The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-21
Outlines of Oklahoma.


Bob Nen is right about the Dawes COM
mission. It IS TOO interminably slow.
Tom Fry of Tonkawa is in favor OF
bouncing Roberts of Utah from congress.
The Hutchinson Southern intended 10
go east from Cross and graded about a
mile
The Pond Creek vidette lost a sub
scriber because it printed that letter from
Bob IngeFsoll in his new location.
The Rock Island rails were to reach
Billings yesterday, but the track-lay ers
were probably delayed by the weather.
The death of Farmer Taylor OF the rail-
road near Waukomis is another instance
that tramps are not always harmless.
The Missouri Pacific. if it breaks into
the territory at all, will probably pass
through Enid southeasterly to Guthrie.
The Nuestion of what road is behind
the Augusta branch will soon be settled.
The road which furnish the rails viii De
lit"
Some man could make a fortune IN
western Oklahoma by finding a chemical
which would neutralize the gypsum IN
water.
Sid Clarke has good-sized fight on him
and ne will have TO scratch gravel Il he
gets TO 90 to Washington as statehood
lobbyist.
If the Missouri Pacific gets the
Augusta grade the Santa Fe and probably
the Rock Island will break in the same
direction.
Some former Nebraskan should write a
letter 10 Thurston congratulating him on
his marriage and put in postscript for
free homes.
rf-I.
Supreme court gives him a distinct sd-
vantage in the race for the United States
attorneyship.
Saltwater has been such a fine town
without a railroad that when she gets
one the country expects her to just get up
and outshine all others.
J. ]. Burke, editor Of the Norman
Transcript, ought to have a daily paper
somewhere in Oklahoma. He has a nose
that was cut out for news.
Tom Ferguson's catch of the rumor that
Scott and Jenkins had fallen out by agree
ment in order TO keep Flynn from fighting
Scott's confirmation was a funny one.
Just at present there is a wave of crime
running over the territory. Perhaps the
courts are not quite vigorous enough In
their sentences, or the juries are too lax.
The hold-up at Dixie near Cleveland the
other day, which the victims thought at
first was a joke. was in fact one Of the
funniest things that ever happened In Ok
lahoma.
Judge MoAtee and Temple Houston had
a wordy encounter at Enid the other day.
The first formalities of Texas and the
first families of Maryland will have TO
get together.
Those papers in Oklahoma which are
for the anti-saloon league are rejoicing
in the way the league cut down the ma
jority of the Republican candidate for
lieutenant governor in Ohio.
Frank Dalton, one of the Dalton broth
ers, was in Tonkawa the other day. He
is a sign painter. Tom Fry looked him
over and said his appearance would indi-
cate considerable determination.
The man who spread the story through
Cleveland county that a mule-buyer from
the Transvaal was In Norman and got the
farmers to bring in their bray-factories,
il caught should be put in the violent
ward of the asylum.
Okarche Times: George Swain, one of
our farmers whose word is taken without
questions marks put after 1t, says he has
a curiosity on his farm in a duck thar
crows. Last spring one of his hens
wanted TO set, and hunt as he would he
could find but twelve eggs to put under
her, so he made up the required number
by putting in a duck egg. In due time
all the eggs Matched out. George says
on his honor that the twelve chicks were
all hens and as soon as they were ola
enough to leave the mother hen, would
fall in line and follow the duck around
the barnyard. The duck. when he wishes
to take a swim, will scratch on the
ground and cluck until he has called the
hens together, when he will lead off TO the
tank and plunge in, and the hens row
up on the edge and enjoy the perform
anca.