The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-04
Outlines OF Oklahoma.


Some of the enumerators in Oklahoma
have not yet completed their work.
Last Wednesday at Augusta the Their
mometer went UP to 11s in the shade.
! S. Pearson brought the first wheat in
10 Mulhall. II tested hfty-nine pounds.
Dick Plunket has landed. The land
ing plank was the beef contract for the
Usage nation.
A subscriber has presented the editor
of the Cleveland Triangle with couple
/ of picked centipedes.
NJ Depew, the section laborer on the
/ Choctaw. who was run over last week.
has died CT his injuries.
! Near Augusta. Woods county, party
( IS already organizing 10 get claims to-
! gether in the KioWa country.
! Most of the Democrats who have been
! celebrating at Oklahoma City will take
! a flying leap to Kansas City today.
! John Rudlin of McLoud, who has been
in Europe, warns Americans 10 steer
| clear of Paris unless they can speak
French.
Payment to the Usage Indians took
place last week and times were hvelieE
on the reservation than they have been
for months.
Dennis Flynn, at his home in Guthrie,
has two measly cherry trees that he
spends greater effort on than he does
on politics
The time OF year has arrived when the
Oklahoma editor, if ne eats all the gift
peaches brought in, dies sad and I'M
timely death
Under the heading, "a Quiet We'd
ding the Shawnee Quill chronicles the
marriage of James z. Christian and
Miss Mary Wilson, deaf mutes.
The Pawnee Times-Democrat regrets
that even if statehood comes at the next
session, it will be too late 10 permit
Oklahoma ever 10 vote for Mckinley.
The Kiel Press has found an old man
in those parts who wants a wife, and
says he has a 169 that is not infested
with chintz bugs. tumble bugs. or any
other kind of bugs.
William Skaggs of Shawnee died last
week Word has been sent to his father
who is prospecting for gold IN Ceptrai
America, and 10 his brother, who is a
solder in the Philippines.
A. A Borrego, who is engineer at the
Indian school at Pawhuska, secured his
position through the influence Of Gov
ernor Roosevelt. Borrego was Rough
Rider from New Mexico.
w. P. Campbell, whom everybody In
paper out of the Kiel Press. Campbell
is a mighty good newspaper man, no
matter where you put him on the STAFF.
A man in the saloon business at Kiel
sold his saloon 10 Enid parties, VINO
didn't GO out to see it. When they ar
rived the seller had gone, but they dis
covered that he had a partner and they
are now trying TO make themselves be-
lieve that half a saloon is better than
none.
Enid Wave: 1t wouldn't hurt the ap-
pearance of the Fourth of July parade
the least bit if the three-story weeds
were moved down on Henry avenue and
other streets of the city. The citizen who
will not NOW the big weeds growing
around his premises no doubt thinks
there is nothing 20 strive for in this
world but money and he is down town
hustling for Ii while his children and
chickens get lost in the surrounding
weed patch.
Ponca City Courier: John T. Hill. one
of the old, original settlers west of the
city, used to be among the Comanche
Indians, where he learned their language
and did them many a valuable service.
He has received notice that on account
of the service he rendered the tribe he
has been given, under act of congrt SIS,
an allotment Of 100 acres and full
share in other lands amounting to 1s0
acres each, in the Kiowa and Comanche
reservations soon TO be opened to settle
ment. This is a deserved recognition Of
a worthy man