The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-11
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In many parts OF Oklahoma this VIII
De remembered as the June of the
high water"
talking OF running A C. Scott for the
territorial council.
The plant life of the Wichita mountains
includes ferns. and parties 10 gather them
are now frequent.
The Cushing independent SAYS that the
Seventh Day Adventists eat no other kind
Of butter than peanut butter.
The county assessor has found that the
population Of PottawztoFnie county IS
SS.oS5, gain OF 12.956 in the last wo years
The latest in Oklahoma is a baron
representing the republic OF TransvaaI
who is delivering free lectures with a
collection obIgato.
DR.. Hunt. OF Mountain View. recently
stood on a peak il the Wichita mountains
and watched rain fall from q cloud which
ficated beneath him.
If Dennis Flynn could set that senate
committee 10 meet again he might get the
statehood bin 10 rolling again But the
committee seems set
Josh CundiT. of Gushing. was once told
by Gypsy that he would be killed By
q cyclone. He is now digging him
II Is hard for things, jostled out Of a
nut, TO get hack again After the rain
had ceased for week. mails were stu
delayed al Mountain View
Somebody mentioned Bob Lowry. OF
Saltwater. for congress the other day
and Bob came hack with: I am out OF
politics. I have 10 work for a living"
The Oklahoma papers say that many
claims in the new country viii be aban-
doned by the owners as soon as they have
disposed OF the timber which is upon
them.
About two years ago an Indian woman
OF Saddle Mountain sent IL 10 cents 70
a missionary 10 establish a fund for
building a mission. The fund has grown
TO $500.
During last weeks food the Wash.ts
at Mountain View was a mile and a
quarter wide. William Biddle made Sl0o
during the freshet by rowing people back
and forth across the river.
Cushing Independent: The Recording
Angel and his deputies win find some
Test as soon as the Katy depot is per-
chored in Gushing"
Isolation in Oklahoma because OF high
water isn't what it used to be. The ter
ritory Is network OF telephones, and
while many towns were cut of from mail
and trade. the telephone kept the citizens
informed of big events.
At Mountain View the owner Of a claim
leased his farm 10 man and then in
sisted on using some Of the land for pas
ture. They fought. The lessee had the
owner arrested and the owner was hned
The owner then had the lessee arrested
and the jury released the lessee.
A man and a woman in the new coIn-
try wanted 10 be married. b. the gov
eminent stood in the way. Tie woman
had filed on a claim. They wen- 10 see
a lawyer about it. He told thesa how it
could be done. She reiinqnissed her
claim; her husband fled upon IT, AMI
they were happily married.
Mountain View Progress: at takes
more high waters, submerged tracts. or
wrecked bridges to stop a Mountain View
girl. when she once gets her face turned
homeward. rs was proved by Miss Gam
bic. when she surprised her friends by
reaching home Sunday evening. ready 70
take her old place at the Dixie early Mon
day morning. after a two week, vacation
which she had spent in Vernon. Texas.
In answer to the many queSt;ohs with
which she is met, she tells al interesting
story of her experience. She LETT Nerncn
on Thursday and reached AnaddrtO Fri
DAY afternoon. just in time to escape the
washout, which occurred that night east
Of there. and was then confronted with
the problem of how 10 surround the
wreck at Fort Cobb. But finding other
passengers like herself. anxious 10 pro-
coed a party was formed and a farmer.
with his heavy team and wagon. was en-
gagged to drive them 10 Mountain View.
They left Anadarko Saturday noon and
spent the night at an Indian nome on
the way, reaching the depot at $50 Sun
lay evening, after having forded a num-
Der Of creeks, from some Of which they
we're obliged 20 wade out. while their
driver extricated his wagon from the |
mud In answer to a telephone message |
sent TO town, Miss Gamble soon found |
i boat at her service in which she crossed |
he Washita and at last reached home. |
safe and sound. feeling none the worse for |
Ter adventures.