The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-25
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

Work has begun on the terminal rail-
road at Oklahoma City.
| Tom Ferguson thinks that Dennis
FIynn's majority viii be 1l,eao.
The Cheyenne Sunbeam says that the
coming crop Of that section IS alfalfa
". o. Cromwell OF Enid doesn't claim
10 be a descendant OF Oliver Cromwell.
The Carnegie Eorary building a, Okla
homa City is now up to The first floor
joists.
Harry Stanley, farmer in Lincoln
| county, has twenty-five acres in castor
beans.
The Kingdsher land Office has over 400
applications for final proof pending be-
fore il.
Charley Horse. a young man who lived
near Bliss. was killed by the kick Of a
horse, recently.
There are more SCOTS in public life
| and politics in Oklahoma than there are
Smiths or Jones.
]. c. Boswell, who was injured at
Tecumseh last week by being cut in ths
arm, is getting well.
A travelling painless dentist had a big
ger crowd than Forrest did the night
| Forrest spoke in Watonga-
The II. z. church South of Oklahoma
City was dedicated Sunday. Bishop
James H. Key delivered the address.
Ambiguous item in the Taloga Advo-
cate: The editor is at Alva this week
and if there is anything wrong, come
| in"
Has Boscoe come to grief? A man who
ate live snakes was rotten-egged at
Shawnee the other night and driven ouS
| of town.
Shawnee Democrat: Judge E. D.
] L haTI
| the body Of a dead Injun six miles
north of town.
The Arapahoe Bee compliments Major
Stouch for deciding to make the pay
ment to the indians at the different farm
stations, instead of all OF it at Darling
ton.
The wind always has it in for church
es. Recently at independence two
churches were mudged of their founda-
tions, while not another building was
touched.
Eight months ago Miss Renalls of
Guthrie was bitten by a cat. The wound
healed On July the arm became in
famed and is giving her a great deal
OF trouble
Franklin Flora, aged IS, who died at
Waynoka, Oklahoma, recently, had lived
at HaGerstown, Indiana, Ogle county,
Illinois. Linn county, Kansas, and Lis
comb, Texas.
A molasses factory out at Geary will
make custom work at ten cents per gal
lon, or for half the mo.asses measure
cold. The future governors Of Oklahoma
are tapping sorghum today.
Okarche Times: Carl Won Merveldt left
Friday afternoon for a visit 10 his old
home in Germany He viii also visit
the Paris exposition and probably En-
gland and other points of interest to the
tourist.
An Oklahoma man who keeps count
says that in 1888 his hand was shaken
S67 times; in 1899, q times, and up TO
date this year 1,19S times, and the cam
paign has hardly begun. There was no
campaign in 1888.
c. 3. Noyes Of Custer county was nom
mated by the Democrats for county
treasurer by one vote. In making his
speech thanking the convention ne be-
came confused and told them he would
make the best sheriff the county ever
had
Carwile Journal: John Hines lost one
of his horses recently. He had just had
the animal shod and tied him BY a rope
which was around his neck. The horse
attempted to scratch his head with his
foot and caught the shoe in the rope and
in his struggles to get free killed him
self.
A country correspondent in the Geary
Bulletin says: -Four years ago the Pop
ulists were riding in the caboose, rec,in-
ing on cushions, their feet propped up
and smoking 10-cent cigars; this year
they are heaving coal into the engine
trying to get up steam enough for the
old thing to too once more"