The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-23
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Clinton Is about TO have a commercial
club
Cheyenne. Roger Mills county. has add
ed telephone exchange 10 her 1903 i'm
prOvements.
A package Of postum should be sent to
Bill Coffee Of -Arapaho.
Rains and cotton picking are the town
talk IN the new country
The high diver was hurt during the
Enid Carnival and had to be placed in a
doctors care.
Only the number OF ducks on one pond
can rival the number of grains on one
ear Of corn these days.
Peace is reigning hard in Lincoln coun-
| ty- Twelve divorces have been granted
during the last term OF court
The Shawnee Democrat got out a
mighty slick souvenir edition last week
II was printed on book paper.
Oil finds about CoreyvilIe are becom-
ing so common that it won't be long I'LL
some CRATER has started an oil journal.
Mr.. and Mrs Gum are a married cou-
pie at Lexington. They are said to have
been stuck on each other at first sight
Even the preachers are sharing the Re-
publican prosperity. One Methodist divine
| is having a parsonage built for him
\ stock company is being organized at
Arapaho TO build and operate a cot
ton gin there. The capital stock viii be
$ 000.
Cleveland has donkey club II is
composed of young men who haven't yet
found how few cresses there are in their
brains.
There are bunglers in every profession.
Burglars at Shawnee the other night de-
stroyed the arc light before entering the
house.
| Pawnee county is said 10 be for an
elastic currency. II finds trouble in CASH
ing in its million dollar rains that are
coming so frequently.
Atchison Globe: So many men are TO
be married in Topeka this fall who can I
afford to keep a wife that there Is talk
of getting out injuactions.
An eighty-acre field of corn near Camp
bell in Washita county was sold the other
day for sl.o0e. And the man who paid the
$1,000 got more than his moneys worth.
The Mountain View Republican is after
that indianapolis man who saw the ex-
hibit car and is coming TO Oklahoma.
1t wants him for Kiowa county.
a. strong guard should be placed over
the Shawnee electric light plant. The
next set of burglars may want 10 OPP
crate sub rosa and may destroy the
whole plant.
The editor of the Snyder Star says that
the report being circulated to the eff
feet that he is q Democrat is a malicious
lie All will agree that he is Justly in
dgnant.
Cleveland Triangle: The photo button
craze still continues TO spread. While
in Tulsa not long ago we noticed Cath
oiic priest wearing cheap picture of
the late Leo XIII.
An otter Valley farmer comes TO Wich-
ita next week 70 manage a merry go
round. The Otter Valley will probably
have the benefit of the merry go-round
during the dull season.
Snyder boasts of giving the highest
premium for the first bale OF cotton OF
any town in the new country. $50 being
the prize We have not heard OF any
as great in the whole territory.
Hinton Record: Those who went TO the
Land Opening last week were much
disappointed. The land. they claim, is
no good and the terms are not what was
expected, as it is a sale of private land
instead of state land The people of Yer
non were making arrangements TO stick
up the prices for the visitors-a Ia Kan
sas City-and are expecting to wear dia-
monds next month. DR.. White says he
went from LawJcn to Vernon and around
back by Hobart and I'm travelling between
Lawton and Hobart he said he could
have stuck all the grass in his hat that
he saw They want half down and the
balance is easy, but the price is from
s. TO $50 per acre. The water is bad, too,
they claim, and cattle are looking very
bad We are told by others that the land
is good but they have been having bad
year, but if that is the case it seems
to US a very poor time to try to sell the