The Wichita daily eagle., 1903-07-16
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


When oklshomans talk seriously Of
statehood IL Is always Dennis Flynn
and somebody else for senators.
The postmaster al QuinIan created q
sensation by resigning. II is a mystery
TO some people how a man can ever let
so Of an office.
When one reads of the people at shaw
nee riding in tally-hos and winding up
with boat ride on the placid waters
or the North Canadian, il IS not much
OF a strain 10 imagine Shawnee a great
summer resort
When eastern people ask Kansas why
they do not raise Damson pIums they
are told that they will not grow in Kan
sas- According 10 the kiel Press they
grow to perfection IN the country around
Kiel
The Manitou Field Glass tells of onions
brought TO thst town by farmers that
weigh over a half pound each. \ good
many people are telling what Oklahoma
can raise. WIN somebody tell US what il
cannot raise?
Purcell. over in the Indian Territory.
has water tower and now the Purcell
Register wants an electric light placed on
the top OF Il The real live newspaper
never looses an opportunity 10 advertise
its town.
Coal oil condemned by the inspector in
Oklahoma is being shipped out of the
terri ,ory- What lucky community viii
get il?
Kay county is going to hold normal
institute which IS good thing. The
county commissioners took the matter
under advisement and set aside a sufii-
clent amount Of the liquor fund 10 pay
the expenses Of the institute.
The thermometer has been playing
around the one hundred mark down in
oklahoma, but the people keep working
right along in the fields and there are
no accounts Of deaths from sunstroke-
All Oklahoma was like a battle field
on the fourth day OF July. The papers
are still telling about the great celebrat-
tions. but il was the exception when 1t
was necessary 70 makean arrest.
The Northwestern Territorial Normal
School at Alva viii open its seventh
year September Sth- The enrolment last
year was leo.
At Artesia. New Mexico. a new well
just finished sends 1.2oa gallons of water
per minute eighteen inches above the
ground. These artesian wells viii soon
be all over Western Kansas and Okla
hOma-
Inc Enlu W ave mas started 4 want
column and here is one that headed il
last Monday: Wanted by a young man Of
good habits. a home in christian family
or would like some widow TO take him
to raise.
Some farmers claim that there is no
money in raising wheat, but the pros
perity of Oklahoma is very largely due
TO her wheat The same is true of this
section of Kansas.
The Santa Fe is gong To give Oklahoma
City a fine new depot. Every city the
size of Oklahoma City on the line of
any railroad is entitled to a good depot
Some of the depets are disgrace to the
towns in which they are located.
The report that an ice famine was
imminent in Shawnee Is denied. There is
no suspicion that the ice man started the
report
An item in the Shawnee Democrat says
that ever since Lots wife, in leaving
Sodom, turned to rubber 1t has been
universally accepted that the woman who
hesitates is lost.
Wakita Herald.-Lewis Yunker cut
across the corners with his harvest, run
ming two headers and a threshing machine
at the same time In this way he cut
and threshed two hundred acres in three
days and a half. He marketed most Of
this wheat in Clyde. but near the close
found that he could get a higher price
for the wheat if taken to Wakita, so
closed the deal here.