The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-07
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Ripley will take wfirl at the merry
go-round next week
Cleo's school enrolment is 49, Four
teachers handle the lS2.
Ell Reno is in the hands Of its neighho-s
this week The carnival is on.
Wet cotton is like scrub bred cattle.
Both bring the bottom OF the market
George Nickel took his wife from Alta
TO Cleo in an automobile the other day.
Two cars Of hroom-corn were shipped
out of Custer City last week by one
firm.
The Lahoma Sun isn't living up 10 its
name. 1t was a day behind time las,
week
Chester Nichols. of Cleo. has invented
a COW yoke. He has applied for a
patent
Custer City is waiting on school fur
niture. The rev school building has been
completed.
There is a corn contest or in western
Garfield county. The Lahoma. Sun IS
conducting it.
There were four different baby shows
at the Berlin. Roger Mills county, fair.
Think of that. Mr. Roosevelt
Lahoma wants a Touring mill aud
a creamery The two would make
mighty rich gravy for Lahoma-
Jet pulled its fair OF with success and
is ready for the Woods County Press
association meeting. october 2o-21-
c J. Little was found dead in bed At
his home at Lahoma last week. He was
a long time resident Of the locality.
a Cheyenne baby took the blue ribbon
at the Pretty Baby show. The Sun
beam fails TO state whether the baby is
d girl or boy.
Citizens OF Jet and that locality are
going to participate in a coyote chase
October %. The hounds are being
groomed already.
The Custer City Courier boasts of a
hog weighing 40 pounds, which WAS
brought into market last week. This
owner received s2l.32 for it.
\ muskmelon exhibited at the recent
fair in Roger Mills county weighed A
pounds. This is getting a long way on
from the much sought after eantaloupe.
4 volume of ''Brann, the Iconoclast. -
has been stolen from library at Mount
ain Park. The losing of a Bible IN
thirty years hasn't caused half the fu-
rore as the loss of this book.
Stroud's city council was confronted
with a delegation of women at their last
meeting who demanded that a certain
hotel be purged-f IL made d story more
sensational than the most extreme Of
Matt Duhrs Indian stories.
John J.. Moore lost fine COW by ny
drophobia last week on his farm. near
Cleo, Woods county. Two shots through
the head failed TO kill the maddened
brute, and only one through the heart
checked its destructive career.
Judge Irwin dismissed d case against
a Bohemian girl of Foss, chaged with
numbering her own child. The evidence
was circumstantial. and the one lesson
was thought to have taught her the
right way better than could penitentiaTy
walls.
saltwater Advance: one of the charac-
ters seen on the streets of Saltwater dur
ing the carnival Was c. b. Boutwell,. vino
prefers to be caller Oklahoma Charley
Charley lives at Guthrie, and day after
DAY, rain or shine, he could be found at
his little news stand at the postofice
door selling papers. lie has discOversd
In very recent years he has the gift
of rhyming and he uses il whenever he
has occasion TO write for the press. and
some day he will gather his poetry and
print it in book form. He was a soldier
in the regular army on the frontier in
the early seventies. In an engagement
with the Indians somewhere in the west
ern part of what is now Oklahoma
Charley was badly wounded with gun
shots and arrows. which left him Grip
pied for life. When his wounds healed
Uncle sam discharged him honorably
from his service, and he went back to
his old home at Breckenridge. Mo. and
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