The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-02
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

OUTLINES or OKLAHOMA.
with the new counties in the new
| country added, Oklahoma VIII have TWEEN
ty-six-
Already in Oklahoma. and as far north
IS The Strip, IAN blowing for wheat has
/ begun.
Judge Burwen is holding court at Te-
cumseh this week, and, IS usual, has
big docket
The supreme court VIII decide the ap-
peal OF Tom Queenan, OF Oklahoma City.
next Saturday.
Ell Reno now holds credulity up aEains,
the wan and shows wheat that weighs
g. pounds & busheL
a man claims 10 have caught rattle
| snake in the Wichita mountain recently
/ which had seventeen rattles.
| Dennis Flynn VIII soon secure free mail
| delivery at Shawnee. An inspector viii
/ look over the grounds this month.
| Every town in Oklahoma which Is
| building up z public park viii see the day
( that II VIII pat itself OF the back.
News has been received at Ponca City
4 that Mrs. Smith. who was hurt in the
/ Frisco wreck in Kansas, cannot recover.
At Taloga, last week. little boy was
bitten by a mad dog. maidstone.
which was applied. adhered several hours.
| The general feeling seems to be that It
is better 10 have Sol. Temple ont than
! in giving some sheriff nervous prostra-
ton.
| nameless committee n oklahoma
| county announces that they will hang the
next horse-thief caught, and that the
jail won't save him.
Another man has committed suicide
! down At Oklahoma City who IN rs last
/ note asks the survivors to De sure he is
! dead before they bury him
If gold should be discovered IN the
/ Wichita mountains It would build up a
town which would make the government s
! location look like thirty cents.
There is a division OF sentiment st
/ Chickasha whether the opening VIII hurt
1 or injuTe Chickasha- II VIII help the
city. There ought 10 be no doubt Of it.
| If the Democratic central committee OF
| Oklahoma was onto its job il would
| send out emigration agents TO Texas to
! induce Texans 10 locate IL Kiowa land
when it is opened.
The other night Mr.. uZenberry, % Paw
nee county, was driving home when two
4 men held him up And they did It IN the
| old-fashioned style, TOO. For both rob
bers Ieveled four reviewers on him.
In Kansas when you see the heading:
| "On for the Mountains" It means that
somebody has gone 10 Colorado. In Ok
| lahoma the same heading means that
/ somebody has pulled out for the Wichita
country.
Shawnee Quill. phiosophicauy: When
a man loves sin he goes down; when he
/ loves his wife. he goes home; when he
! loves another mans wife, he goes 10 the
| graveyard; when ne loves a girl. they
/ both go crazy
In an invitation to attend the Normal
! Institute at TaloEa occurs this induce
ment: Finally those should come who
/ think they know all that is TO be known,
TO impart 70 their struggling felIow-teach-
! er some Of the good things they know
| about school work
Here is a good jack-rabbit story from
! the Independence Courier: An old resi-
/ dent in this county, in commenting on
/ those lS-iuch jack-rabbit ears that we
made mention Of last week. said that
was nothing; that they were really
smah-sized ears IN his vicinity. But, he
said, however, IN speaking OF rabbits, that
J an occurrence came under his vision last
week that was a little unusual and might
have been dangerous. He said that he
was on the proposed line Of railroad be-
! tween Independence and Arapahoe. when
/ the fast mail and express came along ct
/ a high rate OF speed lust before it got
TO him, for some reason, not explained,
| a big 5ack-Tabbit got on the track IN
I front of the engine. Il stood for a sec
ond or two looking at the fast approach
/ ing trains, which scared the engineer 50
/ that he blew the danger whistle several
! times, when the rabbit turned and start
/ ed down the track ahead OF the train.
! digging up the ballast and throwing
stones behind * in such a reckless man
ner that it broke out the headlight and
the windows in the cab. It was steep
/ down grade, and the train could not
/ slock. so the mad race wa skept up clear
/ TO Independence, greatly 70 the terror Of
! the engineer, who expected 20 be ditched
any minute. As they neared Independ-
/ ence the engineer blew the whistle in
such a terrific manner that Il attracted
( the section boss near by, who, seeing the
I train and the danger II was IN, promptly
/ turned the switch and side-traCked the
rabbit. letting the train pass In safety.
/ thereby avertlng a horrible accident We
don't believe this story, and only tel Il
as It was told US. so don't blame Us"