The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-27
OUTLINES O.. OKLAHOMA.

Most OF the important postofficc fights |
in Oklahoma are 10 be settled il January.
The job hasn't buelSed once. and Tom
Ferguson is getting 10 think it a rocking
chair.
Recently the stables at Fort Reno burn
cd. Forty-one head OF horses persisted II
the flames
The fight against Flynn FOR the Repuhi-
can nomination has already begun It
isn't worrying Flynn.
Some OF the school land leases in Lin
coin county which are changing hands,
bring s1.oo0 and upward
w. u p Trudgeou. OF Purcell, is out
IL an interview saying he does rot ike
Flynn's statehood bill al all. at al.
IN her first election after statehood
Oklahoma viii be divided strictly CT
party lines for perhaps the first time.
Tom Curtis. one Of the men convicted
OF the murder OF Eick at olSlahoma City.
got ninety-five years in the penitentiary
Today the Democratic central commit
tee meets at II Reno 10 figure out where
the Democratic party H. Oklahoma IS at
The prophets are all coming around to
the view that Roy Hoffman has the inside
track for the Democratic nomination Tor
congress
Oklahoma should keep Flynn in con-
gress. Iowa furnishes a brilliant example
of what long congressional service does
for a state.
The B. E S. road IS getting more am
bilious every day. IL has been cinched
at Hobart. 1t VIII probably set 10 Old
Mexico in the end.
Miami over IN the Indian territory, in
case single statehood pans out, Will ask
I for the Northeastern Normal school
! Wen. did you everg
When Guthrie gets the Choctaw the
capital of Oklahoma viii plunge forward
in way that viii scare the fellows who
don't believe in booms.
The other day at Enid, Judge McAtee
whaled into the county commissioners
I because they do not provide a more suit
able place for the holding of court.
! Two country boys. named Smith and
/ Pishney, found a draft for $500 on the
/ Medford streets the other day and turned
/ it back to the owner who had dropped it.
! That petrifed Indian squaw with a
petrifed baby in her arms. is again Wis
] ting oklahoma. The owner says that
the Smithsonian institution has offered
s400 for IL.
! At Shawnee, the other day, a doctor
went To mans house 10 collect bill,
and the man knocked the doctor down
and otherwise bruised him up The next
time the doctor win probably hire bill
/ collector and call for a policeman 10 send
with him.
The last two weeks have been the best
/ advertising weeks in the history OF Ok
/ lahOEla newspapers. Even in the south
ern part of the territory the merchants
have been adopting display advertise
ments and foIsaking the little, ineffective
reading notices.
/ Country correspondence in the Chandler
News: John McCuen met with quite
misfortune the 1st On returning home
! from church, accompanied by g number
Z of friends, a smothered fire was discover
/ ed in some top fodder that had been
slowed in the barn loft. and in his efforts
10 extinguish it the fodder became loOs-
enec, allowing the Goals 10 burst into
/ flames, which quickly spread over the
building and burned II 10 the ground
I Two hundred bushels of cotton seed, all
/ his feed except twenty bushels of corn.
/ and the fodder stored ia the loft and yard
were consumed. The origin of the FIRE is
/ unknown. Some suggest rats carrying
matches while Mr.. McCuen eutertains
! the idea of spontaneous combustion, as
/ the fodder had been put away damp.
Total loss about 500.