The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-18
Outlines of Oklahoma

Outlines of Oklahoma
Walls has been acquitted OF bribery In
| the last legislature and that settles that
The first child born in Billings is the
baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. NJ s. Ketten-
ring.
Everybody seems to have forgotten the
old legislative racket But II appeared
mighty hot at the time.
FL Reno will have to wait for new
court house. The country was too strong
for the young metropolis.
AS railroad promoters Messrs. Cole and
Guss of Guthrie are looming up like Jones
and Overholses OF Oklahoma City.
1t is said that there is a sort of union
of forces on Jake Roberts OF Kingfsher
for United States district attorney.
The Billings News says that the pros
pect for next years Wheat crop is as good
as it could be at this season of the year.
It seems TO be the general concensus
that if free homes does not become a law
at this session of congress it never Will
The Barnes removal rumor Is still do
ing. business at the old stand. but ii is
so old it can't get itself into print any
more.
A Perry hunter says that on a recent
I
as the wind blew 'em over into the next
township before they lit.
If the question ever comes up in con-
gress as 10 whether Oklahoma shall have
immediate statehood or free homes, Dem
mis- Flynn will be for free homes.
At a recent Indian conference in New
York the prediction was made that with
in ten years the necessity for an Indian
bureau at Washington will be eliminated.
Nit.
There are things in politics which seem
inexplicable. If Dennis Flynn makes free
homes law there viii be hundreds and
hundreds of beneficiaries in the Strip who
will vote against him.
J. F. Shepherd, formerly auditor of the
Hutchinson Southern, will be retained IN
some capacity by the Santa Fe. At pres
ent he will be employed settling up the
| accounts of the Hutchinson Southern.
Sam Overstreet delayed one day IN
starting for the family reunion last week.
If he had started as originally intended
he would have reached his family at
Franklin, Indiana, before he was stricken.
In writing those articles for congress
which Jake Admire proposes the editors
ought to jar congress into recollection
every once In a while that the St Louis
East of Watonga there is pass in the
Gyp Hills called Roman Nose Gap which
the railroads, thinking OF going west
ward, are now all studying. 1t is said to
be the only practical place for a grade
through the Gyp hills.
White Rock recently moved to Billings
bag, baggage and houses The Billings
News says: ITO the people living along
ha4xr nd
ltngs the sight OF houses going by has
become almost as common as boomer
wagons were after the opening OF the
strip.
Incident in the emigration OF White
Rock to Billings. from the Billings News:
There was a small jam in the house
gmpving train between White Rock and
Billings on Monday. The drug store
Seymore Graves dwelling and A. H. Gar
nett's hardware store all trying to get
across Bunch creek at the same time
with only one crossing The drug store
had the start, however. and held the
right of way until on the further bank.
The Billings News calls the Youths
Companion down on a Texas story about
Boston man travelling for an implement
house passing through Bowie Texas
where he was recognized as the man who
went luIOUSA Tue same place d year Dt-
fore leading dancing bear. The News
roars righteously. saying that Boston
men don't furnish farming implements to
the west and that the man who leads
dancing bear through the west speaks
English only with difficulty. 1t IS not
often that the Youths Companion trips.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The
Wichita Eagle says that Postmaster Muir
ply will resign rather than don that
uniform which report has It the postoffice
department will require. The Eagle has
not guessed the real cause OF Postmaster
Murphy's melancholia. The trouble is a
purely domestic one. As the public has
probably already OWNED Mr.. Murphy is
Irish. Mrs. Murphy, however, is English.
The family peace was rarely disturbed
until this Boer war came on, when our
worthy postmaster's Irish fighting blood
began to boil and ne was seized with an
uncomfortable desire to Join Dom Paul
and help lick the English: He had gone
so far in his preparations as to train his
magnificent whiskers ala Boer when Mrs.
Murphy put such a vigorous veto on his
pet project that he was forced TO abandon
It. Hence his melancholy.