The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-18
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

No case OF smallpox now exists in Grant
county. The disease is dying out in Ok
lChoma.
Bill Cross told en- Oklahoma audience
the other day that Oklahoma was but a
colony"
The local columns OF Oklahoma papers
contain frequent items OF the boy who
went fishing and caught ''pizen ivy
The Anti-Salcon league is making war
or the resistance OF the liquor license
Of Mr. Jolly, az Walsita. and Mr.. Jolly
isn't.
Baseball has reached I high degree Of
efficiency in Oklahoma. Practically all
accounts Of games declare they were 'ex-
citing.
The crab grass is unusually vigorous
this year, and case IS on record near
Edmond where il actually put the fxings
to kafir corn.
Nike Conroy of Garfield county has q
stalk Of alfalfa which grew thirty-four
INCHES from April 3 TO June 6, that Is. half
an inch day.
In some respects those resolutions
adopted by the Kay county Republicans
were as good as II turned out by a ma
ttonai convention.
out in western Oklahoma a man is
never swamped: he is begged" And
the begging process has been pretty
frequent in the last TWO weeks.
The latest from Colonel Blackwell is
that he viii have a monument erected
ard upon ii engraved his opinion OF the
city council Of the city o. Blackwell
The Pond Creek yidette is trying to bet
money that the chigser bites just as many
people at the Shakespeare class picnic
as it does people who read Ella Wheeler
Wileoxs poems
The political philosopher OF the Edmund
sun remarks: The fellow who gets the
FIRST delivery Of The goods ina political
trade is tempted 70 such a degree that he
ought to be watched"
The II Reno Democrat says: 1T Will
take twenty-five years TO change the land
tenureS Of Indian territory, twenty years
20 abrogate treaty stipulatiOus with the
Indians and fifteen years to educate the
Indian TO abandon his tribal relations"
Mr. Creek. living north Of Waukomis.
has struck A snap. The government has
built tower from which the curvature OF
the earth win be taken. When the gov
eminent IS through it viii give the lum-
Der in the tower. worth S160, TO Mr. Creek.
on whose land Il stands
For a long time in Oklahoma the gov
crnor's private secretary went on and on
while the governors were going in and
coming out Ike a procession Now Il
seems TO have switched. and the gov
ernor's job is the lasting one. while the
private secretaries pass IN review.
Here is Bill Cross idea OF statehood: IF
should be lected TO represent Oklahoma
territory as her delegate in the national
Congress 1 shall use all the influence at
my command and every power within me
TO- bring about single statehood for these
two territories. II is better that the ac-
Iuirement OF statehood be put off awhile
than that We attempt 20 establish wo sys-
TENS of state government here, which
Will be but expensive and unnecessary.
When an officer arrived at Shawnee to
serve papers suspending Mayor Farraii
from office he was out Of town. and the
cry went up from several quarters that
he was a fugitive from justice. He had
taken train TO Guthrie and when he
heard the news he returned home at once.
In card to the Shawnee Quill. Mr.. Far
rail writes: There are men in Shawnee
who prefer my removal more than all the
councilmen or any of them. 4 grand jury
hears bat one side of a case. Again l
state that I knew nothing about an or
der of suspension and would not. in any
event. walk across the street to avoid the
service. The asking for the order was not
done from good or pure motives, but in
the spirit of revenge. Article T. section
1922, provides that a trial may be had on
au accusation by giving FIVE days notice
Sc that suspension from office tenn
porarily of six days does not mean any
thing except strong desire TO do injury"