The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-06
people attempt TO cry down Wichita it is
for the purpose of bearing real estate for
self purchase.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| MARSHALL GRIMES mas FedDDOl0leQ Tor the
time all the present deputies.
1t has gotten out that one of the legislat-
ors from Cleveland county wears a night
cap.
Oklahoma City will entertain the legis-
lators next. And this is the first oyster
month, too.
| he don't say amen" 10 the chaplain S
morning prayer.
1t begins to look like the capital will
have to be put away out in the Arapahoe
| country, before it will be safe
One of the popular discussions in Guth-
RE just at present is what TO call the color
Of Oklahoma City Browns hair.
| Frank Greer ought to have had more
sense than to feel so stuck up over his new
office. That's why his printers struck.
The Labor party in Oklahoma. objects to
| the organization of militia. Who will
put down the county seat wars in that
| case.
| The electric lights in Guthrie have been
! turned off and the night sessions of the
house will now have TO depend on 10 Post )
head for light.
Oklahoma City claims to have discov-
cred silver mine near the city aud Guth-
RE talks about when the Iowa lands Will
open harder than ever.
Lots of people are beginning to say that
II they knew the thing was going to turn
out this way they would have stepped over
TO the polls and voted election day.
If all the towns in the territory intend
20 banquet the members of the legislators,
they will have TO start a loan office SO as
to put their salary into circulation.
The Guthrie Democrat wants the legisla-
ture TO quit wrangling. Editor Fugate
isn't a very good Democrat A real good
Democrat would have spelled 'wrangling"
without the Wv. "
The surveyors and civil en- gineers of
Oklahoma territory are requested TO meet
at the office of the county surveyor at
Guthrie on Saturday, Sept Goth, at 10
O'Clock a. m, for the purpose of organizing
a surveyors association, and also for the
purpose of considering legislation in the
interest of surveyors and surveys.
The rock crusher of the ChOctaw Coal
and Railway company, valued at $l3, OO0
was burned one day last week on its side
track at Wilburton. The crusher. as con-
structed. was placed on a 45-foot car with
boiler, engine crusher, coal bin and water
tank and was the most thoroughly equip
ped arrangement of its kind. The crusher
was entirely new and had been loaned to
contractors for furnishing ballast for the
company's track but never been used.
lncendiarism is supposed, as bad feeling
has been for some time brewing between
the natives and the company owing TO the
accession by the latter to numerous coal
claims and other franchises.
Oklahoma City Journal: The TOWNSHIP
trustees put in busy day yesterday. Two
of them were busy all day in the land Of
flee making final proof on the 100 acres
which is uncontested and getting it ready
for deciding, They paid the necessary
amount, $500, which is 81. p per acre, and
took the register and receivers receipt
therefor, and in day or two will be ready
TO publish their fifteen days notice to
claimants to come in and secure their
deeds to lots on this 100 acres. Probably
by October l they will be ready to deliver
deeds. The other member of the board
was busy with Chas. Chamberlin making
maps of the city-four of which will be
drawn. In making these maps they fol-
low almost verbatim the TOWNSHIP as it is
at present laid out, the change being very
imnlaterial and cutting nobody out of his
lot. The trustees are diligent workers,
put in many hours in days work and are
losing no time monkeying.
The Saltwater Gazette says Joe w. Mer-
ritield, editor and publisher of the Stand
ard at that place, on the morning Of April
10 came into the Gazette office and said he |
was required to be at Guthrie that day as |
turn to Saltwater the next evening With |
these few words he left, and has never |
been in Saltwater since. From Guthrie |
rumors came that Mr. Merrifield's presence |
there was required as defendant in a suit, |
in which he was charged with stealing a \
pistol; that he was released upon his own |
to obtain bond of $500, and |
that after being released he laid around |
Guthrie for two days, then disappeared |
and has never been seen there since |
What foundation those rumors were based |
upon, we have never taken the trouble TO |
learn; but one thing is certain, and that is, !
Joe w. Merrifeld disappeared very mis- |
without making any disposition |
Of his newspaper and other property here, |
and without an intimation even to his |
most intimate friends that he did not in |
tend to return. The Standard, of course, |
and the material is now being |
used by y. Davis in the publication of the |
Farmer. All of Mr.. Merrifeld's property |
S now under attachment for debt and will |
De sold to Salty the same unless he ap-
pears soon Mr.. Mortified was a bright |
7oung man, but was a victim of bacchus
some think he may have committed |
suicide; others that he was probably
by tOughs at Guthrie, and still
others think that he skipped out on &C
count of some crime of which the people
here have no knowledge A brother of
Toe was here a few weeks ago and said he
lad had no tldings Of Joe since he left |
saltwater.