The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-20
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The Democrats and Populists OF Logan
county have decided on fusion.
The three-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace Speed of Guthrie is very III.
Sidney Clarke is running for the school
| board in the Fifth ward ar Oklahoma
City.
A socialist Democratic city ticket has
been nominated by petition at Oklahoma
| Cft--.
IN the municipal contests in the Indian
territorp this spring party lines are
| closely drawn.
The journeymen painters of Oklahoma
City have organized a union, with Is
charter members.
The grand jury at Guthrie which was
| expected TO do several sensational things,
has adjourned until April 9.
The PopuIists of Woods county are go-
| ing to have a hard time getting Demo-
Gratis to support the initiative and ref
| erendum.
The Populists of Oklahoma county will
hold their convention for nominating del
egates TO the Enid convention, at Okla
homa City, March 5.
Tom Queenan Of Oklahoma City, when
| the jury was out in his case, said the
suspense was something awful and that
he would rather be dead.
Cattlemen played a game of poker at
Tulsa recently, where towards morning
chips were worth $50 a piece. At one
time there was $1,000 on the table.
! Ira KayIor was held up Friday night
| at Guthrie by feot-pads, who took $40 in
money, but left his watch. They knock
! ed him down and dragged him into an
| allev.
| Down in Washington 1t is said that
| Judge McAtee is the only Oklahoman
| who has such a cinch with the admins
| tration that diamond drill wouldn' t
| even scratch It
| Some men have a hard time OF it. A
| colored man at Guthrie who has served
two years in the penitentiary for petit
! larceny, is under arrest again, charged
with stealing harness.
! At Oklahoma City the other day cit
| iZen weighing rs pounds licked citizen
weighing 2D5 pounds. The people who
| do not know that a fat man can't fight
are cornplimenting the slim man.
Tom Queenan. who has been found
! guilty of murder, with the penalty fixed
as death, is not very near being hanged
| The disqualified juror, who served with
! the consent Of all parties, will subject
! the case to appeal after appeal.
All the Democratic paers say that Il
Dennis Flynn fails TO pass free homes
the Republicans will be defeated In Ok
lahoma this fell. None of them say
however, that if it passes the Republl-
cans will be Overwhelmingly successful.
AS the fire wagon of Guthrie was going
down the west hill the other day full
tilt, freight train pulled across tht
road. 1t looked like death, but Chic
! Gruber, who was driving, managed t
turn the horses and run them parable
| with the moving train.
Recently W. H. Rice Of Norman ae
companied a party of excursionists east
ward over the Choctaw. At Little Reel
he left the excursion bound for Mem
phis, married Miss Gertrude Whitfield o
Little Rock, and bride and groom caugh
the excursion train coming back.
Waukomis Hornet: Rev. A Norman
who owns a half section of decided lan(
. five miles southeast Of Waukonis, wa:
| married to Mss Mary e. Click. at Den
yer, Worth county, Mo-, one day las
week. The Reverend has reached tn,
advanced age of Y years, while his brid,
is a young lady of 10 summers.
Okarche Times: 1t might be interestin,
to the people of Okarche to know how
/ much cheese they ate during last year
Mr. c. Hoffman, Of the Park chees
factory, has furnished the Times a state
ment taken from his books. Of the mum
Der of pounds taken by Okarche mer
chants each month: January, 127; Feb
ruary. 119; March, 213; April, 162; May
$780, June, $50; July. Gil: August, rs; Sep
TENDER, IA; October, $50; November. PAT
December 203, making a total OF 42T
| pounds for the year. Not bad showing
| for the cheese eaters.