The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-06
Outlines Of Oklahoma

County Commissioner Robinson Of Ok
Iahoma county IS seriously Ill with pneu-
monia.
The south sIcAlester convention viii
be followed by statehood convention
in oklahoma
Jake Admire shoots a whole lot Of sar-
casn into that jury watch hung in The
Watcher case.
The new laboratory in the High school
at Oklahoma City has been fitted out
with apparatus.
Governor Barnes heads Logan. county's
delegation to The South McAlester state
hood convention
Pawnee county has ordered three
bridges across The Arkansas river INTO
the Usage country
Senator Fairbanks, who introduced the
first statehood bin is very near 10 Pres
dent Mckinley. That may mean some
thing
Harry Johnson and clyde NIusgrove are
the two mail carriers OF the new free
delivery system inaugurated at FL Reno
last Saturday.
Some OF the cotton coming into Okla
homa markets has been stained by the
late rains and does not sen as Well as
the white staple.
A former Oklahoma Cityan at Kansas
City writes back 10 his old town to be-
ware OF brick. and TO put in asphalt
Asphalt is the thing
1t IS always believed that If Billy Boil
ton had put the drill down another 100
feet in that soap mine at Woodward he
would have struck a vein Of sapolo
OWNS TO the prevalence OF smallpox
in the Kiowa and Wichita country
Judge Irwin at Fl Reno continued the
cases in which the Indians are Wit
nsssas.
Granite Is happy. A number CT proIni-
nent Rock Island officials have invested
in real estate there. People with long
heads on EN- say that Granite viii -
to watch
Volney Hoggatt, who used TO live in
Ok ahoma is now a resident OF Cape
Nome and it is said recently declined
a nomination of delegate TO congress
from Alaska
Statehood may be greatly expedited BY
a halt being called on those Chickas aw
nation editors VINO try TO conceal a vi
ci0us hatred of everything Republican
under a humorous editorial style.
FL Reno means to Keep down smallpox
expenses in this way: 1t has been &C.
cided that if smallpox appears, Or. G..
=. White is to take care Of the eases
and receive for the service 500 a month.
The Elks at Oklahoma City planned a
circus. Mayor Van Wrinkle insists that
the Elks pay the regular 800 license.
The Elks bucked, Judge BurweH has is
sued an injunction against the E.ks Civ
ing the circus. The Elks have determine
ed to give the show and test the law.
The other night at EI Reno a young
bride and groom came TO a hotel and the
clerk put them in different rooms. Tn y
never said g word but the next morning
the groom packed up audklafter telling
the clerk what he thought Of him, left
in high dudgeOn. The young people We're
on their honeymoon, and came from
Pond Creek They were too bashful to
kick at first.
The other day at Oklahoma City, J.
Jurston tried TO get possession of his
child When the baby was eight days
old. its mother died and the father gave
the baby to its grandparents, his wife S
parents, Mr. and Mrs Mayes, with a
verbal promise that ne would not ask
for It's return. The court decided that
the girl should remain with her grand
parents, who made q strong fight to keep
her.
Ponca city Courier: Clyde Mattox is
developing into a pencil artist of ability,
as is proven by his admirable sketches
on exhibition at various places in the
city. They were sent from Lansing
Kansas to his mother. Mrs S. w
Hatch, and viii be raffled of soon.
CLYDE did the work in the uncertain
light of his prison cell, and with no easel
but the prison walls. One study is ok
lahoma, a coy young maiden with fine
features and attractive mien- Another
is a prairie schooner stranded in an uu-
broken sand waste. Agony, thirst and
hunger Is written on every line of lhs
features of the unfortunates IN the
scene. There are several Of the pictures
and all Of them displaya the real merit
as an artist possessed by Clyde