The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-16
Outlines of Oklahoma.

! During its present season the compress
at Ell Reno has squeezed $500 bales.
/ The troops at Fort Reno are said TO have
received orders 10 hold themselves in
readiness.
The Oklahoma farmers who could hold
their wheat and did do not need any treat
ment for the brain just now.
William J. French received the appoint
ment of receiver at Alva. This is said
to be Cy. Leland dic,ation.
Come" said an Oklahoma loafer 20 an
other, Let US get over on the sunny side
Of the street and lick Spain
The Shawnee Chief wants 10 know who
will hold the outlaws down If all the
troops are sent TO fight Spain.
The Curtis bill has at last passed the
house and the Indian territory will have
to find something new to talk about.
The trouble with Dick Morgan's enndi-
dacv for congress is that it is injecting the
Kansas whisker idea into Oklahoma poll
tics.
Probably the reason the gold reserve
doesn't go down any more is because 1t
is onto the Wichita mountains and KNOWS
it has to stop monkeying.
Harry Ardery has been made chief dep
over and tell the Indians all about their
wonderful new agent, Bill Walker.
On June the seventh. Grant county will
vote on her county seat, and until that
time the people in that county will not
have time for war, or anything else.
John Golopie got sight of that terrific
rial library again. 1t was the earnest wish
of everybody, not an aspirant, that Colo
bic might overtake it. But he didn't.
The supreme court has appointed a man
to be librarian and Governor Barnes has
appointed a man. No egg-throwing be-
tween the two appointeeS should be per-
mited.
George Dodson, who refused to take the
territorial library, is the first Oklahoma
man TO refuse an appointment. And after
reconsidering it, Dodson concluded he
would not be the first.
There has been good deal Of talk about
Oklahoma City being "a graveyard for
newspapers" but the Oklahoman and the
Times-Journal there are getting better eV-
cry day. They stuck to it and won out.
The Medford Star should be excluded
from the mails until it can learn TO be
decent. In its last issue it heads its edi-
torial page with an item which is the
most disgusting seen in public print in
many day, its dlth not being relieved by
even the shadow of a point.
Oklahoma City TimesJournal: ". c.
saddier, four miles west of the city, has
reCeL tIy had an unfortunate experience
with his bunch of shoaIs. lie had 20
fine shoats weighing frGIn 70 to 100 pounds
which he allowed to run about the pace
feeding on green wheat and oats. On
Monday night he fed them and saw moth
con inc
he found eight dead and al of the others
sick. Two more died within a few min
utes. The others recovered rapidly and
by night they were ready for their usual
rations. Many farmers believe that the
poison was gotten from cookie bur seeds |
that have sprouted.
Perry Supper Bell: Everybody in Perry |
knows A. S. Cades, the secondhand man. |
He has a pretty wife, whom he welded |
Just q few weeks since. Last night he |
received the following note which almost |
made him crazy: "A. S. Cades:-War has |
been declared between the United States |
and Spain. You have been drafted for |
H. of Perry. Report at once |
FOR duty to Captain Jones or Lieutenant |
Smith. Rosenbaum, Commander" After !
receiving the note he ran into Captain /
ones Office and said: 20, 1 can't leave |
my Sadie; I Just cant!" And then he /
begged for time. Csdes is all right. He /
las a pretty wife. and Governor Barnes /
ought not let him leave her