The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-14
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Ripe strawberries were picked at Paw
nee last week, the earliest record ever
made.
It is now quite easy 10 see the finish of
the Indians They are going 10 law
over their lands.
The editor Of the Billings News has
published the obituary OF the last wheat
louise IN his vicinity.
J. ". New, the man who killed Doyle
in WashiJa county viii be taken 70 FL
Reno for SAFE keeping.
John Rader, eleven years old. and
whose home was al Augusta. was drown
ed in the Eagle Chief last Wednesday.
Enid is becoming fastidous. II is not
considered good form 70 SO swimming al
the railroad bridge without a bathing
suit.
Pottawatomie county has I'VE more
representatives in the Kansas peniten-
tiary as a result OF recent session OF
court there.
Fred smith who was killed at Cleo last
week never INDUCED IN liquor but once
and that. it now appears, was at the
wrong time.
Charles P. Lincoln, for many years
prominent Grand Army man at Wash
ington City has settled at Fl Reno 10
grow up with the country
It is recorded in the Eagle Chief items
OF the Cleo Chroniscope that a gentleman
named Walker has been building a south
line fence since the flood
Pat Coney Of Topeka is firing the heart
Of Oklahoma veterans with daily classics
urging them to rally round Dick Blue
for commissioner Of pensions
The opening OF the baseball season at
Mayor Faubion made a speech and tossed
. first hall into the diamond
ii Merchant sees in the purchase OF q
steam peanut rooster by a local merch-
ant an undisputed evidence that Cleo is
working out its metropolitan destiny.
The people OF Oklahoma, especially
those IN the western counties, are watch
ing the sky for mackerel scales and
horses tails. They are sure signs OF
rain.
Clyde Mattox is now the official photo
grapher OF the Kansas state penitentiary.
II is said that be is quite an expert be-
hind the camera and is also clever with
the brush.
Dennis Flynn is a diplomat Of the first
order, but ii will be mighty long time
before he can square the Cheyenne
squaws TO whom he sent government
garden seeds.
Jake Admire thinks it is a reversal Of
the order OF nature for the government
10 put everybody on a dead level with
reference TO the opening Of the new
lands TO settlement. Men were not all
born on dead level he says.
Jim Monahan. a former terror in Paw
nee county, and once shot to pieces while
attempting a successful getaway. has
been captured without the firing of
gun. He was taken unawares and when
handcuffed tore his hair and made the
air blue with oaths hurled at the officers.
Senator Quarrels of Wisconsin is in IA
vor Of single statehood for Oklahoma
and the Indian territory. You people"
he is quoted as having said, want on
big state" Oklahoma by herself you'd
make a big state. The people are big
and, after ali, it is the people that make
a state
II the spirit of the late Bill Doolin is
in a position to be interested in anything
1t certainly takes a keen interest in the
desperate efforts Of Oklahoma bankers TO
get somebody to take their money from
them The calf that furnished the boots
that William died in should have been
born FIVE years later.
Jacob F. Collar. the new mayor Of
Chandler. was once pawned for q drink
It was at Dodge City in the early days
The parents Of the future first mayor Of
Chandler took their baby down town in
his buggy and left him in front of a
store while they went in to make some
purchases. and some practical jokers
wheeled baby and buggy into a saloon
and pawned the whole outfit for a round
of drinks When the fond father finally
located his little Jakey and learned the
amount he had been soaked for he balk-
ed and allowed that the kid was not
worth what it would cost to redeem him.
He releRted. however, when he thought
Of the buggy.