Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-14
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

! Ell Reno's prize fight will not come Of
until March.
A new church and school house IS being
| built at Highland.
| The Guthrie papers still continue that
merry game-tit for tat.
The ladies OF the NJ. E. church at Guth
RE are giving the babies show.
| They spell sway swop in Oklahoma
and then claim that it is Indian.
Frisco and the southwest is the shib-
boleth of the citizens OF Frisco.
| The practical joke people" in Okla
homa have already begun plans for April l.
| Kingfisher has dance house, which is
obnoxious and the citizens have decided &c
| move it.
A train load of Rock Island officials
took in Kingfisher Wednesday. OF course
| they are pleased.
A great many Oklahoma papers &C
'back east" and that's why the people are
! sure of spring boom.
Lots Of people would like to know just
where that new bridge across the Arhan-
sas In the territory is going TO be.
Oklahoma City has another paper. 1t is
called the Daily Democrat, but it hasn't
announced whether it is Kickapoo or d
Seminole.
A number of farmers will plant potatoes
next week. and the Frisco Herald wants tC
know how this sounds to the cold-pinched
northerners.
A steer got loose and ran rampant on
the streets of Oklahoma City Tuesday.
The fact is palmer every day why Okla
homa City should be known as the Athens
| of Oklahoma.
1t is said that President Harrison has
decided on man as governor of Oklahoma
and that the local candidates have been
| notified to that effect. Hence their pres
ent quietude.
The latest gentleman mentioned as gov
ernOr of Oklahoma is Ex-Governor Os-
born, of Kansas. who, IL experience IN
governmental snaps is worth anything,
would make splendid executive.
The Oklahoma City Journal thinks it is
shameful that Eat the time the Platt bill
was being discussed only thirty-two out OF
the eighty-four senators felt enough inter
est in our welfare to attend the session.
This is pleasant news. A private letter
from citizen of Oklahoma at Washing
ton gives it as his opinion that when the
bill giving Oklahoma territorial govern
ment becomes a law all the officers will be
selected from outside the territory.
Frisco Herald: The city authorities have
a pile driver about completed and it will
soon be put to work driving piles for two
bridges across the river, one south and the
other southeast of town. This is business,
for without bridges the people of the
south side would be able to do but little
business on this side during the rainy
weather.
Oklahoma City Journal: The colored
settlers in the black jacks north of the
Cimarron have sold the Rock Island road
5000 ties and 500 cords of wood. Add to
this several thousand fence posts and as
many thousand cords of wood that they
have sold their prairie neighbors, both
north and south Of them. and the reports
of starvation in the black jacks get a
black eye.
The grading on the canal at Oklahoma
City Is now almost completed, and the
work of fiuming is well under way. The
work will be completed By the last Of this
month except the dam, which will require
two weeks longer Besides the work of
the fluming and grading. work on the
crossings, or bridges across the canal, is
well along. The company is now satisfied
that the canal will be ready for use by the
1st of April.