The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-21
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Several of the citizens of Edmond are
organizing . Mutual Home Building asso-
citation
The papers say that a man is travelling
over the Indian territory collecting money
for the Beers
And they still say: .gThat there is
mineral in the Wichita mountains is IN
questioned"
Perhaps when he is nominated for con-
gress Roy Hoffman will Try 10 give Pres
| ident Buchanan boost. too.
Lone Wolf is stin active. and makes
life miserable FOR the Indian agent Colo
mel Randiett, BY insisting on conferences
y wagon train of immigrants recently
/ arrived at Muskogee. made IN entirely OF
negro families There were 20 people in
the train.
J When the preliminary in the Beebe
case was called at Oklahoma City last
week the court room was fun OF women
spectators.
This is the year that those Iowa i'm
| migrants are going 10 change the polit-
ical complexion OF some OF the Okla
hona counties
That subcommittee TO which single
! statehood has been referred is not likely
TO report in favor If il. II you come 10
I think about It.
/ 5. J. Cloud, of Mountain View. has on
! exhibition sguaw saddle made in 1913.
/ He bought it of Loo Ellain, well known
/ squaw. II is valued al $50.
The FIRE in the business section off
I Arapahoe was not as destructive as the
dispatches related. The business section
wasn't wiped out" by a lOn1s shot.
The people who took the records Of the
| Dawes commission kindly left a copy.
he 1ra1fe -fltss
Will not have TO do it al over again.
Joseph NJ Dodson. Joe Meibergen and
Senator Havens of Enid. have gone 20
Washington 10 try TO have the removal
of the land Office 10 KIngfisher pre-
vented.
President Roosevelt needn't think that
by complimenting lot Of Oklahoma
: callers on the fact that they didn't want
any Office, he entirely killed the Office
habit in Oklahoma
Down near Edmond a farmer had pre-
served thirty bushels OF corn as a curl
osity, and was figuring on selling it TO a
museum about April. A thief came the
other night and made way with it,
Now the Democratic papers of the IN
dian nations are accusing Dennis Flynn
of making ali the counties in the Indian
territory that have large Democratic ma
jorities as big territorially as possible.
Dogs. like men. have their peculiar
habits. Chandler man. until recently,
had a dog which possessed an Unsuitable
desire to collect brooms. says the News.
He would bring home new brooms, old
brooms-any and every kind he could get
hold Of. One day this week his master
took an inventory and discovered forty
two in the collection. He decided that the
matter should stop. and, all other Efforts
proving ineffective. the dog was killed
Tuesday.
Chandler News: Josh Cundifr is the
boss hermit and queer bachelor OF east
ern Lincoln county. He is mortally afraid
of his shadow and never travels except
on dark nights. He was never known TO
have spoken a word 10 a woman. He
commences digging q dugout at every
new place he establishes his home, even
for week. Josh never laughs, considers
laughers fools. lie always, or generally.
sleeps with his eyes open. ard he has
often abstained from food for four days
Stroud Messenger: T. J. w Hoffman
living near the Sac and Fox agency, saws
the huge panther that tcrrorized all the
people and dogs in bis neighborhood some
time ago, hasn't been seen but once in
the past month When asked why the
neighbors didn't organize and hunt down
the human terrorizer, Mr.. Hoffman said
he had some time ago measured the
beasts track where il had crossed John
Newman's yard, and that its foot was as
large as a candy bucket, and be didn't
care to put himself out 10 meet it. and
he guessed his neighbors were all Of
about the same opinion.