The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-16
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The Ponca City band is getting ready
! for summer concerts.
| The postof1ice at Okarche was robbed
Wednesday OF $40 in money besides
stamps.
II is said that fake fruit tree agents
sold the farmers around Lexington a lot
of scrubby oaks for fruit trees.
| The diamond thieves robbed ex-Goy-
ernor Seay OF a valuable stone at FL Reno
that the governor had worn for fifteen
gears
Major Niolack says Guthrie is now in
possession Of an organized gang of
tramps,. and he calls for instant action
| in driving them out
| ". H DERRICK of Perry, who Is with
! the Eighteenth infantry in the Philip
pines, says the Filipino insurgents are al
ready licked and would quit If Aguinaldo
| would let them.
| Chairman Grimes proposition for a late
! convention of Oklahoma Republicans VIII
meet with favor. Oklahoma is too busy
| political campaign.
Fred Lobdell says Bob Neff distanced
his competitors for congress when he ap-
peared in a Prince Albert at the Chicago
antitrust conference and introduced a
| free-homes resolution.
/ The Oklahoma Live Stock association
! is the best organization of its kind On
earth. The meeting talked more good
/ horse sense than the national association
did in any three days of its session.
| Governor Barnes struck a popular lead
/ in the FL Reno convention, when he ad-
vocated cession of the semi-arid lands TO
| the territory by the Federal government
and the lesaing Of these lands TO cattle
men.
/ The coat fiend is new. William Walker
was arrested at Lexington and relieved Of
! fifty coats. Walker says he did not steal
the coats, but that a crook named Brig
ham Young, who is now In jail at Ard
more, left them at his place.
/ Enid Wave: Everybody is going to
the Free Home convention at Fl Reno.
This is the last long pull for free homes.
If this congress cold bloodedly refuses
| the people Of Oklahoma this righteous
and well-earned boon, we might just as
! well cancel all our free home energies"
The people of Seward are kicking be-
cause the Sante Fe refuses to stop pas
! senger trains and they are signing a long
| petition to be presented to headquarters,
showing up the fact that Seward ships
out more produce, stock and grain than
any other place of its size along the road,
ana, therefore, lHs$ wait tuSlE. pdSSSil-
ger rights respected.
Guthrie Capital: Vice President S. P.
| Render of the Citizens bank of Norman,
is well acquainted with W. s. Taylor, the
governor of Kentucky. I'VE were boys
! together said Mr.. Render Taylor was
an ordinary boy, in fact, was not up with
the average. However, ne has been quite
successful of recent years. He was elect
| ed prosecuting attorney Of Butler county
a few years ago, having great odds
against thin. That race indicated that he
was a politician. He has never expert
enced defeat in a political contest.
| know Whitaker, the man who is now in
Jail, suspected OF killing Goebel. He is a
dangerous man. and has a bad reputa-
| ton"
The Taloga Advocate says of Dewey
county: There are no classes. The cat
tie business is good. Is q land of perpet-
ual sunshine. The people enjoy the best
of health. You need but little winter feed
or fuel You can grow watermelons as
big as a barrel. Corn, wheat, oats and
cotton grow to perfection. You can pillow
your land every month in the year. You
| can tend two or three times as much
| ground as you can in the north. Your
| saving in feed, fuel and clothing will pay
] the wages of your hired hand. You can
/ be adding to your income and improving
| your farm every month in the year. At
/ ter once blowing land you can at any
| time afterward pillow 1t as deep as origi-
nally no matter how dry. There are bet
/ ter opportunities offered to young men
! than in any other county. Come and see
| for yourself"