The Wichita daily eagle., 1903-07-31
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


The Ponca City Courier is advertising
Oklahoma as a summer resort.
The first VIII ever made by Comanche
Indian has been filed Tor probate at Law
ton.
Some of the farmers near Alva who
have threshsd their oats report fifty
bushels TO the acre.
The entire tax for county purposes in
Roger Mills county is per cent; not
very high for a new county
The next time that S. ]. Trout of Wa
| tonga. fools v51h cartridge revolver he
VIII not holdthis finger over the muzzle-
Some of the Oklahoma papers refer to
their town as the Gateway. Oklahoma
! is the garden Aand Wichita is the gate
way.
Governor ferguson and Dick T. Nor
gan. Of FL Eaesio. win crate at the great
anniversary celebration at Hinton. Au-
gust sth.
y new courses of study has been adopted
which places the Territorial Normal
school at Ava among the best Normal
schools Of the west.
The Oklahoma National Guard wants
to participate il the maneuvers at Fort
Riley. All Kansas viii vote to include
the Oklahoma National Guard.
Seine Of the Oklahoma papers are in
clincd 10 twit Kansas on her crops this
year. The ost crop in the Sunfower
state is nothing 10 brag about
That new variety of Mexican corn that
natures best in drouth. being sold in
Oklahoma, is fake. Oklahoma doesn'
have real drouth once in a lifetime.
The Commercial Club band paraded the
streets Of Perry last Monday night. and
the citizens meeting that followed voted
to hold a great carnival September 18th,
10th and nth.
The report oS a water famine in Enid
was a mistake 1t was caused by the
closing OF one of the water engines for
repairs, but Enid has more than one
water engine.
Some enterprising Individual wants a
bonus to. start a mattress factory in
Shawnee. After a while some people
will be wanting pay for breathing the
pure air OF this great southwest.
The Teachers Institute held a two
weeks session at Enid. The preachers
and the lawyers each took week at
delivering the addresses. This enabled the
teachers to get 1.-THE law and the gospel.
When the young ladies at Blackwell
steal the clothes OF young men bathing
in the pond and the young men chase the
ladies through the woods for possession
of their wearings apparel the News calls
it ridiculous.
The farmers of Noble county will hold
a meeting in Perry. August lst. TO or
ganize a Farmers Shipping association.
The farmers in the west have hard time
of it. They already own the big end Of
the bank deposits.
Steve Scrags. Of the FL Reno Liquor
company. made IAN assault on the editor
of the Democrat of that place. knocking
him into the street. The editor came
back, breaking Il, large oak cane over the
head OF Scrags-i Hensley should carry
a larger cane.
The fine Arabian horse owned by Mr.
Rhodes. of FL Reno, got scared at a
drove of hogs ,and jumped head first into
a deep ditch. State Insurance Comnis-
sioner Charles Luling, of Kansas, has
always claimed that a horse does not
possess lick of sense and is liable at
any time to get scared at a grasshopper
and run over, a steam engine.
Perry Republican: Since last Saturday
the officers have been trying TO enthuse
George billiard with tie idea of working
in the court house park until the expira-
ton of his sentence of thirty days. Dill
lard obstinately refuses to work and
even rebels against carrying his chain and
forty pound ball No sort Of persuasion
will spur him on to do honest manual
labor. Today. just after ] O'Clock. when
he refused TO work. the officers turned
the water hose upon him. and even the
damp cold water did not chill his pugna-
cious disposition TO hold out against earn
ing his bread and water by the sweat Of
his brow. Dillard, it viii be remembered,
is the colored fellow who stole the chick
ems belonging 70 Mrs. Davis, from the
station. Dnlard is a typical coon. and
is dead game when standing torture
rather than hard work.