Wichita eagle., 1889-07-31
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The keno room at Oklahoma City is de-
serted.
Oklahoma City thinks it has struck ths
''age of brick.'
| Around Edmund it is said there are sew
enteen contested claims.
| The prospect Of $4,000 hotel has SET
Oklahoma City all atrembling.
Over 200 poles will be used and oyer 81 200
expended in wire by the Electric Light and
Power company of Guthrie.
There is to be mass meeting of citizens
| north of the Cimarron, either at Alfred or
Cherokee City on August TO-
The ice plant people of Oklahoma City
have sunk very large well and will have
an abundance of good fine water.
goes to Oklahoma does, is to write 'back
east" to the folks" Have seen an In
dian and caught d centipede."
The Catholic church steeple at Okla
homa City is sixty feet high. 1t won't
take but another year to have the corn
stalks beat that, down in that country.
They are great kickers down at Guthrie
The Herald furnishes q new variety
There has never been a sunstroke in Okla
homa, and there probably never will be.
The city of East Guthrie will have four
teen arc lamps in different parts of that
city TO light its streets. Guthrie proper
will have ten or twelve arc lamps paid for
by the city, and as many more rented by
individuals.
The Oklahoma City Journal, with some
thing of sadness in its voice: 1.-The weekly
shipment, 800 cases of Milwaukee beer,
was unloaded at the depot yesterday and
carted across the country to Fort Reno.
Five SIX mule teams were required to
carry it.
Major MacNamara. formerly of Wich
tia, has been dubbed the Poet Laurete of
Oklahoma AS the months go by he will,
when the proper time arrives, celebrate in
rhyme, the Opening of Oklahoma," Milt.
reynolds birthday, etc. AT present he is
occupied in describing the natural scenery
of Oklahoma City as it appears separately
ID all of the twenty-four hours
Miss Winifred Morton was one of the
participants in "Harrison's race" on the
22d of April, and secured fine claim on
Deer creek. She brought the first yegeta-
bles to Edmond aud is now supplying the
restaurants with roasting ears. She has
out patch OF cotton, which is doing
finely and is being eagerly watched by
many who contemplate raising cotton as
general crop next year.
Oklahoma City Times study in black
and yellow: sam kee runs a laundry on
California street. It seems that Sam had
taken the contract to wash shirt, for q
couple OF colored men and had complied
with the contract as far as he knew how.
Tine other evening the negroes came after
the shirt and undertook to intimidate
sam into letting them have it, in fee
simply telling him he had damaged it, but
Sam said ''One bittee." Then they grab
bed the garment and run, but Sam fol-
lowed them and compelled them to sur
render and fork over the bill. When Sam
goes back to China he will be quite hero
He is Mongolian Sullivan and no coon
wants to fool with him thus"
Some "cuss" at Ardmore is taking keen
delight in calling out in the night air 20
Joe, here's yer muler' This reminds us
that on the night Of the opening of the
Oklahoma country at Guthrie, while the
writer WIS pivoted on one OF those
tufts of grass. looking at the
tents and the camp fires, scattered far and
near, away over east we heard the faint
cry of 'On, Joe, here's yer mule! Then
after IA little another voice, louder and
evidently nearer, took the cry up; then
several voices quite close, then III our vi
cility II hundred voices sang out, in which
we joined, ''Oh, Joe, here's yer mule!r
Then it passed and gradually died away,
and ten minutes, perhaps, after it had
started out east. away west across the
creek some fellows voice was borne family
on the clear night air, oh, Joe, here's yer
mulep