The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-22
Outlines Of OkIahoma

The single statehood advocates are
clicking on Sidney Glarke's convention
call
Most Of the people IN Roger Mills coun-
t. are paving up their taxes in one
lump.
Joseph Frankiing. Of Shawnee. vas
fined SIS for stealing a common pair Of
pants.
Oklahoma papers are ali booming Okla
homas climate and asking Italian pa
pers TO copy.
The Enid Wave reports the death OF
a prominent citizen from an overdose
of griddle cakes"
Tom Ferguson makes the prediction
that no public buildings viii be prov.d d
for BY the present legislature.
Kate Caldwell, the nlliiionaire's daagh-
ter. gave most Of the money with which
Sacred Heart was constructed.
Editors Hensley and Isenberg have
opened up bonbardment on the Okla
bona Editorial association again.
IN the settlement OF estates. since
some of the records OF the probate
court in Kinghsher county were burned,
great difficulty IS met
Today Kinghsher county votes on
bonds for a new court house. The elti-
Zens of Kingisher City have presented
the county with site.
The Sacred Hear. fire licked up 20.eo)
pounds Of pork and 1900 pounds of lara
The buildings were insured for but sls,-
coo. The loss is soc. 90.
Mort Bixler, of Norman, who went to
Beaumont, Texas, years ago, knew what
he was about The finest oil wei in the
world has been discovered there.
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Hngs, last week was adjudged insane
He had grown so feeble-minded ne cou d
not take care of himself, having no rel
atives.
The Indian territory papers are now
trying to decide upon the man who first
suggested allotment DR.. D. II. Haley
is said to be the first writer to advo-
cate them.
Frank Canton. once a Cherokee strip
marshal, has returned from Klondike to
PaWnee. He says there are so&ds Of
gold up there but you have 10 average
SIS day to coma out ahead.
Marshal Bud Ledbetter, Of the indian
territory, recently put a negro in quar-
antine. The negro got out; Ledbetter
overlook him, put him back again. cut
a switch and whipped him for disobeying
orders.
1--WE have had the grip the last week"
prints an Oklahoma editor; had Il 50
bad that we could not get out a paper,
and our only hope IS that our sub
scribers have had it so bad that they
can't read one"
James r. Burton, new senator from
Kansas, told Tom Ferguson in Wichita,
last fall, that he would rather have
Dennis Flynns help in passing a meas
ure through congress than that Of any
other man ne knew.
South McAlester Capital: The expert
ence of the three italian miners. who
were shut ID for Is hours in a burning
mine at Anderson, Friday and Saturday,
with death staring them in the face ev-
cry minute, was such as few men have
ever lived to tell Of The three miners
speak no English. ard full details of their
experience in the mine could not be OBJ
tanned, but enough was learned to show
that for that time they endured the ago
MES Of death 5y fire or suffocation.
From the moment they were entombed
until their rescue, they could do nothing
but wait and watch the progress Of the
flames that cut off their liberty. For
tunately the air pipes were not injured
and the pumps were kept necessarily
at work supplying the mine with fresh
air, but as this draught famed the fire
outward it greatly retarded the work OF
the rescuers, who, so long as the air
supply was intact, were in more danger
that the imprisoned miners, as the foul
air and severe smoke precluded near
approach TO the flames. The men in the
mine were badly scared, but otherwise
they lived through the terrible expert
ence without material injury.