Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The lawyers of Oklahoma City have
organized a bar association.
The Guthrie Republican club now num-
bers 60l members, and they are all workers
too.
Corn fritters" will not be as scarce in
Oklahoma in January, 1891, as they are
now.
The country will not neglect sheep
raising; in this respect Oklahoma will be
all wool and yard wide.
Whether or not prohibition will be
Oklahoma's chance, she will insist on hav-
ing her gin-her cotton-gin.
The trouble with sleighing in Oklahoma
is that you stand the best chances in the
world of sliding back in mud.
There is a locality in Oklahoma called
"Dead-Man's Crossing" and notwith-
standing its name ii is booming.
1t may not betoken harmony, but there
may be four or five contestants on one
claim in Oklahoma sneezing in unison.
Next Tuesday evening the Hotel Adams
at Muskogee will be opened with a grand
ball and the flour hundred" of the teri.
tory will attend.
A ticket broker will find good opening
in Oklahoma. There are so many people
who buy round trip tickets just to look at
the country, who become facinated and re-
main.
The men with common horse sense and
progressiveness who will stick by Okla
homa through thick and thin, will be her
millionaires in less than half of a cen
tury.
The postmaster at Guthrie is to enjoy an
increase of salary. The petitions sent to
Washington from that place have in
creased the stamp receipts 10 dreadful
extent.
The Oklahoma City Times in speaking
of injustice says 1.-The lady with the band
age over her eyes and the pair of scales in
her hand seems to have been totally disre.
garded."
The Oklahoma 'possum has been entire
~ safe this winter, in the presence Of the
more desirable game meats, but just wait
till next winter, and those 'possums will
all be up a tree.
When man carries a cannon and a
cheese knife strapped to his palpitating
breast in Oklahoma people set him down
as New. Yorker or a deniZen of some re-
mote and unenlightened center of the
east.
A delegate to congress is to be elected
fIom Oklahoma AS soon as il has territo-
rial government, and if Bill Hackney
hadn't announced himself out of polite.
lots of people could tell you who was after
the position.
Saltwater has ''boom" written on its
forehead. Among its 500 population there
has not yet occurred death. There has
never been an arrest in the town and the
city government is all popularity The
people are pulling hard to get a county
made out of the Panhandle with Still
water as the county seat.
Big Nose, Cut Nose. No Nose, members
of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribe, visit
our city regularly with wagon loads OF
bones. A few days ago one of the red men
was asked while engaged in gathering
bones, what he was going 10 do with them,
and Lo replied: "Oh, John, Reno City
heap good place; heap crazy white man
buy bones. Reno City Eagle.
Oklahoma City Times: Cotton seed is
being shipped into our town. IL is used
for feed and will be used for seed little
later in the season. The properties this
seed possesses renders il good feed for
cattle and they soon learn 20 like it very
much and eat il with hearty relish.
When this country is little further de-
veloped the industry that will grow out OF
the cotton seed will be no small item in
the commercial enterprise of the city and
country.