Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-04
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| The COW that eats the castor bean is very
| liable to "kick the bucket"
| Four or FIVE hundred acres Of cotton will
! be planted near Noble next spring.
You can raise anything in Oklahoma
but interest in territorial convention.
At citizens meeting held in Noble the
25th inst, an election was called for Dec
ember 5.
There is one very strange feature about
the Oklahoma paper-it has no delinquent
subscribers.
Land office officials think that of the
1900 contests now filed at the Guthrie office
not more than 500 will come to trial.
The people who went from the strip to
Oklahoma and came back again are spoken
of as cured of their attack of Oklahoma. :"
Odes to the beautiful snow in the warm
climate of Oklahoma are often carried to
the printer through an endless mud-pud-
die
A great many youngsters are consider
ably anxious to know whether Santa Claus
is cognizant of the fact that Oklahoma
exists.
The only thing that troubles some of the
denizens of Guthrie about riding on a
street car inside Of six months Is the five
cents fare.
The editor of the FL Reno Herald lost SIS
recently out of his pockets. Ii he was
other than Oklahoma editor, this story
would have deted belief.
The line is so long at the delivery win
dows of the Guthrie postoffice, that the
people take their Shakespeares and Con-
gressional Records along to pass the tim g
until their turn comes
When they want to scare a tenderfoot
real bad" at REM, they tell him that the
Indians are up in arms and on the war
path because some merchant sold them
calico with stripes running the wrong
The Frisco Herald says it is not proper
for a correspondent of paper to refer TO
himself As we" 1t is an ole established
rule that only an editor and a man who
has a tape worm have right to use the
pronoun we.
One day last week Aaron Fretz attempt
ed to burn a fire guard around his hay
stack and succeeded-in burning up his
hay. Aaron felt little sore over the loss
of the bay but when the big fire came
along Thursday he would have lost his
house If he had not tried" to burn around
his hay.-Edmund sun.
Edmond Sun: Building on claims in
this section is carried on with great yigoE.
Many claims are being fenced, also, The
country for miles around Edmond will be
fenced III a0Olutk sCots oEA L1OsS VI -
under cultivation. The way the country
is being fenced may have an influence to
prevent the adoption of the held law when
| local legislation is allowed in the territory
| An old gentleman named Taylor, OF
| Benton county. who is engaged with Mr..
Phillips in the manufacture Of Inoonshine
| whisky in that county, according 10 his
| own story is in trouble He claimed 20
| Commissioner Breckenridge tina: he IS
| out over 81 1000 cash. which he has put
| into the concern, aud has never received q
dollar in return. He was anxious 10 get
out an attachment on few
head Of cattle, wagon, harness,
etc, belonging IN some way 20
the firm or outfit, and thus save himself
as far as possible Mr.. Breckenridge &C
QUALIFIED him with the fact that the loss Of
his money is q very small matter compared
with what is very likely soon TO orertake
| him in consequence Of enxagln2 in such an
unlawful business The Old gentleman
had been advised By several prominent
| men IN that county. whose names ne gave.
| that be sSs violating no law in distiIling
J TIE juice, and ne Is 70 be pitied 10 some ex-