The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-22
Outlines OF Oklahoma


Cotton picking has begun in southern
Oklahoma The yield viii be all right
The young man who was tarred and
feathered al Cloud Chief hasn't come
back yet,
produce Macbeth" for the pleasure Of
the citizens
Over al Cushing one man is known as
Peanut Sam and another man as
Castor Bean BiIi.''
The Union Labor men Of Oklahoma
City get out a very neat weakly called
the oklahoma Labor Signal
One OF the best benefits Oklahoma has
had this year is a scarcity of cfrcuses-
Oklahoma's money is all at home.
There is a movement on foot to par
don the men convicted OF burning the
Indians in the Seminole country.
An Enid man has returned from the
east with one of these new mans shirt
waists, but ne is afraid TO wear Il.
Tom Ferguson, the new territorial
chairman. is going 20 show the boys a
campaign that viii surprise them.
The local bosses al Enid haven't vet
pounded Isenberg into putting Bob
Nefs name up at the head Of the
Waves columns.
1t is said that the men holding fed
eral Jobs in Oklahoma through the in
fiuence OF Cyrus Leland OF Kansas viii
lose out on a second term.
Gus Ladue, according to the Pawnee
Democrat, is the French member of the
Otoe tribe and weighs 100 pounds.
A minister at saltwater recently
preached sermon on this subject: a
Burning Question-What Shall We do
With the Negro?'
The people in Custer county are very
much taken with Major Stouch's new
plan of paying the Indians their annuity
at different stations.
The Union Labor men will hold a big
meeting at Oklahoma City on Labor
Day. All three candidates for congress
have been invited to speak.
There is a good deal of typhoid in the
territory, when everybody has a tea
kettle and could with very little trouble
boil drinking water during the dry spell.
Captain Shippey of MulhaIl. has with
drawn from politics. He says that the
whole political machine of the country
al particles included, is as rotten as can
be.
If too many OF the Oklahoma farmers
let their vehicles stand out Of doors in
this hot weather and out of doors when
the rains come heaven will shut OF the
wheat crop next year sure.
The long dry spell is having it's effect
on poetry. In a poem 10 a bride an
Oklahoma poetess says:
Oh, may her life be cloudless
AS the deep blue sky above.
The editor of the Cleveland Triangle
says he was in Saltwater the day Of
the political parade for Nef and he
heard the marshal of the day instruct
ing the drivers to keep their wagons
about twenty feet apart in order to
stretch the pageant out.
Stroud Messenger: The white and col
ored children of the Golden Valley s.
trict are being laugh in the same school,
house alternately. The white children
have four months term of school, and
then the colored children have also q
chance to gain learning during four
months at the same humble log house.
Stroud Messenger: Old Peter Petroski.
who has done severe penance for hav-
ing kept a bagful of money which he
found on the highway in Poland many
years ago, who claimed to having seen
the evil one often. and kept out of his
claws by continual prayers is dead. He
lived a miserable life on Deep Fork,
spent little of his wealth, and was gen
orally pitied or despised. He was forced
from his old home in Dakota several
years ago by his superstitious country
men, who claimed that he was often
visited by old Satan.