The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-14
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA


Cordell has half-mile race track This
should insure fail meets
Pawnee is talking Of putting down an
other test hole. 1t will cost $4.otA
The first of the dead Indian allotments
Five were sold.
forma and go way back Mumps are doing
a few interesting filings just now.
Work on Binger's four-stand cotton
gin will he begun this week An elevator
is 10 built, too.
A twenty-round boxing match, st Talosa
was called of by order of Governor Fer
guson, That's executive business
One mans the whole townsite company
down at Harrison. The real townsite COM
pany was beaten by the homesteader in
the courts
The Taloga Times has broken all prec-
edent 1t says it doesn't know" whether
il is entitled TO a share of the political
victory or not
In Dewey county a farmer mortgaged
his property and eloped with a widow
friend of his wife's who lived with
them. Who's TO blame?
Representative futile. OF Lawton, is 10
be captain in the Oklahoma ranks. He
fire. Cummins can testify TO this
The expressions of the Oklahoma Press
on Victor are even more warm than those
of the Kansas press. The Eagle regrets
that it mas not space enough TO print all
Triplets are getting so common in Ok
Iahoma that they don't bring more than
a three-line press notice. Why don't
some one spring bankruptcies on the pub
lie?
There's one town IN Oklahoma that's
worrying over Helen Gould's Illness more
than all the rest put together, and that's
Arapahoe. 1t expects a library from
her.
There's hardly a place in Oklahoma
now that man can find solitude when
he's up against il. Beaver City is now
talking of connecting with Woodward by
phone.
Walter Ferguson is in trouble over at
Lexington. No. where he goes to school.
He with others, played some boyish
pranks and all were arrested. The gov
ernor doesn't worry. The boy is able TO
take care of himself
Cashion Advance: From 26S hens. dur
ing the month of March just past, Mr.
Gosline, Of Reeding, gathered 3S7 dozen
eggs He sold out of this number 81. II
worth OF eggs, after using all that was
Gosline tells US that this was the best
month he has had since being In the
chicken business.
Mountain View Progress: Two little
boys of J. L. Porter were watering stock
At a well, and while the elder was driving
I'D the stock the smaller one fell into the
well. which had eight feet of water. He
held to the rope and kept from drown
Ing, while he cr.ed for help. His brother
came quickly and the little fellow said:
81 am all right. Don't be scared. Call
papa" His father was 200 yards away,
but soon had him out. after being in the
water 10 or Is minutes.
Billings News: About ten days ago, as
Mrs Dr. McCorkle was coming home on
the train from a visit with her mother
at Jefferson. her baby was playing with
her watch in which the crystal was crack
ed. when it. baby like. stuck the watch
into it's mouth and before its mamma
noticed, had sucked the crystal out and
swallowed a piece of the thick glass crys-
tai about half the size of a nickel NO
evil effects have been observed yet,
although the parents have been pretty I'M
easy about the result.
Apache Review: Smith. an Apache In
dian, living east of here, died few days
ago of consumption. A few hours before
his death two Indians went to settler
close and asked him to make coffin.
They asked If he was dead. NO, was
the reply. but can't talk; maybe die
soon" In a few hours they came back.
saving he is dead make box, which the
man did. and within three hours from the
time he died they wrapped him in blan-
ket and brought him to the box, some
three-fourths of a mile away, and put
him in and took him away to bury.