The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-03
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Secretary Hitchcock has proved
mighty good friend 70 the honesteaders.
There is a pronounced rumor in The
Strip that the heat is awful up IN Kan
sas-
n A Low is president OF the Rock
Island extension from Liberal over into
New Mexico.
The TOO previous homesteader win find
Il as hard 10 buck the government as the
cattlemen did
The man who walks into Kiowa land
as soon as the proclamation is issued, viii
be walked out
The towns in the Kicwa land VIII be
over done IN the end the farmer VIII
come out on top.
The weather has arrived at that stage
where overland travellers moon" in towns
they PASS through
Buck Brame, OF Stroud. has a mule
which he claims has seven gaits. and is
perfect under the saddle
Barbed-wire is becoming thick in Okla
homa. Nearly every runaway reported
nowadays has a barbed-Wire connection.
Jim and Mart Williams. who were in
the Mountain View shooting scrape. have
been released from the jail ar Guthrie
On bond
The territory is waiting anxiousIy for
Z
ally anything new IN the Midway at
Buffalo.
BY this time the Texas catt;emen must
be getting it into their heads that the
government at Washington is quite &
large. vigorous affair.
/ Ed Virgins has been made receiver Of
the land Office at Woodward. Ed wig
gins is the best dressed man west of the
Sixth principal meridian.
a small. grey bug has appeared in the
corn fields in Eastern Oklahoma There
are several of him, but there Is no evil
dence that he likes corn.
No one doubts that the government
viii defend those who abide by its plan.
The fellow who thinks he knows more
! than the government VIII have lots of
trouble.
Some Of the town people in western Ok
| lahoma, irritated at the delay IN the con
struction of the Orient intimate that the
company is running hot air locomotives
on IT'S line.
The Hardesty Herald. long 4 good pa
per, has disappeared and its descendant,
with some Of the features Of its prOgen-
r. 3. Quinn is, as formerly. at the
helm.
II. E. Walter has eyes that are bulging
out. He lives near Ponca City, and has
lot OF big wheat fields. HIS poorest
field was one Of nifty acres. He recently
cut it and threshed It. and Il made 50
bushels to the acre.
Look ct that MOON said the stingy
Oklahoma man 10 his boy whom he sus-
pected OF being about TO ask him for 90
cents to buy fireworks. THAT is pref
tier than every sky-roclIet that ever push
ed air from in front its snOot-"
New story Of an old joke in the Alva
Pioneer: a certain small boy has been
hanging around Karrs drug store for
several days wanting z JOB grinding ice
cream. The drug firm, not having any
cream to grind, the little fellow was viii
ling 10 do anything. 50 decided he would
like a Job powdering cork. The little
fellow is working quite faithfully, but
says he can't see where the powder Will
be when he gets through Anyone want
ing this young fellow u do any work can
find out who he is by inquiring al Karr s
drug store"
The Guymon Herald prints a sequel to
the Nfulligan story. ct IS now alleged
that Albert Carter and Dee Edwards.
through shrewd questioning of George
MulIgan and q limited personal know'l-
edge of the situation, have ascertainad
almost the identical SPOT where Afulligan
buried 81 .0o0 in gold before departing for
Alaska These boys-after the fake rob
berry in Seattle-cOucluded that they could
return and locate the treasure. The boys
are very reticent in regard 70 their pro-
gress, but a near relative Of one Of TIE
returned KIondikers flashed a number Of
bright, new. tweHty-doliar gold-pieces last
Sunday which indicates that the efforts
OF the boys since their return from Seat
tie have not been fruitless"