The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-14
Outlines OF Oklahoma.

equalling that Of Rocky Ford.
The public schools of Guthrie will open
on September 8. Five additional teachers
have been hired.
| Tom Ferguson, the new territorial
chairman, has hair that is Irisher than
Dennis Flynn's name.
/ The county commissioners of Washita
county gave the county seat 70 Corden,
and there is anguish at Cloud Chief.
TWO colored men had a quarrel in
melon patch near Guthrie, last week.
and one negro chewed OF the other
/ lower lip
| The Democrats of Oklahoma county
viii nominate their county ticket Sep
TENDER 8. The chances are there viii not
/ he fusion in that county.
/ a Ponoa City boy saw a big catfish
| floundering in a shallow place, and went
I in and helped the FISH out Of the water.
I The fish is said to have weighed Go
pounds.
The Guthrie Leader calls A. J. Seay
"a stellar interview repudiator." Gov
ernor Seay has a dictionary and as soon
as he gets a snickersnee will take the
| first train for Guthrie.
I Just at present the Democratic papers
in the territory and the Guthrie Capital
are greatly exercised because Gov rner
I Barnes administration was not indorsed
| by the congressional convention.
In the Washita county seat election
Corden got 1340 votes, Cloud Chief 30.
over 1,C00 votes in the county were not
! cast The county commissioners have
canvassed the vote and ordered the
county records aiken 10 Cordell.
The story that Bob Nef is part Win
nebago Indian must be nailed at once
! If Bob wants 10 succeed. The Cheyennes
and the Winneba goes are ancient enc
mics, and the Cheyennes viii come cut
and vote against Nef to man.
Homer W. Mason, Fred Myself and
Dow Ketch of Orlando, who enlisted at
Guthrie in April. 1899 are now al Jolo.
Philippine Islands. In a letter 10 the
teresting item: ''There are some fairly
pretty girls among the Mo:os before
they are married. but as soon as they
are married they blacken their teeth
and chew vast amounts of beetle nuts,
Unless they are the favorite wife III y
lose all interest in their personal appear
ances. There is an old Moro who lives
in Tueu Tueli who drives his five wives
down every morning TO take bath, and
it is amusing to see how meekly they
walk along. The women never go any
they are accompanied by their lord and
master"
In the Oklahoma papers Just now there
are columns and columns of write-ups
of candidates, laudatory in the extreme.
Many OF the men so written up viii,
the first time the editor happens to say
something they don't like, abuse the
editor Many Of them, in both parties,
will within two years. If they are given
the chance refuse TO help the editor 10
make an extra cent. Many of them be
lieve that they more than pay the editor
for the notice, with their subscri ption.
The editors do not believe this, for the
editors are the last men in their com
munities to hear the politicians talk
about them. Every editor in Oklahoma
and elsewhere should also be a pueilist
and lay for this style Of politician and
whip him to a fare-ye-well. 1t would
establish new precedent which IS
needed
A travelling circus in Oklahoma has an
animal which It calls Oceans awful
treasure, the most frightful. uncourh,
horn-bearing, cloven-hoofed denizen OF
the trackless and treacherous deep" If
the bull tick board will allow a thing
like that to break through quarantine
the bull tick board should be fired.
Glenco Mirror: The Otoe Indians. on
their reservation near Red Rock, began
last Saturday a weeks dog feast and
dance. The Otoes have recently been
paid off and they are celebrating the
event Fifty Pottawatomies and many
Indians of other tribes have arrived 20
participate in the festivities and be the
guests of the Otoes. very large num-
Der Of the most delectab,e CANNES have
been secured and the feast IS one of the
nature which makes the mouth of every
savage water.
Blackwell Spoon: A couple Of young
fellows chased down to the Frisco depot
this morning just as the train was pull
ing out. The engineer saw them hitting
the high places and stopped the train,
but as they flew into the depot 70 get
tickets and have a trunk checked he
opened the throttle and started on. At
this they became excited, left their
money on the counter, yelled at the
agent to send that (meaning the trunk
and hot-footed It down the track I pur-
suit of the fleeing train. The brakeman
in the kindness of his heart signalled
the engineer 70 slow down and the boys
got on about two blocks down the track
Where they were going or who they
were the agent didn't know, but Il IS
presumed with his experience and knowI-
edge OF where the public comes and
whence it goes he will know where to
send the trunk.