The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-14
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Cheyenne country or the Cherokee
| outlet-which first?
Sid Clarke is a real Oklahoman now.
He has moved his family there.
The first municipal endeavor of Tecum-
sch was TO put in public well.
The county seats in the Cheyenne and
Arapaioe country are being located.
The freight business done at Oklahoma
| City last month amounted to $4,000.
This is Indian summer. But the Okla
| homa Indian is too busy on his new ailot-
meut to notice it.
The Oklahoma Indian can't say "as sure
| as death ana taxes" He is eXempt-not
! from death, but taxes
One of the little things at Oklahoma
| City that visitors to the city are shown IS
fifteen-pound sweet potato.
There are about 900 men in Oklahoma
who know just how they would open a
country if they were president.
| A Guthrie man is out with the an
nouncement that the report that he was
was killed at Chandler is a frank fake.
1t is said that the railroad from Okla
hOma City cannot, on account OF the
ridges, get within four miles Of Tecumseh.
Nannetta Daisy is getting well. One
consolation from the accident is that she
| is great deal better known than she ever
was before.
When the Indian comes to voting he is
liable to sell that, too, just like he does his
agricultural products. He will think it IS
all The same thing.
The G. a. r. of Oklahoma and Indian
territory are holding their annual reunion
at Norman. 1t commenced yesterday and
will last three days
That good deal OF common horse sense
characterized the settlers of the new coun-
try is proven by the fact that nobody has
attempted to start daily paper there yet.
/ R. c. Bryant. an amateur detective from
Cedar Rapids. Ia, has been sent to Jail at
Fort Smith for arresting a man in the
Cherokee nation against whom he had no
evidence.
The Dalton boys have been captured this
time, sure. There is no doubt about il.
But if anybody wants to bet that they are
not captured, don't do it. 1t isn't good
taste to bet
Paul's Valley has the champion boy
cotton picker. Master Manassas Brady is
his name. He is only 10 years old, weighs
As pounds and is cripple, yet he picks 200
pounds between suns every day, and does
it without trouble, too.
The prairie grass should be saved from
coating of the dry grass protects the roots
of the grass from the cold, drying winds of
winter, and late burning kills the weeds,
which start earlier than the wild grass.
Thus late burning of prairie grass serves a
double purpose.
Oklahoma Times-Journal; Rev. Miller
comes into the Tweed show" with the fol-
lowing He has in his yard sunhower
fifteen feet high, CARRYING 300 flowers and
Ell a mi pGti
that if all these flowers were made into
one, a sunfOwer eight feet in diameter
would be the result.
Guthrie Capital: Governor Steele has
recommended George T. Brown, Isaac +.
Kelly and James w. Manley of Canadian
county, and A. V. Mcdowell and James c.
Wilkinson of Kingisher for appointment
as aIlotting agents In the Cheyenne and
ArapahOe reservation. The department |
will undoubtedly accept the governors
recommendation, and the president will
appoint these men at once.
One of the amusing incidents connected |
with the opening of the townsite of Chan |
der was the picture of a man hanging |
from the limb of a tree by certain part of |
his trousers and shouting and gesticulaJ- |
ing wildly for help. A man who has just /
returned tells it rs follows: when the |
signal was given to run for lots d Judge |
well known 20 the base ball admirers of /
Guthrie was seen TO leap from tree in the /
townste (Which he had managed to get up /
without being detected), but about ten 4
feet from the ground the surplus part of |
his pants were caught by limb of the /
tree. from which be hung while the crowd /
rushed by, several OF whom greeted him |
with hello. sooner The lot on which the |
tree stood was staked by several persons,
and the Judge looked on After being re-
leased the attorney Of course said IL was
man that resem bled himself"