The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-17
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The politicians come and go in Okla
homa. but Hicks remains forever.
It is announced that the town Cross is
dead Such is the fatality Of namesakes.
Only one thing IN Oklahoma can equal
election returns 1t is harvest returns.
The lumber mems turn comes next Al
ready spacious granaries are being built
That Canadian bridge should be an
chored. 1t has been washed out in the
newspapers again
Cleveland won't do, nor will Bryan.
Why don't the Democrats nominate Bill
Bowles for president?
The FL Reno Democrat says that Bill
Cross name is pants. Yes, and without
suspender buttons. too
The Hitchcock Vanguard remarks that
a small boy and a string OF very small
fish is a common sig4-c nowadays.
The success Of Ten Nights in a Bar
Room in Oklahoma has been accounted
for. Such endurance arouses curiosity.
There has been split in the Clerks
union at Lswton. The stores are now
staying open at the proprietors' pleasure
Pond Creeks pride is all powerful. This
is the arrangement of baseball scores
by a local paper: Pond Creek. 8; FL
Reno. Il.
The lawyers and pedagogues OF Corden
had a spelling match last week. Both
sides lowered their former records for
holding the floor by several hours
The Lahoma Sun says that Lahoma
needs a band The Sun probably feels
that it needs help in blowing for the
town.
The new country has a big kick COM
ing. Some one reported a run on the
banks in that section. the report being
without foundation.
The Manchurian question is a delicate
one. 1t is as steel 10 eggshelI. however.
when compared with the stampede of
Billy Rays COW into Ed Craigs garden
at Stroud.
Another small bog has just managed
to tease St. Peter without getting caught.
A Cordell youth dropped stone on
railroad torpedo with the usual didn't
know it was loaded" effect.
/ Enigma offered by the Stroud Messen-
ger: Constable Null. while searching
for whisky bottles and new testaments at
our weekly prayer meeting. found more
loaded revolvers than the articles he hunt
ed for.
The Washington Star has suggested
"Cyclohoma" as a name fer the terri
tory. The Star will be more strongly con-
WINGED of it's appropriateness when Bird
Mcclure and the Oklahoma crowd go
down to Washington for statehood next
winter.
Something doing" by the Chandler
News: 1t seems now that the question
whether or not Chandler shall vote
bonds for waterworks and street i'm
provements is TO be settled by physical
force rather than by moral suasion."
If Col. Isenberg would join forces with
the Eagle man. it seems not unreason-
able TO believe that they could find some
of George Booths letters and give another
interesting chapter on that affair 1t
was a sad mistake to let go that corpse
The Saltwater Gazette observes that
warranty deed in South McAlester enti-
ties a man to the surface of the earth
only. the coal underneath being re-
served, having been segregated as mineral
lands. AS yet. no limit except the zenith
has been placed on the upper boundary.
The despair of the Hitchcock Vanguard:
eve have been trying for two months
to get a sign painted on our shop, so last
week we put our little brother at ii. The
kid is not a professional painter, but
if a cyclone carries our shop away we
will now. be able TO identify part of it,
anyhow, and strangers can find our place
of business without the aid Of police
man.