The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-02
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Shawnee boasts the largest and most
complete electric light and power plant
in Oklahoma.
The First National bank of Anadarko
has let the contract for the erection OF
fine twc-story bank building
Wheat harvest is over in Dewey county
and 20 10 80 bushels per acre is the esti-
mate of the Taiosa Advocate
Oklahoma City is threatened with an
eight-stOry Office building. The vision
OF Captain Payne is corning 10 pass.
What has Bird S. Mcclure done. any
how. TO justify the Oklahoma Enterprise
in calling him successful horse tTader2
The Oklahoma State Capital says BIZ
Cross made the hit OF his life at the
Shawnee meeting. He never opened his
mouth.
The Catholic church at Shawnee is at
the head Of movement 10 give an old
fashioned Fourth of July celebration ct
that place
Plenty OF new potatoes are on the mar
..et at Shawnee at 50 cents a bushel. The
Quill says some of the finest were raised
or the uplands-
Henry Lowe has shipped his threshing
machine outfit from Kirksville, No. 20
Watonga TO assist in taking care Of the
big wheat and oats crop.
a shop-lifter got in his work on the
clothing stores at Medford the other day,
ard when detected he had in his posses
sion IS pairs Of fine pants.
The Cinarron Valley Clipper says that
after the heavy rain at Coyle last week
q boat containing i've men was rowed up
the main street Of the town
As evidence that sucker is not born
every minute in Oklahoma, II is pointed
out that very few people could be found
to believe that John Wilkes Booth story
The theater-goers in Oklahoma City are
going 10 pay ten dollars for tickets TO the
first performance after the opera house
is decorated and furnished with fine up
holstered leather chairs.
The Shawnee News enumerates the ca
lamities Of Kansas: "Grasshoppers. Pop
ulism, Carrie Nation and the state legis-
lature." Noble Prentis once said that IL
didn't make any difference what happen
ed. Kansas was always the sister that
got talked about.
Blackwell News: Late Saturday night.
DR.. Lowery received a telephone message
from DR.. Haven, TO bring his amputa-
ton instruments out 10 James Car
michaeTs farm, about seven miles west
of the city, as there was a critical case
there DR.. Lowery drove out and found
a man in a shack lying on a horse
blanket which had been spread on door
that rested on a couple Of trestles. The
patient was a harvest hand from Kan
sas, and had by some accident got his
leg in contact with the sickle of the
binder, which had struck him just below
the knee and literally chopped the bone
TO pieces clear down to the ankle. There
was nothing to do but to amputate the
crushed leg and do the best possible I'M
der the circumstances for the sufferer.
He was accordingly carried into the little
single room of Mr.. CarmichaeFs resi-
dence. for he is a bachelor. and the leg
taken of DR. I1owery says there were
at least half a dozen men present and
not one of them had the nerve to hold
the light for the surgeons 70 operate.
The poor fellow. whose name is unknown.
is in a bad condition. Away out there
on a farm, with no conveniences-not
a woman on the place. and none but
rough men to dress his injuries. DR.. Low
cry thinks he may. from the fact that he
is a strong man. pull through, but his
chances are not the best in the world.