The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-02-16
Outlines Of Oklahoms

The court at Kingfsher - row work
ing for a Jury for the trial Of Watcher
airs. Nation and her husband once
lived in Oklahoma. where Mr. Nation
practiced law
The senate has passed a bin which
knocks ont the Christian Scientists and
tie Osteooa ,hIsts.
Is Ira Terrin dead? It would seem
that thers would be soma confirmation
Of the story Il he IS.
Freeman Miller is having hard time
/ It Is openly denied that his apostr0pha
TO the long-horn steer is poetry.
BY reference 10 a committee OIiphant :
bill providing fer the treatment Of habit
ual drunkards at public expense has been
killed.
President Bellamy is said u be one o.
! the coming rich men OF oklahoma he
is now worth, according 70 runars about
s2oooe
Ardmore is the largest town in the In
dian territory, having 5,6S1 people; Mus
kogee IS next, with 4,2sz; Chickasha next
win s.2os
A couple Of Oklahoma men were heav-
lily lined nj Kansas City the other day
for writing their names On the xalIs OF
the federal building.
Dennis Flynn Indignantly denies that
( he plays golf. He says he never saw q
golf-stick IN his life. and he wouadn'
/ know link from 2 school section.
4 Wichita VIII show the Oklahoma cattle
men and the Oklahoma legislators and
( the Oklahomans generally a warm time
+ il 1so2-and incidentally a much larger
/ town.
The bill before the Legislature prohibit
+ ing the giving OF railroad passes, died
/ with q lock OF calm resignation on its
/ face. The committee hit 1t with an un-
/ favorable report
/ A man out in Beaver county the other
day drove twenty miles for drink. on
" ID find that his neigflbar of whom he
was gotEg to borrow It. had just hitched
up to call on aim Tor the same purpose.
Senator Woolsey's beer bin just intro
duced provides for a man to inspect the
beer at every wholesale depot, through
deputies, the deputies 10 receive $500 a
year each; the inspector himself 10 re-
cetve Sl,2o0 a year. The revenue for this
is to be raised by q tax Of two cents a
gallon on every gallon Of beer or other
malt LIQUOR in the territory.
At Canadian Texas in the store of
the Brown Mercantile company an old
gun barrel has bsen used for years as a
poker. The other day the negro janitor
was pokiDg the FIRE with *. when il
went off, the bullet striking Robert f.
Turner, a bystander, without seriously
injuring him. The people think that the
gun had been loaded al these years
The chances are that somebody had load
ed it the Gay before.
LoOmiller. the blind man who was
found dead in Indiana the other day,
supposed TO have been murdered. was
once indicted for the murder Of his vile
and little girl in Indiana They we're
found at home literally hacked TO pieces.
ana Loomiller was covered with blood,
which he explained he got on him while
cropping about after the murder. Loo
miller had his wife insured, but whether
he ever collected the Insurance Or not,
is unknown. His case never came to
trial. If Loominer did murder his wife
and afterward commit suicide. or WIS
killed by some Nemesis, he was a more
ferocious character, all in all, than Dick
ems ever created
Enid Eagle: Ben Fagan, our French
abstract0r, has received the 5evfal news
that the old Pagan estate in County Linz
erick. Ireland, Is to be divided up among
the heirs, Of whom he is one. The estate
embraces about three seventns Of an
acre, mostly rich peat bog. bat with
some hazel-brush. It is 10 be divided
equally among the living Fagaus. vino
are estimated to number not much IN
excess of $4,000. One-half OF the land Is
understood to be under fence. and one
Of the finest houses in rural ireland is
on an adjoining estate Though the es-
tate IS in Ireland all the Fagans are
pure French, as the original Pagan, who
founded the estate was very closely
connected to a French nobleman. by
means Of mortgage which the latter
held on the land referred to. The mort
gage was cleared up by Ben's great
grandfather, however, with the proceeds
of only seventeen annual crops Of pota-
toes. CONGRATULATIONS mailed TO Ben.
general delivery. Enid, VIII reach him.