The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-31
Outlines of Oklahoma


Governor Barnes and Mrs. Barnes viii
entertain the legislators tomorrow even
ing.
G. c. Jones OF the house is still trying
to get Amos Ewing and the precipice To-
gether.
The people Of Ardmore have voted FOR
free schools, but the majority for il was
only s.
There is a man at Ponca City who cures
by laying on the hands and he is get
ting big clientele.
The legislature win have its calendar
printed on a typewriter instead of by q
printer as hitherto.
Ellis Cook. a Shawnee contractor. has
been arrested az Oklahoma City. 1t is
charged that he did not fulfll contract
The Norman State bank IS said TO issue
checks in the form of receipts and thus
avoid the expense OF the revenue stamps
A meeting Of taxpayers of Ponca City
voted a motion to vote bonds for secGr-
ing the Hutchinson Southern down, unan-
imously.
The Fl Reno News thinks that the Joint
resolution for investigating the admins
tration is IAN insult TO Oklahoma man
hood
Most of the people in Oklahoma who
write articles to the papers against fe-
male suffrage haven't the courage to
sign their names.
The Ponca City Courier reads a lecture
TO the legislature to the effect that the
party is bigger than any man, any set
of men or any locality.
Charles Wixom. the Enid man charged
with completely in the murder OF Full
ton. has been discharged. There was no
evidence to convict him.
]. W. Rainey and Miss Mollie Weather
ford have been married. Miss Weather
ford is the daughter Of the founder of
the town OF that name and is Is years
old.
An Enid firm in it's advertisement
makes out the reason that 1t can sell
goods cheap is because there is panic
in the manufacturing districts of the
east.
Eight hundred dollars reward has been
offered for the apprehension Of the muir
derers of John Nulk of Oklahoma City,
the governor Offering $500 and the Nulk
estate $500
The Hutchinson Southern is fishing hard
for a junction with the Santa Fe and
Ponca City fingers around the bait longer
than the rest of the towns, because per-
haps, the bait is nearer.
An attempt will be made this week. it
is said to locate the territorial institu-
tons. The result will be a tangled row.
Judge Frank Dale is said TO be one of
the promoters behind the plan TO locate
them.
The Oklahoma legislature has prac-
tically decided 10 appropriate 5000 to the
lit
mittee having reported such bill favor
ably. This is better than creating a new
office.
travelling over the territory. This is the
first time a thing of this kind has been
attempted in Oklahoma and the life in
surance companies would cal lit extra
hazardous.
The agent Of the Sac and Fox has been
ordered TO take steps 10 wipe out the
smallpox. Washington does get a move
on itself. In former years Washington
would not have known Of the presence
of smallpox in a tribe.
Chickasaw Gazette: The Rock Island
has been surveyed and cross-sectioned
for fifty miles west, and If nothing pre-
vents, the track vii lbe laid to Ana
darko. twenty miles west Of this place,
by Saturday night. On Monday the sur
veying corps received orders TO survey
and cross-section twenty-five miles more.
This will bring the road within a few
miles of the line of Greer county, Okla
hOma. All the information the Gazette
has been able to gather on the subject.
indicates the road, when completed. will
run from Chickasaw TO Amarillo, Texas,
interesting the Fort Worth and Denver
at the latter place. 1t is estimated that
there are now one thousand men and FIVE
hundred teams at work on the road and
that the first fifty miles viii be finished
by March g. Contractors. teams and
workmeu are arriving in the city daily.
4 number OF men who are at work on
the dumps say that they have been
promised a years steady work by the
company.