The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

There is only one white man iu Langston
City.
The wheat fields in Oklahoma are still
crying for mower.
The county normals all over Oklahoma
begin next month.
The first brick building in Yukon was
completed last week.
Maybe the Dalton boys are hiding in an
Oklahoma corn field.
Out in Beaver county they call gossiping
swapping little chin"
Captain Caha's mules is the only
classic" in Oklahoma's literature.
The Yukon Courier thinks the
boundaries of Canadian county will be
changed soon.
Now for the fish stories. The big fish
have been given chance to get In Okla
homa by the high waters.
If Governor Steele is tired of guberna-
torial honors in Oklahoma, there is only
one man who knows it.
An Indian has been arrested at Ell Reno
for forgery. The joke seems to be on the
man whose handwriting he thought he
could initiate
A Norman man got 500 and three
months in Jail for beating MS wife The
Texas spirit of the locality crops out in
this punishment and it is commendable.
A Portland, Oregon, girl advertised in
the Oklahoma City Journal for a husband
and the postal receipts at the Oklahoma
City postoffice, OF course, are enjoying a
boom. There are tricks in all trhdes.
The editor of the Yukon Courier recently
turned ditch into a squirrel hole in his
front yard 1t rained for a week and
hur in h1t
the hole never filled up. He is expecting a
kick from China every day.
Guthrie News: The Terrill brothers re-
ceived a letter from their homes yesterday
informing them of the destruction of their
crops by high water Dave TerrilPS
family had to be rescued by boat aud
taken from their home to a neighbors on
high lands.
1t is fact that people who go into any
of the lands soon to be opened up are
treading on dangerous grounds. The gov
eminent has its special agents briskly at
work with pencil and camera and man
who goes through those counties without
leaving an imprint that will last is a
jewel.
Guthrie News: Ker-wan Murray, the
Interpreter for the Iowa tribe was in this
city yesterday. He says that the allotting
agents are nearly through. Mr. Murray
says that the Indians have taken their
lands all over the reservation. He reports
that he has sixty acres of fine corn which
he expects to sell to the white settlers.
Beaver Advocate: The artesian well
boys have pulled up stakes and departed,
without having reached the contract depth
of 200 feet. This is tough. In the matter
of we'll drilling we are perfectly ignorant,
but we think 1t surely poor outfit that
can't penetrate 200 feet successfully, Mr..
DeCow probably did the best he could,
and we know be lost money on the Job.
We are we'll satisfied that artesan water
can be reached here at 200 to 800 feet, If the
proper machinery can be procured to do
the work
Yukon Courier: The ground about and
under Yukon appears to be underlaid with
underground passages that have been
made by squirrels and other animals.
Last week during the big rains we thought
to drown out some squirrels that occupied
a hole in our front yard and with that idea
in view we made drain and turned the
water that fell upon piece of ground into
that hole. The result was that large
stream of water flowed into the hole on
and off for several days and nights.
Probably a hundred barrels of water
flowed into it and yet the hole was not
filled. The squirrels came out after the
rain as clipper as ever. Where did the
water go2
Oklahoma City Journal: Judge Harvey
went to Wichita yesterday to meet some
of the prominent men of Beaver county
and consult with them on matters Of im-
portance to that county - matters Oh
which congressional action is necessary.
The judge is unwearied in his efforts to
advance the interests Of all parts of the
territory, and is making an enviable rec
ord as a congressman who is ever watchful
of every measure which relates to the
good of his constituents. He is taking
special interest in the speedy opening of
the new lands and hardly day passes
that communications do not pass between
him and the department relating thereto.
it being urged by Mr.. Harvey that the
allottiBg agents be given orders 10 finish
their labors IN the least possible time and
be given every facility for doing so. He
also wishes the rules modified as they ap-
ply to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reser
walton, so that each quarter section can be
allotted 20 an Indian is soon as Il Is sur
veyed, thus doing away with that part Of
the rule which provides that every corner
be marked with a square stone If the
present rule is enforced stones will have
10 be hauled fifty miles or more and the
work of the agents thereby greatly re-
tarded. The judge has strong hopes that
all his recommendation viii be adopted
and no more time expended by the agents
than IS absolutely necessary
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