The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-07
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Manchester has bought some OF the old
jail cells formerly used by Hutchinson.
Bill Hackney got mad in a Cleveland.
| Ohio, court the other day and knocked
a lawyer down.
Miss Lura Moore is aspiring for the
Democratic nomination for county super
intendent in Greer county.
/ The last case OF smallpox at Arkansas
| City has disappeared. II is considered
a thing of the past in Oklahoma.
The chances OF free homes are so good
any more about II. But the fight is not
over.
There is story out to the effect that
| the Rock Island Mountain View extern
sion viii stop east Of Mangum and build
a town for a terminus.
| saltwater has a citizen who has fallen
| heir to a whole lot OF money. Which IS
lucky. But getting the money viii be
luckier.
The Carnegie library at Oklahoma City
is going to be classic. Norman will have
to get some tacks and pound down the
corners of that title of Athens
Nearly everybody in Oklahoma pre-
dicted that cotton would jump up in
! price lively, eventually. But a small per
| cent of the cotton raisers could or did not
! hold on
! The Enid Wave has Information that
| the Frisco extension from Blackwell will
not be known as the Frisco, but will be
| called the Blackwell, Enid and South
! western.
The Choctaw road has purchased the
| famous Lillian Russell. Some competent
hand should write a history of the Lii
| Ian Russell and deposit It with the His
| torical society.
The wind storm which went south last
Tuesday a week ago preceding the snow
storm made a lot Of people in western
| Oklahoma remember that their cycaves
were full of potatoes and other truck.
"If this thing keeps on in Oklahoma, -
a man writes to this office, the time
will come when federal office holder
| will be expected TO go before the police
! judge every morning and confess that he
has no right to live
| 1t seems that under recent act Of cor
| gress the government will furnish free
| trees to farmers 10 plant under certain
regulations. George NJ. Davine of Gar
| field county has received word from
| Washington that w. l.. Hall of the gov
| eminent tree department will arrive in
| Enid soon and viii ascertain the wants
| Of the farmers and explain the govern
ment tree plan 10 them.
empty trousers get up and walk away,
| but that 10 what happened, according to
! the Ell Reno News, which trelates this ::
| Last Monday morning A. n. Curry had a
| peculiar experience that cost him a pair
of trousers and 81 in cash 1t was the
purpose of Mr.. Curry to go east on the
Choctaw Monday morning. He awakened
| and got up at 8 O'clock, but finding IT so
early, returned to bed A little later
VIvni he O., ~,
sleeping and waking, he noticed his
trousers moving. His first idea was that
there was a breeze from somewhere
Then, he thought that there must be a
rat pulling at them. But they kept on
moving, and just as they started TO move
out Of the window he awoke to a realiza-
ton of the fact that some one outside
was the moving power. Then he jumped
from bed, yelled at the thief and made
for the door only to see burglar, pants
and money disappearing in the distance.
The thief had opened the window and
with a crooked stick twisted into the
trousers pulled them out without him
self entering the room. No clue to the
thief has been discovered.
Arkansas City Traveller: The railroad
men tell the following on two Of the
Santa FEES popular train men. The other
night 400, the evening passenger train
was CHASING along at merry clip with
Conductor Beers in charge and Carl Mac
on the right side Of the engine Near
Mulhall the train rounded a curve and
the headlight showed a mule calmly
walking down the track. There was Just
time enough to pull the whistle open ana
set the air when the mule breathed mis-
last. The pilot Of the engine struck him
and-well, it didn't do much to him but
what it did was plenty. The mule was
dissolved into numerous particles, some
larger and some smaller than others
The train was stopped short distance
beyond the place the mule had chosen for
mis- evening stroll and the train men
walked along the track looking for parts
of the mule. One of the men reached IN
between the trucks of a coach and his
hand came in contact with something
alive. It proved to be a leg and the
man began to pull it from the trucks A
voice coming from under the car said.
Hold on, boss" The man replied, What
are you doing under there?" BY this
time the leg and all had appeared from
under the car and the owner Of the voice
proved TO be a negro who said: L can't
help being here cause Use the man what
was ridin' de mule"