The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-27
OUTLINES OF okLAHoMA.

A man at Oklahoma City viii build two
residences Of manufactured concrete
block.
Track-Iaying or the Oklahoma city
and Western IS expected 10 reach I-awton
in July.
In southern oklahoma good mules are
bringing from $50 TO 500. and are hard
II and at that
Although Dennis Flynn win not be the
| candidate in Oklahoma this fail. ne VIII
be the platform
Governor Ferguson ought TO adopt the
parole system II beats the reformatory
! scheme all hollow.
Cherry picking mas begun IN southern
| Oklahoma, and within q week win cover
the whole territory
Even the Democratic papers OF the ter
r.tory are inclined 10 acknowledge that
ratihcatious are not BIZ Cross strong
point.
The biggest hats and the biggest spurs
in the new country are worn by the
states.
Those who have been observing the sit
ustion think that the era OF organizing
Few banks in Oklahoma has about reach
ed its zenith.
"A present look at the congressional
race in Oklahoma indicates that the
grand stand Is not going 20 get excited
until the horses get on the home stretch.
At the commencement OF the High
school at Oklahoma City. Edwin Sutton.
one Of the gr2dutes. came right cut and
said he hoped the United States would
leep en-
Bill Cross doesn't seem 10 be able 20
get along with his fellows There IS only
one way for Bin Cross-and chat is FOR
him TO boss EN-. II he doesn't. they VIII
boss him
a cooperative movement has been or
ganiZed at Oklahoma City 20 fight the
beef trust But the beef trust doesn't
know it and the conflict is liable 10 be
unexcising.
is wonderful when you come to think of
1t. There has been a whole lot Of talk in
the last ten years on uniting the west
and the south IN congress. but Dennis
appears 10 be the only man who ever
succeeded in doing it.
This story is told: An OkIahoman who
has never been for Dennis Flynn re-
Gently met Senator Berry. OF Arkansas.
and got to jumping on Flynn. You are
mistaken" Senator Berry is reported 10
have said, Flynn is the hardest worker
for his constituency that l have ever
seen in the halls of congress-
Every few days that gold excitement
breaks out in the Wichita mountains. but
1t Is, growing feebler all the while. For
years the miners claimed that If the
United States would only let them into
these rich fields they would carry the
gold out by the bucketful, and a rush
would ensue which would put California
IL the shade. Now they have free entry
into the country and the right TO dig up
the ground clear 10 China. and yet the
only thing that has been shown is some
giittering quartz.
Oklahoma City Times Journal: PaSseu-
gers who arrived from the west on the
Choctaw at midnight last night report a
most thrilling spectacle about s o clock, a
few miles east of Elk City. When the
passenger train had gone three or four
miles from Elk City the passengers no
ticed a funnei-shaped cloud 10 the south
east, ahead OF the train II was near
enough so that the passengers could plain
~ see the twisting and writhing move
ment OF the small end Of the funnel, as It
felt around over the ground for victims.
The attention of the passengers had
scarcely been fixed upon the monster.
when 1t grabbed up a frame house All
that could be seen afterward were flying
pieces Of boards and household effects.
Moving onward It picked up another house
and two stables. grinding all into small
bits OF kindlng wood Where 1t crossed
the track of the Choctaw it snapped of
two telegraph poles. IL disappeared TO
the northeast. Whether any lives were
lest the passengers could not say. Tho
path Of the storm was scarcely more than
lO0 yards wide.