The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-24
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
exirn+on now has a daily mail.

Lexington now has a daily mail.
Mulhall is indulging in the prospect of
broom factory.
The Indian commission was to get bacl
to business this week
There are only three men in the hous
who don't eat onions.
A test case of the Nebraska herd law j
soon to be held at Beaver City.
The Advocate has given Beavers gen
der away. 1t says, shes 10"
Will anybody in Oklahoma wear home
spun cotton garments this winter?
The Union City Advocate. they say, ha
measured the material for its coffin.
1t is wise town that starts its owl
school without waiting for the legislature
People who know both men think tha
Dennis Flynn and Judge Seay ought Il
swap voices.
Some of the legislators are just begin
ming to come to the point where their con
stituencies commence to grOwl.
Through some hook or crook it has got
ten out over the country that Oklahoma
City had been made the capital Of Okla
homa.
Councillor Nisbett has shaved his whis
kers off. Nisbett never was much inclined
to allow wind to monkey around his
| whiskers.
A correspondent from Cimarron City
| asks what are the churches of other places
| doing to relieve the suffering of their breth
rem in Oklahoma."
FL Reno is the only county ssat in the
| territory that is not represented in tbs
/ council or assembly, but then IL stands 3
| chance for the capital.
Judge Seay states that under the law nc
game can be shipped out of Oklahoma ter
| riCory. If you want to eat venison you
will have to go TO Oklahoma.
! 1t is an old story that if you will varnish
a watermelon it will keep till Christmas
The trouble with the people who need the
watermelon is that they haven't any
money co get the varnish.
Speaker Daniels went down to Okla
hOma City Saturday night and spent
Sunday with "Grist Mill'' Jones. A real
proficient fortune-teller might be able 70
make something out of this.
Farmers are beginning to talk of their
second crop of potatoes. One man on
| Lightning creek, in Oklahoma county,
has new potatoes large enough for cook
ing purposes which were grown from this
years crop.
Mr.. J. l.. Trout, of Kingfsher, was bit
~
retired for the night when he felt some
| thing sting him on the left side. On in
vestigation good sized centipede was dis
covered curled up in the sheets Medical
aid was summoned at once and what
might have proved fatal resulted in a
slight sickness.
Frisco had gala day last Friday Old
Soldiers and their families commenced
arriving in town early in the morning,
and kept coming all day. In the after
noon n circle of the Ladies e.. A. r., with
twenty-nine members, was organized;
making it the largest circle in the terri
tory. In the evening grand banquet was
held, at which over 200 people were pres
ent
The cotton crop will be more carefully
looked after next year The man from
the north says couple of bales of cotton
comes in very handy in furnishing pin
money for the family, says The Journal
This year it is the saving of this country
Fields that month ago gave indications
OF producing about quarter of a bale
now give promise of a yield more than
double that.
a. J. Blakely, who resides near this city.
says The Arkansas City Traveller, has Just
finished a contract with the Santa Fe
Railroad company to cut two swaths with a
moving sythe on each side of the track
from Arkansas City to Purcell. 1t took him
about three weeks to complete the Job.
This reminds G. NJ Scott that in 1870 the
Arkansas City council employed o. p
johnson to pillow a furrOw from this city
to Fort Reno, a distance of 135 miles.
That furrow marked the Fort Reno
trail'' and has been ever since the main
road between these two great trading
points.