The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-26
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The total vote on delegate to congress
I In Oklahoma was s5.1ee
\ Governor Ferguson firmly believes that
. sta ehood VIII come before Christmas.
j That senate subcommittee is now load
&c with more statistics than il could read
/ II q year.
It looks IS though the senate committee
volid recommend statehood for Okla
bona alone.
There IS statehood convention at
/ South McAiester today. II viii all be
/ talked over again.
/ The Socialist candidate for congress in
-Cklahoma secured y more votesN than the
Prohibition candidate
There is a big food in the washita
: valley in the Chickasaw nation. IL ex-
tends also 20 the Blue valley
The Santa Fe is laying rails between
/ Kaw City and NewIzirk. The road-bed
! has been in for some time.
Congress ought 10 be aware by this
] time what Oklahoma is expecting Tor a
! Christmas present.
! The leading Democrats viii not let Bill
! Cross hle contest They realize that It
would embarrass statehood s chances
Dennis Flynn returned east with the
! senatorial committee lie VIII talk OK
home.
It Is plain to be seen that the struggle
{ in congress IN December IS going 20 be
strenuous enough before statehood is &C
{ c, mphshed.
1t looks pretty sick for statehood so far
/ a. New Mexico and Arizona are con-
7 cerned. and Oklahoma win have 10 pull
long and hart 70 win without them.
II the Republicans and Democrats in
congress both set il into their heads that
tLey viii win Oklahoma ia the first pres
idential election Il may turn out smooth
sailing for statehood.
Along about March / a Mr. McNaught,
citizen OF Curtis, mysteriousiy disappear
eo. and it was believed he had been muir
dered. The other day a citizen declares
he saw Mcknight on the street with Il
heavy growth of beard and otherwise dis
guised
In Custer county Christian Scientist
refused 10 call in u regular physician
II minister TO his little daughter, who
was III. The child died The neighbors
had the father arrested and the probate
judge AZ Arapahoe fined him 800 and
co SITS. lie viii appeal.
The close counties OF Oklahoma as
shown by the late election are Custer.
Lincoln. Noble. Payne Three OF these
publican najorities. and viii again while
the party is growing all the time in
Payne and VIII eventually be in the as
tendency there.
The Gve-year-old son Of John Carey at
oklahoma City was bitten by a mad cat
The cat set its teeth in the chiids arm
and could not be taken away until it was
choked 10 death. Hydrophobia is feared
At COilinsville. on a wager OF $. man
got into "a wagon yard with a wolf and
caught a wolf with HIS hands. He caught
the WOLF, but was badly bitten.
The Arkansas city Traveller says:
Every siding south OF Guthrie on the
Oklahoma division. is crowded full of ears
md there IS barely enough room al any
OF the stations 20 allow trains TO pass
Ehis condition of affairs Is due To the in
ability % the Gulf Colorado and Santa
Fe 70 handle the business Power and
all other facilities or that road are in
had shape. ard it inst simply cannot do
the work Tie oklahoma division is in
first rate shape. ana has crews and power
en0uch to move ala the business that
comes. but tho fault lies south or Purcell.
H. the local Yards every track is well
filed and more ears are being brought i'm
each day