The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-10
Outlines OF Oklahoma.


Ivan G. conkling, the statesman of
Enid. has bought an interest In flour
mill.
Callahan says that he never offered TO
eat a mule raw. He wants his frie-
aseed.
D. K. Cunningham. prominent citi-
zen of Kingfsher, viii move 10 Okla
homa City.
The Watonga Republican is kicking
for longer term of school than six
months. That is right
Homegrown watermelons have ap-
psared on the market at Ponca City,
and homegrown stomach-aches-
No one has detected any signs Of big
head in Dennis Flynn since he return
ed home. He is Just the same as ever.
The Populists will be able 10 handle
the Democrats at the Oklahoma City
convention. The Democrats are quar-
reling.
. The attendance from Oklahoma TO
Kansas City last week was not large
For instance. only 10 men went from
Shawnee.
On last Saturday the postoffice al
Downs, as old as any in Oklahoma, was
discontinued. The new town or CASH
ion absorbed 1t.
County Clerk Caffery telephoned Gov
error Barnes from the Oklahoma City
Jail the other day and asked the gov
ernor 10 help him get out.
Otto Friedemann OF Kiel was bitten
by a rattlesnake the other day. The
baby is two years old. and resisted
the poison and recovered.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. NJ. White, who took the prize as the
prettiest baby at the Augusta street
fair last year, died last week.
Outside of Oklahoma City the opinion
is that Governor Barnes staff would
make just as valorous Americans on the
field of battle as any other set Of men
Chairman of the Territorial Popul ST
Central Committee French is satisfied
with the nomination of Stevenson But
a whole lot Of the Oklahoma Populists
are not.
J. J. Mclean of Enid, who has loaned
100000 out for a loan company in Ok
lahona. reports that every dollar OF in
terest on that sum has been paid up to
June 1.
This is what Jake Admire tells the
farmers: Don't hold your wheat if you
are in debt: If the wheat IS not first
class quality; if you haven't a good,
safe place to put it"
The fact that the Sipes-Jacobs contro-
versy is to be settled al Oklahoma City
during the congressional convention,
means that the times will be hotter on
July 81 than the weather man thinks.
The millers say that the wheat COM
ing in now is cleaner, heavier, the ber-
ries harder and better filed than any
they have ever seen. The prolonged hot
spell during harvest is largely responst-
bic.
Duringl the parade at Oklahoma City
last week, which the iailer was watch
ing the birds in the jail took a crow
bar and made a hole in the brick wall.
But they did not work hard enough, and
were caught.
Once Web Davis went into Oklahoma
to speak for Dennis Flynn. He was
blasted hard by the Democratic papers.
who now. since Web came out for
Bryan, say he is the incest thing set
upon two legs.
The fellows who think that there is
much exaggeration about the wheat crbp
should interview VIII Shields of Ban
ner township, Garfield county, who has
marketed 100 bushels from So acres,
and the average was so bushels to the
acre and tested 60 pounds.
Some people claim that the age of
miracles is past Out in Custer county
q young man has been driving a pair Of
mules ten miles to his girls house and
ten miles home at night for the last five
years. The other day the young couple
were married. and a man standing out
in front where the mules were tied said
he heard the off mule say as plain as
could be: Thank heavenr'
Watonga Republican: Just now the
country around Watonga IS the pretti-
est place in the world. From the wood
lands on the north to the hills on the
south is presented a picture that might
be presumed to rival the beauty of Par
adise. The scene is a continuous stretch
of velvety green, of seas of waving
grass and growing corn, ihterspersed by
wheat stacks, wheat shocks thicker than
the grain stalks by the Nile" where
hundreds multiplied by hundreds of dol
lars worth of golden grain" await the
threshers coming TO transform them into
stacks Of silver. There is no place more
beautiful on this mundane sphere than
the country around Watonga. II Is mag
nifcent, grand. beautiful. inspiring. II
Paradise beats a scene in Blaine coun-
ty in May or June, it is a PRETTY place.