The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-21
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The biggest hail in years fell in Okla
| homa, Sunday.
One of the politicians of Payne county
spells Bee Guthrey's paper "Halk."
Bee Guthrey rode thirty-flve miles horse
back to go to the editorial convention.
! Fish weighing as high as fifty punds are
| caught in the streams of the Sac and Fox
country.
| The Langston City man hoes around his
| melon vine twice as much as he does
around his corn.
If Secretary Noble comes to Oklahoma
| he will have to cross the Cherokee strip at
night, or see cattle.
Dennis Flynn says he is Saving wood .
| This is all right just rs long as he keeps
| off the timber reservations.
| Emporia Republican: The size of the
watermelon crop in the south will retard
| the scheme to make Oklahoma a black
state.
Hamlin Sawyer does more to wear out
! tic sidewalks in Oklahoma City than any
other man south of the Mason and Dixon
| line.
| The Oklahom.. City says the
editorial guests drank IN The landscape
This is not what they usually cali i in
| Oklahoma.
to get any mail They are so completely
out of the world that they have lost track
of the days of the week.
Oklahoma City Journal: Will T. Little,
editor of the first paper published in Okla
homa proper, presented copy OF the first
issue to the association yesterday 1t is
the Guthrie Getup, was printed on May 6,
1889, and when presented to the association
was framed IN Oklahoma oak
The hills and dales of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservation are literally covered
! in certain localities with wild plum bushes
which are already weighted down with
miniture piums that will ripen by June 10.
This luscious fruit promises TO afford the
Indians a source of considerable revenue
this season.
a new possoffice has been established
half way between Choctaw City and
Shawneetown known as King An appli-
cation IS in for mail line from Oklahoma
City and this new office. Another Office
has also been established ten mills south of
Choctaw City to be supplied from the lat
ter place. Ii is to be named Silver. II
the new line is established the present line
from Purcell will be discontinued. Anoth-
er new office has been established east Of
Shawneetown, which has been named
Missouri.
Judge Seay's law experience WAS almost
ing to Oklahoma They have kind Of
common sense practice in Missouri, which
is much less technical than the practice IL
many OF the states. The Judge is thor
oughly scbooled in the principles Of law,
and beyond that he relies much on COM
mon sense Not long ago one OF the attor-
neys practicing in his court asked him If
be intended to bring his library To the
territory. No" be said, books would
tend to confuse me."
Oklahoma has an estray law A man
can take up stray animal. aud after
rigmarole OF fling afhdavits III i ls not |
claimed within year, three disInterested 1
persons viii be appointed 20 MAKE al ap-
praisement and adjustment Any one
selling an estray or taking 1t OUT OF the
yerritory before the title has become vest j
ed shall pay TO the county double the !
estray and a ;ine besides Any. one IN /
lawfully taking up an estTay and using - /
or driving It on his premises for the puT- /
pose Of taxing II up, shall iorteit 10 the /
county.
The whole Pattowatornie country seems /
to be one solid strawberry patch " her
ever the fire has been KEPT out the wild 1
Shawneejowu IS a patch o. more than l6o I
acres of unbrokSa strawberTy vines I
Commissioner White said that two days .
ago two little girls started out from the /
Mission school walked a mile AID return
IN two hours each wl:h three galsou pau
flied with berries. Wild BLACK berries also
abound. and dew berries, raspberrges a11 4
most ali ether fruit There are also large
pecan and hickory groves, and IN the TAI
the country viii abound in nlts- Some
splendid orchards are already old enough To
bear good crops in the FottowasoEal= re
servati0g- All the frui. tried 50 far haSe
proved 4 fxtteEi1s success lie apple,