The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-23
Outlines of Oklahoma

There is lot OF building going on a.
| fsrring.
John Dollar. Jr., Of Enid. very young
man. is the coming violin virtuoso Of the
territory.
There is net vacant business house or
dwelling in Enid, ard there hasn't been
for 2 leng time
The strike at the oil mill in Purcell has
terminated peaceabiy. Il is bad time 10
strike in the territory.
For some reason OF other, Grosvenor OF
Oaio doesn't seem 10 have as much 10 say
about Oklahoma as ne used TO-
Miss Matte Philips OF Alva sold her
claim near Alva the other day for sl7-
That IS dirt cheap and cheap dirt.
Next week Dennis Flynn will speak al
| the Kay county fair. He will try 10 leave
politics in his inside pocket and talk Okla
homa.
The railroads. in addition TO sending on;
advertising cars for Oklahoma, should also
| make the cheapest excursion rates into
Oklahoma.
4 probate judge in Oklahomt has had
the queer distinction of having seen every
couple he has married IN Oklahoma after
ward divorced.
In a six hundred yard race at Alva the
other day Clint HUNS mare. Tenny. threw
the dust in Hank Noahs horse. Croppy
and didn't half try.
Down in Washington Jerry Strang Is
creeping upon the chief justiceship and Is
in imminent danger OF stepping on Hahn
er's Prince Albert coat
The officers of the new Citizens bank
of Ponca City are A. B. McCandless, presi-
dent; F. G. Moore. president; j. B.
Given cashier and G. T. McCandless. as
sstant cashier.
The advertising car scheme is all right
but IL is not as potent as a marked copy
Of the local paper showing oklahoma pros
perity. sent to a personal friend some
where in the east.
The farmers OF Oklahoma are advised
by an agricultural journal to give tobacco
a trial. Tobacco has been raised in Kan
sas, but il is so rank that a cigar will
knock man down at twenty miles.
Isenberg Of Enid. attributes part OF
Dennis Flynn's universities 10 the cam
paign cigars which Bill Walker distribut-
ed around among the vox populi las;
year.
On September Is a man at Enid hit a
stranger over the head with plank Day
before yesterday the stranger re-appeared
walked up to the offender and proceeded
10 knock the crystalline daylights out of
him. The fighter is still unknown, but
all planks at Enid are sheathed.
Medford Patriot: The enterprise OF the
nd af~
its Oklahoma readers was ably manifested
by the publication of the governors an
nual report Tuesday morning. 1t would
have been a capital movement If the bus
mess interests of the territory could have
sent thousands of that issue of the Eagle
TO their eastern friends. The citizens OF
Oklahoma should manifest an appreciation
Of this effort Of the Eagle in behalf OF the
territory in a tangible manner
Alva Review: Tonk Mills, sheriff OF
Barber county, Kansas, was in town
Tuesday in search OF three convicts who
broke jail at Medicine Lodge on oMnday
night. As he al.ghted from the west-bound
passenger he located his men, they having
been on the same train from Virgil down.
The parties in question were c. c. Cot
terrell and ]. c. German. who claim 10 hal
recently from near Whitehorse, and who
had plead guilty to the theft of whea;
from the Hazelton mill the day before the
mill was destroyed by fire, and had been
sentenced TO 81 days in Jail; the third was
young boy, Clarence Loftice by name,
who few weeks ago traded George Whit
tet stolen horse and afterwards stole
two others in Kansas and had been SEN
fenced 10 the reform school They escaped
from jail by breaking a hole through the
stone wall. They wer taken back TO the
state Wednesday