The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-20
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

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The Norman Transcript thinks that +,
is liable to be Jake against Bill"
The Iaboring folks OF Blackwell last
evening held a meeting 10 organize
unions.
In eastern Kay county last week sew
eral houses on The banks OF creeks We're
washed away.
Congress has provided a fund 70 pay
for ice water for the next legislature.
That was kind.
Enid has sold lis 5000 bond issue to
Dorsey Dunn, OF Wichita, and J. 3. Fer
guson. OF Enid.
BY a new act OF congress the legislature
IS again prohibited from nonkeying with
the territorial capital
Congress gave only one thousand dol
lars 20 pay the men whom the governor
VII appoint TO re-distriet the territory
a good many OF the country CORE
spOndents in Oklahoma the last week an
nouaced the destruction Of Martinique.
Everybody in Oklahoma IS praying that
/ it viii get TO be such habit with the
| RAP that 1t Just won't be able 10 stop IN
july
Charles Scott OF Kansas. who is schol-
arly, says that Dennis Flynn's speech for
statehood in the house was really "elo-
quenr"
The Republicans Of Kay county have
turned down the primary scheme OF elect
/ ing delegates 10 the county convention
which viii be held in Ponca City Juse :.
| J. Hunter Williams has just announced
| the completion OF the second year Of the
Glencoe Mirror. which IS one Of the nest-
| est, best weekly papers IN the south
west, made so by hard work.
| II New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma
were al states and had elected Demo
cratic United States senator's. the United
States senate. a Washington dispatch
] says. would stin be Republican.
Otto Bekemyer, who has been in St.
Francis hospital, Wichita. during the
Fast FIVE weeks. is threatened with pneu-
monia, having taken a severe cold sun
/ day in front OF the hospital. All day yes
to-day hot water bags had 10 be KEEP.
about him continually. and last evening
he was somewhat improved. He expected
10 ga home 10 Guthrie this week. were Il
not for this back-set. Sunday night he
was in bad shape and his condition was
serious for little while.
Enid has begun TO cry for freight
rates The Eaid Eagle says this a
prominent railroad Official said 10 a MEM
Der OF the city council last week: Get in
your wholesale houses and We will give
you jobbers' rates. Quick as a fash the
councilman came back al him with this
hot shot; You give US jo5bers rates
and We viii soon get IN the wholesale
houses, and plenty OF them. Enid viii
find that freight rate fight the longest.
most perplexing and the unhappiest ex-
perience in its history Every city west
| OF the Mississippi river which has built
up in the last thirty years has had 10
go through 1t. and Il seems 20 grow
harder every year.
Why do the first settlers OF new coun-
try become, after a time. restless. and
want to move? II has been the same in
Illinois, Iowa. Kansas and IN Oklahoma
The Independence Courier pleads with the
restless element TO remain. hut the plead
ing Will be IN vain. The first settlers al
ways move. The Courier says: Some Of
our farmers are anxious 10 sell out and
go back 10 some of the older states 10
settle. These same people who now viii
sell their farms at from 5000 TO S2.00o.
Will come back in time and viii have 70
pay twice that sum for farms not as
conveniently located and a. productive as
the ones they now own. They came
here and have undergone all the hard
ships relative TO settling up a new coun-
try. and now that they are getting in
a position TO accumulate something they
become restless and without considera-
ton conclude 10 emigrste. There is no
country that has more natural resources,
and no country has ever been settled
with as few failures Of crops as Okla
hOma. Again, with selling their farms.
even II they get the price asked. il Is IN
reality small recompensation for eight
years OF hardship and toll. Now, with
the good crops promised. land is bound
20 Increase in value. 50 that the man
who has spent eight years improving
farm and is Offering TO take S2e0 for IL.
may, by holding it two or three years
more. De able 10 double or treble that
sum. \ careful consideration Of these
facts will convince anyone that he IS
big loser by selling out now