The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-28
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Tom Ferguson has lately forgotten his
'anti-mortgage" crusade.
Some one claims that there IS stu elk
in the Wichita mountains
The city OF Altus announces that II has
secured the Orient railway.
The rotten egg business is a little too
frequent n Oklahoma OF late
The easiest way 10 get into trouble in
Oklahoma is TO try to be The Whole
Thing politically
Ed Marchant, OF Cleo. says that a
flower given TO the living is worth more
than a ton dumped on a grave.
The Sharp case has been postponed un-
til July S. and it VIII be q hot case in 3
hot time when II comes Up again.
Amos Ewing stin insists on examining
the oil which Oklahoma City is 70 brlns
forth from the interior OF the earth.
The rain in the west last week was a
deluge. Okeene was shut on from mail
for several days because OF high water.
There have been two lynchings in Okla
hOma, OF cOlored men, and IN both in
stances in communities which were set
tied by northern people.
saltwater and Payne county should ex-
plain fully that trial wherein the fellows
who blufed q young woman into cooking
& meal for them went free
Shawnee Quill: I'VE shall hit the next
man who tells US he had a bundle of
Northern Pacific stock In his desk all the
time but forgot TO sell it SO, take warn
ing
one man at Cleo Springs IS being stud
led closely by the city council, which is
after revenue. II viii pass q dog tax
ordinance, and this man VIII have 10
whack up 419 tax
o. A Mitschers ruling that the Usage
Indian cannot transfer his real estate 70
another Usage Indian has been upheld
BY the department and he has been or
dered 10 enforce IL.
Judge Hainer viii clear up that legal sit
uation at Saltwater. And II viii be a
mighty good thing for all Oklahoma.
Put-up Jobs in trials are bad things for q
new or old country.
At an entertainment in Enid a boy, Roy
Ramsey. recited cold Watermelon Time
SO well that the reporter for the Wave
claimed to see the watermelon seeds slid
ing from the speakers mouth
Miss Ida Hartman, Of Saltwater, Payne
county, married a man from Stroud the
other day, but the country correspondent
to the Ripley Times refuses 10 give his
name because he is carpet-bagger.
The tramp fraternity is trying the new
lines Of railroads in oklahoma, and the
local newspapers are bowling against
them. Tramps are what come with i'm
provement, and the editors should quiet
down.
Watonga expects TO have the Rock Is
land road BY the first Of next September.
Most Of the papers in Oklahoma try 10
dissuade settlers from moving from their
present locations in Oklahoma to the new
country.
The Berlin Venture IN telling some OF
the reasons why Oklahoma excelled other
places, says; Stock is wintered and
feed is raised easier; a larger variety OF
farm products are successfully raised;
fruit, IN variety, quality and quantity
cannot be eXcelled; a home IS easier OBJ
tanned, and retained; the climate is of
a more even temperature and our death
rate is lower than that OF any otler
state IN the Union"
Out at Cleo, Neil McKinty has a mule
that is keeping him awake at night,
owing to a circumstance. The other day
the mule was loose and started across
the open prairie IN search OF good pas
ture. He went out about mile and
came to a sign which read: This road
is closed" The mule stopped, appar-
emily studied the sign a long time, was
seen to shake his head, and then turn and
walk soberly back home. McKinty Is
willing TO bet money that the mule can
read.