The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-26
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Home grown peaches Of excellent quality
are abundant in Pones City.
The Alva Pioneer says it rains every
night there, sometimes a light shower
ana others a soaking rain
Hon J. J. Callahan. former Pop leader.
mas formally cast his lot with the Demo-
cratic party OF Oklahoma.
The county commissioners Of Canadian
county are going 10 have tine court house
IN III Reno insured for So COO. against
fire and storms
The Enid Eagle is charmed with the
sound OF hammer and saw in that city
and the hum Of the harvesters in the
country adjacent.
There is said 10 be large amounts Of
money waEered in the pool rooms al Enid
on the arrival and departure OF railroad
trains The Enid Wave says il is very ex-
citing.
Mrs Mary Cassidy who lives alone on
claim FIVE miles north Of Grimes. was
bitten on the arm by rattle snake the
other day while taking eggs from hens
nest.
Two mules in a pasture south OF Black
Wei were struck by lightning last Tues
dag. The mules are all right but Rob
Men was unable TO find OUT the damage
to the lightning.
Col. Blackwell will live IN the history Of
Oklahoma as one Of the prominent from
tier characters. Five minutes before he
died he knew the end had come and de-
clared that he was never more happy.
Al Of the railroads not already in Okla
homa want in and the city council of Fl
Reno is moving 70 put one restriction on
the new lines. II is that the builders Of
new railroads shall respect the resting
place Of their dead.
The people Of Enid ran for their gopher
holes last Thursday when a severe storm
as threatened. Isenberg OF the Daily
Wave was the first TO stick his head out
of his hole and seeing the coast clear he
went at the other fellows with 1T was
cOmlcal sight 10 see the staid heads OF
families boz out of the holes and reporting
back 10 the rest of the family the condi-
tion Of affairs
Enid Wave: Mrs. Wells, 2 school
teacher at Mountain Park, gave one Of
her boy pupils q wolloping. She was ar
rested. tried and fined 80 and costs. When
an Enid boy misbehaves his teacher gives
him sack Of peanuts or popcorn and
tells him she viii not Ike him any more II
he is bad. Rather than lose all this the
boy gets on his good behavior clothes.
Cushing Herald: Frank Eaton of near
Ripley was in the city this week and
was very enthusiastic about new kind
of corn he is experimenting with. He
says the corn while similar in appearance
70 other corn, differs in as much as it
does not grow upon cob The corn
stalks look like the familiar sort up 20
tasseling time, when instead of a tassel
a gourd-shaped thing-um-bob is formed.
which contains the corn. When it is ripe
for gathering these gourds yield about a
peck Of shelled corn. Mr.. Eaton has no
ticed that peculiar sort of insect hither-
TO unknown, seems TO work upon this new
kind of corn and reduces the grain 10 a
fine meal. Mr.. Eaton is now prOpagating
the insects along with the corn and hopes
to produce a new kind of breakfast food.
Blackwell News: While talking about
snakes the other evening three men
whom the editor was talking 10. stated
emphatically they had seen hoopsnakes.
It makes us feel good. Tor natural his
tory tells us there never was such a thing
as hoopsnalSes. and while we have often
met fellows who. while they had never
seen a hOOpsuake. knew somebody whose
great-grand- mother saw hoOrsuake
drive its horned tail into a tree and kill
the tree. We never before met person
who had actually seen a hOOpsnaGe. Now
we don't want the press to get foxy and
ask what those fellows were drinking II
the time they saw the hoopsnakes. OF
course we don't know what they had been
drinking at the time they saw the hoop
snakes. but we VII take our oath that
they We're perfectly sober while talking 70
US and so were We Possibly Blackwell
hasn't as many industries as oklahoma
City. nor Ends dead body of John wilkes
Booth but we can outing either one OF
those Jim Crow towns By having the only
three living men in the world who ever
saw h0ODSnakes.