The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-21
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

A Waterman gets up in the tower in the
| railroad yards at Oklahoma city row
! with his thumb or the travelling public.
The Acton correspondent OF the Malhan
| Enterprise describes a newly married
man as looking like fat yearling mule
Tom Ferguson has spread the Watonga
Republican out about half without i'm
rairiEg the quality Of matter ne pr nts.
The Republican is newsier than ever and
looks fun grown
Colonel A !. Mcpherson of woodward
attended the FL Reno cattIemen's conven-
ton and was the towns hero for two
days as the man who opened the first
store in the convention city.
a woman drove into Waukomis the
other cay in mule cart and in an hour
or two was staggering around the streets
drunk This is the second case OF the
kind in the history of Oklahoma.
E. L. Peekham and T. S. Chambers Of
Blackwell, Superintendent Carl Gray Of
the Frisco and W. c Robinson Of Win
field, win start out from Blackwell next
Monday to look over the route of the
Frisco from Blackwell TO Enid.
Since Oklahoma has had no winter TO
speak OF it was 40 more than right that
Governor Barnes should issue a requisi-
ton to Governor Stanley for Mr.. Snow
ball. And IT vii be interesting to know
how long Mr.. SNOWFALL Will last in as
hot a town as Guthrie.
Dick Morgan enjoyed his congressional
boom first rate until the Guthrie Capital
trimmed up a cut Of PETER and run it TO
represent Morgan. This made Morgan so
hot that ne has a notion now to pad his
whiskers out and render the CapitaPs
PETER cut inadequate for future use.
Jake Admire thumped the situation
right between the eyes when he said over
confidence is the only danger OF free
homes. Those letters should be kept 60
ing to Washington. Every man who has
written a letter should get somebody else
to write and write two more himself.
The remains Of Hiram Plummer Of
South McAlester. who was killed in &C
ton in Manila last fail while fighting
with the Twentieth Kansas, have arrived,
and appropriate funeral services will be
held at South McAlester today. Plum
mer's body came in a Theoretically sealed
casket.
In the district court at Ponca City
Judge Hainer has issued an order that in
all default divorce cases no trial viii be
had or allowed until after the expiration
of ten days after the issues in the case
should have been made up. In all d.
vorces the plaintiff IS required to make
a deposit of S15 for costs"
Mrs. H. A Johnson, a widow at Perry.
has thirteen children. The county has
been supporting the family for a year.
Even a widow could support as many as
nine children in as good a country as Ok
lahoma. but she could hardly be expected
to rustic enough for thirteen in the face
of such an APPETITE as the great climate
of Oklahoma begets.
Major Niblack: It's a pity Luke Short,
who was Bat Masterson's old partner,
isn't living to go to Paris and take part
in that revolver contest. Some years ago
Short was stopping at the Leland Hotel
in Chicago. At breakfast fly lit In his
glass of milk. whereupcn he tossed the
milk into the air, shot the fly out with
his A. caught the fluid again in the glass,
drank it and then quietly resumed his
ton with a reporter to whom he
was relating how his eye sight had
failed.
This from Dick Morgan's free homes
speech is worth repeating: The i'm
of the work Of this free homes
movement cannot be overestimated.
Claim holders are not the only persons
interested Merchants. doctors, lawyers,
editors, teachers, preachers, mechanics,
men in every avoca ton, ealing and pro-
fession in life-will reap the benefits Of
free homes. Our children are interested.
The defeat OF this measure means to
them an irreparable injury. Even II the
father Iquidates the mortgages It is only |
so much money diverted from the educa- |
lion and training of the children"