The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-13
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma City had two elections in one
week.
Another improvement Oklahoma City
wants is a calaboose.
\ mineral well has been discovered on a
farm near Oklahoma City.
A Mullhall man has corn field that
will average 81 bushels to the acre.
The capital question will now come bob
bling along. Ii viii create great deal of
bitterness.
The Norman TOWNSHIP contest has been
decided Ia favor OF the city and against
Blakeney.
The legislature will convene next Tues
day. Everything works like machinery in
Oklahoma
Norman is an intensely Democratic
county. il took Cleveland for its name
instead of Lincoln.
Hope springs" etc-the farmers Of
Oklahoma are getting ready 10 put in a
biz crop of corn next spring
\ public well is being sunk ~ Union
City with encouraging prusr' cts for AN
abundant supply Of excellent water
Milton Reynolds has. a. the press Of
Kansas and Oklahoma. had some OF the
most sincere and beautiful tributes paid 10
him.
The colored gentlemen Of the black
jacks at liberty, had just as well practice
up on cotton picking. Their services may
soon be in demand.
Oklahoma City had municipal election
last Saturday. MesSrs. Gault. Miller, Up
shaw and Burnes were elected 10 the offices
OF mayor, clerk, treasurer and city engi-
neer. respectively.
The territorial G.. A. r. encampment at
Guthrie yesterday elected the following
officers: C. NJ. Barnes. commander, C. A.
Cotton. senior vice; o. II Hill junior vice.
and Vim. Burton, delegate 20 the national
encampment.
The scramble for Legislative positions IL
now on and from the number of candidates
there will be fifty applicants for every
place Some Of the offices IN the legislss-.
ture command larger per diem than the
legislators themselves receive, sayS the
News. As yet there are no prominent can
didates for the leading positions.
In the Union City district IN Oklahoma
good rains fell week ago and the farmers
viii harvest from ~ To 40 bushels Of corn
per acre, that j. on land that had been cul-
tivated before. The cotton prospect f. very
promising Two thousand acres Of ground
was put 10 this crop in the vicinity %
| MON City and n is confidently expected
that the yield will be coo bales.
II is not generally known that the orig
inal No Mans Land lies along the bouu.
Diary line between Delaware aud Maryland
and has been attached 20 Pennsylvania for
judicial purposes. u j. a triangular strip.
for which there was no provision made in
the surveys Of Mason and Dixon. Penn
sylvania didn't want the strip but IL was
crowded upon her.
The following appeared At the head of
the editorial column u the last Issue q
the Edmond sun. Milt REYNOLDS paper.
We ask this week the f0rbearauce % our
subscribers and patrons. The editor has
been ia the newspaper business for thirty
i've years and this h. the 4 ~ issue Of any
paper but what il he could not write
editorials hs could dictate matter. Mr..
Reynolds has been very ID but is imprGy-
ing very slowly The assistant editor.
from tireless watching has bsen iEcapaci-
tated for preparing copy
Secretary Noble mas advised the boards
Il trustees - follows. You Will enter
tain no contests unless the contestant aD-
pears IN person, or by attorney duly ap-
pointed under power 81 attorney Ia
ordinary form. signed and sworn % befnra
notary public. clerk ~ the court. nitsd
state commissioner or her officer HAVING
the POKER 70 administer oatbs, with his
seal % Office attached or cert hcafe II the
county clerk that be holds the Office be-
claims The object % this requirement is
% prevent contests being carried on la the
names u straw men" BY uapTi8ciDled A.
t0rneys who pretend 70 represent them.
or attention g. called 70 tbuss pro
visions Of the United States statutes that
make 10 a crime for anyone 70 present
power n attorney falsely executed. OF b.
which Il - attempted % commit any fraud
under tie United states Avs"
PATsE PKxcILL1Esa.
The canpas IN in this county uaa one Of
he most hotly contested o. al the terri
tory.
The name. "Etiil water Eas pisoe4 upon
both Democrats and Republican ticker
and the Peoples ficke. wa left blank
Notwithstanding tina Disadvantage, Payns
received "a the county, outside Of The efti~.
- majority The resuit bas ben a rzuid
ifansteF q rial sstats ~ greatly inersAsed
prlcsz. Business men, woo for month.
past. have been doing business "a r~nts1
houses, are t~gsanirg 20 bEiid a. once.
Mr.. Hess. q Gufhrfs, expects 70 fr,id
large and cournodioBs hotel On the slsrsth.
49, corner q the square and fseis tat a.
ofs sre worth 500 spsocs more than they
sers before The polls clOsed Lat TtsssdaT.
several other men have sscurud iefs arA
Tlll bald Il oEas. The city oourril has
made aFTGngEmEufs 20 have tsro uabiie
sells put dnEa On The SQUARE wlthln Ia
seTt tao week.
ETeEg0us fees happy and shinka thAa
'aFns - tie town 81 TIE heautifui pAa-
zAndls. u which it = iocasesi ln the e1Aet
- - afshlesI center. The. towuslte Goa
an. % acres AID the tide u p<rfectiS
lear. T. K