The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-03
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Letter for the neutral strip are now adj
dressed oklahoma.
An authority says that Iowa lands con-
tain ], 400 good farms
Attorney General Horace Speed delivered
the memorial address at Norman.
There are forty-eight town sites in Okla
hOma and twenty in No Mans Land.
EVERYTHING in Oklahoma is looking up
The prosperous times have come this time,
sure.
Alfred has a candidate out for the coun-
ty treasurership. His name is Elmer
Baker.
1t now looks as though the Guthrie pa
pers would get to fighting about the name
Of the county.
Saltwater has five resident ministers of
the gospel. The town is not going to neg
lect its religion.
The Oklahoma Teachers association will
meet at Edmond on the 9th of July and
continue for three or four days.
The programs for fourth of July are at
present occupying the attention of the
people who are not interested in territorial
affairs.
The Indian commission is busy studying
the idiosyncrasies of the noble red man.
One Of the government mules was stolen
last week and the train delayed.
The Guthrie News has been jumping on
to Marshall Lurty. Y short time ago the
News was fighting the Santa Fe railroad.
The News must have somebody to fight.
The Gazette says: A census of Saltwater,
to be any where near accurate, would have
to be corrected daily. At the present rate
of increase our population will double
every thirty days.
4 Guthrie paper says Mrs. So and so
rendered a grand march from Loheinguir. :"
1t Is plain from this that Guthrie never
turned out to be as musical as hiilt Rey-
nolds and his Herald intended.
A man planted peach orchard last
spring on his lots In the suburbs of King
fisher, when along came a thief who pulled
them out of the ground, cut off about
three feet and put them back in place of
the roots pulled out, and carried the trees
away.
No Mans Land is not surveyed into sec
tons yet, but the greater part of it has
been divided into townships. The surveyor
general has employees of his office now at
work preparing maps and getting ready
to have it surveyed. 1t viii be let in small
contracts, and the work will be completed
in four months.
On Saturday the 9th nit. at Beaver the
citizens of the seventh county of OklahO-
ma held meeting and selected the follow
ing set of men for recommendation to Gov
ernOr Steele to fill the various county Of
fees until an election is called: Judge,
James Breckenridge; sheriff, Frank
LaughTiu; clerk and register, T. p. Braid
wood; treasurer, Y. Metzger; attorney,
Merritt Magaun; coroner, II. D. Meese;
surveyor, J. \. Tabor: superintendent
public instructions, W. y. BOggs; com
missiOners, east END. II. {. Drum; central,
J. Z. Quinn; west end, G.. w. Hubbard.
These who have been disposed TO doubt
the Jonah and the whale story should
read this from the kingtisher Journal, a
paper not given to rOInaDcIDg: Last Fri
day, during the heavy rain, a little co!Ored
child, living on the Cimarron river with
its parents. happened 10 be caught out a
considerable distance from the house at
river bank. and before the parents could
rescue It from the raising food II was
washed down stream. As soon q the
water subsidized a search was made for il
and the river dragged for several miles
Nothing, however, could BE found Of the
infant, and the parents went home heart
broken. Tuesday Mr. Daniel Jackson
came 10 town with a huge FISH which he
had caught down the Cimarron few miles,
and tried 70 sell Il On the streets and had
made the sale unrl the fish came 70 be
weighed. when the man stated that some
thing was wrong or i would not weigh 50
heavy. Mr. jackson went into a butcher
shop and procured a large knife and came
back to the wagon On Man street and
opened the fish. and there, 20 hls utmost
astonishneur, was the identical little child
which he had helped to search fer. This
occurred Yesterday evening, and a. he i'm
medlately LEFT town for the home Of its
parents we are unable 70 state anything
regarding IFS funeral