The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-17
Outlines of Oklahoma.

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The experimnt station at Saltwater has
never had success with strawberries.
The Oklahoma militia at Enid is drill
| Ing. They have no cannon for practice
and consequently use road scrapers.
Colonel Blackwell says the negro immi-
grants are stin in Blackwell and will stay
| there.
Judge Burweu viii be the youngest man
on the bench in Oklahoma He is not vet
forty.
Burwen moved TO Oklahoma from salina
county, Kansas, where he was q notary
public.
Those Russians in fur-trimmed hats who
! have located in Custer county viii not
wear that fur long.
| Colonel Pearson. commanding officer at
Sill and Reno. will marry Miss Maude
Eskridge. daughter Of Major Eskridge, in
May.
! Frank Ellen, a forger in the Saltwater
jail, took of his shoes the other day and
walked by the jailer in Stillwell, and fed
| for Cuba
| The biggest liar in Oklahoma is the
grounding. He saw his shadow and
went back in his hole and Oklahoma has
| had fine weather ever since.
AS soon as the news Of his appointment
arrived from Washington. the Oklahoma
City band hustled around to his house
and serenaded Judge Burwell.
The Oklahoman at Oklahoma City has
a good idea Instead Of putting the no.
| boes TO work breaking stone. IL suggests
| that the city make them plant trees.
1t is reported that Burton will take
Keaton's place. II was foolish in Keaton
n crrN 90 -lG NGzN
ing TO all rules of politics he did not de-
serve it.
Coyote Den. a neighborhood in Okla
homa county, has organized Sunday
school. The first thing they should do
should be to change the name of the
neighborhood.
Rosenbaum's principal trouble is going
to come from the fact that he wrote a
letter TO Mr.. Douglas regretting the egg
throwing business, but did not write a
letter of regret to Colonel Stiles, who
stopped most of the eggs.
Reverend ]. NJ Monroe of FL Reno. the
other day, before his sermon, thanked
the local newspapers for their kindness
in always publishing church notices. 1t
is the first time on record in Oklahoma
that such thing was done.
graphophone concert by a girl at
Okarche was a failure. The local editor
says: We presume that her efforts were
most excellent, but the taste for some
thing little more wild and woolly has not
been eradicated from the average Okarche
citizen to appreciate fine efforts"
Ponca City Courier: Notice was served
this morning on. all grocerymen of this
city not to sell lemon or other extracts
which contain alcohol, to any Indian or
to any ward of the government who is
now upon the rolls as such. Lemon ex-
tract has been a favorite beverage with
the Ponca Indians and they can get a
good drunk out of 50-cent bottle often
when they have money and are unable 10
get whisky they will buy nearly all the
extract supply in town. The grocerynen
will all obey the new order. Saloon men
were also served with the notice, warn
ing them against the sale of liquor to In
dams"
Occasionally one sees a notice like this
in the Oklahoma papers. 1t is really pa
thetic: Mrs. Emily Rhinemood, whose
husband left her three weeks ago. is
growing very uneasy as to his wherea-
bouts. When he left home he took good |
team and had considerable money on his |
person. His wife fears that he has been |
foully dealt with, since no word has been |
received by her from him. Just before |
going away he wrote a note, saying that |
he was going TO Wellston to work She |
has telegraphed TO several places but |
ian receive no trace of him. Mrs Rhine
mood reports TO us that she will gladly |
pay suitable reward TO any one furnish
ng her information as to her husband"