The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-28
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

A string of over one hundred teams and
wagons filed into Homestead last Friday
The wagons were all loaded with wheat
judge CARRIER, OF Garfield county, gives
it as his private opinion that Enid ought
to be a great central market for fruits
and vegetables.
A farmer-looking individual went into
Blackwell the other day and worked the
merchants for over fifty dollars on the
forged check racket
Can municipal bribery be punished in
Oklahoma p asks the Daily Oklahoman-
Certainly. All that is necessary is TO
prove il on the briber.
No wonder Mulhall is forging TO the
front The mayor OF that town is a
blacksmith. He is now serving his sec
ond term. and is popular official.
The Cordell News says that water
cannot rise above its Level. and that
newspaper cannot be any better than the
town in which it is published
The Rock Island is organizing 70 en-
courage immigration to oklahoma How
niue land is there in Oklahoma not al
ready taken up, anyhow?
Jake Kerr. Of Ringwood. has the rattles
from snake killed in Woodward county
There are thirty-two rattles and but
The Saltwater Advance says the three
young women who make up the Salvation
Army at that place are a bowling fall
ure. because they can neither sing, pray
or preach.
viii Bradford. of Oklahoma City. went
to Custer City and got the contract TO
build the new school house for that pro-
gressive city and then turned around
and bought the school bonds.
Three members of the Reader family
at Stroud. made a dinner on wild pars-
nips last Sunday. These wild vegetables
are poisonous. and came near causing
the death of the Stroud family
If you want 10 get full" you would
better avoid Cordell. a prominent citizen
went on the war-path down there the
other day and the police judge piled UP
fines and costs TO the amount or NS5-
When the Cherokee strip was opened
for settlement the present governor OF
Oklahoma made the run from the Kansas
line to Pond Creek, riding twenty-seven
miles in one hour and forty-seven min
dtes.
The colored people held a great picnic
at Shawnee last Friday. They had a
bard and a game of baseball between the
Shawnee colored club and a team made
UP from players from McAlester and
Oklahoma City.
The American National bank and the
Oklahoma City Savings bank. of Okla
homa City. have consolidated under the
name of the former bank. 1t is now
said to be one of the strongest money in
situations of the territory.
A mad dog invaded the town of Au-
gusta one day last week and made an at
tack on the editor of the Sun. tearing a
large hole in his trousers. The knight
of the pencil remarked that everybody
jumps on the editor of a paper when they
get mad
The people of Mountain Park have been
busily engaged building new houses. and
now the News Of that town reminds the
people that too many of them are left IN
painted The painting always seems TO
be an extra bill when man goes to build
his house
a Texas threshing outfit pulled into
Okarche one day last weekend proceeded
to run all of the negroes out of the town.
Deputy Sheriff Mayfeld put in his oar
and gave the Texans 70 understand that
negro had as much right in that town
as white man fun of booze.
Arapaho Bee: The man with the merry
go-round had a little tilt with the cOun-
ell the other day. When informed that
he would be required TO pay license. he
sagely informed them that they couldn'
charge a license because there was nc
ordinance to that effect. He then pro-
ceeded 10 set up his whirl-a-gig. The
council then proceeded to hold meeting
and pass an ordinance fixing a license
of SIS a week. Thus was a vexatious legal
proposition solved TO the satisfaction Of
all parties concerned. Moral: Don't tel
a legislative body what the law is. OF