The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-02

/ Oklahoma VIII be III years old before
/ Il sees another one.
j The Shawnee National bank has in de-
] posts the sum Of SlS7 81
/ The First National Bank of Shawnee
has in deposits the sum Of SIST1sa.s0
Most Of the merchants in Oklahoma
i during the holidays Rad prize drawings.
! The moon win Grip blood when that
+ DIN locating all the state Institutions IS
I introduced.
+ Oklahoma is getting a good write-up
+ in an eastern syndicate whIch sends cut
/ plate matter.
Byron has a new brass band and the
only deaf man IN town IS being congrat-
uIated generally.
Christmas was shirt-sleeve weather in
( Oklahoma but no one cared 10 try that
or New Years day
Judge Stevens. of Hennessey, is stil
edging up on that speakership. He VIII
make capital presiding officer
The man who is in Oklahoma with a
view 10 locating is so numerous that
the prints make that phrase pickup.
1t is the organic act which provides
for the meeting Of the legislature. The
organic act has to answer Tor whole
lot OF things.
The flood Of final proof notices still
keeps up The LAST was The most pros
porous year for the editor Oklahoma
ever produced
Josh Con6iG, a character near stroud
maintains that the wind is God because
breath is air and there is no life with
out the presence Of wind.
The Oklahoma legislator IS preparing
TO so TO Guthrie with a good deal more
calm than he would have If there was q
United States senator 10 elect
John Moore and Charles Ford were ar
rested near Shawnee the other day,
charged with horse-steaIng at Enid.
They have been taken to that place
Lamont Dispatch: We knock on the
seif-styled scientific SHOWS which travel
through the country without paying liz
cense. The one given here had about as
much science mixed in its program as
is found on the last page OF Eostetter's
Almanac. This scientific feature IS
merely a graft 70 avoid paying license,
and the next show of that kind thar
comes here should be given a killing
frost.
saltwater Democrat: Fly stories are
a little late, but we just caught this one;
A young bachelor attorney of this city.
whose room was invaded by the flies
at a. IA, got two pieces of sticky fly
paper and placed it on two chairs by the
window. Returning late he forgot about
the tanglefoot and sat down on one OF
the chairs, but suddenly got up and tired
to pull the paper from the southwest
quarter Of his best court pants. AS L
was a hard place to get at, he took OF
his pants and sat down on the other
piece OF fly paper! Then ne got up again
and discussed the situation,
Stroud Messenger: Elmer Noble, an
itinerant umbrella merchant. has again
given up his weary mercantile pursuits
for the more exhilerating exercise Of
digging in the cUick-sands of the lower
Cimarron river He claims that several
years ago a wagon, loaded with several
boxes filed with gold and silver coins,
sunk deep down into the treacherous
quick-sands. and that he knows the ex-
act spot where the valuable outfit, in
GLIDING the driver and mules, went out
of sight. Elmer says that Re IS sure
Of finding the sunken treasure, provided
it hasn't sunk into the bottomless PIT
He has been digging In quest of the
vanished coins of and on for years; he
came near sinking himself in the quick
sand three times, while busily working
away, but says that he viii get that
sunken fortune or else die while attempt
ing his very best to get to where the
wagon and contents are resting on solid
bedrock below the quici-sand. The per
sistent treasUre-hunter is as mum as a
clam about "the hope that IS WI hin
him." who it was that had sunk with
his large fortune In the CimarTOn.