The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-22
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

A Bill Cross club has been organized at
Ralston- 1t contains twelve members
Grapes are ripening and the first natives
are on the market as far north as Ed
mond.
Geary complains because IL has nothing
but couple Of box cars and a rheumatic
platform for depot.
Earl Packer OF Geary, while playing
aseball was struck on the head by-a ball
and knocked senseless.
This the season and lots Of strenuous
things are likely to cccur-foF instance
the row in the Custer county normal in
stitute-
with a tennis court. two croques
grounds and ball games on Sunday" says
the Cashion Advance. 1t would seem that
Cashion is quite gamey town.
Detwiler's argument that If the old men
N Oklahoma ever want to get in a vote
for president again. they VIII have 10 de-
feat Bill Cross, must Jar Nose Anderson
some.
Note in the Tolga Times: Captain Nc
Faddin VINO was severely kicked IN the
stomach by his driving horse a couple Of
weeks ago, came down town for The first
time since on Saturday Captain saws
he has no trouble in locating his stomach
yet
The coyotes now have developed a
strange taste They may develop dyspep
STA and thus become extinct. The farm
ers in the vicinity of Edmond report that
they are running hundreds OF watermel0ns
by biting into them to sec II they are ripe.
one wolf was seen TO carry a melon six
inches in diameter seventy-ave yards.
Perry Republican. The evening OF July
18th, George Parham sent up seven paper
balloons. So even and direct were air
currents that five in regular succession.
dropped on one farm more than three
miles away. The farm wife. a Bohemian.
took a hoe, called the dogs and went 10
the field TO see what on earth the thing
could be-"
In a certain school district in Blaine
county last week a woman discovered
that the crowd had selected beforehand
slate of officers for an annual school
meeting. She wasn't in, the ring and was
naturally stirred up. She went TO Wa
tonga to have the county attorney swear
out warrants against the Offenders, but he
told her it couldn't be done.
A notice in the Geary Bulletin says:
Reverend Lewis OF the Baptist church
preached a very able and eloquent sermon
last Sunday morning. Among the grand
and timely warnings he fearlessly uttered
were against private and public dancing
card-playing and drinking and showing
that parents who were guilty of these
evils should blame themselves and not
their children in case of their ruin
Oklahoma City Oklahomaa: IN the dis
trict court James P. Jordan has fled =
Petition asking for a divorce from his
wife. Hattie He alleges that Hattie has
abandoned him; that while living with
BIN she caused him 10 do the washing OF
dishes and clothing and 10 get breakfast
for her and~afterward left him to hoe his
own row while she attended the normal
school at Edmond and later taught
school. That She dismissed divorce suit
against him il he paid her $500 alimony.
he further alleges that Hattie taught has
own son TO disobey him.
The town of Luther for some reason Is
shot through by some OF the trains on the
line on which it is situated. The other
day a man and his son from Kansas were
let off at the next station and started TO
walk to Luther at night. They became
tired and crawled under a haystack. The
next morning they found they were only a
few hundred yards from their destination.
The other day a conductor notified
young lady. bound for Luther. that she
must get OFF the train at a neighboring
station. She refused and said she would
jump as the train went through Luther
The bluff worked. The conductor stopped
the train