The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-31
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

| Oklahona City has invited all the
mayors in Oklahoma to attend the single
statehood convention at Oklahoma City,
January g.
| The Grand Progress has come out 70.
| Kingfisher for the state capital Il says
| the wrong done by Governor Steele should
f.. be righted-
The Ponca City Courier thinks that
| Flynn has stood by New Mexico and
Arizona long enough. and that he ought
| to cut loose now.
The number OF people who lost Christ
| mas packages in Oklahoma last week IS
legion, and they are letting the fact be
known in lost advertisements.
The commissioner OF the general land
office. ". a. Richards. is a man who
knows 4 thing or two about Oklahoma
and particularly the newest part OF it.
There must be mistake about that
! Oklahoma rohber who was caught with
s23i worth OF pennies in his possession M
n an would attempt TO escape loaded W
Ike that.
The two Iowa lawyers who Were arrest
&c IN Fl Reno for alleged fraudulent land
practices over year ago. have been re
leased The grand jury returned no oil
against them.
The greatest change in the way OF pros
perity in Oklahoma in the last ten years
Is in the southwestern section. Ter years
ago in that region /, was close scratching
for enough TO eat
The papers are wondering at the evil
dence in the senate committee report
given by Jerry Strang. He is reported
to have said that Oklahoma doesn't wan:
any kind OF statehood at all.
Otis StuIi. the camper who was ar
Of
Billiard, OF Roger Mills county. was ae-
quilted at Enid, Monday. The evidence
against him was circunstantial.
]. William Speake. United States dis
trict clerk at Chickasha. is back from
Washington. He says that the Beveridge
substitute bin always was 4 blum and
that the omnibus bill hasn't much show.
The shooting in Cordell, in which Editor
White killed Johnson. IS evidence of tbs
fact that the smaller the community the
more diplomat a man has 10 be- \
personal in the paper angered a man. he
abused the editor and the editor shot
him,
The old squaw who saved the lands
of the Quapaw Indians by making q
speech against their sale by the indians
ought to be as much a heroine as Poca-
hontas, who started the squawman deal
the really destructive force in The is
tory of the Indian race.
Binger Hermann. the general land com
missioner who is to retire first. differed
with Secretary Hitchcock over the Plan
of opening the Comanche lands. Her
mann didn't think the new plan practical
Richards, who is TO be his successor. was
sent out to Oklahoma and proved that il
was.
Tragedy of the trousers, from the Shaw
nee Quill: In the city court yesterday
morning a man named Main. who had
Judge Maben on the charge of having
stolen two pairs of pants. and when Chief
Grail was asked to make a statement OF
the facts in the case he said that he
had found the man with pair of pants in
his possession which he was trying TO sell
and that he had arrested him, and later
had found that the pants and another
pair also had been stolen from the store
front display at the Aurora store. and
that the two pairs were valued at SO. and
the chief also stated that Main had sold
the missing pair. When asked by the
judge what his plea was to the charge
ne simply said guilty" and the court
assessed his fine at s25 and the costs
which will keep him on the rock pile un-
der the watchful eye of Prison Guard
Martz for about twenty days. and wher
he takes his rest and sleep at night II
will be by either sitting in a chair or ~
ing on the floor chained down 10 one o.
the bull rings" that are put there foI
that purpose.