The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-12
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


The editor of the Billings News says ne
is justified in predicting several visits
from the stork in that town
The only negro citizen Of Marlowe has
been run out OF town. and eight proni
nent citizens have been indicted for tire
ofense-
Frank Brinson. Of Cleo. received dol
lars worth OF reading from the Cleo
Chronoscope. Friday, for two heads Of
cabbage.
Lon Polling. of Comanche county. has
sold . wagon loads OF sod watermelons
already this year. They have averaged
from 20 TO p pounds
Dot Crockett. a tweive-year-old girl.
sets nearly all the type on the WOODS
County News. Ed Marchant says she Is
the youngest compositor in Ok.aSC ma.
L. c. yanNess. OF FL Reno. has gone TO
Salt Lake City 10 attend the Elks' car
nival. He took with him that famous
Cheyenne elk-tooth suit for which he paid
500.
The Ralston Commercial club is out in
q heart-softening appeal 70 the merchants
OF that town to pay more for country
produce than the merchants Of rival
towns.
There will be no conjunction OF the
Cross and the Crescent on The 18th inst.
as was expected and arranged for. Bill
Cross has cancelled his speaking date at
Crescent City.
The Shawnee Herald peels the hide of
one Dad" Sparks for not being as gen
erous as a rattlesnake and not strike its
reporter blow with intent TO kin without
fair warning.
The vitality OF Oklahoma printers is ex-
emplified in the circumstance that JEFF
ferson Rustler typo was hit by a switch
engine and knocked of a bridge at Kan
sas City without being hurt.
When Dennis Flynn returned home from
Honolulu he found bis little boy. Bulge"
seriously III at Hazleton. Kansas. where
Mrs. Flynn is visiting friends. II was
great shock 10 Mr.. Flynn.
The editor OF the Lone Wolf Echo is
cooked and primed TO pay an eloquent
tribute 10 the virgin sod of his county as
a watermelon producer. when some one
graces HIS office table with a sample
William j. Bryan VIII make a few
speeches in Oklahoma this fall in the in
terest Of Bill Cross. Since this announce
nsent 1t would be well 10 revise the figures
and add 1909 more 10 McGuires ma
jority.
Despondent because a friend refused
him 30 cents, William Noonan. OF Okla
nOma City. attempted suicide, writing 10
his unkind friend this admonition: You
cannot take your money 10 hell with
you
Mayor Spencer. OF Shawnee has taken
the star Of authority away from Police
man Bert Kelly. He gave no cause for IL
except 10 say that he was guilty of con-
duct unbecoming an officer. The au-
thority Of a policeman at Shawnee is as
brief and uncertain as the tenure of 4
South American president
A woman, dressed in mans clothing
and astride of sorrel horse. made her
appearance at Lone Wolf last Friday,
and was promptly arrested by the mar
shall. She claimed her constitutional
right to dress as she pleased and ride
as best suited her. and was discharged.
Had not that marshal been q tenderfoot
he would have known that there is only
one safe way of riding a sorrel pony.
J. 5. Works, of Comanche, writes an
open letter TO the mayor OF that town
complaining that he was compelled to
stay away from church on Sunday TO
protect his sorghum patch from roaming
town COWS. He says that IT is impossible
70 haveSSs live town and a cattle ranch
on the sasssS spot OF ground, and insists
that only an anti-cOw ordinance can save
the gardens, the young trees and the re-
igion OF the community.