The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-17
Outlines of Oklahoma.


Big Nose of the Cheyenne tribe got
jagged al Geary the other day and was
pulled.
The anti-saloon league at wakita which
was organized last week, numbers sixteen
members.
The Geary Bulletin IS in favor OF ex-
pansion-expanding MeKinley's term 10
eight years.
W. E. Sweetser brought into Stroud re-
Gently a cotton plant that was seven feet
tall and bore 125 bolls.
The editor of the Walfta Herald says
that the anti-saloon league does not aim
at immediate prohibition in Oklahoma.
The young business men of Oklahoma
continue to go into the country for wives.
The latest is a young man OF Ell Reno.
Dad" Hinshaw OF Cloud Chief the
other day bought a horse FOR Two bits
The horse was near death He viii re-
| cover.
Bill Alison Of the Chandler Telegram
says that Harry Gilstrap Of the Chand er
News once apologized TO Governor
Barnes.
When Tom Cook of Cloud Chief was on
the Pacific coast recently he saw the Nc
Culloch which fred the first shot IN Ma
Mia bay.
A correspondent in the Geary Bulletin
| in writing up the oysters at festival
says: Say people! The way they disap-
peared was caution"
The Okarche Times predicts shortage
Of sauerkraut this winter. The tobacco
crop is short and the cabbagt Is all be-
ing made into cigars.
II was so windy last Wednesday IN
some parts of Oklahoma that threshers
| - 11-N g. 1rx
was worse than Wednesday.
The Hennessey Clipper and the Hen
nessey Kicker are agitating for a new
and permanent city building to take the
place of the one which burned recently.
The wise man is the man who is not
waiting just now for slest on the roof be-
fore he reflects that the chimney on
the house needs patching up for the win
ter.
The Jefferson Rustler says that grass
hoppers have ruined some of the wheat
in Grant county and have been particu-
larly hard on wheat sown on corn stalk
ground.
G. D. Moss Of KInghsher county put in
a bill for S173 for services as member of
the county examiners board for several
years past, but the commissioners refused
to allow It
w. C. Barnhart OF Beatrice, Nebraska,
arrived at Okarche last Sunday night. He
was so taken with the country that be-
fore Monday night he had purchased a
farm of Moses Litwiller for $500.
F. B. Hoyt of Chandler recently made
a trip through the country and he re-
aff1rms the report that farmers are hold
ing their cotton. At some farms he saw
as high as a dozen bales of cotton.
The Alva Pioneer does not think that
the two men recorded as voting against
the water works bonds In that town
really intended 10 vote against them. The
Courier thinks the men were drunk and
made mistakes.
There seems to be a good deal OF a
row at Ell Reno because Mayor Hensley
gets $50 a month salary. Twenty dollars
will not make anybody plutoorat and If
a mayor attends to his business he earns
that and a good deal more every month.
Birth notice in the Hennessey Clipper:
Fred Fromholz is setting 'em up on ac-
count OF a big something at his house,
forgot in the excitement to tell US
whether 1T was a boy or girl" When
the editor OF the Clipper gets baby of
his own he will drop that use of the word
''it'' in connection with babies.
Kingisher Free Press: Attorney P. s.
Nagle Is leading off in an effort to Sc
cure the Baptist college for this town. It
is proposed to raise a cash bonus of 5000
for this purpose. One condition is that
the location OF the college must be south.
and within a mile of the city limits
This will afford those who have steadfast-
ly refused to do anything for the King
fisher college solely, as they claim, on ac-
count ow it's location, chance to show
their hands.
Tom Fry's News: The Tonkawa In
dams were paid a part of their lease
money for their land last Friday and It
wasn't long before a whole raft of fell
lows were out to their wigwams to coll
lect. The Indian isn't always prompt TO
pay, not nearly so much so as he Is to
buy, and 1t behooves the creditor TO get
next to him just as soon as he gets his
coin and camp with him until he shells
out Some Of them, of course, are will
ing to pay their obligations. but they are
exceptions to the rule. An Indian is a
RATHER TO buy. He Will buy anything you
want him to so long as you charge II.
but when the day of reckoning comes
he is as cold as an ice wagon and about
as slow. The Tonkawas are about an
average-perhaps a little better, for they
haven't as large an income as some of the
tribes.