The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-13
Outlines of Oklahoma

The smoke stack Of the new mill at Pond
Creek sticks up into the air So feet.
The Manchester Journal kicks on the
tailed train-g
A curiosity from the cyclone on exhbi-
ton at Chandler IS the rib Of and UNI
brells imbedded in an oak tree.
To save all his wheat ii IS said that this
year the Oklahomx farmer has had 10 use q
binder. header. cradle and rake.
Manchester is now q money order ONCE.
TIE Charge IS said to be due TO the efforts
of j. VI. Simmons, postmaster there.
Brain of Pond Creek says to tie a string
around your ankle and the chiggers wis
not get on the upper portion OF the leg.
County Attorney Carswen of FL Reno
raised oats at the rate Of Il bushels to the
acre, or pounds above standard weight.
The Ell Reno Republican is in open re-
ohellon against Governor Barnes for the
appointment of Watson postmaster IN FL
Reno.
The town Of Etna in western Kansas just
north of Alva. across the state line, con-
sists of four houses, three OF which are de-
serted.
Every man in Oklahoma should have a
copy Of McMasters Magazine. II Is a
pretty thing and fun Of interesting and
well-written matter.
There it is again. Now FL Reno claims
its rev postmaster is Kingfisher county
man. What is Kingfsher county got tc
kick about anyway?
". H. Burdick. a painter at Oklahoma
City, was last Monday scratched on the eye
by a leaf. The eye inflamed and he will
have to have Ii taken out.
T. NJ. Stallard of Payne county is har-
vesting his second crop of alfalfa this
season from a S-acre field. The second
oror is heavier than the first
Dan Peery of FL Reno, who wants to be
| fair at all times, says In his Ell Reno paper
that Governor Barnes Kingfisher address
was 'comrendable and patriotic"
The Gilstraps Of the Chandler News were
the fiercest enemies Governor Barnes ever
had in the territory. Now that paper ID
as quiet as a summer evening on every
| thing Barnes does.
The Saltwater Sentinel wants to know
what would happen IL the west would Sc
| cede from the east. The same thing would
happen that would take place II the cas-,
secede from the west.
In Mound township. In Payne county.
July 8, in a ball game Frank Mills wa,
struck by a pitched ball while batting and
killed. Thad Spencer was pitching. Mil
| lis left a wife and child.
| Old man Minks who was shot near Okla
homa City in a claim fuss by a man named
Dinkins and VINO was sent to Norman. has
dcd-the doctors saying the wound had
nothing to do With his death.
William Gross, one Of the old members OF
the hospital corps at FIT. Reno, has re-
turned there from Ft. Sheridan, Illinois.
He was transferred at his own request
Sheridan is a suburb of Chicago and the
FL Reno papers ought to make point OF
this.
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: Saturday
between noon and 1 o'clock fire was dis
covered in the electric light plant and be-
fore the confagration was subdued the
plant was almost ruined and the city vii
be in darkness until extensive repairs are
made The fire had gained considerable
Leadwav before the ALARM vas given. The
fire department made quick response and
soon had three hose Fay ing on the flames,
but on account of the t.nder Ike condition
of the building its peculiar construction
and the Roadway gained. it was some time
before the biaze was put odt None but
the employees had been in the building
since clock in the morning. The fires
were banked and the cause OF the fire is
unknown. It evidently originated above
the boilers rear the roof of the engine
house. The fire spread TO the dynamo
room and destroyed the roof. While sew
eral fremen were on the roof 1t gave way
and the firen1en had very narrow escape.
Lee Tinker fell from the roof but was not
seriously hurt.