Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-04

Alibis are held in the same high estima-
ton at Guthrie with which Sammy Wei
ler's is regarded by them.
But won't Oklahoma City have house
warming what ia a house warming when
that new brick residence is completed!
Oklahoma City is planning a cemetery
| and it is hoped that the Seminoles and
Kickapoos will bury the Ratchet as soon as
it is completed.
Oklahoma City is getting down to bust
ness and bridging the streams in her vi
cinity Ok. City has good deal of 60 in her
when she gets warmed up.
The city of Kingfisher is having a con-
test on the town site, two homesteaders
claiming it. The case is now being heard
by Register Roberts and Receiver Ad-
mire.
A company has been formed at Norman
| which furnishes seed wheat to the settlers
| in that vicinity and take their pay for the
same when the fsrmers harvest their
grain.
Ardmore has just held her second ami
versary, with a population of 600 1t is
estimated that there We're about 5000 at
the gathering and everything went off
quietly.
Mr.. W. W. Angel, of Guthrie. who
| the Herald intimated had surrepti-
| tiously disappeared with some of the
| city's money recently, has returned and
| asked an explanation on the part of the
Herald, which was granted.
The Oklahoma fever seems to have hurt
| Newport worse than any other town in the
state. But we suppose that is because our
| people generally have more nerve and YIN
than anybody else.-New7ort (Ark) Her
| aid. Yes, you might pack up your press
and come along.
| Correspondent from Blue Hill to the
| Oklahoma City Journal: About one week
ago Mr.. Thatcher found Robert Lasha and
wife, who were complete strangers TO him,
| The man has been sick for three weeks
without physician attending him. Mr..
L. at once moved them into his comforta-
house, where the man has been uncon-
scious and sick with brain fever.
Edmund Sun: Mr.. Arthur, of Bluff
creek, has a well on his claim which is a
curiosity. 1t is drilled we'll and is on
very high ground. At the depth of forty
feet a vein of water was struck, but think
ing it was not strong enough. Mr.. Arthur
concluded to go down until a better vein
was reached. At the depth of 147 feet
vein was struck and the water arose over
100 feet In the well, but was so salty it
could not be used. After few days the
water was again tested and found to be
4 pure duQ SOiU Oh lOp, DUO WITCH Juc DuChtO
was let down to the bottom it brought up
| salty water.
Oklahoma City Journal: In a ramble
among some of our hardware dealers our
reporter has made an estimate of the
amount of fencing that is being done by
| Oklahoma homesteaders. Four firms in
our city have sold an average of $4,000
pounds each of barbed wire, since the
opening of the territory, or within ninety
1 dny hrc tnnA <<yt
chants would build three wire fence
three hundred miles in length. AS there
are some twenty-four firms in the terri
tory who deal in fence wire, if we should
take the above as an average of the entire
number of wire dealers, we would have
! 1900 miles Of fence built in the first ninety
days after the opening OF the country.
| A story from the Arkansas City Dis
patch: The officers in command at Okla
homa City are getting reckless in their
| efforts to enforce total prohibition OF in
| toXicants. A gentleman who WAS there
| yesterday saw the soldiers enter the Santa
| Fe train and search handbags and valises
for liquor belonging to passengers. There
was a cattleman on board who was on his
way home to gainesville from Kansas
City. A soldier sized up his valise and
concluding there was liquor in it opened it
and found a bottle. The owner of the
property demonstrated about their making
so free with it. and to show they were not
afraid they marched Mr.. Cattleman, va
lise, whisky and dill up TO camp. A lady
IN the same train was administering some
wine to her baby from bottle and spoon.
The soldiers collared the wine bottle but
left the woman and baby.
At the little town of Lexington, Just
across the river from Purcell, serious
shooting scrape occurred On the 30th inst.
by which Henry Simmons was instantly
killed Francis S. Jones received a serious
wound. The trouble originated over set
Element between the two about cattle.
Jones made some threats and Simmons,
who is a city marshal, attempted to arrest
him, and Jones shot him with a Win
chester, which he hold in his hand at the
time. Almost simultaneously Simmons
fired with a Smith q Wesson revolver,
shooting Jones through and through, from
which wound he can not possibly recover.
After swapping his revolver twice more at
his adversary he fell to the ground a dead
man. Simmons father lives at Fort
Worth. Tex. His wife's relatives reside at
Berevyn, where the body was sent to be
buried. His standing rs man with those
who knew him was good. Nothing much
is known of Jones. only that he is a hunter
aud trapper of Cherokee extraction and
has a claim near Simmons. This is the
first serious affray that has occurred in the
town.
The Norman Advance, one of the bright
est papers in Oklahoma, gives the follow
ing description of its county: The south
eastern county Of Oklahoma, of which
Norman is the geographical center, con-
tains about $50 square miles Of the best
land on the American continent. The
hills are black loan, with only enough
sand to prevent their being muddy, while
the valleys are of the richest black allu-
vium that will produce fifty bushels Of
wheat and oats and seventy five bushels of
corn.
Norman is situated on a beautiful
plateau three miles from the Canadian
river, and for picturesque scenery is
ahead OF any other place in the ter
tory. On the west, just across the
Canadian river, is the Chickasaw In
dian reservation, with bounding prai-
ries stretching to the Red river and the
state OF Texas Oh the south. On the north
Is vast undulatiug prairie reaching
many, many miles. On the south is still
a rolling prairie, with here and there a
cluster of trees. To the west is prairie for
six miles when the beautiful valley of the
Little River is flowing through beautiful
wooded valley, varying In width from half
mile to three miles. And all around Is the
beautiful waving grass, foot and half
high, on which the lowing cattle feed.
Beauteous indeed is this new Canaan.
Pure AR from coal.
An Englishman is credited with the
discovery Of a method Of producing per