The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-17
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City has patriotism. she
has contributed q young men TO the war
in China.
Moses Pitman, an old resident Of FL
Reno, died last week. He was eighty
one years old.
Already some of the enterprising mer-
chants of Oklahoma are advertising
heating stoves
The Ell Reno News calls Brysn's In
dianapolis effort a sixteen columns 70
one idea speech.
An unknown colored man was Ii led
while stealing a ride on train near
Norman, this week.
The department Of the interior should
not object 10 the Indians locating in
Mexico. Let 'em go.
The passenger trains on the Oklahoma
and Eastern pass ar Perkins, and Per
kins feels metropolitan.
Alderman Hoefer of st. Joe, Miss ouri,
viii build a packing house at Oklahoma
City, the town giving a bonus.
\ man in Oklahoma is advertising for
his overcoat, which he lost last week.
Maybe the moths carried 1t away.
The teachers institute in Canadian
county has a membership this year CT
10. which is the record in that county.
VIII Hrabe of Oklahoma Cily, a c r
netist, has located in Boston permanent
~. Hrabe led the Oklahoma City band.
A Watonga Popuiist paper calls Bob
Nen one OF the deepest thinkers in
Oklahoma" Bob should hunt well and
go 70 work at once.
Miss Anna Dixon. the young woman
who was 50 horribly burned by an ex-
ploding lamp at Mangum some time ago,
has fully recovered.
Bob Forrest is said TO be already at
work on d fine article showing way Nen
could not be elected. II viii be issued
right after election day
AS a rule the women candidates for
county superintendent in Oklahoma run
right along with the rest Of their ticket,
neither IN advance nor with less votes.
Greer county has always been too far
away for peddlefs and graftefs of all
kinds, but now that the railroad has
reached there, how they viii work the
county.
Fitting around with the common house
fly in Oklahoma is another fly whose bite
is very painful. The printer on tie
Okeene Eagle was bitten on the hand by
one last week and is lad up in bed.
The other night at Oklahoma City
negro said he'd like 10 see any police
man arrest him. He also swore. The
police judge was standing near, grabbed
the man, took him TO jail and next morn
ing fined him $50.
The whisky business is hard to handle,
In spite of severe sentences and an army
of United States marshals on the look
out, the crime of disposing of liquor to
Indians still grows and the dockets con
tinue TO fill up with these prose cut .ons.
At Oklahoma City the other night
woman wanted to scare her husband,
claimed TO have taken poison. and fell
doctor, who jerked out q stomach pump.
The wife opened one eye. screamed at
the sight of the stomach pump and
promised to be good.
Perry Enterprise-Times: James Sewers
who formerly resided in this city and
was sent to the penitentiary on a charge
of rape and incest preferred by his eldest
daughter, has been charged with the
same offense by one of his younger
daughters. The people of the Creek ma
ton, where he is engaged In a country
girl preferring charges against him that
they caught him and bound him to a
stake, and threatened to burn him alive.
He finally confessed his guilt, and also
that he was guilty of the charge made
against him by his eldest daughter. He
was finally rescued from the mob ard
bound over TO the United States court
in $1,000 bonds, where 1t IS hoped that
full and complete justice may be given
him.