The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-29
Outlines Of oklahoma

i 1870 - rss----@~tss~E
Seasly an the taxes Of Kay county have
been paid. <sa.eso.
1 Lee WhIttemore Of Cleveland the ether
day was scalped BY the k1ek Of mnle.
AT this distance the best thing the last
legislature did was TO sheIvs Wonan's
suffrage.
Enid ana Manchester viii cslsbrats On
September Is. the anniversary Of the
opening Of the Strip. -
In the territory the Arkansas river Is
too high to ford. It has been years sincs
| 1t was as high IN July.
The Oklahoma editors who attended the
Press association meeting at Portland
Travelled in all 5.75s miles.
The Jefferson RnstIer has discovered
that mise out OF ten spring chickens of
| fered for sale are roosters.
A whole lot Of the newspapers In Ok
lahoma are assuring their readers that
the kissing bug is a myth. 1t is not
Oklahoma City's street fair this year.
It is said. viii be easily twice as big and
attractive as the one given last year.
A good many people in eastern Okla
boma take wagons and drive to the
mountains Of Arkansas for the sum
mer.
The Newkirk Republican says that the
Republican party is doing everything In
fits power to prevent the nomination OF
Bryan.
The Ponca, City Courier has fixed on
the next two years as the period OF the
greatest development In Oklahoma. This
Is probably right.
+. D. Waugh Of Ponea City received
the shortest birth notice on record the
other day by wire from his married son
in Texas. 1t, read: Girl All well"
Virginia, the new town southeast of
Dlackweli, on the Hutchinson Southern.
Gin be changed to wheatland It devel-
ops that there Is another Virginia In the
territory.
oklahoma has cause for action agains.
Kansas. The Kansas papers announce
that In the Kansas penitentiary there are
sc white men, Indians, Mexicans and
163 Oklahomans.
The Cleveland Triangle notices this dif-
ference in strikes. -Four years ago they
were all because wages were being re-
duced. This year they are all to have
wages increased.
A theatrical troupe at q Reno put on
Damon and Pythfas. Damon was sick,
and the company was In a hole until they
discovered Brook Forrest, who took the
part Of Damon and out-acted the whole
company.
The Medford Patriot says that the coun-
ty commissioners of Grant county have
not decided to build a court house at
Pond Creek, as reported. 1t says that
the commissioners must advertise three
months for bids and no such advertise
ment has appeared.
The telephone between Pawnee and
Cleveland has already paid for itself The
other day a woman at Cleveland was
very sick. The doctors were all out OF
town. Pawnee was called up and q doc
tor at that place prescribed for the wo-
man, who recovered. The next day q law
suit was settled over the phone.
Medford Patriot: On the street last
Saturday q man was heard to assert that
the county should buy q poor farm before
the prices on land got too high. A quick
response followed by the man to whom
he was taking. It was. what the d.
would the county do with it7" There Is
much In the reply. The county commits
sioners made levy of one mill for the
poor and insane. This will raise about
81, 800 and will be used almost, II not en-
tirely, for the benefit of the insane, as
we have no poor in Grant county.
Cleveland Triangle: A. r. Greenfield
a letter from his brother Frank,
last Saturday, which was dated at Me-
wark, q. ]. Frank was then on his way
to Brazil TO see II anything could be
done to rescue his brother and the rest
Of the party that is lost IN the wild re-
glons Of that country. He sailed for
on the 18th, and expected
from there to go direct to Brazil by the
Royal mall line. Mr.. Price, who Is in
terested In the rubber concession, f.
bearing the expenses OF the trip. 1t Is
Franks intention to stay near the coast
until spring, and then start fnr the in
terror. Under the present conditions 1t
Is impossible to get into the interior, and
this Is supposed to be the reason that
the boys have not been heard from. 1t
Is estimated that they must be at least
500 miles from any line of communica-
ton, and that Il will be impossible 70
hear from them until the water goes
down at the close OF the rainy season.
Frank Greenfield is somewhat os tTav-
eler, this being the NTH time that he
has crossed the equator. The last trip |
he made south was into the Argentine |
republic.