The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-17
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Anadarko viii Try 10 secure some gov
ernmsnt land just vest OF town Cor
park
The Auadarlzo Tribune IS welcoming the
cold weather 70 the new country because
it is a nurifier-''
Jake admire doesn't want any special
session OF the legislature called Fer
heavens sake. no
II is said that the insane asylum at Ner-
man has new Ere escapes on it and Is
being irinroVed il various ways
a Payne county man has been bound
over 10 the district court FOR usiug pro
fame language IN tie presence OF women
With the Fort Smith and Western and
the ChocraU secured, Guthrie IS going TO
ne considerable Of q railroad center her
self
Ii IS said that men VINO are drawing
salaries are not sending their designations
into Governor Ferguson 10 any charming
extent.
Al the informed sources Of news in the
territory are saying that III Reno Is GO
ms 10 put up dickens OF = fight for the
capital.
The big snow which is now covering the
Oklahoma wheat ike big blanket Is
worth more than anything that ever came
OF the loom.
Horace Speed SAYS that neither the
president nor the secretary OF the interior
ever offered him the governorship. Well.
that is q surprise.
The talk of the Rock Island building
frcm Kinghsher TO Watonga and com
pleting rs own line from Ringhsher %
Guthrie IS up again.
The Oklahoma papers are SIN whack-
ing away at the man who is TOO handy
with a gum The papers viii smash out
the habit some day.
The Kingfsher Free Press says that the
Sanitarium contract was signed. sealed
and delivered two weeks after Governor
Jenkins inauguration.
The cold weather Is causing a lot OF the
fellows who were lust trying the new
towns" to vamoose for home back in Ok
lahoma and the states.
II should not pass unnotieed that Sol
Temple did not consent 10 capture until
court at Pond Creek had adjourned and
until winter down in Texas got pretty fair
along.
Henry Gablebower OF Ripley fell while
getting Into bed and broke his leg. He
went to Kansas City to nave q surgical
operation performed on the leg, and died
While being operated upon.
In a short interview with the Chicago
Tribune Saturday. Dennis Flynn said Ok
lahoma would undoubtedly get statehood
at this session. bat that the Indian terri
tory would be given only q territorial
form of government.
Good thing from the Ripley Times:
There were several loads Of corn on the
streets yesterday. and It brought good
prices Corn IS scarce article this year.
and the town chickens were thrown into
a frenzy when they saw it"
Poetic license is all right but Il can be
carried too far. as shown in the effort Of
a poet in the Saltwater Democrat, who
says:
What n merry time we had Ho. Ho.
When we went 70 gather the mist1etoe.
Oh, that pretty parasite so high,
Far heyond the reach Of you and l.
An Oklahoma anecdote: At a camp
meeting East summer over in the Usage
nation. one night, n barefooted man who
was known all over the country on ac-
count Of the length of his feet went up
to the nourner's bench. A short-siShted
deacon. while going among the mouruers,
noticed these monstr0us pedal extremi-
ties and thought he had found two chill
dren. So. kneeling down between the feet
and placing q hand upon each bare heel.
he dcVoutiy said. 20 Lord. bless the two
little boys"
Edmund Sun: A peculiar wolf chase
occurred four miles southeast Of here on
Tuesday night. A dog belonging 10 James
West had strayed from home about five
months ago and taken up his abode with
a wolf that prowled about IN the woods
near by. on last Tuesday night several
of the neiehbors started out for the Gus
tOmary wolf hunt. and hal proceeded but
a short distance when their dogs scented
a trail supposed TO be that Of a wolf The
chase was pushed vigorously and resulted
in the escape Of the real wolf and the un-
avoidable killing OF the runaway dog.
which seemed 70 be unable 10 outrun the
hunters and their dogs.