The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-09
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Secretary Grimes name vail be sent to
the senate fer confirmation this week
The FL Reno Democrat is waglng a war
against the punch bowl with q spike
in it.
OlSlahoma's building at St. Louis is TO
look like Wiseonsia's edifice at the
Worlds fair.
Next month the Knights OF Pythias
viii organize n lodge at Lawton- knights
from all over Oklahoma viii attend.
Ire city marshal Of Chickasha has
closed up all the gambling dens- Chick
ssha hitherto has beer wide open
The Methodists al Lawton recently ded-
icated a church which VIII seat leo peo-
lie. a revival has been insugaratcd-
Canadian county claims to b. the only
oklahoma county that ever fioarcd bonds
bearing so low an interest as per
cent
Game WARREN Gould. Of El Rene. is
actively at work preventing shipments
Of game from Oklahoma. He grabs a
box or two every day.
In one Oklahoma town n colored min
lister has been arrested on the charge
OF an undertaken who claims that the
preacher tried to cheat him
George and Jack Navar. boys living
near FL Reno. were swapping a gun at
each other in play. Presently Jack fell
10 the ground With bullet through his
knee.
Wanda Hamilton. six years old. living
in Chickasha. fouud a railroad torpedo.
put il on q stone step and pounded It.
1t exploded, tearing her chin badly and
probably dishguring her for life.
The man who drew number IS at the
Lawton office, made Settlement on the
18th OF the month. struck water AT
Il n faF nd he 7frfra ~
Telegram believes he Viii raise Germ NJ
teen feet high.
DR.. Jordan. Of Lawtou. sent to a ST.
Louis assayer three specimens he took
from a mining claim In the Wichita
mountains. One assayed s195 70 the ton;
another $500 TO the ton; and the third
Sl,200 to the ton.
You can't remember for the life of
you" said one Guthrie man 10 another.
who was number two n the FL Reno
district land drawing" I guess YOU re
right" said the other man; but then,
I was never any good at mathematics,
anyway
y poor family recently drove into
Lawton with more children than the par
ents could care for. Editor Tousley. of
one paper, adopted one child and editor
Williams, Of another paper. adopted an
other. You can always depend on the
editors to help along.
There is a grand row over claim num-
Ter 3. at Law ton. the man who drew it
located right next 10 Lswton. Chen he
relinquished ii. according TO a local news
paper, for $500. There were legal com
rlications in consequence, contests and
so on, ard everything is badly tangled.
If number is relinquished for $500, how
about number and number being
worth $4,000 each, as was so glibly re-
Ported last September?
You can't excite an Indian IN civil
lied way. The following item from the
Anadarko Tribune. relating the grim 81
lence in which some Indian boys sound
ed a fre-alarm, shows that: - his
morning about 9 o'clock a half dozen
little Indian boys ranging IN ages az
about twelve years. went running up 10
the fire bell. jerked down the rope and
commenced ringing the bell. Some men
who were close by asked them what they
were doing. For while the boys said
nothing, but kept pulling on the rope
Finally one little fellow said the Nethvin
Mission was on IRE At this remark
John Pfan, Jr., Jcrked the rope a few
times and started on a run toward the
fire, with half the town at his aeels, but
not more than a tenth OF them knew
where they were goirg, nor where the
FIRE was until they reached the mission.
IT was found that fire had broke out in
the corner IF Miss Halls room in the
chapel How the fire started or the
cause Of Il Is not known, as there were
no fires in any of the stoves since yes
terday afternoon about O'Clock.