The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-16
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Kay county fair VIII be held from
| October II to October IA
! The Sapuspa railroad is coming west a
| the rate Of mile and a half a day.
| In Pottawatomie county in the tim
| Der. grass IS eight feet high and Is til
| growing.
! Oklahoma homegrown grapes are or
the market. Oklahoma ought 10 sell Kan
sas its wine.
The Guthrie Register. which has beer
| the Official Populist paper OF Oklahoma
has hauled down the name OF heaton.
For the first time in August in the
history of Oklahoma the hired mar
loafed on a week day. Cause. rain
Oklahoma this year his raised enough
hay TO feed an elephant three billion
years.
Sidewalk Inspector Ross. of Guthrie.
who was charged with an assault on a
widow and skipped out, has been located
at Sherman. Texas
Frank BaTmettior OF Ralston was found
drowned in q stream near Pawnes last
week. His death is supposed 10 have
been accidental
Frank Stiles, a man at Guthrie choked
senseless Marshall Chaven. editor of the
Populist Guthrie Register. because Graz
ven had published something Stiles didn' {
like.
J. H. Burford has figured it out That
Washington Irving crossed the North
Canadian about fifteen miles east OF E4
Reno. AT any rate Irving was the origi-
nal sooner.
How the Indians are picking up. The
other day a Pawnee Indian came into
the office of the Pawnee Democrat with
a big stalk of corn, just Ike a white
man, and the editor writ" him up.
A man signing himself Republican, in
the Oklahoma City Times-Journal, has
a compton fit over The reported re-
mark OF Harper Cunningham that the
El Reno convention must endorse the
territorial administration or the moon
will be soaked with blood.
Here is a touch of real poetry in an
Oklahoma obituary: After a weeks
illness the bark of Ross Lewis, aged 81
years, ended earth's voyage and with
folded sail and broken compass rode at
anchor in the haven of eternag rest"
Dick Shanafelt, a Rough Rider at
Santiago, writes home to Perry: 'T
tell you Teddy Roosevelt is a man that
you feel like following; he Is liked by all,
whether in our regiment or any other.
He will speak a pleasant word or shake
hands with a private as quickly as an
officer, and that is the kind of a man
the boys ike"
The plan for the Democrats of Okla
homa to pursue towards the Populists is
to treat them with respect, give Populist
leaders some plums but ignore the Pop
ulist party as a whole. That is the way
the Popuiists have treated the Demo-
Gratis in Kansas with the result that the
Democratic party has been wiped out.
Ponca City Courier: Otto Elliott and
Van Durham have just returned from the
Usage country. where they have been
engaged In putting a roof on Joe Rewards
new house, incidentally they have fshed
some while there. II was with Indifferent
success. though. until last night when
rather a huge fish became entangled in
their hooks. By the combined efforts of
MeSsrs. Elliott, Durham, Nemire and
Land, the fish was drawn ashore. It
was four and one half feet long, weighed
50 pounds. and furnished meat for eigh-
teen persons for three meals. This fish
must have been of the middle-of-tfe-
road variety, as it had whiskers eight
inches long.