The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-05
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Tohee, it is said, busted with Ragsda

| Tohee. it is said, busted with Ragsdale-
The Guthrie fremen had ball Wednes
! day evening.
A new bank will probably be started al
| Saltwater.
The Guthrie lot-jumper must be getting
out of practice.
The statehood question is not a unani
nous one in Oklahoma by long shot.
The editor of the Guthrie News has the
temerity 10 say that Daniels wears white
necktie.
Norman intends to preserve the fruit OF
its enterprise. 1t is figuring on canning
factory.
The man who knows every section OF
land in the Cherokee Strip" Is making
himself numerous.
Governor Steele has written to Tom
Reed to put Harvey on the territorial and
Indian committees.
Guthrie proposes TO get cotton gin to
hum" for the amusement of the town,
after the legislature adjourns.
1t does not take so long to write ''State
of Oklahoma" as it does Territory OF
Oklahoma The last is too long.
1t takes 1856 to pay off the legislature
every month. The house gets s., $50; the
council, 81, 625; and attaches, S765.
An Oklahoma paper publishes a column
of Texas state news weekly. There is only
one of this kind of paper in Oklahoma.
1t is about time for the ghost of the
Guthrie Democrat 10 stalk. The paper
was never much account at staying dead
long.
If the Alliance should take hold OF Ok
lahoma with all its might, the new state
may have a man for governor who Is un-
known now.
When Brown and Frank Greer got to
pounding each other, half the people in
Guthrie thought another powder maya
zine had exploded.
A Guthrie man is going to put glass
tube under Lake Michigan so that the
visitors of the worlds fair can see the sub
marine wonders. There is y slight hint of
fish" about this
Five towns in Oklahoma have cotton
gins. 1t is getting about time for the new
corners In Oklahoma TO discover that the
north end of a south wind is just as cold
as the south end of north wind"
New York Tribune:-Oklahoma is com
ing ahead fast. A few days ago two mem
bers OF the legislature after engaging in q
sharp controversy on the floor OF the
house, went out and continued the discus
sion with increased animation. But tel
egram from Guthrie distinctly states that
although they "clinched' yet they re-
Trained from coming TO blows. This is a
gratifying piece of intelligence 1t has
the promise and potent of progress in it.
AT an earlier stage of her history. two
statesmen of Oklahoma similarly circunl-
stanced would doubtless have more or less
pounded each other. These two, however.
merely ''clinched" and then graciously
allowed themselves to be separated by
mutual friends 1t cannot now be long III
the nature of things, before. your repre-
sentative Oklahoma law maker will scorn
TO ''clinch" He will content himself with
moving the previous question upon an adj
versary.
Guthrie Capital: George +. Ford is
again in Guthrie and talking of his Chi
cage worlds fair tunnel he said he had
closed a contract with Buckwater & Con
stantine, for the construction of the same.
The submarine resort will be POO feet long,
20 feet wide and II feet high. One side is
to be solid plate glass l 4 inches in thick
ness and the other solid iron. When
completed which will be about July /,
1891, it will cost 100000 Nets at
distance of twenty-five feet will encircle
the whole structure, and the nets will be
adjustable, in order to allow them TO be
drawn up close to the walls of the tunnel,
thereby capturing fish and marine speci
mems. Automatic closing iron doors will
be attached over the plate glass windows,
and in case of breakage, these iron doors
amount of water. There will he two
entrances and five exits. Stairways will
be placed twenty feet apart, leading TO a
garden which will extend from end TO end
of the tunnel and which will be green with
verdure and flowers