The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-20
ourllMes-or OKLAHOMA.

A packing house fertilizer is being used
on the potato fields in Pot.awatom,e
county
One of the leading business firms o,
| Perry has placed an order with an eastern
| firm for an automobile
Perry is getting proud This last snow
brought out the fact that trhere was Z
real goose-neck cutter in town.
Experience is a hard school. Oklahorns
City. through her council. has done away
with the volunteer fire department
A local telephone company is being
| talked of for Marshall, Logan county
1t viii be backed by local capitalists
A horse died of hydrophobia north OF
Ponca City. Monday. 1t had been bitten
| twenty-five days before by mad dog.
The drill IN the well at Cushing STRUCK
a crevice in the rock it had reached and
dropped 30 feet Those crevices are nice
| things.
Nearly every Oklahoma paper this week
l contains accounts of one or more acct
dents to persons falling on the slippery
walks.
| The record for Oklahoma up to date is
| held by FL Reno, IL is believed. The
| converts at the gospel meetings now num-
Der 1c5.
| Oklahoma City has delegation in Chi
| cago working for equitable rates on vhea.
| and -four into Texas. It's the same old
| ''diherentiai.''
There is war on between the gamblers
| of FL Reno and the opposite element.
| The American announces that the former
| are boycotting it.
| 1t is said that three Tecumseh boys who
| couldn't dance, shot up the town and
| broke up the dance because their girls
were on the waxed floor.
Enid is the center of interest. IL not the
railroad center, just row. in the east.
The New York Herald gives three col
| umns to the Booth mystery.
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Okla hona City is
| taking hand in the fight against the
bawdy houses. II is working by absent
treatments at present. however
! Maxwell, McTaggart and Jones. OF Lo-
gan. have shown the right spirit. Party
politics should not have presumed To
stand in the way of statehood at this
time.
The Commercial club OF Perry has
adopted resolutions disappearing OF coun-
ell bill No. 90. The club declares that it
hampers railroad building in the terri
tory.
The Democrats were terribly afraid OF
debating to the United States con-
gress. Bowles and Francis both set up
this howl in speaking against the state
hood resolution.
The first issue of a new newspaper in
Lamont was gotten out this week. 1t is
called THE Valley News, and is pub
lished by W. f. Porter. He bought out
the Wakita Record.
A reward of 800 has been offered by
the Odd Fellows and A. o. L. W. lodges
at Ponca City for the apprehension OF
W. W. Foster. He is the implement man
who disappeared and was last seen at
FL Reno.
Gushing Herald: One of our prominent
citizens just returned from the cattle
mems convention at Oklahoma City.
dreamed last night that he was being at
tackled by ferocious bull tick. He grab
bed the furious creature by the horns.
and in the struggle for life which ensued
he nearly strangled his wife before that
estima BILE lady could get him awake.
Ponca City Courier: This is a fish story
and may seem to be out of season. but it
is a true story. all the same. Last Sat
urday a man, whose name we failed to
learn. brought in nearly a wagon load of
fish taken from the Arkansas river,
among the number being a monster cat
fish which weighed 81 pounds. The big
fellow was bought and disposed OF by
George Reeves, the popular First street
restaurant man.
Lawton Enterprise: A gentleman who
had been mentioned" as a probable can
didate before the Democratic primary for
a good paying city office, but whose
friends did not persist in pushing him
into the race was recently heard to say
that he thought he was TO be congratu-
lated on not getting lin it," since it was
such a close contest. Another gentleman
standing by, whose name was on the
ballot, but who came out in the rear.
Joined in, why don't you congratulate
me? | wasn't in it" man with this
fine sense of humor will be ''in it some
day. You can't keep him down.