The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-24
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Perkins has three hundred and fifty
seven people.
The next editorial convention meets in
| Guthrie next May.
Somebody calls the Indian lands the
How, John" country.
Judge Seay says Beaver county is re-
markedly free from crime.
Purcell is going to put stop to people
using the graveyard as pasture.
Pretty near everybody in Saltwater had
| forgotten that they had fire-bell.
If there is one thing that FL Reno wants
| more than another. il is a land office.
Perkins had hauling bee the other
day. That is the way they build bridge.
The survey Of the unsuryeyed part of
Beaver county will begin the first of next
July.
An expert will come from Chicago to
select the best site for the waterworks at
Oklahoma City.
The Hennessey Clipper is of the opin-
ion that there is too much hero-worship-
ing IN Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City Journal: The man who
says it never rains in Oklahoma was
drowned Wednesday night.
Three herds of cattle have been driven
through Shawneetown. Each herd num-
bered twenty-six thousand head.
The citizens of Purcell say the China
men must 60 The Cinnamon say their
accusers have not paid their washbills.
The Wichita Indians claim to have occu-
pied the Washita country since and before
the first white man ever set foot on Amer
lean soil.
Gardenhire is still an Alliance man, but
he wants to get some fresh news from
headquarters. He says the Alliance is not
political organization.
The postmaster at Florence, Kan, re-
ports that mails addressed to Florence,
Ok, are almost daily missent to his Office.
All concerned will please give more care
full attention to the disposition OF mails
for Florence, Ok.
1t does not take the Indians long to get
on to the idioms Of the English language
One of the alloting agents in the Sac and
Fox country relates that one day while IL
was raining he remarked to an Indian,
''Heap rain" to which was answered,
Huh! Heap much or heap none"
An additional appropriation OF s., 500 has
been secured for the purpose of sinking
the big well at Fort Reno still deeper, in
hope that artesian water may be found.
The well is now about 400 feet deep and
has cost nearly $4,000 The iron casing
sent for is expected to arrive soon, when
operations will be resumed.
The Cherokees and Seminoles moved to
their present homes about the same time
The Seminales had made as great progress
in civilization as the Cherokees at that
period. For thirty-five years the Chero-
KEGS have had white neighbors on the east
and north of them, while the Seminoles
have been living all this time cut off from
all communication with white people. The
Cherokees are highly civilized and have
adopted civilized habits and methods al
together, but the Seminoles are semi-bar-
barous, and many of them still wear
blankets.
Oklahoma City Journal: May is the
hail month in this latitude. After June
hail storms are very uncommon this far
south. Old settlers who have been farm
ing in the Chickasaw country for years say
they can not remember a hail storm of any
great force later than June l. They say,
also, that Oklahoma and the Indian terri
tory are not in what may be called the
hail belt, and that while northern Texas
and southern Kansas hos in the past years
suffered severely from storms of this char
acter, this country has been comparatively
free from them.
Yukon Courier: At the crossing Of the
Canadian river between here and Okla
T.
in the center of the road, is grave
Teams turn out on either side and leave
the mound undisturbed. The grave is a
memento of the memorable 22d of April,
1889. The man was supposed to have been
murdered by parties who We're encamped
upon the east side of the river and his
body carried TO the west side and left
among the tall weeds. Someone, proba-
bly, the one or ones who dug the grave
and buried the body, put a board at the
west end OF the grave which reads as
follows: Hear lays man that was slain
hear Ap % 1889.
Territorial Advocates: A terrific rain
and hail storm visited this section last
Saturday afternoon. the rain continuing
al intervals during the night, The ground
has received a thorough soaking, and
grass and crops have been greatly bene-
fitted. The hail seemed TO fall in narrow
strip, coming across the hills from the
northeast. The full force OF the bail
storm did not reach the city, although the
ground was covered with hail an inch In
diameter. But for an hour after every
vestige of hail had disappeared from our
streets, the hills 20 the northeast as far as
the eye could reach were perfectly wAits
with ice IN path probably q half-niIe IN
width. The appearance was OF quite
heavy fall Of snow. From the length OF
time the hills were thus whiteaed, IL Is
estimated that the hailstones must hare
been as large "a hens eggs, al least Stock
in the path OF the heavy hail was driven
believing ard on the run fer pleasa1ter
pastures. Any crops IN the track Of Lhs
nail storm must have suffered severely.