The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-17
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| OuliineS OF OkidnOIfld-
Allen Brothers ranch in Dewey coun-
sis,o0o,
| 1t is announced that work on the grade
| OF the Blackwell and Enid railroad has
begun.
The courts in the Chickasaw nation are
| suffering from that evil-the professional
juryman.
Judge MeAtee Will return to Oklahoma
in a few days. His appointment was con-
frmed last Thursday.
James Bigheart is the Usage Indian
who is raising all the trouble against
Pollock, down in Washington.
George Wageck, the Ponca City soldier,
has been granted a pension OF $ a month
for wounds received in the Philippines
war.
The Ponca City postoffice. now an in
| ternational money order office. has issued
its first order of that kind-on a town in
Norway.
In Richland township. Blaine county
two years ago justice OF the peace
was elected. Not a single case has ever
come before him.
When a Pawnee Indians wife dies he
is expected TO go out in the hills ard
moan for eight days without sitting
down, taking sleep or eating.
4 boy, while playing on the river bank
at Oklahoma City, found a mould for
making counterfeit half dollars and a
counterfeit half dollar in the mould.
Reverend A G. Murray of Oklahoma,
who has been down in Washington on
Indian affairs, has returned and he also
declares that free homes will become a
law.
Roy Hoffman declares that he IS not a
candidate for the Democratic nominal
ton for congressional delegate. newspa-
per rumors to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
The Oklahoma City councils order for
the removal of the tenderloin district has
not been acted upon by the police, and
there is threat OF a new police force in
the air.
George Mixwater has been arrested in
the Usage country for selling whisky 10
the Indians. He should have kept on
mixing the water until the per cent OF
alcohol entirely disappeared.
The telephone is a great institution.
The authorities were about TO drag
building off lot at Ponca City the other
day, when Judge Hainer Ielephoned in a
restraining order and operations were sus-
pended.
Over in the Usage nation the other day
a hired man on a ranch saw two men
ride up to the front gate The men car
ried Winchesters. The hired man made
q sneak and has not been seen since. RE
was probably a refugee and thought the
mounted men were officers after him.
But they weren't.
The Tulsa Republican tells of a man
who made bet of s. that he could ride
the fly wheel Of a large engine. When
his widow was confronted with his re-
mains in a bread basket, she said: vii
liam was a good man and kind hue-
band, but he didn't know a great deal
about fly wheels"
Tom Queenan's little daughter, beau
tiful child, has been the subject Of liti-
cation at Oklahoma City. Queenan's rel
atives wanted her. claiming that QUeenan
wanted them to have her. Mr.. and Mrs.
Housch, the child's maternal grandpar-
ents, wanted her. claiming that the
mother desired that they should have the
child if anything happened to her. They
also declared that the child had a hOr-
ror of any mention of the tragedy of
her father. The judge gave the child to
the grandparents.
In some of the more intensely religious
in Oklahoma Introduction
of an organ into a church is fought
bitterly. A country correspondent In the
Geary Bulletin says: Last Sunday Rev.
Mcqueen read r. S. Smediey and Benz.
Burns a lecture for departing from the
christian faith When asked by Smedley
what he had DONE the answer was that
he had assisted in organizing a Sunday
school and was going TO use an organ
in connection with his Sunday evening
lectures. We heard Rev. McQueen's re-
marks. Smedley gave notice that in the
near future he would answer the brother
in three lectures on Sunday evenings;
one on woman's work in the church and
state; one On music In divine worship,
and one on Sunday schools. For the /
present we are in an unsettled condition. !
Two factions exist, one progressive and 7
one non-progressive. 1t Is probable that Z
one faction or the other VIII be like the I
coffee, settle down on their own 4
grounds"