The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-21
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Colored Protective League Of Okla
honna hold big meeting in Perry Au-
gust Is
The Greer county people are mad because
Jim Kelly's sons new paper gets the land
Office notices.
G. A Gregory. a business man of Per-
kins, has disappeared. II is thought he
has skipped out
Cushing will be added to the Guthrie-Per-
k:ns telephone line making that line eighty
seven miles in length.
A pile driver on the Cimarron bridge at
Perkins fell on R. N. Cochran. the driver.
last week and injured him.
A sugar famine has struck FL Reno and
several other Oklahoma cities. The re-
finer.es are running behind.
There are threetmes as many clerks en-
pioyed in the business houses of Enid now
as there were two months ago.
The Ell Reno postoffice has kicked up the
biggest row yet. VIII blood flow when
the Guthrie Office is given out?
J. A. Carriker. a restaurant man at Per-
kins, after giving out lot of worthless
checks. has skipped the country.
Gamer of Ell Reno Is making a bitter
fight on Barnes. by publishing political let
tiers he has received from Inn in the past
Mrs H L. Gilmore OF Enid. who recently
went TO San Antonio for her health. i
dead. Three months ago she was a bride.
Ticks on cattle first appear between the
hind legs. II washed off with coal OF a.:
once, the cattle will not be troubled again.
The Perry Democrat says that the men
instead of finding new sayings OF Christ
should try to live up to the old sayings
more.
Tom Gamer Of FL Reno seems TO be as
badly broken up as Colonel Bradley of
Kingfsher. Where is the harmony dis
tributor?
Pat Maggie is earning that salary just the
same He took in ten whisky peddlers in
the Usage country the other day and nine
of them plead guilty.
Probably the hardest fight Barnes will
have will be the present one of changing
the judiciary. The attorney general Is
against it and Barnes will have 10 convince
him otherwise.
Letters published by the Ell Reno Repub-
lican indicate that Barnes in his fight for
governor believed the biggest leaders in the
-
Grimes and Asp.
Mrs. Gates, living near Cheyenne. was
helping her husband stretch a barb-wire
fence. The wire broke and wound around
her legs and they were so torn they will
have to be amputated.
The Alaska gold stories are exaggerated
and people will be fooled Then Oklahoma
will have to wait several years for people
to forget it so that an opportune time can
be found to spring Wichita mountains
riches.
Editor Hensley Of the El Reno Democrat
has been fighting now for four years and
the editor of the Perry Democrat demands
to know what he is fighting about, and If
Hensley doesn't tell he will quit reading
his paper.
Miss Blanch Lessenger. farmers daugn-
ter in Garfield county. tells this: A rustic
country lad was shining up to a pretty
little girl of that neighborhood and at the
party they sat facing each other al the ice
cream table. The youth. smitten with the
charms of the beautiful maiden, only ven-
tured a sly look, and now and then touched
the girls foot under the table. The bunch
of sweetness bore with these advances
little while, but finally she became petu-
liant and cried out: Look here, IL you
love me why don't you say SO; but don't
dirty my stockings
Cushing Herald: A certain old soldier
of the triangle country manages 10 donate
most of his pension money TO charitable
institutions. because he claims to make a
good honest living by catching the
qu!ck-moving. Spanish flies resembling, po-
tato bugs with a mosquito-bar dp-net,
gives them minute long boiling not shower
bath and then dries them He says that
the dried bugs are equal TO Spanish flies
in drawing blisters. and answer all other
purposes where cantharides is used. He
claims that he can sell his blister drawers
for half what Spanish flies cost for thu
reason that he needn't TO pay any import
I,It;aS 0nodr