The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-27
Outlines of Oklahoma,

Shawnee begins the building Of her wa
ter-works February /
Stewart Heddle of Pond Creek calls his
stable a livery store.
Many OF the Indian allotments out in
Blaine county are being leased this win
ter
The county assessors in Oklahoma have
a minimum assessment for gold watches
of $40.
Any man who ever talked business to
Colonel Blackwell never doubted the
mans shrewdness.
Roy Van Brunt popular young boy at
Watonga, died last week. He was just
reaching manhood.
The Watonga Republican is shooting
| sand-burs at Candy for going OF with
Hutto and Houston
1t is now believed that there are no
| cases of smallpox among the Kickapoo
Indians, as reported.
Ponca City has had a mass meeting
looking to securing the extension of the
Hutchinson Southern.
Two brothers-in-law are IN the Alva
jail for fighting. Since being imprisoned
they have had two or three additional
set-tos.
The granting of part OF Fort Supply for
a site for an insane asylu is subject TO
the revocation OF the secretary of the
interior.
The Dawes commission believes that
when IL got the Cherokees to sign, IL
broke the ice in the allotment matter
among all the tribes
The hailstorm of couple of weeks ago
was particularly bad in Oxbow Bend,
Kay county, where II fell three inches
deep in some instances.
1t is charged that the county commits
sioners of Grant appointed q man janitor
on the sole recommendation that he had
licked a Populist editor.
Tom Ferguson of Watonga wants one
or the other of the fighting editors down
at Arapahoe to unchain a cyclone on his
opponent and end the row.
The county commissioners OF Kay coun-
ty have decided that they have no legal
right to appropriate money to build a
bridge across the great Arkansas.
Senator Ravens has bill in the coun-
eil providing for an election in June to
elect delegates to a constitutional con-
stitutional convention, the first step 10
statehood.
Tom Ferguson OF Watonga says that
Havens of Garfield is loaded with ex-
erations in the council, and there won't
be much left.
Bion Hutchins has had the measles up
at his school in Fort Shaw Military reser-
walton in Montana Bion is so young
he has never had the time or opportu-
nifty to have the disease before.
The Kingfsher Reformer has the idea
that the corporation interests are using
their influence to boost the regular army
and discredit the volunteers in order TO
pave the way for big standing army.
There is some excitement about county
division in Woods county. The Alva
Breeze says one scheme cOntemplates di-
viding Woods county into two and max
ing the western county free range. 1t
says cattleman's LOBBY is behind this.
The Mangum Star says that Greer coun-
ty Is not tearing its hair out in a desire
for a railroad, and that railroads have
their disadvantages. However, if a rail-
road should come along the editor of the
Star would probably get out TO study the
locomotive for a few minutes
Ponca City Courier: The postoffice has
its new stamped envelopes in. They are
of bright red. instead Of green, as here
tofore. A new contract with the govern
ment went into effect the first of the year
and no offices were permitted TO order
until the first day of the year. When it
is considered that every postoffice in the
United States made an order on the same
day, the promptness in returns from an
order is surprising