The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-13
Outlines of Oklahoma
Bali bearing barn doors are now
yerrised in Oklahoma

Bah bearing barn doors are now ac-
vertised in Oklahoma
The county printing contest in Pawnee
county resulted in favor OF the Dispatch.
Rosenbaum Is in the territorial regimen;
in Georgia, and has stirred up another
row of some sort
colored man entered the home of H.
G. Trosper. at Oklahoma City, the other
night and ransacked II
The Enid Wave is advocating the nom
ination of straight DemOcr&k candidate
for mayor this spring.
The Indians are becoming civilized. sure
enough. The Pawnee Indians gave a
cake-waIk last week..
The feeling among the Republicans IS
that Judge McAtee is doing good deal
OF sliding on their ctNar door.
C. ]. Shapard Of Fort Worth. Texas.
has acquired an interest in the Bank OF
Pawnee, and has become its president
The Hennessey Kicker says that John
Ratiif is a Sedgwick county man who has
long been sheriff of Kingdsher county
The county commissioners of Canadian
county have divided the county printing
between two local Democratic papers.
Frank McMaster does not believe John
Collins of Topeka guilty. and calls
life insurance companies professional
thieves"
Rhodes of Hennessey, now in Cuba,
writes the Kicker that the plOving there
is done with oxen with a crooked stick
pointed with iron.
Unless more interest is taken IN the
statehood convention in the counties. that
convention is liable TO come up short on
delegates and heavy on proxies.
a shortage is charged in the accounts
of City Clerk wilkins OF Enid. and pend
ing an investigation he has been suspend
ed while ]. 5. Shoemaker has been ap-
pointed to his place.
John Rhodes of Hennessey, writing from
Havana: "a dollar in American IS worth
81. 46 in Spanish silver. 1 have learned
something about free silver, and am de-
cidedly for the gold standard"
The Oklahoman Of Oklahoma City ad-
vises farmers to put in only that amount
of cotton which the older people can
pick and derogates the plan Of having
such large fields that children are kept
out of school.
Near Pawnee the other day William
Pappan. aged D. and Henrietta Purdy
aged is, two Indians, were married. The
local papers speak of the bride as hand
scme," the first time the word was prob
ably ever used in connection with an In
dian bride.
J. D. Rhodes OF Hennessey, who is in
Havana, says the funniest thing ne has
seen there occurred the other day when
a lot Of American men and women ar
rived in the city, and a Havana boy six
years old darted in among them begging.
The boy was stark naked and the wo-
men screamed.
Advertisement in the Enid Wave:
'Sharkey, the slugger. smashed Mccoy,
the slugger. to a finish yesterday, and
the Wave is sorry to say that both are
still living, although Mccoy is feeling
very much like a hamburger steak made
out Of Perry B. Lncoln's best beef
steak"
Elk Creek correspondence in the Chey-
enne Sunbeam: People who left this
community to attend Christmas festiv-
ties at other places had a delightful time,
but on their return they found a strange
condition of things, such as plows- climb
ing windmill towers, grindstOnes growing
on locust bushes and stovepipes stuffed
with rage.
The Perry liars latest effort IS this:
"A very strang thing has happened in this
city John Carpenter, an old soldier Ga
as cotton, awoke two nights ago and
found his head as wet as If dipped in
water. and the next morning his hair had
turned as black as it was thirty years
ago. The matter is great wonder here"