The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-26
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.
he business IN Barnes buttons at Ok
IONA City is still brisk


| The business IN Barnes buttons at Ok
! lahona City is still brisk
Oue-third of seventy acres Of growing
wheat brought sos at a sherifs sale in
| Enid Saturday.
The Frisco extension. now building into
| Enid from Blackwell, is said 70 be bound
! for Vernon. Texas
The Watonga Republican thinks that
a majority Of the people Of Oklahoma
were against the public building bill.
The farmers in one township III Custer
| county have dubbed together and sent
| in an order for a ton Of alfalfa seed.
/ In a good many trains in Oklahoma
/ standing room IS becoming at a premium
! the crush OF home-seekers is SO great.
/ The Chickasha Express carries this
motto; For Chiekasha first; the Indian
| territory second; the world after" Poor
world.
Tom Ferguson. of Watonga. says that
! neither Oklahoma City nor Guthrie VIII
/ be the capital when Oklahoma becomes
/ a state.
It Is said that the city council Of
/ Stroud recently voted 800 each TO six
/ saloons, this being a rebate from the reg
/ ular license.
When, oh. when viii the railroad boom
ers quit giving towns conniption fits by
running preliminary surveys which just
I miss q town by four miles
Judge Love, Of Custer county. claims
that one OF his marriage certificates
/ framed and hung up IN a home is an alb
/ sOlute preventive of divorce.
The Rock Island IN its extension from
! Enid 10 Anadarlzo viii either 60 10 Wa
! tonga or east OF it. WatOnga viii pull
to have the line touch the town
! Tom Ferguson anticipates that for sew
/ eraI years to come big punches OF indict-
ments win be handed down by grand
+ juries against violators of the cigarette
/ law. OF course.
! A young man at Arapahoe came home
! full, and fell over chairs and pulled down
curtains. His father found him and said.
! ing hell-well, you are.
Harry Gilstrap has whacl1ed Governor
/ Barnes many and oft, out be is now
] patting him on the back and taking it
/ all back, because Of the governors ac-
/ ton GA the public building bill.
It is reported that a stranger living
In tent at Arapahoe has the small
pox. The editor Of the Bee has not in
vcstigated the report, and says he is
/ perfectly willing 10 believe it true.
This wind is the greatest I ever saw, %
said a man al Watonga the other day.
u have seen some pretty high winds. but
] I never saw one before that would throw
a man down and take his money away
| from him
/ Out near Arapahoe a preliminary rail-
| road survey went across Smith s farm
/ and Smith CRASHED his teeth and tore
his hair. His neighbor Jones called on
him and told him not to kick, that the
railroad was a great thing for that sec
/ ton, and that Smith could afford to
/ stand the sacrifice. But the permanent
survey went across Jones' farm and Jones
| is whooping hot, and If Smith comes over
! to talk about the good Of the railroad
he intends TO brain him.
! Mulhan Enterprise; A certain lazy
! man in Guthrie, in order 70 save him
! self any Inconvenience, when he had his
| house remodeled, included an auto
matte bath-tub. The tub was so ar
ranged that he could lie in bed, and
| upon pushing a button the door opened
| and the tub gllded Ia from the next room
| to the side OF the bed then all he had 70
/ do was to roll over into the tub and take
! his morning bath One day he was show
! ing party of gentlemen friends over the
! house, when he came TO his room and
said Let me show you my automatic
! bath tub" He pushed the button. There
| was a scream. and the tub came sailing
/ into the room with his wife IN IL. She
now takes her bath in the washpan.
| Woodward News: Alas the day has
! come when the cream separator has ex-
! pIoded and killed two men. The bare
! footed milkmaid with dew on her dim
! pied toes and rose on her cheeks, no
| longer totes the foaming pail along the
| clover-bordered path 10 the spring house.
| Her footsteps were followed as civiliza-
| ton advanced. by the Norwegian farm
| hand who swore at the COW in a foreign
! tongue. and finally in the golden age Of
| progress the COW is now MIXED by ma
| chinery. But the milk is watered by hand
as usual. No wonder the cream sepa-
| rator exploded The horseless milk wagon
I now carries the cowless milk 70 the
! creamery, and we have no time or op-
portunity to see anything pretty, not even
milkmaids with rosy cheeks and bare
/ feet Alack! and alasi the beauty and ro-
/ rnanca Of the farm are fading fast.