The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-06
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

There viii be forty decorated traps In
the Guthrie street parade.
The public schools of Shawnee opened
this week with an attendance of 700.
Since allotting began in the Chickasaw
nation the fruit tree business is booming
there.
An Oklahoma City bank has dropped
the CITY OF the date lines on its
checks.
1t is punishable IN Oklahoma to hunt
on another mans premises without his
| consent
The travelling medicine men If all kinds.
| degrees and compilations are overriding
| Oklahoma.
| Next week at Edmond the board of the
Norman school hold their meeting for the
last quarter in 1899.
| The Guthrie Shakespeare club having
agreed, on the pronunciation have set In
on Study Of Coriolanus
Out in washita county the cattlemen
are coming in and buying all the surplus
corn and signing for more.
1t is developing that the interior depart
ment never gave out for publication
those charges against Governor Barnes.
1t is expected that the Clyde Msttox
| case will be completed by tonight and
verdict will be announced tomorrow.
The Oklahoma City Times-JournaI
doesn't think the British had a fair show
at Majuba hin and will this time lay the
Beers out cold
Probably some of the people from Guth-
RE are still voting on carnival queen.
from sheer" force OF habit. as It was
coupon contest
Blackwell is contemplating making TIE
Santa Fe, the Frisco and the Hutcnln-
son Southern crowd over and make room
for some more roads.
Dennis Flynn has decided to make a
few speeches in Ohio. He has one gest-
ure in training that is a daisy, and will
bring uproarous applause.
The merry-go-rounds which tour Okla
homa have a music box which plays:
Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight"
That is to appease the old folks.
whole lot of people In Oklahoma have
come to believe that Governor Barnes will
be asked to resign simply because the ru-
NOR is so persistent that that viii be the
case.
The Oklahoma politicians ought to re-
member that both Arizona and New
Mexico are entitled to part of the interior
com etc 2ttsshrdlshrdlu shrdluawy fwyyp
departments time.
Frank Greer. for the sake of the phi
losophy, comes mighty near knocking
10 Severn's race meet. Frank says: "Ths
youth who patronizes the race course Is
on the wrong track"
Two farmers at Perry gave a man a
ten-dollar Confederate bill for two shot
guns. When the man discovered what he
had hold of, he had the farmers arrested,
but they were discharged, as they had
committed no crime.
The patent medicine testimonial expert
has hard time placing the predictions
of Oklahoma. In Kansas most testirno-
mails of patent medicines read from
northern states; In Indian Territory from
southern states; in the advertisements
published in Oklahoma they are mixed,
but the southern testimonials predomi-
nate.
Oklahoma City Oklahoman: The "Occi-
dental Lighe-Horse" made its initial ap-
pearance yesterday. 1t is weekly jour
nal, published by Randolph Pegues,
both well known negroes of Oklahoma
City. In their salutarory they say: The
Lighthouse is result Of great necessity.
Every few days, yes. every day, the white
presses are publishing the dark side Of
the negro race; and ence, the civilized
world is fast becoming educated to-the
belief that the negro Is a natural liar,
thief. murderer, rapist and an i'm
moral, shiftless, degraded being. The
reader will note the following facts: The
Occidental Lighthouse does not believe it
to be the intention of the white press TO |
ignore the negro or to neglect him, but |
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the demands OF their own race; and. even
If 1t were we should advocate our own
cause. I'VE are the architects of our
own fortunes"