The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
Outlines of Oklahoma

Out at Watonga the cotton gin goes
right on running through the night
/ The people of the town OF Watoaga are
talking of tapping the Canadian river
| The First National Bank OF Oklahoma
City has over $4,000 in individual de-
posits.
The Oklahoma City Tmes-Journal Is
making fight 10 get people to buy home
| made -four.
! Guthrie is the cutest town in the terri
tory on politics. II IS going to have that
| blind asylum
| Senator Temple Houston has lecture
| on astronomy and the Woodward Bulletin
| is publishing il.
| The railroad has taken out lis telegraph
| instrument at Cross and a famous town
| fight is now only history.
The End Wave has come out strongly,
| editor;ally. IN favor Of Santa Claus. The
Wave believes he exists.
Ed Harven of Taloga has been arrested,
charged with being one OF the party OF
daylight train robbers.
The Perry Patriot arises to remark that
the travelling dog show business IN Okla
homa is being overdone.
Over in the Creek country for the first
time cotton has been raised. and the In
di1ns may be seen picking II.
Some Of those Oklahoma fairs should
seek out the first white child born after
the opening, April 2. and exhibit him.
On October Is the first county fair ever
held in Kay county Will begin at New
kirk. 1t is going 10 be a whopper.
Probate Judge Nef OF Kay county Is the
champion marryer Of the territory. Never
a day passes that he does not ''tie the
knot"
Jerre johnson. in his Kildare Journal.
publishes a picture Of a group of Usage
Indians with naked arms. but with Their
legs decorously covered.
Tom Ferguson of Watonga this week
took possession OF the postoffice and We
tor Payne is thinking OF having all his
mail directed TO K3ngcisher.
Some of the county clerks are refusing
TO follow Attorney General Cunningham's
instructions, which were to put the ter
ritcrial raise on the tax levy.
Bryan is in favor OF free homes. How
ever, he is IN favor of an Oklahoma man
that it was against his rule TO speak for
or against any measure pending in con-
gress.
When Pat Nagle imagines A. c. Scott
on a black charger IN full pursuit OF des-
perate outlaws, he smiles to himself and
goes to sleep and dreams Of rose-colored
fantasies.
A c. Scott says that Governor Barnes
told him that Endorsements would not be
necessary Scott didn't get them. Hopkins
did and Hopkins was appointed because
his Endorsements were so fine.
Here is a very important matter from
the Chandler News: a farmer who was
in town Monday said tina; one reason why
our Oklahoma cotton brings no higher
prices is that it has been deliberately grad
ed down and its quality nisrepresented by |
the representatives of other cotton-grow- |
ing states who feared Oklahoma as a rival. |
He said that Texas cotton growers sent +!
men up here the first year that we raised |
any cotton. and they took care that the |
Oklahoma product should not be allowed |
to rank above the Texas staple, though 1t |
was unQuestionably of a better quality. |
He suggests that the cotton growers |
should form an organization 10 protect |
their mutual interests and secure, among |
other things, a fair grading of their cot