The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-05

Frisco has the largest number of dogs o
any town in the territory.
Guy Gillette, the postmaster at Hennes
sey, was married last week.
Marshall Grimes appointed j. c. Robb
of kingfsher, his chief clerk.
Ar1more expects TO market $1,000 bale
and Purcell 10000 bales of cotton this year
| A Methodist church is to be built a
Dead Mans Crossing, near Council Grove
Frisco is building a big hotel Is it pos
sible that Frisco Is making a still hunt 70
the capital;
The average settler in Oklahoma hSi
about as much feeling for eattleman a:
for a sooner.
Hennessey now has but four saloons, ant
| where is there a better Irish name thar
| Hennessey?
There is not bald head in the legisla
ture. Let US give the women all the
credit due them
The editor of the Payne Hawk wonder:
where the editor of the Guthrie News cams
from. Heavens!
If Guthrie is real smart. it will kick fol
| a new census enumeration before the legis
lature adjourns.
Nothing will make the Kickapoos and
| SeminOles hug each other SO tight as a
| fight on Guthrie
The wild turkeys are allowing them.
selves to be killed TO stop the cry for aid.
| This Is patriotic.
Nobody has enjoyed the first session OF
| the legislature more than the people who
| have cigars for sale.
There is a Smith, Jones and two
Browns in the legislature. Who said Ok
lahOma wasn't civilized?
The Santa Fe receipts for tickets between
Guthrie and Oklahoma City the past week
must be something immense
The three district judges are now in
Guthrie formulating a set of rules for the
guidance of the district and supreme
courts.
The late rains have brought the grass
out in good shape and stock will not need
feed other than they can get on the prai-
ries until the first of December
The first Oklahoma cotton of the season
was brought in last week, says the Nor
man Transcript, but was only a small
amount and was sold to NJ. Mckinley.
Little or nothing has been said about
gins so far this session. 1t is supposed.
though, that the members attend to the
gin when they adjourn TO talk 1T over.
Pittman, of Oklahoma City, should be
ulStuc Oh one Oh HOI WlIluS- ~
man with the whiskers he possesses ought
to be able to pacify the toughest wind
that ever whistled.
The Hennessey Clipper man comes
bravely to the front with the information
that Oklahoma will have enough cucum-
Der pickles TO supply twice the number of
people here this season.
Moses Neal, of Oklahoma City, made a
kick for cloak room in the legislature
Wednesday. Neal is the only Freedman
in the house with an Irish accent hence
his appeal for Dame Fashion.
Norman Transcript: Surveyors were at
work Wednesday and Thursday establish
ing corners and getting this city in shape
TO plat. As soon as the work is completed
the commissioners are authorized so give
thirty days notice of the completion of
the survey and plat, after which time the
deciding will commence.
Mrs. Governor Steele and her daughter
have announced that they are at home on
Wednesdays between 3 and 6. This
will be little steep to most of the women
in Guthrie. who have fallen into habit of
just slipping into their neighbours back
door with their aprons on and a shawl
around their head TO have a little conflab
while the baby is sleeping.
Guthrie News: Sin Lee is now a citi-
zen of the United States as his papers
have been issued by Judge Green. At his
examination Judge Green asked him what
was his religion and he replied "Ameri-
can" This sort of puzzled the Judge but
he stated that there seemed to be no doubt
of Sin Lees earnestness and he received
final papers. He is IS years old and has
lived fifteen years in this country.
FL Reno Eagle: One of the most remark
able land cases on record is that of "a set
tier who located on quarter section of
land in Arkansas, and, after making his
filing and living on the homestead for a
period of five years he made application 10
make final proof, but found, after an in
had been made by the land
office, that he had been living on land be-
longing to railroad company and could
not secure a patent for the same The local
land Office having made the error of allow
ing the homesteader to file on the land the
secretary of the interior issued to the set
tier a special permit allowing him to select
any vacant quarter section of government
land in the United States, on
which he was allowed to make ap-
plicatiOn to make final proof Immediately
after rIaking settlement upon the same
and the settler selected quarter section a !
few miles east of this city, then in the
Guthrie land district and secured a patent
Tor the land about six weeks after the |
opening of Oklahoma This man, had he |
been a town site boomer might have laid |
)ut town site of his own, in a favorable !
ocatiOn, and given perfect title 10 town 1
OTIS within two months after the opening /
lay, and thus made himself independently I
'ich. Such another golden opportunity il /
lot liable to be given any one again, but !
f it is, it certainly will be worked for all it /
5 worth.