The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-01
OUTLINES oE OKLAHOMA.

! The fire department OF Elk City has
| been housed The work was donated.
| Dick Morgan is back again. and FL
| Reno has frightened up considerably.
/ The Blackwell gas drill is down I7e feet.
! Blackwelfs persistency will win out yet
The Elk City Record speaks OF the
| postmaster as notorious. on, these cub
reporters:
Elk City is doing 4 stunt under the di-
rection of temperance lectureer. The
papers are backing him
This is the time OF year that q man
with a COW, steked out. may expect no
! friendly calls from his neighbors-
The new administration at Guthrie
started out in fine shape The first thing
it had done was the cleansing Of the city
wells.
The grand jury at Lawton that returned
meanors must have thought itself in Mis-
souri,
Bob Nen has been elected secretary OF
| the Blackwell Gun club. Somebody
should now present him with blunder-
buss.
Wanted. by Guthrie. a beef packing
| plant This is the jist of the circular
gotten out by the Commercial club of
that city
The reporters at Guthrie have installed
Fatty Smith in the governors chair
He should now get Merrick for private
| secretary.
| Col. J. W. Hawkins has made state
ment He refutes attacks upon him and
| winds up with the announcement that he
/ is about TO leave Lawton.
A citizen of Shawnee had TO pay ten
| dollars fine for killing a rooster. Tues
day. How the spirit of that chicken must
have crowed on hearing of it.
The officers of the odd Fellows lodge
| have broken into the patent medicine ad
on the patent inside OF the Oklahoma pa
| pers. Next viii come the Masons.
Orvine Franz. of Enid has been offered
$50 per month by national team TO
play ball. The horse-hide business at that
rate would surpass the old cows cover
ing. tanned
In defense, an Oklahoman declared that
he hadn't hurt his wife, but that he had
only whipped her about the less. Her
complaint was extreme" cruelty, and il
seems that she had it located all right
Two Pottawatomie county farmers dis
puted over dead turkey, the owner al
leging that his friend had killed it The
latter now realizes the value Of a tur-
key, something the town folks have done
ever since Thanksgiving.
FL Reno Democrat: Ten-cent literature
has sent three FL Reno boys out into the
cold world again. and they Will probably
return at some future date wiser by sew
eral degrees. Dumping up against hu-
mainly is a great educator and We hope
these youngsters will profit by the bump
ing.
Elk City Record Sweetwater Corre-
spondence: y. L. Turner had very mar
row escape from death on the 18th, while
narrowing his new ground. He accident
ally fell in front of the harrow, his fall
scared the team, which ran away. catch
ing Turner under the harrow, dragging
him about one hundred yards. He re-
ceived severe cuts all over his body. DIR.
Baysinger OF Sweetwater. was called to
dress the wounds According to the
latest reports he will recover. The whole
neighborhood express their wish for his
speedy recovery.
Blackwell News: A lady who is
teacher in the public schools had a narrow
escape from a horrible death Tuesday
evening, between and 6 o'clock. She
was crossing the Frisco railroad bridge
and had not got half way when she dis
covered a freight train backing toward
her at a rapid speed. She saw the dan
ger and started to run to reach the end
of the bridge, but her efforts would have
been in vain had not one of the men at
the gas we'll seen the situation and shout
ed TO the engineer to stop. Ii was some
time before he could make the engineer
understand, but he finally saw that
something was wrong, and stopped his
train, but not until il was within few
feet of the young woman. Only for the
distance she gained by running. she would
surely have been crushed TO death.