The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-22
Outlines OF Oklahoma

The quarantine on Greer county will
be raised on November I, next.
Guthrie, among the towns OF Okla
bona, will become known as the city
of romances.
Down lin Kay county Bob Ner IS not
regarded as a lawyer. They speak OF
him as a good guesser at law"
Wnen Bob Nen was first elected pro-
bate judge a fight was made against
him taking mis- seat because he Was not
a lawyer.
John S. Allen. the Middle-of-the-road
Populist candidate for congress. predicts
big stay-at-home vote in Oklahoma
this year.
The Washita county seat war should
quiet down. One han has been tarred
and feathered already, and some one
may yet get hurt
Eddy tells q Minneapolis reporter that
Oklahoma is a combination OF Winnipeg
and Texas, Minnesota ard Georgia, Del
aware and California
The department is arbitrary in its rul-
| ing that the miners must stay out OF
| the Wichita mountains. The miners have
an act of congress on their sslde.
| While Eddy was down in Oklahoma
some one told him that Tom Ferguson
went By the nick name Of Red Tom
and was a shooter from Shootersville.
| The women continue to capture the
nominations for county superintendent
Mrs. Mary Couch has been nomlna7eI
/ by the Republicans OF Oklahoma county
| for the place.
old Man Jester, who is living with a
| son near Renfrow, writes back 70
! friends in Missouri 70 tell the widow
who sent him the flowers during his
/ trial. to write him.
| Some one directs the attention o.
/ tramps to the fact that Oklahoma is q
! dangerous place just now, as cotton pick
/ ing is in progress. A tramp can MOI
/ pick cotton; it takes worker.
Those Oklahoma Republicans who
/ think Frank Greer isn't making a hare
enough fight for Flynn this year, vii
! find out better. Franks loyalty to hit
party has never come up missing yet.
A man near Stroud discovered in &
Jug twenty-one feet under the surface
some copper-colored red corn. When il
was planted it produced copper-coIore-
corn five ears to the stalk. Mercifu
heavens!
John Pugh was not nominated for the
legislature by the Beaver w Woodward dis
trict Pugh had the Woodward count,
| delegation, but c. r. Alexander, tax
| Woodward county attorney, got the
Beaver county delegation and beat Pugh
w c. Schncker and daughter of Ian
caster, Ohio, brought a baby TO Soutf
! McAlester and sent IL 10 a prominent
man claiming he was the babys father
The alleged father sent the baby bach
to the hotel, but the man and daushtei
had gone and the child has been aban
| doned.
Judge Irwin went 10 Cordeu to holt
court. 1t was expected he would holC
court at Cloud Chief, where the record
were. A band of mounted men rode from
Cordell TO Cloud Chief with Irwins or
der for the court records. When thes
men reached Cloud Chief they fount
that the records had disappeared, having
been stolen. Irwin is still waiting 10
the records.
Guthrie Capital: short time ag
about this season of the year the street
of Guthrie were crowded with wagon
loaded with cotton and wheat In thos
days there were plenty of buyers an
bidders, who represented many capital
lists over this wide world and the farm
ers invested their profits with the mer
chants of Guthrie. 1t was busy time
in Guthrie, and the word was heralde
out over the territory that Guthrie wa
the greatest cotton and wheat msrke
Of the southwest. Today, Cashion an
Nulhall are the wheat markets an
WeIIston is the cotton market, and III
buyers and bidders are paying more 70
those products at that point than the
do in Guthrie, and the farmers all owe
the country know IT, and tell II.
There IS a movement on foot by nu-
Der of merchants TO purchase all II
cotton and wheat in the country at tn
same prices that are paid at Cashion an
Mulhall and Wellston. and let the goo
times come back to Guthrie