The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-13
Outlines Of Oklahoma.


Arizona has given up hope of statehood
until after the presidential election
One man at Oklahoma City advertises
his whisky as liquid music. bottled poe
try"
Sidney Clarke doesn't seem to be cut
ting much statehood fee down in Wash
ington.
Woods county is funding its debt and
Judge Burwell this week will legallze the
bonds.
A Newkirk paper calls Secretary Jen-
kins Man Afraid Of His Voice" This
is actionable.
a group of FL Reno women have de-
cided to hold prayer in the county jail
every Sunday,
Ponca City will build up its burned
district bigger and better. Ponca City
is chockful of energy.
Bob Nef seems to be the only Populist
who has serious designs on the fusion
nomination for congress.
Leslie Nihlaci1 belongs to the new golf
club at Guthrie, and is getting so he can
tell a tee from a shooting sticks.
John Anderson of Lincoln county, who
was sentenced 10 twenty-five years for
killing Estes, has been taken to Lansing.
A restaurant man at Oklahoma City
announces that he will not hire Union Ia
Dor help, and the Union labor men are
after him
The Guthrie Capital thinks that Dewey
may be so shown up during a campaign
that he will cease to be a hero-even 10
Mrs. Dewey.
II is thought the salaries OF the Okla
homa judges viii be increased by con-
gress, in spite of Judge Keaton's efforts
10 prevent il.
Tuesday the big bell for the Catholic
church at Perry was put in place and
with elaborate ceremonies, Bishop Nicer
schaert blessed II.
Colonel unk, of East Newkirk, offers
his townsite for pasture free of charge,
providing owners Of cows do not use
his lot-stakes for pickets.
After Gen. ]. B. Gordon delivered his
lecture at Oklahoma City the other day,
he was given reception by the Blue and
the Gray at the home of an Oklahoma
Cityan.
This argument was uproariously ap-
plauded by all the ether Senators, who
sat with their chairs tilted back against
the wall. expectorating 1 uthe direction
of the stove"
Reverend James OF Kansas. who is to
endow a Methodist university and hospi-
tai, will arrive in Oklahoma City April
., TO hear that city's proposition as TO
sites and so forth.
W. L Barnum is an aspirant for coun-
ty attorney at Newkirk and he should
hasten to declare that he doesn't APP
prove of what his distinguished relative
said about the public.
They WILL he said, offer to recover
your hog for ham, but the chances are
you will never get the hog and will lose
an extra ham besides. IL notice that most
Of the clients Of cheap lawyers are In
prison.
The County Clerk Caffrey case of Ok
lahoma City just dismissed by the SUI
preme court, will be taken up in another
form. Caffrey refused TO extend the tax
as raised by the territorial board Of
equalization.
The contingent Of Rough Riders from
Oklahoma City were out on a vaccinating
trip, when they came TO an old cOlored
woman ard a baby. She refused to per-
nit the baby to be vacolnated, and put
the officers to flight.
Ainslee's Magazine tells this story on
meeting in the Cherokee nation: Sen
ator Bullfrog was a picturesque figure
at q recent session of the Cherokee con-
gress. His raiment on this occasion con-
sisted of a new pink calico shirt. with
10 collar, navy-blue trousers, and heavy
riding boots Senator Bullfrog wore his
spurs, and although he understands the
English language quite as well as the
whitest man in the senate, he addressed
the president in the Cherokee tongue. At
intervals Senator Bullfrog paused in his
speech and spat with unerring aim at
the stove, while an interpreter repeated
his2 argument in English. Senator Bull
frog is something of a philosopher. A
certain lawyer had offered TO accept 5
per cent as a retainer for collecting a
claim for the nation, and il was Of this
that the Senator from GOingsnake district
SPOKE. Senator Builfrog declared that
cheap lawyers were not safe.