The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-04
OUTLINES OF okLAn omA.

President Roosevelt didn't say word
! atous statehood IN his message.
Senator Quay says ne has the votes to
PASS the omnibus bal and viii pass il.
Dennis Flynn has his hands fall He is
! II the center OF The statehood contest.
/ New 8exice ana Arizona are both pray
ing that Oklahoma VIII not desert them.
There is considerable typhoid fever over
/ southern. Kansas an.. Oklahoma just now
A company viii begin drilling for gas
! between Newkirk and Ponca City next
/ week.
It is claimed that the New England SEN
; ators are lining Up against Oklahoma
! statehood.
The Clarcmore statehood convention will
not cut much ice IN the controversy dOwQ
! in Washington.
The family Of Ben Pagan. ST., Of Enid.
/ believe thar his death was result OF
! an accident, and not suicide
IN the statehood matter down in Wash
| irgton it probably looks pleasanter a.
/ this distance than il really is.
! II develops that the Cudahy oil com
pany has a fifteen-year lease covering the
/ oil and gas lands al Bartlesviile.
/ The Normal school regents VIII visit
! WeatherfoTd this week and arrange for
awarding contracts for the construction
or the Normal building there.
1 In some quarters the haste of the sena-
( torial subcommittee in flying through the
( territories is now interpreted 10 mean thar
the committee didn't want 10 learn any
thing.
Ira Terrill is getting impatient. He
has filed his habeas corpus suit before
the United States supreme court on the
grounds that the Kansas supreme court is
1
For the first time really in the history
of the territory, the question OF statehood
is now fairly before congress. Down
there il Is the big issue. If Mcclure had
had a big majority last month, il would
/ now be easy sailing.
The wheat prospects were never better
/ in Washita county al this time Of year
according TO the CordelI Sentinel 1t is
| very long and covers the ground thor
oughly, and most fields require pasturing
in order TO keep the stems fror. jointing.
l. no damage results before harvest time
Washita county will have the biggest
yield OF wheat ever known.
= travelling theatrical company which is
touring Oklahoma advertises a ''whirl-
v ind of fun" This is given as a sample
joke of the play. What did your father
leave you when he died?" asks the hobo.
Fine farm. replies the young man.
And what did your father leave you?''
why, the entire United states 10 make D
living in, replies the tramp.
Stroud Messenger: \ Euchee squaw
presented her tawny lord with triplets
about three weeks ago. He gushed over
with joy for the main reason that the
event would add three more allotments
TO his real estate. He went to Muskoges
10 enroll the triplets and get allotments
for the three infants. he was told that
in court and swear to their identity
before he could get a foot Of soil for
them. He returned to his wigwam and
became nearly paraIyzed when told that
the triplets had died during his absence.
Aline Cbronoscope: Mr.. George Emf.
who has lately returned from visiting his
brother III New Mexico. talks interest
irgly Of the ancient ruins of the cliff
dweilers among which he wandered for
days. Some OF these buildings are in per
feet condition after being deserted for
unknown centuries are well built OF
stones laid in mortar of potters clay no
stones being used larger than a man could
carry. There is plenty Of evidence that
they were carried TWO miles from a
quarry. as d broad trail leads from the
valley buildings up to the quarry. in the
hills from this trail. ali the small stones
and other distractions had been removed
and lay on either slde of the trail. Some
of these buildings are very large and three
and four stories high Numbers Of mum
mifed bodies have been found. and Mr.
Ents brother has many beautiful speci-
mems of their polteryware.