The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-17
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

Some men are sinking shaft for zinc
on the Arkansas river east of Ponca
! CITY.
Governor Barnes friends seem TO think
| that Secretary Hitchcock is prejudiced
| against the governor.
! A surveying party is now running a
] line from Arkansas City southeasterly
towards the coal fields.
| Sunday last was shfrt-sleeve weather in
/ Oklahoma, and this week is shuttle,
/ cough. hack, whoop weather.
/ For some reason or other the New York
| Tribune's interest in the governorship Of
| Oklahoma seems to have ceased.
1t is reported that the Choctaw officials
| think they viii be moving fast If they
can reach Amarillo in two years.
1t is thought that the connections be-
tween the Santa Fe and the Hutchinson
Southern will be made at Ponca City
this week.
The eighteen-montns-ol child of Claud
Mauk Of Waukomis the other day drank
from a bottle containing poison. The
doctor saved the baby.
Speaking of accidents to children. in
western Oklahoma, the other day, baby
in running backwards fell and stuck a
pair Of scissors clear into her back.
A balloonist who has been touring
through Oklahoma recently jumped his
board bill. and he did it by following a
horizontal line of escape, not a perpen-
dicular one.
The Usage council is called together BY
a bell. They refused TO get together
Probably if tardy bell was Instituted
the councillors could be made TO get a
move on themselves.
The boys of Ponca City have fixed up
a spring-boar6 and can now turn a SOM
Gersauit and light on their feet. They
could do it over the back Of an elephant,
too. if they could find the elephant.
When Joseph Webster, the retiring mail
carrier at Ponca City, started in. four
years ago, he could carry all the mail
of the town to the train on one shoulder.
Today three men couldn't lug it down
10 the depot.
Near Wakita, the other day. five
year-old child was kicked in the side OF
the head by mule. The skull was badly
broken and it was thought at first that
the child was dead but she was, at last
accounts, recovering.
All kinds of strange stories in regard
to the Oklahoma situation are floating
around. One is that Secretary Hitch
cock expected Governor Barnes to have
been removed two weeks ago, and is dis
pleased because he has not been.
Mr.. Billups of Washita county has call
ed a meeting ''of all those who desire
this great government conducted accord
ing to the principles of Jefferson, Jack
son., for the purpose of organizing" TO
do battle for the above principles in the
coming county election.
The seven-year-oId son of c. c. Hull,
living near Blackwell, fell through a win
dow, badly cutting his arm. However
the wound healed up, but the pain contin-
ued and he was taken to doctor. He
had been cut near the elbow, and a silver
of glass two inches long had remained
in the arm and worked itself down to
the ball Of the thumb, where the doctor
found it.
Some fathers are kind and considerate,
but they are not all strategic, as this
one, in the item from the Cheyenne Sun
beam, is: &c. NJ. Rosser came in from
Berlin Tuesday He said that two young
men of that place met with sad dis
appointment Sunday Their best girls
girls were attending divine service, as
they should, whilst the boys were loiter-
ing on the outside of the building waiting
to take the said girls home, after the
sermon. The boys thought It would be
a good idea to take possession Of the
wagon in which the girls had arrived. so
as to be sure of them. Just as the meet
ing closed the father of the girl came out.
jumped into the wagon and started off,
carrying the boys with him. He drove
so fast that the boys could not get out
until they had been carried about a mile
from town, when the old gentleman
dropped them and left them to walk
back. On the way they were passed by
the girls in a buggy with a luckier chap
eron. Hard luck, that! Even the Berlin
boys can't get all they want