The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-14
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Governor Ferguson's severity is terri
bic. Fortunes tremble under il and many
are shattered.
A McLoud man carried of both of
the trophy cups at the FL Reno shoot.
His name is c. F. Reust-
Grand has had no dentist for over six
months. Lord. what a harvest for the
teeth and plate peddler,
Another husband has disappeared from
| Oklahoma City. destitute wife and
children suffer for his crime.
The printers of Enid have formed a
union Every shop IN Oklahoma will be
union before Oklahoma is a state one
year.
Secretary Jim Houston. OF the school
land department. may lose his job. but
his honesty should not be placed in
jeopardy.
That man at Shawnee. who demands
a bank account and threatens 10 burn
| the town if not supplied with one, should
be sent back 10 Russia.
FL Reno is preparing TO entertain the
Kansas City Commercial club. This same
club took up a day in one town recently.
making fun Of the two-story buildings
The subject, Newspaper Passes" for
J. W. Ryder at the Press association. is
indeed an appropriate one. Ryder held
a job in the last legislature.
The Cushing Herald announces that it
is Its belief that there is an organized
band Of horse-thieves doing business in
Payne county Where's the A. II. t. A?
News has again reached Oklahoma that
the Dreyfus case will be reopened.
Wouldn't il be a good plan 10 invite
Dreyfus to see relief by coming over and
settling down on quarter section? He
could have those Beers for companions.
Perry Republican: Yesterday John
Queen brought to this office a branch
from plum tree which contained 40
well formed plums The sight is most
beautiful to behold. This is represen-
tative of what fruit trees will do in the
fairest land of the eartn. What country
can beat Oklahoma?
Enid Wave: A woman in Enid who had
God deal of time on her hands last win
ter amused herself by tracing her family
genealogy back through antiquity. She
finally reached a point several hundred
years back when her ancestors were pi-
rates on the Mediterranean, and then
she quit. There are few families. even
of the proudest and most DISTINGUISHED,
that are not subject 10 a similar shock
Ancestry doesn't always count for much.
1t is what the individual makes of him.
self and his opportunities that tallies.
Ponca City Courier: Frank Montgom-
cry makes this vicious stab at our beloved
Arkansaw: A poem, written for the
Wichita Eagle about the Arkansas river,
SAYS that Forward II moves with re-
sistIess power" Much must be allowed
for poetic license. In fact. * we did not
allow much for poetic license, the poets
would all have to shut UP their joints
and TO t-legying. But can even
poetic license excuse the thought OF re
sistless power IN a stream which is so
night and lie in the grass in order to
moisten their gills with the falling dew?
Is there we say, even a suggestion of re-
sistless power in a river which has sun
cracks IN its bottom big enough 20 bury
calf?
Blackwell News: Kay county is de-
veloping some inventive geniuses. The
Blackwell man who was nearly burned
TO death while experimenting with gas
oIne engine device for milking COW,
must now divide honors with Ponca
City man who has invented a device for
running fan. The plan of the p {.
man is 10 furnish motive power for his
fan by use Of flying Dutchman. such
as every boy in his time has made
and used. He runs a shaft from the
ceiling TO the floor. with band wheel
at the top of the shaft He then runs
a two-by-four, about eight feet long,
through the shaft. about two feet above
the door. the cross-piece projecting four
feet on each side of the upright SHAFT.
On one end OF the pole, or cross piece,
is a cage with cat in 1t, while to the
other end of the pole the Ponca CITY
genius bitches his bulldog. He then
'.sicks' his bulldog after the cat, ana
AWAY goes the machine. When the ma
chine IS running at high rate OF speed
there is lust a blurred circle OF cat ana
bulldog, and this Of course turns the
upright shaft that turns the wheel al
the top, and that turns the fan. and the
whole thing is a bowling success. parucu-
| larry II the dog is overly anxious TO over
take the cat. The only inconvenience
liable to occur is in case the bulldog
breaks loose and overtakes the cat in
| which case it would be necessary TO hunt
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