The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-20
Outlines of Oklahoma,

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Moral. IN Pottawatonis county. is said
TO be good town.
This is the time Of year IN Oklahoma
when . cycave is not a joke
Young Barnes Is getting q good deal of
quiet enjoyment out OF this war.
If this thing keeps on the Oklahoma
farmer win have to bale out his corn
field.
One editor IN Oklahoma accuses another
of lying like Spanish war correspond
emit"
! Out in western Oklahoma the farmers
who planted their cotton before the big
rains have had 10 replant.
Kansas is catching more heavy hall this
| spring than Oklahoma. The heavens are
taking special care of Oklahoma lately.
Al Independence g military company has
been organized ''as a protection against
any local disturbance" Why not appoint
police?
The Oklahoma Rough Riders have some
queer associates. In Woods regiment
there are dudes from New York and kill
ers from Arizona
Captain z. woraeck OF Enid houses up
| 1850 bushels Of wheat last fan and wait
ed. Wheat reached $1-2S at Enid the 9TH
er day; he unloaded quick.
In a country neighborhood IN washita
county the other day the local singing
school met IN a grove early in the morn
| ing, sank till noon, ate lunch. and then
sang until night.
A lot of boys at Purcell not long ago
arranged a conspiracy to run OF from
home and enlist as volunteers Their par
ents discovered it and vetoed the scheme
with wet shingles.
Jake Schweizer. when on his way to
Texas. telegraphed Roosevelt for permits
sion to stop at FL Reno and arrange some
private affairs. Roosevelt answered: No
delays tolerated. Move with your com
pany."
J. P. Harston, the postmaster at Union
who drew Isaac Cooper's pension money
after Cooper had been dead four years,
pleaded guilty TO forgery and was sem
fenced TO three years in the Columbus,
Ohio. penitentiary.
The Arapahoe Bee says that the case
against Harry Knight for burning the
Arapahoe court house, of which charge
he was cleared by the dismissal OF the
case, was a piece of political persecu-
ton which disgraced the community.
Texas correspondence in Guthrie Lead
ar: The first military operations of Col.
Roossvelt's terrors win look TO the subdu-
ing Of their Spanish ponies before moving
against the Spanish enemy. This outlook
promises some excitement every morning
at saddleing time, for il is characteristic
of the COW pony that he Will pitch every
morning and especially If he has had
good feed and a few hours rest All
the men received their saddles and other
horse equipments today, and ii is probsbl
that a mounted drill will be held tomor-
row. Lots were drawn for the horses yes
terday, and most of the Fifth avenue boys
got fairly tame animals. William Tiffany,
however, drew a mustang which had been
ridden only once or twice. What will hap
pen when he mounts the steed is a mat
ter of considerable conjecture. However,
it has been learned from confidential
sources that Mr.. Tiffany has engaged Bill
Martin, one OF the broncho busters from
Arizona, to take a fall out of his mustang
in order to take some Of the devilishment
out of the beast before the New Yorker
is called to mount him. 1t Is understood
that Bits services in this regard have
become in such demand that he will be
able to get his own price, and is even
commanding advance money to insure his
services, for he can not in so short q time
break all the wild horses anxiously turned
over to him.