The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-21
outIinss Of Oklahoma

A prize ought 10 be offered 10 tbs OKLA
homa iail that has never been bFoken.
In announcing the execution at Ankcal
one Oklahoma paper said: Mr.. eoaas
Is Gone"
II he keeps on. some day Bart Campeeh.
who runs the Waukomis HcrHet. WI esn
the biggest paper In New York
When s.D1c" Ashby Of Nyealhertcrd e
let out on bond, ne ought TO ne abIurt
kindly by the authorities not % carry
gun.
II f. said that the only man in the ter
rltory who say there Is no prosperity
abroad are the lightning-rod men. Wao
are not selling many rods.
The rains In Oklahoma just hold on
long enough for the kickef to commence
to open his mouth to roar on the drynsss-
And then II rains like sin
Many photographs are being taken on
the farms. The farmer can put them An
an album and look 'em over in the years
" hen the crops are not good.
II there had beer less gNa-totins IN
The territory Clyde Mat.Ox would not to-
day be sleeping with the bull hogs and
living on raw roasting ears.
Some men in the eastern part Of Okla
homa City are boring for OIL. and Okla
homa City win regularly suffer now from
the occasional report that ''ile Is struck.
The editor of the Enid Wave has
neighbor who is learning the B-iiat ccr-
net, and the editor publicly acknowledges
that he has quit trying to be Chris
tian.
with all the railroads building two OF
the greatest valleys IN the world IN the
territories. are unoccupied from end TO
end, the Canadian and the ArkansaW var
leys.
DR.. p. C. Samwood. who acted as ae-
coucher at the birth Of the Lacey trip
lets, In Washita county, has made affi-
davit that they are all sound and perfect
infants.
The old step-ladder Joke is dead. but
there are cornstalks In Oklahoma on
which the second ear Is 80 high that %
cannot be reached by q man standing en-
the ground.
At Hennessey the other DAY = bum
wagon show came to town and he heys
followed It up and rotten-egged Il. in
the volley Of eggs a plate-glass window
was broken.
A great many divorces by outside peo-
pie are still obtained in Oklahoma It Is
as easy to secure divorce In Oklahoma
as anywhere else, and the original C.
vorcees IN the ninety-day epoch nave az
yertised her climate.
Oklahoma City. Poncs City ana wich-
tia are In a contest TO see which can grow
the highest corn-stalk. Oklahoma City
and Ponca City are in the lead at present,
but wait till Wichita comes down the
August home stretch.
Roy Farrell Green, a man who writes
poetry for Life and Judge and Puck. came
into Ponca City the other day with his
pants in his boots and a big freckle on
III 1v,I - - - kaan-
irg down his neck, and had his plow
shears sharpened.
Mr.. Carter, who was Republican nom
inee for treasurer In Kinghsher county
last fall, and who has a contest pending
against Chapman, who now holds the
office, filed a notice forbidding the county
commissioners to allow Chapman's sal
airy. But the county commissioners went
ahead and allowed the salary, Just the
same.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: There
vas q wreck a few days ago on Next
can railroad, and while the conductor was
wholly innocent Of any blame, ne jumped
from his train and fed for tbs United
States. The law OF Mexico makes II muir
der when any person is killed In wreck.
and this American knew he would be
found guilty Of murder II he stayed for
trial. He gives the following account OF
his escape: "As soon as realized what
had happened, although 1 did all in my
power to prevent 1t, I struck out afJot.
/ crawled into an empty boz car and
locked myself up uKrli night, when the
cars were taken to Monterey. where /
took a train as soon as possible for La
redo, Texas, arriving there few days
later. The papers reported me az among
the killed, and the superstition was that
I had been pFecipitated into Devils can
yon and lost. The reason I was 50 ex-
peditious in leaving was that had the
officers captured me / would have un-
been convicted OF murder"