The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-10
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

A warehouse near Perkins, last week.
| was robbed of forty-two hundred pounds
| of -four.
Fifteen months ago the sheriff Of Gar
| field county bought some blood-hounds
and there hasn't been a jail-break since.
The cities which denied the existence
| Of smallpox are now paying stupendous
| doctor bills for care of charges suffering
with smallpox.
Tom Richards. sanitary policeman OF
Shawnee. and Mayor Overstreet are in
a row, and Overstreet has asked for
Richards resignation
The attorneys were not very much in
| love with the idea of seeing how far into
the constitution Of Judge McAtee they
| could send the harpoon-
When a paper man retires from bust
ness in Oklahoma he is usually called
by the local paper "a capitalist" But
one paper calls him IAN ex-merchant."
| Shawnee is much Democratic. AT its
| last city election the Democrats got four
councilmen. the Republicans two. The
Democrats elected ]. F. Earnest city
marshal.
Some of those "scuffles in fun are
! little less than priZe-ights. 4 young
man named Peterborough had his leg
broken while scuffling last week, in
Payne county.
Down in Texas, south Of Oklahoma, the
Standard Oil company has been fired out
and local dealers now handle coil oil.
The first thing the local dealers did was
to increase the price Of oil.
The story is stalking over the territory
that Harry Thompson is TO be national
committeeman and Bill Grimes Repub-
lican candidate for congressional dele
gate. Some one should lassoo it.
A little boy with deformed legs. whose
parents lived in a feed yard, came 10
school at Shawnee recently. Now the
little tots are taking up a collection 10
send the boy East to have his legs
Strengthened.
A man walked into Mr.. Rankin's store
at Perkins and put pair of trousers I'M
der his coat. Mrs. Rankin saw him and
told him to give them up. The man did
and then fled. He was overtaken and
hauled before a judge. He emptied his
pockets of So 80, said that was all he had,
and the judge took 1t and told him to
avaunt.
Perkins has a sensation A few weeks
ago a young couple were married. Last
week, Wednesday night, Mr.. Husband
didn't come home. The bride went out
on an exploring expedition and found
him in a saloon behind three Of n kind
She told him that she wished him to
come home. In fact, she demanded il.
And he went.
The reason the Barnes papers have not
gone before the senate is that the Barnes
fight has been on for about three wears
Every time the fight came up thousands
of communications on the matter, tele-
grams, letters and so forth. were sent
to the department. All of these must be
copied to present to the senate, and it is
a tremendous Job.
Mrs. Malvern at Shawnee has been
bound over to the grand jury, charged
with obtaining money from a man named
Montgomery under false pretenses. She
undertook to procure the cancellation of
an Illegally allotted Indian claim whereby
Montgomery was to profit. Montgomery
and Mrs. Malvern disagreed and the
charge against Mrs. Malvern is the re-
suit.
Ponca City Courier: Col. D. F. Stiles
of Oklahoma City was looking after bus
mess interests yesterday. The Colonel Is
a military enthusiast and is heartily IN
favor of a military school for Oklahoma
He thinks one will be established in the
near future and that with active and
energetic work. Ponca City can secure
the location. Here Is another incentive
70 get together. Let US have not only the
Methodist college, but the military school.
Waukomis Hornet: Some days ago the
boys in Miss Halls room secured big !
rat at a barn near the school house,
placed his ratship in a big cigar box and (
watched for an opportunity TO turn him /
loose. It came, and with ii a general /
stampede. The schoolma' am climbed up
on the table and the girls got upon the /
top Of the seats and a general fusilade I
Of books, states and everything throw /
able was cast at Mr.. Rodent. II was 4
more fun for the boys than their trip to /
the professor later in the day. The rat /
escaped.