The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-28
OUTLINES or OKLAHOMA.

| 1880 ~ Os>eS>ssS"O~
The building season has opened already
in Ponca City.
Eagle City is to have a cotton gin The
town was established but last fall.
Br-an's paper. the Commoner. is being
] freely quoted in the Oklahoma papers
| An Aiva man is for reform strong. He
calls his livery stable the Hotel De
Horse
The editor of the Blackwell News ad-
yises the legislature TO do more amend
| ing than new law-making-
| A school marin" north Of Augusta.
Wcds county, got three families into a
row in attempting TO punish 3 girl.
! The Oklahoma legislators are being re-
minded every now and then OF the things
| they said in the campaign is that fair?
/ If it should be decided that Oklahoma
should have but one normal school. which
would lose out? 1t is question being
| agitated.
| The teachers of Blackwell are prepar-
| ing TO give a comedy. The play is enti-
tied. THE Unclaimed Blessing of Black
| wells City Schools"
An expert has struck Blackwell and
announces to the drille-s that they should
drill where they first struck coil. The
hole they are now in is so feet deep.
The Enid Eagle predicts race to the
northwest between the Rock Island and
the Frisco. Work commenced on the
Arkansas Valley and Western Monday.
Shawnee is out with one that rivals
| the Enid Booth story. A man wanted in
Chicago for murder has been arrested
there. He was working in the Choctaw
shops.
Sheppard, president OF the First Ma
tional Bank of Pawnee. IS said TO be the
double of Governor Ferguson. He visited
the legislature last week and caused lots
of fun.
Bob Neff puts this kind of headlines
over the death OF a girl who formerly
lived at Blackwell, named May Brooks:
10 May Be May" 1t is unpleasantly
grating.
BY the end OF the week il is safe 10
wager that more than two thousand bills
will have been introduced in the Seventh
legislature. The slaughtering must soon
be done
The flag measure has been designated
as -buncombe'' by many of the iegis-
lators. 1t does not partake of that nature
half much rs many of the other meas
ures introduced.
The Watonga Dispatch declares that
oklahoma is exceedingly thankful OF
Mr.. VIM. Bryan's ideas on statehood.
yet his standing in the United States sem
ate viii ad little strength to his argu-
Eent.
Governor Ferguson recommended !.
herd law for the territory that should
apply alike to all parts. Beaver county
will not be included when the bill is
made law. 1t was never intended it
should.
The house will observe Mckinley day
Thursday. In appointing a committee 10
look after the matter, the speaker named
two Democrats and one Republican. The
opposite proportion would have been more
appropriate.
A grocery agent. by name Johnson. has
been doing the entire territory, according
to the papers. He has been widely ad-
yertised as a CRATER. but his bewailed
disappearance is still being written of
Lawton is the last
The postmaster of Eagle City was at
tackled by three men. They had guns.
He had none. He came the Jefferson feat
on two and ''shooed' the third away.
He still had the fifteen cents that was in
his pocket when he reached home.
Shawnee Quill: Something never seen
in Shawnee before was witnessed yester-
day about o'clock by a large crowd who
had gathered in front of the store on west
Main street, where A. 3. Carroll has his
SO, 600 stock of goods on sale. and saw
showered over their heads from an up
stairs window handful after handful of
small coins and package after package
and bundle after bundle of clothing and
gents furnishings. Many packages and
bundles were caught IN the uplifted hands
of some man or boy IN the crowd while
ether articles as Well as the coin reached
the ground to be struggled after by the
good natured recipients OF Mr.. CARROTS
move! gift enterprise which was an in
novation in Shawnee and had such a
pleasing effect