The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-30
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

II Judge Strang can prove his state
ment that the Barnes fight IS done Tor
ali time, the people Of Oklahoma and TIE
administration at Washington viii show
him a smile Of 1S-carat gratitude
The Guthrie Leoder admits long eommu-
nications protesting against the suppress
| sion OF the honkatonk. This IS not 10
be understood as kick from Major Nib
lack, but as an evidence OF his desire TO
be fair with public opinion
Guthrie has raised $4,000 for the Rock
Island branch that is promised from
Kingfisher. The town has even raised
more than was asked. as a measure OF
precaution against possible delinquency
on the part of some of the subscribers.
Ponca City Courier: Tom Smith. ed
itor OF the Newkirk Populist, has sta
toned his guards at the foot of Bob
Neff's kopje and proposes 70 storm the
heights. hoping TO carry OF the Populist
nomination for congress, which Nen is
now defending within his intrenchments.
Chandler News; The telephone line be-
tween Chandler and Shawnee was pur-
chased on Tuesday from the Choctaw
Railroad company, by the Arkansas Val
| ley Telephone company This puts all
the lines in Lincoln county, with the ex-
ception Of the Oklahoma City line, un-
nent that will greatly improve the ser
vice.
The Kansas, Perry and Port Arthur
promotion company organized at Perry
! last week. is composed of the hottest
/ hustIers in Perry, and Perry has never
/ been accused of being behind the best
/ town in Oklahoma for hustlers. Perry Is
after railroads, and if Sam Wadsworth,
| Tom Doyle and Charles Vancleef and
| their hackers don't get railroads it Will
| be new history for that push.
Bartlesville Magnet: 1t is report
/ ed here that Mrs. Patyak, an
/ aged insane Indian was burned to
| death at her home on Hominy creek,
/ twenty-five miles southwest of here, last
week She lived with her son and the
( latter went to Pawhuska and left her
alone. During his absence, 1t is sup
posed she set fire TO the hut IN which
/ she lived When he returned he. found
/ the hut reduced to ashes and his mother
burned to death.
Tom Queenan, a saloon-keeper at Ok
| lahoma City, shot and killed his wife
! Saturday and then jumped out of a. sec
! ond story window, falling in the street.
/ In his pocket his friends found note,
/ saying that he had gambled and got into
| debt and rather than TO stand the en-
| barrassment of being bounded by cred
/ itors he intended to kill himself and his
! family. He emptied his revolver at his
| wife and had nothing to kin himself with
and attempted to do it by jumping out Of
a window.
| Pawnee Times-D Democrat: Last Wednes-
| day morning a man dressed as a farmer,
/ came into the probate judges office and
asked for Judge Eagleton. The judge
made himself known and the man said
he wanted to see him privately. They
went into the hall, but the man insisted
on going upstairs, and when in the up
! per hall the man insisted they should
go to the exact center of the court
! rooom. When there he said, IN broken
English: Now, watch me just two min
utes." He then got down on his knees
and offered a fervent prayer in the Ger
man language. On rising he began to
talk incoherently about religious matters,
claiming that there were three powers
which ruled the universe. He denomi-
mated one the higher power, the second
the world" but would not name the
third. and seemed afraid 1t would iniure
him in some way. He told the Judge ne
wanted to be arrested. When asked il he
had violated the law, re said he had not
but that the higher power had said II
should be done and he wanted to obey
the power Judge Eagleton had the
sheriff take the man to Jail. He is prob
ably insane.