The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-05
Outlines OF Oklahoma

| Twenty special policemen were appoint
| ed during the reunion at Oklahoma
City.
Part of Oklahoma city's crowd during
the reunion slept at Norman and
Guthrie
Altogether Payne county has furnished
four car loads OF mules to the South
| African war
Oklahoma has more school children
than have either of fifteen other states
! in the Union.
1t Is said that Gates. the rich man.
| has decided to drop The prosecution CT
Old Man Jester.
The Exchange Bank at Glencoe, which
| is only a few weeks old, already has
nearly $500 in deposits.
And Lon whorton at the last moment
| begged the Democrats 10 nominate
Dewey for vice-president.
The Glencoe Mirror thinks that Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt is the best ticket
since Lincoln and Hamlin.
A fire insurance agent at Pawnee adj
vises people to take out insurance in
order to ward of nightmare.
A quarantine guard placed over the
government schools near Pawnee Janu-
airy 20 has just been discontinued.
The CARRIER Sentinel thinks that Cuba
will be trying as hard some day 10 get
into the Union as she is now trying TO
get out.
Apparently all the settlers have decided
to prove up as soon as possible. The
papers are filling up rapidly with final
proof notices.
Mrs. John Busch. living near CARRIER.
scared two panthers out Of her chicken
coop last week, ar least she thinks they
were panthers.
Sunday. DR.. G. H Philips succeeded
c. W. Driessbach as physician at the
Pawnee agency. Driessbach goes into
the drug business.
Since June 10, according to the News,
over 1000 baskets of peaches have been
shipped from Chandler to eastern and
northern markets.
Mrs Hill, under arrest at Kinghsher
charged with numbering r. A. Tomlin,
says that she can prove that Tomlin had
heart disease, and died OF it,.
J. P. Lake Of Chandler has just re-
ceived $50 from the government for
Communication Of rations during the time
he was imprisoned in the Civil War.
The CARRIER Sentinel says the wheat
around there is not threshing out phe-
nomenal at all; that the crop is about
the same as it was last year, and some
runs as low as 10 bushels 10 the acre.
In recent write-up of Dennis Flynn
the Chicago Tribune said he was now
worth S2,000000. The Tribune might as
well have made it two billion. Ciphers
are cheap.
The railroad men on the Oklahoma and
Eastern have been ordered TO leave all
material for the extension eastward from
Pawnee at Perkins. This is thought to
mean that the road will not BE- extended
for q while.
In some of the Oklahoma country
neighborhoods people were greatly scan
dalized because some OF their neighbors
harvested wheat on Sunday. The dis
cussion is creeping into the country cor
respondents columns.
Perry Enterprise: In the taking of
the census which is 10 be completed to-
day the enumerators are instructed TO
list all those who were alive on June
1st, no matter If they died next day
and no infant born during the month Of
June will be listed They calculated
Offset, but this is not a fair deal for
Oklahoma. as the birth rate is far ahead
Of the DEATHS.
Guthrie Capital: Up at Perry last
night, when Congressman Flynn was
met at the depot by the enthusiastic cit
liens, who testified their JOY at meeting
tse popular delegate. by hurrahs and
cheers an old darkey asked what ali
the noise was about He was informed
that 1t was in honor of Dennis T. Flynn.
who had got the bill passed giving them
free homes. Free homes?" said the
anient shade. man a haWg as wants
free homes. Mos Of Us done tickled
ter get one home, let er lone free.
Pears lax white folks never know when
they get ernuff."