The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-18
Outlines OF Oklahoma


The last statehood convention IN South
! AIoAlester for eighteen years has been
held.
At Chickasha it costs a man twenty
| five dollars to carry a pistol IS deco
ration.
BIZ cross stiG thinks that If he had
/ been nominated instead OF Bob Nef, he
would have defeated Flynn.
Some Of the farmers in Canadian
| county are suu threshing. and viii be
] Christmas day. If II doesn't snow.
some very poor dramatic companies
I are touring Oklahoma and are being
roasted TO q fragile by the newspapers.
! NJ Connolly, an old soldier of Okarche,
+ while sitting in a store waiting for some
I one, fell to the floor dead. Of heart fall
ure.
Harry Walker. Of Oklahoma City. be-
| comes physician to the Osages on jan
/ uary l. He was selected by Agent
( 2Iitscher.
( Blackwell has turned loose the county
/ seat buzz-saw liz Kay county and the
/ coming winter in that county VIII be a
warm one.
/ J. W Casey. who is now publisher Of
/ the Perry Republican, is out in card Of
! salutati0n and Arthur Boles is out in a
! card of farewell.
/ John Fields Of the Agricultural col
I lege at Saltwater viii deliver an ad-
I dress before the Farmers Institute at
/ E. Reno December %.
! The Perry Republican cracks Guthrie
! a couple for the Guthrie merchants
/ scheme of billing Perry with advertise
! ments Offering free railroad fare.
! The FL Reno News doesn't want the
name of Oklahoma changed TO "Jeffer-
/ son" And no one else does, apparently,
/ outside of the Indian territory and Mis-
I souri,.
! The public would ike to know more
! about that Billings coal discovery. II IS
said that the coal hole has been sur
/ rounded by a high board fence and the
( public excluded. Has coal really been
/ found?
If the Kiowa country doesn't open
/ until August q. the average. Oklahoma
I farmer can raise wheat crop at home,
get down into the new country, get an
other claim and put in the next year s
wheat crop there.
Two El Renoites shot three times at
some decoy ducks, and one Of the boys
remarked: Those are the first ducks
I ever saw so balanced that they keep
sitting up straight after being killed.
And then ne waded out after them.
The other night a Rock Island train
Z struck. a wagon lDdQeO Win Coal, htilGA
both horses and knocked the wagon 10
smfthereens. The driver Of the wagon.
after the accident, was seen running
away as fast as his legs would let him.
It is surmised that ne had stolen the
coal and was making away with it.
# the citizens Of the Indian territory,
as evidenced by their news papers, get
rid Of a lot of their prejudices and feel
half way kindly to the general govern
ment, they may get statehood in ten
wears. If they continue to sneeF at
everything outside of Arkansas, Texas
and the Indian territory, 1t may be
twenty years. maybe longer.
Teeumseh Republican: An indian buck
and his squaw. both too full for utter
ance, made a ridiculous exhibition Of
themselves upon the streets last Thurs
day. The woman was the drunken Of
the two, and as her liege lord drove
through the streets with one hand. he
held her on the wagon seat by clasping
her tightly around the neck with the
other arm They drove into a wagon
yard and when taken out of the wagon
the woman went sprawling to the
ground. where she rolled and tumbled
around in the dirt. unable to hold her
head I'd or keep her face out Of the
barnyard trash. while her less intoxi
Gated husband looked on as an amused
spectator and their two little children,
left in the wagon, repeatedly called for
mammal mammal Verify, there IS
work for missionaries" here at home.