The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-05
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


Brown won the postofice fight at Okla
homa City. Flynn was for him.
The Inspector Sullivan investigation 1T
Norman porteinds worse things
Shawnee is to have what it claims 10
be the only safe deposit vault in the
territory.
Shawnee is figuring on selling her park
10 build school houses. Parks are a ne
cessity to city.
Perry holds the record this year. Over
eighty conversions have been made al
the NJ. E. revival
The fire at Oklahoma City will not af-
feet her growth or prosperity. Only in
dividuals will suffer.
Hickam's free text book bill should re-
ceive careful consideration. Hickam wss
school teacher once.
This morning the trial Of Estel Walker
at Pond Creek begins. He answers FOR
the killing of his father.
Beaver county received only a one-on5
hudred and hftieth part OF the school
land money this apportionment.
Cash Cade lives in Pottawatomie coun-
ty- This must not be forgotten when
reading his views on statehood.
In the semi-annual apportionment o,
school funds. Woods county is first and
Pottawatomie second in population.
A woman at Oklahoma City was fined
s. for living with a man. A marriage IL
cense could have been bought for that
When the legislature cuts the secre-
tary's salary down,sit will have TO look
for Grimes on his villa out from King
fisher.
A W. Dunnagan is after the postmas-
tership al Taioga- Dunnagan was beaten
by Vern Whiting for chief clerk OF ths
council.
Gasoline has been discovered In the oil
at Guthr.- AR. those explosions which
were heretofore due 10 ''carelessness'
have been explained.
If Matt Quay was as weak-hearted as
some Republicans in Oklahoma. there
would be no doubt about the omnibus
bill being talked TO death.
Governor T. B. Ferguson. it has just
been discovered by the people of Okla
homa. is president OF the Old Settlers
association of Blaine county.
1t is shown by figures that the passage
of the school land bill Will cut the rent
ais about one-half. This will do for the
lessees, but not for Oklahoma.
The secretary of the territory's state
ment shows that those Democratic pa
pers were about two-thirds off when they
said that he got Il salary of $4,000 a
year.
story is going the rounds of the Dem
ocratic press to the effect that Flynn
has withdrawn from the senatorial race
in favor of Anton Classen. The story
worries his friends more than it does
Dennis.
Watonga Republican: THE Oklahoma
boys at Wentworth Military academy al
Lexington. Mo-. are interested in state
hood for the territory. They recently
discussed the statehood proposition in a
debating society. The proposition for
debate was stated at follows: Resolved,
That the Sun Kissed Land of the Fair
God Should Shine as a Star Upon Old
Glory" Governor FergusonS son goes
to this school.
Shawnee Quill: ''Old Boreas has done
little business in this part OF Oklahoma
this winter. The ground has never been
frozen but once to the thickness of an
inch and no school boy has yet been able
to find ice thick enough on which he
could skate. and ss everywhere one goes
in the country the plows are seen running
in the fields. it looks as though this was
going to be almost an iceless winter in
this latitude that sometimes experiences
cold weather"
Stroud Messenger: Lloyd Forde, trav-
cling salesman for the Acme Milling com
pany. who is well and favorably known
to many of our people. was a visitor last
Tuesday Mr.. Forde owns a turkey ranch
near McLoud. o. T.. which is probably
the largest in the west. He ships sew
eral thousand of the fowls on the market
each year and informs us he is starting
another on the farm he drew in the new
country. He says many OF his turkey
mems weigh forty pounds. He recently
bought three wild turkeys I'm the Creek
country which he intends TO cross with
the tame birds and expects to raise a
still better and harder fowl.