The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-06
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Just at present the miIiiners hold a mo-
nopoly on the personal columns OF the
Oklahoma papers
A whole lot OF the newspapers are
saying that F'lynn's denomination will be
merely formality.
Tom Ferguson is a born newspaper
man. His Watonga Republican in It's
new dress is q. model.
F. S. Cashion says that the body Of his
son Roy viii be sent from Arlington Gem
etery to Oklahoma the last Of March
Thursday the saloon men meet at Guth-
RTE TO examine the Anti-Saloon League
through a telescope and figure whether
it is going to strike or not.
Charles F. Johnson of Perry, who has
just returned from the Philippines,
| brought the editor Of the Perry Enter
prise some Filipino cigars.
Grandpa jacob Stout of Wakita died
last week while sitting in his chair. His
wife had just left him to so into an adj
joining room. They had lived together
fifty years.
Some one stole a horse from Jack So
renson, near Perry. Sorerson missed the
horse, took his bicycle and pursued and
got his horse. 1t pays to have a bicycle
around the house.
Nearly all the papers in the vicinity
give full accounts of the suicide OF B.
Il. Dillingham;, near Medferd, last week.
It is the Single sentiment that the deed
was caused by the reaction from heavy
drinking.
J. W. Nottingham of CARRIER had some
fine chickens which mysteriously disap-
peared one by one He set trap with
common meat, but the thief didn't bite.
He killed a chicken and tried that, and
got a big wolf
G. ". Seger of CARRIER was changing a
boar from one pen to another. when the
beast attacked him, ripping MP one leg
and wounding him in the other. Seger
saved his life by reaching a straw stack
and getting on top Of ii.
Forty members of the Cheyenne tribe
are visiting the Poncas. They stopped at
Perry and the local man on the Enter
prise saw some handsome squaws. He
attributes their good looks TO the fact
that they are not fun bloods.
Mention has been made of thunder and
lightning during snow-storm in Okla
hOma last Tuesday. At Hennessey, ac-
cording to the Clipper, lightning struck
the smoke stack on the mill climbed
down to the boiler. leap-frogged to a
steam pipe, knocked Engineer Harding
down, then up again. clambered out of
the house and chawed the bay window off
the house of Attorney Brown.
One man in Oklahoma, writing to a
paper, says that the smallpox is in such
a lightform that everybody should have
it. Smallpox is nos the terrible disease
people make out. The Objectionable fea-
ture of it is that when z man gets it.
the whole community runs from him,
nearly all his friends desert him. and he
is packed off, not TO a hospital as in
tropical countries, but to a pest house.
Winter wall of Franz Loosen as report
ed by the Okarche Times: The rain
pours down with a ceaseless moan, and
L sit in my library all alone, and II wea-
rily read the Police Gazette. and say TO
myself, 20, the rain is wet" 1 turn
down the wick of the smoking lamp and
I say to myself 80, the rain is damp"
And a man can sit on his soggy porch,
and smoke and smoke at a two-eent
torch; and he can't sit out in his garden
swing and MARBLE all day like bird on
the wing; 1 often wonder why ice is
cold; I've seen it too chilly for one to
hold; 1t makes 1t unpleasant for one and
all, the poor and the wealthy, the great
and the small. This world would be
pleasant and smooth and nice, if heaven
would send us some lukewarm ice. When
the SHOWS on the ground it dazzles the
sight, and gives you the headache. be-
cause it is white. Why isn't it purple
Why isn't It pink? Why isn't it blue
like indelible ink? o, what is the sense
of the snow being white, when it gives
you the headache and dazzles the sight.
The winds would be pleasant If it
wouldn't blow; but as fast as they come
they seem anxious to co. there ism [
much sense In this tearing along, as
though on an errand TO right some huge
wrong. When I think of such things then
my spirit grows sick; always am ready
to file a big kick.