The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-16
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Does Marshal Grimes wear coat all
| bUttoned down before?"
After all. this summer has been harder
on the catfish than anything else.
An Oklahoma Citysyoung lady caught
an eight-pound catfish the other day.
The roosters in Oklahoma are growing,
and they are none of them spring chickens.
The Kingfsher county officers have
moved into the new court house at King
fisher.
The Beaver Tribune is original if any
thing. 1t remarks that grass Is high IN
this country"
The Oklahoma City Times published the
ty, last Wednesday.
Some of the boys who own guns have
been loading shells now for over two
weeks for the first big hunt.
John H. Catteral, of Guthrie is spoken
of as the successor of Hon. John l. Ollie as
register of the land office at Guthrie.
Frank Gillette, a state senator in the
Kansas legislature, will soon move to Ok
lahoma and reside there permanently.
The Oklahoma City Journal is authority
for the statement that NJ. w. Reynolds
left his family in comfortable circumstan-
ceS.
Senator Plumb is a great friend to the
Oklahoma people, yet the are men who say
mean things about him every day in the
new land.
The town site commissioners are ex-
pected to arrive in Oklahoma City on
the Goth of this month to organize and get
ready for business.
The way turnips are going in this fall
must kind of dumb-found the alarmist
rITf h 10
Oklahoma this winter.
The Kingfisher Journal asks: did you
guess right on OklahOma'S politics." This
is cute way the Journal has of showing
that the majority of its readers are Re
publicans.
This has been one of the hottest summers
on record in the west. \ cold winter a
most invariably follows a hot summer. 1t
is the smart man who is storing few eX-
ira suits of underclothes away.
Secretary Noble has sent a message to
congress asking for the immediate passage
of a bill giving the Oklahoma TOWNSHIP
trustees power TO subpoena witnesses and
hold them for contempt If necessary.
The Beaver Tribune asks where was
the Republican party when the light went
out" From reports we have about con
cluded that withe the aid OF the Peoples
party it was sitting very theoretically on
the Democratic party of Oklahoma.
The Baptists of Oklahoma will hold a
territorial convention at Norman, Ok, /
August %, 80 and 81, 1890. Every church /
in the territory is requested to send at /
least three delegates. Free entertainment /
to all. First service at 10 o'clock Friday (
morning, August %.
About eighty Cheyenne and Arrapahoe /
Indians camped in this town yesterday /
and in the afternoon gave grand dance,
says the Hennesey Clipper. They were re
turning from Ponca to their homes near /
Darlington. The party was in charge OF |
Chief Cloud and promised to return in I
about three weeks and give us grand
war dance.
There seems to be a good deal of feeling
on account of that appropriation OF aid
An Oklahoma City man writes the EAGLE:
The people of this territory do not need
aid from the federal government. The
only aid they need is in the cheaping of
for settling the 10000 land con
tests pending in the country, and almoss
the same number in the cities"
Oklahoma City Journal The lovable
and genial nature of Milt Reynolds was
conspicuOusly illustrated in his newspaper
work. He was cOnstitutiOnally opposed
to the argument of abuse. He abhOTred a
personal newspaper fight He would
submit to columns of abuse and say never
a word in answer, though his defense was
perfect. He himself seemed constantly TO
strive to say of all the best he could. He
was generous and enthusiastic in friend
ship and more than just to his enemies.
His fine observance of the courtesies and
amenities of journalism might well be i'm
itated by the profession.
New York Press: The fight made by
James b. Weaver. of Iowa, when a mem
Der OF the last congress, in behalf of the
Oklahoma boomers seem not 10 have been
appreciated by those he served. Day and
night for nearly a week he held the fort as
a tilibuSterer in behalf Of the boomers.
Upon his retirement from congress he
went into the territory a a new field of
political honOrs but SO far has not been
1t Is understood that he viii
20 back TO Iowa, and viii endeavor to
come back to congress from his old dis
.rict now REPRESENTED by Mr. Lacey.