The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-21
OUTLINES OF oklAHomA.


George Bellamy has sold his drug store
n El Reno TO some newcomers from
Michigan
The North Canadian river at FL Reno
the other day got on a tear and flooded
the bottoms.
Ed Marchant, Of Cleo. speaks Of a nan
TOUCHING out a term OF a quarter sec
ton OF raw prairie.
The Sacs and Foxes held their annual
medicine dance last Sunday and Monday
About 30 participated
BY the time Watonga gets that second
railroad. the people there win have TO sit
up nights 70 fight OF a boom
The Billings BARRIERS agreement TO raise
the price Of SLAVES because peoples faces
were SO long, IS OF. Il rained-
a sheriff came all the way from Dallas
TO Fl Reno the other day TO arrest a
woman who is charged with theft
Oklahoma IS taking mighty Hule inter
est IN the Rough Riders reunion which
is TO be held in Colorado next month
Judge 3ntts, OF IL Reno. socked a $50
fine on q fellow the other day for using
parti-colored language in the presence OF
women.
The contingent who quit Oklahoma for
the Beaumont oil boom are returning.
They are wiser and weigh less about the
pocketbook-
The story Is walking abroad that as
soon as the land onice at Fl Reno IS
started the one IT Oklahoma City viii
be. discontinued
Judge Richards. assistant commissioner
Of the general land oTfice. and his retinue
have set out for the new lands TO locate
the county seats.
The Enid Wave is in favor OF making
the first farmer who complains OF rust
in the wheat &c out with a ragged dish
cloth and rub the rust OF the stalks.
The gamblers at Watonga have made a
proposition to pay a monthly fine for the
privilege Of keeping open shop, and Tom
Ferguson's Republican IS bowling holes
in the atmosphere.
Nearly every paper IL the territory has
warned Governor jenkins that II ne at
tempts to build up a Jenkins faction he
will be mOnkeying with the northwest
corner of q cyclone.
A man in western Oklahoma strolled up
to the city limits of Cleo the other day
and allowed that there weren't two men
in the town who could lick one side OF
him He was taken home or q shutter.
Last Saturday there were 1906. people
from outside the city trading in Enid.
The man who doesn't realize what Enid is
doing in a business way should visit her
and see how much he has missed his
guess.
The man who first put out the story,
the sad. sad story that while the wheat
crop Of the Strip would be larger than
ever, yet there would be a shortage in
straw, deserves a medal with mnled
edges.
That Weatherford hail-storm story has
now reached New York, and It is claimed
back there that Maidstone was so large
and came down so sudden-lilIe that IL
bored a hole in the earth through which
oil is now gushing.
A lot Of good money IS to be wasted
In Oklahoma in boring for oil which could
be saved by hiring a recognized. impair
tial scientist to look the ground over and
say whether there was a possibility, a
probability, certainty, or no chance at
all.
1t is leaking out that City Marshal Ro-
bare. Of FL Reno, is in fact poet. In
public notice he says: This curfew bell
will ring tonight and it stands the boys
ana girls under the age Of sixteen in hand
to be safe housed with "a. and ma when
the first tap OF the bell is heard on the
ambient air The curfew ordinance will
be strictly enforced this summer, and
parents VIII have no one TO blame but
themselves If their sons and daughters
are arrested
Perry Republican, ct don't know what
the truth may be, tell the tale as twas
told TO ne" A certain dentist IN this
town, who pTides himself on his good
looks and politeness-and by the way all
Perry dentists are good looking and po-
lite-came sauntering down the street on
the north side of the square yesterday.
and as he arrived in front of the milH-
merry store he espied a fair creature sit
ting IN the window. She looked 20 cute
and good 10 the dentist that he tipped his
hat and smiled. The figure IN the win
dow, which is wax, never noticed the po-
lite dentist, and he thinks TO this day he
has been "snubbed" He goes around
on the south side now.