The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-03
Outlines of Oklahoma

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Pottawatomie county has $40 school
children. Shawnee alone has 1855.
The Shawnee public schools and several
others in the territory close their season
next week.
The Republicans Of Oklahoma. at last
realizing that they were being ribbed,
have stopped fighting
An expert accountant will take hold Of
the county. records at Enid next week and
find out how things stand.
out in Roger Mills county many cows
apparently in good health continue 10 die.
The eowmen ascribe it 10 the hard winter.
A whole lot of the spectators who are
taking the initial steps towards building
railroads are furnishing kindhng TO the
farmers.
The Hardesty Herald says that this year
the larger part of the ranch work in
Beaver county Will be done with plow.
instead of a rope.
Tomorrow the Ute opening takes place
in Colorado, and a good many thousands
of people in Oklahoma viii thank their
stars they are not there.
It was advertised all over the country
that the city campaign az Alva was who'll
" on religious lines. That sort OF adver-
Using does a town no good
Some man out in Roger Mills county
the other night stole four miles Of baroed
wire fence. He must have had an ele-
plant in order to carry it of.
The county attorney of Beaver county
threatens TO have the county commission
ers ousted from office if they attempt TO
do anything contrary to his advice.
The first story of the Schiller building
at Enid is completed. The building Will
be three stories high and viii be paid for
by a convention hall prize drawing.
Brotherly love is exempted at Chandler
Hoffman and Embry were nominated on
opposite tickets and both declined the
nomination and formed a law partnership
instead.
The fad out in Beaver county at pres
ent is deep wells One al Optima, or near
there, has reached a depth of 1S5 feet.
and there is no water yet. The drill Is
now in rock.
Church services at Enid are interrupted
by boys who gather on the outside and
talk loud Sometimes the devil stands
around group of small boys just TO pick
up pointers
The Dawes commission has done one
good thing. It has drawn the attention
of the country to the fact that there has
Indian Territory which needed mending.
When Oklahoma people want 10 draw
crowd, they advertise that Dennis Flynn
has been invited to speak. That means,
nine times out of ten, that he will not
be present. 1t has been done, this thing,
to the detriment of Flynn who never fails
to keep an engagement he has made.
When the announcement IS made FLYNN
will speak it means what il says. But
the invited business is a snare.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Today
in the wholesale and retail houses of this
city 1900 cigars were seized by a deputy
United States revenue collector because
the stamps on the cigars were counter
felt. The cigars were bought from house
in the east and lately a great many OF
the same bogus stamps have been found
on large number of cigars. The cigars
were all confiscated by the government.
The stores handling the goods will have
to fall back on the wholesale houses for
reimbursement
Earl Myers, a Grant county school boy,
has written a spring poem. This is the
first stanza:
Early every spring must
Either poetize or bust;
Poetry boils in all my nature,
As hot water bois a later;
Then go off alone awhile
BY myself and let her bile.
Now all natures in rush,
It aren't no sin for ne to gush;
Nature wiggles all in meter
And l catch the general teter;
And a child of nature must
Either poetiZe or bust.