The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-28
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

! ]. W. McNeal OF Guthrie viii open up
a bank at Arapahoe next month, it is
said
The city of weatherford VIII have an
election in April for provision OF q full
set of officers.
On account of penitentiary guarantees
29T prisoners have accumulated in the
| SIuscogee Jail.
Two buns broke out of the Enid jail
| just before big snow storm set in Luck
is against them.
Announcements for nominations to Of
fee are now being sruck in the papers
at so much per stick
Richard ]. Shive, a prominent attor-
ney OF Arapahoe, and Miss Lizzie Peters
of Missouri We're married last week.
The Arapahoe Bee is with the Kingfish-
er Free Press in the plan 10 elect the na-
| tional committeeman from the territorial
convention.
The present cold snap gives the peach
buds a punch which will put them to
sleep for time and keep them from
being too previous.
Senator Ravens says it is an honor to
attend a national convention. But it
costs like Sam Patch when It as far
away as Philadelphia.
The Choctaw route surveyors have dis
taw ought TO begin TO lay a little steel
as an evidence of good faith.
Ransom Payne has been ordered to keep
off the Usage reserva ton. As there is
considerable other land in the world, this
can hardly be considered a hardship.
The Cloud Chief Sentinel Herald says
that many people are proving up with
the idea that they viii be able TO secure
another claim in the Commanche country
when il is opened.
They are still at it, as the following
from the Cloud Chief Herald shows: Mr..
Able has returned from a trip to the
mountains, where he has been prospect
ing for some time"
Jim Watcher, who fed to Mexico 10
escape the law. made a mistake The
United States watches Mexico as care
fully for criminals as it does the United
States. and a good deal more carefully
than it does Indian territory.
Agent Pollock of the Usage agency, has
managed to get a new lease Of official
life. He is the only Indian agent on rec
ord who ever succeeded in getting the
department to change its mind after it
had once set Itself on a whim.
Cloud Chief Herald: Mr. Graham's
store in the northwest part Of the coun-
ty was burned down Tuesday night, and
II IS Sdlu IAdI the Euu130S VINO set II
on fire stood out in the darkness and shot
at parties who attempted to save the
house or goods.
John Thorp, an old soldier who was IN
company x. Twenty-second Wisconsin,
during the war and moved to Arapahoe
from Atchison, Kansas. in 1S3, was found
dead in his house last week. He lived
alone and his death was discovered by
his absence from his usual haunts.
Mrs S. NJ. Port of Wood, Washita
county, came into Cloud Chief the other
day to prove up on her claim. She has
been Dostmistress at Wood for seven
years and on the day she went to Cloud
Chief was the first In those seven years
that anybody but herself had handled the
mail in that town.
Petitions are being circulated at Arapa-
hoe to have Doc Ashby removed from
the FL Reno Jail TO the Arapahoe jail,
pending his trial in April. Some of the
people who ought to know say that the
Custer county jail Is not as secure as 1t
might be, and there is no good reason
that the prisoner should be transferred.
Jake Admire: Register Of Deeds c. H.
Miller has not been idle, but has given
time and attention TO the subject Of free
homes. In his official correspondence, re-
Gently, he had occasion to explain the
subject to the Harrison Machine compa-
ny, of Bellville, Illinois, and to ask their
good offices in favor of the Oklahoma set