The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-19
ourLlNEs OF OKLAHOMA.

| Il is claimed that the Indian territory
| is growing AT the rate of 10000 = year
out at Lahorna Z stage line is known
as the Broncho Sunset Express. lin
I tied.
Dr. R L. Hall. of Medford. has been ap-
! pointed coroner OF Grant county. by The
commissioners.
The Pond Creek vidette announces that
Sol Temple was still III jail at the time
of going TO press.
Dennis Flynn is coming home to look
after property interests n Guthrie,
| Christmas week
So fer Tom Ferguson has found that
| that broncho is riding as easy as a
merry-go-round.
| The men on the star routes are the
! Ozlahomans who really have q kick COM
/ ing on the weather.
The interview between Mrs. Jenkins
| and President Roosevelt, contrary TO all
I expectations. was tame.
/ \ fun-grown coyote was captured in
I Alva the other day. He had strolled in
! to have a chicken dinner.
! Out in western Kansas a man sells ce-
I dar trees and puts them in and guaran-
! tees growth. At 80 cents each.
| Some man started the foolish story in
| Oklahoma the other day that Governor
jenkins would sue President Roosevelt
for libel.
Before the Indian territory thinks OF
statehood it should pay some attention 20
/ rafting up congress to put IN some sort
| Of a school system.
! At the second Muskogee statehood con-
vention the negro part OF the audience
sat on one side Of the hall. the white
/ people on the other.
| The editor Of the Cleo Chieftain an
] ha+ Hoo t,~s4
a terrible sinking spell and he had TO sit
up all night with it.
| y man who has recently been through
( the Indian territory says the average
/ citizen down there is more afraid Of tax
alton than he is of smallpox
As a man could not mix mortar with
hoe any more than he could mix scrap
iron with a broom lately. building oper-
/ atoms in Oklahoma have suspended.
Oklahoma City has granted a street
railway franchise 10 a company which
has put up $3.50 forfeit, and saws it viii
have the line in operation within eight
months.
! Prairie schooners are pouring into the
new country. and the present weather
| has been very hard on the movers. in
cases far out on the prairie where no
\ fuel could be found.
Clyde Mattox who photographs all the
new convicts at the Kansas state peni-
/ Tertiary, is said to be becoming a very
| proficient artist. He has sketched all hts
! life. The trouble with Clyde was he drew
/ too many revolvers.
An accident on the railroad at Medford
occurred the other day which is unusual
I A train broke in two and the first part
steamed away for a short distance and
/ stopped. The second then caught up
with the first, bumped into it and knocked
a brakeman TO the ground ard injured
him.
| Lahoma Sun: Lou Burdick sold his
farm. northwest of town, the other day
! for 81 600. The purchaser was a Mime
sofa man. The same day Mr.. Burdick
bought A. ]. Ervin's farm for $500. and
says he made a thousand dollars that
/ day. as the farm he bought is worth
more than the one he sold.
! Story OF a dog. in the Medford Mail:
/ DIR. J. Z. Hardy had sold his last and
remaining fox terrier. and had gone TO
/ the train this morning TO ship IL TO par
\ ties. having the box all labeled and ready.
/ The dog followed the doctor. and dog like,
I just before starting on a long trip. took
little play once. The train was arriv-
I ing and the doctor went out and whistled
J for the dog witch came running up and
cot m the track IN freDt OF the engine