The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-24
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The Oklahoma W. c. T. Z. is il session
| at Oklahoma City this week.
| Typhoid IS having its inning in the new
| towns. Sanitation takes time
| There are 1000 bales OF cotton in the
cotton yard at Mangurn just now.
/ The Pond Creek yidette is in open re-
/ bellion 10 the local football teams ven.
The street fair at Lamont is on this
week. Il is a honeycooler with bangles
on it.
Hobart is already doing a smashing
1 business. II has 200 bales Of cotton IN
its yards.
The petit jury in Kay county signed a
I petition requesting the appointment OF
! Judge Hainer.
The statehood question has reached the
country debating societies. and that
means business.
where freight wreck took place Tues
day. as a rank plagiarist
The Pond Creek vidette thinks that
the man at Jefferson who swallowed q
| nail may find it hard wear on his s5om-
ach.
The southern towns OF Oklahoma wiz
have 10 have a care towards cleanliness.
The southern part of Oklahoma is pretty
far south.
Enid is humping along like a runaway
automobile. Twenty-Five business blocks
are in course OF construction there in the
center Of the city.
". ". Price. who IS the Democratic
candidate for city clerk at Anadarko.
was grain inspector under Governor
Leedy of Kansas.
Mountain View. writes his friends al
Pond Creek that he recently refused
$3.50 TO relinquish it.
The gladdest sight to the Oklahoma
farmer this time OF year IS a long-legged
yearling with his head buried UP TO his
ears in wheat pasture.
Perry hunters recently got a shot at
a deer in the Usage reservation and
brougt him down. They brought him
home, too, for the benefit Of the Mis-
sourians.
A man living back OF a shooting gallery
at Perry WeaT1ed of lodging bullets and
had the shooting gallery crowd arrested.
But 1t didn't do him any good; they were
acquitted.
Pawnee Dispatch: Salt creek was
named after a salt spring where the
Osages made salt. The Checaspa river
got its name by an accident. An Indian
girl was cutting a large hollow cotton
wood tree one side of which was burnt
Oulf 4FaNlIS TIE UtllDW QiEn- he tree
fell suddenly, the open part falling over
the girl and she was unhurt. hence the
name, 'Sha Kassa ochbay," THE tree
fell and covered her"
At Leger, IN Greer county, Saturday
night, Ennis, real estate man, shot NJ
NJ. Welch through the heart. The story
told is that Ennis listed a lot OF NJ NJ
Welch for $50; sold it for SO; that Welch
demanded the $40; that Ennis offered him
the so without the commission; that
Welch drew a knife and chased Ennis
through the bank, Ennis firing a shot in
the ground and calling on Welch TO de-
sist. Welch apparently did not, but
rushed on Ennis. who shot him.
Anadarko Record: The National bank
teller. Bert S. Dixon. has constantly at
his right hand on his desk a gun that
has history. 1t was the property of
the notorious outlaw, Bill Dalton. and
was carried by him for number OF years
prior to and on the day OF his death
1t is Colts number 734. a 4-calibre and
besides possessing the modern gun appli-
ances, is embellished with an ivory han
die. Territorial Secretary Grimes Sc
cured the gun at Winfield, Kansas. at the
time Dalton met his death in an unsuc-
cessful bank raid. There are several
gruesome spots on it Yet where Dalton's
blood stained and rusted il. Acting Mar
shall Clever, who sleeps with ii under
his pillow as bank Waterman, often
dreams of Dalton and his daring deeds
the gun is a veritable hoodoo.