The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-20
Outlines Of Oklahoma.


A store at Oklahoma City II having -
prosperity and expansion sale"
No one seems yet TO have the head o.
tail Of Senator Biddison'S arresS over In
Missouri
A city we'll has been put down at Geary.
II Is 100 feet deep and has seven feet Of
water in t.
Seth weIborn. a farmer near Geary.
has cut go acres Of grain this year with
! one machine.
All the Oklahoma papers are booming
the roundlap cotton bale. 1t is claimed
to be a superior bale IN every way
A C. Scott Of the Agricultural college
| at saltwater has sure cure fer cnig-
gers, 1t is said He ought TO publish It
AS is sometimes seen in all eorn-helds
8 corn stalk near Ponea City tried 70
grow an ear right where the tasseI should
be.
Phil. Curry Is the youngest engineer IN
the country. he runs an engine on the
| Tecurnseh road and Is seventeen years Of
| age.
This is the season Of stomach troubles
in Oklahoma and the man you see Nee
ing across the landscape Is the family
doctor.
The Shawnee council has spoiled a
| mighty good graft by providing that the
| Ere department must sprinkle the
streets
Sneak thieves entered the window OF
the Santa Fe station at Oklahoma City
the other day at dinner hour and touched
the till for $50.
The army worm has appeared in the VI
entity OF Choctaw City. 1t cleared out
| field Of forty acres of Kaffir corn IN
very few hours.
The Oklahoma City Times Journal
kfrlr. 4y..k t-fa -, $50. .
Aguinaldo's case. The horse ought 10 be
going like blazes, too.
r. T. Brook OF Tonkawa has a duck
with four feet. He can use two of them
| till he gets tired and then switch TO the
remaining two. and be as fresh as ever.
Bird Patient of Carney ran away from
| home the other day. He got as far as
Perkins. where he found some friend with
whom he stopped until his father in hot
pursuit came up.
z. c. Spillman of Kingfisher Is in Chi
| cago today to attend the national Demo-
cratic committees meeting. Spillman is
| in favor Of holding the national conven-
ton in Kansas City.
Maud Andrews, a girl Of great pretti-
ness, who made a run for q claim near
| Saltwater at the opening has proved up
| the claim and also filed on q marriage
| License, being wed last week.
| Near Okeene last week, during q thun-
| der storm, seven men took refuge In
| a granary. The lightning struck the
granary, knocked it every-which-way, but
| didn't hurt any OF the men.
| 1t is not likely that any Oklahoma town
will raise $4,000 to entertain the Rough
Riders next year. Ten thousand dollars
! Is a good deal OF money and there isn't
town of 5000 inhabitants in the east
that would attempt to raise that sum for
similar occasion.
/ A man at Ottawa, Kansas, purchased
after the Norman cyclone, and had on
| exhibition in front of his store for a num-
| Der of years a wagon wheel, the spckes
| of which were all bent to the same de-
/ gree and in one direction. Somebody
| stole the wheel the other day.
Oklahoma City Times-Jour1al: The sur
veyors on the Oklahoma City and West
| ern have started back from Acme, Texas,
and are now running the permane II lire.
The preliminary line Is 176 miles .ons. hut
Chief Engineer Station believes thII he
can reduce the distance severaa n
making the permanent survey. viii
| keep nearer the mountains, Wi "A n
| addition to shortening the line -. the
road through a much finer looking coun-
| try over which a road can be built for
much less than farther away. BY going
| nearer the mountains the road will be en-
abled to do an important excursion and
| summer outing business that could not be
\ handled farther out. 1t will be about Oc-
| tober / when the return survey Is COM
| pleted.