The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-24
OUTLINES oE OKLAHOMA,

Today the question OF waterworks for
Geary will be settled at the polls.
Supposing Merrick is guilty. as charged.
what viii be done to him? Nothing.
Fatty Smith is great Joker. But
that Merrick business is no Joking bust
ness.
Are you in line? Every town in Okla
homa nearly is fighting the gambling
dens.
Taloga's gold excitement is drawing
fine and makes that Enid George Booth
racket look cheap
There We're 113 conversions at the re-
vivais in FL Reno. Who was the one
hundred and thirteenth?
C. F. Deem. Of the Aline Chroncscope.
has been elected president OF the Woods
county Press association.
Blackwell real estate men declare the
two-roomed dwellings built years ago
must so. They were once palaces.
There was fuel famine at Cheyenne.
Roger Mills county. last week. Wood
was all the go and at high prices. too.
Barclay and Brummitt have been taken
TO the penitentiary. And a full blown
newspaper blossom is shut up with them.
The Alva Normal should be commend
ed. When the legislators arrived there
the school gave an entertainment for
them.
Carmen is enjoying the prospect of a
big boom. The Frisco is coming into the
town from the east and the Orient from
the north.
Bob Neff declares that il is an unwrit-
ten law in Oklahoma that the man who
kills the despOiler of hIs home is justified
in doing so.
If Merrick did go UP against Governor
Ferguson he is more to be pitied than
censured. Such poor Judgment is hard
to understand.
The Wave claims to be truly informed
that the Rock Island will build from
Enid 90 Liberal, Kan, there TO connect
with the main line.
How the Indian territory must envy Ok
lahoma when the Billiards strike her.
Cattlemen down there lost from one 10
sixty steers each. in the last storm.
The Chronicle says the farmers are
preparing TO make this year banner one
for oats. WaSniJ6 and Custer counties
are hard TO beat FOR oats, it seems.
Oklahoma and Kansas have bound
themselves together by another thread.
breeders association has been formed
by Sumner county and Kay county com
bined.
The Lone Wolf Echo predicts that there
will be no track laid on the Orient rail-
road in Southern Oklahoma until track
laying reaches Fairview from the north
Then in our opinion the track laying out
fit viii be moved from Kansas and
northern Oklahoma to southern Okla
CHINA and track laying viii begin in
earnest not far from Lone Wolf.
Fairview Republican: Sumner Bishop
wears the championship belt of Fairvicw.
Monday morning he shot a coyote with
90 special rifle a Z range OF 10 yards.
with the coyote at full run. Three of
the beasts We're seen just west of town
and the sportsman spirit OF Sumner got
the upper-hand and soon he was in hot
pursuit. About two miles north Of town
the wolves were partially surrounded,
but as a standing shot could not be had.
Sumner gave his Workmanship fair test
and punctured Mr.. Coyote through the
body just about the heart. Proudly he
gathered up his victim and brought II
to town where it was placed on exhibition
at Bower Bros store. When weighed.
il was found TO pull down 81 pounds and
quite fat. The front tusks of the brute
were fully one and one-half inches long.
and would have penetrated the hide OF 4
wild elephant in the juneles of India.
Naturally. Sumner Is justly proud OF his
exploit, and will have the hide tanned for
n rug. He can tell his grandchildren of
his prowess as hunter and show the rug
as proof.