The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-04
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

bi Cross is like Coroett in one respect
He is ready TO figiit again for the con-
gressional belt of Oklahoma
That story that Enid has a man so mean
that even his sons-in-Iaw viii not live
with him is probably a fake
If the Rock Island is going TO gobble
the Frisco along with the Choctaw. Enid
is going TO demand a union depot.
: Several merchants in Shawnee have
combined forming a company with stock
OF @e.090 TO run 4 department. store
Many of the Oklahoma towns have ex-
cellent brass bands which give open air
concerts one or two nights each week
The rain came when due in Oklahoma.
1t was needed and il always rains just
in time TO save the crops in that favored
land.
c. B. FRANKIE. the grain buyer at Pond
Creek, got in II. 90 bushels OF wheat last
week at an average cost OF IS cents per
bushel.
The Oklahoma papers run big heads on
. one page telling about the car shortage
and on another page a big head hopping
II up for a new railroad.
r Some Of the towns in Oklahoma claim
ing branch OF the Orient may get it
but the road viii hardly build TO all the
good towns in the territory
When Col. Robert Neff OF the Blackwell
News leaned on his cane last Sunday and
looked on Douglas avenue and Main
street he said: Wichita is sure growing -
Miss Dickson proved very acceptable
deputy postmaster at Ava. but she has
resigned TO engage in farming. Farming
is very tempting business in Oklahoma
10 people who want money.
When the committee goes out in Black
well TO raise money To boost their carni-
val the business men never think Of Civ
ing less than fifty dollars. Perry vii have
a carnival.
The farmers in many counties in Okla
homa are organizing to sell their own
grain. The millers are already organized
and here is liable TO be a meeting OF Two
irresistible forces.
The Universalist church will not pros
per in some sections Of Oklahoma II
there is no hell the farmers want to know
what is 10 be done with the man who
sows johnson grass.
The Renfrow Tribune says there is need
for some system of diversified farming in
Oklahoma. That is right. This thing Of
big wheat. corn. oats and cotton crops
every year is becoming monotonous.
The city and county authorities at Ok
lahoma City have joined hands in an ef-
fort to rid that community of that from
tier pest, the man who goes around with
an arsenal swung 70 his belt looking for
trouble.
The Cestos Reporter says it knows
farmers who are shouting prosperity on
forty-nine cent wheat and living in a
one-room dugout. Just such men WIZ
make Oklahoma great long after the
kicker is dead.
Guthrie has a commercial club that
went to work and actually got a reduc-
ton on coal rates from Indian territory
points 10 that place of forty cents per
ton. That viii amount TO considerable
money in the course of a year.
o. 3. Kidney, the grain and stock buyer
at Hennessey. would have been killed by
a vicious bull if 1t had not been for a
faithful dog biting the heels of the en-
ragged animal at the cytical moment
That dog is entitled 10 kind treatment
for the balance of his life.
The Alva Courier wants to know what
to do with some OF the streets in that
town that are three hundred feet wide.
Reserve a thirty foot driveway in the CEN
ter and take one hundred and thirty-five
feet on either side for walks and parking.
1t would beat a narrow street out of sight.
II has been reported that several men,
bers of the Kansas legislature did not
attend the special session but drew their
pay just the same, and now the Oklaho-
ma Times-JouTnal is racking its brain
to distinguish the difference in that and
just common stealing