The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-02
Outlines OF Oklahoma

A good many Of the peach trees in Ok
I lahoma this year had a second crop of
blossoms.
Tweaty-four students have enrolled at
the University al Norman this month
/ The total is now 265.
No one via bet even that Ne1 VIII
carry the territory. ana mighty few bets
with BIG odds given are taken.
Ed Merchant new paper. the cleo
+ Chronoscope, steps 10 the front rank Of
Oklahoma papers the first issue.
The departm ent is figuring on putting
IN stamp cancel ing machine for St
master sam Murphy. at Oal homa "
Only 20 people in Kingdsher could be
found ont of a total Of 219 10 vote
against the water and electric light
bonds.
Jake Admire has gone into the whlts-
face yearling steer business He Just
/ figured out ne would ike 10 make q little
money.
A slick pig thief operates at Okarehe. He
enters pen. sticks ana kills The pig be-
fore leaving the pen; the pig hash time
10 squeak
The argument is made for one eandi-
date for judge in Oklahoma that white
he is very young. he car look as solemn
as anyone.
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make their final stand in Kay county,
but some one scared them out Of it. TIC
( Nen campo gn has lacked a good many
things
The only even bet on the national cleo
ton in this part OF the country Is re-
ported from OkaFche. T. S. Seward BET
( c. j. Woodson that Bryan would BE
( elected, even.
Democrats in Cleveland county are so
hard pressed that they have sent cut a
report that Mr.. Craig, the Republican
I candidate for sheriff, has Withdrawn
from the race.
The campaign has now reached the
point where Jim Somebody and oscar
( Blank get into print vigorously denying
that they have been promised the place
of deputy sheriff.
The funeral of the late Mr.. Hugh
/ Owens, fusion candidate for the lesis-
/ lature was the most largely attended
ever held in Kay county. Mr.. Owens
was 43 years old.
/ For the season ending August q. 1919.
/ in Mountain View 962 bales Of cotton
/ were marketed. IL is estimated that this
/ win be doubled by the end of the pres
! ent season, August 81, 1901
/ On the place Of c. f. C0lcord at ok
I lahoma City there has grown from a
/ single seed a melon vine which has COW
I cred a space Of 100 feet across. Some
( of the branches are sixty feet long, and
| it has on fl go melons Of different sizes.
/ 1t is a pie melon vine.
/ A good many men in Oklahoma have
( been called 10y their party papers cur
/ next country treasurer" and Our next
( county clerk, who VIII read the files
/ over some day next week with great
anguish, while the other fellow is re-
/ ceiving applications for the deputyship.
Enid Wave: Nessrs. H. H. Bond and
! J. W. Wheeler were out duck hunting at
noon Mr.. Wheeler's gun sort Of
I cartridge. blowing the shot and wads
Up IN the gun-barrel a short distance;
+ he placed another shell in position and
; fired at a duck The gun-barrel ex-
/ ploded on the under side right into the
/ palm of Wheeler's left hand. splitting
the hand between the two middle fingers
to the thumb and tearing almost all the
flesh cut Of the palm. Mr.. Wheeler was
brought TO town as quickly as possible.
Dr. Mayberry dressed the wound. The
hand is crippled for life and there is
much danger of blood poisoning setting
in The doctor picked out numerous
pieces OF the gun-barrel and many shot.
I The boys were using dynamite cartridges
and it is thought the air between the
old shell and the new enc could not be
forced out. causing the gun TO explode.
I Mr. Wheeler Is suffering very much pain
at the present time.