The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-24
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The Hutchinson Southern branch of the
Santa Fe is not running trains south of
the Kansas line at present.
There is no quarantine Of the Kansas
state line, so far. One has been ordered,
but the people do not want it.
Professor J. NJ. DeLisle has purchased
the Woodward Bulletin of Smith & Son,
VINO have run it since 1885.
Dennis Flynn is certainly TO be COM
mended for keeping out OF the governor
snarl down in Washington.
This is an era Of concentration. The
ranchmen OF Beaver county are conne Ct
ing their places with telephone lines
Tom Fry claims that one man at Ton
kawa who gets goose pimples easy is
hiding out for fear he Will be Quaran-
tined.
Assertion by the Perry Repub can:
Most men get engaged before they snow
their minds, and are married befo2e their
wives know theirs.
Governor Barnes can find worse things
than the governorship. He has had an
easy time of it compared with the aver
age Indian agent
At Tonkawa the other night the mail
sacks were left in the depot, and some
registered packages.
Judge Strang is down in Washington
looking over the gubernatorial situation.
1t is loaded with dynamite and ne ought
not to get too near
1t is reported that twenty-five thousand
head of cattle were dehorned at the rate
Of one minute recently, and out OF the
whole number Only two died.
the Oklahoma Board Of Health are go
ing to try to come TO an understanding
today at Newkirk, 1t is about time.
The only time a governor of Oklahoma
will ever have a rest viii be when Okla
homa has become a state; and no elected
governor need figure on swimming in
plush-lined joy.
Through the Penca City Courier, Mrs
S. w. Hatch denies the statement pub
lished in Sundays Eagle that she intend
ed 10 circulate a petition asking that a
pardon be granted her son, Clyde Mat
tex.
In case Governor Barnes is removed
there is very little likelihood that any
Oklahoma man will be selected to sue
coed him. President Mckinley will seek
for a personal friend TO send to Okla
homa.
During a trial at Perry the other day,
according to the Republican, the judge
asked one of the parties to the case:
Are YOU not an educated MANI" He
replied: mo, I am not an educated man,
bat have been to Chicago"
1t is now said that Governor Barnes
would have been removed two weeks ago
but one man who called to talk against
him made a statement which the presi-
, dent, on investigation, failed to verify
to his disgust with the whole matter.
John Rhodes down in Cuba says the
island will be annexed to the Uni,ed
States. Rhodes knows more about it than
the people in Washington do. He knows
how to size things uD, and is on the
ground and in such a capacity that the
natives do not lie to him.
Hardesty Herald: The claims for
bounty on coyote and gray wolf scalps
allowed at the January meeting of tle
commissioners amounted to $3.50. The
number of scalps presented contained only
three grays, the remainder being coyotes.
The lobo or gray wolf has made himself
scarce in this country, out the cayotes
appear to be increasing in numbers.
A country correspondent in the Wood
ward News says: Dora Pennington IS
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girls Of the nelghborhood and some
young fellow will be looking in that di-
rection before many summers pass by"
How pair of blue or black eyes must
have lighted up as they read this little
item. What a good thing these kindly
little items in country correspondents
columns are, and how much better than
the jeer, or the allusion, or the ridicule
so often met there
CARRIER Sentinel: Last Sunday Mrs Lu-
Their Cook, in her solicitation Tor Others
welfare, put her foot on rusty nail she
saw sticking up through a board with
the Intention of bending L DOWN, but
it Gid not bend as expected, instead it
passed through the sole of her shoe and
into the foot Up through the bones be-
tween the toes, making a painful and
dangerous wound for time. 1t is still
very painful and she cannot put her
foot on the floor.