The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-01
Outlines Of okiahoma


All the papers arc talking Of INA Daisy
Cook. said TO be . postmsstreas IN Okla
hoTna.
A tract has been secured near Okla
homa City on which will be burnt gumbO
for railroad ballast.
| Elmer Brown insists that hot winds are
necessary over the bufEalo grass regiows
In order to cure the grass.
II Frank Greer and Dennis Flynn are
determined 20 fight, Dennis ought TO be
allowed step-ladder privileges.
Jerre Johnson during the excitement has
temporarily lost sight of his great cam
paign against rum In politicians.
Frank Greer ara Dennis Flynn Josh
ed. each other recently and the newspa-
pers made an encounter" out Of 1t.
Juan Ramanez. VINO IL described as
Mexican ''of the better Glass; has opened
up chile establishment in Chandler.
Secretary Jenkins says that deposits OF
the school land funds will soon be made in
the bank Offering the best interest on daily
deposits.
The sale Of stamps at Oklahoma City
for the first seven months in 1se in
creased Il per cent over the same period
year ago.
Colonel Perry Hodgson Of Enid wants
the tom roof on the opera house painted
the tin roof on the opera house painted.
on the rest Of the town.
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman charges
that the Ell Reno bail team has motto
like this: Earn a run If you can; II
not, take II by main force"
The cattlemen OF the Usage reservation
have formed q secret league to hght the
taxes imposed by Pawnee county, which
they claim are extortiouake.
Cotton picking begins In southern Okla
homa this week. Some Of the bolls are
opening before the cotton - matured and
the yield for the first picking viii not be
heavy.
E J. Cromwell, a minister, and George
shafner of Stroud have had fight. Shat
ner is a saloon-keeper and all the Metho-
dists nave started a war on the saloons
because Of the encounter.
For It's treatment Of the grain train,
Oklahoma will not soon forget the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad. Dennis Flynn
will be ordered not to use that road in
going to Washington, even IL he has
pass over Il.
A strange part about the opposition 20
Flynn Is that 1t Is greatest IN the Popu-
list papers published In southern Kansas.
The Popuhst papers In Oklahoma do not
speak half 50 unkindly Of him as do
those IN Kansas.
Dx-Uudted States Marshal Nix recently
visited Denver and one Of the papers re-
lated with awe that he had In his time
killed twenty-five men. The reporter add
ed that no one would suspect II, as Nix'S
hands were small and white like a wom-
ans.
The territorial board Of education met
at Oklahoma City day before yesterday
and decided to hold the conductors and
instructors examinations in connection
with the eTachers' Territorial institute
during the holidays, instead OF in the
spring, as has been the custom.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal says
the Illinois man comes to Oklahoma 10
escape the all-corn condition; the man
from Texas to escape the all-cotton conda-
ton and the man from Dakoha to escape
the all-wheat condition. Oklahoma Is a
running an agricultural department store.
Mr.. Jenkins and his friends assert posi-
lively that Mr.. F1ynns statement In his
jefferson speech to the effect that the leg
islature had found Secretary Jenkins
guilty OF misappropriating $500 in fees. Is
a mistake. II II Is q mistake Dennis
Flynn will be manly enough to correct It.
It takes courage sometimes to confess an
error. and there is nothing cowardly about
Dennis Flynn.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The
Choctaw now has two surveying corps in
the field. One Is engaged on a line run
ming from Weatherford to Amarillo, Tex,
and the other is surveying a route from
Calvin, /. T., and Dennison, Tex. This
latter route passes through rich coal lands
and will afford the Choctaw an oppo.-
tunity to drop the aKty apronstrings and
find a market for her coal through COM
peting lines at Demison. The Choc,aw
might have built from South McAlester.
but the M. X. and It's charter prohibits
the construction Of a competing line TO
parallel its railway through the b. /. 7.
for a number of years, within a distance
of twenty-five miles and In order TO break
away from Katy and reach Dennts5n
and new friends. she proposes branching
from Calvin.