The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-18
Outlines Of Oklahoma

L VuQittOS VI V0t0IvOtJ0s
August Coots. prominent veteran Of
Arapahoe, died last week
\ At FL Reno the Star protects the photo
siaphers by calling the amateurs kodaxo-
pherA
IL. Shrack. a prominent citizen OF Paw
nee county. Is dead OF consumption. aged
"A years.
brat,ng over Marsh Lemberts appointment
than the Newkirk Republican
In the '.wanted-Giri for general house
| work" advertisements in Oklahoma. white
or black il almost always stipulated
At tioomer social IN Oklahoma A. c.
Scott we're a pair OF yellow boomers while
Judge rsiley appeared with red ones--;hat
Is roses.
Petitioners ask Renfrow to make July 5
legal holiday in the territory this year
instead OF July 1. The Fourth this year
comes or Sunday.
This year about nine hundred and forty
I'VE papers in Oklahoma are destined TO
remark tina. the peach tree limos are
weighted down TO the ground
Blaylock. the King OF Greer county Popu-
ism, is angry over the action Of the last
legislature in Oklahoma. Blayiock abso-
lu;ely controls Popul;sm In Greer county.
Lewis Hoynbeck believes that there is an
infuer;ia: agency Of soIle kind That IS
holding back the allotment of the Wichita
country and consequently lis settlement.
Out west when the people drive 10 the
head" they are not talking of a nail There
has been high water. the old ford is dan
gerous and they drive TO the head OF the
draw"
A hand organ man playing white
Wings" on the streets of Ell Reno the other
day brought back 10 the weedy memory OF
the editor of the Star that twelve years ago
he was in love.
Imprisonment does Tot mean an entire
loss OF Importance in Oklahoma. At Paw
nee the local papers declare thar the prison.
ers in the jail speak in the highest terms
OF she new gaoler.
Over III the region Of Pawnee Callahan
has been attacked in poetry. The poet tells
child who asks what depth Callahan has.
that you could put his whole depth in q
saucer and the saucer wouldn't overflow.
W. NJ Obanion of Pawnee had large
fresh potatoes May 10. He used TO live il
Nebraska, and he says the earliest he ever
got fresh potatoes from his garden there
was June13-just one month later than IN
Oklahoma.
Near Cloud Chief a cow belonging TO Mr..
Bait was standing in rainstorm with her
tail over a barb-wire fence. a mile away
the lightning struck the wire and that cow
never smiled again. The wire was not dis
turbed-only melted where struck.
The Shawnee Blade is the latest daily.
Shaw nee car supper, a daily IL the right
men try it and they probably have hold Of
the Flade. Other attempts to maintain 3
caily there have failed because men who
did not understand the business tried it.
Many people have premonition that Den
mis- Flynn politically Is done forever. To
offset this, 1t must be said that the way
his friends have stuck to him in defeat il
something marvelously and wholly unpre-
cedented in politics. Not soul has desert
ed him up TO date.
John Stone and Tom jackson Of Cloud
Chief were recently sitting on the front
porch watching storm approach and tell
ing about how brave they had been in res
cLing PEOPLE on the plains In great storms.
They were Dragging a good deal when a
blast of sudden thunder shivered the earth
beneath them and Tom beat John to the
cyclone celier by just the eighth part Of q
second.
A dispatch from Tecumseh to the Okla |
homan says: Two accidents have occurred
a. Tecumseh within the past week caused
by the senseless fear of cyclones. Mrs. d.
q. Knapp had the misfortune TO sprain her
ankle in stepping out of the cyclone cave
the other evening. The injured member
Is getting better, and will be well in few
days A few nights ago quite fierce look
ing storm was approaching and Grand
mother Rowland who lives on South Broad |
way and two lady companions hied them |
selves to the cyclone cave to await develop |
nients. After the storm had subsidized into I
a gentle rain Mrs. Rowland and the two
ladies' concluded TO return to the house. |
and reaching the top Of the steps. the two |
Iatnes were told to go on in the house and |
grandmother would close the cellar door. |
The ladies ran into the house. and after |
" aiting a sufficient length of time for the |
appearance of the grandmother. stepped 10 |
the door and heard the old lady calling TO |
them to help her. IN closing the cellar door |
she had fallen, breaking her leg below the |
knee. yet she was crawling through the |
rain and mud TO the house.