The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-22
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The first homegrown lettuce is IN the
market at Perry.
The Santa Fe is putting in 1900 feet OF
siding at Oklahoma City.
All the wheat stealers Of Oklahoma City
got one year in the penitentary.
The Norman Adventists think the airship
portends the second coming of Christ.
Photographs Of the Chandler cyclone are
selling like hot cakes all over Oklahoma.
The street commissioner Of Shawnee haa
run the town into debt 500 n the last three
weeks.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal is call
ing for a reform school for girls in the
territory.
H. D. Mcknight, who got the place
in the Greer county land office has return
ed from Washington.
The G. A. r. encampment al Hennessey
will be the most largely attended in the
history of the Territory.
Oklahoma hated TO see the Mississippi
flood but it makes every pound OF cotton
in Oklahoma higher priced.
The town of Clifton has for three years
sustained a big library which has done
An Oklahoma man says he can not be-
leve all the a.rship stories he reads so he
only believes every other one.
On the 18th the Oklahoma City Baseball
club will wipe up the virgin, verdant soil
with the South McAiester nine.
The Shawnee Quill has a new motto for
Oklahoma: "CCC," Corn. Cotton and Cat
tie
Mr.. Deal of White Eagle had his leg so
badly crushed in being thrown from his
horse last week that it had TO be ampu-
tated.
Billy Walker is gliding from town to
town trying 10 perfect that pull which
reaches from the Usage nation TO the White
House.
The Oklahoma City papers are right
when the say that the first city in Okla
homa which gets big compress will leap
ahead OF all other towns.
The boy who was dragged through the
streets of Shawnee by the street commits
sorer has sued the town for s. 900 damages
and he Will probably make it stick.
A better site for Chandler two miles east
was offered f-ee 10 the people on which to
rebuild but the town refused Il. and is
restoring the town on the same old rough
location.
W. ]. Callahan Of Shawnee has proposed
to the government 10 build brick build
ing and put in four hundred lock boxes
and donate it to the government as a post
office for four years and the government
has accepted his proposition
Okarche Times: E. C. Coon brought
positive that the article fourishes in Okla
homa. The root OF this plant measures
about thirty inches 10 the point where II
was broken of and was still large root.
Mr.. Coon estimates the the probable length
OF the entire root. judging the taper 10
the same. to have been al least
seventeen feet. We had publ!cslly int
mated that he was stretching this root
story, but we have the top part OF the
plant, and II any one doubts his truth and
veracity he will show them where they can
dig u2 the other fourteen and one-han
feet
Shawnee Quill: The Wichita Eagle says
the Narons, famous Pratt county family.
have moved 20 Oklahoma. They live al
Clifton and are ore Of the many fine faml-
hes in that ne.ghbornood. Captain Esroa
is a veteran Of the Mexican war. in which !
he saw much active service. He was IN
several OF the famous battles from which |
he brought away several bits or Mexican |
lead. He was captain IN the war OF The |
rebellion and was General Rossnc-ans' |
chief of scouts. He was badly wounded |
several times but now though over 30 years !
DID. Is hale and hearty. Three sons ard /
enc son-in-lsw are located near him and /
all are the kind OF men who make coed |
citizens as vel as good soldiers.