The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-08
ouriINEs OF OKLAHOMA.

The total receipts OF the FL Reno land
Office for December were Ssh o.
An evangelist Of the Latter Day Saint
church is preaching in Custer county.
The Oklahoma Historical Society's col
lection has been moved from Norman 10
Oklahoma City.
IN the strip a good many Of the coun-
" commissioners are explaining IN oFen
letters why taxes are SO high.
The board of commissioners OF Cana
diau county sold their lot OF S50.900 bonds
drawing per cent interest, for S5o,eS5-
According to the Hobart Republican
Assistant Marshal Burnett New Year S
shot a gambler forearm Of IN a lOdg-
Ing house.
Hickman. who committed suicide at
Chickasha Sunday. meant 70 be sure he
purchased three boxes Of morphine IT
different drug stores.
Kansas is being urged TO follow Iowa 5
example and keep It's congressional dele
CATION intact. oklahoma has done this
with Dennis Flynn and with great pronts
Dennis Flynn has introduced 4 free
hones bill for the new country. He :
going 10 ma rough shedding with that
bill Many OF the men who supported
the original free homes bill viii not sup
port another.
". II. Hall and wife Of Taioga recently
held a family reunion and their children
gathered in from all points Of the cOun-
try. One came from Tennessee, another
from Idaho; another from South Dakota;
another from Nebraska.
Monday morning when President
Ament entered The assembly room at Ava
there was great applause and then all
the students rushed. forward and warmly
shook him by the hand. This demon
stration was because the regents had not
removed bin the previous Saturday.
Preston Douglas of Alva found a queer
looking object On the railroad track lie
took il home. placed II on a stone and
hit it with the blunt end of a Ratchet
lie was Knocked galey-west and the
neighbors picked linn up and took him 10
the doctor who sewed him together. The
railroad torpedo.
Quanah Parker has a great Joke on
his brothers. He took them recently TO
Washington. a half dozen or so. and they
went into a restaurant. Little slabs Of
roast beef were brought and were de-
voured in three seconds. Quanah ordered
another portion and this went as quickly.
The Indians began TO growl. Quannah
called the waiter to go into the kitchen
and bring in all the roast beef he had
and divide it equally. The waiter did
50 ana INeu the lIllAuSs when LIcN feLl
the restaurant complained OF feeling
gaunt.
Bobby Harlan OF Winneview five years
Of age. fell into his fathers we'll, but
when he reached the bottom in which
there was five feet OF water held onto a
ledge. His mother missing him hunted
for him and found him at last in the well.
She let a rope down to him and had him
nearly 10 the top when mis- strength gave
way and he fell into the water. When
he came up he again grasped the rope
and his mother pulled him almost TO the
top again when his hold relaxed and he
dropped into the water and was drowned.
This is Bob Neffs idea OF the next
Democratic congressional convention and
the chances of the various aspirants
From appearances every county in Ok
lahoma, except Kay. has n candidate fer
the Democratic nomination OF delegate
TO congress. 1t Is amusing to man up
a tree to watch certain combinations that
are being formed. These combinations
are being formed in the town and cities.
Better get out in the country boys. for
the farmers will control that convention.
and the man who has the farmers behind
him will secure the nomination The man
up tree knows what he is talking about
for he has been there himself. and when
a farmer delegate is for you no slate or
combination on earth is going TO force
him to desert you.