The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-16
Outlines OF Oklahoma

Oklahoma 1Cty expects TO have der
new street railway running by February
1. next.
The mains of the weterworks at Enid
have been tested, and only three leaks
were found.
The time of the Arapahoe Bees pre-
diction that Amos Ewing would resign
is almost up.
Oklahoma city has suburb called
Oak Park. and viii begin selling lots In
it next week.
Nearly every Republican editor in the
territory was q delegate TO the congress
sional convention.
The Santa Fe VIII put in round
house and several other improvements
in Guthrie, at once.
II is about time that the poetess dis
covered by, President A. c. Scott was
writing another poem
Before he was nominated Men was
Populist Since he was nominated he
talks like a Democrat.
The fake about Durrant and Reverend
Gibson of san Francisco still appears
occasionally in Oklahoma
Robert Rhyme was licensed to marry
at Oklahoma City the other day, and he
will probably quit poetry now.
The Saltwater Gazette says that Neff's
boom is already tangled up with the
county seat fight in Kay county.
Trone, who is charged with compile
ity in the Eick murder at Oklahoma
City, is now having his preliminary.
Bob Nen told some Democrats the
other day that they ought 10 be salts
fad, for he had led the Populists into
the Democratic fold.
Isenberg of the Enid Wave says that
If you want the Internal regions dupH-
Gated in miniature just break toy bal
loon belonging to a kid
The Democratic papers in the territory
are trying 10 rib the federal judges
against Flynn because the congressional
convention did not indorse them.
If q statehood bill passes at the nsxt
session OF congress, next summer wlA
be hotter than this one. Next summer
will have the capital fight all tangled up
with it.
w. 3. Hendrey, the chief of police
whom the Oklahoma City council de-
posed, still claims 10 be chief and pre-
sents bill for his salary, and will later
sue for it.
j. Wilson, a young man from the coun-
try, went into Oklahoma City the other
night and fred his pistol off while stand
| ing on the street. 1t cost him Sc in
police court.
The Union Labor men are still after
Frank Greer of the Guthrie Capital
They say they won't do a thing 10 him
in the next legislature, be it Republic
can or PoDuIst.
Mr.. Eichelberger, an evangelist at Ok
lahoma City, says that the best people
are the middle class. The upper crust
of pie is brittle unreliable and tricky. -
he says; 1.-The lower crust is soft, sobby
and sticky; the goody-goody part of the
pie is in the middle"
Bill Lee, colored, owed Reverend Nc
Neal of Oklahoma City some money for
board. MeNeai went TO collect it. Lee
| objected and McNeal whipped out, not a
razor, but a revolver. and fired it. The
police judge examined the organic act
and found that no provision was made
for the collection of money In this fash
| ion, and fined the reverend gentleman.
Stroud Messenger: One school district
in Lincoln county has successfully sovei
the perplexing separate school question.
Having only two colored children in the
Persimmon district, the board Of edu-
cation ordered that the dusky chaps be
allowed to attend the school, but that
the colored pair be separated from the
white children by a partition IN the
shape of a curtain. No mud-throwing
among the representatives OF the two
races is allowed, and the separate mixed
! school works like well-oiled clock-work