The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The Guthrie flower parade was the most
| expensive entertainment ever undertaken
in Oklahoma.
Ponca City is much rejoiced over the
purchase of the Hutchinson Southern by
the Santa Fe-
! II an Oklahoma man. these days, Is not
mixed up in townsite scheme OF some
kind. he isn't in 1t.
| Secretary Jenkins and his friends be-
/ lieve that Mr.. Jenkins is sure to become
governor of Oklahoma.
Christian Science has quite following
in Oklahoma. Osteopathy Is also break
| ing into the territory.
If jenkins should become governor the
| chances are that Jim Houston VIII be
appointed coal oil inspector.
| Bright as the Oklahoma men are. its
women are superior to its men. and no
Oklahoma man dare deny it.
| The government recently issued a book
on Indians which gives full-page color
| ed portrait of Quanah Parker,
At Perry, some of the boys got Hal
| loween confused with Fourth OF July and
| fired OF cannon crackers in door-wsys.
II Guthrie had depended on the men to
face pneumonia TO make a public holiday.
there would have been no flower parade.
Guthrie's new opera house is going TO
prove one Of the things which will turn
the theatrical circuit south from Kansas
into Texas.
Travel through Oklahoma is now
heavier than 1t has been for years. The
trains are all long and are getting the
late habit
There are those who insist that the
Santa Fe and the Rock Island made a
joint purchase of the Hutchinson South
ern railroad.
Frank Dale of Guthrie has q theory
that wherever In the west st. Louis and
Chicago meet in competition a wholesale
point results.
Guthries flower parade was as fine as
anything OF the kind ever given any
where 1t was a warm number, despite
the temperature.
Peter Swanda of Yukon was walking
along country road. A farmer shot at
a chicken and hit Swanda in the foot,
making very dangerous wound.
During the Guthrie flower parade the
temperature was down TO IS degrees, and
the queen went through it all with Moth
ing but thin gauze over her arms.
Bermuda grass, which was introduced
into Oklahoma shortly after the open
ing, is spreading generally. Its chief de-
light is to gobble up bluegrass lawn.
Bill Allison of Chandler still insists that
Harry Gilstrap did once apologize to Cow
ernor Barnes. and Gilstrap still denies 1t.
There will have to be a modus vivendi at
Chandler soon.
Leslie Niblack has sad-eyed, taciturn
printers devil in the Guthrie Leader
office, who is the model devil of the terri
tory He will some day be the leading
editor of Oklahoma.
The Newkirk Democrat accuses the
extravaganza and fears that they win
soon be buying tin-whistles for all the
nigger-babies in Kay county"
The midway at the Guthrie street fair
was not success. The midway is not
very successful anywhere. Anything
which excludes children is not likely to
become acceptable as public entertain
ment to Americans.
The man who originally planned and
built the Hutchinson Southern was as
poor as a church-mouse when he did it.
He made 900 out of it; lost that, and,
so far as anyone knows. is as poor as
chureh-mouse again.
Dennis Flynn is still dead certain that
he will get free homes through congress.
A good many of the politicians have Civ
en- up hope. But, then, a good many
politicians have never believed 1t would
become law. Dennis may fool them.