The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-14
Outlines of Oklahoma

Manchester in the county seat contest
n Grant county is for Medford-
The woodward postoffice has been made
IN international money order office
Bad as the winter was and as long.
a whole lot of house flies survived.
Corn planting in Oklahoma is three
weeks behind the usual time this spring
The old settlers at Kinghsher viii cele-
brate April %, the original opening day.
Several people at Enid insist that post
master Day of North Enid committed sui
eide.
An orphan home. with capital stock
of s. 900, for Oklahoma City has been char
tered
The proposition at Perry TO build a new
jail has fallen through, from lack of
interest
The people of Grant county will vote
either for or against changing the county
seat May 16.
Amos Ewing has condemned 1900 gal
Ions of gasoline in Enid and 100 gall
Ions in Kingfisher.
The next telephone line to be built will
be from Blackwell to Medford. and thence
south on the Rock Island.
The Frisco road ran through Editor
Allison's farm near Chandler and he do
mated the right of way.
AT jefferson the other day an osteo-
pathist was arrested for practicing medl-
cine without certificate.
Oklahoma has in the Kansas peniten-
tiary $50 convicts and it pays IS cents per
day TO keep each OF them.
Medford and Pond Creek are keeping
out travelling opticians and the like by
assessing against them a daily tax.
Jenkins is working himself into lather
for Judge Scott of Newkirk. who wants
Powers place in the Perry land office.
Nearly all the farmers in Oklahoma,
while believing they will have a corn crop,
are putting in few acres of kaffir 10
be sure of feed.
A grandfather at Enid was stricken
with the German measles. A man may
escape the measles for a few score years,
but they will finally get him.
Emigrant wagons are again seen in Ok
lahoma. They look miserable enough
now. In three years the occupants will
be running for county offices.
Auditor Hopkins has sustained Judge
Burford's decision in regard to warrants.
If Hopkins had not. Judge Burford might
have felt constrained to take an appeal
The Dawes commission is making a val
uation allotment, that is. the more valu-
able the ground an Indian selects the few
er acres he will be granted. Such dis
tribution can not be made equitable as
the commission will find.
Governor Barnes has consented that
hereafter the three members of the school
land leasing board shall be jointly Gus
todian of the school land funds instead
of himself This is what Secretary Jen-
kins has been grumpy about.
Enid Wave: They were talking OF the
recent smallpox scare on Bitter Creek.
Kansas, in F. ". Buttrey's store yester-
day, when the door was slowly pushed
open and a stout German farmer appear
ed. Advancing to the nearest counter.
he addressed the brunette young man in
solemn tones:
II hat der smallpox
He was interrupted by a storm Of pro-
tests.
Good gracious. man; don't come in here
with that disease Get out Of here at
once! Go home or well call the police"
MY name is Schneider. say, and hat
der smallpox
well. you can't stay here. then" and
the crowd made a rush for the open
door.
"Oh, you are crazy" cried the German,
jumping up and down in perfect frenzy
Of excitement. you are crazy! hat der
small pox of butter dot vas ordert! 1t
is out there in mein wagon"
''Oh, is that alp" said the brunette
young man. with sigh of relief. and
Mr.. Schneider was invited to accompany
a crowd to a place of liquid refreshment
down the street. But he wouldn't.