The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-21
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

LIVES Ut 0NLAr10m
And still they come. It is announces
that Pond Greek Is 10 have anothe
a saloon at cordeIl is advertiser.
! for sale a secondhand Windmill ant
1ster-tank-
Here's funny thing. West OF Aiva ant
south Of Purcell corn is always sold with
the shucks on
George orner has plunged into the con
gresSonal race he IS the only fat mar
or the track.
There seems to be multiplicity Of Re
pubiicans who regard a candidacy against
| Bill Cross as : snap
/ senate committee on territories, IS IN "a
vor Of statehood for Oklahoma.
| Dick Morgan addressed the Free Homes
Reunion OF Grant county Saturday Bill
| Cress promised 10 come. but didn't show
up.
Arizona has been The milestone about
the neck OF statehood from the first II
IS now nindering the admission OF Okla
homa.
There is new town down in Washita
county which some one with a terrible
| drouth of the Imagination named
Rocky
The other day in Medford home two
| little boys arrived simultaneously There
were loud calls from the community for
the father. but he hid out ali day.
The report IS current in the Democratic
papers of the territory that Dennis Flynn
did not vote for the statehood bill after
all his work. He didn't. BE cant vote.
Mayor Lewis. Of South McAlester. has
returned from Washington He says the
Moon bin is a dead one. ana he does not
expect any territorial legislation this ses-
sion.
rs this old world on hre2'' asks the
CordelI News in reviewing the work of
the volcanoes If il is. there IS one
skeIlgame for which We are ell thank
ful.
Medford Mail: a correspondent says:
One OF our enterprising farmers has
sent 10 the city for a wooden hen !"
Probably about to hatch out some Of
those cute little woodpeckers.
1t takes six members Of the territorial
committee OF the senate to make 2 favor
able report on statehood. The omnibus
BIN crowd now have FIVE members OF the
committee in their favor and are hunting
for the sixth.
Can on q youth in a notice in the FL
Reno Democrat; "A gum coat belonging
Wednesday evening. and was picked up
near the CaddO Hotel by boy driving a
two-horse spring wagon. This boy is re-
questod 10 return the same to the fire
house
Statehood for Oklahoma is now UP TO
this senate committee: Beverage, of In
diana; Dillingham;, Of Vermont: Nelson,
% Minnesota; Bard. Of California: Quay.
o. Pennsylvania; Kcan. of New Jersey;
Burnham, of New Hampshire. Bale, OF
Tennessee; Heitheld, of Idaho: Bailey. OF
Texas, and Patterson. of Colorado.
A man at Kremlin who had watched
a street fakir work. wrote this: The
scene was grand. Il brought back mem
cries of early childhood. when we went
fishing with nothing but a brass pin hook
wet paper for bait and common sewing
thread for line; as 1t didn't make any
difference how many we caught, there
was always one or two more ready to-
grab the bait when lowered into the
water"
The Geary Bulletin prints a good, old
fashioned item OF news as follows: "A
certain young society man OF this town
is minus the scat Of his best Sunday
pants. 1t happened in This manner Last
Sunday evening he called as usual. on {
young lady friend. When the time came
to close the house for the night the
hired girl overlooked the young mans
presence and locked the doors. leaving
him but one point of egress-the window
the back yard. Under this
" indow the house dog was bivouacked.
and when the dog saw the southwest
quarter of the east half Of the young
mans anatomy emerging from the open
window, ne made a fearful lunse at 1t,
and when the partnership was dissolved.
the dog had for his share of the assets
the narrative Of two garments and the
seat OF honor Of a third-and the bun
grabber had what was left