The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-02
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The Anadarko Tribune has gotten out
souvenir edition OF the town. 1t is work
OF art
FL Reno is getting swelled up. New
York packers want to locate an establish
ment there.
The News is advocating Rest
Rooms for Blackwell. Guthrie has made
them a blessing
\ wagon circus is doing eastern Okla
homa- Its magnitude may be judged
from days expense. 500.
Dan Perry is expected back at Ell Reno
soon and his friends are rejoicing. He
has been al Kansas City taking treat
ment.
DR.. Lorenz is badly needed in Okla
homa. The leRgth OF time il is taking
10 straiShten that farmer OUT is out
rageous.
John Hinkle is demanding that Senator
Hickam publish that memorial OF the
last legislature. This is unkind Of
Johnnie. Hickam got him job In that
same assembly.
Eighty kegs of Pabst beer was condemn
ed when II arrived at Lawton II looked
for awhile when the fact became known
that the whole town was in the same fix
However, its ali gone now"
The value of the Wichita mountains in
creases daily. It's not gold that has been
discovered, either, this time. The En-
terprise Of L-awton has found fine fruit
farms growing within its shadow.
Perry Enterprise-Times: Vic Murdoch
carried the Big Seventh district in Kansas
by an old-tne Republican majority This
gives Oklahoma another 1s-carat friend
and worker in congress.
At Lawton a mute was employed to
keep back the spectators in a baseball
game; a job that usually demands a
megaphone voice. He used a whip and
fight ensued, in which he was knocked
senseless.
Ripley man went off and it was re-
ported that he was killed in the Philip
pines. His wife got a divorce and now
he turns up and spoils all her plans. He
arrived, however. just in time 10 prevent
an Enoch Arden disaster
Alva Pioneer: ]. B. Peters. who lives
twelve miles southwest of the city. be-
tween Award and Beulah was in the
city this morning and exhibited an egg
, that is somewhat of a curiosity. The
egg was laid by an ordinary hen OF mixed
breed, with the Leghorn strain predom-
! mating. The egg measured 81 inches in
circumference one way and Ga inches the
other way. and had inside Of it per-
feet egg with the shell on. together with
says the hen belongs 10 his brother
| George. Of the same neighborhood. and
this is the third egg of the same kind
| that the hen has laid this spring.
Stroud Messenger: Some visiting In
dams from the southwest are trying TO do
some fine 90 missionary work against the
use of distilled liquors. They are trying
! to convince our eastern Oklahoma ANA
rinds that the mescal bean is a Great
Spiritsend vegetable production, and
should be used by the rets-skinned people
of God. II is limited that those red
sharpers. or their agents, propose TO make
considerable money out of the mescal
bean business. 1t is a well-known fact
that the mescaI bean is exceedingly mar
| cotic, and the repeated Incorporate use
of that kind of poison is more demoraliz-
ing. degrading and destructive than opium
or intoxics ting beverages.
Mountain View Progress: After all the
terrible flood on Saturday. by Sunday
afternoon everything in both town and
country seemed as high and dry as
though never a drop had fallen save in
the low places where water was still
standing. and herein lies the great beauty
of a sandy soil. The harder the rain.
the less in quantity and also in point of
duration, the mud. and the last echo of
the resounding drops have scarcely died
away until one is able to go about at
ease without rubbers and in another
twenty-four hours the lately submerged
sand may be seen triumphantly waving
about in a series of graceful and fan
tastic curves about your astOnished head.