The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-25
Outlines of Oklahoma

About &c, oOO bushels of castor beans have
been marketed in Enid this year.
! Mrs Governor Barnes has returned from
her summer sojourn in the mountains
George Lang is now deputy district CLERK
al Kingfsher, and according to :he Enid
Wave is wearing IS shirts.
No matter who is to blame. there was
entirely to much money changing hands
in the DeFord-Orput deal
Fl Reno claims to be doing more job
bling than Oklahoma City. The FL Reno
Star says: ''Freights TALK
People viii come from seventy miles west
OF the Rock Island railroad 10 attend
Ringing Brothers circus at Enid.
John Delaney Of Pennsylvania, formerly
of Oklahoma, called on McKenna the other
day and protested against Orput's appoint
ment.
The Anti-Horse Thief association OF the
territory met in Kingfisher last week. The
Reformer there says they are fine-looking
lot of men.
With the exception OF Payne, according
TO Frank Greer, there is no Oklahoma
man, dead, who is entitled 10 statue n
the capitol at Washington.
A ferrner recently offered the editor OF
the Enid Wave hunting privileges on his
farm on subscription. The editor threw
him out a window into the alley and sicksd
the dogs on him.
There is one way jenkins might commu-
nicate with the president. He might tie
his letter 10 rock, climb Washington $
monument and drop the ep.stle down the
White House chimney.
The Newkirk Republican has just issued
a wheat edition. the best paper the Newkirk
Republican ever issued. II Will be worth
thousands of dollars 20 Kay county If Ii
is properly distributed.
Three fully equipped and armed soldiers
passed through FL Reno the other day
from special duty at Council Grove bound
for Fort Reno. and each was riding a
bicycle The horse Is not in IL any more.
Callahan is hurt because he was not in
vited 10 address the old soldiers at King
fisher. Poor Callahan. The old soldiers
merely overlooked him. Callahan is not
big enough for anybody to wish to offend
him.
E! Reno Star: The Canadian County
Mill and Elevator company has made ar
rangements to shortly begin shipping its
grain and mill products 10 Port Arthur
for export. This move is made from the
fact that freight rates Will be slightly
lower to that port and this advantage Will
enable the company TO pay more IN the fu-
ture other conditions considered, for the
grain they purchase for export. The
Wichita Eagle paragTapher viii kindly take
note of this fact and thus become inform
ed wherein FL Reno is indirectly afford
ing of the h. G., p. G.. railway.
Alva Review: Messrs. Harry Boyce, W.
]. Parsons and ". c. Clymer completed
their labors as board of school ap-
pra,sers last week and arrived in Ava 10
make their report on Thursday. Alessrs.
Clymer and Boyce entertained US admira-
bly, with a description OF the southwest
portion OF this county, telling us OF hav
ing seen one of the wonders OF the age.
l. E., that near Red Connor's claim is a
mammoth cave known as the bat cave
being some hundred feet in length, - feet
in width and about feet in height, and
that they one evening watched the exit OF
the bats from their underground home
and estimated that fully five millions came
out. They say that there was a continued
outpouring Of bats for fully an hour. and
that their estimate of the number Is below
instead of above the truth. This is no
fairy story, but an actual truth and is a
scene worth going hundreds OF miles 10
behold