The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-02
Outlines of Oklahoma

| w Weber, at the head OF the band Of
| fourteen boomers. has gone TO the Ute
| opening in Colorado.
In the Atoka jail there are sixteen men
charged with murder. among them Ho-
terna and his band Of witch-huuters.
The wife and daughter OF ". F. Green
OF Oklahoma were killed in the Kirksville
| cyclone. They were visiting IN that city.
J.B. Baldwin of Cloud Chief had CEN
| tipede walk over him the other night
The track Of the insect is painful. but not
serious.
| Jake Admire listened 10 Judge Irwin in
struct his jury, ran his Beaume guage in
| TO the logic of ii and announces that IT.
win is all right.
Farmers in Oklahoma are not putting
| in much cotton and now the editors come
| out and say that the price Of cotton is
| likely to be high.
! This is good hydrophobia weather. If
| your dog goes TO acting strangely, put
| him in the kennel and cut his acquaint-
ance until it rains.
| Last week the four-year-old child Of
Mr.. Powell, living four miles from Cloud
Chief, was bitten by q rattlesnake, and
| died a few hours later.
In the southeast part of Payne county
their proximity to smallpox. Even small
pox has some advantages.
Judge Tarsney has shipped the last of
his library from Fl Reno back 10 Kan
sas City. Tarsney made mistake by
not remaining in the territory.
There is an undertaken at Tecumseh
who sells coffins on the installment plan.
according to the Enid Wave That's moth
ing. Nearly all undertakes do that.
One of Bill Walkers Indian prophets
predicted severe frost for April IS. The
frost didn't come, and Mr.. Walker has
arranged for communicating the Indian
at once.
Harry Smith, Of the Woodward Bulletin,
gives it as his opinion that there never
was an excuse for the Biddison play last
winter, and he rather rejOices that Biddi-
sons constituency gave him ghost dance
when he reached home.
The Canadian county commissioners
have tried to remove a bridge. but have
been restrained. The commissioners viii
fight, claiming that if they have the pow
er 10 locate bridge, they must certainly
have the power TO remove it.
After reprfntng that widely circulated
story Of an Indian Rough Rider, named
Wolf, running away with a Santiago Sc
anybody reading it and believing II has
the Advocates permission to stand on his
head.
Rufus Sipes, bedraggled individual, led
a sad-looking COW into Perkins the other
day and sold her for $50. A few minutes
later it developed that he had stolen her.
He was put in jail. During the night he
dug a stone out of the wall of the jail
and escaped.
1t is a ten to one shot that when Hens
ley is through being mayor of Ell Reno,
he never again will criticize a public off,
Ger. Like all reformers. Hensley is going
to discover that it is mighty easy TO tell
how it ought to be done, but ALTERED
hard to take hold and do it.
A hog belonging to a man out near
Woodward has won a brood of chicks
away from old hen He goes out and
roots up the ground and they pick up the
worms. The story will not be complete
until the despaiTing and mortified hen
throws herself into cyclone and commits
suicide.
At Perkins there is great excitement
over a theological debate which is held
in a big tent by J. w. Coats and j. B.
Crawford. The discussion is ON this prop
Osition: do the scriptures teach that
Jesus Christ commanded the apostles to
baptize in water, in the name Of the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost for the re-
mission of past sins?' Goats says yes.
Crawford says no.
Cleveland Triangle: The queerest thing
in the way of pleas was Witnessed when
1. D. Davis was asked whether he was
guilty or not guilty as charged in double
jointed Indictment charging him with botn
introducing and disposing Of intoXicants.
AS to the first count the defendant plead
guilty, saying that some one put the
liquor in the wagon and he had intro
duced it before he knew It. On the sec
ond count, he asked the judge TO give him
until Monday to consult with his attor-
ney. II would like to study over the
matter" he said, but if you Will not give
me until Monday will plead guilty any
how"