The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-29
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

All the papers report favorable OUT
look for big wheat crop.
The Wave is insisting that the evidence
introduced proves an alibi for David e.
George.
isenberg. of Enid, has gone to Guthrie
10 contest Fatty Smiths position as
I speaker OF the third house.
Al Ponca City. last week. soft ceal
sold for 81 ton Soft coal az that
price is pretty hard on some.
president Alexander, of the council. has
introduced herd law bill. This is the
third or its kind at this session.
The drillers at Blackwell have struck
gas sand. So far there is silently sand.
but no gas This is irnmaterial, how
ever.
Grist Mill Jones was in Enid yesterday.
Monday night the band gave a concert in
his honor He is securing right Of way
for the A v & w.
Kansas is greatly interested in seeing
Okianoma get statehood at this session
OF congress The Ottawa Herald declares
that Quay has "a lead-pipe cinch
Every two years bill is introduced in
the legislature. abolishing the territorial
both houses and was vetoed by the gov
ernor
The single statehood committee met at
Oklahoma City TO hear the reports Of
the last delegation. Roy Hoffman teie-
phoned that he was busy. Hoffman is
lying low.
1t is announced that Bill Cross is TAX
ing the first active steps in the contest
matter. Cross stepped more actively in
the campaign than he will ever again in
Oklahoma.
The body OF George. the alleged Wilkes
Booth, has been buried at Enid The
mans death and mysterious confession
gave rise to many good stories. that have
been copied in eastern papers
Robbers should be more considerate
The three-months-old town OF Isabelle
had hardly gotten its police force or
ganized when the thieves tackled the
bankrupt stock Of a merchant.
This legislature seems determined that
every territorial office not making a BIZ
ennial report to the governor shall make
one TO 1t. Have the members read those
reports submitted by the governor?
At Holdenville. colored men were hired
TO do hotel work. They were ordered to
leave town, and refused. Then dynamite
was thrown under their quarters and they
went a-hying. Holdenville is in Indian
territory.
The marshal at Alva is very diplomatic
Saturday night he found a poker game
going on behind closed doors He went
in. locked the door. made an informal
speech 10 the players and left The
poker players took the hint.
The house has appointed a committee to
investigate the sanitarium at Norman
Not month ago commission appointed
by the governor reported on the asylum.
lc the house trying TO stir up something?
Jester. the man who introduced the reso-
luton, is a doctor.
Marshall Tribune: A railroad bonus H.
often the target for hot shots from citi-
zens who doubt the necessity of putting
read may be secured for their town Rail
roads are never built through a country
which does not promise a good invest
ment for the builders. and therefore the
bonus always seems a huge graft but
many towns have discovered at the eiev-
enth hour that it is graft which should
have been taken up.
Gushing Herald: We have just heard a
strange story of a gambler at present in
our city. Several years ago he shook
dice with a doctor and won all his
money. The doctor then agreed to wager
his wife against the money The dice
were thrown: the doctor lost The
strange part. OF the story is that the wo-
man consented to become the gamblers
property, and lived with him for sew
eral years Parties in town who know of
the occurrence Youch for it's truth