The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-11
OKLAHOMA oUTLiN rs.

"Waleedi' is the Oklahoma for poker
The prairie fire has begun its career
again.
Logan is still the banner Republican
county.
The Chickasaw gold fields have col
| lapsed.
Ormthologists say that the Kingfisher
has very fine bill.
Next New Years day will not see the
| legislature in session.
The Oklahoma City Times has moved
! into its new building.
The church row at Norman resumes its
| course, next Monday.
Norman Advance: Rumor has it that
Texas has gone Democratic.
Two hundred bales of cotton came into
Purcell on one day, last week.
A good many of Harvey's 1000 majority
have been members of an $1,000.
Prairie View precinct in Beaver county,
pOlled "a votes. and they were all for Har-
vey.
The most reticent member of the legis-
lature next to Grimmer is Dunkard Har-
raider.
There are lots of people in Oklahoma
proving that they can eat ninety quails in
thirty days.
Minco Minstrel: With the exception of
Sundays the weather continues TO be roy
ally pleasant
One hundred and thirty-one applications
for deeds TO town lots were filed in Still
water the first day.
Oklahoma Brown is Republican but he
is not high protectionist or an anti-Okla-
homa City Republican.
In the next campaign in Oklahoma, the
man whose family lives away in another
state will not be candidate
The Minco Minstrel says the Wichita
and CaddO reservation Is not so large as
the others, but iC is the best body OF land.
The Hennessey Clipper publishes an Ok |
lahoma Republican rooster and Kansas |
Republican rooster. They don't look any |
thing alike.
Minco is the terminus of the Rock Island |
road in the territory. That state of case /
never gets over.
man elect from the Third Kansas district, |
are old neighbors. Gardenhire ought to
propitiate him Immediately.
If every Republican didn't rejoice as /
much over Harvey's election as Ed. Ingle |
did, it was because they are not sur /
rounded by Democratic plurality, as he is. /
Charlie Scott of the lola Register, is Wis (
iting in Oklahoma City. As Farmer Funs- /
ton. his candidate, was the only Republi- |
can reelected to congress, he is not in Ok /
lahoma because he is tired"
Oklahoma City Times:-A novel way of |
witness creditably devel.
oped at the land office yesterday, estab-
fishing precedent which commends it
self to the serious consideration by other
official bodies A contest case for the
northeast quarter, sectien 81, township
u, north, range west, which corners on
the military reservation. and TO which
Chas. +. AShinger is claimant, has Oc-
cupied the attention of the band office for
the past ten DAYS. In support of his claim
Mr.. Ashinger testifies that he arrived in
Oklahoma from Purcell, upon the train
at 2: o in the afternoon of April -, 1889,
and about 3 minutes thereafter he was
upon the contested tract, which is about
q of mile from the depot. Attorney
who is attending to the
interests of Miss Katie Woodruff, au-
other claimant. ridicuIed Mr. Ashlnger's
until the latter proposed to
demonstrate by a practical test, the truth
fulness of his assertions, and as an extra
incentive. wager of $40 side was made
between the incredulOus attorney and the
plucky and determined witness, and about
o'clock last evening attorneys, witnesses,
and court officials, together
with about hundred curious spectators,
repaired to the depot, where the start was
made. The sequel proves that Mr.. Ash
niger is au experienced pedestrian Run
ming like a deer he accomplished the feat
in three minutes and twenty seconds. Mr..
Ashinger besides being a Splinter and
bicyclist of almost worldwide fame, is a
gentleman Of the highest social standing
and business ability. His many friends
will be glad to hear of his success in this
instance