The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-12
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Wire is being strung on new telephone
line between Comanche and Lawton.
These mysterious visits Cy Leland is
paving TO Guthrie haven't been explained
yet
Ed Lawton OF Lawton died last week
from blood poisoning caused by a iacer-
ated tooth.
The Fl Reno American has Z dispatch
from Washington springing Dick Morgan
Tor governor.
The Choctaw grade has been completed
10 Anthony and the track viii be com
pleted in couple of weeks.
Lawton needs both the wood and Beals
claim. The government should permit
the homesteaders to commute
The newspapers at LAYTON have be
gun 20 consolidate. The Democrat and
the Jenersonian have got together.
The people of Anadarko were RECALLED
the other day by a hair-pullins match
between two squaws- They were jealous.
The red soil Of Oklahoma runs cut Just
north of Perry. 4 farmer in that vicin-
ity has a farm that is half red and half
black.
It would interest Bob to learn If he were
alive that one of the first buildings 10 20
UP in the new town OF Ingersou, Oklaho-
ma. was a church.
The newspapers OF the territory are
talking the sanitarium matter up one side
and down the other. but no one has ar
rived anywhere yet.
A man who was over in Lawton the
other day says that he is willing 20 bet
that half the men on the streets have
quartz in their pockets.
About the most unpleasant Job in the
world is the governorship Of Oklahoma
Trouble begins at the Inauguration and
,-s-~T-~ Z -
F. NJ. White. a saloon keeper at Edg-
wood in southern Oklahoma killed "a man
named Happy Jack" He says that
Happy Jack drew knife on him.
None of the prisoners who escaped were
from Oklahoma bat a good many were
from Indian Territory and those not cap
tured or kellide are trying TO work their
way back.
George Vickers who has been over in
the new country says that the settlers
there are better prepared to stand the
winter than were the settlers OF any prev
ious opening.
Southern Kansas and Oklahoma are one
vast carpet of green. The wheat in
that in the territory. Some Of the farm
ers are pasturing too heavily.
There are S13 school children in Law
ton and it viii take sixteen teachers and
2 superintendent 70 guide them. The
schools viii not be thoroughly graded a
the start but viii grow into that i'm
prOvemeEt.
The papers seem TO take It for granted
that President Roosevelt will not say
anything about statehood IN his MESA sc.
New Mexico and Arizona are making
more noise on the subject than Oklaho-
ma just at present.
The statehood convention next week is
fraught with little significance 70 our
people. We are given a small delegation
in this county when it IS known the ter
ritory over that the county of Woods has
something over 1000 people within her
borders. The managers of the Indian
territory side OF the convention have seen
fit to apportion the delegates Of that ter
ritory SO that there shall be about one
delegate for every 1000 inhabitants.
whereas, in this part OF Oklahoma we
only get a scant one delegate for about
every two or three thousand inhabitants.
This is certainly most unfair and will re-
suit in there being a small delegation if
any from this county. II would seem as
though this portion Of Oklahoma was left
out purpOsely. We don [ know why but
if IL is that they fear our attitude on this
question, we can frankly say that few of
our citizens in the western part OF the
territory are very heartily in favor OF
the proposition advocated by the men
who are fathering this convention.