The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-18
Outlines of Oklahoma

The National Guards Of Oklahoma wiz
hold their encampment in Enid in octo-
Der.
The county fair. has been in progress
this week at Enid and has been highly
successful.
Alvin Harbour of Oklahoma city has
introduced the new man shirt waist to
that city. It is pink.
In the election which first sent ingalls,
to the senate. Sid Clarke, now Of Okla
homa received TWO votes.
o. L. Doweu, Stroud cotton buyer
who had an interest in nine cotton gins,
has failed. debts ssS,o0o; assets, s2o,o10.
Bacon Rine was beaten in the Usage
election. and yet Bacon Rine had a
speech that was b-istling with facts.
The national Democratic committee re-
fuses to have anything to do with the
quarrel over the national committeeman
in the Indian territory.
Bill Trone has been held at Oklahoma
City for completely in the murder Of
Eick. Mrs. Trone was not bound over,
but held as a witness.
The cotton in Oklahoma is in first-elass
shape. The only thing which seems 10
have failed TO make connection with
good times is the late corn.
Governor Barnes is preparing an inter
view in which he will give his exact
opinion of that congressional convention
which wouldn't indorse him.
w. H. Matlock of Des Moines, Iowa,
has been employed as instructor in mod
ern languages for the University at Nor
man, at a salary of $1,000 year.
Nen expects to be the fusion nominee
for congress in 1902, on the grounds that
in 1900 he made the race when it was
foregone conclusion that he would be
beaten.
d. S. Rose, a member of che legisla-
ture, is back home in Blackwell from
a trip TO Cape Nome. He says that the
beach diggings are no good this year, al
though last year much gold was taken
out.
Edgar Jones of Guthrie was out rid
ing the other day, when his horse STUN
bled and fell on Jones. He was badly
mussed up and has resolved TO stick by
his feet in the future and let others be
Rough Riders
Joseph H Paxton, Greek and Latin in
structor in the Norman university, has
been granted a leave Of absence of a
year. He IS going 10 Rome TO study in
archaeology. His place will be taken
by James W. Sturgis Of the University
Of Michigan.
Henry Asp says that the university at
Norman will discountenance mercenary
combinations among the different terri
torial educational institutions and ask
for appropriations wholly on merit. The
combinations viii win the biggest appro
priations, just the same.
That young man who is travelling from
town to town in Oklahoma giving him
self up TO the authorities on the grounds
that he is wanted for a crime committed
in another state, is living well, and likes
the board furnished by the taxpayers.
The graft will last just so long as the
sheriffs refrain from reading the news
papers.
Tecumseh Republican: Mr.. Thomas
Nichols, a prosperous farmer, who lived
about four miles south of McLoud. died
last Monday from fractures received In
a runaway last Sunday. Mrs. Nichols
and two children were in the vehicle al
the time of the accident. She received
two broken ribs and external bruises, but
will recover. The children were slightly
bruised.
An Oklahoma City travelling man re-
Gently overheard two Hoosiers bound for
Oklahoma, telling what they intended to
do. One Hoosier said he believed that
he would take a claim near the edge
of Guthrie or Oklahoma City, so that
his children could have good school priv
ileges. How those farmers eyes must
have bulged out when they found the
nearest claim not taken to Guthrie is
out in Washita county somewhere.