The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-11
Outlines of Oklahoma.

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The smallpox at South McAlester has
forced the court of appeals to adjourn.
/ Percy Glaze Of Enid VIII be a candidate
for national delegate to the Democratic
| convention
/ The Hardesty Herald wishes a happy
new year to everybody save ITS delinquent
4 subscribers.
The business men of Memphis Will ar
rive in Oklahoma City this week to take
! in thu town.
The county attorney of Logan. Edgar
! Jones. has decided TO give the gamblers
/ OF Guthrie a little shaking up.
Oklahoma next fall is to have some
fine race meets. Oklahoma and Southern
J Kansas are the natural home Of the
horse.
Messrs. Overholser. Jones and Douglass
are quoted as saying that unless they get
/ Governor Barnes removed this time, they
will cult trying.
! Clyde Mattox is back in the state PEN
1 itentiary. He told the officers that ne
! hated the sentence more on his mothers
| account than his own.
| With a mighty little organization the
younger men of the Democratic party in
| Oklahoma could take hold Of and run
| the next territorial convention.
| Clyde Mattox now says that he intends
! to make another start when he gets out
pf the penitentiary He should divorce
himself from firearms and saloons.
Hardesty Herald: AL Browns ten mule
teams hauling three wagons on the trail
loaded with supplies for Shoemaker's
ranch would be a sight for eastern peo-
Die
One farmer in Pawnee county fancied
that he had been damaged $500 by the
right of way of the new railroad. The
right of way commissioners gave him
500.
George L. Wolf a Rock Island brake
man, had his arm caught between the
bumpers of two freight cars at Enid,
the other night. The forearm was badly
crushed.
Canada has made proposition to Buff
falo Jones The proposition is that he
will bring ont of the north for that gov
eminent some musk oxen, buffalo and
reindeer.
Some one has started the story that il
was a letter from the president asking
Barnes for mis- resignation which called
him to Washington. But you can hear
all kinds of stories.
One Oklahoma town settled the pest
house matter mighty sudden. The house
where the disease broke out was loaded
on wheels and moved outside the danger
limits, patient and ALL
The Newkirk Democrat says that Bob
Neff doesn't moan" right 10 go TO con-
gress. 1t is fact that Bob Neff ought
to jettisOn some of his cheerfuness if
he wants to stand in with the Populist
convention.
This is not the first time Buffalo Jones
10. +,s,I he ar~Sr11 ont n civ %
him a reservation for the breeding and
preservation Of the buffalo. He once tried
to get the western end of Beaver county
for this purpose.
There is this much about tiff Governor
Barnes was not naturally, inherently and
emphatically a fighter from his top-knot
to his big toe he would have resigned the
office of governor long ago rather than
stand and take all his assegais that come
in the direction of a territorial governor.
The job of governor of Oklahoma is not
worth having. Governor Barnes health
is broken, it is said on account Of it.
Hennessey Kicker: John Ratliff has
gone to Illinois, to the home of his child
hood, where his fathers estate is being
settled up and the old homestead is to
be sold. John went with the full deter
mination to buy it or make some one
a sort Of fascination about the old farm
where you played when a boy and plow-
ed until you had stone-bruises on your
heels as big as a walnut. You thought
it pretty tough then, but when YOU get
on the shady side of forty you begin to
think you would like to live those days
over again, and no matter how rough you
may have thought your task there are !
many bright visions of the days long
gone when you roamed about the 'oid
homestead" and the older you grow the
more vivid will these visions present
themselves. When John told us about /
his determination 10 go back and bid on
the "old home farm we could see mist !
in his eyes as he remarked boys. there
isn't furrow ON the farm that l have
not turned; there's not a spot of it that |
I have not stood upon, and we could !
see a smile Of happiness when he con- |
tinued, Il intend TO buy it or those |
suckers will have to bid pretty high" |
We wish him all success possible. 1t |
would certainly be pleasure to own the |
"old homestead"