The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-29
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


The Dewey county fair viii be held the
first four days OF September, in Taloga-
Woodward has dog poisoner and sew
eral otherwise lav-abiding citizens are
looking for him with shot-guns-
The town Of Cherokee is threatened
with the launching OF a Democratic pa
per. Better make it news paper
The Rock Island officials have added
up long column of figures and the sum
total is $4,000 bushels of wheat for
Oklahoma and the Indian territory
While people are talking Of rain TO
make the corn crop. the Cimarron Valley
Clipper takes the floor TO remark that the
corn in that section is already made
The Oklahoma Construction and Paw
ing company can have the contract 10
pave Main street in Shawnee when It
puts up a security bond for fifteen thou
sand dollars.
Oklahoma is quite a new country, out
IL has 81 banks and the money on, de-
post in them makes over thirty-tour
dollars for every man. woman and child
in the territory.
Threats OF Jack Meeks to kill Gladys
Moore if she told what she knew OF the
murder of Leonard Lamb. al Clinton.
Meeks got into Jail.
Deer Creek is trying 10 find out whether
she needs a commercial club organiza-
ton Anything is good for a town that
will enable the people TO center their ef-
forts and all pull together.
Among the Oklahoma exhibits at the
worlds fair will be some corn-stalks
twenty-five feet high and a sheaf OF oats
six feet long from a field that yielded one
hundred bushels 10 the acre.
Oklahoma merchants are interested in
the report that rate war will be pre-
cipitated among the railroads in the cot
ton belt What Oklahoma and all the
southwest needs is just rates, instead OF
a rate war.
All over Oklahoma people are taking
interest in the election OF competent
school officers. The people evidently real
lie that good schools will add very great
~ to Oklahoma as a desirable place in
which TO live.
NJ F. King, Of Ottawa, Kan. tried 10
convince the city council of Tecumseh
that the proper thing TO do was 10 vote
bonds to enable him to build the city a
system OF waterworks. The council
wanted time to reflect.
Bob Neff, Of the Blackwell News, has
discovered a new comet. 1t is twenty
eight miles away and travelling at the
rate of twenty-five miles second, which
beats Governor Ferguson time in his
famous ride at the opening OF the Strip.
The Choctaw is going to give a 50-cent
rate for the round trip from Shawnee
to Asher park for all the employees Of
the shops and their relatives for grar b
picnic, August LIST. Indications nov
that about all of the people of Sn
are related TO the shop boys.
Down at Lexington the people
cows in all the streets except IL.
business thoroughfare. The COW
on the opposite side of the street ,.---
keeps the rope stretched tight, and the
Leader wants 70 know how a man in a
buggy is to get past without swearing.
A ]. Colley brought Miss Dixon into
Alva TO take the train for Wichita. He
hitched his team TO a telegraph pole by
the side of the railroad. He found the
buggy three miles out in the country and
the horses are supposed to be running
yet.
Woods county will probably have a
new court house at Alva because the
editor of the Alva Review does not like
TO live in a county that has no court
house. Every county in Oklahoma ought
10 nave Il HTc-pTOOl COufl MUSE Aol lHo
preservation of its county records.
After Felix 1. Crow had hauled big,
lazy hulk of an Apache Indian to a point
twelve miles north of Lawton, and be
cause he refused 10 take him further in
the direction the Indian wished TO go.
the latter shot him. General Clusters re-
mark that the only good Indian is
dead Indian, applies in this case
Sidney Clark, of Oklahoma City, in in
terview: There is no good reason why
an enabling act will not be passed at the
ensuing session of congress granting
statehood to Oklahoma While it is true
that most of the New England sena-
tors would like TO see Oklahoma and the
Indian territory united in one state and
thus reduce the political and commercial
power of the west in the United States
senate as much as possible, a large ma
jority in congress Will undoubtedly pro-
test against the injustice of the propo-
sition. Oklahoma, in its present anatomy,
has carved for itself in the short space
Of fourteen years a name and fame which
cannot be blotted out by local selfish
ness or by sectional interests represented
I'm congress"