The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-27
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Much of oklahoma's cotton is shipped to
| cotton factory az Denver.
Up to last Thursday evening not a single
| woman had registered in Oklahoma City.
Dennis Flynn, Barnes and Callahan all
called together on the president last Mon
day.
| Mrs. Mary Shortman Of Perry has been
nominated for a member OF the school
! board.
Tom Doyle, it is said. is able to put any
one out in the territory in a square. stand
up fight.
The Enid Wave has polled the city of
Enid and finds almost a unanimous senti-
ment in favor Of Greece.
A Choctaw Indian recently remarked
that he was sorry William Penn wasn't on
the Dawes commission.
It is quietly said on the side among the
Oklahoma editors who visited Mexico that
a bull-fght isn't in it with beef issue.
At Pond Creek girl lost keepsake
half dollar with Harry scratched on one
side. She offers one good half dollar for its
return.
The editor of the FL Reno Star states II
as an axiom that when a man asks wo-
man what her age IS she knows he does not
love her.
The most wonderful change in the world
is said TO take place in Texas hog after
he has ten or twelve bushels OF Oklahoma
corn in him.
An Oklahoman just returned from Wash
ingtop says that Callahan sits back in his
seat in the house as meek as lamb in a
thunder storm.
Bill Walker, having discovered that there
was nothing on the pie-counter for him.
has quit politics and gone into the news
paper business.
The Newkirk Democrat is having a hard
fight with the Dingley bill. Generally the
Democratic newspapers of Oklahoma do
not mention it
Thomas Goozanavitch, near Ponca City,
lad of 10 years, has become violently in
sane, as result of fright over a tornado
which occurred last August.
The 2-year-old child OF Richard Barth
swallowed carbolic acid the other night Its
father jumped into a buggy and drove into
Oklahoma City with the child, distance
OF four miles. The child will be saved.
The Enid Eagle charges that a Pond
Greek school teacher told her pupils that
Mckinley was now president but that the
people didn't want him as he bought his
way in. The Pond Greek papers say this
is not so.
Some times bad rates make good times
while back Oklahoma was shipping her
corn TO Texas under favorable rates The
railroads slid the rates up and corn had 70
be held. Then Texas sent her hogs TO Ok
!ahoma and corn is worth more than ever
Medford Patriot: The following dialogue
occurred between three small pupils of one
of Grant county's schools. They were on
the playground and the first little tot was
heard to remark: I've never seen a presi-
dent" The second said she had never seen
king or queen" when the third with an
air OF great superiority and with much
impressiveness said, I've seen Dennis
Flynn
Stenographer Jimmy Ewing is in a peck
of trouble. The following from the FL Reno
Democrat shows how near a duel Jimmy
came: Grandpa B. has got a rod in pickle
for Judge Tarsney's stenographer. In fact,
he wants the judge 10 bounce him, and all
because of an innocent remark the latter
dropped concerning Kentucky lawyers. The
young man said that all Kentucky lawyers
practiced law by ear and drank whisky by
note. This MORALLY offended the old man,
and no doubt II ammunition had not been
too high, there would have been an affair
of honor then and htere."
H. D. Mcknight writing to the Perry
Enterprise from Washington says the gov
ernorship of Oklahoma is much discussed
in the hotel Hobbies by Oklahomans. and no
i'll feeling seems to prevail among the ad-
herents of Flynn and Barnes. Flynn has
an extensive acquaintance with public men,
but so far as appointments have been made
it is a matter of record that the president
has recognized his friends and their active
supporters. The president seems to listen
attentively to all who see him and then DO
just as he pleases. 1t is conceded that he
will adhere strictly TO the home rule plana
in the St. Louis platform.