The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-10
Outlines of Oklahoma

Bob Lowery of Saltwater, once power
full figure in Oklahoma politics. is now
| raising dogs for the Klondike market.
Burke Of the Oklahoma City Globe ha:
planted his guns next to Governor Barnes
| and IS letting the governors enemies
have it.
| Tecumseh is TO have a big cotton com
press which VIII be built in time for fall
| use. Ell Reno IS no longer the only turtle
in the tank.
| To show how things are booming in Okla
| homa it may be said that an old school
building at Saltwater is being turned into
| cotton gin
| There is too much poker in Oklahoma
| politics, too. John Golobie ought TO be ap-
| pointed as a committee of one for the sup
preston Of poker.
| The city of Chandler is looking UP and Is
prosperous. There was only one cyclone
in the western part Of the county this year
| and Chandler had II.
The Oklahon1an of Oklahoma City should
| take notice that booming Oklahoma's big
wheat yield has not appreciably lowered
the worlds price of ii.
1t is now reported that Dick Piunkett
has gone TO klondike- This is mistake.
Dick is on a farm east of Perry oxtra-cog-
ging sheaves of wheat.
Postmaster Biedler Of Oklahoma City
has returned to the territory. He is the
only man in the country who is bigger than
the United States senate.
The Pawnee Dispatch in rejecting that
he who laughs last laughs best wonders
to whose lot i will fall in the Barnes-F lynn
70 do sy,a rrfr "a
A man escaped from the city jail at Enid
the other day while the turnkey and the
city marshal were having a discussion as
to whether a tadpole finally became but
ter-iy or frog.
The famous breach Of promise suit al
Perry has been compromised and the fell
lows who were sitting around 10 gorge
themselves on the testimony are threaten
ing 10 leave the town.
A woman at End attended Uncle Toms
Cabin show the other night and nearly faint
&c when Uncle Tom died. This was fool
ssh Uncle Tom has been doing that every
night for forty years and is as used to It
as Bill Dalton.
Dennis Flynn is now back in Oklahoma.
An association should be formed at once
made up of prominent politicians who VIII
pledge themselves 10 keep away from
Washington. Barnes should be made pres
ident and Flynn the executive committee.
E. H. Wilcox died recently at Kokomo,
Indiana, and was buried at Elgin. Illinois
He was a son of Colonel A. S. Wilcox o;
Cloud Chief, Oklahoma, and a brother Of
Mrs C.. z. Holbrook, late OF kingman,
Kansas, now of Ell Reno. Mr.. Wilcox was
the first man who ever travelled as bicycle
salesman.
mers are now done threshing their wheat
and oats. and a few of them have given us
the amount of their crops. Mr.. John But
toms wheat made 30 bushels per acre. w.
4. Vowelrs oats 50 bushels per acre, wheat
q bushels. NJ. Parker's wheat % bushels
per acre. John Fosters wheat 30 bushels
per acre Frank Essexs wheat % bushels.
and oats nearly 100 bushels per acre. Thresh
ers report an average of about 49, bushels
OF wheat per acre all over the country.
oats an average of rs bushels per acre. l.
E. Leach tnreshed out 1879 bushels from 81
acres of wheat L. c. Aliens wheat crop
of 20 acres made 1,S49 bushels and from %
acres of oats he got 1872 bushels of grain.
S. G.. Howery threshed out nearly 1900
bushels Of wheat from his field of 70 acres.
Millet is looking nice: some has been cut
and the yield is too great 20 be believed by
any one unless they had seen Oklahoma
before the harvest began.