Wichita eagle., 1889-12-28
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

There is one Oklahoma paper that hasn't
got off that pun about Noble.
Mature has done much for Oklahoma, u
but her newspapers make a mighty close
second.
slowly getting up an admiration society
modelled after the one up here in Kansas.
There will be a great deal of swearing
off, in Oklahoma, New Years, but it will
be principally an effort to GUST the claim
jumper.
Monkey Hugging- the = Pump Han
die is the name of an Indian at Reno City
It is safe to say he has more name than
clothes.
The majority of schoolmarms in Okla
homa are from Kansas. Missouri and
Texas may MT like this, but it is true, all
the same.
Communication is provided for in Senator
Plumb's bill by extending the benefits of
section 2,301 of the revised statutes to
Oklahoma.
Now that the hunting season is almost
over, statisticians might 60 to work and
find out who got the most shot, the hunters
or the game.
At Reno City within radius of five
miles there are no less than 400 children
u.
use figures when she talks.
The Masons will organize a lodge at
Reno City. This will relieve the boys from
telling their wives at night that the have
been down to see petrified Indian.
The present system of shooting cattle
now in vogue at most agencies viii soon
be abolished. Chloroform will be supplied
until an electric plant can be secured.
The timber reserve between Oklahoma
City and Fort Reno. is reported to be full
of game and the military authorities keep
close watch to see that IL is not disturbed.
Reno City Eagle: The mail to this place
will be carried by the Rock Island, from
the north, shortly after January /. A
money order department. will be established
about the same time.
The Oklahoma Outlines column In the
Wichita EAGLE is the best thing in the pa
per-if the Oklahoma people are the judg
es, of course.-Norman Transcript. Spare
our bushes, but thanks awfully.
The young people of Ell Reno have got
ten SO, by this time, that they can meet al
Indian in primeyAl fig leaf costume with
Gus being suddenly overcome with an over
whelming desire to count the stars.
1t is pretty hard to sQuelch an Okla
homa town after it has once got on its
legs and begun Growing; the Saltwater
Standard speaks with metropolitan air
of "West Ninth street, North Side"
Norman Transcripts: Norman viii in the
future certainly be great cotton market.
Cotton Will be q leading staple here and
the productive country contiguous TO Nor
man will build up splendid city at this
point.
Ii is unusual in most countries to see
snakes abroad in December, they generally
60 into winter quarters long ere this, t1ut
several have been seen in this vicinity dur.
ing the past week or two.-Beaver City
Advocate.
Southern Oklahoma viii be the most
denseiy populated Of the whole country.
1t is the best portion Of the country and
scarcely . vacant quarter-section can now
be found throughout the land.-Norman
Transcript
John Campbell, the government wood
contractor, has furnished !. $50 cords of
wood from Council Grove TO the anthori-
ties at Fort Reno. The contract was for
600 cords. to be modified By curtailing
same go cords or adding thereto 400 cords
Twenty OK trains are engaged in hauling
the same.
By contract the Cheyennes aud Araps-
hoes receive each year from the hands of
the general government supplies Of CLOTH
ing. flannel, shirting. shoes, gloves. hats.
CAPS hose. comforts. canvas ducking. over