The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-14
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Nardin will celebrate its second ami
| versary today.
The work of surveying the pasture
lands of the Usage nation will be COM
Dleted April 1.
The city marshal OF Alva made a spi--
itualist who gave show in that city dig
up license fee.
The Oklahoma City papers have a mar
vedous capacity for changing hands. This
time il is the Oklahoman.
There is a run OF spinal meningitis in
the territory. At this season last year
it prevailed to some extent.
In the Usage nation the quarantine
has been so relaxed that an annuity pay
ment will take place this week.
Adjutant General Corner has mustered
in the western Oklahoma company Of the
Q. y. G., half Of which company was
farmed in Alva, half in Woodward
w. II. Coyle of Guthrie was in Cush-
ing last week inquiring into the report
that the merchants Of that city had
agreed to have no goods shipped via Rip
ley.
Fred Smith of Guthrie, an employee of
the construction company which built
the Oklahoma and Sastern, was injured
and disfgured by a blast and has sued
for $4,000 damages.
A ". Westiake, a teacher OF Lyon
Valley district. Kingfisher county, chal-
lenges the world and Kingfsher county
to a mathematical contest.
The Geary Bulletin has correspondent
who wrote up a pie supper saying the
proceeds would go TO the organ fund.
The typewriter got it Bryan fund"
and diplomatic relations between that
correspondent and the Bulletin have been
broken off
Here is a terrible goose story from the
Hennessey Clipper: while coming IN
from the country Monday evening about
s o'clock, Cherd Pain herd a great quack-
ing in a sheet of water close to the road.
Taking out his shotgun he fred at the
sound and walking over picked up three
big Canada geese, which he had killed
An old colored man at Hennessey re-
Gently gave this evidence: NO, sub; I
didn' have no smallpox, but 1 did have
a case of what the doctah called the
celluloid. Peahed lax ne was afeared de
neighbors would cotch it, as deyed been
opposed to it, so s he come ovah one
night and sassinated me and then can
teened me and the whole family"
There is an engineer on the Chactaw
who gets up at dawn every day now TO
kick himself. He pulled out of Okarche
the other day and didn't take the trouble
to look back and see If he had his train
on behind him, which he didn't. He
went clear TO FL Reno before any one
notified him that he had a freight train
coming to him. He was sent back after
it and delayed regular train in both di-
rections on the division.
Blackwell Spoon: l. T. Zelma is loser
of one of his fine trained dogs. He had
it chained fast up at his home, but it got
loose and came down town last night
and became fastened by the chain it was
dragging, to the sidewalk by Covey's
store, and raised such a din that Convey
and one of the marshals pitched in and
killed it without knowing whose dog it
was, or that it was fast and could not
get away. It's loss is deeply regretted, as
it was worth about $3.50
A country correspondent in the Geary
Bulletin tells of an Indian pale-face
school. He says: The Bridgeport school
is running as usual, attended by both
white and Indian pupils. The Indian
children come well dressed, neat and
clean. They learn TO read and speak
English faster, and better too, along with
white children than in an Indian school.
They excel white children, as a rule, in
penmanship and drawing. There are, in
our opinion, advantages, for the children
Of both races in such a school"
Instances of the danger of violating the
sacredness of the Sabbath day multiply.
The Cleveland Triangle says: Last