The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-19
OntIinas al OkIahoma

There viii be Century ball at Har-
I desty on the night OF December q.
1 The Anti-SaIoon League is making a
/ fight 10 keep all saloons out Of Cush ng-
J. Hunter Williams. the editor OF the
/ Afirror has been appointed postmaster
at Glencoe
On account of the smallpox scare near
Okeene, all Christmas entertainments
: have been declared of.
All the papers are giving their partic-
ular localities and towns an END Of The
/ century boom and write-up.
/ Oklahoma City IS now sorry she didn't
7 slip up to Guthrie and kldnap six people
just before The census was taken
A man down in Beaver county is or
ganizing a party Of twenty-five Young
/ men to assault the gold mines OF Alaska
! There are three eases Of smallpox at
/ AItus, Greer county, and the physicians
+ have telegraphed for $50 points Of vac
cine.
+ The Gushing Herald says that the
+ earthquake there last week ratified The
dishes in the cupboards and the people
s badly.
The new city bell for Ponca City has
arrived an6 1t makes noise Ike
thirteen-inch shell going through boiler
factory.
The Mangum Star is feeling very bad
ly. 1t cannot find Ii in its heart TO e
thankful because OF Uncle Sans atti-
tuGe in China.
a man out at Hardesty confesses to
/ popping the hem out of his shirt gal
looping around the room with his young
est OF his arm.
At a dance down in Pottawatomie
county the other night, a general fight
resulted from a man making goO-gOO
eyes at a widow.
After reading the Morrison trial, the
editor Of the Cushing Herald says.
From envy. hatred and malice, Good
Lord, deliver US"
There is new paper out al Woodward
called the State Republican. IL is very
warm paper. and at last accounts the
editor was still alive.
A Blackwell minister announces that
he will preach on Pharoah. and the
Ponca City Courier kicks because he
ought TO talk on live subjects.
Gosh" the Okeene Eagle tragines
President Mckinley as saying, as he sits
down and feels all around under the
throne with his hands, Il must have
mislaid that crown"
Secretary Hitchcock. probably Just to
spite the Minco Minstrel and its brother
fault-fnder. the Purcell Register. says
the work Of the Dawes commission IS
entirely satisfactory TO him.
None of the Democratic papers are
claiming that Pettigrew is responsible
for getting through congress the emer-
gency appropriation for the further ell
lotment of the Kiowa and Comanche
lands.
It is claimed that one town IN Greer
county has struck. at a depth OF twenty
seven feet, paying flow Of copper DIS
TILED whisky, but that it is capped BY
q four-foot layer of alum which. IS
soon as it is dampened. Fuckers up and
stops the hole.
While a young man was being initiated
into a lodge at Jefferson he incidentally
remarked that the ritual seemed a little
tame. They then took him TO q two
story building and dropped him into the
cistern and he said he guessed he would
return to the first ceremony.
The Weatherford Chronicle warns
northern people Of the danger OF com
ing to Oklahoma at this season of the
year. It points out that they viii see
people working out Of doors in their
shirt-sleeves fat cattle, sleek horses, and
children romping on green grass and It
viii break their hearts.
Usage Journal: A mass meeting Of the
Osages was held in the council house
last Saturday afternoon to decide
whether or not the tribe would re ease
the Usage pastures. The meeting was
dominated almost entirely by the full
bloods, and was presided over by Agent
O. A. Mitscher There was considerable
discussion over the matter. and fl was
finally decided to lease again. The mat
ter was placed in the hands Of the
agent chief and assistant chief This
meeting was called in response to the
suggestion of the department.