The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-05
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Three-year-old Oklahoma wine is now
on the market.
The banks at Enid have $4,000 deposit
ed in them by individuals.
Regular train service between Hutchin-
son and Blackwell begins this morning.
For the last three weeks there has been
cotton-gin fire once day somewhere
in Oklahoma
The State National bank at Oklahoma
City has in individual deposits the vast
sum of ss17.Sl2-s7.
a farmer in Grant county this year
grew some tobacco plants which went
five feet in the air.
Lots of people in northern Oklahoma
have planted vegetables and are now
praying against frost and sharpening
their hoes.
The new town between Blackwell and
Medford Will be named Bradford, in hon
or of the general manager OF the Hutch
inson Southern.
In Enid when a man SAYS something
ION the square he may be telling the
truth and then again he may be simply
standing on the public square.
Last week at Edmond an old man with
a full beard was found wandering around.
He could not tell who he was or where
he came from. He was sent 10 the asy-
lum.
Judge Burford spent only seventy-ive
cents in his campaign TO get 70 be chief
| justice. They sent him telegram of his
appointment collect, and ii cost seventy
five cents.
Owing to a peculiar condition OF the
atmosphere the other morning, the people
of Medford were able to see the sand
! hills, lying twenty miles west Of that
place, plainly.
! Major Rosenbaum has a plan which he
will instruct General Miles TO carry out.
/ This country is to seize Cuba first and
/ then Spain and then trade Spain TO Eng
/ land for Canada.
! Another Oklahoma man, this time near
| Enid, has picked up jug full OF old
| Spanish coin. What was the sense Of do
| ing that now when April the first is only
about twenty days away?
! The Enid Democrat believes that Den
mis- Flynn ought to be lynChed for his
| treachery to free homes. Flynn Is work
/ ing hard for free homes. What is the
/ fusion game, anyway? Do the fusionists
really believe they are in danger of de-
| feat at the polls next fall?
! Mr.. Commodore Jones, a farmer near
/ Oklahoma City. two weeks ago had fine
/ head of hair. It began to drop off with
! out apparent cause and now his head is
as slick as a school-room globe, not q
/ bristle remaining. The doctors can not
explain it TO Mr. Jones and the wig-sellers
are bounding him.
| There is a craze on among the Oklaho-
ma papers just now to say unpleasant
| things of new journalistic ventures. The
/ Saltwater State says the new paper al
! Blackwell is eXecrable mechanically and
| the Oklahoma City Times-JOurnal roasts
! the man who has just started the Nor
man Journal, saying that he has little
| business sense and that the paper is not
needed.
! Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Mr. w
| II. Patterson, representing the Hartford
! Life Insurance company, is in the city
! He is here with a view to putting in
branch office in this city for work in Ok
! Iahoma and Indian territories. In the
| instructions Mr.. Patterson has received
/ from the company's medical director a
! Hartford, Conn, he is cautioned not L
| take any risks farther west than the 9Stf
meridian and not closer than twenty-five
miles of an Indian reservation. Mr.. Pat
| terson is at a loss to know the meaning
! or reason for these instructions, but
! thinks perhaps that the doctor is afrsiJ
to go farther west or nearer an IndiaT
| reservation for fear of an outbreak. This
is very amusing TO people who know this
part of the west and are acquainted witt
| the fact that the Indians are too fat and
| lazy TO be scared into fight To follow
/ this rule laid down by the medical direc
/ tor would almost shut the company GU
OF the territory, at least out of the bes
cities of the territory. Oklahoma City
! Perry. FL Reno and most of the town,
on the Rock Island are barred on ac
| count of nearneSs to Indian reservations