The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-06
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| Governor Barnes is reported TO De very
! sick at his home in Guthrie.
| Divided results seemed to be the rule
| last election day in Oklahoma.
Enid is certainly getting her share of
| the territorial conventions this year.
| Chickasha has Sorosis and the club
| is deyotiug its time TO study OF Dick
ems.
| Oklahoma City is giving concerts to
raise funds for the Rough Riders re-
union.
The Frank Lukert farm. which joins
Perry on the west. sold the other day
for $500.
| c. c. White, a carpenter at Enid, had
a scafold collapse beneath him and was
very seriously hurt
C. ". Poston of Blaine county. who
served once in the legislature, has 30
acres of wheat out
| The auctioneers Of the territory held a
meeting at Perry last Monday. It was
not largely attended.
| The Oklahoma City Times-Journal ex-
poets Oklahoma City to have 5ooo9 peo-
pie within ten years.
| The selection of Enid for the Rspuhli-
! can convention 70 select national dele
gates is a victory for harry Thompson
1
! will select a national committeeman
There will be a whole lot Of pulling and
/ hauling over that.
| A New York paper contains a picture
of wilkins, the Enid giant. II Is said
that there IS on record only one man
larger than Wilkins.
| Three months of congressional race In
| Oklahoma will be enough, but it viii
/ start so far behind the county campaigns
| it will never catch up.
| Colonel Havens of Enid got out Of bed
| in time for that central committee meet
/ ing at Oklahoma City. The Colonel in
tended to go If he had to order the am
bulance.
| The congressional convention will not
be held until August S, and lot OF
| things can happen before then. The con-
| gressional campaign may be said not to
| have started yet.
| Isenberg of the Enid Wave is fearful
| that Oklahoma is only a colony and
| that the constitution stops short on the
southern Kansas line like it had run up
I against a stone wall.
The announcement that Hoke Smith
has sold his paper, the Atlanta Journal.
has reached the Strip and the Shippers
! sigh. They always sigh whenever Hoke
Smith comes into view.
| Everybody in Oklahoma is planting
trees A funny thing about a tree is
/ that its roots, which don't look more than
six inches across, are, when you come
! to dig a hole to hold them, about four
| feet
| In an Oklahoma town recently, young
man. intoxicated, approached another
man with two revolvers and said: we
might as well shoot it out right here. F"
The man approached took the profered
gun and discovered that it was empty
| The young man was arrested for obtain
/ ing a duel under false pretenses
| Perry Enterprise: ]. D. Ditto, who
| lives eight miles southwest Of Perry, in
Lowe township, was in the city Tues
| day with two OF his children on his way
! to Pawnee, to have them treated with
! maidstone Sunday afternoon, while the
| children were playing with the house dog
! he turned on them and bit two Of them,
a boy and a girl. Monday the dog began
| having fits, and was at once tied up. He
| continued to be fifty and on searching
| their memory the older members of the
! family remembered that the dog had
been bitten by another dog. belonging
TO some movers Mr.. Ditto al once be-
came alarmed and left last night with
/ the children for Pawnee, where IL is
! claimed there is a maidstone, which he
| will have applied to the wounds on the
! children. 1t is to be sincerely hoped that
no serious results will occur, as nothing
on earth is to be more dreaded than by
drophobia.