The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-19
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

chandler has a cotton gin sighted Now.
II II VIII just use silver buckshot.
Greater Hobart Is assured The Re
| publican says the building spirit has be-
| come epidemic.
The D. E. G. is rivsling the Choctaw. 1t
| tried TO do without the track near Mar
shall last week
After all. some Oklahoma City folk
DO like water. That town furnished fifty
recruits for the navy
The Hobart News-Republican has start
co good movement. II has placed the
countys name in its headline
a rock-crusher has been ordered for
Greer. II has shown a company that
there was business there for one
L The Billings News is encouraging the
use OF the antidote for race suicide 1t
gives birth a 2oo-word write up.
There were sixty witnesses at the trial
OF the Mountain Park shootist. Who's
running Mountain Park in the mean
time?
Over $4,000 worth OF town lots have
been sold at the new townsite Of Mountain
View. This moving business is paying
somebody.
A love feast of all Republicans at
Weathe-ford this fall is being planned
Senator George Webster has started the
ball rolling
Another family horse has lived up to its
predecessors records by nearly killing
one Of the family. Talogs furnishes the
gentle creature this time
A fine of one dollar is to be imposed
for violation on any merchant OF Billings
who signed an agreement 10 close at
so. Who gets the dollar?
Compliant of waste papers the cutters
comes from Blackwell. Large tin cans on
the corners, and fine for not using, rem
edies this trouble in many cities
One school district in WOODS county is
IN sore straits for a TEACHER. 1t offers, In
addition to e regular sslry,' choice Of
bachelors at the end of the term
There is talk OF Clinton Incorporating.
The Chronicle says il is needless, as be
fore long Clinton will be city OF the
first-class. and be compelled to incor-
porate.
1t is suggested that the next town
site plated in Kiowa county be named
Mountain Rock II will give some one
chance to publish a lexicon of Mountain
towns.
1t is reported that Mountain Park will
boycott every merchant that moves to
Snyder. 1t is hard to tell which is worse
this scrap or the revolution in South
America.
Taloga Times: The public water tank
has been painted and will be spaced off.
to be used for advertising purposes If
you have anything to say to the horses
Of Dewey coulty, secure a space.
Kiowa county teachers have formed the
oklahoma Confederation of Teachers"
to establish, for one thing, uniformity
of textbooks. The American Book COM
pany had Just as well arm another regi-
ment.
Guthrie Leader.-One OF the meetings
of noteworthy success was that of the
Farmers National Cooperative Union,
held at Medford the early part of the
week. It was larkely attended and the
proceedings were full OF interest to those
in sympathy with the cause of the Ameri-
can afrmer. The society was instituted
a,out eight months ago in Grant county
and is for the purpose of uniting the
farmers interests in such a way that
they secure the best prices possible for
their products.
Okeeue Eagle: Another potato-raiser
in this vicinity is Frank M2hannahan,
who lives east of the Cimarron river. in
Woods county. He has grown two acres
for years and pl2pts the small ones back
for second crop seed. His method is to
pillow with riding pillow as deep as four
large horses can pull It and drop the
seed one eye to the piece. one foot apart
in the row. on the loose dirt, so the next
round of the plow covers the potato four
inches deep. leaving 1t in a deep bed OF
loose ground in which to root and produce
tubers. He cultivates often and has
raised over 100 bushels per acre in the I'M
favorable seasons he has been at it. from
each crop. This year he has sold his
first crop at from 81 to s. cents per
bushel. and is pleased with the difference
between the result of those two acres
and any other two acres he had in grain.
He grows the Bliss Triumph and they are
beauties too.