The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-06

spectators scheme in getting county
seat bill through.
The Experiment station suggests that
flax is an excellent crop for Oklahoma.
the soil and climate both being right for
a profitable yield.
Undoubtedly the legislature at Guthrie
keeps duly sober but it keeps the papers
of the territory we'll filled up with its
lively proceedings.
Saltwater is claiming that everybody
comedies the capital of Payne county to
be the liveliest town in circumference
of miles upon miles in diameter.
A luna on arriving in Okarche the
other day, bounced upon a saloon and
took possession as the most desirable
enterprise layout Offering for new resi-
dent.
The Newkirk Republican grows red
headed over the proposition to remove
the county-seat of Kay county, and talks
out in meetin' very emphatically and not
illogically.
The Oklahoma legislature proved a little
longer winded than those of Kansas and
the nation, but the temperature and haz-
ardous pulse of the former are indicative
of an early dissolution.
Four hundred graders are throwing
dirt in lively way on the Choctaw eX-
tension, and property is on the boom in
Shawnee The work in the Kickapoo
country is about finished.
The Oklahoma Times-Journal Is inclined
to encourage irrigation. commencing the
efforts of Kansas in that direction. What
is good for Kansas is good for Oklahoma
is fact that goes without saying.
AN eye for an eye and a tooth for
TOOTH The Kingfsher Free Press feel
ingly expresses the charitable hope that
Governor Renfrow viii veto the bill that
does away with hanging in oklahoma
AS soon as the gap is closed by the
Choctaw railway between McAlester. the
Globe states, by authority, that the line
VIII be extended from FL Reno west to
connection with the Fort Worth and
Denver.
An histrionic adventurer who Is wholly
unreliable and who in the end will get
away with somebody is now organizing
amateur theatricals in the towns of the
territory which hold down our southern
boundary.
The Banner calls upon the people OF
Duncan to buckle down to business, spit
on their hands, renew their faith and with
shoulder to shoulder pull all together.
If the procession should thus proceed
Duncan Will be no pumpkin.
Oklahoma doesn't go much on the
chances of regulating supply and demand
by statutory enactment, so wipes out all
usury laws. leaving il 10 competition
among money loaners and the borrower
TO drive their own bargains unhampered.
Judge Bierer OF Oklahoma City, called
on Attorney General Olney in Washington
the other day to find out from that gen.
tleman Growers estimate OF Judge Scott,
but Olney played innocent and Bierer
knows as much as he did of the judicial
probabilities.
Miss Fife Gilstrap, editress of the Chan
dler News, earnestly advises the mothers
of that town 10 have their babies photo
graphed, even if they are compelled 10
20 to Guthrie to secure the shadow OF
the darling substances that so soon grow
to be Arabs.
The Enid Wave is authority for the
statement that Con gresham Springer was
offered Judge Scotts place, which was
declined on account of Springers wife's
poor health. Mrs. Springer would find
herself happy and fat in less than six
months life in Oklahoma.
There is q demand for stringent de-
linquent tax law in the territory The
truth is that its the states which have
a big penalty or rather provides big
interest for the purchaser OF delinquent
properties that have the least trouble
over the collections OF taxes
They call them Kansas billiards." down
in South Oklahoma They pass over us.
but for their origin our neighoors must
look farther north. We plead guilty 70
Mary Lease but the hot winds and the
Billiards and the grasshoppers were al
born beyond these blessed borders
''oId George Hale: take your choice;
live or die" is the portentious white cap
notice served on a citizen OF Wsshita
county, according TO the Minco Minstrel
The notice farther on proceeds: You
have the next moon TO leave the country
in. and you had better git. or We VIII
XIII you Ike dog and burn your barn"
Al last accounts old George was holding
the fort.
The oklahoma City star: The Wichita
Eagles bright correspondent at Guthrie,
SIR. John GAlohie. says the new legislative
apportionment planned By Grimes and
Walker OF the Republican central con-
miite-. viii be satisfactory 20 al parties
Il does not seem likely thai such strong
EartisS1s as Grimes AID Walker would
frame any such arrangements when they
know thar although the present ieg1s-
lature is Republican, the territory IS
really OF very doubtful political CON
plexion. The truth Is said 10 be that
the proposed apportiouraeat IS designed
TO eTectuslly shut out the Democrats and
PopulIsss for ali times 10 come
The government cattle guarantee ins
has been moved farther south The su-
spector's headquarters have been novel
from Caldwell TO II Reno says the Demo
erar- The 2eW quarantine Aae starts -