The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-05
Outlines OF Oklahoma

! 1t cost Oklahoma City $500 to care for
her fourteen smallpox cases.
| An attempt at Oklapoma. City to raise
i the saloon license from 500 TO $50 was
/ defeated in the city council by q vote OF
! to 3
| Last Friday night Mrs. Love and Miss
Taylor escaped from the Insane asylum
at Norman They were overtaken al Ok
lahoma City and have been put back in
the institution
L. F. Laverty OF the Populists, does not
think the Socialists VIII cut much figure
IN Oklahoma politics this year. But
| they may. A number Of informed polit1-
clans think they viii.
If gold is found in large quantities in
the Wichita mountains the name of Wiz
| liam Cooley, the miner who has spent so
much time and labor exploring the noun
tains. viii go down in history.
When the Populist and Democratic con-
ventions meet the Democrats are going 10
have hard time 20 explain to the Popu-
lists why the agreement in regard 10 the
| last legislature was not carried out.
Judge Keaton thinks it was all right
for the United States to acquire the
Louisiana territory because it was sparse
ly settled. Then, what is injustice against
great many is not injustice to a few?
1t is fact that no man has ever tramp
ed over the Wichita mountains and seen
the great seams through their red rock
without feeling that there is plenty Of
mineral. gold or something else, in the
range.
The chances are that fusion will be eff
fected in Oklahoma this year, but in the
operation Of effecting it both sides viii
be so crippled that majority for their
candidate for congress at the election
will be out of the question.
William Cooley. the old miner whose
communication on gold in the Wichita
mountains, appeared in yesterdays Ea-
gle, is convinced that there is gold there.
And it is hardly fair for the fellow on the
outside who has never been in eye-sight
of the range to dispute him.
Barney Rafferty, of Zulu, Beaver coun-
ty, last week rode fifty miles to Har-
desty to get an aching tooth pulled. He
is the bravest man in Oklahoma. 4 man
who will approach a dentists office for
fifty miles and still feel his tooth ache
could have licked Napoleon with his right
hand tied behind him.
The city council at Oklahoma City has
granted II. Overholser a street railway
franchise. The franchise covers all streets
and avenues and the constructors are
given a year. An attempt TO secure the
deposit of $1,000 forfeiture failed. Mr..
Oyerholser says that he does not intend
to build the line himself. but that he
plans to go east armed with the fran
chise and interest capital.
A Missouri man ran away with another
mans wife and went to Oklahoma City.
The deserted husband appeared on the
scene and was promptly arrested for car
rying revolver and fined, E5hich was
lucky for him. He then told the police
about the man and his wife. and they
were arrested. The wife, the Oklahoman
reports, refused to return with her nus
band although he was willing TO take
her back.
The opening Of the Kiowa and Com
manche country will settle the question
of gold in the Wichita mountains. The
Rocky mountains were so great that
when the California rush was on. thou
sands tramped over Cripple Creek and
Leadville without suspecting the riches
beneath their feet But the Wichita
mountains ara small, and when the coun-
try is opened every foot of the rocky
hills will be explored in a very few days
time.
Some time ago 1t was reported that
George Isaacs forged his own pardon and
with it secured his release from The
Texas penitentiary. 1t was claimed that
he was at large somewhere in Oklahoma.
1t now develops that an accomplice and
not Isaacs forged the pardon. On DE
cember %, w. ]. Dent was arrested at
Tucson, Arizona, on a warrant charging
him with forging the pardon. Isaacs was
life sentence for killing Sheriff
Tom MCGEE and it is alleged that Dent
got $4,000 for securing Isaacs' release.
Ponca City Courier: Yesterday Ben
Reddick and Fred Cragin started out for
a sleigh ride in the direction of Long
wood township. Reddick had fastened his
buggy bed TO a pair of runners and had
improvised a very comfortable cutter
The further they went the rougher and
rocker grew the roads and In some places
the road was scarcely wide enough for
the rig to pass through. In one Of these
a singIetree was broken. This was patch
ed with little trouble, but lin another
rocky cut the projecting spindle of the
akel caught on a boulder and snapped
like a pipe stem. Here was trouble for
sure but the Anglo-Saxon determination
of the boys triumphed and the journey
was completed. After completing their
business they started home ny another
route, but misfortune still pursued them,
and by the time they reached home the
outfit presented a sadly dilapidated ap-
pearance. Nothing but the barbed wire
fences along the road saved them from a
LONG walk.