The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-08
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

Newkirk Is trying to pump some fresh
air into q scheme TO build big city
hall
Guthrie is now standing on tip-toe
looking for q new road from Fort
Smith.
The first batch of brick by the vitrihed
Brick company at FL Reno has just been
turned out.
Isenberg calls the boilers Of the e
Reno convention the rump soap-box
seat convention
! Oklahoma City viii now undertake to
| struggle with the proposition TO vote
bonds for a city building.
II Mr. Pease of saltwater raises any
small potatoes the family ought not TO
have to go hungry at least.
Newkirk has two baseball mines called
the Beer and Razor SINGERS. The teams
are composed of bar-tenders and BARRIERS.
A Perry man estimates that Oklahoma
has bought nearly a million dollars
worth of harvesting machinery and ag
ricultural implements this year.
Out at Beaver q remonstrance against
establishing OF another saloon is called
a monster. SO far the monster has
/ bluffed the saloon business in Beaver.
Gas has been struck on the farm of
]. L Armstrong. near Granite. IN the
Wichita Mountains in such quantities
that its flow stopped the work of boring
for artesian water.
Flynn having fixed It so that Okla
horna people win not have to pay for
their lands, is now working on a scheme
to prevent them from going into debt
TO any unreasonable extent by voting
bonds for extrayagant municipal build
ings.
A farmer near Norman had to move
his barn on account of rats. He hired
his neighbors 10 come in and help kin
the animals while the building was be-
ing moved, and they got 512 Of the ro-
dents, some OF them being as large as
coons.
The Optima correspondent in the Har-
desty Herald says that Emin Kharats-
covoravitek. of Karat, Turkey, is
pleasant visitor in Optima. When OPP
TINA people attempt to speak Mr.
Kharatscovoraviteks name they close
their eyes to avoid sea-sicEness
Major Niblack calls the boilers at e.
Reno sour apples" and says they viii
soon turn 70 gold There Is room for
argument as TO what the major meant,
but from his reference to gold II may
be assumed with fairness that he thinks
the boilers will vote for sound money.
This, from the Quill, concerning two
farmers near Shawnee. is applicable to
five thousand other Oklahoma farmers:
James and Charley Seaton, twelve
miles north of town. will each build a
new farm house. and one OF them a
barn. They had laid by money 10
square Uncle Sans claim to home
steads, and they viii invest the amount
in improvements. Isaac Penisten OF
Shawnee has the contracts for ufding
and commenced work Monday morning."
Isenberg on the FL Reno squabble:
The Democratic territorial convention
at Ell Reno, June 3, 1900, will go rat
Ting down the toboggan Slide of history
as one of the most turbulent and rat
Ting hot time political conventions that
ever assembled thus far in the territory
of Oklahoma. While the bois;erous tu-
mutt was laughable In the extreme it
was also disgusting to all true and hon
est Democrats who actually and honest
ly work for the success of the prinei-
pies which they love and believe TO be
for the good of our beloved country. II
IS useless to discuss the evil Of slatss.
or combines. in political conventions,
either one or the other always exists In
the conventions OF every political party
on the face of the earth, whether they
are intended for good or bad influences
in the administration of public affairs,
they exist on the body polite of the
country, and always will