The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-16
Outlines of Oklahoma

Nothing succeeds Ike success. but in Pat
NagEe's case nothing succeeds Ike 10 sue
cessor.
The BARRIERS of Guthrie have entered In
to combine and will raise the price OF
shaves.
In few days the St Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat viii have an article euiogistic OF
Oklahoma
Or. C. Lemon Of Marrow, I. T.. ha. pur-
chased the FL Rsno Republican OF Foley
and Grant.
The cotton buyers a, Ell Reno have gone
to fighting and forced The price OF cotton
up a few cents per hundred pounds.
The employees of the Choctav road were
clipped s. apiece the other day q; Okla
homa City for obstructing a street cross
ing.
Down in Oklahoma they tell it on a
Kansas farmer that he had 10 haul waller
fou- miles every time he wanted to
sweat.
The government hasn't issued map Of
Oklahoma since long before the Strip
counties were named. \ new map IS need
"a badly.
The accounts from Washington Indicate
viii be run through the senate corn-sheler
again this winter
Harry Thompson has the marshaIship
sure. He has no cinch. however. DeFord,
Orput, Payne and Crimes had einches
They didn't hold.
The boys say there is only one thing
higher up on the thermometer than Per
~ banquet, and that is German-Ir;sh
wedding in the suburbs OF Newkirk.
The Oklahoma Methodist Episcopal con-
ference met at FL Reno last Thursday.
Yellow-iegged chickens are ar a premium
and the famine in India is still on.
The Enid Wave says it has heard some
Republican farmers say they would rather
pay for their farms than have Callahan
get them free homes. They are very fool
ish farmers.
The cotton gins in Oklahoma have been
singularly free from fire this year. The
only one troubled was Ceyle * Jones' Of
Perry, which started 10 burn up the other
day. but was persuaded not 10.
The Ringing Brothers. who are mighty
good fellows. are advertising Oklahoma
wherever they go. They should keep It
up. Oklahoma patronIzed them literally
Callahan's friends should persuade him
not 10 90 figuring about on a renomina-
ton. The Populists and Democrats of the
territory are loading a gun with an earth
quake for him. He can not be renomi-
mated.
Ncrtherners who visit Oklahoma cotton
gins on windy days are feared as van
dals. Throwing open a door of a gin on
a windy day IS liable 10 send the whole
contents of the gin four or five miles
across the prairie.
o. II. Violet, an attorney of Oklahoma
City, left that place some time since. leav
ing many creditors. He went 10 New Or
leans and now some of those creditors are
mean enough to look through the yellow
fever lists for his name.
Grant County Vidette; VIII some kindly
disposed and truthful Populist, if there
are any such, please arise and tell Us why
the box cars on the sidings are crowded
with tramps, while the farmers are hunt
ing high and low and offering good wages
for help, wh,ch it is almost impossible 10
obtain. If the tramp nuisance is the re-
suit of scarcity of work. as the PopuliSts
have stoutly maintained, why are there
so many tramps and so few laborers at the
present time?
1Alva Review: The four or five hundred
Cheyenne and ArapahOe Indians who have
been camped here for a week past left
Monday for their reservation. During their
visit here they conducted themselves in
a peaceable and orderly manner. Among
their number were several we'll educated
Indians but most of them could speak
but little. if any, English. The best of
feeling prevailed and they made many
friends here by their courteous deport
ment. We wish them a safe return to
their homes, and trust they VIII visit our