The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-23
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Outlines of Oklahoma
It is not considered fashionable to vac
! cinate Oklahoma girls on the arms any
more.
The decision on the honka-tonk at
| Guthrie viii be given by Judge Burford
| today.
John Hinkel. it is reported. viii be post
master at Ripley and viii start paper
| there.
Guthrie has already subscribed $1,000
| for the Rock Island road from King
| ssher.
MuIhan has man named sidebottom.
and Harry Gilstrap says that Chandler
| can furnish a Topp.
| The headquarters of the Anti-Saloon
| League of Oklahoma may be removed
/ from Oklahoma City.
1t is row thought to be certain that
| the governor business Will be settled this
week But YOU can't tell.
/ The docket which the district court will
/ tackle at Chandler February 10 is the
/ largest ever printed there.
! The Oklahoman says that the idea that
Oklahoma City is fighting Barnes Tor cap
I ital purposes is ridiculous.
Delegate Flynn has introduced a bill IN
! congress to remove the charges of deser-
+, ton against Ormas Doolittle of Okla
I homa.
Reverend H Warner Newly of Guthrie
viii next Sunday take for his text:
| What would Jesus do as an editor in
| Euthrie?"
| Colonel E. n. Yates Of Pawhuska, il is
| claimed by John Golobie. is thinking CO
| allying himself with the Usage trIte
| through marriage
! II. E. Clapp, a Mormon missionary who
has been working near Chandler. and has
| returned to Salt Lake City. says that he
has secured a number of converts.
| A white boy and a colored one had
| duel at Chandler. They shot six shots
! each at each other at close fInge. The
only bullet which hit lodged in the white
| boys thigh.
Oklahoma has a physician who cures
| on q musical basis. He figures. aDpar-
| emily, that the measles may be in fiat,
/ or the pneumonia in A fat, or the whe19
/ ingcough natural.
| Secretary Hitchcock is reported as say
| ing that the affairs of the territories give
| him more trouble than the real affairs
I of state The people Of the territories
supposed that that was what a secretary
| OF interior was for.
| cases of oId-fashiOned smallpox with no
| deaths resulting. The disease may be a
| type of smallpox. the miIdest ever heard
! of anywhere. After it IS all over there
/ twill probably be a general agreement
| that it was not smallpox. The Kansas
| Board of Health is entirely too excitable
! Watonga Republican: At one church in
! town last Sunday night the congregation
was rather slow 10 obey the orders of the
| health officer. He threatened to quaran-
| tine the place with everybody in it. There
was a wild rush to get on the outside Of
/ the church, which was equal TO the one
made by the fellows who fed before the
! victorious colored troops in the Dillon
| building in the campaign in 1894.
| Enid Wave: Sheriff Porter's posse
/ caught Roy ST. Clare and Frank Bean
| east Of Waukomis Friday They are
! charged with DEMONSTRATING over in the
Ponca country. The ponies they are
charged with stealing were found in their
| possession. They were riding through the
! country bare-backed. These two prison.
ers look as odd as odd can be. They
both wear long, curly hair. parted in the
middle
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: A local
| freight yesterday on the Choctaw was
delayed several hours by a pair of broken
trucks on the caboose. The trucks broke
loose and swung under the caboose, and
as the train was quite a long one the
engineer did not discover the accident at
once, and quite a little track was torn
up before the train was stopped. The
trainmen in the caboose jumped off. No
one was hurt.
Saltwater Democrat: On last Tuesday
a case was tried in Judge Burns court
for threatening to do great bodily harm.
AS the evidence developed, IL was sim
ply a family quarrel, caused, as the de-
PENDANT said, "by my gal Hattie give
plaintiffs son the mitten." So Judge
Burns dismissed the action at cost OF the
prosecuting witness, as ne decided the
county was not called on to pay for
family feuds. And it was a very good
decision.
In the Governor Barnes removal mat
ter everything hinges on the interpreted
ton of one executive action, what one
is not designated. Barnes holds that he
acted within the law. -Vandeventer, as
sistant secretary Of the Interior holds
that Barnes did not. Secretary Hitch
cock is to decide and his decision then
goes to the president, whb, II it be IA
vorable to Barnes. will approve It: If It
is not favorable President Mckinley will
ask Governor Barnes for his resignation.