The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-17
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Kay county farmers are working for
rural telephones.
Cotton is being picked in North Fox
township. Lincoln county. this week.
The Record is recruiting for the Hinton
band. The only requisite is "a liking for
music"
Carmen has a new fire engine and ap-
paratus- 1t requires eighteen men 10
handle it
Two children Of the Creek nation died
last week from eating too many seeding
peach kernels.
The Mirror announces that ouinlan has
a band II is composed of a violin and
harp played by two BARRIERS.
Corn grown in the sod in Caddo county
measures u to IA feet in length. And this
with the seed only listed in.
An eight-pound black bass was caught
in the Canadian, near e. Reno, last week
Joe Abbott made the haul.
Farmers in northeastern Lincoln county
are sowing oats this fall They claim that
fall oats yield better than spring sown
oats.
Two young ladies of Fl Reno are about
10 be married and live in the Philippines
They are Misses Ethel Nail and Clara
Smith
\ BartlesvilFe company has a contract
for lighting and heating Gushing with
natural gas. The work must be done
within a year.
Cushing is having trouble finding a place
10 build its new school house. The block
determined on is objected TO by dozen
or more residents.
The third pair of twins born among
twenty-five years came last week They
are Wappersquahes
One grade in the Pond Greek schools
is known as the Glover Patch" And
children are always neatly dressed the
first week of school. too.
Lincoln county Indians are investing
in pigs. calves and chickens. The Stroud
Messenger says it is a benefit to them.
as it keeps them away from the town.
Greer county is most admirs Die in the
eyes OF the other Oklahoma counties just
now. 1t sent seven horse thieves to the
penitentiary at the term of court just
closed.
Lahoma offered $500 70 any one to To-
cate a Touring NIL there The offer was
en- and incidentally the S2.0oo, but
Lahoma is stin without a mill. reports
the SUM-
Matt Duhr reports that the Indians of
Ponca and Indian townships, Lincoln
county, are selling their runty. 1ea-bitten
ponies and buying the latest improved
horse flesh.
a colored couple wanted to get mar
ried al Tecumseh. They had no money,
SO the court house gang paid for the r.
cense, thus settling at least one phase of
the race problem.
Chandler News: The Spencer boys and
the other Eagle woods argonauts. who
went TO Alaska in search OF much gold
last year. returned with lots of costly
and unpleasant experience.
For odd runaways Marshall furnishes a
prime number. A pony becoming fright
ened on the street there. pulled the post
up, to which it was tied. and dashed
off down the street with the post swinging
alternatively over and under it.
Ell Reno Democrat: w A Edger, W.
T. Beeks, John Macy, II. Harms and
VIII Maurer returned this morning from
three weeks hunting tour on the Texas
border. and ii is evident that they did
not compare notes while on the trail.
Edger came home several days aheeG Of
the rest, and we had all got pretty well
settled TO believing the stories Of puf-
falo, elk, deer, prairie chicken and the
times they had breaking the broncos and
lodging camp raiders, and now comes the
rest of the crowd with stories that totally
eclipse Edger, and it is hard to tell who is
the biggest liar Beeks. Maurer or Harms;
none of their yarns dovetaiI, but it is
evident that they had of a time all
the time and more fun than coon at a
corn-huskng. The car load of game has
not yet arrived in port, but the port"
is here all the same. and plenty of it.