern
part of Blaine county the other day and
was pursued by a host of men and boys
who finally surrounded him and killed
him. He bit no one so far as known.
Mrs. MeAtee has sued Judge McAtee for
divorce. She says that when she married
Judge ALcAtee she understood they We're
TO live in Oklahoma, and not travel about
Oklahoma and stop in poorly-heated no
tells.
George Fritts of Beaver went away and
married and when he and his bride ar
rived home, the town turned out and gave
him a charivari. Fritts, to stop the thing.
put on his clothes, came out of the house
and took the crowd to town and set EN-
up.
Near Byron in Woods county. a young
man who had been absent from the coun-
try for some time, returned and drove
five miles in a rain 10 take his former
sweetheart to an oyster supper. When he
reached the house the old folks told him
that she had been married and lived else
where.
The citizens of Shawnee have nominated
George Overstreet for mayor; Ed. o. Cas-
siday for police judge; Jim Cole for chief
Of police; J. NJ Doss for city clerk; ]. II.
Woods for city attorney; c. ]. Benson for
city treasurer. Part of the ticket is made
up of Democrats who are dissatisfied with
the regular Democratic nominees.