Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-01
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| Woman is spoken of as "young and
beautiful"
| When they do put up houses on Okla
| honla farms they are mostly two stories
| in height.
A-man by the name of Cnnvintubly wa.
| killed recently in the Territory, and
| strange to say with nothing but COM
| mon revolver.
The man at Oklahoma City who adver-
| tised for lost yellow dog and offered re-
| ward still sees dogs in the clouds and
| hears them in the wind.
| A Democratic club, to be known as the
| Jeffersonian club Of Oklahoma City, was
| organized on Saturday evening OF last
| week with 80 names on the roll.
\ city directory OF Oklahoma City will
| be published from the Office OF the Chief in
| few days 1t is said il will show bona
| fide population of 5000 within the city
| limits.
Edmund Sun: Some say it will be an
early fall, but one cool night does not make
! an old fashioned winter. Look out for the
hronzed glories Of autumn clear up 70
christmas in this beautiful land
Purcell Topic: Our big onions measure
Il inches in circumference; the Oklahoma
corn inches long, inches in circumfer-
ence: PottawattoIie corn II inches in
length and inches IN circumference;
Oklahoma sorghum, S feet high and T
inches in circumference at the butt.
Five of the six companies of troops sta
toned at Oklahoma City will leave there
in few days for Arkansas City, to partl-
cipate in the grand review that IS TO take
place at that point the coming month.
The infantry will be required to march
the entire distance-l20 miles-on foot.
Oklahoma City Journal: A farmer
named Carey was held up last night and
robbed of thirty-five dollars. The theft
was committed in the gambling alley be-
tween Grand and California. The perpe-
traitors have not been apprehended yet and
probably never will be. The man feels his
loss keenly as he was in to buy wire to
fence his place and had TO return without
either money or wire.
Oklahoma City Journal: The Cheyennes
and Arapahoes took out fifteen or twenty
loads Of freight yesterday, mostly wire
fencing. The government pays them for
freighting provisions from this place TO
the agency, which is afterward distributed
to them free OF charge. They are also
paid three dollars an acre for all the break
ing they do on their own farms, and add
ing to all this their fencing wire is fur
nished by the government. The govern
ment hires man to show them how 10
farm and carpenters to help them build
their houses. The Indians are IN comfort
able circumstances.
''ShucksE' growled the landlord of the
Hotel Spread Eagle, hotel keeping in
Oklahoma hain't what its cracked up to
be- Too many kickers! Can't charge over
sevsnty-iiye cents meal, nohow: the
guests kick if | wash the taters and bile
the meat in the same water. Then half of
'em kick at usin' shingles for plates, an
the rest steal the shingles to mark their
lots with. They kick because the wind
blows in through the wall an then ever
time thar's fight outside they cut hole
through the canvass. stead NV goin' round
by the door. Kick too bout the roof leak
in, when they know durn we'll l can't
shoot through the floor or wall to wake
'em up in the mornin' 'thout hurtin' some
body If they don't stop kickin' I'm goin'
to quit the business" -Hotel Gazette.