The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-05
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

A Pawnes county man won seyentyt
four bets on free homes
The Journal says Enid should be
ashamed Of its pubic school buildings
The land Office at Blackwell is now
setting dates for proving up as far aheaa
as October.
A farmer near wyneewood has fax
crop and has been offered $50 bushsl
for the seed.
At Chelsea a Cherokee brave named
Frank Rafting Gourd stabbed the city
marshal and was thrown into JAN.
Frank Householder of Gutarie. VINO
has forty acres in i fruit farm, Is al
rsady shipping fruit 10 the eastern states
one of the results OF the passage OF
the free homes bill is 10 MI up the coun-
try papers OF every part OF Oklahoma
with final publication notices.
The free homes celebrations held in the
last week were only preliminary. After
harvest the people will jump in and snow
how pleased they really are.
Billy Bolton denies that there was a
prize-fght in Woodward last week and
that town Is too high 10 allow any such
a thing as a public fist fight
The people who had already proved up
on their claims before the passage o. the
free homes act now want their money
back. Every man who had faith in Den
mis- Flynn viii be able TO cash il in.
Jake Admire says that a man who
signs saloon petition has no more
right to have his mama kept secret than
a man who signs a road or bridge petit
ton, and hereafter the Free Press viii
publish the lists.
II Is claimed that Tom Seward Of
Perry also first thought of free homes
and suggested i TO Dennis Flynn. This
makes the ninety-three hundredth and
forty-fourth man for whom the same
honor has been claimed.
The Manchester Journal, Democratic,
is liberal enough TO admit that Dennis
Flynn is entitled to great deal OF credit
for the passage OF the free homes bill,
but insists that the Republicans are
claiming too much for the delegate
Over at Creese there is a merchant
who kicks on President Mekinley's ad-
ninistration because there Is no time for
a man to take vacation. Under Cleye-
lands administration, he says. he had
plenty OF time to lie down On the coun-
ter and take rest any time.
A band of Gypsies struck Perry the
other day and began begging. The city
marshal had them at the police sta
ton in thirty minutes and the police
Judge made them so anxious TO get out
Of town that they didn't even wait 10
walk when they got a chance 10 go.
Down at Ardmore a man asked for
a divorce from his wife because she
would not get up early enough 70 get
mis- breakfast In her counter petition
the wife claimed that her husband
snored so in the early part Of the night
that she could not go to sleep. The
court decided that both had good
grounds for divorce.
Enid Wave: As the Rock Island train
was about TO pull out this morning a
young couple made their appearance, on
the platform with their first born in a
baby buggy. The proud. young father
after assisting his wife into car. re-
marked that he would put the buggy in
to the baggage car, which he proceeded
to do AS the buggy was lifted into the
car the baggage man exclaimed The
baby! what shall we do If 1t cries?''
The young father grabbed that baby and
started for the car, while the by
ISLANDERS cheered him. He had forgotten
the baby.