The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-22
OUTLINES OF okLAHomA.


An ordinance asking a franchise for
street railway system IS up IN Lawton.
Several Oklahoma farmers are writing
to their papers advising the dust mulch
for corn.
Judge Pancoast appeared before Judge
Hainer AT Perry. Monday, and took the
oath OF Office.
The news is coming from all the Okla
homa counties that the wheat yield VIII
surely beat last years
There has been Sigh falling Il ir
tent REVEALS IN Oklahoma since the rain
decided 10 rain little
William Mckinley. mayor u Pond
Greek. is being pushed by his friends for
territorial committeeman
Leon Wilbur. who has farm near
Perry. made final proof on ii the next day
after he was offered Ss,oe0 for It.
II Kay county man named Schurtz
has sued Mrs. Schurtz for divorce. ana
the Blackwell News remarks that there
by hangs a tale.
The Fl Reno Democrat saws that one
lone Democrat from Kingdsher attended
the Cross ratification al Oklahoma city
and five from e Reno
4 man is never cure n cyclone has
struck him until he picks himself out OF
the mud a few blocks away. II that
doesn't happen. il vas merely high
wind"
Some Of the new editors in Oklahoma,
who haven't been on deck long. have be-
gun TO make fun OF BIZ Cross grammar.
They should be called on \ man cannot
be elected 10 Office in Oklahoma on his
grammar qualifications.
Iltimatum of the dog-cateher in the
Ponca City Courier; ''Dog-catcher Brown
is out after the dog tax. and he saws he
must have the money or goodbye dogs.
Put up or shut up-ish or cut bait-that
is what it has come to-
Down near Ponca City there was re-
certify a great manifestation OF public
spirit. High water sock cut the bridge
which spans Coon creek Without walt
ing. the citizens banded together and re
built the bride And that night high water
came and took it out once more.
When the advertising train Of threshers
broke loose At Hennessey the city mar
shal arrested the road-master for vio!at-
ing city law against undue whisthnS
within the city limits But later. upon
examination it was found that there was
no ordinance against undue whistlins-
Gushing Independent: one Of our astute
citizens. noticing the awful scarcity ~
cyclone caves in this town. proposes TO
shelter for refugees from twisters He
viii charge a nominal admission fee 70
the subterranean abode, and doesn't
charge extra for remaining in the fraid
hole more than thirty minutes.
The other day Arthur Seward. of Perry,
in passing a house where a colored man
lived, looked in a window and saw the
colored man on the floor, cold and redo
lent in death. Arthur hustled TO town
and notified the authorities. who sped
away for the scene. Arriving there they
found the negro sleeping, not dead. Ar
thur Seward in his own defense said he
smelled bad enough to be dead, any way.
Medford Mail: Judge Curtis, who was
IN the marine service during the civil war.
says he has visited every one OF the is
lands in the Caribbean sea and landed
at all the principal ports Mr. Curtis
has been at Fort de France. but said
he had never been in the port OF St.
Pierre. He said that the islands down
there are beautiful as pictures and al
most lull one into entire cessation Of
labor, as nature provides ali necessary
food in the way of fruits on land and
fish in the sea.