The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-08
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

There is a telephone franchise fight on
in the new city CT Hobart
Arapahoe claims 70 have Z COW that
can pick q lock with her teeth.
Governor Jenkins is not opposed to
statehood. and neither is Bill Crimes
Shipments Of walnut logs from the
Usage nation recently aggregate Slg.o8e.
Chapman and Bassett have established
the Republican az Hitchcock, IN Blaine
county.
The new Burt hotel at Shawnee is one
Of the largest in the territory. II con
tains rs rooms.
A T. Boys is q candidate for city a.
torney at AnadarkO. And II he is one
OF them ne VIII win
Harry Gilstrap. OF Chandler. is in IA
ver Of President Auent OF the North
western Normal. going.
The last Of the filings. the end of the
big drawing, passed out of sight last
week like a summer cloud.
Curiously. towards the last Of the filings
nearly every man who had drawn a num-
Der appeared and took a claim
Al Chandler the streets are 50 crowded
with cotton wagons that il takes RI
extra policeman 10 keep passageway.
The rush for untalzen claims in the
new country took place last Friday
=
much notice.
The Oklahoma COW is now hanging her
head over the fence IN a contempistive
mood. wondering when that pasturage
viii be ready.
There is new town in Kiowa land
called Roosevelt. II has four saloons, and
somebody says that life there viii be
strenuous all right
Oklahoma VIII have to have a state
hood convention next December. Just to
let congress know that it Is as anxious
as Dennis Flynn says il is.
H A Johnson. Of e. Reno. has sued
the city officials for S25.500 for false I'M
prisOnment. He was put in jail for using
a notary public seal Of Logan county
William McInturf. who turned states
evidence in the matter Of the murder Of
julius ROesch. in Custer county, was SEN
fenced last week TO one year in the peni-
Tertiary.
As the months pass the accompl
of free homes grows greater and greater.
1t was the biggest single piece of legisla-
ton ever given for the benefit Of any
state or territory.
\ man at Arnett was some time ago
stung on the cheek by a bug His cheek
has since been turning black. and IS
now. as dark as a rain cloud. He VIII go
20 city to consult specialists.
Ripley Times: A good citizen Is 2 man
who takes pride in his home town and
pays his honest debts; speaks well Of
his neighbors, takes his home paper and
pays for it; who doesn't squeeze every
25-cent piece until the agOnized scream
Of the eagle can be heard mile down the
valley. He viii measure twelve inches TO
the foot every way, and viii see that
the woman he loves doesn't have TO use
a hedge fence for 4 clothes line or break
up ash barrels for fuel
Hobart Republican: John ". Fernow
was chatting with some boys about the
court house Saturday evening. when the
subject of matrimony came up, and afr
Fernow declared he would get married IL
he could find anyone who would have
him. A young lady standing near re-
piled that he didn't have to wait on that
account; that she would be glad 10 ac-
cept his proposition. Whereupcn he i'm
mediately secured the license and they
were married by the probate judge at
once. in the presence Of a number Of
witnesses. This is pretty quick work
but that is the way we do In Oklshorna
The young ladys name was Miss Hattie
Z. Cheek. 1t is now Airs. FernOw.