The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-15
Outlines Of Oklahoma

1t Is said that the grape buds in Okla
homa are all sound this year.
The Ponca City Courier says that Clyde
Mattox's pardon was unconditional.
The fight against Bill Grimes seems to
have died for want of nourishment.
A Norman barber advertises that he
will fix your countenances for YOU
There are still few deer in the sparse
ly settled parts of the Choctaw nation
Thomas E. Schrack OF Pawnee is dead
OF spinal meningitis. He was sick only
four days.
A firm in the Creek nation have the
government contract for cutting f25,eoo
gun stocks.
o. S. Mcahon of Okarche recently shot
white pelican which measured nine feet
from tip to tip.
It will do no good for any one to ask a
pardon for Clyde Mattox. If he ever gets
in prison again.
On March 81 the deposits in the Nor
man State bank amounted 10 s143. Us On
April 4 they had grown TO slsl,623.
The pupils of the city schools at Ponca
City on Arbor day planted tree and
named it for Rough Rider Palmer.
The champion chess player at Okarche
is the postmaster, but he doesn't get any
Tom Farrar has landed at last. He has
been appointed chief clerk in the land
office at Muskogee by the Dawes commits
sion.
When Sheriff Porter of Enid was at the
Kansas penitentiary last week ne saw
John Collins. Collins was threading nee
dies.
Negroes do not run well for elective Off
Ia nd -
pers are seeking TO make the Republican
party responsible for 1t.
In the recent election at Pond Creek
not a single woman registered. And yet
the last legislature was talking about Civ
ing women the suffrage they do not want.
1t is now said that the late Postmaster
Day at Enid, who was murdered, had lost
money at cards. Many people claim he
committed suicide, but the evidence does
not point that way.
Miss Gertie Parks who attended her
grandmother Mrs. Johnson, during the
latter's trial for poisoning her husband,
has taken TO writing poetry about the
trial. Tt is murderous poetry.
Agent Woodson and Billy Walker had
a conference the other day and resolved
that the earth must be coming TO an end.
as the newspaper correspondents hadn't
had them removed for over week.
The Pond Creek Vidette says that no
county seat election will be held in Grant
county next month. That probably means
an injunction. The county commission
ers have ordered an election for May 16
At school house in Pottawatomie
county the other night there was debated
this question: Resolved. That Columbus
should receive more honor for discovering
America than Washington did for defend
ing it. The judges decided against
George Washington.
The report that the prisoners In the
Pawnee jail are mistreated is a fake. The
prisoners are treated handsomely, and on
Sundays have chickens and dumplings for
dinner. A lot of honest men are expected
on this announcement TO proceed TO the
jail and break In, late Saturday night.
Arkansas City Traveller: Last week in
the court at Pawhuska, Mrs. S. E. Law
renee was given a decree of divorce from
her husband, Sylvester Z. Lawrence. She
was given possession Of the tract of land
situated on Beaver creek, containing over
LOO acres, and known as the Lawrence
ranch. This land is the property OF the
United States government and Mrs. Law
renee will not be allowed the use of it
IN the future. All the improvements, ETC.
also all of the personal property including
the stock which was on the ranch at the
time the decree of divorce was granted
was given to Mrs. Lawrence. She, how
ever, was ordered to pay him the sum
of $500. This information was received
from the lawyers in the case