The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-17
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Next year the Oklahoma fruit tree VIII
begin to get In its work.
Beaver has high school with a mem
bership of twenty-seven.
BLANK itr' yells the Oklahoma boomer,
81 need another blanket"
Oklahoma sorghum is fast rising to the
Importance of staple product.
Oklahoma should give the senate COM
mittee the best ovation in stock.
There is no sense in man starving In
Oklahoma if he can pick cotton.
Everybod tries to solve the Indian ques-
ton. 1t will have to solve itself.
Oklahoma is getting to be of enough inn
portance to get theatrical troups.
The Cherokee strip may open so soon
that it may open everybody's eyes.
You can depend on movement being
on foot when land is thrown open.
An Oklahoma City minister preached a
sermon on THE Lawyer in Hell" last
Sunday.
The man who doesn't like Governor
Steele's appointments for the new counties
is keeping mighty still about it.
Bee Guthrey is authority for the state
ment that bachelor boomer has a hard
time of it. Opening races are hard on
buttons.
One of the puzzles in the territory is
how it is that the Indians get so drunk
when nobody sells them whisky? May be
the Indians buy it.
The Leader says Lexington is improving
in business at rapid rate, as the mer-
chants there now sell $40 worth of goods
now where they sold 81 worth last spring.
Indians are not so easily gulled as people
think. They know a three-cent piece
from a dime and know as much as any
body about dickering. But you Can fool
an Indian on whisky every time.
The North Canadian river is narrow and
deep, with high banks and solid bottom.
1t can be crossed anywhere that the banks
will allow. There is no danger of miring.
and at almost any point can be found hign
banks suitable for bridging. The South
Canadian is entirely different, broad,
shallow stream with shifting, treacherous
sands. IL is always dangerous to ford, and
the long bridges and approaches are nee
eSs2ry.
Lexington Leader: The Lexington and
Purcell bridge is like the Arkansas trav-
elers house; in dry weather IL don't need
fixing, and IN wet weather II can't be fixed |
During the time the river is down every
one forRets the need OF bridge. and when |
a rise comes the whole of Purcell says as |
one voice. why on earth don't the Lex
IugtOn people bridge the rIvery'-and the |
people OF Lexington cry in unison, If tbs |
people of Purcell knew what was good for /
them they would bridge that river"
Correspondence IN Oklahoma Times /
Journal: Mr.. Joseph Ferguson while burn |
ng of their town, New Jerusalem. located 4
Do the Bob Ogle claim, section y, north /
Fast quarter. township II. range 3. on the 4
'th inst, nearly destroyed the whole city,
Jnly one shAnty left This city, which /
consisted chiefly Of blue stem grass and /
NO box houses and a little outhO1se, is
TO be owned by the Joseph b /
" est Syndicate Development company %
Omaha, Seb. IL SCENE that Mr.. Ferguson
u Mr.. Burrelf were trying TO burn the i
grass under the largest house, and the old
hell went up in fame, and all that Was
Iaved were two small doors. This sad dis
lster may prevent New Jerusalem from
The giant city OF the west.
Edmund sun: Samuel Moore, be who
treated such an excitement BY his abseocs
md Qujetness some time ago, nas returned
md departed again He came here a
stranger. made quite an investment 81
arcadia and commenced 70 do business a.
hat point He went 20 EufhTIe 70 bay
FOODS. but was not heard from. Days /
lassed into weeks, but s<ill ne was not
lezrd from During the pasS week he sud
lenly turned up. bat ike poor Zip Van
y inkls, be could give 70 accent Of him
elf or his doiugs. Ouly that be had writ
e. and wired % his wife from different /
s0ints ia Kansas. zrd j. was sacn a N.Y.
cry 10 him thai che bad received 10 word
lie vound % has Affairs here and Wa
bout 20 depxTs Tor yasts unkn0sS, when
se wa aVDTskeEdsd y jefferson Byrns, |
claimed fhat he iMoors) Gissd the de-
crIpgi0a CT 3 man who bad sTnbezzled the
uuds Of the Keystone hank q PniiadsI-
via ard bad iefs his bo1dsnsu 20 TIE
uae q 81 go TIE proof WAS nos ssf-
icsenf ard IOors was released De and
is wife departed Ter &c gns knows where
rhst he was guilty 81 souae crime there =
70 doubt N oar 1lEd. Tor Is ever action
aowsd IL