The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04
Outlines Of Oklahoma.


| The Guthrie Capital believes that Okla
/ dnoma can and should have cotton mills
/ The close Of the old year in Oklahoma.
! saw several weak retail firms go under
/ Judge sKeaton thinks that the expan-
! sion idea is in conflict with the constitu-
! ton Of the United States.
| Judge MeAtee has moved ten-room
house from Caldwell to Enid. and it Is
now in course Of reconstruction.
! The Tigers, football team of Arkansas
! City. now claim TO be the champions Of
! southern Kansas and Oklahoma.
I Dan Peery claims that nearly all the
Bohemians in Oklahoma are against the
Republican party on the expansion issue
! Dennis Flynn and A. Il. Classen of
| Oklahoma City, in high collars, attended
the New Years reception at the White
| House.
The excursion of the Memphis wholesale
men will arrive in Oklahoma City over
| the Choctaw January g. and viii remain
for the day.
Henry Bond. a saloonkeeper at Enid,
has fallen heir TO 100000, an IIish es-
| tate. he came from Belfast He bet
! ter lasso the money at once.
This evening Governor and Mrs. Barnes
give reception for Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
:
the friends of the groom and bride"
About the only thing that Judge Nc
Aztec has in common with the Democratic
party nowadays, TO a superficial observer,
is the fact that he was born in Mary
| land.
The inmates Of the federal Jail at Guth-
RE wished their jailor on New Years
many happy returns He was kind
enough net to wish them back the same
thing.
Major Stout, the new agent at Darling
ton has arrived and the goods of the
government are being made over 10 him,
transaction which will consume about
twenty days.
General Metcalf Of the Twentieth Kan
sss has assured Rough Rider Johnson
that a considerable part of the Kansas
regiment viii attend the Rough Riders
reunion in Oklahoma City, next June.
The young men of Guthrie have draft
ed resolutions with the new year that
for a twelve-month they viii buy the
girls gum, dance the darlings and guar
antee them a good time all this year.
1t is announced that the operation on
the deformed feet of little Bessie Nash
of Chandler, in a St. Louis institution.
was successful. and that the little girl
will nave perfect use of her feet hereaf-
ter.
Probate Judge Asa Jones. who refused
to get out OF bed to marry an clipping
couple at Oklahoma City. viii not be
exiled from the territory. He has put
up the plea that he was suffering terri
bly, from the toothache.
George 3. Mcfarland. vice president Of
the Free Homes League of Custer coun-
ty, has called a meeting at all the town.
rr.r
Saturday at which will be opened Free
Homes Letter Writing Schools
In a plea for free homes the Manches-
ter Journal gives a touching picture of
the poverty of its part of the Strip short
ly after the opening. But a narrative
which tells of bare-footed children, III
clad in the middle of winter, is likely 10
make a good many of the Journals read
ers vince. There are a good many dis
comforts in every pioneers life. but he
forgets them at last and in most cases
it is a difficult matter to get him to re-
call them.
Arapahoe Bee: c. B. Wood, Roy Davis
and Ernest Peck went on a wolf hunt
Christmas. They found a den and dug
for a short time but not being full-blood
Irishmen, soon became tired. Then they
shot into the den, and after the smoke
cleared a little ventured 10 peer in, and
were sure they saw two giistening wolf
ewes swapping back at them. a regular
British-B0er bombardment was immedi-
ately opened up on that den and KEEPS
I'D until their ammunition was about ex-
hausted a cautious reconnaissance in
force was then made and the two wolf
eyes were found to be two gun-wads that
had lodged close together when the first
shots were fired into the den. The boys
are still showing symptoms Of their nerv-
5ous excitement