The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-26
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Most Of the names in the Usage Nation
papers are French
It is now claimed that the coal disoov-
cry at Kremln was along the railroad
track.
The Indian territory papers are roast
ing the Deiawares and Osages for their
rowdyism at the last big smoke.
Washita county turned out lots Of cot
ton this year. The gin az Cloud Chief
has put out g bales this season.
Oklahoma IS getting the big circuses
this year, and she never gave ND part OF
her wheat money more cheerfully.
When a man in western Oklahoma
wants 70 be particularly devilish be goes
out and shoots some other man COWS
The Beaver county boys who have re-
turned from the Klondike say that a ten
derfoot up there is called a cheechawker-
The Joe Hodge case of Beaver county
has accumulated a change of venue 10
Noble county. and is still travelling rap
idly.
N the Usage reservation the greatest
joke perpetrated is for a couple 10 slip
up TO Kansas and get married and not
say anything about it until they set home
again.
Notice in the Medford Mail: Party
who, on Saturday, was observed carrying
ny poodle pup from the city VIII save
trouble by returning at once. Mrs. y. L.
MaIlon."
No editor should make mention OF the
fact that farmer SO-and-So showed him
q particularly large watermelon. II the
farmer didn't leave the watermelon with
the editor he should BE wholly ignored.
According 10 the Weatherford Chronicle
a lecturer recently telegraphed from an
other town: Impossible TO come tonight;
give audience back their money" He
received the following reply by wire:
we have given the audience back his
money, and he has gone home perfectly
satisfied"
The other day Kah-wah-ho-ste. an
Usage. erased his trading card and used
his red brethren have ridiculed him so
that ne is likely to die OF humiliation.
The Pawhuska Journal says: I'VE viii
bet the amount our delinquent subscribers
owe us that he will never be caught doing
it again
A man has wandered out 70 Dewey
county and stirred up the animals by
casting aspersions on the county officers.
The TalOga Advocate says: 1T is indeed
a pitiable sight to see man who has
made a dismal failure IN life, further
than to count one in the census returns
stand up before an intelligent audience
and villify men, like So-aud-So and So
and-So.
Just before the death OF President Nc
Kinley the Blackwell Sun said that
Roosevelt's succession to the presidency
would be disastrous TO the country, and
that he would involve this nation IN
war before a month of his reign had
passed" The Sun man makes a hard at
tempt in his whole article to be emf
nently fair. Does he really believe what
he wrote? Does he think that Roosevelt
will involve this country IN war within
the next twenty-five days? II he doesn't
think so, why did he write It? What
good does it do him, his readers, the
nation or the world TO pour out express
sions Of that kind, which he cannot
really believe himself or expect others to
believe? What's the use Of hot-air?
Everybody in southern Kansas and Ok
lahoma has heard Of Goodnight Of Texas.
The Amarillo Advocate says OF him:
Charles s. Goodnight was 4 pionser
ranchman IN the Texas Panhandle a gen
GRAFTON ago, end Is still one Of the most
active cRttlemen on the range During
his long career he has kept abreast OF
the constant changes that have been
made in ranching. He says this genera
ton has seen the passing OF the 1000 900
acre ranch and that immense tracts IN
one body have seen their days in Texas.
Mr. Goodnight says that ten men with
1000 acres each can operate more sue
cessfully than one man on 1000, 900 acres.
Following this theory, he began selling
off his originally immense ranch into
smaller ranches, and now has only 10000
acres. This is enough. he says, and IS a
model ranch. On it he has several thou
sand head Of range cattle, some elk. 200
head Of buffalo and the largest herd OF
Persian sheep in America Recently he
Buffalo Jones 70 80 20 the
Rocky mountains and secure as many
mountain sheep as he can. These he
ships TO Texas and crosses with Persian
goats. In this way Mr.. Goodnight ex-
poets to have one Of the most unique
and valuable herds in existence.