The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-23
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


Perry has citizens who could have got
across the Bag-Bag quicker .han Funston
did.
weather look as innocent and harmless
a. Peiee.
/ The heavy rains have got some OF the
wheat in Kay county down. The sun viii
1 straighten It Up all right
Guthrie now realizes that the report Of
q tornado has several distinct advantages
| over tornado itself
Jerre Johnson has figured It out that
the island OF Martinique is about half as
| large as Kay county.
It has been long time since Oklahoma
had a tornado. but the old-timers always
keep a cycave around handy.
Twenty-Five men have been arrested
and taken 10 Mus1ogee on the charge OF
having taken part in the race war AZ
Braggs.
Probably owing to the heavy rainfall
and the fact that the wires were down.
no new candidates for congress appeared
l Wednesday
The heads OF the Democrats are still
| spinning every time they think OF BIZ
Grimes proposition for free school books
in Oklahoma.
| Bill Cross will regret il Il he submits
his speech 70 the Democratic leaders be-
afford 70 do that.
The people who so persistently pre-
dicted that Secretary Hitchcock would
retire as secretary OF the interior seem TO
have missed their guess
The Society OF Hoosiers OF Oklahoma
should swoop down on Senator Bever-
idge and make him give Oklahoma state
hood a favorable report quick
The Oklahoma agricultural station
warns farmers not TO pile Up mound or
dirt around newly-planted trees. II keeps
the water away from the roots
The program OF the Sunday school
workers OF the territory in session at
Blackwell this week is in charge OF
Reverend Charles D Meigs, OF Indiana
Everybody IN Oklahoma believes that
when statehood gets 10 going in the SEN
ate Dennis Flynn viii show . variety OF
push and activity that viii put all his
former efforts in the shade.
a man named Griswold. Of western Ok
lahoma, was sent last year TO the insane
asylum. Later he was discharged as
cured. The other day he took a razor
and cut his throat. dying almost in
stantly.
The aphidae appeared in countless mil
lions in the wheat-fields Of Oklahoma last
week. but somebody started the rumor
that the lady-bugs were coming and the
whole army took to its wings and flew
back to Texas.
In ISIS Yerre Johnson, OF Newkirk. who
has been around the world some. sailed
in plain view of Mont Pelee. II he had
known that Pelee had trouble in his in
sides he would have jumped OF the boat
and run. even then.
A Guthrie dispatch SAYS that early
Wednesday morning there was funnel
shaped cloud hung over the northern part
Of the city There must be a mistake
about this. A funnei-shaped cloud
doesn't hang over anything. II moves.
Newkirk Republican News-Journai: An
opinion Of the attorney general Of the
United States on leasing OF lands in the
Creek Nation has caused considerable
excitement among lessees Of those lands.
It says that the deed from the govern
ment to the individual must have been
made. passed and accepted before the al
lottee has title The Creek treaty says
that an ailottee can lease this land with
out restriction after receiving title and
on the presumption that the certificate
of allotment was evidence OF title The
big land companies have placed hun
dreds Of thousands of acres OF land IN
Ger longtime leases for sums ranging
from 25 to 50 cents per acre a year. The
decision Of the attorney general, II sus-
tanned viii knock out all these leases.
Had the companies been able TO hold
them. they would practically have had
control of all the land in the Nation.
which would have Melted them profit Of
s. an acre each year.