The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-13

A Shawneetown pnetess has written a
rhyme called Wait 1t is presumed thar
| great weight is Off her mind.
A good many OF the covered wagons you
see headed for Oklahoma contain the rela-
tives of the people already there.
A drunken Indian was caught near FL
Reno the other day. who claimed that he
had only swallowed three bottles OF lemon
extract.
Guthrie and Oklahoma City will try
their metal in another way today-base
ball-and a new wound OF enmity be
opened.
Some of these days somebody will dis
cover that there is a large amount OF yeast
in the composition of the water IN the Ca
madam river.
The signal Office at Oklahoma City
makes cotton reports to the government
The report from Oklahoma is better than
from any other part of the cotton country.
The Bermuda grass which the Oklahoma
City Canal company planted on the banks
or the canal is making strong growth.
Three weeks ago single line was planted
along the waters edge and now there Is a
strip foot wide. People who have seen
the grass grow In other countries say II Will
cover the banks over by fall.
Arkansas City Traveller: If you want to
walton make visit TO the Chillocco Indian
schools. There are now go acres OF as fine
wheat as can be found anywhere. just tax
ing the golden hue. Besides this there are
100 acres in oats. forty in rye, 100 in corn,
twenty in potatoes and about twenty acres
in garden vegetables and melons. Every
thing is bright, cheerful and prosperous
with Chiilocco this year.
A communication has been received from
Sacretarv Noble and ('0r1 iSSinDep ar or
in which it is stated that parties leasing
school lands cannot, for any purpose, cut
any quantity of timber off the school sec
tons. This is conclusive and ought to put
stop to the many inquiries received at
the governors office regarding this matter
by leasers. Under no condition Will they
be permitted TO cut the timber on these
lands and the act of March .. 1889, (25
states, 1000 Is quoted as authority.
Oklahoma City Journal: Yesterday the
few people who got into the city from
south OF the river, came over the river on
the railroad bridge. They drove their
teams up to the river on the south side
and there hitched them and walked mile
and a half into the city. A good many are
going to Norman because they find it Inn
possible to cross the river One man just
oyer the river needed a binder, but it was
impossible to take it across the river so he
was obliged to 90 all the way to Norman
to buy it.
Beaver Advocate: Many times during
the past three years has this paper called
attention to the dangerous condition of
the wells in this city. About three years
ago the citizens at u mass meeting decided
that man to hold lot must improve it
to the extent of SIS 1t was agreed that
good well of water should be considered
worth SIS, and scores of holes were at once
begun. Many were completed and now
form good wells. But scattered here and
there over the city are probably fifty
holes from six to thirty feet deep, some
with several feet of water in the bottom
and entirely unguarded and unprotected
by cover or railing. No human life has
yet been lost, and no bones broken,
although several minor mishaps have
occurred, but a number of head OF stock
have been lost by falling into these pits.
They are of no earthly account where
water has not been reached, and the public
welfare demands that something be done.
A good plan would be to cover and fence
these holes containing water and to fill up
the shallower ones. In their present shape
they are constant menace to life, limb
and property, and some day we will be
called upon to chronicle a sad accident if
the matter is not attended to.