The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-23
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


| No one seems TO suspect at desperate
on the East side might be Sol. Temple.
| 1t is now said that the extension OF the
Frisco south from Sapulpa is headed FOR
Fort Worth.
The Medford Patriot calls Governor
/ Barnes attitude on the public buildings
bill heroic
According TO the Wave, laundry boiled
| out Of a butchers apron eight pounds Of
fresh leaf lard.
Dennis Flynn win return 70 Washing
| ton soon and then accompany his family
on trip 70 California.
Perhaps Governor Barnes took a whole
! satchelful of Oklahoma City goo-goo eyes
| to Washington with him.
Enid and the Rock Island railroad are
| making love and throwing 100000
/ glances every-which-way
/ somehow OF other the Antf-SaIoon
| League has had mighty little 10 say since
the legislature adjourned.
jenkins is not going TO get into the
| governorship fight until he thinks the
! starter intends 20 yell Coz
| The Rock Island IS now securing right
| Of way southwest of Enid The Rock
/ Island is reaching ont in great shape
| Oklahoma is productive Of dramatic sit
I uatlons. IL IS a cold day when something
sensational doesn't happen in the terri
tory.
The Enid Eagle points out to the West
! Side that ali It has in important public
officials is United States marshal ana coal
| oil Inspector.
Governor Barnes threw a boIo into that
law increasing the fees Of Jurors and pro
vidlng for the payment Of witnesses in
criminal cases.
It is charged that the author of the
anti-cigarette law in Oklahoma smokes
Z en- himself. Probably he has sworn of
and wants the law to nelp aim out
The handwriting expert whose testi-
mony convicted Boggs. now known 10
| have been innocent, also took big part
IN the Mollineux murder trial in New
York City.
Senator Ravens, of Enid, contemplating
the fact that 100000 packs Of playing
cards are manufactured every year, says
that it seem curious that -four of
kind" are SO hard to get.
r. B. Wilson recently purchased a quar-
ter near Medford for 500 and inside
few weeks sold IL again for 5000 He
is now thinking Of going to New York
and tackling Wan Street.
1t is now said that Sol Temple, the
great and only jail-breaker, is not really
bad man, That he never in his life stole
anything as big as a horse he has
somewhere a strong strain OF humor
Jim Meacham. who shot Posey Barker
in Tennessee, got d sentence Of one year
in the peniteniary. Meacham and Bar
ker were two old cronies who Travelled
from Tecumseh to Tennessee together.
One morning Barker was found murdered
and Meaoham was arrested.
The Enid Eagle makes a good point
against Governor Barnes refusal to sign
the public buildings bill because congress
had forbidden the erection Of q capital.
by saying that if congress had believed
that other public buildings were not nee
essary, it would have FORBIDDEN the erec-
ton Of those, too.
Medford Patriot: Between the Saliva
ton Army, street drives by hypnotists
and mind readers, patent medicine shows,
discussions between preachers and free
thinkers, excursion crowds from the east.
and minor other attractions, the usual ac-
tivity on our street was given an extra
impetus during the former part of the
week.
bedford Patriot: Johnnie, son Of D. l.
Atkins, was the victim of an accident
last Saturday night, which rendered him
unconscious for some time. He rode a
horse to the tank for water. and the hall
ter coming off the animal made a das4
for the barn. which was some 200 yards
distant, and threw Johnnie on his head
ne did not know anything until the next
morning, but at present IS ready to try 1t
again