The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-26
Outlines Of okIsboms

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ne motto Of oklahoma rsasly cukhk T.
be. ssThls Il no ons erop eounlry.'
1 The syrian colony. cut IN woods eos1n-
ty. records Est fight regularly once =
week.
The okiahema city eouneIl b SIN burn-
Ing midnight OF dsvising means to erect
. city buiIding.
| The two words '.So Insurance.. Il be-
coming rarer and rarer In accounts OF
oklahoma fires.
The people Of tns Indian Territory are
now running over one an0gner to declare
for single statehood.
| Robert Norvel Is travelling over OkiahO-
ma lecturing On the ground that he Was
born in Manila Bay.
There are now more honne-seekers in
Oklahoma than there has svsr been ex-
cept on the opening days.
An old colored farmer Brought in the
first bale OF cotton to Guthrie this year.
He VIII Be given 8 premium. /.
The Man vita the Hoe has some sriev-
anees, but they do not compare to those
Of the man with the pitch-fork.
At a meeting OF colored men IN Okla
homa recently condolences were sent the
The city council of Alva win call an
election to vote on the question OF issu-
ing S1e,ooo In bonds, for wateF-works-
Tha old soldiers reunion ct Stroud
was unanimously In favor OF prosecut-
ing the war In the Philippines with vigor.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal very
foFcefully and tTuthfully says that Okla
homa Is unique in that she has no duii,
slow town.
The last legislature appropriated $500
for the encampment Of the Oklahoma MI
iitia. II will be held at Guthrie during
the street fair there.
Woodward county has now In trust for
the support OF the pubhc schools H.&0
This is 500 for each district. and the mon
ey Is still coming In.
The public instructor at Waukomis Is
planning a full high school course for the
pupils OF that city. including instructions
in German and Spanish.
One Of the features OF Oklahoma City's
street fair will be pageant Of young
ladies, each representing a state and
territory.
G. w. Carrico of Oklahoma City rents
his farm, and the crop Of broom corn this
year will bring more than what the farm
was considered worth a year ago.
The Republican papers Of the territory
appear to be a unit for Tom Doyle for
the fusion nominee for congress, and all
Tom has to do is to get the Populist and
Democratic crowd for him.
Watonga has been laboring under the
deiusion that the kissing bug did not exist.
One visited the town last week and bit
child on the lip, and Tom Ferguson Is now
sleeping with his head in a gunny-sack.
Officer Bartell, who arrested King. who
WAS later released, says that he found
in Kings wagon two pillows, one with
a case on, the other without a case. The
case found was similar to that one in
which the severed head Of Eick was
found.
A man at Watonga sued his wife for
divorce and his lawyers had the local
newspaper print the notice this way:
you are hereby notified that on the 9Th
day Of August, 1899. the plaintiff filed In
the office of the clerk OF the district court
in and for Blaine county, o. T., his petit
ton for absolute divorce from you, the
said defendant, on the grounds Of ADUI-
Terry"
Ponca City Courier: Last Saturday,
Fred c. Heron, a young fellow IS years
old, traded three horses to ]. w. Robb,
the horseman. at his place near White
Rock. The young fellow was so anxious
to trade and offered the horses so cheap
that Mr.. Robb's suspicious were aroused
as to the title to the horses. He finally
traded, but gave a check for the money
paid as difference, followed the young
fellow into White Rock, and telephoned
Sheriff Foster that he had a horse thief.
The sheriff Immediately went up and got
him. 1t was soon afterwards learned that
the three horses In possession OF Heron
had been stolen from farmer named
Mckee, living near Eewkirk. and yester-
day Sheriff Pierce, of ay county. came
down after Heron, taking him up to New
kirk. Heron admits knowing the horses
were stolen, but claims he didn't steal
htem. He formerly lived at Fayetteville,
Arkansas