The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-01
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

! Callahan believed all along that that
nomination would come his way.
The Socialists OF Oklahoma county vii
ratity their nominations next Saturday
TIE malaria microhe just now is chas-
ing q good many Oklahoma people to
their beds.
The Choctaw viii build from Shawnee
soon to the south line OF the county and
start a new town.
Dennis Flynn's meeting ar Stroud this
week was the biggest yet held IN Okla
homa in his honor.
General Pleasant Porter thinks that
the Greek treaty viii be ratified at the
next session Of congress.
The watermelon yield in Oklahoma this
year is heavier than usual The price
for waterme!ons is only fair.
The Republicans OF the territory were
anxious 10 see Bob Forrest nominated
for congress. They wanted 10 show him
a thing or TWO.
Bob Neff went down 10 Oklahoma City
with Kay county in good shape for him,
all the Populist delegation and eleven OF
the Democratic crowd.
Shawnee was asked s446 per column for
a write up in four eastern newspapers
but the business men wouldn't put II
up. It is said that FL Reno did.
The mayor Of Ripley is hot over the
report that he had been arrested by one
of his own policemen for being disor-
derby. No such thing ever happened.
/ The Oklahoma City Republic sayss
/ Keep your eye on the Socialist. He VIII
never fuse with anything. and it may
take fusion Of a sort undreamed OF 10
meet aim"
There are six grocery stores in Okeene.
1f
there wasn't a speck Of sugar in any of
them, and every body in town suddenly
wanted sugar.
Some call the Ki0wa and Comanche
and Apache country the Ki5wa country;
others call ii the Fort Sill country; eth
ers the K. and c. country; others the
Comanche country; others the wichita
mountain country.
/ While one of the proprietors was
standing IN front OF mis- store at Shaw
nee a thief entered the back door and
relieved >the till Of its burden. How
ever, the young man was caught and has
been bound over to the grand jury.
The Christian churches Of Kay county
have perfected a permanent organiza-
ton with c. Monroe, Porca City, presi-
dent; H. r. Walling, Newkirk. vice.
president; II. ". Robinson, Nardin, sec
rotary, and ". L. Peck OF Nardin treas
Urer.
Ed Winford of Shawnee is reported to
have taken a big dose Of morphine the
other night as fare on the railroad that
runs to that mysterious bourne from
which no return tickets are soli. But
the doctors vetoed the morphine with an
antidote.
Sim Younger. a young farmer, strolled
into the Okeene Eagle office the other
and he acted shy and went out again
without saying a word. The editor skip
ped out the back door, grabbed him and
found that the baby was a boy, and a
fine one.
This is the way the Oklahoma City
Republic goes after the police court OF
that city: six dollars for a four-inch
cash; a dollar and a half an inch;
eighteen dollars per foot-cheap enough
Anybody can afford 10 shed gore in Ok
lahoma City. If you don't believe Il ex-
anime the police court records"
Shawnee Quill; a hobo climbed the
ladder at the water tower Sunday even
ing and made up his bed on the platform
at the top of the water tank. Sometime
during the forenoon of Monday he was
hauled down from his lofty perch and
presented with a bill by the city for a
nights lodging and bath, which he i'm
mediately repudis ted, as exhorbitant and
illegal. He denied using the bath and
kicked on the accommodation in gen.
eral, and following the custom of his
race, walked off without paying the bill.