The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-13
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

OuulneS OF Gkianonla.
Three banks at Newkirk have in indi-
vidual deposits $4,000
c. a. Brown of Chanute, kansas. has
bought the Jefferson Rustier from Edgar
| Brain.
There is a favorable committee report
on free homes in the senate, which is i'm
| Dortant.
The Blackwell spoon says: This Cuban
chickenpox is no more harmful than the
measles
It is reported that the payment Of tax
es in Blaine county has been extended
one month because OF the general fear
OF smallpox.
While ]. A Kiseley of Manchester was
exercising Cal Carlton, a very fine blood
ed stallion, the animal broke a blood yes
sci and bled to death.
Commissioner Shreekengaust walked
eight miles. through the mud, this last
week to attend a meeting OF the county
commissioners of Kay.
A. whole lot Of people in Oklahoma stub
born1y stick TO the conviction that the
Santa Fe and the Rock Island jointly
own the Hutchinson and Southern rail-
road.
The agent of the Kiowa and Com
manches. 1t is reported, has received IN
structions to release the Indian land to
the cattlemen, which will put of the
opening again.
The Norman Voice, Populist. declares
that the Democrats should come into the
Populist party on the grounds that "a
party that is good enough to fuse with is
good enough to join
Sheriff Butts of Grant county has Of
fered 800 reward and the county COM
missioners s100 reward for the. capture Of
Col. Temple, the man who locked the
sheriff in cave and decamped.
At the reception to the Memphis bust
ness men at Oklahoma City, Sidney
Clarke gave them a statehood shot The
Memphis men should get the Tennessee
delegation for Oklahoma statehood.
The county commissioners of Grant
have divided the county printing, inelud-
ing job work, equally between the Med
ford Star, Pond Creek News and Man
chester journal at fun legal rates.
A dispatch from Washington says that
if Governor Barnes is removed mis- sue
cessor viii be the darkest Of dark
horses" Which means that no one
knows just who it will be. if any one.
C. A. Chappell, writing the Newkirk
Republican News Journal from Ontario,
says that there is no danger of the Can
adams rebeling against England; that
the boys up there are just as eager to
enlist to fight the Beers as our boys were
TO fight the Spaniards. He says the
Queens portrait up there lis more ad-
mired than the presidents is in the Uni
ted States.
Aunt Lib a very foreeful country
correspondent in the Manchester Journal
T1+o -
pie in this country who are worth more
right now than they ever were before.
and have practically made II ali here,
who are wanting to sell out, when by
"rustling' a few more years they might
become Independent and spend their de-
clining days in comfort. But should they
sell. you may rest assured that they viii
never have the chance to get as good
homes as they now have And another
thing is equally true: there never has
been a man who owned a home in this
climate and lived here five years and
then left who does not come back or
wish he was able to do so. My advice
is to get a good piece of land and stick
to it. You can't better yourself any
where else in the United States.
This is story ]. NJ Simmons of Man
chester tells on Pat LOomis of Wakita:
scriber to the village newspaper IN a
down east" state. Pat" saw by the
paper that there was to be total
eclipse of the sun, and he resolved not !
to miss it. Accordingly the day the !
eclipse was to come of he lit out for /
town afoot 1t was a desperately warm /
lay and after two or three miles had /
0een covered the perspiration was rolling /
Town his forehead almost in a stream, /
)ut he continued walking as fast Gas his /
egs would carry him. After while a
,armer in a wagon overlook him and /
lsked if he would like to ride. Il believe I
would" was Pats prompt reply, and /
lie jumped into the wagon. The farmer
opened the conversation by asking: Are
Tou going to town." to which Pat, az
er wiping the perspiration from his fore
lead, answered in a firm tone of voice:
Yes, sir; I'm going down to see the
eclipse. Do you reckon they'll have an
elephant with emf