The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-08
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Hennessey has raised 500 to secure high
grade entertainments for the opera house
during the winter.
The settlers in the Cherokee strip have
ten year limit in which 10 make mail
proof. and they are glad OF It.
1t is too bad that the yaSa;s cannot
have some OF that surplus wine wasted
on the removal OF Governor Barnes.
A free homes convention VIII be Aeld
IN Augusta. Woods county. October y
IN connection with the old soldiers re-
union.
As soon as Mr.. Eastman arrives IN
Enid he VIII be stripped and examined
closely to md whether he is a Flynn OF
Barnes man.
Rick Messan came mighty near beng
receiver. but it is hoped that ne aid not
come SO near that he went and spent
some OF the salary
Buffalo Jones recently bought twelve
buffalo in Texas. He paid 500 each Cor
them Most Of them he has shipped 70
Hamburg. Germany
The oalloonist could not make the as
cension at Hennessey recently because ~
the niga wind. Why didn't somebody
shoot some salt into the CID wtnd7
G. d. Azbin Of Ava found or the demo,
platform there a monster centipeae NEE
snches long he presented Il % The COL
lection OF the Northwestern Normal
At city election Aiva voted by 'srre
majority Sl6.ei9 bonds for water works
iihe town has purchased the Greenshurr
works Tor 5000, so this leaves II
$4,000 to move the plant and put Il IN.
A corporation Is mean thing. Near
Nhlte Rock the railroad builders dug A
( well and struck water quickly. but a
neigheoring farmer came over and roared
( The new well had drained his old one
dry.
Barnes, Flynn and jenkins held a con-
( ference TO decide on a man for census
supervisor. Barnes and Flynn aCree1 n
Outcelt. Jenkins agreed on Conklin. u;
Is said that Conklin will be appointed
The joke does not seem 10 be on jenkins
Mr.. Kramer OF the race track az Okla
homa City complains that the newspapers
of Oklahoma did not give the Patchen-
/ Gentry race sufficient advertising. II re-
ceiVeo more advertising than any single
event ever given in Oklahoma. and graf
utious advertising at that
Tom Reed and A J. BIddison had
conference at Oklahoma City the other
I day. After profound deiiberation Il was
session
the legislature 10 call the Secretary's 4
the interior attention to the fact that Ok
/ iahoma never consented 10 De governed.
The cotton raisers OF Oklahoma believe
that cotton ought 10 be much higher Ia
price. The fact that a false quotati
showing an immense increase was accept
ed and not questioned In the cotton ex-
changes of the south the other day seems
TO bear this belief out. Cotton Is leiow
its natural price
The nearest thing Oklahoma ever had
20 a watchworG was brought 10 mind
In New York the other day. A man in
the crowd which was welcoming Dewey
yelled: "Oh, Joe. here's your muller A
stranger standing near took the man by
the arm and said: What part a ok
lahoma are you from"
Georges Burghard professor OF agri-
culture In the University Of Paris. was
. In Guthrie the other day on his way
around the world. Leslie Nlblack asked
him II Dreyfus were guilty He answer
ed: Mon Dieu Oui. bat ze trial-it vas
Won farce celehre." II took two men 90
lead Leslie from the scene.
Bob NeI at present t. having a hard
tussle with a question which came 20 him
the other day. Would the Tagais be free
II they were part e. cur government I'M
willingly? And n they would not be free
under those circumstances. would the
Negrltos who would be governed BY
the Tagals be free7 And II the Tagais
should get their freedom by licking us.
and the Negritos should turn IN and
conquer the Tagals. would the Tagals be
free7