The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-12
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA

To incorporate or not TO incorporate
That's the question at Harrison
There are only two territorial prisoners
in Jail at Chandler. Both are alleged
murderers-
Down in Grant man shot coyote at
! rs yards. That is, the Jefferson Review
says that be did
Yale is a pushing place. The other
day a girl only fourteen years old ap-
piled for license
One reservoir has been completed in
Comanche county. 1t holds 1000 barrels,
OF water OF course
The dentists meet today at Oklahoma
City. 1t is hoped that it will be the reg
ular painless kind
Enid is getting a valuable reputation
| The circus men are telling OF it as the
! lively town of the territory.
The Larsh family had a reunion at
Perry Sunday. No doubt a Smith broke
! in at some stage Of the game
The election at Mountain Park was
really very undressing There was only
one ticket and it didn't have name.
| 1t was a good thing TO see the watonga
Dispatch get into the governors hands.
| but it's a shame to force him TO run a
daily paper.
| The FL Reno crowd has just got back
from ST Louis. And they're so thin that
| their solar plexuses and small OF backs
| are one and the same.
Another double wedding has taken place
| in Dewey county. What with twin births
and double weddings. this county will
soon redeem the West Side
Chas. Alexander. recently president of
| the council, has gone for trip 10 Ar
| kansas. However, the Democrats should
| hold their peace, for really he's coming
| back.
w. I. Drummond. of the Enid Eagle, has
| sold out to an Illinois man. Everybody
| is at the front gate watching for an
extra edition OF the Events, heraldins
| the news.
The dam on Rainy creek, near Harri-
son. last week was cut. Undoubtedly
some damned and pent up literary ardor
| will break forth with a dam punt on this
dam incident.
II is suspicioned that Dennis Flynn has
been invited to hold prayer with that sin
| gle statehood committee which meets May
| o II would be natural sequel TO that
alleged single statehood interview.
The Ponca City Democrat has just
| found out that the railroads carry coal
| from the Indian territory to Omaha,
| Mem, cheaper than to Oklahoma towns.
Its agony over the discovery is pathetic.
Mulhan State Journal: D. F. Smith.
| who was once postmaster at Cashlon'
and later politician OF some note, has
bought some land on the Skeleton, north
| of Guthrie, so IL is said, and Will estao-
| lish a turtle farm.
| The editor of the Blackwell News In
| his last issue criticises adversely the
| government official sent to Oklahoma 10
! examine the sanitarium. When Hitch
| cock arrives to conduct the investigation
he should be taken TO Blackwell forth
with.
| At Jefferson, when the jaiier found
| two prisoners digging their way out,
the latter looked very much ashamed
| Poor, innocent dears, Another town Is 10
be started between Roosevelt and Mount
| ain Park. in Kiowa county. 1t Will be
called Irons. after it's founder. the colonel.
saltwater Democrat: ]. c. Miller. an
aged citizen Of Ripley, o. T.. passed
| through the city yesterday on his way
| to Charleston w. Va, the home OF his
! youth. The old man was tagged so that
| he would not lose his way. On his hat
| in big black letters a cloth sign pro-
| claimed his identity. 1t said: i am j.
| C. Miller, 50 years old. To Charleston
| w. Va. In care Of conductor" The sign
was placed upon Millers hat by son
| who lives at Ripley.
| ST. Louis fair commissioners can best
serve the interests of Oklahoma by stead
| lastly refusing to father all cowboy. wild
| west and wild Indian exhibitions to be
| given at the fair. II the fair managers
| think they must have that sort OF thing.
let them have 1t, but don't let them
| credit II 20 Oklahoma. This territory has
outgrown the wild west period. and our
| exhibit should represent our people as
they are, not as they are supposed TO be
by many Of the eastern people