The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-12
OUTLINES OF oKLAHowA.

Oklahoma got the FIRST car OF new
wheat into Kansas City on Monday.
Amos Ewing is stnl standing on tho
burning deck waiting sor the IRE depart
ment.
Lone VOLTS case viii come up before
the supreme court OF the District OF Co
ium5ia today.
Watcher. the Kinghsher county farmer
who killed Colonel Stone. has been re-
leased on s3o30 bail
There are fewer towns{te schemes pre-
vious 70 the coming opening than was
ever known in Oklahoma before
The Norman Transcript has q new pic
ture OF BIN Grimes. which ) the only
good one OF Grimes ever published
Judge J. wilkins. Of Norman has
been appointed department commander or
the Confederate association OF Oklahoma
Miss Alice Boyd. daughter of Presi-
dent Boyd OF the University. was thrown
from the old family horse last Friday
and painfully injured.
A galoot last Saturday passed a Mexi-
can dollar on the editor OF the Norman
Transcript who on examination finds that
the dollar IS counterfeit
The report that on every lucky slip in
the drawing the words win occur
-Uueeda Farm IS a rank fake which
was put out by BIZ Walker.
II is said that the reason the Alva Nor
nal does not belong 10 the Territorial
Oratoricsl association is because II neg
lected 70 pay the required fees
The Oklahoman. OF Oklahoms City. is
in the midst Of Mysteries ana says with
out fear. that positively the Kiowa and
C0manche country will not be opened to
settlement this year.
Parsons & Wright. paint firm at Ok
hu IA ~ ~
ion individually, charging that the union
passed hand-bills calling them ~scabs''
and advising people 10 boycott them.
Jesse J. Dunn. Of Alva, says that the
settlers viii contest the government
drawing plan. Wen, they won't. to any
alarming extent. a contest with the
government Of the United States is 1T
tie one-sided.
The Norman Transcript is mad last
winter # published appeal after appeal
for help for the famine sufferers OF In
dia gratis. It has recently discovered that
all the religious papers OF the country
were paid for what they said
The Norman Transcript thinks that the
reason a lawyer can call a man a liar,
scoundrel and villain in the court room
and get of without trouble, and an ell
itor can not, IN his newspaper. is because
the people believe what an editor says.
Saltwater Gazette: r. II. Tucker, a
member Of the college faculty (and a
young man Of the DanvilIes. OF Ken
tuclSy and Virginia,) viii leave tomorrow
for New York and viii sail from there
to Europe He VIII visit England Ger
many and France during his absence and
will spend the greater part Of his time in
the two latter countries perfecting him
self in the French and German languages.
Mr.. Tucker viii return IN ample time
to take up his work at the college here
next fall.
The Stroud Messenger tells OF a myste-
rious elm tree near that place. This elm
tree is avoided By all Indians and the
white people have been known 10 shy at
it. The story goes that an old Indian
once mysteriously disappeared and after
ward his ghost came back and told this
story: He was sleeping under the bloody
elm, when q seven-headed monster crawl
ed out OF the ground and began 70 bite
him. He cut or one OF the heads and
two sprang out in its place. He cut of
another head, with the sams result. Fl
nally, after cutting OF ninety-seven
heads, ne found that he had 514 heads
still 20 work on, and surrendered. The
dragon then carried him away and ate
him. He warned the Indian that the
dragon lived near that elm and didn't Ike
people 70 sleep under it. and up to date
nobody has