The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-31
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Some Of the newspapers SO right along
| insisting that J. r Wood is dead. He is
| recovering.
1 Early Monday morning the Strip had
another good rain and the wheat is reach
| ing cloudward.
The Enid wave Indignantly denies that
f. Thomas Jefferson ever took dinner with
| a colored man.
Frank Gaines. Of Oklahoma City. re-
/ Gently caught q 'possum single handed
and is preparing feast
/ Some one has discove cred that Henry
c. Frick is behind the proposed Fort
Smith and Western road.
Some Perry colored men claim that
| man is going over the territory oneTfns
to confer Masonic degrees Tor money
who has no right 10 90 50.
". T. Stogss9ill. living near Waulzomis.
/ has mysteriously disappeared. AT nrst
| his folks suspected foul play, but they
| have abandoned this theory now
Bob Nen has purchased the Blackwell
/ News. and viii take charge OF It on No
vember 1. And he VIII make it good
/ paper.
/ Some Of the Blackwell crowd were SO
| sceptical when gas was first announced
/ that they walked right under the derrick
! smoking cigars.
! Some of the Oklahoma Republican pa
/ pers are complimenting Tillman's lee
lures. He must have vastly improved
since he left Kansas. a week ago.
J When L. J A Vollers was elected city
/ clerk OF Lawton the chair OF councilman
( from the Fifth ward. Enid, became va
{ cant. Vollers just slid from one Office to
! the other.
Grace Wilson. ten years old. living west
/ of Enid swallowed a pin two weeks ago
and has suffered untold agouies. Monday
/ she was given chloroform and the pin
( was removed.
The Blackwell gas wen is now down 70
/ S65 feet and the drillers expect to strike
a heavier supply OF gas. The gas was
ignited again Saturday night and biazed
forty feet high.
/ Complaint has been made to the school
/ board at Enid shat teachers IN the in
/ termediate grades give the children too
much 20 do. as some or them have 70 sir
UP till midnight TO get their lessons.
George Miner. a camper AZ oklahoma
/ City, committed suicide last week by
/ taking strvchnine. He leaves a widow
who says that Miner tried TO farm, was
not a success, and so killed himself.
President James a. Beauchamp. Of the
| Baptist college al Blackwell. has uoti-
( fed the boys Of the college that they are
playing too much football, and if they do
not moderate he will veto football en-
tirely.
The Chickasha Telegram says that
early Sunday morning four oklahoma
City men, one an alderman, In a row in
a saloon at Chickasha beat q local sport
up terribly and fed They were overta-
ken by the marshal and jailed.
The Gushing Herald's account Of a sui
eide: Abe Forbes. who lives on the
Greek county line, ten miles southeast OF
here, committed suicide last Wednesday
by taking strychnine. Mr. Forbes and
his wife had separated. He visited her
on Wednesday, and being unable to con-
ciliate her, told her he intended 70 take
a dose of poison. and invited her 10 take
one on him. Mrs. Forbes refused 10 take
the poison. Forbes took il straight. In
the presence of his wife, and then got
into a wagon with his brother-in-law.
who lives south Of Forbes. and rode
home with him. In half an hour from
the time Forbes left his wife he was dead
an investigation OF the case discloses the
fact that Forbes purchased the poison
last August. He had repeatedly threat
ened his wife that he would commit sui-
eide, but as he had up 70 that time failed
TO make his word good boy shuclinE Off
this mortal coil. Mrs Forbes still believed
he was shamming. However. il happened
that Forbes was there with the goods
this time and had Mrs. Forbes taken
the dose he prescribed there would have
Ueen a double funeral Forbes was q la-
boring man, and his habits were intem-
perate, and that is one Of the reasons
given for his rash deed"