The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

According to local paper Oklahoma
City's population exceeds >, 100.
| As the law does not prohibit beer, the
/ Fourth in Oklahoma Will not be dry one.
1t is thought that the Oklahoma City
| town site contest will be settled IN a few
days.
| Hennessey is to have a roast OK on the
| Fourth. Now what Will Kingfsher say
| to this?
Guthrie is larger than Oklahoma City,
but she doesn't like to quote figures when
| she claims it,
! Payne will have Fourth of July cele-
bration in charge of the Farmers Alliance
OF that vicinity.
| How many Democrats, do You think.
will be in that first legislature? and how
many Republicans?
1t is not probable that Marshal Lurty
had anything to do with making the Guth-
| RE News an official paper.
The Noble Democrat says it would be al
most impossible for corn, cotton and mil
| let TO look better than at present.
The women of Oklahoma have begun to
put up fruit. They care more for this
than all the politics in the world.
The territorial Advocate urges the Re
publicans to go in training, so they can do
the opposition party up in style, at the
next election.
The Oklahoma Journal thinks the ex-
pense of the salaries and expenditures of
the town site commissioners is an outrage
and a shame
The big canal at oklahoma City will be
filled with water Immediately. IL is
monument to the enterprise OF the people
of Oklahoma City.
The Seventh county is Directing to its
poor mail facilities, and it is not the only
locality that has a crow to pick with the
postoilice department.
1t would profit lots of men if they would
leave of politics for a while and join
county fair association. And it would do
Oklahoma more good, too.
An Oklahoma City woman is still pros
trate from the excitement at the burning
of the Fort Worth spring palace. where
she was in at the time of that disaster.
A dispatch from Shawneetown says that
Private Euker, of company X. 18th in
fantry, left last Monday for Oklahoma
City tor supplies and nothing has been seen
or heard OF him since. 4 detachment has
been sent III search of him.
William Gardner brought in a stalk of
cotton from his claim one mile south Of
Noble Wednesday which measured ten
inches in height and was loaded with
forms That style Of cotton at this
time of the season usually amounts to over
a bale TO the acre.
The ball cactus occasionally met with I'm
this section j. now in bloom, and we will
say we never saw richer, lovelier shades of
color in field, garden or greenhouse, says
the Beaver Advocate. One Of these hand
some flowers nesting 50 costly in she
buffalo grass Of our prairIes would be con
CIHlFgI "A valuable
eastern greenhouse
Guthrie Capital: The county commits
missioners Of the counties Of Oklahoma
are confronted with the problem OF how %
set up and run a business without dollar
and no hope for any for a year to come. 50
far the book houses have come in and bid
lively against each other and agreed to
carry the counties from twelve to eighteen
months. They did this because they have
full faith in the final paying capacity Of
these counties and because ali were anxious
to have the adyeFtl semeuts their imprint
on the first work Of Oklahoma counties
world give them. However. il the mat
ter OF county jails and other improve
ments the credit system may not work So
well The counties, therefore. are pracfi- /
caliy helpless ~ 20 public improvements /
for months TO come.
The Nebraska statute f. almost a. good /
n none. IL creates the board Of county |
commissioners but that part giving D. IL /
most important powers j. not made ap- /
piicable 70 Oklahoma. Oklahoma needs /
worse than all else laws by which roads /
can be opened BY petition 70 the county /
board. The road law does not apply II "a /
So no roads can be forcIbiy opened until /
the legislature provide q law Tie ~ /
sesSnent law is inapylcab,e, also, - no +
property assessment can b. taken anti 4
the legislature provides for D. The legis- 1
lature viii probably get through in time /
70 have the assessment taken next spring. /
say May, then the board must equalIze /
and make the levy. /: viii probably - 4
July year before the treasury vii have 4
any money in IT. The commissioners have I
decided that they have 10 authority % I
draw warrants until a tax levy j. made 4
and under the Nebraska code they can not /
contract bevoDd - per cent of The levy
Bills viii he fled and received in tbelr 4
order, but traffic IN county warrants l. = 4
year OF AZ Least