The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-23
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Reports Of three tons OF timothy to the
acre come from Canadian county
When the price OF potatoes at Shawnee
got down 10 20 cents the farmers began
10 hold back the supply for more money.
That car famine on the Oklahoma
branch Of the Santa Fe simply means
that Oklahoma has too much surplus
products to ship.
R. s. Howard will be allowed TO still
live in the First ward at Blackwell. but
the city council has voted that he must
get his dogs out of the ward
The Farmers and Merchants bank at
Stroud, has been chartered. Il viii open
for business Just as soon as a fine stone
bank building can be erected
A house divided against itself cannot
stand The editors in al least one Okla
homa town are wasting a good deal Of Vi
tai force fighting one another.
Judge T. S. Hunt, OF Arapaho. was
down at FL Reno the other day. telling
about the wheat fields in Custer county
that made forty bushels 10 the acre.
The Stroud Messenger appeals 10 the
people of that town 10 cut the weeds on
their vacant lots. Why not plant them
10 Bermuda grass and picket the cows
on them?
John Barr with a razor solved the prob
lem of mobbing negroes. He got up and
ran so fast that the mob only got sight
Of black streak.
AS the days begin TO grow hotter and
the corn twist up. the grain men figure
on the profits of the Oklahoma crop.
which seems to have advanced beyond
danger from drouth.
Delegate Bird S. Mcclure is said to be
preparing a list Of names in Oklahoma
TO whom he will send Oklahoma's share
of garden seeds. he will have 1900
packages TO distribute.
T. n. Athey. OF Blackwell, is working
up a sentiment in favor of erecting an i'm
mense monument over the grave of David
L. Payne Payne's most lasting monu-
ment is oklahoma itself.
The attorney general is looking up the
law to see if there IS not some way TO
head off the retiring school boards in
Oklahoma that usurp the powers of the
incoming boards by making contracts
with teachers year in advance.
George H. Wheeler, of FL Reno. lost his
barn, horse and other property in the
barn by fire He is a member of the Law
and Order League, and he was compelled
to come out in the Daily Democrat and
deny the rumors that he blamed the origin
of the fire on the saloon men.
c. Porter Johnson, of Oklahoma City
says his enemy started that report to the
effect that he was going to quit the prac
tice of the law and join the ministry.
Considering the action of one preacher in
oklahoma il is a pretty serious thing TO
charge respectable attorney with the in
tention to enter the pulpit.
Enid Wave: Enid has a poet; not one
OF your barn yard poets bat a regular
Tom Moore in disguise. This poets name
is Adolphus Drain, and the way he works
his poetic tank is a caution. But Dolph
will never, no never, reach the height
attained by the earlier manufacturers of
poetic illusions, because he is in love. reg
ular midsummer love. the kind that
scorches the heart and sears the brain.
Last night at the urgent request OF sew
eral boarders OF the hosiery in which he
puts up, he sang several choice selec-
tions Of his own composing which de-
lighted his audience To such n degree that
he was given unanimous vote of heart
felt thanks. The young lady whom he
is in love with is not cogniZsnt of the
fact as yet. although she viii be. If
Adolphus instead of throwing his effu-
sions at the star boarders addresses them
to her. One of his masterpieces, enti-
tied. The Shawl My Mother Wore" is
equal if not superior 10 anything ever
written by that immortal poet Bobby
Burns The boarders at the house where
Adolphus visits are going. in the near fu-
ture to hire the opera house and let the
musical talent OF Enid have an oppOrtu-
nifty Of hearing once in their lives real,
live poet who has heretofore allowed his
talents TO waste by the roadside.