The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-08
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The Times-Journal turned over its first
page to political stuff yesterday. This is
beating Ell Reno.
| Chinaman and negress at Chickasha as
Black and Tan
A newspaper has been launched at
Pryor Creek. Cherokee Nation. The ed
| itor is j. d. Kelly.
Oklahoma surely has the money. Re-
wards by the ::column" are being offered
| by political organs.
The Falls Beacon is a new paper, ed
| tied by Frank Lucas, of Logan county.
Everybody knows Frank.
| Oklahoma should make herself felt at
| ST. Louis The governor and his party
| will make good forerunner.
That investigation had better be called
of now. It's hitting several, not any of
whom are the guilty parties
The Stroud Messenger has become a
very interesting paper again. During
the legislature ii was not up to the stand
ard.
The question naturally arises when one
reads about MCGUIRE getting 60 letters a
week, where does he begin to answer
them?
F. A. Ashton. of Chandler. has accepted
the territorial oil inspector job. So it is
proved that some men are really satisfied
with honor.
Captain Hardcastle has left Stroud for
Anadarko. He is prominent through his
claim that he has drunk 80 barrels of
whisky since the war.
The chief point in the municipal cleo
tions in Oklahoma was that cleanliness is
next to Goodness, and it is evident that
some failed to get next
That saying about opportunity must
make Thoburn. of the agriculture board.
red-headed. He left a good position at
Oklahoma City for his present one.
The Sanitarium report shows an in
crease over the number of patients three
months ago. The increase should be
placed to the credit of the legislature.
Dennis Flynn is always welcome to Ok
lahoma. Fortune favors him. The plans
for the new government building at
Guthrie having junst arrived, makes him
thrice welcome in that city.
Bill Bowles has been down to Guthrie,
and advised Barnes through the Leader
that he's making a mistake by running
for mayor. Every one is now looking
for Barnes withdrawal in every issue.
The Stroud Messenger reports that a
certain Lincoln county farmer has the
following threatening warning inscribed
on his pasture gate: II will parsekoot
all dunn animals that tresspass on mi
grounds.
Hearst is a good deal of buffer. A
month ago, he was going to do Oklahoma
up brown. He's the chap that's making
a fight against the trusts before the peo-
pie while he himself is at the head of a
newspaper combine.
The State Journal. of Mulhall: Lucille
Mulhall has the whooping- cough: Mil
dred Mulhall, the measles; Ruth Math-
ews. the whooping-cough: Roy Mathews,
the measles; Annie Dormire. the measles:
Mrs. Lewellen and two children, Lucy
and Clyde, have the measles: Clara Grace
Elliott and Maudie Joyce have the
measles; Frank Mathews is out after
tussle with the measles. and the Myers
children have the whooping-cough as an
accompaniment to them"
Stroud Messenger: They have or had an
Indian Nephthali in the Pawnee county
wilderness. 1t was Spotted Horse, the
fieetest footman and boss horse-thief in
the world. 1t is claimed that he stole
over 200 ponies without ever being caught
stealing. Spotted Horse outran the fast
est mounted horses, and managed to
steal horsefiesh with unrivalled skill and
impudence. When old and rheumatic, he
quit his chronic deviltry and retired to his
wigwam on romantil Hellroaring creek.
and no doubt would have afflicted the
world with book if he had been able to
write his name. Our hero was never
prosecuted for his bold. daredevil deeds.
He beat Nephthan. Patriarch Jacobs
swift-footed son, all to pieces.