The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-13
Outlines Of Oklahoma

The house fly. proceeding timi6ly, has
goe as far north as Oklahoma CITY.
A fond subscriber has presented Editor
Harry Smith II Woodward with couple
| OF dog owls.
a shot from the jefferson Rustler: The
editor of the Wakita Herald IS taking
Ripan's Tabules.'
The Schiller Hall opening al Enid has
| been postponed and viii not take place
until next September.
In his newspaper at Lincoln. Neo.. Bob
MeReynoids says: If I have an enemy
here I do not know it,
Through the efforts Of Rick Messsil the
Pabst Brewing company have been invest
ing heavily in Enid property.
Il is said that tin ore has been dis
! covered in the Wichita mountains. A tin
mine is worth more than a gold mine.
A Cheyenne Indian baseball club turned
in and piwed up the Kinghsher baseball
club the other day. Talk about the White
Mans Burden!
In some parts OF Grant county, &C.
cording 10 the Jefferson Rust.er, the
wheat is getting rust, because Of the con-
tnuous wet weather.
S. r. Oyerton, agent OF the Rock Island
at Hennessey, has resigned and VIII so
into business. Mr. Callahan Of FL Reno
viii succeed him as agent.
The famous Blackwell bed-bug took the
Rock Island train. Pullman sleep, north
for Washington, D. c., yesterday. 10 at
tend the investigation Of Governor Barnes.
II is again announced Historically that
Governor Barnes IS 10 be bounced and
that Overholser, c. G. Jones. Grimes, Jen-
kins or Horace Speed may be his sue
cessor.
Mangum, Greer county. wants a mail
~ oh I
of the Rock Island extension. Mangum
would in that case get her mail thirty
six hours earlier.
Some people just migrate Take this
country correspondence item from the
AIva Courier: A family from Texas
lodged in our town for a week and started
back 10 Texas Monday
E. E. Brown, who is travelling around
writing up different parts Of Oklahoma,
says that the merchants Of Quanah, Tex,
viii extend credit 10 the farmers OF Greer
county on anything from potato masher
TO a threshing machine.
The Hennessey Clipper says that GER
ti1cate of merit has been given Rough
Rider John D. Rhodes Of that place in
recognition of his services at Santiago
1t is signed by President Mckinley, Sec
rotary Alger and Theodore Roosevelt.
An Oklahoma farmer never tries twice
TO find out where a railroad surveying
party is going. The most brilliantly reti-
cent man on earth is the fellow with
tripod and a handful of stakes. who i'm
AGNES he is working for the Rothschi.ds.
A man walked in from the mud on
the editor OF the Gushing Herald the other
day and said: IT'S pretty muddy, amt
it?' He wasted two hours OF the editors
time. After he was gone the editor took
a scoop shovel and cleaned the mud off the
floor.
Near Alvaretta, in Woods county. last
week, family took refuge in a cycave,
one end Of which was under ground, the
front end being on top the ground. The
cyclone bored into the covered end and
knocked things silly. But ii didn't touch
the exposed front end, where the family
were lowered, and consequently 10 one
was hurt
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: Yester-
day evening a popular young lady of this
city came down town with a dime TO
purchase an ice cream soda AS she came
along the street she saw poor, deformed
fiddler on the sidewalk. She thought 1t
was a shame that she should spend all Of
her money and not give a penny for
charity So she decided to give nickel
to the beggar and buy a plain soda with
the remaining nickel instead Of spending
the dime for an ice cream soda. This
tender-hearted, fair creature deserves q
fellow who has a barrel Of money TO spend
for ice cream sodas.
Pete Dixon, a brother OF George Dixon,
the pugilist, is under arrest at Chickasha,
charged with rape.