The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-14
Outlines of Oklahoma

The Agricultural college at Saltwater
has graduated twenty-five people who
bear the title of b. s.
There weren't enough tears shed in Ok
lahorna over the retirement OF Tom Reed
| 70 materially rust the oats.
II is going 10 do the Knockers no good
10 try TO defeat Bill Grimes unless they
are doing II merely for diversion
Colonel Blackwell has just returned
from ST. Louis He has been there buying
furnishings for an opera house at Black
well.
The valuation Of Payne county viii
crease of about half d million since the
| last assessment.
There is a shoe dealer In Oklahoma 50
mean that he kicks on his town building
sidewalks because il VIII save shoe leath-
er and hurt his business.
a special census of Saltwater will be
taken soon and If the population is found
sufficient the city viii incorporate itself
as a city Of the first-class,
A special dispatch from Kansas City
says that the famous Blackwell bed-bug
on its way 70 Washington stopped OF
| there asst evening for bite
Sam Allison, the only barber at Cloud
! Chief, has gone back % Illinois and the
| Herald says: THE gentle breezes are toy
| ing with all kinds Of whiskers."
L. Smedley Of Kay county claims that
his wheat which he pasJured is much
| thicker, finer and better than that OF his
neighbors which was not .pastured.
The sheriff Of Payne county the other
| day in one wagon took eight prisoners
| from Saltwater 10 Perry, where they were
| loaded on the train for the peniJentiary.
Roy Farrell Green is getting up a spe-
cial edition for the Ponca City Courier
and If Green is as good at special edi-
| tons as he is at vers de societe, il Will
! be a dandy.
| captain Crozier, the famous Indian phi
| lanthropist, is at present distributing
among the Sac Indians graphophones
/ which recite the Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star and other poems.
| The Oklahoma blacksmith right now IS
! taking a long breath. He Will soon be
! working sixteen hours a day. for as the
| Arapahoe Bee says, 1.-The reaper that
| breaks must be fixed that night"
| -Four men escaped from the Norman jail
! the other night. One OF the prisoners
was so large and the hole was SO SINAI
! that ne had TO take his clothes off and
soap his body in order to get through.
! Near Cordell recently a young woman
| named Teason, while pulling something
a run for pond and jumped in UP to her
neck and saved herself from being horri-
| bly, burned.
| This occurs in an obituary written BY
| some one in the Manchester Journal:
| Our Fathers way we may not reach
! For whom He loves, He loves to teach;
| LOT He doth give and take again
| Praise be to His most holy name!
The chances are that Governor Barnes
case is statu quo. The story that he
is being investigated in Washington is a
result Of his visit to Washington which
was voluntary. The Barnes removal
story has been dreadfuIIy overworked and
should be turned out to pasture
! Manchester Journal: A party of govern
ment surveyors are camped in Manchester
! this week. They aTeworking on the es-
! Establishment of a base across the conti-
| nent from south TO north, at d point near
! the 9Sth meridian. They also inform Us
! that another base line is being run across
! the continent from east TO west About
every 50 or 70 miles they are putting in a
mark which will probably stand for al
time. A pit feet square Is dug in the
earth and piece Of copper metal marks
| the center. A glass tunb.er covers this
| and a piece Of pipe sets down over the
| tumbler. On top the pipe is a plate OF
metal and on top the metal IS placed q
sand stone inches square. the top OF
which comes on level with the surface
The hole is then filled with concrete, the
| best of Portland cement and the hardest
of rock being used. Captain Abbott, whc
is in charge of the party, is a very fine
appearin man, and informs up he has
| been in the United States service as sur
veyor forg 4 years and spends from eight
TO nine months out Of every year at active
work