Wichita eagle., 1889-07-31
KINGFISHER NOTES.
KINGFISHER, July 81. 1899

INlNOf ioflr-h, cuis -: 1907
| Tothe Editor of the Eagle.
Business is picking up every day ant
the city is full of strangers looking abou
with a view of purchasing property anC
going into business. The ripplings o.
the oncoming booming wave are gliding
along the shores of beautiful, thriving
young Kingfsher With the advent o.
the popular Rock Island there is no rea
son why the city should not grow in ;
very rapid manner. To show what faitf
the citizens have in this city, will say
that all who can are buying every avail
able piece of property and the result is
first come, first served" as to choice
lots at reasonable prices. My only regre1
is that | can't buy all the lots [ want
simply because my purse Is empty. Nc
better chance for making money rapidly
ever existed III any town III Okiahona
than right here in Kingfisher today. W,
state these as pointers to those who con.
template buying property in this city.
The time is now, as every day lots are
nearly doubling in value. With the
boom in real estate, the building boom
buildings are in course of erection.
The Western Union telegraph Office is
now open for business and so far is hav-
ing a good run. The Rock Island grading
outfit are scattered all along the survey
from the Salt Fork to the Cimarron
river, and by next week grading
between this city and the Cimarron river
viii be well under way. The contracts
for the grading are let in this manner:
Creech q Lee have seventeen miles; W.
Ii. Callahan fifteen: Ell Mccormick
thirteen; and Crane Bros. & BethuDe
thirteen, making in all fifty-eight miles
the distance by the bee line of the Rock
Island from Pond Creek to this city.
Just how long it will take to complete
the road here is difficult thing to state;
but the general idea is that by October
LIST the road will be ready for business.
The action of the Frisco convention in
passing set of resolutions condemning
the proposed provisional territorial gov
eminent scheme as planned by the
Guthrieites, is endorsed by three-fourthS
of the inhabitants OF Oklahoma.
The first contest between homestead
ers and townsite claimants in the King
fisher land district commenced yester-
day before Register Roberts and Receiv-
er Admire. The contest is on the two
quarters of the north half of section Is,
range Z, where the city of kingfisher is
located. The claimants as homesteaders
are VIM. D. Fossett and John II. Wood.
Able lawyers are employed on each side
and the contest Is attracting great deal
of attention and the court room is
crowded each day. The case Will drag
along for several days yet and perhaps
weeks as the testimony Is taken down as
given by type writer and an official of
the land Office.
4 severe wind and rain storm came
up about s o'clock last night and it
looked for time as though a cyclone
would raise havoc IN this vicinity; but
outside of severe blow and q fright to
many, no damage was done.
Vegetables of all kinds are plentiful.
as the early settlers hereabouts made
plenty of garden, consequently garden
sass" is cheap in Kingtisher.
The account of the returning home of
E. T. Brown, the missing Wichita real
estate dealer, as given in the EAGLE Is
attracting great deal OF attention, as
most everyone here seems to remember
the occurrence
The chiggers here are lively bugs. In
fact, should say,
The dy is a lively thing,
The mosquito very slick;
The chigger does not hum or sing.
But he gets there just as quick.
WE.