The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-25
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Territorial Secretary jenkins took the
third degree in Masonry the other night.
Judge Burford is always found on the
| side of morality And ne never lacks
courage TO whack evil.
The honkatonk is a thing Of the past.
Such things are permitted in the centers
of civilization. the large cities
BY the first of next week the graders
will have reached the Indian sllottments
adjoining the city of Pawnee.
The Oklahoma City council has passed
the ordinance granting a franchise TO the
American District Telegraph company.
There have been no cases of chicken
pox or anything ike it among the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe Indians up 70 date.
Recently an elopement took place from
Perkins OF one horse. That is the way
they used to manage il in the colonial
DAYS.
The quarantine between Kansas and
/ Oklahoma, which was never in effect, IS
being raised. 1t viii be all over III two
weeks.
Dick Patton. the barber at Taloga. says
he has received word from the Rock is
land officials that their road will cross
his back yard.
One Oklahoma paper speaks Of young
lady by the name of Miss So-and-So re-
turning to town under an assumed name.
She was married.
Leslie NibIaek gives the Populist terri
torial central committee this hint: a
small modicum Of back pedalling will not
hurt the Popuiist leaders"
There is a ridiculous story in Okla
homa that the physicians started the
smallpox excitement in order 10 make
money vacciuating people.
c. G. Barnes, a poet in the Pawnee
mes-Democrat, aserts: The human
mind is but cup of deep, strong self
caaceit, into which are ever pouring the
waters of defeat"
The wife of Reverend E. T. Blodgett Of
Hennessey. who died recently, was Miss
Nessie Elizabeth Killip. She was born
at SuliV, Isle of Man, in 1872 she came
to Oklahoma in 1898.
Mr.. Cashion of Hennessey has gone to
Cuba for the body Of mis- son, Roy
Cashion. The government will begin eX-
hulning the bodies Of American soldiers
at San Juan February 1.
When in his honkatonk decision Judge
Birford tackled the question Of immodesI
dres. he is getting on a wide subject.
In New York theaters the women in the
modestly than the women on the stage.
Flash of philosophy from the Oklahoma
City Times-Journal: Some papers i'm
agine that the newspapers live of the
politicians The politicians live off the
newspapers until they get office, and then
they crawl into their official hole and pull
the trap door down after them"
The other night an old colored man at
Hennessey was saving wood by the light
of a lantern Some funny man lit can
non cracker and put it up close to the
old man. When the cracker went off the
old man had jusct slammed the ak into
a log. and when he went up INTO teh
air the log followed him.
The principal fears Of the PHYSICIANS
from the Chicken pox" is this: They
think the disease a mild, tropical form
of smallpox, but they believe also that
it's germ may develop, after a time, I'M
It'll 1t becomes the malignant variety
known as continent smallpox. The ply
sicians' idea is to head off such a pos
sibility. Vaccination, they are convinced
is sufficient for this.
Speaking of James Watcher, who killed
Colonel Stone, the Hennessey Clipper
says: And right here we win say that a
great deal of just such business as this
that of mortgaging personal property to
more than one persOn-is going on in this
county. A collector whose business II is
to examine the records, recently informed
us of one instance where a man had
mortgaged fifty acres OF growing wheat
to four different parties, and on each
chattel mortgage had signed an oath taht
the property was free from incumbrance.