The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-16
Outlines of Oklahoma.


A year from this date the fight for the
governorship of Oklahoma will be on full
tilt.
The Oklahoma City Oklshoman under
its new management is against expan-
sion.
Two cousins eloped at Shawnee the
first part of this week and the woman
was a married woman, too.
The entrance of Dick Morgan into the
congressional race is inclined 10 make
things interesting just now.
As soon as Winter found that Okla
hona people were glad he was gone, he
came back Just to show EN-.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made at Oklahoma City TO build a Sew
enth Day Adventists' Hospital
Flynn has never said he would be a
candidate for congress again. But his
friends are determined he shall be-
Whit NJ Grant of Oklahoma City is
still after the qUail-shippers and is at
present on the trail Of big consign-
ment.
The directory Of the Missouri Pacific
has been reorganized and if the Missouri
Pacific ever intends TO get into Oklahoma
that fact viii be known soon.
The Pottawatomie Indians are now
claiming that the ground on which Chi
cago is built is owned by them. Civil
cation has it nailed down pretty hard.
Mike OMalley, the man who had his
arm shot off when Al Jennings was ia
ken for train robbery, is under arrest
at Norman, charged with stealing a
horse.
The Anti-Saloon League figured in the
Republican primaries at Guthrie the 9th
er evening. The league is going to figure
a whole lot this year, and 30 are the
politicians.
An out of town man, said to be a
minister, got so intoxicated at Oklahoma
City the other night that the policeman
who found him had TO put him in a
wheelbarrow and wheel him 10 the sta
ton.
The Commanche News protests that
the world owes every man a living" is
a misleading statement. The paper says:
1T is true. but a man must transform
himself into a mighty busy collecting
agency before the debt is absolved."
If Dennis Flynn passes that free homes
bill he will be so happy that he will not
care whether he is nominated or not.
The chances are that ne viii want TO
take a couple of years off TO breathe a
sigh of relief, for the sigh Will De a good
long one.
The Cloud Chief Sentinel-Herald re-
ports that Alfred MCGEE, the man who
escaped from the Jail there, got out
through the roof by the use of a spoon.
Ii is thought went straight up, but the
officers are not sure, as they had no
telescope.
A young Bohemian was walking from
FL Reno to Oklahoma City recently. He
met two tramps They asked him for a
match. His hands went into his pockets.
They then drew revolvers on MIN and
told him to throw up his hands. Up his
hands went. The tramps took &. 20 and a
pocket-knife away from him.
Enid Wave: Jones, the man who has
laid in jail for nine months charged with
defrauding a slot machine with lead
nickels, was found not guilty by a jury
in the district court yesterday in open
court, without leaving their seats. They
concluded that no man could beat a slot
machine with lead. money, marbles,
chalk, or even ten-penny nails.
member of the Guthrie council IS
charged with having said in a grocery
store: II wish that every American SCI
dieI in tie Philippines would be killed,
ana If l were there 1 would hSht with
AguinaIdo." The men who heard him
say this want the mayor to refuse him
seat in the council. The councilman
denies that he said any such thing.
Perry Enterprise: John Mccoy, A
brother to Mrs. Mccarthy, and whose
father owns a claim southwest Of here
some six miles. noticed a great prairie
fire early this morning, and jumping onto
his pony rode out and notified a number
of the farmers. who fought the fire until
daylight, thus avoiding any serious
losses, which would have been the case
had they not been notified by the boy.