The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-11
Outlines of Oklahoma

The census supervisor for Oklahoma Is
to be appointed this week.
Harry Johnston, a car inspectors clerk
al ChickaSha, was run over by freighs
last week and killed
Tom Ferguson of watonga thinks that
the fight among Republicans in Oklahoma
has not been political. but personal.
The town of Mountain sold out to the
town OF Mountain View for 3 ,00O and j
business lot for every man in Mountain
A man named Field was struck in the
groin by a rocket on July 4. at Perkins.
He is said 10 be In a dangerous condition.
Mrs. Tiilie Champion occupied the pulpit
Of the Methodist fhurch at Perry last
Sunday in the absence Of the regular min
ister.
DR.. Ashby. the weatherford murderer.
has been held without bail to await he
action Of the grand jury, which meets IN
October.
]. B. KINNEY Of Noble county had a
car load OF fhis years wheat the other
day which sold for IS cents al Perry and
Il cents at Kansas City.
Near Ponca City is a ten-acre field Of
alfalfa which has pastured forty head Of
hogs and yielded TWO crops. with a thisd
quite well advanced.
A train crew on the Santa Fe are IN
trouble. A case of beer disappeared and
the detective, sent out, discovered that
the crew swallowed 1t.
Glen White, the Tecumseh postmaster
who was arrested under the charge of
perjury in a quarrel which seems political,
has been placed under S, 900 bonds.
"If you have marketed your wheat"
writes an Oklahoma editor, come in and
pay up your subscription. You owe the
money and we are going 10 have It."
The two-year-old son of Harvey Black
of OKeene Saturday drank the water OF
a dish with fy-paper in IT, He died OF
arsenical poison.
There is travelling doctor in Oklahoma
who, when he has been at a certain place
a certain time, announces that he has now
treated 100 cases and that Is his limit in
any one place, and that he will depart
at once.
John w. Smith, living near Arapahoe.
was digging a well for his neighbor. g.
II. Shield. Smith was at the bottom ot
the well when a bucket OF dirt fell and
struck him, fifty feet below. He only
lived few hours.
The other day Dave Freshman and wife
drove into O'Keene with a crying baby.
1t had got bottle of carbolic acid and
put some in it's mouth. The doctor ex-
amined the child and found that II had not
swallowed any of the stuff.
Milton Row. the Payne county young
man who was accused OF stealing $ll,OcO
from his grandmother. and who was sent
TO the penitentiary, will be pardoned by
Governor Barnes. He was sent UP for
twelve months and has served nine OF
them.
McCoskey. the insane man at Chandler
who killed Kimmel. carried a revolver.
The newspapers shoulr renew their fight
on the carrying OF reviewers. A few
heavy fines and more vigilance on the
part OF the police would prevent a great
many murders.
De Rousier, a Frenchman OF renown,
has been in Oklahoma, and no one knew
il. He has travelled all over America,
writing up the characteristics of the peo-
pie. Part Of this time ne spent in Guth-
RE. He has now written a book about
America He likes Americans TO be
Americans. In other words, as his book
tells, n. de Rousiers does not like In
America the men who are otherwise. He
met one at Guthrie, and says OF him:
His native land was Pennsylvania. His
wife was a German woman. His admira-
ton for American institutions was feeble
He preferred infinitely the governments
Of Europe. and would have EXCHANGED his
lot and his frame hotel for an apartment
in Paris or Vienna. Paris, which he
knew by a short visit there. attracted him.
because of the Bal Mabille. l knew that
he was acquainted with our masterpieces.
because one evening when I had gone to
bed early I was disturbed in my sleep
by a piano out of tune that sent to my
ears the melody that gave TO one OF our
generals his celebrity wanted to sleep,
but the idea that some one in the Ok
lahoma Territory liked 10 play En- Reve-
nant de la Revue'-the Boulanger March
amused me-"