The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-20
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The Kingfsher county fair opens up
at Hennessey and continues on through
| the week.
| The Northwestern Normal at Alva
opened up with 2Ss students, which is a
mighty fine showing.
1t is a curious circumstance in Okla
homa life that q man VINO can't dance
can't succeed as a barber.
The Alva Courier Is advertising the fact
| that the Spanish language is taught IN
the Northwestern Normal school
The CarwiIe Journal assures its readers
that it viii give them assurance next
week of a North and South railroad.
The contract for the girls dormitory
at Alva has been let ana the building
will be completed within sixty days.
According to the Geary Bulletin. Indian
allotments can be rented for from thirty
| to fifty dollars for $50 acres, for a term OF
three years.
| BY aiding a prohibition movement at
Kingisher, Jake Admire is starting pin
wheel that is going to set lots Of polit-
| zeal fireworks off in Oklahoma
George Lupnon, a sixteeu-year-old boy
living near Okarche, last week shot him
self accidentally with a target rife. II
is not thought he will recover.
The Woodward Bulletin says that many
Populist prodigals are coming back to the
Republican household, but no fatted
calves are being killed. as veal is high.
| Albert Hoyt. who died at Mulhau the
other day, aged 81, had lived and farmed
in New York, Ohio, Illinois. Missouri and
| Oklahoma He was a veteran of tho
Mexican war.
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thrust in this personal in the Mountain
View Progress: "a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush. Best not to buy
the garments until you get the girl
The Perry Republican has word that
on account of the violent utterances in
favor of Dreyfus by the Guthrie Leader
the people of France are talking seri-
ously of boycotting the Guthrie street
fair.
The Enid Sun IS against early mar
riages, and says that ''it is time enough
for these young baptas to think Of find
| ing a pullet when they have raised
enough, money to buy a bundle Of laths
/ to build a hen house"
D. c. Lewis of Oklahoma City made
another of his expansion speeches at
Wellston the other day The Democratic
I
| lahoma City tomorrow, should do some
thing to head Lewis off.
| In one neighborhood in Woods county
feeling prevails that the postoffice being
federal concern. man can make as
much noise as he wants to. The post
master springs a section of the postal
regulations on the crowd, and warns them
| that he will throw them out If they don't
quiet down.
Here is funny unsigned advertisement
| in the Oklahoman of Oklahoma City:
Through He'll ne charged. Tonight the
writer will explain the above on the cor
ner Of Main and Broadway. You know
you are coming. Ministers, their friends
an others are invited How to keep So
Der. He will tell you
A correspondent in the Carwile Jour
nal shoots this at the Man with the Hoe
of Oklahoma: 1.-The farmers are begin
ming to SOW their wheat, expecting to
reap a rich harvest in the future. How
many there will be who SOW wheat ex-
pecting to reap who, ere the harvest
comes, will themselves be gathered in the
Great Harvest"
AS an indication Of how railroad busi-
ness weighs on the average Oklahoma
mans mind, the following is given from
the Carwile Journal: 10 Story came IN
with his threshing outfit at late hour
one night this week and pulled up on
the public square, where he caused the
old engine to whistle. blow, churn. chug
and cavort around like switch engine
on grand trunk line. 1t is said that
VIII Corbett had just dropped into a
pleasant doze, in which he was dream
ing OF grade stakes" depot grounds,
ETC.. and in his confused awakening he
grew terribly excited and began yelling
at the top Of his voice: Here she
comes, by Jupiter-gosh. 1 knew we'd
get 'em! Fourteen roads from fourteen
directions. b'gum, and all headed for
Carwile! BY the Twin Tom Walker, II
we don't whoop town lots up now 1t will
be a caution to rattlers. Whoop-ee,
Watch our smoker