The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-25
Outlines OF okIahoma

The troops which 90 10 the Creek coun-
try VIII find 10 Snake Indians.
Beaver county has a great climate. Its
mean temperature in 1900 was 55.s
The government has shipped oklahoma
City's postmaster a sIamp-canceiling ma
chine
Next week the statehood convention
meets ar Guthrie and everybody vii be
there.
Abe Mulkey. the evangelist. IS coming
mp from the South again, bound for Ok
Iahoma.
Perhaps the Snake Indians were so
named from the red-eye the redman in
Gu-ges in
Three men have been put IN the federal
jail at Guthrie for cutting timber OF the
Wichita reservation
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal sets
it up Tor an aphorism that railroads kill
towns and make cities.
The prevailing winds in Oklahoma are
from the south. and the trees in the
orchards lean to the north.
A barn in which Jessie James slept at
AIuskogee, after one Of his memorable
raids, was recently torn down.
Leslie Niblack gives it as an expert
opinion that the true Britisher loves to
PROSTATE himself before the throne.
Ransom Payne thinks that the runners
for kiowa lands should De gwen a few
days previous notice of the time 70 start
Nearly all the old wooden awnings have
been torn down at Oklahoma City. pur-
suant 70 the gentle request OF the city
council
In 1900 the average snow fall for Okla
homa was 81 inches. At Beaver the an
uual fall was 25.1 the greatest in the
/ territory.
The Oklahoma Grand Army men prefer
Denver for the national encampment
Very few would go to Cleveland from
/ Oklahoma.
J. 3. Gaylord, prominent citizen OF
Tecumseh. was taken i'll while driving
this week. and died shortly afterward
He was a druggist.
Mrs. Mary jackson, wife Of the Jack
son who is in jail at Oklahoma city
charged with the murder Of Eick, is in
destitute circumstances.
The few cases OF smallpox IN Okla
homa have disappeared. Probably the
lack Of Mysteries this year had some
thing TO do with stamping it out
In Oklahoma last year the total precip-
itatiOn was $3.50 inchess the greatest an
nual precipitation took place in 1855 be-
ing 80. Is; the least in 1896, being 23.7S.
An unknown man was found near
Chickasha one day last week with q
wound in the back of his head He Is
not dead. 1t is supposed that ne Jumped
from a moving train.
The only connection Governor Barnes
has with the American bank at Okla
homa City, over which such a hullsbal-
loo was raised, was 10 indors Sc It's appH-
cation for a charter.
THE fascination OF golf IS taking hold
Of senators and representatives with a
vengeance" says the ST Lous Repub-
lies Washington correspondent. Sen
ator Wolcott of Colorado has long been
reckOned as one of the best players in
the senatorial set while in the house
there are many expert handlers OF the
wood and iron clubs Director Of the
Mint Roberts has a bagfui Of clubs
which he has selected with care and
candles with great dsx1erity, while
CAef Wilkie, Of the secret service, is
another good player. Judge Willis Van
deventer the assistant attorney general
for the interior department, belongs 10
the Columbia club and is frequently on
the links. He is an aIl-around sports
man, and can handle a rife with uner-
ring skill. Even Dennis Flynn. the dele
gate from Oklahoma, likes the game i'm
Intensely. Out in our country n says
we have so much room that the links
stretch all over creation. They are
bounded only by the North and South
poles, and the rising and setting OF the
sun "