The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-06
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

Woodward is having trouble with her
| gas well She doesn't lack for COM
pany. either.
| Grand has weather regulator. He wiz
| be in great demand by the borrowers be-
fore May Is half over.
Ripley is pneumatized- II furnished
| eight OF the thirty-three successful ap-
plicants for graduation in Payne county.
When the railroad building gang reach
ed Shawnee. the people rushed out 10
| look on The .'know-it-an' were in evil
dence, TOO.
a fisherman in Lincoln county caught
an alligator two feet long in his fish
trap and let II go. Where is that his
torical society?
The Blackwell brass band is TO be in
corporated. That's business. but Of
course there win be some who won't take
much stock in it,
Inc Pond Creek girls want to keep
close eye on their sweethearts or they
viii be deserted by them for the picture
of the soda girl IN the Vidette-
Alva indorses the action OF TIE gov
ernor IN knocking out the Teachers bu-
reau." II lays the fight on the manage
ment Of the Normal last year to it.
Greer county claims to be the best al
faifa country in the territory IL is
probably true. but what will it bring till
some real live northerners set down in
there and cut it?
The Blackwell News reports that II has
been decided to christen the battlesi>1
Kansas with kansas joint whisky
fighting whisky-of which it is said that
one drop will nerve a rabbit UP to spit
in a bulldogs face
The Sac and Fox agency physician de-
clares that he has never seen a redman
inflicted with cancer. The Stroud Mes
senger declares that il is due 70 the fact
that as the Indian is as stoical as a
marble image. his blood runs so cool
and unchanged that there is no chance
for the chemical change which produces
cancer to take place.
Blackwell News: Indictment squash
ed is the way the Daily Oklahoman
heads an account Of the quashing of an
indictment at Lawton. Well, we must
acknowledge the cort that .'squashing'
an indictment beets anything We ever
saw turnip in a court before. Lettuce
hope, however, that peas will reign from
now on. but let us not overlook the fact
that the lawyers who cabbaged that de-
cision pulled their client out of a pickle
Stroud Messenger: There are several
so-called ''bottomless'' Indian wells in
this region. The one on the old Roux
and a stream Of pure water gushes from
its "bottomless depths" The one on the
]. A. Brown place is oblong and used TO
be the home of fine FISH, but half lu-
matte. wishing to scare the fish to the
surface threw lots of large Iron" stones
into the well, filing 1t nearly up and
irnprisoning the fish below. There are
several other natural "bottomless" wells
in the sandstone OF eastern Lincoln
county, and ii is a great mystery to our
farmers how nature managed 70 dig those
deep holes.
Day County Progress: A man came 10
town not long ago to get some medicine
for his wife. who was IN poor health He
went TO the drug store and called for
whisky. The druggist told him he could
get IL at the Loon. He was an eco
nomical fellow. and approaching the sa-
loon man. asked his prices on the goods.
stating the purpose intended for the
liquor He was advised 10 buy the best
for medicine, but he bought the very
cheapest broke the bottle in his hip
pocket before he got out of town, and
tried 10 persuade the saloon man to give
him another bottle free. This same man
is well to do, sober and industrious. and
says he expects to be worth n hundred
thousand before he dies. He is certainly
an economist. at least.