The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-08
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA

The Baptist Institute commenced a ten
days session at Blackwell last Monday.
Rev. Vest. of Winfield. preached the
opening sermon.
Marvellous. astounding: the greatest we
ever witnessed, a regular stem-winder.
is the way the Oklahoma papers are de-
scribing their Fourth OF July celebra-
tons
Watonga only had one drunk on the
Fourth of July. The city marshal.
Shives. ran him into the calaboOse and
he pried the door open and struck out for
tall timber.
And now comes Day county claiming an
average of thirty bushels of wheat 70 the
acre. When wheat makes thirty bushels
10 the acre you do not need 10 ask if the
quality is good.
The exporters Of grain are shading their
eyes with their hands and looking toward
southern Kansas and Oklahoma and in
the mean time the price Of wheat ad-
vances a few points.
The late census shows that Oklahoma
has over two hundred thousand school
children and still there are some people
who can say that Oklahoma is not quite
ready for statehood.
Fourth of July celebrations seem to
have been the order all over Oklahoma.
but il was at Guthrie that the pent-up
enthusiasm and patriotism Of the great
est number of people We're turned loose.
If you have poor article OF coal oil.
you would better not send it to Okla
homa. The inspectors do not know any
better than TO go and condemn it. What
has become of the coal oil trust, any
how?
When paper starts in a new town in
Oklahoma the national bank usually
comes along with it's statement before the
paper has attained sufficient age to make
a legal publication.
The Chandler News says that worst of
all pests, johnson grass. is getting foot
hold in Lincoln county. The man who
sows Johnson grass and the man who
ships in cholera hogs are neither essential
to the happiness of the farmer. but there
has as yet been no way suggested to get
clear of them.
The attorney general of Oklahoma has
given an opinion to the effect that county
treasurers must send money to the New
York fiscal agency TO pay interest on
bonds. The county treasurers haze been
in the habit of telling the bond-holders to
come after their money if they wanted IL.
Lawton Enterprise: The evangelist at
the big tent on the public square, last
rOgatory remarks relative to the moral
standard of newspapers commenting es-
pecially on the Enterprise. Evidently the
gentleman is not familiar with statistics.
There are tens of preachers in the jails
and penitentiaries where there is one
newspaper man. When it comes 10 com
pairing the moral standard of the average
travelling preacher with that of the av-
erage editor the former is Outclassed.
The press dispatches almost every day
contain the accounts OF the wrOng-dOing
of some minister. Yet there is not one
editor in a thousand who is ever called TO
account for violating the laws of the
land. The Enterprise challenges the rev.
erend gentleman to a comparison OF the
record. 1t insists that the moral standard
Of the average newspaper is not only
high, but that il is maintained. After all
the question of morals is an individual
one with both newspaper men and min
listers. The writer would not detract one
iota from the good name Of any worthy
man in the ministry. neither will he up
hold a scallawag because he happens to
be in the noble profession of journalism.