The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-26
Outlines of Oklahoma,

Stroud expects the sapulpa to be run
ming into that town from the east July L
Colonel Stiles probably objects to sub
hitting 10 the yolk of Rosenbaum' mill
| tary tyranny.
| Ponca City, which is principally settled
with people from Kansas, has eight sa-
looms. going on nine.
On the Oklahoma and Creek line wild
turkeys frequently alight and associate
with the tame gobblers-
| The militia should straighten up. Even
the marshalship fight was successfully
ended without resorting TO eggs.
There are 20 families living at the new
| town OF Stroud in tents, and that recent
| blizzard didn't do thing 10 them.
Jerre Johnson of kildare. who has been
there, says with modern methods intro
duced, Cuba will be an ideal place for res
| idence.
Santiago Gareion. a Mexican in FL
| Reno, is ia years OF age. He is the old
est man in Oklahoma. Sam Murphy is
only 112.
There is a certain class of people in
parts of Oklahoma, it is said, who feed
their dogs we'll and let their horses starye
to death.
Just as in the early days of Oklahoma,
there is no Sunday in the new towns along
| the Sapulpa- The carpenters keep right
| on building on Sunday.
Men stood on the top OF buildings In FL
| Reno the other night and caught wild
geese. The same thing is said 10 have
| taken place at Topeka.
Last week the undertakers at Enid
didn't sell a single coffin, and some of
them are talking Of moving 10 a more
sickly country for their health.
There is one man in Oklahoma who
would like to see Colonel Rosenbaum ac-
quilted. That is Ham Sawyer whom Stiles
speared in the coat-tails at an early day.
w. r. Butterield. who conducts a res
taurant at Ponca City, in an early day
lived in Cowley county, and used to go
down to where Ponca City now is and
kill buffalo.
The Republicans OF D county have en-
dorsed the national administration for its
conduct during the present crisis. They
are mighty good Republicans out there
in D county.
The editor of the Kildare Journal is
taking country rides, stopping and talk
ing to the farmers and then writing the
whole thing up for his paper in weekly
installments. The idea is a good one.
There is not likely to be any city cleo
ton in Ell Reno. II will be a good thing
if there is not. The more a town lets
politics alone in order TO have time to
boom things the better the town is, as a
rule.
G. w. Palmer writes his wife in Okla
homa City from Honduras. as follows:
Everything here seems wrong or out of
place. Gourds grow on trees. and some
thing resembling peanuts grow on trees.
and hundreds of kinds OF trees that look
to US to be poison, are good TO eat. Tall
mahogany trees, when We expected TO see
them short and knotty. Joe is bewilder-
ed and says he can hardly believe what
he sees. This morning we saw a man
go along with a lizard two feet long on
his shoulder-a hideous looking thing. We
were told they are considered a great
delicacy for the table. Chickens are
worth a dollar a piece, their money. One
dollar of our money is the same as S2.44
of theirs. There is no fixed rate; it
changes like the tide
This took place at Highland, Garfield
county, Oklahoma, recently: II is from
the correspondent of the Enid Wave:
About six inches of water and as much
or more hail fell in less than twenty min
utes in the vicinity north of Highland on
last Thursday night II was accompanied
by considerable wind in places. The house
of Joel Roger was overturned and that
of J. L. Roger, now used al a school
house, was turned around. The hail was
not large. but quite a number of win
dow panes were broken, and scores of
rabbits and birds killed. Mr.. Kuntz, liv-
ing near Red Rock creek. had his horses
stabbed in low place He awoke next
morning to find yearling mule drowned.
He waded in water waist deep and saved
his horses. Mr.. Dan Landes had 100 bush
els of kaffir corn threshed and piled on
the ground. The water washed IL all away
except about twenty-five bushels. The
writer saw fully a wagon load Of hail in
drifts on Saturday at noon. We are not
praying for any more rains like that"