The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-14

II viii be quite q cold day when Okla
hcma consents 10 be taxed 10 create roads
ia the Indian territory.
The Oklahoma City High school has
adopted the single session plan and every
body votes it success.
A burglar broke into a newspaper office
r Oklahoma recently. 1t is thought he
must have been out OF sorts
Saturday. in st. Louis. Miss Lucille
Mulhall was thrown from a pony and her
right ankle was badly injured.
On the Frisco extension from Oklahoma
City there is town named Gee Gee. Il
honor Of c. G. Jones. OF course.
At Mountain Park. one CT the mining
shafts is now down r. feet. And forty
feet IN that granite is a long ways.
Carrie Nation seems 10 be having quite
peaceful time OF IL down IN Oklahoma.
But she didn't start anything heavier than
lecture.
There are men running on the Demo
cratic county tickets in Oklahoma who
win vote for Mcclure. because thsy want
statehood.
William T. Judkins is running for the
council down in the new country. Judkins
knows Oklahoma by heart, and will make
good legislator.
Judge Beauchamp was not on the bench
three months until he ran across some
thing he couldn't overrule, reverse or con-
t!nue-rheumatism.
In the vicinity OF Briartown the other
day the white people objected 10 some ne
groes who had been imported to pick cot
ten, and drove them away.
a Tecumseh lady was asked the differ
cree between a man who dyed sheep and
an editor. She answered: lone IS a lamb
dyer, and the other-is just an editor
Cross election would mean that Okla
homa would have to wait for Indian ter
ritory to be organized and then continue
several years as an organized territory.
1t looks like the DEMOCRATS will finally
get around TO the recognition OF the cold
facts in the case. and come right out and
declare that vote for Cross is a defeat
OF all immediate statehood.
That Democratic orator who told Il
CT OVID Of anti-statehood people the other
day that the only way immediate state
hood could be defeated was by the cleo
ton of Cross, had the question down
pat.
The Indians who live near Stroud used
10 turn the property of a dead man into
gold. put IT in a brass kettle and bury it
with the deceased. The settlers have
spent a lot of valuable time rsking among
cid bones, and recently. II is claimed, q
man was rewarded by running onto u
brass kettle which had a hundred dollars
ia 1t.
Oklahoma City Times-Journsl: Mr.. J..
NJ Owens tells an Oklahoma good luck
story which was told hra by the chief
beneficiary few days ago. Two or three
days ago a man dropped into the Owen
s. Welsh office, who had resided in this
cf+ F0r. hor - hrtr xrht h-d
secured fairly good claim in the COM
anche country onto which he moved his
IL nnily shortly after securing II, some few
months ago. The man was known here as
All Industrious careful man. who worked
about town at days work, and when he
went out TO his claim his worldly pos
sessions were worth about $500. His story
was as follows: He owned a claim which
he thought might be worth $1,000 but he
had net offered to sell. and had not
thought OF disposing of his place. so knew
little about current prices of farms in the
new land. About ten days ago four Ger
mans rode up TO where he was blowing.
Three OF them were neighboring claim
owners, and the fourth was a stranger.
After introducing the stranger the men
asked how much the farm was held at.
Not dreaming that the men wanted TO
buy. he put what he thought was an exor-
bitant price. He said: "Oh. about g. 500 to
5000" You are too high" said the
German. We'll, look Il over, and you
won't think So" Acting upon his advic ,
the German drove all over the place. and
&C ming back 70 where he was still plow-
ing, offered him $500 for his claim. In
order not to appear too eager and thus
spoil the trade he held out for g. 100, final
~ accepting the offer Of $3.50. He is here
now to live. and has purchased lots IN
Epworth Place. where he is building a