The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-21
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

Colonel woodson will hardly reach
China III time to get into action
1t is said that Judge Burford has pre-
dicted Neff's nomination for year.
Before the campaign is over Mem viii
be making an anti-railroad campaign.
wholly.
| An ex-Rough Rider who is lecturing
| In the territory is meeting with a good
many roasts.
Judge Keaton says he never declared
! that he would vote for Flynn If free
homes passed.
| The name of the Socialist candidate
for congress in Oklahoma is Tucker,
and he may beat Neff.
Two threshing machines on different
| farms near Ponca City were burned on
| the same day recently.
| Now that Justice Burford has been
| thrown from Rocky mountain burro'
he probably realizes that we can't all be
Rough Riders.
| The Fifth warders of Oklahoma City
have held mass meeting and protested
| against locating an abbattotr in their
neighborhood.
| Nen announces that he viii formally
open his campaign at Glencoe on August
"a. The Saltwater fzzle wasn't fair
start.
H c. B. Brodban of Ponca City, was
nominated by the Republicans in the
First council district James Wilkin in
/ the Second district was nominated
Companies claiming to control big
bodies Of land in the Kiowa country are
already appearing in the east OF course
no one can control big tracts of that
! land.
/ So many mules were bought by the
British government in Oklahoma last
year that a man cannot look at mule
in Oklahoma any more that the mules
owner doesn't step up and ask him how
the crops are in South Africa
Mr.. and Mrs William Trone are both
positive that they can prove an abb
Mrs. Trone has gone 10 Gooseneck Bend,
Indian Territory, TO get witnesses 10
prove that they were there when the
Eick murder was committed in Okla
hona county.
Thomas Murphy of Custer county, Is
the latest man to put a fish in pond
which went dry, but not until Murphy
had learned the fish to follow nm
around on dry land. Recently Murphy
went hunting and the fish followed and
in going across Deer creek, fell IN and
drowned.
Last week some railroad men had oc-
casion to lock into a threshing machine
Oklahoma to Dakota and found within
it the two proprietors who were travel
ing as freight They had with them a
jug of water and a sack of flour and
expected TO live on that on the way
Taloga Advocate: W. E. Strong pre-
scented this office with the largest musk
melon we ever saw. II weighed 2lj!
pounds and measured % inches in cir
cumference one way and Sc inches the
other The melon had as fine a flavor
as any We ever tasted and for size and
flavor we believe it is a world beaten.
Waukomis Hornet: There was a genu.
inc scrapping time about . o'clock Tues
day evening A prominent grain buyer
was talking pretty loud on the stree
when the marshal called him down and
words grew into blows. The grain mar
was whistling on top of the marsha
when some one demanded the peace and
one of our big stout boys, who was as.
sisting the marshal, took the grain mar
under his protection and started off with
him when the marshal interferred and
received an upper cut just above the LEFT
optic which raised him about a foot Int
the air and he came down rather heavi.
ly, loosing his balance and went sprawl
ing into the street. However the mar.
shall was not seriously injured and there
were three fellows brought up before
Judge Worden the next morning who
plead not guilty and had a trial set for
Tuesday m nng. eW did not see the
fracas and give it as told by several
eye witnesses. We can't vouch for tbs
truthfulness Of this report, and If we
have not told 1t just as you saw ii
come in and give US a dollar for the
Hornet ard have ii written up 20 suit
you. It is our aim in life to publish tho
news to suit all tastes and fancles.