The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-02
Outlines of Oklahoma

Pretty nearly all the boys have forgotten
that remark about sic transit Munh
gloria"
The lumber for a big Masonic hall at
Cloud Chief has just been purchased at
FL Keno.
The EarIboro Plain People runs aswhole
page OF religious matter and calls il
Gospel"
Ell Reno is roaring because It sold some
furniture al Shawnee, 10 the east OF Ok
lahoma City
An Oklahoma Republican living at Wa
tonga is already talking OF Governor
Barnes being a car.
William Cooley. FL Reno's Wichita gold
miner, is at present in the Wichita mount
aims mining wild grapes
The Perry Enterprise compliments Gala
han for dropping forever that story about
the man, the tree and the bull
The Jefferson Rustler says the way 1t
treats delinquent subscribers is TO have
none. II makes people pay in advance.
Dennis Flynn wants Oklahoma TO have
free homes and he wants Callahan TO get
them. II Callahan gets them, he Will come
right away.
Oklahoma people are great for expert
ments. At Oklahoma City, County Sheriff
Barrows is experimenting with New Mex
lean seed wheat.
Fatty Hopkins OF Oklahoma City makes
more connections with the police court
than anybody in that town since the days
Of Butterfly Kid.
Until February l you can shoot turkey,
Oh in
can not shoot on another mans farm with
out his permission.
Cotton may be very low in price. but
there is no Tom Irwin gadding about in
tho east asking old clothes for the bodies
of Oklahoma sufferers.
So far as Oklahoma Is concerned, the
jefferson Rustler says that alfalfa can out
do the most rabid Prohibitionist In alb
staining from moisture.
Gossip and few front gates of their
hinges" remarks an Oklahoma country
correspondent. Indicates number Of wed
dings in the near future
Hennessey entertains the editors on No
venber Is and Is. One OF the features OF
the occasion will be a bicycle race between
Isenberg Of Enid and Bill Bolton of Wood
ward.
The Earlboro Plain People is making a
fight on Tecumseh. because OF Tecumseh's
court house. This is the only thing that
resembles town fght now in progress
in Oklahoma.
Gear Freeman, OF the Usage county. has
at last deigned 10 take notice of some OF
the criticisms passed upon him. Free
man ought to get out OF the temple be-
s,1a he
of place.
A man who looked Ike Mark Hanna
walked into the Enid Wave office the
other day and demanded a few old pa
pers. Despite his facial caste. Isenberg
accommodated him. The day of political
intolerance in Oklahoma Is passed.
Oklahoma City Globe: The chairman of
the statehood convention should call a
meeting 10 consider the question. Now is
very available time for an expression OF
opinion by the people on this subject. Con-
gress will soon be in session and both
Arizona and New Mexico will push for
admission. Ii IS useless TO expect mil
lennium when Oklahoma will have terri
to-ial officer: favoring statehood.
Norman Transcript: A steady drizzle OF
rain lasting all day was the weather pro-
gram mere last Tuesday and OCCASIONAL
showers came Tuesday night and Wednes-
day, causing the farmers 10 smile and
enhancing the wheat prospects TO a con-
siderable extent. The late sown wheat VIII
now come up in good shape and a great
deal bigger acreage Will now be sown. So
far but little damage had been done and
now that the rains have come, the fields
Will speedily recover and attain a good
growth before cold weather. The low price
OF cotton and the good price OF wheat viii!
have a tendency 10 cause the farmers 10
SOW large acreage OF wheat not only in
Oklahoma, but in the Indian Territory and
aleo