The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-04
Outlines of Oklahoma.


Guthrie has hot given up the street fair
idea She viii have another next year.
about August 1.
Dennis Flynn and his family leave for
Washington on November 20. Congress
convenes early in December
The most applause at the Guthrie 1ow-
| er parade was given a small boy riding
a highly-decorated Jersey cow.
An anti-saloon league has been formed
in Oklahoma City. and ii is reported that
| the Law and Order league has also got
on its feet.
The Masonic temple at Guthrie. now
building, il is claimed will be the most
finely appointed temple west of the ex-
treme east.
DR.. ]. w. Madara, once OF Oklahoma,
is the only physician On the island Of
Jolo. and he reports that he is doing
rushing business
The Damon and Pythias arrangement
lately contrived between the Rock Island
and the Santa Fe is causing lots Of spec
ulation in Oklahoma
The Guthrie Capital said that one We
hicle in the flower parade was decorated
with "catacombs' What the linotype
meant was ''coxcombs-''
Some people at Oklahoma City are in
favor of sprinkling the streets with oil
The claim is made that oil not only keeps
down the dust but prevents streets from
becoming muddy.
The Guthrie Leader says the new gold
certificate fol $40 looks like Confederate
script and frequently payment is refused
on them in Oklahoma by people who have
never seen any before.
The new Santa Fe depot at Guthrie will
be located east of the present Santa Fe
tracks, and I'LL up an ugly gap which has
been one Of Guthries disfgurements since
the day that she was born.
The monument to William Pollock has
been set up in the cemetery at Pawnee.
Pollock was the Pawnee who became
Rough Rider and fought with Roosevelt.
The monument is twelve feet high.
Just before the flower parade at Guth-
rie Leslie Nibiacks horse threw Leslie
to the moist bosom of the earth, and
plaster will be run into the impression he
made in the mud, for death-mask.
The Santa Fes trains through the ter
ritory are too heavy. The Santa Fe
needs an early train south in the morn
ing and a later train north in the even
ing to relieve the pressure on its main
trains.
Dick Plunkett has saved all the news
paper comments ever made about him
from Creede down. He viii some day
publish them under the title of Swell
Guy Journalism, or Campaign Against
the Mullygrubs."
In Wichita county, Kansas, this year,
the Populists and Republicans have fused,
each party supporting candidates named
by the other party, each having named
half the ticket. They must have caught
it from Woods county.
John Jensen Of the Ponca Indians is
said to be making a model agent. The
way he did IL, according TO report was
by notifying the Washington crowd at
the start that if they were going to annoy
him and fuss and fret about his actions
all the time, he didn't want the job.
The fluctuations of the wheat market
are not in it with the range of prices
on the average Oklahoma wood market.
While there is lots of wood On the mar
ket, it is ruinously cheap. When the mar
ket supply is light 1t goes up by leaps
and bounds and turns the buyer to the
coal yard.
Explanation to the umbrellaless IN the
Ponca City Courier: AN old fellow has
been going around town soliciting UNI
brellas for repairs and has accumulated
considerable stock. Today he became
drunk and disorderly and was placed In
jail. Parties can find their umbrellas in
the police court"
This is said to have occurred at Cana
dian, Texas: The mayor recent gave a
fancy dress ball at which all the elite
of the town were present. In the course
of one of the dances, one Of the city Off
Gals, who was rather stout, felt the
seams of his breeches giving way. Hast
oily seeking out his wife he told her of
his dilemma, and she, procuring a needle
and thread, sought out an ante room,
where she thought they would be free
From intrusion while the breech was be-
ing repaired. The man no sooner pulled
off his pants than two ladies came along
the hall with the intention, as supposed
of visiting the same room. The wife
looked around for some place 70 hide her
spouse, and opening the first door she
came to, said: Quick. John. get IN
herew at the same time pushing him
through. She closed the door and turned
on the intruders with smiling face,
when a loud knocking occurred on the
other side Of the door and her husband
franticaIIy shouted: "Open the door!
Open it quick! 1 am in the ballroom