The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-05
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The Gushing Herald calls on Judge
| McAtee TO Skinny on his own side
General Grosvenor calls the latest fight
| on Barnes the revival Of chestnut
Some of the Dakota frosts are trying
their best to reach the Oklahoma peach
buds.
dian school IS touring the big eastern
cities.
A venire of eighteen jurymen has been
summoned in the ]. L. Brown case at
Oklahoma City.
The Populists have decided 10 begin
the publication of a weekly Populist pa
per at Oklahoma City.
The women Of Purcell have formed a
| society, the pledge Of which is that no
member win speak evil Of anyone.
R. Q. Blakeney OF Oklahoma City is
| celebrating his retirement from the news
paper business by building an eighteen
room house.
| Jasper Sipes has obtained rooms at the
Savoy Hotel, Kansas City, for Okla
/ homa quarters during the Democratic
! convention.
| The lot for the Carnegie library at Ok
| lahoma City is being cleared and the
actual construction of the building viii
begin about May 1.
Resolutions before the Populist con-
vention in Oklahoma declaring that the
vice-presidenual nominee with Bryan
must be a Populist, were crushed
| Enid has become the storm center tenn
porarily. Bill Grimes and Harry Thomp-
son struck the town on the same day
this week and rounded up the boys.
]. D. Couchman has resigned as deputy
/ in the jail at Oklahoma City. He says
the sheriff insinuated he was not doing
his duty and he resigned, as that was an
insult.
One Oklahoma editor accuses another
| Oklahoma editor of roasting him good
and hard and then not sending him a
copy of the paper. Kind of smokeless
powder scheme.
In the Renfro divorce case at Oklahoma
City the husband was denied divorce;
the wife was given alimony; the hus-
band given possession of the child. The
husband will appeal.
County Commissioner Henry of Okla
homa county says that the Santa Fe.
which in Oklahoma is assessed $500 a
mile. is assessed in Kansas at $1,000 a
mile; the Rock Island in Oklahoma S go
a mile, in Kansas $1,000 per mile.
Judge Burford decided that the election
commissioners at Enid had a legal right
to put John Dollar. candidate for coun-
Gil, off the ticket because after all du-
plicate names were scratched off his pc
tition he didn't have thereon the required
number Of names to nominate.
An Oklahoma City candidate published
this to show why he should be elected:
at was he, who while street commits
sioner, reduced street work from ten to
eight hours per day and never refused to
let man furnish a substitute to work
in his place if he wanted to. He let more
men work out their poll tax and collected
less money from poll-tax payers than
any other street commissioner, and he
has advised that the poll-tax be reduced
from 81 to s.
Guthrie Capital Victor Dupee, the Iowa
chief and official interpreter for the
Iowa tribe, was here yesterday en- route
home from a visit among the Otoes,
where he secured a bride by the name
of Mrs. Mary LeClerq. Dupee IS posi-
bly, the best known Indian in Oklaho-
ma, and is a prominent Republican lead
er among the members Of his race. He
was logged out in all the traperies and
decorations possible to conceive as be-
coming a bridegroom Of his station.
Ivan G. Conkling, the census supervi-
sor for Oklahoma. is not sure whether
ne will have the direction of the census
taking in the Indian reservations of the
territory or not. Several months since
Mr.. Conkling received information from
Census Chief Merriam that the reserva-
tions were considered a part OF his dis
trict, but a few weeks ago he was nou-
fed that the Indians would be counted by
the reservation agents. Very recently.
however. the agents have received word
that Mr.. Conkling would have charge
Of the demonstrating on the reservations,
and he is now expecting information to
that effect.