The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-18
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

OUTLINES or OKLAHOMA.
Heavy timber for the use OF the chOc-
taw IS being shipped into AIva.
Jesse Strotts. a prosperous farmer ia
Kay county, was born near Athens.
Greece
Corb sarchet the Guthrien newspaper
nan. drew number $50 in tie Il Reno
district.
The Newkirk Repusiican-News-Journal
/ subScribes its wish that Woods viii lose
his claim
Park CITY. which was started by Eaia
Tea. expects 10 be the Cripple Crssk Of
oklahoma
The men paying the largest prices for
\ lots az Lawton and Anadarko are from
| Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma papers always make
/ mention IN their birth notices OF bsbv.
hair when il is red
The only mineral found 50 FAR In the
| Wichita mountains by the prospectoFs IL
a trace OF copper.
! The government would land heavily on
/ any one who would attempt @ distribute
! town lots through q drawing.
/ Senator Ravens Of EnId notes that the
! delinquent subscriber as a species L.
disappearing from Oklahoma.
! Il seems 70 be taken for granted On an
sides thar the new normal win De located
On the Rock Island road. All right
| Jerre Johnson OF Newkirk. thinks that,
I the preparatory school az Tonkawa Will
eventually become territorial aiEh
| school
The Enid Easie Is inclined to believe
that Governor jenkins seminary dis
/ charge Of the Barnes locating COMMITTEES I
was extra guoernatcrisl
J A dispatch 70 an Oklahoma paper fror,
l Lawton reads this way. Pour men svera
instantly killed at Lawton saturday
night They died soon after
The pOstonices ln the new towns are
/ not yet permanently located They VIII
I have a great deal to do with the valpa
! OF lots in the business portions
/ Last year when Enid wanted 70 sell
some bonds ONLY enc bidder apparel
/ This year she has some school bonds 70
sch and there are FIVE competitors Tor
than in the field.
An Oklahoma paper notes that the dis
7 appointed faces IN the wagons now wend-
I Ing their way back northward are sad
/ 20 see. bat no sadder than those OF people
I who are sttl contesung seven years after
an opening.
/ The latest story from the mineral por-
/ ton az kloEa land is that the copper Is
/ found IN sheets. Jass the thickness of a
penny that the sheets are covered with
Indian heads and all that Is necessary %
+ set immensely rich IL a wad-outter.
Seven men left established. proved.
I settled Oklahoma towns ard went to the
new towns and paid 600 for a single
lot Excitement brings a price. but IL
f does not give value. and IL Is strange
THAI every oklahoman doesn't realize IT,
Al Branen, recently a young man Who
was driving a load OF has along the street
was called down by another fellow who
/ pointed revolver az the Young man and
made ham say his prayers. Tho nan
/ with che gun claimed that the other had
/ insulted his sister.
! oklahoma City Times-JournaI: a short
I time ago q southern paper roasted tho
planters Of it's state for allowing Okla
/ homa 20 take the worlds premium on
cotton The paper grew sarcastic because
7 a negro had been ailowrd 20 capture the
Paris medal and that too, on cotton
/ grown away up IN Oklahoma. where q
was supposed cotton would not groa
/ The1 surprise 81 the cotton growers VS.
matched when the wheat growers saw
/ Oklahoma walk OF with the gold medals
ior best four and wheat. The northern
wheat growers exclaimed. "Beafea hv
I Oklahoma. O territory away down soufh
where IL was supposed that wheat would
not grow" Oklahoma's superiority does
not enc Win cotton aua Wbhtts nNt eA-
tends 10 almost every product grown in
America We raise apples with south
west Missouri. peaches with Maryland.
peanuts with Virginia. sweet potatoes
with Carolina. melons with Cieorsia.
broom corn with Illinois. kaFir corn wi5h
the world. and inner grapes than New
York or California Oklahoma densa the
world 20 produce an equal area elsewhere
that successfully Produces so many Of the
T worlds sfanie crope This fs Oifahufna .
strength Her crops are 60 alvcraned
that total failures are unknown. Mat
injuries one crop helps another. Great -
Oklahoma.