The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-09
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The harvest is finished and the weather
was .. K, says Matt Durr in the Chandler
News
Blackwell uses 10000 gallons OF water
a day. Some Of the city fathers think
there Is great waste somewhere.
Alva is going to have a system Of
waterworks. The contractor viii COM
mence putting in the plant about the first
| Of August.
A l Spencer. Of Wichita, spent the
Fourth OF July in Oklahoma. and he SAYS
ne saw wheat in a thousand valleys and
endless rows of corn nearly in the roast
ing ear.
Kay county has furnished a patch Of
timothy three and One-half feet high for
the oklahoma exhibit at the St. Louis
exhibition and Kingfsher county sends a
sample six inches higher
Buck Owens. country lad climbed a
creased pole ar Chickasha on the Fourth
OF July and picked a ten-dollar watch
from the top The judges forgot 10 look
whether he had any spikes in his shoes.
Now that pigs and light hogs are top
ping the market, Oklahoma heads the
procession. Since a fine corn crop is
promised in that section it is a wonder
that the farmers market so many Eight
hogs.
If Governor Ferguson would give the
selling price of farm lands in his do
minions and then the value per acre OF
productions. people would be able To see
that land was selling too cheap in Okla
homa.
Governor Ferguson wants the secre-
tary Of the interior and incidentally all
the world to know what farm lands are
worth in Oklahoma. He has some knowl-
edge of the newspaper business, and
knows how to advertise.
For injuries TO her knee from falling
on crossing young lady in Blackwell
wanted the city council TO pay her 5000
Bob Neff says the claim was promptly
turned down and some of the councilmen
intimated they were from Missouri.
The county commissioners of Caddo
county have called a special election to
give the people of Binger a chance to say
whether they want their town incorpo-
rated. The Binger Journal SAYS in the
eyes OF the law an unincorporated town
is simply patch of bald prairie.
There is an item going the round of
the Oklahoma papers to the effect that
the Santa Fe. Rock Island, Frisco and
NJ, h. * T. have put up 9 joint fund of
100000 60 advertise the southwest. That
is not half as much as southern Kansas
and Oklahoma are putting up to adver-
tise these same roads
Woodward News: Revised statistics of
the Orange Blossom Census in this office !
show that No. IS is safely over the divid- |
ing line of single cussedness into the |
honey clover patch Of double blesedness. |
last week was made of the |
of Miss Bessie NJ Carpenter.
an employee of this office, 10 Guy Self |
ridge. of Arkansas City. This records the |
thirteenth incident of this kind and proves !
that the shadow of an angel of the God |
Cupid still hovers caressingly near. Miss /
Carpenter came to US from Augusta ok /
ahoma, in May, 1892. and left Us June |
-, 1903, to become a bride on June y.
Her husband is young man employed in
he office of the trainmaster Of the Santa l
Re, at Arkansas City, Kan. and is a
nephew of General Manager II. II. Nudge
# this railroad. Both youngsters seem TO
,e supremacy happy, and this paper joins
With a host of friends in Woodward
Alva and Augusta in wishing them all
possible joy in life.