The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-07
Outlines OF Oklahoma

Victor Hugo lives at Billings and raises
wheat.
Gum stin has the comfort Of knowing
that he can shoot back
Guthrie is pulling on bail games Cor
/ the benefit OF the India famine sufferers.
Prof. a. c. Scott unraveled some shake
speare for the teachers at = picnic at
Dover, Monday.
Nearly five thousand dollars have been
raised fer the Rough Riders reunion a.
Oklahoma City in july.
An Oklahoma man has sold $40 worth
of potatoes of TWO acres, and has oen
hundred bushels Of potatoes left
Peter L. Mason, who Is said 10 be the
first man 10 prove up homestead IN
Oklahoma, died at Salem. Ohio. May -
The editor OF the Carwile Jeurnal has
accumulated so much land business that
| he had 10 turn his paper over TO ais
wife.
kinks out OF a murder mystery. growing
out Of the disappearance OF W. r. Davis
near Arcadia. last February.
Prosperity has been so busy that Ok
laho1aa viii have 10 get out catalogue
! of the things she has got 10 celebrate in
order not 70 get lost in the whirl.
The removal of L. ]. Cum from the
/ board of Normal schools IS causing
some OF the papers in Oklahoma TO set
as If this were the first gun ever dis
charged.
The Democratic party of Oklahoma. be-
ing in no condition TO accomplish any
thing anyway. might as well let itself
go double The split at FL Reno viii
not materially affect the final result this
fall.
Col D. B. Dwyer. the first mayor Guth-
RE ever had, is getting immensely rich in
| Georgia. He is now president Of the
Augusta, Georgia. Railway and Electric
company. which is capitalized at two
| million dollars.
The split and stamp and yen N the
Democratic convention az El Reno was
only an accidental way the Democrats
fell into OF showing how mad they are ar
themselves for the way they missed 1t
on free homes.
Lawrence CHan..) Journal: The preju-
dice Of partisanship was we'll illustrated
in the Oklahoma Democratic convention
when the resolutions rejoiced over free
homes and failed to mention The fact
that Dennis Flynn had anything 10 do
with securing them. But Dennis Will
not care so much for the loss OF the res
oiutions as he will for the gain in votes
I that he will have because of HE work.
A Kingfsher young man IN a joke pro-
posed marriage 10 an Enid girl The
girl took him up in a joke and the
young man rather than be buffed invited
the girl to so al once with him and see
the probate Judge The young lady
rather than be bluffed. went Each Of
them had private conversation with
the probate judge and told him that IL
was all a joke and each wanted to bluff
the other. The probate judge, being
something Of a joker. had his fun and q
fee by making out the license and per-
forming the ceremony in earnest. That
IS no Joke.
Ardmore Citizen: Yesterday was a
busy day in the United States district
court, and when the last one OF the
twenty-five prisoners had received SEN
tence at 9 o'clock p. m, it was stated
that the record for the southern judicial
district had been broken. The shortest
sentence given any Of them was three
months in jail, for John DeLoach and
( Waiter Pool; and the longest was fer
natural life of Bud Nolan. They were
all comparatively young. the Oldest, John
Wilson. being about 10, while the young
est was ight-haired. stripping Of a
boy, named John MCGEE, who has only
seen II summers. This lad was zoo
young to be admitted within prison walls
and was therefore sentenced to the re-
form school at Bonneville, Missouri
In several OF the cases motions were
filed for a new trial, but they were over
ruled. and as soon as convenient Ma
shall Hammer VIII take them 10 the ted
eral penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
Kansas, where they will begin their Ser
vitude and at hard labor expiate their
various crimes.