The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-15
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Optima claims TO have the first plat
form scales in Beaver county.
In the opinion Of the Ponca City Cou-
rier the way TO obtain luck is not 70 ex-
pect it.
Some Of the papers advise people not
to plant more trees than they can at
tend to
Just at present the geese are bound
north and are sojourning on the Big
Canadian.
Smith Chambers of Blackwell will go
as a delegate to the Sioux Falls ma
tional convention.
The grand jury ar Oklahoma City
found the county jail in a good sanitary
condition and the city jail not.
Roy Stafford. the new editor Of the
Oklahoman at Oklahoma City. says that
the paper viii remain Democratic
The Choctaw Indians call mess Of
hominy "A Tom Fuller" Also a small
patch of corn is called a Tom Fuller
patch"
The Queenan case at Oklahoma City
has come up with a jerk and it will
probably be long time now befofe it is
finished.
The people Of Mangum, Greer county,
are making an effort 10 have the Rock
Island make that city its terminus q
thing the railroad is not at present dis
posed to do.
Roy Stafford, ". NJ Parker and V.
V. Hardcastle at Oklahoma City bought
the Oklahoman, the Gazette and the
weekly Champion, and merged the three
papers into one.
There is a frightful story out to the
effect that William Jenkins. B. s. Nc
CURE, Bill Walker and C. B. Apperson
of Newkirk had a conference in Kay
county recently.
The juror in the Queenan trial at Ok
lahonla City who has been disqualified
gave it away himself. Each juror in be-
ing examined declared that he had never
been convicted of a felony. This juror
made the declaration, but as the trial pro-
crossed decided to tell the judge that he
had falsifed and did.
A dog and wild cat were pitted against
each other at Oklahoma City. The dog
backed out Another Withholding dog.
with a sad countenance, was brought
Forth and told TO take the wildcat. There
was a wild BLUR on the landscape and
the dog calmly walked away from the
ring and went out to hunt a bone. The
wildcat was cold In death
Perkins Journal: Several months ago
J. W. Jones' brother of +. VI. Main, ar
rived in Oklahoma from Appanoose coun-
ty, Iowa. having made the trip, some
five hundred miles, in a wagon. He
brought with him a hound that had been
given him by a friend in Iowa. Soon
after arriving here the dog was missing
and was not heard of for two months,
when Mr.. Jones received word from his
friend that the dag was back at his old
home in Iowa.
Measures will soon have to be taken
in all Oklahoma towns TO stop the sun
from going down, locally. Treating on
this matter, the POnca City Courier sends
up this pathetic cry: IF the author OF
Just as the Sun Went Down." or what
ever you call it, could be IN Ponca City
forty-eight hours, he would not only
want to bid farewell 70 the stars and
stripes, but also TO the other vain and
feeting things of this world. If he was
not driven to distraction he would GER
tainly be driven to drink. In justice to
the innocent it should be said that moon
light nights seem the most conducive to
sentiment. One night recently, a repre-
sentative of the Courier went home at
a late hour and the variation which that
really meritorious production was being
put through was a wonder TO hear. Way
off to the east a fair tenor was kissing
a ringlet of thin, gray hair, and up TO
the north a sentimental youth, with a
voice like a 56-inch cylinder separator
taking in a wet bundle of wheat. was
kissing a lock Of brown" and nearby
a young lady a Ia Patti with piano ac-
compartment, was bidding farewell TO
stars and stripes just as the sun went
down" It was the same everywhere
and in every direction, and there is no
relief in sight.