The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-14
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

There is no interview YET from Judge
Keaton saying that Biz Cross wiz be
elected
1t is claimed in Washington that oppc-
sition 10 statehood in the senate L disap-
pearing.
Oklahoma City is after congress. she
wants an appropriation Tor a 500 90 pub
lie building.
Il is now announced that Tars Blzby
has changed his mind about resigulng
from the Dawes commission
Al Muskogee the han OF the ". c. T.
L was set afire one night last week.
The order has been fighting bootleg
gers.
Clarence B. Douglass. who is talented.
has purchased the MuskOgee Phoenix.
and viii doubtless make c goo1 paper
OF it.
Before this campaign IS concluded the
Democrats viii wish that they didn't
have that statehood plank IN their plat
form.
! The Republican aspirants for congress
now have a little over a month 10 line
things up. II viii be 4 pretty busy
! month.
Bob Men still insists that the drawing
plan of opening was not successful. He
/ insists that the bonaAde homessekers
! got skinned"
So far this year there has been but ore
death from lightning in Oklahoma. Cliff
/ ford Reedy. Of Greer county. was struck
and killed last week.
Postmaster Mccoy. Of Guthrie. ard
Postmaster Sam Murphy. OF oklahoma
| City. are in Washington looking into the
matter Of re-apDointment.
! y travelling man from Cleveland has ap-
peared AT Guthrie and announces that
he viii run for congress from Oklahoma.
as his firm considers Il quite a good ad-
y ertisement
The farmers near Blackwell are kick
ing on Sunday baseball. sand TIE chances
I hunt out some town where il is permitted
There are several such IN the land.
Guthrie Leader: in Chairman Knox :
argument for tnnediate statehood for
/ Oklahoma he declared that congress- had
admitted territories to statehood with
less population than the number of school
children attending the Oklahoma schools
II was a brass band which won the
/ Republican convention for Enid The
chances are that the winner Of the nomi-
nation viii have a brass band alons with
him. The twisted cornet and the fat
tuba seem 10 be mascots this year.
= pttttSS ~ the III Keno democrat
thus strikes out q noble sentiment.
I've been visitin about q week.
To my little cousins. on NameIess creek;
And I've got the hives and a new straw
hat.
But I'm come back home. where my beau
lives at
Wheeler Corkins of Blackwell. went to
Dexter. Kansas. the other day on an
unusual mission This was TO rc-bury his
brother. His brother who was killed
near Kansas City. was buried at Dexter
in lot where it was supposed his father
had heen buried before him. Later Il
was discovered that the sexton had
designated the wrong lot, and "A second
interment, in the proper lot. took place.
Recently thieves broke into Frisco
car at Blackwell and stole chewing gum.
cigars. tomatoes in cans and candy. In
their fight il became necessary for them
TO throw out ballast and they parted
with the chewing gum and the cigars.
This is strange. If they were men they
would have naturally held onto the eli
gars and tomatoes and let the candy and
chewing gum go. If they were women
they would have held onto the chewing
gum and the candy. Under the circum-
stances it would appear that the theft
was committed by a man and woman
and that they compromised on what they
should throw overheard