The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-14
Outlines of Oklahoma

Ponca City fs already taking UP col
lection to help in the relief OF Galveston
Many Republican papers in the terri
tory are publishing Eddy's speech on
free homes.
Bob Forrest Is chairman of the cam
paign committee for the fusion forces
in Canadian county.
The Oklahoma City Commercial club
has taken steps to aid IN the relief of
the Galveston sufferers.
The late Colonel Stiles. az the opening
Of the Strip. located the claim which
became part of Ponca City.
The divide between the South Canadian
river and Deer Greek, In Custer county.
has an altitude OF Ito feet.
The Ponca City Courier says that Ok
orders as all the United States had in
1s65.
| ]. G. Mccoy. the first candidate of the
Democrats for congress in Oklahoma. IS
now special agent for the census de-
partment.
The citizens of Arapahoe will send a
committee to Kansas City soon 10 con-
fer with the promoters of the Stillwell
Orient road.
The Arapahoe Bee thinks that If a
battleship is TO be named Oklahoma, the
best fighter in the navy must be Sc
lected for captain.
The first day of the races at Guthrie
was not very well attended. What
the matter with the public and horse
racing. anyway?
The Oklahoma City paper which is pub
| fishing the reading advertisement about
| the good bathing at Galveston, water
| low,'' should cut it out.
|
Dunn and Miss Nellie Chapman and Mr..
Avery Chapman and Miss Emma Dunn
were married under the same arch OF
| evergreens.
| Bob Neff is losing votes in Greer
county this week, and will procesd TO
get votes for Flynn in washita county
next week and in Custer county the
week after.
! Edlow and Garfield Terry, who were
! implicated in the murder of Roesch, in
Custer county, have been sent 10 jail
without bond In their preliminary vii
McInturf reiterated his confession.
The prisoners in the Oklahoma City
! jail on account of the heat were let into
| the corridor. They at once took down
a stove and knocked a hole in the wal
and, when discovered, were escaping.
! Sidney Clarke, in writing Of the actions
/ OF the late Colonel Stiles in Oklahoma
City the first year after the opening
says; 1T is known TO the writer that
when complaint was made 10 the wal
! department that he had exceeded his au-
thority in some of his acts, that after
full investigation his course was high
! ~ commended by the president and Sec
rotary Of war.
Oklahoma City Tines Journal: Last
year a vast area in Texas was food
swept, entailing loss Of more than l
| lives and millions of dollars worth OF
property. Now comes upon the state the
Galveston disaster which Twill cause
those who do not comprehend the mag
nitude of the state TO believe that ths
state Is well nigh bankrupted. 1t is diff
| ficult for people who have never crossed
the great state of Texas to comphere nd
its extent, or the degree OF industrial
development it has attained. A few day:
! ago an eastern railway traffic manager
wired his agent at Dallas TO personally
visit at once San Antonio, Paris, Waco
! and Beaumont in order TO secure the
routing of freight. The traffic manager
evidently had no conception of the tasl
he had imposed upon his western agent
| To carry out instructions would have re
| quired 200O miles of travel and fully q
weeks time. The traffic manager knew
the points mentioned were all within
the bounds Of one state, and quite nat.
urally assumed that the task was moi
more than a two days affair.