The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-06
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| A quarter section in Vernon township,
| hay county. last week sold for 81 eco
! The question is. WAS Secretary Jen-
kins asked TO come down to Washing
| ton?''
/ The banks Of Oklahoma are buying gov
! eminent bonds. There IS a surplus OF
money in the territory.
| Every other item in the Oklahoma
weeklies now is Of farm that has been
sold to some easterner-
/ Jerre Johnson, OF Newlirk, thinks that
Fairbanks VIII be the Republican nomi-
nee for president in 1904
--e Newkirk Republican has started an
Misrepresentation campaign, a thing every
newspaper in oklahoma should do.
The number OF farmers in the Strip who
are SONG TO the Kiowa opening, as evil
denced by the Oklahoma weeklies, is Won
derful.
This is the time Of year when the Ok
lahoma editor resolves TO have a garden
and loses the resolution trying to ind the
spade.
J. r. Sheets win put geo acres in the
Otoe reservation to watermelons. and has
already contracted to deliver them at $50
per car load
Frank block. who died last week in
Alva, was a Prussian, and when a boy
ran away from home 10 go to the Franco
Prussian war.
Reverend Tom Dickson, who used 70
live in Kildare, has been appointed a
chaplain in the regular army, by Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The county commissioners OF Kay
have ordered the building OF the big
bridge at Ponca City Ponca City raises
$4,000 Of the amount necessary.
AT Newkirk, a space Of 175 feet on the
end Of the public square was donated by
the government for municipal purposes,
and Newkirk viii erect a city building on
its allotment.
Adolph Quaston. OF Kay county, had
no sooner proved up his claim than he
bought him new suit Of clothes and
started to visit his old friends and rela-
tives in Germany.
Jerre Johnson. OF -.ewlirk. says that
the clever Oklahoma politician is the one
who can look into the future and see the
various combinations and how they Will
come out" That politician doesn't exist.
Enid Wave: "The Bes Line track lay
ers quit work last evening at the west
line of Squire Lyle's farm, about IL
miles from the location Of the depot. The
superintendent OF the work assured a
Wave reporter that the rails would be
laid into the city w o'clock this even
Saturday evening, April 9Th, the first
train from the northeast viii arrive at
9:45 2. m, and lie first train east viii
leave the depot at o'clock p ~. Sunday
morning, making close connections at
Blackwell with trains for St Louis and
al points east. See time card in another
place in this issue. Thus another link to
Ends chain of commercial advantages
has been added. We now have direct
railroad connection with ST. Louis and
the far east, where we can always ind
a better market for our cotton, broom
corn, castor beans, stock and many other
products. The coming OF this road in
sures lower freight rates an better ac-
cOmmodations. as where there are com
peting lines each line strives to please
lie transportation trade. The people Of
Enid should march to the depot in a
body, headed by the band, to greet the
coming Of the first train on the Bes
Line, and celebrate one OF the most i'm
portant events in the history Of this
young, lucky and prosperous city"