The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-01
ou1LINEs OF oKLAHoMA.

There is nothing ike being forehanded.
The coal thieves have already started IN
AT El Reno.
Stirred up by the success OF Blackwell.
Pond Creek is talking OF q stock com
pany TO drill for gas
The newspapers Of Oklahoma should
rip into the gun-toters again. The gun
toters need the lesson
Next Sunday at FL Reno the new
church erected by the Baptists OF FL
Reno viii be dedicated
The women Of Lamont became outraged
at a hooche-cooche show and raided il.
driving it out OF town.
For the most part the Oklahomans who
got Office in the town election in Kiowa
land were from the Strip.
Governor jenkins has not announced
yet whether there viii be an investiSa-
ton OF the Norman Sanitarium.
Shawcross. the bystander who was kill
ed at Shawnee Saturday night was once
a deputy United States marshal
Beaver county is kicking on the in
spection fee demanded on cattle entering
Kansas on their way to Kansas City
Beaver county was not a part OF the
Louisiana purchase, but il viii take part
in the St Louis exposition, just 10 be
neighborly.
n correspondent OF the III Keno aMefi-
can at Hobart acknOwle edges that Lawton
is the larger town, but says that it has
too many tents
The German Herald announces proudly
that Guymon is not a boom town and
the editor says he wouldn't walk fifty
feet to sell a lot
The Indian territory. If It ever expects
TO have Oklahoma extend the glad hand.
will have TO get over the idea that it is
superior mentally 10 Oklahoma.
A minister at Pond Creek recently mar
ried young couple and the groom gave
him check for five dollars. The other
day the check came back protested.
Andrew Carnegie, in a letter, says that
council viii furnish the site and an ap-
preparation yearly Of $3.50 for mainte-
nance.
The Pond Creek vidette Indignantly
charges that 2 freight train went through
the town the other day at a rate OF fifty
miles an hour. That is pretty rapid for
freight train.
Going Through-the-B Bushes" a squaw.
was found near Darlington. the other
day. She was forty years old. and had
been married five times. she died Of
fatty degeneration of the heart.
a dispatch from Lawrence says: "A
idAST Gray tGb1rs winch lldS the ti4SI
twenty-five years made its home south
east of this city. was killed today by a
hunter from Lawrence. The big bird vas
" cry wary and has successfully eIuded
the hunters for the last quarter of 4
century. The eagle measured six feet
from tip 10 tip of wings Its claws were
long and extremely hard, and its legs and
head bore the evidences OF age. The lucky
hunter turned his prize over 10 Professor
of he mix ~ Of ~
the latter viii mount II and put it in the
University museum. 1t Is thought that
age had so dulled the old fowls sight and
hearing that it did not perceive the hun
teT's presence
The Enid Eagle says that southern Ok
lahoma is in need OF rain for the wheat.
About once year the Oklahoma editor
takes his pen in hand and jabs II 20 the
wind. A man never lives long enough in
the west TO get used to the wind when
it gets out on an equinoctial runk. The
first eSitor TO crack 1t this fall is he of
the Shawnee Quill. He writes: To-day
has been the most disagreeable Of any
since the fall season began; the wind
from the southwest by o'clock this
morning rising to a perfect gale and car
rying with IL great sheets and clouds OF
dust that forbade anyone except those
having urgent affairs TO attend to from
appearing on the street. 1t caused the
branches on the trees 10 lash each other
in fury, sent loose papers kiting high in
the air, tOyed insultingly with the good
and bad hats of pedestrians indiscrimi-
nately, crept IN at the crannies and crew
ices of my lady's kitchen and parior and
unloaded on table and carpet and other
nice things handfuls Of the streets
surface that brought with il mild tor
ture and kept the broom in action