The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-31
Outlines of Oklahoma.

AS was to be expected, both the Kan
sas and Oklahoma health boards are
sorry now.
1t is thought that the Santa Fe will
reach Ripley this week in time for an
excursion next Sunday.
superintendent Dolan Of the Santa Fe
has been over the Santa tFe line in Ok
lahoma bidding goodbye TO the boys.
As proof OF its commercial Importance,
Wakita announces that last year that
town paid the Santa Fe $4,000 for freight
The Manchester Journal prints a column
of smallpox notes and In another column
prints proof that smallpox is what it
isl
The knights of Pythias lodge Of Atoka
makes a departure in opening up a pub
lie library. The plan ought TO be en-
couraged-
The Enid Wave charges the poor health
of the pupils in the public schools to the
shabby school houses, and calls fer two
new buildings.
In Lincoln county the jail has been
fenced. not 50 much to guarantee greater
safety Of the prisoners as to protect the
public from being guyed.
Enid Wave: Hurrah for the Dutch! OF
course, Isenberg is an Irish name, hut
put sympathies are always with the
Dutch when they are on the side OF JUS
tice. The news of the day settles ii. En-
gland viii have to abandon her South
African war for conquest. Gods mercy
and blessing seems to be with the people
who fight for liberty the world over.
Ell Reno Globe: Captain E. A. ,Rosser
of Prairie township has written letters
to several members of congress asking
their assistance in the passage of ga free
Senator Beverage and member of the
house from Indiana, and both Of these
gentlemen assure him that they win sup
port the measure and are confident that
it will become law.
Antlers Democrat: When we came out
for single statehood two weeks ago we
supposed we were alone, but since that
time we have found nine-tenths of the
people in and around AntIers favoring it,
The Republicans advocated it in their
mass meeting, and the Democrats will
instruct their delegates to the territorial
convention to advocate 1t. The people
in this part of the country do not pro-
pose to hold the bag for South MeAlester
just because she thinks she heard a
capital bee" buzzing under her bon
net.
Warren Chantry, at Cushing, fed two
the understanding that the next morning
they should help him clean out his well.
The next morning Mr.. Chantry went
down into the well, leavin the tramps
on top to haul out the dirt. While he
was filling the buckets the first time the
tramps skipped, and Mr.. Chantry had
to remain in the well till one of his
neighbors called and pulled him out. The
next day another tramp called and there
wasn't enough of him left to make it
worth while for funeral.
Guthrie Capital: Kansas as a state
was thirty-nine years olu yesterday. OF
course the settlement of Kansas is older
than that 1t became a state in 1851,
but it was a territory several years be-
fore that. 1t began to build at least in
1854. But Kansas is old enough to have
its homegrown statesmen and business
men. 1t has BECOME native. It can be
said to be distinctive. 1t can claim to
have an individuality. The Kansas Day
club is composed OF the Kansas born.
Kansas is a great state. But a man
riding from Kansas to Oklahoma cannot
see the difference of years in the i'm
provement-in the cultivation of the soil
and building of towns and houses. This
is the difference of railroads. 1t is the
difference of a slow process of settlement
by wagon and that of d rush by the
train load. 1t is the difference of thirty
years in the arts of civilization. 1t shows
that the man who settles in Oklahoma
is the day of all that Kansas absorbed
in thirty yeors. Being heir Of Kansas
somewhat, this is the interest Oklahoma
has in the celebration OF the 18th ami
versary of the statehood Of Kansas, show
ing that If Oklahoma were a state 1t
would but be younger IN years and not IN
development.