The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-13
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma had a display recently at the
Nation, Illinois. street fair.
Old Geronimo seems to be hanging on
pretty well despite his estrangement from
Bill Walker
I. n. Terrill is still In the penitentiary
serving, by strange technicality. two
life sentences.
There are some jails in Oklahoma that
are said to be as bad as anything Spain
maintained in Cuba.
1t isn't two months now until Dennis
Flynn will be making the last try for
free homes in congress.
The safe of Stone & Co, hardware mer-
chants at Choctaw City, was blown open
the other night and 500 taken.
Both Kansas and Oklahoma are dry,
but Texas is worse. In some Texas towns
the water supply is giving out.
Next week the Territorial A. H T. A,
which is Anti-Horse Thief Association,
will hold its annual meeting In Enid.
Bear Louise and Throwing Water have
taken up their studies at Chilocco school.
Master Insect Powder has not yet ar
rived.
A man at Oklahoma City wants dam
ages from the city because he fell over
a boot-black's stand which was permitted
on the sidewalk.
D. C. Lewis, as Oklahoma solicitor OF
the Frisco, will not monkey much with
politics. The Frisco is one of the non
political roads.
A. C. Herren, In the Philippines, writ
ing to his sister in Arapahoe, SAYS that
he will visit Japan, China and Austria
LA before he returns.
Clyde Mattox must be awfully tired OF
the scrape, the escape, the capture, and
the delayed trial which has made up such
large portion of his life.
A public meeting was held at Msngum
the other day which petitioned the gov
eminent to give that town a direct mail
route with Mountain View.
Claude Oberly and Miss Bigheart were
married in the Usage country recently,
in the morning. in blankets; at noon in
civilized attire, by a minister.
C. c. Jones of Oklahoma City is a YER
satile man. Between building railroads
and ponticing he has time to feed 500
head Of hogs for the market
1t is said that when Dennis Flynn first
told his wife he would run for congress
she said: ''Why. Dennis, you haven't
been justice of the peace yet"
The Santa Fe began to carry the mails
to Tonkawa this week and II Is said that
the mail doesn't reach the town as quick
ly as it did by the old star route.
A Waukomis man made wager with
his wife that he could thread a needle
quicker than she could sharpen a lead
pencil. The man won by II minutes and
45 seconds.
One gin at Mangum has baled s17 bales
this season. OF these the local merchants
growers took their bales home with them
to wait for a higher price.
William Coffee of Arapahoe says that
whenever western Kansas. Oklahoma and
the Panhandle of Texas have a wet au-
tumn a severe winter follows. The wet
autumn hasn't shown up yet.
The Blackwell Sun says that Fred Fun
ston and Dewey assert that the Filipinos
are capable of self-government. The Sun
will be at pains TO correct that in its
next issue. Both men are home and
have given interviews showing that they
have declared no such thing.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: For a
year an Ell Reno man made frequent
trips to this city with handsome woman
whom he registered at the hotels as his
wife. She was not his wife, however
as several old acquaintance could tes-
tify. Finally, about two months ago, the
woman was brought to this city and put
under a doctors care. During the street
fair the man in the case appeared on the
scene once more, and the two departed
for parts unknown. The man left a wife
and several children at FL Reno, penni-
less, he having turned every dollars
worth of property he possessed into cash,
which he took with him. The man Is an
uncouth, addressed, boorish-looking fell
low, while the woman is a dashing fine
looking creature who looked too intelli-
gent and too well-bred to be brought to
a life of shame by such boor We We're
unable to learn the names of the indi-
viduals, although We had seen them here
frequently.