The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-12
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The Grant County vidette. Of Pond
| Greek, VII put cut a daily edition
There is a heap Of power just now IN
the ink at the end OF Governor Barnes
pen.
appoint the new officials in the Kiowa
country.
II is said that the Choctaw viii begin
track-laying on its western extension
this week
The Pawnee Times-Democrat runs this
at the head OF its column: Statehood is
our Motto"
Some Of the Republican papers took
parting shot at the legislature last week.
They cant forget that rate-cutting
| break.
a neighborhood out in Pawnee county
claims TO have good-looking young
miss Of sixteen who has never beea
kissed.
This Is the time OF year IN the rural
districts OF Oklahoma when the lad with
the long legs is yanked out OF school and
set behind plow.
The Hennessey Clipper says that the
slayer Of Colonel Stone should be made
20 suffer the penalty or "Kinghsher eoun-
" should take in its sign.
IF all the fellows in Kansas and Okla
! homa should start stores in the Kiowa
country who say they intend 10. there
wouldn't be room for the buildings.
one of the local secret societies OF
Arapahoe is greatly scandalized because
an ex-senator got hold OF the pass word
and broke into lodge for three nights
That public building bill died and
came TO life a good many times, auG
then breathed at last again when the
| undertaken was getting the embalming
fluid ready
In a district court Of Oklahoma, re-
| Gently, il was pretty wen established
that the charge Of incest against a man
had been insngated by his wife who is
suing for divorce. The man was dis
charged.
The Baptist church at Hennessey got
afre the other night and the men who
turned out to pull the chemical extiu-
guisher to the cOnfagration numbered so
few that the machine haG 10 be aban-
doned and the fire company had 20 put
the fire out with buckets of water.
A country correspondent in the Arap-
ahoe Bee says: Some ways that are
new under the sun, of getting home
steads, are coming to light. For instance,
one stout, able-bodied man flied on
homestead and three of MS sons, all
under twenty-one years old. adopted
their sisters and each filed on a home
stead by claiming to be the head of a
family. Another young chap, being too
short in years, sWore he was the head
of a family by adopting his grand
father and grandmother. who are living
back in the states. No doubt many peo-
pie are holding claimes that viii fan on
final proof. If looked after"
The Hennessey Clipper explains: "A
good many times were censured because
we do not publish resolutions, cards of
thanks etc. This is the why Of it: 1t
frequently occurs that some one who
belongs to some church, a Sunday school
and from one TO ave or six lodges, dies.
IN this case the church resolves, and the
Sunday school resolves, this lodge re-
solves, and that lodge resolves. and the
other lodge resolves that the deceased
by the will of the All Wise Father has
been taken suddenly from US, and that
he was good man, too good to live in
this world, etc, all of which may be
true and the last resolve that is made is
that the secretary spread these resolu-
tons on his thumb-stained books and
that a copy of the same (resolutiOns)
be handed the local papers. BY this
time we have from two to eight sets Of
resolutions, a two-column obituary and
some friend of the family hands Us
card Of thanks with the request to
kindly publish This means several col
umns of space devoted to a subject for
which one should be sufficient, yet there
is no place to draw the line. If we pub
lish one set Of resolutions we have TO
publish all, and to the great majority Of
readers it is very uninteresting. This
should thoroughly explain the matter.
and we believe 1t does. With US II is "A
matter of protection, and not because
we do not wish TO be accommodating.