The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-09
Outlines OF Oklahoma

S-''f'No go 'iN
The Arapahoe Bee says that judge
Burf0rd is all right IN his opinion about
statehood.
The editor Of the Shawnee QuIH calls
Dewet. the Boer general. The Flying
Dutchman-
Twenty-seven prospectors arrived at
Oklahoma city from one town in In
diana, recently.
c. G. Jones VIII unsheath his smoker
snee at the drst appearance of a Ioca-
ton bin and fight H.
George Benamy. who is now president
of the council. looks ike an actor. bus
he isn't Hes q statesman
Beilamy. the new president OF the
council h2s been recognized All along as
a friend OF Governor Barnes.
The Enid Wave Is in favor Of letting
the school lands alone. letting them
stand as Z permanent investment
There is talk of another legislative In
vestigation this winter. The talk is ,l.e-
some, the Investigation VIII be more So
1t is said that Governor Barnes has
declared tlat If Stevens was made
speaker he would veto any Dill locating
institutions.
Frank Greer wants to print the school
books of Oklahoma. and IS now working
UD a campaign 70 have the legislature
order him 10 do 50.
Kngasher. Garfield and Canadian
counties are getting TO cut good deal
Of ice in all GATHERINGS. That alic- de
breeds sharp politicians.
What has become Of KirkWood's plan
of electug delegates in every county in
the territory TO so down 10 Guthrie and
tell the legislature what's WHAT?
The editor of the AraDahoe See IS IN
an awful pickle. lie says: The EN-
pire' only two months away and here we
haven't decided on our coat-of-arms
vet"
The Gushing Herald says that the first
earthquake there was followed by q sec
ond a week later. But why should The
earthquake pick Cushing out as the only
place in which TO exhibit?
Game Warden Charles r. Gorton
caught forty dozen quail In box adj
dressed 10 St Louis, al Shawnee, last
week He swore out a warrant for the
shipper. who planked down $40 nne
If the work of the DAVIS commission
is to be done accurately, The president
should order the commi ssiouers to con-
fer every day with the editor of the Pur-
cell Register who is the only man in
the world who knows al about It,
The sensation of the caucusing at
Guthrie came when Dick MessaL OF
Garfield, came out against Judge Ste
vens for speaker. They were on the
same side of the fence. it had long been
supposed. but it turned out differently
TT territorial institutions were located
now the Oklahoma CITY TImes-J0urnal
thinks that afterwards when the Indian
country and Oklahoma were made into
one state, 1T would take fifty
years to settle fauds that would
grow out of the removal Of institutions
that would certainly follow"
Warning in Enid Wave; There is a
fond papa in this town who is on the
lookout for long-Iegged, cigarette
smoking youth, belonging TO the set for
which the market price IS 3 cents per
dozen, if be don't quit making love 10
his only daughter, who Is worth her
We ght in gold IN her mothers time TO
take care of her. Look out, now
Bad luck item in cOrresp ondence to the
Shawnee Quill: Mr. Thomas, OF Flan0,
Sex. came to this neigboorh0od about
three weeks ago and purchased Mr..
Copeland's farm, he and Mr.. Copeland
each putting up $50 forfeit in one of
Shawnee's banks. and Mr. It. returned
to Plano to dispose of his property there,
but when he went TO make his deed his
man wouldn't have it, as il proved to
be an old Spanish claim. and Mr. r.
could not raise the money otherwise be
fore the time limit expired. so Mr.. G..
went to Shawnee on the 23d and drew
the forfeit"
Ponca City Courier: Among the farms
near Braman which the Star notes as
Being sold to anxious home-hUnters from
the east is the Tom Crow1e farm. lyins
both sides of the Chikaskia river az
Rock Fails. To the early oklahoma
boomer this brings UP memories Of
those early days when Captain Payne
built his first boom town along the river
near those falls. and called &c Payne
city. The huts were built OF logs and
mostly rooted with bark and sod. Ard
for q few weeks it was a happy, hopeful
company. bur the soldiers drove them
out, burned and otherwise demoralized
the city carried Captain Payne Off to
ST. Louis where he was turned at large
And the cat came back"