The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-03
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

Bob Neff says that the penalty for dog
stealing in mis- court is death.
The Muskogee Phoenix has been gold
to some employees Of the office for $3.50.
The Bank of Cleveland has in individual
deposits S., 27S.33, which is a fine show
ing
The Clarion says that there is not a
eolored family living within ten miles of
Ara1ailoe.
Bob Nen Of Kay cothty won't say he
is d candidate for congress, but ne is,
just the same.
Jake Admires editorial urging uniiea-
ton for the campaign or 1900 is being
generally approved.
Governor Barnes led the grand march
OF the annual New Years military ball
at Guthrie. Monday night.
The most surprised people in Oklahoma
if free homes passes, viii be some Of the
politicians who realize what a hard task
it is.
AT Edmond, Christmas, Mr.. Jayne, aged
eighty-one years. had family Reunion.
Before New Years the old gentleman was
dead.
Although the winter Is good ways
along. there is such scarcity of houses
at Cleveland that some people are living
in tents.
Ellis Johnson. aged sixty years, died
near Tahlequah, Indian Territory, last
week from getting a bone lodged in his
throat while eating fish.
AT masquerade ball in Pawhuska, the
other night, some of the Osages masked
as full bloods," while one Usage mas
queraded as an Irish lord
The Hennessey Kicker has given Rev
erend Swan of the antl-saloon league. a
left hook which is liable to cause him
to turn his boycott loose on the Kicker
at once.
The Choctaw had two surveying parties
on its Amarillo extension, one party
working east. the other west. The two
corps met on the west line OF Custer
county last week
The Populists in Oklahoma maintain
that there was distinct pledge from the
Democrats when Keaton was nominated
that the next fusion nominee for congress
should be a Populist.
The Methodist church at Pawhuska
must be growing. Reverend w. NJ. Muir
dock Of the NJ. f. church has quit the
Mission building because it was too small
and now holds forth in the council build
ing.
There is one school near Gushing where
there is discipline with a vengeance. That
is the school run by the young woman
who beat her pupil in school and in
court with the audience cheering and
paying the costs.
If every claim-holder in Oklahoma
would write a letter to a congressman or
a senator. free homes would be assured.
And from appearances nearly every
claim-holder has got to write letter
To hiring free homes
BY the end of the present year Guthrie
will have a number Of railroads radiating
from it, so Will Kingfsher And FL Reno,
Kingfisher, Oklahoma City and Guthrie
will make the center of Oklahoma look
like the inside Of a watch.
It is claimed that the full-blood Indian,
when he gets all dressed up and educated,
wants to marry a white woman, and that
it is the Vaccinations of the squaws in
switching him TO marry an Indian girl
which causes him to relapse to the blan-
ket.
Purcell Register: An illicit still was
discovered near Kemp, last Sunday, by
farmers living in that vicinity and still
worms We're taken into Colbert and de-
livered to the officers. A party of dis
tiIers was recently broken up in that
vicinity by the officers and wagon load
ed with whisky was captured. in the
fight a deputy marshal was wounded.
This is the first still ever found in the
Chickasaw nation.