The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-28
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Ii might dye
a man advertises for a wife in the Null
hall Monitor.
OF course Oklahoma City is guying
Guthrie for bank failure.
Crawford. the new editor of the Noble
Democrat, is something of wit.
The election for delegate 70 congress
bids fair TO be as exciting as the last.
The only way they can tell the busiest
day in Norman, is to count the wagons.
Noble had gum suck last week. No
wonder Cleveland county is Democratic.
The Hennessey Clipper thinks claims
will be claims" in Oklahoma next sprin g.
An Oklahoma City man busted faro
bank the other night. This another
first
1t has been demonstrated anew in Okla
homa, that it takes labor TO bring the
capital,
The first load of Oklahoma corn in the
Mulhall market, was brought in last
Saturday.
Judge D. Matthews, of Beaver, is men
toned as candidate TO be congressional
delegate.
1t is estimated that the acreage to be
sown TO wheat in Oklahoma, viii be at
least 10000.
When congress adjourns, the Oklahoma
legislature will have the country 70 itself
1t needs it.
Kingfsher now has three newspapers.
That is about enough for a town of King
fishers size.
Some of the fellows who are filing little
minor offices now, will some day be the
big men of Oklahoma.
The noble Democrat claims that the peo-
pie of that town have to 20 four miles out
in the country TO vote.
Guthrey has moved his Hawk" TO
Saltwater, but be folds it just the same
way he did at Payne.
A man near Mulhall raised a watermelon
that weighed ninety-siX pounds. That
must be the champion.
10 Post took a seidlitz powder right be-
fore the whole house the other day. You
should have seen his phiz.
The late cotton is growing splendidly
and if it has time to mature before frost
an excellent crop Will be raised
Pretty soon the Oklahoma papers will
begin to print long blank columns and
head them What the legislature has
done"
They say that the town in Oklahoma
named Harrison" died when it heard
that Cleveland" had been selected for a
name.
The Tribune says if Beaver county could
get from 5000 to 5000 bushels of seed
wheat il would be an immense benefit to
the farmers.
A centipede was caught near Mulhall
this week which Is described as a vicious
looking insect, about as large around as
ones thumb and measured about twelve
inches in length"
An intoxicated man jumped onto young
Peery in IA saloon at Guthrie the other
night and tried to carve him with knife.
Peery didn't drive an OK team and pillow
for nothing and he hauled off and knocked
the fellow down.
John hewitt, the city marshal of Fl Reno
recently killed by cowboy, was twenty
eight years of age and left wife and two
small children. They were left destitute
but the citizens raised purse Of $40 and
gave it TO the wife.
Mulvane Record-Many teams pass
through here, EN- route TO Oklahoma, not
withstanding the reports of crop failure
that are so widely circulated. Oklahoma
will now relieve Kansas i'll this report
business, by coming in for part OF the
burden piled up by the eaSsern people and
the old fogy papers. Now, that there are
two of us, we will get along nicely.
Governor Steele has written to about a
dozen governors TO obtain terms for lncar-
cerating cOnvicts in various state peniten-
tiaries. says the Guthrie News. Even the
governors of distant Michigan and lndl-
ana have been asked to send terms. Re
plies TO these letters are being received.
but all of them state that the matter has
been referred go under officers for their
consideration.
The citizens of Moore are talking Of
moving their buildings TO a new site one
half a mile south Of the present location.
There is a contest on the land where u IS
now located, and there is no probability
that il can be settled for some time and
the people are getting tired. The owners
of the land on which the new site Is talked
of offer TO give forty acres each.
George f. Payne sends word that the evil
dence in his contest for Grimmer's seat in
the council is being withheld by the steno-
grapber, and he as well a. many Of his
friends think is purposely done 10 iniure
his chances, or to delay 1t so that he would
get no benefit of 1t this session Payne
lives at Beaver, the dispositions were taken
at place seventy miles distant, and the
stenographer lives sixty miles away In an
opposite direction.
Speaking of the Guthrie townsite trus-
tees the News says there are over 1900 ap-
plications filed and that the contests are
rapidly rolling in. 1t saws: The townsite
board will receive no more lot applications
after this evening This is the last day
and those having property had better
make hay while the sun shines Iester
day saw many contests filed and the list OF
cases now run up over go This i large
figure and if every one ponies up the costs
there will be litigation galore. II seems
probable that the contest fend will get u
his work TODAY, this being his last opp0r-
tunity. Some lots have six applica-
tions filed upon them Uptown corner
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