Wichita eagle., 1890-02-06
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Petit nocturnal thieves are running
| amuck in Oklahoma City.
The eastern newspapers are talking
about the negro in Oklahoma.
The laws of Nebraska are likely to be
adopted for use in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is the target at which all the
railroads are making ready to aim.
At Ell Reno two new councilmen and a
new city marshal have to be elected soon.
Ell Reno will give banquet to the off,
cials of the Rock Island and Chocktaw
railways This is a new move in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City objects to having toll
bridge over stream near that place. which
might turn the trade of the farmers of a
certain district to another point.
A prairie fire Sunday night, north of
Frisco, at one time looked very threaten
ing to the safety of the city. By united
efforts the fire was finally subdued.
The colored Republicans account for
their large repr esentation by saying that
they have a settler on every forty acres;
forty acres and mule is all a colored man
wants.-Edmond Sun.
AS most of the farmers in this vicinity
will have to purchase farm machinery this
spring, good implement establishment at
this point would be a paying institution,
says the Reno City Capital.
Emporia Republican,: An Oklahoma
paper announces that the staple crop of
the territory is to be cotton. BY and by
we shall be presented with the anomaly of
a cotton state in which the negro is per-
mitted to vote.
The story is told of resident of Guthrie:
Her husband died and she took the body to
the east for burial. While she was gone
some fellow jumped the dead mans lot on
the ground that he was no longer resi-
dent of Guthrie.
The editor of the Temple (Texas) Times
says he advertised in an editorial for in
newspaper" and to his astonishment re-
ceived 13l answers to his inquiry saying,
kun 1t AS you d--n please"
Reno City Capital: If the halls of con-
gress could but be transported to Okla
homa, and the members of that body min
gle for few short hours with the people
here, we are of the opinion that it would
hasten legislation in our behalf somewhat
Talking about society, says the Guthrie
Capital, the public schools are doing more
to organize society upon its true basis
than any other force in the city. These
little folks are rapidly forming acquain-
tances and are learning to like each other
for each others true worth.
Norman Transcripts: Some sixteen or
eighteen car loads OF. lumber are now on
the way here for the erection Of two gov
ernment school buildings in the Seminole
nation. The material will be hauled from
Norman by teams and will furnish work
for several for some time. Norman mer-
chants are building up quite trade with
the Seminoies and every day the fact Is
growing more apparent that Norman Is
the town OF southern Oklahoma.
Wellington Mail: The cattIeme1 have
given up all hope of remaining in posses
sion Of the Cherokee strip longer than
next June. One of the most hopeful Of
them said to Mail reporter yesterday,
I'VE have had our day, and in six months
more the Cherokee Strip Live Stock asso-
citation will belong to the past" This
gloomy view of the situation, coming as it
did from such q staunch believer in the
right of the cattlemen to the strip, was
very significant TO say the least.
Oklahoma City Journal: Mr. G.. Poster
fields 12-year-old son concluded that life
was not worth living at home SO Saturday
night he struck out into the cold world to
battle for himself. His father had Just
blowing up q big garden. which
meant lots Of hoeing and pulling of weeds
for the boy. The great broad world looked
much more inviting 10 him, aud out into
lt be plunged, The last his father heard OF
him he had boarded q train that haG just
pulled out for the south lie viii proba- |
bly, be back again in few days, fully con
tented with mis- garden making lot.