The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-18
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

II is said that Governor Ferguson VIII
name his private secretary this week
Bob Een IS on the point Of putting
Benham and Ramsey out Of the United
States navy.
Lee & Myers. Of Wichita. conducted
revival in the Christian church AT Aiva
and converted Il.
There IS some sort Of dispute at Black
well over paving for the well which pro
duced gas. but caved in.
The Chflocco Indian foot bail team
closed the season the other day By beat
ing the Blackwell team z3 10 0.
The other night at Alva, burglars broke
into a safe and walked away with a lot Of
city warrants belonging 10 the city CLERK
Congressman Stevens IS trying % have
the pasture reservations in the new coun-
try thrown open 10 settlement lie is not
likely 10 succeed
As soon as President Roosevelt gets
through with a Kansas delegation these
. days, he pulls OF his coat and rolls up his
sleeves to meet an Oklahoma delegation
The Shawnee Democrat editor saw =
young man watching his mother bring in
wood the other day. and on closer inspec-
ton found THAI the young man wore red
shoe strings.
Tom Van SeIous. of Kay county, re-
Gently pursued some horse thieves ali
over the land and finally recovered his
stolen horse and buggy az a cost Of See.
The dTiH in the gas Well a Blackwell is
now poking through ten feet OF lime
stone.
The city marshal OF Blackwell received
the thrilling message the other day from
I Braman that an eighteen-year-old girl
I had forged a check on a merchant there
and was headed for Blackwell on a iady's
( bicycle. At the latest reports she hadn
arrived. Probably she realized that she
couldn't pedal against a telephone.
/ This item OF correspondence from Cen
/ terview, IN the Ava Pioneer. shows
clearly that Centerview is Methodist:
Another week and four months Of our
! school viii have passed. then vacation for
I two weeks after which we VIII have four
months more. Sister Smith. our teacher.
+ IS giving satisfaction SO far as We can
/ learn"
/ In the course OF a Washington letter,
! designed 10 show how little figure new
congressman cuts on the floor of the
! house. Congressman c. T. Scott quotes
i Congressman Dennis Flynn as saying.
/ Il have been here ten years, and 1 never
/ tried to make but one speech. got cut
off at the pockets with that and had TO
/ Scott, this same Dennis FLYNN has more
friends in the house. and can bring more
support 10 q measure in which he is per
! sonally interested. than nearly any other
member OF this body
,Ponca City Courier: Ethel Lea, the
! little daughter of Captain and Mrs
! Thompson. OF the Volunteers of America,
met with a very sevefe and painful acct
dent this morning that viii probably af-
! feet her for life. She was climbing from
I a bed and stumbled. falling with her
{ right arm into a BEETLE Of boiling water
/ The arm was frightfully scalded, the
1 flesh being cooked 70 the bone. DR.
( Schenck was called and everything in the
! power Of medical skill was done 10 help
! the little sufferer. She is at present rest
1 ing as easy as could be expected, though
the suffering is terrible. The captain
and his wife have the sympathy Of the
/ people.
Washington dispatch says: Mrs. Jen-
ME Smith, the railroad evangelist, went
to the White House today with Mrs. Jen-
| kins. wife Of Governor jenkins OF Okla
homa, who was recently removed from
MS position because Of charges preferred
against him here. The president made a
statement in the. case which Governor
jenkins afterwaTd denounced. Mrs. Jcn-
kins came on here to try TO put her views
( Of the case before the president. She had
an audience with him this afternoon. She
said that her husband was innocent Of
wrong-doing. but she did not get 10 give
her side Of the case in fun TO the presi-
dent. The time at her disposal was not
sufficient to lay the whole case before
( him. Mrs. jenkins denounced the impu-
I tauons cast upon her husbands char
acter. She said that she had come on
I here TO make an appeal to the president
+ to take some action that would at least
remove the stain that had been cast upon
/ her husband name.