The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-10
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA

! Mixed schools lost out in the election
at Pond Creek
The Enid Wave surprises US 1t took
defeat the most graceful of any yet.
The Oklahoma City police have discov-
cred an opium den And it's no pipe
| dream, either.
That election teaches the Oklahoma
minister his place, or rather that which
is not his place
John Linden is mayor of Enid now.
and if there is anything in pushing, John
viii make things hum
| Republicans claim that treachery was
the cause Of their defeat az Perry That :
strange; in politics, too,
Beware. you reformers, a man at Ok
! lahoma City has just gone mad from
quitting the drink habit.
The women were permitted 70 vote at
Perry for members of the school board.
The change wasn't startling
Cash Cade must be making lots of
money. Haven't heard of him making
any medicine il politics recently.
John Wilkins is on trial at Oklahoma
City He is charged with missing his
| aim, though intending TO XIII Ed Filson-
The heather Chinese are not guilty.
and every one is sorry The inmates Of
the Oklahoma City opium den were ne
groes.
Foregone conclusion in the latest po-
iiticaI dictionary is marked obsolete"
The last election proved It so in many
| cases
a man without a party is as bad OF as
a man without a country. There were a
number of the former class in the last
election.
Shawnee is making the most noise of
any over the election Of a Republican
mayor, and the Daily Democrat Is doing
the loudest ''hurrahing."
Osages are taking their aIlotments. and
before many years will have abolished
their tribal customs. There'u be state
hood before then. however
The watonga Dispatch prints Governor
Barnes picture and a rooster on his vic
tory 1T Guthrie. That's unusual enough
to have something behind it.
The Shawnee Democrat declares that
the electric line between Shawnee and
Tecumseh is assured. And it didn't de-
pend on the result Of the election. either,
The county commissioners should get
busy. Governor Ferguson has as Yet
received no applications for eonvicts 10
work the roads as provided by the new
law.
take. There was not single piece of
good local news in Thursdays edition.
1t used TO be the best local paper in the
territory.
There's one thing that the legislature
neglected in framing that game law. II
should have provided against the killing
of storks. Such might check the de-
crease in the American race.
Harry Pentecost is in St. Louis and has
announced that 600 Oklahomans will at
tend the dedication ceremonies. This par
ticular '-Majah'' knows how 10 interest
the newspaper boys all right.
Guthrie Leader: In response to queries
from western Oklahoma counties, Cover
nor Ferguson stated that the herd law,
passed by the recent legislature. goes
into effect May q next. and requires own
ers of stock to fence in their own stock.
The law is effective in all Oklahoma ex-
cept Beaver county. and puts an end 10
the big cattle ranges in Western Okla
homa Such a law became necessary
because of the rapid settling up OF that
country by homesteaders. whose crops
were ruined by the onslaughts of roaming
herds Of cattle.
A story of pads" from the Enid
Wave. that will not interest you: "A
woman in this town got some rheumatism
pads to be worn on the soles of ones
feet, for the cure OF rheumatism. Her
husband complains so much about rheu-
matism that she hoped she could cure
him But now he refuses to wear them.
saying that she has rheumatism worse
than he has. They quarrel a good deal
about who should wear the pads. and
they spend more time fussing about them
than they did about the disease Mean
time. nobody wears the rheumatism
patiS''