The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-14
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The first train into saltwater consisted
Of an engine. one freight caboose and one
coach.
A lecture for men only is sweeping a
! wide swath across the fair land Of Ok
| lahoma.
/ In Oklahoma the county assessor IS now
''prying into the financial condition of the
citizens"
Ripley is only sixty days old. but its
/ two banks have deposits which amount
TO $4,000.
I Dale Lytton is now mayor of saltwater.
while Colonel Tate still holds the scepter
at Blackwell.
Some one in authority in Oklahoma
should decide whether it is -'oats are up
or ''oats is up"
/ The Payne County Populist. of still
water, recently printed one Of the hand
/ soonest special editions ever turned out
from print shop.
/ Seventeen new cases of smallpox, it is
! reported, have developed on the Usage
! reservation and the annuity payment has
/ again been postponed
/ Ex-Secretary of the Interior Noble. who
! served under Harrison and was a mighty
good friend TO Oklahoma, is so i'll What
/ he has had to leave st. Louis for Florida.
/ why is it?" asks the editor of the
! Nardin Star, that the presence of a
/ sympathetic woman always makes d
/ man feel just little worse than he really
is?'
When bully gets killed in Oklahoma
/ the juries have a way of bringing in d
verdict of justifiable homicide which, Il
would seem, would cause q big slump in
/ the bully business eventually.
/ Payne county had but six cases of
smallpox, but the bill presented is for
! S1,20o. Two hundred dollars a case, The
! taxpayers are getting up in the night
to find time to weep all the wetness they
| feel.
/ The saloon men IN Saltwater have been
! hard hit this spring. On election days
/ saloons must close and on Sundays, and
! for the last three weeks the saloons at
saltwater have had TO close two days
in each week, there having been three
elections.
Notice published by Farmer ]. T. Fuer-
/ ter Of Bagley's Crossing: Notice TO all
harvesting machine agents. l am quite
! busy at this season of the year, and my
work in the field will not stand Interrupt
ton. I have therefore this day set aside
Monday of each week to received said
! agents. 1 have a broad, shady front
porch and rocking chairs. No hve-cent
cigars will be accepted. Nothing but
( tens go"
Judge Bilderback of wakita came down
to breakfast last April l and said to the
family: well. SO it's April Fool day. is
it. Well, today l don't get fooled" He
drank his coffee and continued: THE
man who will let himself be fooled is a
fool" He buttered his pancakes and
went on: That's my opinion 1 never
was fooled in all my born-great bowling
JehOsaphat!" He picked, glue, tooth
picks, scrap iron and Irvine out Of his
mouth, and said to his wife: What on
earth did you put In those pancakes?"
and then, when she smiled tenderly at
him, the Judge arose and, giving one
scream, fed the house.
There are times in every editors life
when he is left alone and filling his pipe
he sits down and thinks over how dan
gerous his profession is and how fortu-
nate he has been to escape. He remem-
bers how frequently he has to deal
plainly with vicious elements in society;
how only last week he denounced a cold
blooded murderer, and how the murderer
would spring at him, if he could get at
him. All editors sometimes think of these
things. Last week the editor of the
Cleveland Triangle was sitting alone,
thinking along these lines. He was sud
! uGHiy SUI Ch from DeAltlQ ana UdIteneQ
against the floor and having picked him
self up and assumed a beautiful attitude
of defense against his assailant discov-
cred that about ten square feet of plaster
right over his mead had dropped from the
ceiling.
Newkirk Herald: Monday night Of this
week a bold attempt was made to bur
glarize the hardware store Of ]. VI. Hoe
fer & Sons, at Kildare. II seems that
those engaged in the attempt were over
heard plotting the robbery, by a girl. who
Informed the proprietOrs thereof. They
promptly took measures to Illustrate the
plans of the thieves by posting guards
around the store. In accordance with
the plan Of those engaged therein, hte at
tempt to burglariZe the store was to be
made, Monday night, and at the appoint
ed time the robbers appeared. An en-
trance was soon affected, one Of their
number went through the store and
opened the front door TO admit the 9TH
ers, when those on guard closed in an
them. A number Of shots were ex-
changed, but fortunately no one was