The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-09
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

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| 1t is reported that it is an Enid man
| who is looking over the Augusta grade
for the Santa Fe.
Governor Barnes is now in Washington
and the air down there probably is tinted
several rich coiors.
It cost the government seventeen cents
| a copy 10 prepare the report OF the gov
ernor of Oklahoma.
Camp Creek correspondent IN the Paw
nee Times-Democrat: s.No babies or we'd
dings since last writing
The next time the county officials at
! Tecumseh decide to settle a dispute they
should send for George Siler.
Enid is a New Years resolution has
decided that the Western Union should
| give the city an uptown office
! Great Caesars ghost, how the country
! correspondents in the Oklahoma news
| papers are landing on the road overseers
sUst noWl
! The decision of Former Judge Scott
! against Frank 8IcAIaster has been ex-
plunged from the record by order of the
| supreme court.
| Pat Nagle, Judge Spillman, Bill Nc
CARNEY and Virgil Hobbs recently had a
| conference. They won't say whom they
| thought of as the man"
| The Enid Wave has obtained a pointer
/ that the wood haulers of Oklahoma will
soon form trust and force wood up to
50 a ton, or two sticks for nickel,
| The Santa Fe hasn't secured that Au-
| gusta grade yet and IL some one will take
a CAD and wake the Missouri Pacific
from its trance the Santa Fe will not.
Recently in Oklahoma a wife was dying
and the papers say that her husband,
who was divorced, did all in his power
to aid her in getting her health back.
The wife died.
There is one thing sure if Governor
Barnes returns from Washington this
time still governor, no one viii ever have
the cheek to set that old removal story
on its feet again.
Elmer Mahaffey who has, been connect
ed with the Pawnee Times-D Democrat,
was last week married to Miss e. z.
Connelley, a quarter-blood Indian of the
Sac and Fox tribe.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal says
that Governor Barnes enemies are not in
Washington, that of the three men men
toned as going to Washington to urge
Barnes removal, two are in st. Louis
and the other is in Chicago.
During hard times there were no wars
on local markets. Now that times are
good it is not uncommon for the cotton
market or the hog market in some Okla
homa town to take a sudden bulge all by
itself as a result of local rivalry.
The board of education at Ponca City
takes up the matter in a sensible way: Ii
recommends vaccination not only, but
suggests that mo child looking or feel
ing unwell be sent to school until the
nature of the trouble is apparent" How
T,ol5 Of
Out near Okeene, it is reported a man
named Frank Crisman who had given
right of way for Cunningham's railroad
concluded the whole thing was fake
and when the graders came along re-
fused to let them go ahead. A fight en-
sued and the line went across his place.
Probate Judge Eagleton of Pawnee
while in Washington recently ran up
against a surprise in the person of j. G..
Price, formerly a boomer in Pawnee
county. Price now lives at Skaguay,
Alaska. Alaska sent him as a delegate
to congress and he is now in Washington
trying to get the house OF representatives
to grant him a seat. At Skaguay Price
is engaged in the practice of law and
makes $4,000 a year.
The Woods County News Enthusiastically
admits its faith in expansion and APP
preaching empire by a novel acrostic on
a corner of its envelopes, which exults
in the prospect of railroad facilities and
the dawning of a new era, as follows:
"If not called for in 10 days come back TO
THE NEWS, OKLAHOMA,
At Woods county's center on the Is. & A.
line,
United my capitals, the town will define;
Growing up natural and ready to bloom.
Under eager expansions impetuous
boom
Subscribe for The News; Empire is COM
ing.
Throw wide the throttle, start things
hummin4,
And come locate while there's room"
Ponca City Courier: 1t isn't the same
old story of deceit in man, and devotion
in woman. 1t happened the other way
this time. a year ago there lived in this
locality a family consisting of husband
and wife and three children apparently
as happy as could be. In order TO pro-
vide for his family it became necessary
much of the time, and during this time
the tempter in the guise of nice look
ing young fellow, won the affection of
the wife, and she deserted her children.
and went with the stranger, taking with
her the proceeds from the sale of the
little store of goods they had accumu-
lated. About this time the husband ap- /
peared on the scene He sent the chill
dren to his people in Nebraska, and in +
company with a bad man started in pur-
suit Of his fugitive wife. When last
heard from ne was in Guthrie.