The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-29
Outlines of Oklahoma.

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A fine rain in Greer county last Thurs
day, put the cotton on It's feet.
| Dennis T. Flynn will make a speech In
| Sedalia. Missouri. on September T.
| Mountain View offers $50 premium for
| the first three bales of cotton brous ut
| in.
| Oklahoma City has given twenty-five
] recruits for service in the Chinese cam
paign.
+! There is talk again of the Frisco build
| ing on west from Oklahoma City 20
Two Hebrew peddlers we're stoned out
/ Of Hardesty the other day by smart
aleck boys.
There is said to be family. of Indians
among the Creeks who have yellow hair
/ and blue eyes.
The man who is laying claim to part
of Beaver county will have beautiful
time getting it.
A big prairie fire got loose in Beaver
county last Wednesday and destroyed
lot of range.
a man at Chickasha is named Bare
foot. If he ever gets into politics he VIII
prove TO be runner.
Governor Barnes has been asked to
make several speeches in Ohio this fall.
by the national committee.
An orange tree in Lincoln county on
I the farm of ]. N. Kinzie, produced sew
/ eral oranges this year.
A heavy rain fell in Roger Mills coun-
ty last Wednesday night, and light
/ showers in Beaver county
The Enid Wave is advertising for q
cloud-burst. and asks that it operate
right over the waterworks well.
! A telephone line between Mount ain
View and Cordell, the new county ssa;
of Washita county, is proposed.
/ The papers which are fighting Flynn
are in despair, but they are not help.ng
/ their situation any by descending to
| abuse.
! The Enid Wave believes that there
| ARE a great many more men devi ISL
! bad by nature than deviush good by
| training
| 4 man in Roger Mills county is adj
vertising for a boy who smokes cigar
cites. He wants him to kill potato bugs
with his breath.
/ The colored citizen has protection al
/ Watonga- Recently a show man In tha
! town slapped a colored boy and II cost
the Snowman 80 and costs.
! George Warner, editor OF the Antlers
American, a new man in the territory
! was drowned while crossing a stream in
the Choctaw nation last week.
Tams Bixby of the Dawes commission
wanted Secretary Hitchcock to give him
leave of absence to make cam
paign in Minnesota, and 1t is said Secre-
tary Hitchcock refused to co it.
Emma Bardo was nominated for coun-
ty Superintendent N Kay county and
when called upon for a speech made
this one: Il would prove that a woman
could keep still when she had a chance
to talk"
Helen Candee, In Atlantic: There is no
need TO go to Europe for cheap living
while Oklahoma exists. Distance from
the largest markets makes it the IDEAL
place for housekeepers with a slender
purse. All homegrown foods of a per-
ishable nature can be had for refresh
ingly low prices. Some of these l quote
that 1 may make heads Of eastern fam
lilies groan with envy Watermelons,
notwithstanding that several hundred
freight cars of this juicy fruit roll north
ward to Kansas City, can be bought al
any time from July to cold weather for
5 cents each, and these OF a size and
sweetness unsurpassed. Muskmelons, de-
licious as nectar. are cents a dozen,
although these, too, are sent away nb-
orally in car loads. Spring chickens are
25 cents a pair; sweetbreads. 10 and Il
cents; beef and lamb, Is cents a pound
Grapes-alas, this luscious crop is near
~ given away cent a pound for the
best. The reason for this humble price
attached to so fine a fruit is that the
crop natures and is in its prime during
the heat of August, and shipment is I'M
possible except in refrigerator cars,
which are too expensive. And so the
whole population revels in delicious
mir