Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-23
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,

| Inc u. "A. II. OIL IbeQO CIty Will give a
supper, Thanksgiving evening
The station called Okarchie is formed oil
the word Ok for Oklahoma, Ar for Arapa-
hoe and Chi for Cheyenne.
The Republicans of Oklahoma have the
true ring to them. The same may be said
of the Democrats, but it is a Democratic
| ring.
| 1t now turns out, or at least shows signs
| of doing SO, that the people who have been
married in Oklahoma. have not been mar
ried legally.
A homesteader in the Oklahoma country
connot cut and sell timber from his claim
The timber is to be used only in improv-
ing the claim.
Ten days more time are given at Guth-
RE for those persons holding lots without
certificates, after which they shall be de-
clared vacant.
Britton has more fine young ladies than
any other town of its size in Oklahoma,
but of course there is no town exactly
Britton's style in Oklahoma.
Over 200 names on the Republican club
in Guthrie. Is there any doubt to which
party has the majority in Oklahoma? The
polite Democrat say there is.
The best way to collect the names of Re-
publicans in an Oklahoma town and bring
them out of obscurity is to write COM
munication to the local paper against PRO
tective tariff"
1t has been formally announced at Guth-
RE that it is not compulsory to wear
decolette dresses and swallow tails at the
ball. but the management would kindly
ask the gentlemen to wipe their feet on
the rug outside the door.
Oklahoma City: In talking with car
penters and contractors over the city, we
find good feeling prevailing among them
as to the outlook for work early in the
spring, and in fact all winter. They are
all kept busy, and are continually figuring
on new work. making new estimates, etc.
1t is safe to look for a booming spring in
the way of Of the erection of buildings of
all character.
1t is a question often discussed in Okla
homa whether the timbered of blackjack,
lands are not better than the prairie lands.
1t is an open question, and public opinion
is pretty evenly divided. Those coming
from the open prairies of Kansas and Hill
nois usually incline to the opinion that the
prairie lands are the best, while those
coming from Arkansas and the oak open
ings of Michigan declare the blackjack
lands will prove our most valuable soil for
fruit and wheat. A few years trial will
settle the question.
Quite sensation has lately been created
by the ruling of Judge Boardman, of the
United States circuit ana district court, at
Paris, Texas, in reference to marriage in
the territory. The Judge rules that there
is no law, neither ecclesiastical or civil, by
which a legal marriage can be solemnized
between non citizens of the five civilized
tribes This decision was made in a case
where the party plead guilty TO bigamy
But on Inquiry by the court it
was found that the last marriage
,n1 nv hn
export of the NJ. f. church, south, in the
Chickasaw nation. Under that state of
facts the court refused to sentence him.
holding as above, viz That there is no
law by which legal, ansrriage can be
solemuized, hence no guilt could attach.
This affects hundreds of marriages in the
northern tier of counties in Texas, rs the
Now, how will this affect the marriages
performed in Oklahoma The only legal
marriage that can take place is the COM
mon law contract reduced to writing and
signed by the parties in presence Of wit
nesSes.
A family consisting of q man seventy
years old, his wife. and two grown sons,
came from Texas early last spring and set
tied on piece of new leased land in the
Chickasaw nation, near the Pottawattamie
line. On their arrival and settlement
sisted OF a team, plow, hoes, etc, aud 50 in
cash. They began breaking up the prairie
sod at once and by applying themselves to
the business in hand they succeeded in
getting out a crop of thirty acres of COT
ton. a small field of corn. and a large crop
of garden vegetables From the sale OF
vegetables they realized enough to keep
the family in groceries. the garden fur
nishing besides good share of their food
The members of the family cultivated
and cared for the cotton crop up to
picking time They are now paying
seventy-fve cents a hundred for hav- |
ing it gathered. and selling the product |
for 81 so per hundred. The yield is Loo |
pounds per acre. Allowing the payment |
of seventy-ive cents per hundred for pick |
Ing all OF it, the family realizes SG0 out Of !
their first summers work, besides living.
This WAS done on sod, and principally by l
two young men with their aged parents TO |
support.