The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-28
Outlines of Oklahoma.

weatherford has its first case of the
| disease-a very mild case OF varioloid
There is some sort of scandal down at
| Shawnee, and the scandal is on a Clergy
man
Some time this week President Gowan
OF the Choctaw is to inspect that road L.
Oklahoma.
The Commercial Bank Of Ponca City
has made application to become the First
National Bank.
are creeping back into Guthrie from a
six months, exile.
The vote of Custer county this year
will probably be four times what it was
N 1898, the country has settled Up so.
The Weatherford Commercial club has
set aside Friday as ladies' day at the
club, and cigars for that day are barred
Tom Ferguson says that the agri-
cultural colleges which used 10 fight the
free homes bill have GENE around and are
for it.
When man in western Oklahoma
mounted on a horse, declares that he
must be going, he says: We'll, must
get a jirk on me-"
An Oklahoma boy, writing home from
Luzon, says ne has the world for a mat
tress and the sky for a blanket when
he retires at night.
A mans wagon overturned in a creek
in Custer county the other day and
country correspondent said that the man
had uperconiubdubbery."
The Ponca City band has worked hard
and perfected itself on its own hook and
now the community is asked to gives Il
life. And Ponca City should.
If judge will hunt long enough he can
find in the organic act Of Oklahoma 4
distinct prohibition against planting po-
tatoes in the dark of the moon
The local editor of the Weekly Wealth
erford Chronicle announces that the cd
itor-in-chief IS sick and as a consequence
the paper is more newsy than usual.
The editor of the Taloga Advocate says
sagely: a national bank or two would
no doubt do well in this town. People,
strike US almost daily 10 borrow a few
Wheels
There will probably be some difficulty
in securing Taylor Kinks relatives to
testify against him. They are somewhere
in Texas, and they probably do not want
to testify.
The government is selling in Oklahoma
a large number of the big colored Uni
ted States maps the best argument on
this earth for expansion. The govern
ment sells them at a nominal price.
eighty cents.
From d report which is floating around,
if it IS true, ex-Delegate Callahan may
find himself IN serious trouble. II is
said the department Is investigating a
charge that Mr.. Callahan uses franked
envelopes for private correspondence
The government issues franked envelopes
for IT
ness. On these no stamp is necessary.
But when q congressman uses one Of
these envelopes for private correspond
ence he must put on a stamp. Callahan,
1t is charged, has not been putting on
the stamps. Even as congressman he
would not have had the right to send
private correspondence under q frank.
The other day one Of the staff Of the
Arapahoe Bee was driving in the country
and asked native the road to Roger
Mills county. The answer the native
gave illustrates a peculiar fact-that the
people in Dewey or Custer county. in
Oklahoma, know as little how to reach
the people in Roger Mills county. which
joins them, as the people of Bluwayo
know how TO get to the people of Mata-
belle. The native said to the Arapahoe
man: I'll tell We, yards, that's some
thin mighty hard TO do. Ye see our road
bosses hafn't dom much nowadays and
the CrOsSin's are in a terrible pesky fix
SOS l can't tell ye what road ye'd bet
ter take My advice though'd be to
turn L the next corner and bear off ter
the left till ye strike Sandy's place. an
then yell find a purity good crossing.
Then angle off to the right till We hit
the main road agin, an then yen have
ter bear off ter the south over the Will
son canon 'un cross on the first cross.n' |
ye come to I'm agne over the prayrie TO /
-her southwest. That's Their best 1 can /
10 fer yer, gents.'