The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-25
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Dennis Flynn has the El Reno conven-
ton. He Just wants to show Powell Clay
ton
Texas. He has not reached Oklahoma
yet.
The town of Blackwell has put an oc-
cupation tax of sl-5o a month on boot
blacks
The acreage of cotton about Shawnee
is larger than it was last year and the
stand is heavier.
Sixteen miles south OF Pawnee are the
twin mounds which Washington irving
described in his book.
Roosevelt will be elected governor Of
New York Jake SchweiZer will prob
ably remain in New York and get an ap-
appointment
The city marshal OF Pawnee has two
new scythes which he will kindly lend
TO any one who wants TO cut the weeds
! from his yard.
! A line 10 the delinquent subscriber is
a very rare thing in Oklahoma papers
nowadays. 1t can not be possible that
| they have all paid up.
| A new party in Payne county is said TO
! be entitled: The Soldiers. Sailors and
! CSitizens Union Party" Every sailor in
| the territory is said to belong to IT.
| Enid Wave: A farmer cut little hols
| in a watermelon yesterday when II
whistle like locomotive The hot sun
| had worked up a good head Of steam on
| the inside.
The Oklahoma boys who were in Cuba
will not return there. The Oklahoma
man who locates in Cuba viii make mis-
take. Oklahoma is a better place than
/ Cuba any day in the year.
Mrs Edwards OF Lexington. who had
| trouble with her husband, is writing his
history for a local paper. She says ne
| told her that he hoped his first VIE
who was dead, was in he'll.
1t is claimed that in Paul's Valley, In
| dian territory. some men are allowed &c
| sell liquor and some are not, and that
the men who are not are sent up for hve
and ten years for introducing.
Oklahoma City Tlmes-Journal: Henry
| Schafer, a saloon keeper OF FL Reno, mas
| advertised for seven months that he has
| ten barrels of whisky. There Will prob
ably be but nine barrels after tomorrow
Callahan is still congressman. but ne
doesn't seem to think so. He ought tc
be in Washington trying TO get the For'
Reno boys sent somewhere. Kansas
congressman succeeded in getting Kan
sas regiment sent 10 Cuba
The Oklahoma county Republicans re-
solved that no man be nominated for thf
legislature until he had pledged himself
to work against any appropriation fol
! clerk hire in the next legislature IN ex
cess Of s., 500. That's sensible.
The territorial BARRIERS union shut W
all the shops on Sunday some time ago
| There is now a demand that they b'
opened on Sunday forenoon. The bar
| beers should let the demand go TO Halifax
| A workman who gives up his Sunday L
business, when he can help it, is chump
The truth of the Santiago campaign Il
| that the Rough Riders were the cente
of the first skirmish and the Oklahoma
company the center of the Rough Riders
| Oklahoma's war record is better thai
that of any state in the Union today, s.
far as the late war is concerned.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Mr.. H
D. Mcknight register of the Mangum
Greer. county. land office, was in the cit,
last night. Mr.. Mcknight states tina
there has been filed in the Mangum of
flee since the opening of the office, Jun
"a, 1897, 3,29S homestead entries. Beside
the entries, 932 of these settlers have pur
chased an additional $50 acres. Mangun
will soon put up a 5000 school house
Crops in Greer county are as fine as SILK
The county is on a cash basis and is on
of debt. All she needs is a railroad an
she will be the banner county in the ter
ritory.