The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-14
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Talosa and Woodward are expecting TO
get the Choctaw BY the way of Wealth
erford-
During the year 1sm the probate judge
Of Canadian county issued $50 marriage
licenses.
It is claimed that hereafter Indian ter
ritory prisoners VIII be taken TO Atlanta.
instead of LeavenwOrth.
The Bes company has been incorporated
with capital stock of S5oo.o0 St Louis
men are large stockholders
The local newspapers at Shawnee are
finally calling FOR a halt on the part Of
shooters OF that community.
The people Of Guthrie have come for
ward in fine style in the raising Of a big
bonus for the Choctaw road.
The Edmond papers jump on Ament
because Of Anent's charge that Baxter
had been the cause OF his trouble
The people OF -Alva are going To make
a great fight for Ament's retention at the
end Of the school year. il is reported
The Mountain Park News announces in
its headlines that il is a Democratic
newspaper, published by Democrats"
That woman out in Woodward county
who had a whole neighborhood arrested
for murder was suffering from a dream.
At Pond Greek the members Of the
Christian church when they get converts.
give them a reception TO make them feel
at home.
If statehood comes this spring. and the
chances are growing brighter daily. the
next legislature viii be a locator OF state
institutions.
Jerre Johnson, OF NewkirlS, IS dis
tipctly right when he talks against in
cooperating isms in the first consttu-
ton of Oklahoma.
Frank AIyer has been selected as po-
lice judge of FL Reno by the city council.
which had To 90 into executive session 10
find out where it was ar.
Roy Hoffman claims that Andrew Jack
son is responsible for free homes. II il
comes TO that, why not give George
Washington due credit? Washington
licked the British, and made free homes
possible.
In Pond Greek one farmer has sued
another for $3.50 damages because the
dog belonging to the farmer of the sec
ond part dsrted out on the read and
frightened the team of the farmer Of the
first part. causing said horses to run
away and dump the farmer OF the first
part out and hurt the aforesaid and
affiant.
Edmond Sun: A peculiar character
came TO our town last Saturday. He
says tnat ne mas no home. lie Is dement,
ed. and the small boys have taken adj
vantage of his sad condition 10 have
fun. There is someone continually iok-
ing him. He gives his name as John VIM.
Benfield. lie appears TO be harmless.
but we have been told that he is the
same person who got possession of an old
shotgun, a revolver and a butcher-knife
and entered the passenger train near
Perry several years ago. and pointing the
revolver I'm the face OF the conductor.
ordered him TO get of OF the car. The
conductor got down off of the car steps
and as soon as the one with the revolver
stepped down the conductor knocked the
gun out of his hand and threw him down
and tied him. then turned him over 70 the
police officers. However. he furnishes
considerable amusement for the boys Mr.
Newsom, proprietor OF the Central hO-
tel. has given him his meals and kept
him several nights.
The Pond Creek vidette publishes this:
The recent bank robberies in Kay county
and the numerous hold-Ups which have
occurred in Oklahoma would seem to in
dictate that crime is on the increase in
the territory. The past week or two
several suspicious characters have in
tested Pond Greek, but the vigil of the
city authorities Is responsible for the
fact that no depredations have been
committed here. Our attention has been
called to a complicated sign of some