The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-30
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Manitou will celebrate on the glorious
Fourth by basket picnic. one mile east
OF the city.
Professor V L. harrington. of Nor
( man, has left on a trip 20 spend some
/ good American money in Europe.
The clickety-click OF the harvester is
growing weak in Oklahoma. and now the
hum OF the threshiug machine is heard in
I the land
The probate Judge OF washita county is
| doing , wholesale business taking final
proof for settlers who are proTing up
their claims.
At the close OF the Normal Institute
at Pond Creek last Thursday. the teach
to County Superintendent J. II. Ledger
wood.
The Mulhan State Journal says that J.
II. Vandeyenter was over from Morrison
Tuesday looking after his lighting chick
ems, and then adds: Jim is a chicken
fighter
The rendition Of the '.Mikado" in FL
Reno muddled the brain OF Hensley. Of
the Daily Democrat. He couldn't tell
whether it was a take-off on court life
in Japan or the strenuosity OF the FL
Reno city administration.
The Grant County News says that
in her floods, but a greater calamity was
the extra session OF the legislature Such
expressions have a tendency 10 cause a
lack of faith in popular government
among the masses.
Notices are frequently given in the Ok
lahoma papers of people going down TO
Texas and buying cheap iands- The
people of Oklahoma know what a wave
of emigration win do for cheap farm
la1 H. nd 70 he In, h.
ground floor in Texas.
The Chamber of Commerce CT Okla
homa City has offered SIS. coo for a rail-
road from that city connecting with the
Orient at Fairview, in Woods county.
Ii will be necessary if possible 10 locate
the line as near the north fork of the
Canadian as possible TO keep Guthrie
from hitching her wagon on that star.
a number Of the taxpayers OF Okla
homa City DESTROYS OF making that town
the marvel of the nineteenth century,
have formed a corporation for the pur-
pose of encOura ging the construction Of
interurban electric railroads TO towns in
the surrounding country, with this city
as the center, like spokes radiate from
the hub of a wagon wheel.
Before attempting TO rib up the people
of Granite to boom the town. Editor
Ryder remarks: An editors task in
calling the attention of his fellow towns
men to the fact that they are letting the
moss grow on their spinal columns is
Just about as delicate an undertaking as
limiting to your best girl that about
two inches Of her underskirt is showing.
The truth sometimes hurts, but it's like
having d boil; you feel good when you
get over il. and il is time our business
men were brought to a realization OF
few CHASTITY facts"
Grant County News: Roy Dewitt had
runaway Friday. He saw a large bull
snake when he was cutting wheat and
calleu to the man who was shocking 10
watch the team and he went after club
with which TO dispatch his snakeship,
but before the man reached the team an
other snake about ten feet long stood
up in front of the team, causing them 10
run away Four horses were hitched to
the binder and they ran through the
shocked field for over a half-mile. when
Casper SchiIling caught them. The horses
were not hurt. and it Will only cost about
s. to repair the binder. 1t was lucky
runaway.