The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-18
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

There are 500 unclaimed lots in Tecum-
sch.
The Indals accent Tahlequah On the Sec
ond syllable.
The Agricultural college opened at Still
water Monday.
The Cherokee nation seems to get more
muddled every day.
Fort Reno is to be made the largest mill
tary post in the west.
Ed Ingle OF the Norman Transcript has
invested in a new power press.
A Norman grocery man has stick of
candy that weighs sixteen pounds.
One of the new things in Oklahoma, is a
big cotton platform at every station.
1t is almost sure death for a deputy
marshal to go into the Creek country.
People have already begun to jump the
military reservation at Oklahoma City.
The Santa Fe, it is said, will ballast its
track through the territory. 1t needs it.
1t begins to look as though the new year
would get here before the new governor.
Speaker Daniels who used to be slim and
attenuated, now weighs about 2l5 pounds.
The Oklahoma town that doesn't have
at least two weddings holiday week, isn't
Sin it.
A man in Beaver county had another
man arrested the other day for using cuss
words.
The most intense Prohi6itionists in Ok
lahoma are said TO be the people who came
from Kansas.
The government contemplates locating
military post in the strip along the Ar
kansas river.
Jake Admire was thrown from buggy
in a runaway at Kingfsher last Saturday
and badly hurt.
Sid Clark is the only public man in Ok
lahoma who gives the first so" in Okla
homa the short sound.
Work on the completion of the Choctaw
to Oklahoma has begun. 1t will take lis
carload of ties to do it.
There are good many men in Southern
Kansas looking for an opening. Particu-
larly an opening of the strip.
Beaver Advocate: A colored girkand a
are the total colored population of Beaver
county at present.
People who think that the statehood
convention was one of politicians probably
do not know there We're only two plug
hats in the whole crowd.
Horace Speed says an Oklahoma jury is
among the best in all the states and is u.s.
ually composed of men with American
blood alone in their veins.
Lob hos oh
pioning the statehood idea for long time
and the result of the recent convention is
very gratifying to McMasters.
Senator Plumb is of the opinion that
congress will make an appropriation to re-
imburse the deputy marshals who served
as police officers during the opening Of the
country in 1889.
The discharge of Isaac w. Rush, first
sergeant of William T. Clayton's company
first battery Minnesota state artillery"
awaits its owner at the Office of the Still
water Gazette. 1t was picked up in coun-
ty a
Governor Martin Friday granted
charter to the Farmers and Merchants
bank Of Saltwater, Oklahoma, capital
stock SIS 900, one-half paid up. The
directors are Alexander Campbell, A. W.
Swope. J. J. Shaffer, Z. J. Wikoff and g.
W. GardenhiTe.
Dennis Flynn. like all good fellows, has
his eceentricIties. One of these is that be
cannot sleep comfortably unless there are
three in p bed This is one OF the things
that makes Flynn so valuable at Okla
homa conventions.
White Eagle. the last chief Of the
Omaha's, Is buried at Sulphur Springs, on
a little plateau overlooking his tribes
namesake city The curious thing about
his grave. which is marked By only low
mound, IS that the noted Indian was in
TERED sitting upright on the back OF his
iavorige horse