The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-24
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

! Mayor Lincoln of FL Reno. is said 70 be
! in favor Of keeping the saloons open on
| Sunday.
Cushing is happy. Its baseball team
has played its first game and won over the
ingalls, mine
The Geary band lost set of new instru-
mSnts il the IRE ct the opera house Of
| that place recently.
Oklahoma keeps up with the band
wagoa in the matter Of warm weather as
well as in the Yield OF wheat.
Scarcity Of steel rails is said to be the
cause Of the delay in constructing the
! street railway system AZ Gutrfie.
One OF Brain cowboys got into the cal
| ahccse at Pond Creek for trying TO clean
/ up the town with a revolver and a mon
key wrench.
| The walls under the new mill elevator At
Pond Creek are beginning To sink with the
weight Of one hundred thousand bushels
Of new wheat.
! The Oklahoma racing circuit will open
at Shawnee on the 18th Of August and one
OF the events viii be q race between an
ostrich and a running horse.
The new town Of Red Rock was formal
| ~ opened last Monday. szseo were paid
I for town lots End the rev bank received
deposits 10 the amount of Sle.ef6
II you want 10 know anything about
former national Republican conventions
ask Secretary William Grimes lie has
secured a full record Of them all
If the United States and the county OF
| Kiowa both paid fer the new bridges in
I that county somebody got more than their
! dues. Turn on the search light and lets
| see.
Blaine county has invested 81. 80 in
! steel bridges and paid the cash. Good
1 roads are q thing to be desired and there
/ can be- no good roads without good
( bridges.
[ ". S. Search and J. c. Fisher have pur-
chased a controlling interest in the Bank
of Commerce at Shawnee and propose TO
( make it one Of the big money institutions
Of the territory.
When Bird S. Mcclure opens the big
/ pasture reserve south OF L.awton 20 set
/ tlement there VIII be another chance for
a horse race. Here are dollars 10 dough-
nuts on the sooner.
Two babies at Cushing this week were
made seriously i'll by drinking a bottle Of
blueing. The young Of the human species
, is the only animal that sticks everything
I in reach in its mouth.
! The farmers down in Oklahoma are ex-
/ pecting a good rain now very soon. The
/ reason is that the corn needs it and they
! say 1t always rains in Oklahoma when
they have TO have it TO insure crops.
/ John Quincy Adams. ex-convict. deliver
( ed a lecture at Gushing on the horrors OF
prison life. The Herald OF that place says
that il does not doubt that John .. A is
J an ex-convict, but has serious doubts OF
| his being reformed
| Enid Wave: When you pay 20 cents a
! pound for beef steak the 20 cents is divid-
| ed around as follows: The farmer that
| raised the beef gets about cents. the ice
man ! cent, the meat trust cents and the
market man cents for cutting and wrap
ping 1t up for you. II will be observed
| that the meat trust gets the best end Of IT,
| However. you may remember you get the
steak after all.
4 Perry Republican: The application &c
| the district court for a restraining injunc-
/ ton against the city council and to com
| pei them to puke up certain funds for the
| benefit of certain individuals was over
ruler today by the court at O'Clock. The
| Republican has all along had implicit
| faith in the wisdom of the district court
/ The ruling today is that expected by al
/ the best thinkers in the city and is in
/ dication that the council has been follow
| ing the demands Of the law.