The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-11
Outlines of Oklahoma.

II Is said that Medfort recently raised
81 ,Ooo to make the fight for the county
seat.
I. is winter now, but a man rode from
Chandler to Guthrie on his bicycle the
other day.
Frank L. Martin has married Miss
Blanche Busby Of Perry. They viii live
in Matimo, Mexico.
The plan OF having a summer semester
for preparatory studies at the Norman uni
versity IS a good one.
According to Bank Examiner Pugh the
farmers Of Oklahoma, more than the mer-
chants, borrow money to carry on bust
ness.
Beginning with December n. the Choc-
taw viii run a chair car from e Reno 10
Memphis, Tennessee, via Nichols. Mis-
souri,.
Dennis Flynn thinks that the Indian Ter.
ritory will be made a territory al this
session of congress and that a governor
Will be appointed.
A man in Garfield county. when his wife
gets mad, also gets furious himself. He
says IL always takes a big storm TO quiet
a high wind in Oklahoma.
The general pubnc's opinion that the
bankers of Oklahoma are about the hap
piest mortals on earth. has been borne
out by that meeting in FL Reno.
1t is going TO pain some Of the Indian
Territory papers 20 give President McKin-
ley just credit for his friendship for the
white people of Indian Territory.
The Enid Wave is of the opinion that
IN Oklahoma this year Santa Claus Will
visit many homes where poverty last year
contracted the chimney so he couldn't get
down.
A man at Perry howls because at d.
lie entertainments there, a lot of fellows
grab chairs and pull them up In front and
make themselves the best seats in the
house.
While they were discussing banking sub
jects the association at FL Reno should
have figured out some plan whereby run
can be stopped when everybody wants his
Nancy.
That was a good point Joe McNeal made
at FL Reno when he said that IL banker
showed signs Of Christianity, a whole 10,
Of people thought he must surely be a
hypocrite.
Some one stole Reverend PuIlman's bug
gy at Lexington. 1t was a wide-tracked
vehicle. When recovered at Oklahoma City
the other day 1t had changed hands sew
sral times and had been cut down to a mar
row gauge.
Two tramps stole some watches from
Sanderss store at Oklahoma City They
were seen to get on the blind baggage or
a north-bound train. The officers tele-
grsphed to Edmond. When the train ar
rived there It was found the conductor
had put them off between stations.
The efforts Of the Agricultural College
and Experiment Station 10 awaken inter-
est IN farmers institutes are showing re-
suits. several institutes having been ar
ranged for as follows: FL Reno. December
IA and 10; Oklahoma City, December Is
and Is: Perkins, December 22 and e; Chan
dler. December % and 30; at Kingfsher,
Enid and Down. in January, dates not yet
fixed.
David Progress: While the great big
wcrld is growing worse and worse, 1t
would be well 10 state that our deal In
dian Territory. morally speaking, comes
in for its snare of the pie. An old Indian
chieftain long, long ago gave vent to his
feelings that ''the president may sit in his
town and drink his wine. while the red
skin hustled for a small decoction OF fire
water" But times have changed. Sto.c
braves no longer stand in the entrance Of
the tepee, wrapped in a blanket, casting
longing glances to the westward, restless
for the coming mail carrier with bottle.
Ex perience has taught them 1T Is hard 10
wait, and now they have their own little
wine soiree, their affairs de gaiete de
occur: then. just like their pale face
brother. wrap the drapery OF an amorous
couch about them and lie down to pleas
ant dreams. o, tempores, o. mores, o.
hell Whittier is our poor Indian drifting?
We would say where the woodbine twineth
moi