The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-06
Outline, Of oklahoma

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Perry had parade on the Fourth and
$50 was given 20 the most comicd raga-
muffin On r. ~ sEtA 4Ef ts
Lexington. Tecumseh and Strodd has
been finished.
Somebody was to blame for the kidnap-
ping of old man Jester. And somebody
viii probably sweat.
B. Graves. living near Carwile. claims
to be the first farmer in Woods county 10
begin his fall blowing.
The wise Oklahoma town boy is seen
driving TO the cuunfry every Sunday now
adays. He has farm girl.
The county treasurer Of Cleveland coun-
ty had on July ] collected s6s, coo Of the
81, eO0 taxes due from 1885.
In reporting a picnic one country cor
respondent in Oklahoma says: There was
not a dry man or drunk one In the
grove"
A young sport at Oklahoma City the
other evening tried TO pass Confederate
bill at the door Of show and was ar
rested.
1t is now said that the resurvey Of the
9sth meridian will throw the CommancfIe
line go yards further west than It is at
present.
g. II. Huyck unloaded a half bushel OF
Oklahoma grown potatoes on the editor
OF the Perry Enterprise as a Fourth Of
July gift.
Bert Campbell has started the oklaho-
ma Hornet at WaukomiS Young Mr..
Campbell is good-nstured and not q
singer at all.
Mrs. W. w. Gooddell Of Perry. while
resting On sofa, died. No one was near
at the time, and her death was terri
bic shock to her friends and relatives.
Mitchell. who was shot IN the leg by
Bud Logue, in Pottawatemie county, had
to have the limb amputated. and died.
Now Logue will have to stand for muir
der.
The Unchee Indians appeared before the
Dawes commission the other day. The
Uchees were conquered and taken in by
the Creeks nearly a centnry ago, but
they stin talk their own language.
Colonel Blackwell will have a box in
his opera house which will always be
free 10 newspaper and railroad men. CO.
lionel Blackwell could give some pointers
On advertising to John Wannamaker.
There is natural gas in Oklahoma, al
| though II has not been found yet And
what a bonanza Oklahoma land viii be
when you can take gas from the under
side OF 1t and wheat from the top-side.
There are some few mean people in
the territory, some people who beat their
children numerically. and the greatest
thing to the credit of the average Okla
homa editor Is that he doesn't hesitate to
mention the parents names and ruast
them. There is plush cushioned seat in
heaven for the editor who takes the part
OF an abused child and a whole lot OF
Oklahoma editors will get in or these
grounds.
In their trip to Portland last week the
Oklahoma editors had a wagner Sleep
ing car all to themselves. The Oklaho-
mans on the trip are Mr.. and Mrs. F. 4.
Cook, Cloud Chief; Mr.. and Mrs. J, J,
Burke, Norman; Mr.. and Mrs. F. z. Hal
stead. Woodward: Mr. and Mrs. F. H.
Greer, Guthrie; Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. Hens
ley, Ell Reno; Leslie Niblack. Misses Ida
and Daisy Niblack, Guthrie; D w. Peery
and Miss Peery, Fl Reno; b. S. Hutchins
and Miss ETutchins, Ponca City; Tom
Woolsey and Miss woolsey. Mulhar; WIN
Bolton and Miss Bolton. Woodward; Mr.
T. Smith, woodward.
Carwile Journal: One n our German
friends in the state, detailing his expert
ence In trying to secure a home in the
Strip, delivered himself something like
this: First ven I tink apout dot Strip /
tells my vifes I don't go; l yust stay
ole vomans she say L tells you 1t vas
peter you went; We got no lands for de
kinder und pretty soon dey grow up great
pig poys und gals und dey like TO git
married und hat a homes somebiace. So
1 hitched mine teams und go NIT dem
under fools ofer py de line to. Veil. ven
I been registered und de sixteeth he vas
come aroundl drove up In de lirss yusr
like everybodies unit holt und vast NIT
dem udder beeples till dem guns vas shoot
and Just as soon vat ne shootsd ! beet
mine horses a couple of dimes pretty
quick und ava-a-y she vent-jusht like
de rabbick shump ven you toni hit him.
Veil, ven she ruined apout pretty near
schwelve oder ten mile de tust he got 50
tick-just so tick you never tole yum fell
lows from udder. Und den he vas clear
up leetle pit und yust not more as a
little Ways oder haluf a miles dere vas
more as dwo dousand beeples schumped
CUP outen den revines yust like hopper
grasses, ind ruined Ike ter tyfel vas
get dem, und hoppety hop de schunp on
ali dem claims in not more as dwo min
utes. Ven see dot I make myseluf mad
apout dem "sooners'' und I wallup mine
horses arount und come sthrait away
home, und dell de ole vomans she want
claim peter he go down und get her
hlmseluf Und she say. Rats vat vo-
mans do down dere?" WELL" I say deere
ben blenty vimmens down are already:
dey gust set aroun on dem claims IKE
a LOT Of ole shikens" Mine wife he pen
mad. but don't care q schnaps-I let de
Strips go NIT de blamed fools vat wants
him und stay nit Kansas. IND mine
wife she say "All right. Shon, uf We tont
hat more land for de childer. MAYBE so We