The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-12
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The people OF carwile have dona'eo
SIS to the India aid fund.
The Populist platform at Sioux Fans
contains a plank for free homes
Bishop Meedschaert dedicated the new
Catholic church at Okeene the other day.
The bill which is to make Indian ter
ritory the Territory of Jefferson has been
printed.
some boys near Billings recently
caught three badgers and seven young
coyotes
Charles Christensen OF Okeene. who IS
in the Philippines. is working In the
hospital kitchen in his camp.
Jasper sipes Of Oklahoma City is
thought TO have a einch on the Demo-
cratic national committeesaip.
John Hubbard OF Carwile. who is In
Luzon, writes home that ne is sleeping
on the soft side of mahogany plank.
A man at Billings recently was fined
S25 for taking another mans umbrella.
Is there no liberty at all in this land!
Jim Kelly OF Mangum was IN Enid
Thursday as a delegate from Greer coun-
ty He has acquired a southern accent
In one Oklahoma township a farmers
wife has taken the initiative and is 60
Letting for corn for the starving people
Of India.
1t is becoming general custom in Ok
lahoma to conclude a term in a country
school with q party given in compliment
to the teacher.
When free homes at last came up,
Uncle Joe Cannon wasn't SO hard
against it, because he thought 1t was in
the road of another bill.
Indirectly free homes viii oenefit old
Oklahoma as much as il does the Strip.
but Flynn will not make as big gains
in old Oklahoma as in the Strip.
The question now IS: win the con-
Vention which dominates a delegate to
congress indorse Barnes administration?
Governor Barnes will not ask il.
In the Indian territory arrests for gam
bling are frequent and almost bly,
the arrested men are colored men. Or
course. the white men 90 not gamble.
Ralph Harvey Of FL Reno, who was
Western Union messenger two and Z
half years ago, and for the last year has
been assistant operator, is now manager.
Farmer Don Smith dropped into tn
News office Wednesday, wrote the OK
lahoma editor. "A full description OF the
cyclone will be found in the next col
umn."
Henry Kelly, special assessor for the
NOVA ana 0OIndHCAc IllAiA1.i ASSSA ''A
ton. says that he has been among all
the Indians and that they are not starv-
ing.
II develops that the jenkins men were
of the opinion that McNears defeat at
Enid would have put him out Of the
race for governor next year and helped
jenkins.
Joe McNeal was put on the slate at
Enid with the agreement that If the men
behind the slate supported McNeal they
would vote down any Endorsement OF the
Barnes administration.
Arkansas City Traveller: A farmer
named Miller, who lives five miles east
of Newkirk, was in the city this morn
ing looking for his son. The son is be-
tween 20 and Is years of age. and is de-
mented It seems that last week the
young man took one of his fathers
horses, hitched 1t to a buggy. and left
home. He has been traced TO Winfield.
but before reaching that place had dis
posed. in some way, of the horse and
buggy. He bought a bicycle of one Of
the dealers In Winfield and gave in pay
ment for the bicycle a mortgage on the
horse and buggy. He then rode the
wheel to this city and sold II t9.one Of
the secondhand dealers on South Sum
nit street, receiving for it $50. Since
that time the boy has not been seen.
The fsther went to Winfield from this
CITY, thinking perhaps the young man
had returned to that place. He desires
to catch him, and If he does viii send
him to an asylum. It seems that the
young man is subject to attacks Of this
kind and his father says he will trade
for anything.