The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-01
Outlines of Oklahoma


FL Reno is after the penitentiary in ear
nest. But why should it cost the town
81, 600?
Fred Hamilton. "Reddy.' an Enid sport,
has passed in his checks. His friends PAID
for his funeral
Tom Ferguson of Watonga is still call
ing on the governor 70 use his machete
on the Ravens bill
The siege OF grip started in southern
Kansas and Oklahoma about November
l, and it is still raging
The experiment station orchard at still
water shows twenty live buds on the
peach trees TO III dead buds.
There are only few days left for the
legislature, and the building combine has
only one OF its nine lives left
Weatherford seems TO have captured the
legislature more than the other towns Jun
keted. Weatherford is all right.
1t is said that the grand jury Of Logan
county viii try TO indict several members
Of the present legislature for Doodle.
The handsomest thing yet done by Ok
lahoma, let it be reiterated. is the monu-
ment to Roy Cashion. Sentiment builds
worthy states.
If the building combine doesn't get any
thing through the legislature it should be
at any rate voted a pumpkin-rind medal
for perseverance.
The legislature may yet have Amos Ew-
ing up before il and demand that he an
swer the question: Where was Moses
when the light went out?"
Phil Rosenbaum manages TO keep in
office He is now United States commits
sioner at Waggoner, and no eggs are ad-
mitted in evidence in his court.
Sidney Clarke has quit ribbing and has
trouble Of his own. Bellamy has joined
the building combine. and Clarke calls
him "a pusilanimous Benedict Arnold
Phil Rosenbaum is on hand TO face the
investiga ton committee. Resenbaum hav-
ing failed of the chance to face the Span
iards, is determined 10 face something
| before he dies.
McElraths bill providing for farmers
to form mutual insurance companies
against hail. fire, etc, each company 10
have a membership Of not less than loo,
has been signed by the governor.
Oklahoma's friendliness to educational
institutions is one of the best character
| istics of the territory. In line with this
| sentiment is the bill exempting the Con-
gregational college at Kingfisher from
| taxation.
B. c. Lyle of Waukomis has been taken
| to the Norman asylum. He claimed he
| died last Monday and was now spirit
and didn't have to wear clothes. This
! sansculotte idea is what sent him over
| the road.
! The Cushing Herald says:
Take up the White Mans Burden,
| Send him the Dawes commission,
! Or some such set Of men
Who may effect a treaty
In a year, or maybe ten.
Edmund Manly of Kay county, born In
| Indiana in 1878. died the other day. and
with thoughts of his wife he said just be-
fore expiring: I'm going to be with
| Mother" What cruelty in law thai
should deceive this trusting old man.
Many tender things come out in the Ok
] lahoma papers in the way or obituaries
| Ella Cecil of Cheyenne, in her anguish fol
her baby boy, wrote this, and il IS pup
lished in the Cheyenne Sunbeam;
| 1t makes mamma sad and lonely Just tc
think of your little grave,
To think of her baby. but she knows heI
darling is saved.
Last night as 1 lay sleeping 1 had pleas
ant dream.
! thought my darling was by my side.
But alas, when 1 awoke in the morning, he
was beyond the dark stream.
Oh. how 1 long to meet my darling in
land beyond this,
Where there will be no more pain or sor-
row,
Nothing but happiness and bliss.