Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-21
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Missourians of Guthrie have decided
to get together.
Norman is waiting for that forlorn hope
"a Santa Fe depot.
Norman boasts of being somewhat a
trading point, itself.
There is talk OF erecting an opera house
block by several Kingfisher capitalists.
The Purcell Register has on exhibition
at Purcell a potato weighing 1919 pounds.
The State Herald is afraid of too much
representation at congress for Oklahoma.
Guthrie has determined to bounce the
bunco-steerers. But this is not the first
time.
The altitude of kingfisher is 1000 feet,
but then the noise of her boom goes inf
nitely higher than that.
Norman is putting on city airs at a rapid
rate. About half dozen of the merchants
here now run delivery wagons.
There seems to be an iIl-feeling towards
it by some Oklahoma papers, but from all
appearances Ell Reno is all right.
Kingfsher is going to have a cigar fac
tory and lots of the fellows who have
sworn off are dreadfully afraid of breaking
down.
Kinpfsher New World. The passenger
train from the north arrives at 1859 a. m.
departs at 2;36 p. M, arriving in Wichita
at 9:45 p. m.
A Santa Fe freight train was wrecked
few miles below Guthrie Sunday evening.
Seven cars were ditched but no one was
seriously injured.
Oklahoma people are agitating the ques-
ton of an ameteur dramatic club. A
great many people meet hardshlps In Okla
homa they never expected.
The Norman Transcript is authority
that the demand for good claims in the
Oklahoma country still continues and big
prices are being paid Tor ACCOMPLISHMENTS
to desirable tracts Of land.
Strings of covered wagons are no nov
city in Oklahoma II the present time.
Where all the people who are travelling are
going is past the comprehension of those
who know how many are on the roads now
adays
Southern Oklahoma viii be blooming
cotton field next summer. No better crop
has been raised this year than that now
being marketed in the Indian territory,
and our farmers will try their luck here
next season, says a sanguine sheet from
that neck of the woods
Norman Transcript: The large amount
of wheat sown in the country contiguous
to Norman will justify the erection of a
mill and elevator at this point another
season. No portion of the Oklahoma
country can compare with that surround
ing Norman for grain raising. and the re-
salt of next seasons iabors VIII prove the
assertion.
Over l,s0o registered letters have been
sent from the Guthrie Dostoffice since the
end of April. Over 2. 900 have been deliv-
cred 10 parties there, and considerably
over so have passed through the Office
Guthrie being a mail transfer station The
total amount of registered letters handled
then By the postoffice Is very near 500
since the end OF April
Edmond SUI: The parties who are en-
gagged in the unlawful killing and ship
ping Of game are liable to get into troabIe
Il they keep Il up There Is a law azaias;
it. and the deputy rnsrshals have been
ordered TO enforce the lay and arrest al
persons engaged il that business
Oklahoma Chief. There Is no person 50
dlsagreeabie as oae who poses. To see
young man eadeavoriug TO look wise is in
deed disgusting Many times the yoEnz
fellow who has attended Law school or
university imaginss that 10 get on In life
he must pose before az urx sp~cting pub
lie he must wear his hair peculiarly cut
behind with q lock 20 hang in trons ofer
his imagined Web<terian brow He mass
Dc able 10 lift bis bat and hold IL In Just
such shape in the presence OF ladies Il ke
goes to church bis eagle eve must seal