The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-25
Outlines of Oklahoma

Judge George Green. 1t is said, has q
cinch on the chief justiceship.
The brandy distillery AT Guthrie expects
to turn out l75 gallons this week
1t Is alleged that a railroad man is mixed
up in the recent robbery al Edmond.
John Richardson. of Roger Mills county.
has raised Johnson grass that is eight feet
long.
NJ Golden OF Oklahoma City, IS having
his FLY by Ashland Wilkes trained for the
track.
A car load OF Oklahoma. peaches left
Guthrie for Minneapolis. Minnesota, Sat-
urday.
There is a church scandal al Guthrie Tie
local papers will not mention names. IL is
said a divorce will follow.
A farmer passed by a newspaper office at
Earlboro the other day carrying a melon
which weighed SIS pounds.
On the 9Th OF September the colored far
mers of Oklahoma county VIII form IN
ion Just what for is not stated.
4 Mr. Calvert of Roger Mills county, has
cotton which VIII run a bale 10 the acre
Roger Mills is an extreme western county.
On wheat alone Oklahoma had a fine OPP
portun;ty 10 advertise. Corn Increased the
opportunity. The cotton crop makes talk
ing imperative
H H. Hagan of Guthrie has finished
threshing sixty-tive acres OF wheat, which
yielded 1851 bushels. Last year the same
acres yielded 1850 bushels.
Joe Harmon Of Perry recently succeeded
in getting a man 10 accept a fifty dollar
Confederate bill for a span OF horses. He
was arrested for the trek.
One OF the finest tenor singers in the
world lives IN Guthrie. He has Travelled
all over this country with great stars AT
present he is down on his luck.
During the last week Perry has lad
great row about some free tickets 10 the
opera house. but the issue has been so tan
gled that no outsider could understand Ii.
1t is said that Governor Barnes is for
warding documents 10 Washington 10 offset
the allegations made by DeFord. The
chances are that Governor Barnes is ignor-
ing them.
]. B. Felts, the man who was going 10
fly from the top OF Pixies Peak, and
sneaked out of the job when all the world
was watching him. used 10 be regular
soldier at Fl. Reno.
If i is true that Mort BlN-er mas Deell
nobbed by the people OF Beaumont, Texas.
il VIII be also true that Mort VIII stay with
them They may order him out OF town
all they please. Bixler cannot be bluffed.
Mort Bixler's experience in being licked
at Beaumont, Texas. will not help the Port
Arthur boom in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City Tmes-Journal: We can
not understand why papers VIII waste the
space to print interviews on early state
hood. Everybody with few grains of COM
mon sense knows that under present con-
ditions Oklahoma win not be given state
hood in any form, and no one familiar with
expects statehood short OF five
or SIX years The Times-Journal IS anx-
.ous for statehood, but is satisfied that We
are 10 be enthralled for a good many years
to come.
Gushing Herald: Organ grinders and
are seldom seen in this country,
and when one suddenly made his appear
ance at the Euchie village a few days ago
he was viewed with open-eyed as;on.sh-
ment by this superstitous little tribe. They
stood aloof and listened with blank amaze
nent at the doleful sound coming from
,he recesses Of that old cracked organ; but
when the monkey DOTTED his little red cap
and started toward them, they could stand
the pressure no longer. but rushed shrek
ng into the woods and skulked around the
village until the man and monkey had |
eft for parts unknown.