The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-22
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| Lexington is figuring on distillery.
| Norman has a city election the first of
May
Wolves kill great deal of stock near
Hardesty.
| The Beaver Tribune is now illustrated
| with COWS.
! The Shawness will soon receive 100,0 900
pounds of barb wire.
Purcell claims to have the best hotel
| south Of Arkansas City.
Ell Reno will make a fight for the capital
in the next legislature.
The Kingfisher r-Democrat-Ne
proposes to move to Dover.
Saltwater will improve on it's name by
purchasing street-sprinkler.
The Texas marshalls are trying to
smooth over their unofficial acts.
The Congregationalists of Ell Reno are
preparing to build an 81, 800 church.
The cow boys in Beaver county start
south on the general roundup, May 1st.
A county officer of Payne gets his print
ing done in Texas. Why not go to China.
When married man paints the town
red in Oklahoma people know that its "a
boy"
The first thing man buys when he
POUNDS town in Oklahoma is street
sprinkler.
There are only one or two editors in Ok
lahoma who have spoken about "velvet
carpet of green" this spring.
Oklahoma has never been troubled with
cyclones. One wiped Texas town from
the face of the earth, the other day.
Beaver county is the last of the govern
ment land that will be thrown open for
settlement free, that is, it is not sold by
the acre.
The worst thing that has happened in
Oklahoma since the opening was the at
tempt at Saltwater to fine man twice
for the same drunk.
Hardesty Herald: The following will be
witnessed many times during the coming
summer: PULL Your corks under
Swish, whoop got my bait. Puts on a
fresh one. PUNK.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
will receive the first payment Of $3.50, 900
for their lands about the first of next
mouth. Rs-enrollment is now in progress
and special inspectors are now on the
ground arranging for the payment which
will be followed soon thereafter by SINH
lar amount in goods and cash.
Payne Hawk: The first of last week
Mr.. BarDhardt of this city was arrested for
being drunk and was taken before Justice
Eyler and fined. 4 few days later be- was
arrested again and confronted with the
same charge and on Monday was tried on
the last charge before jury. The jury
found that the latter was only a contin-
uation of the former drunk and therefore
he could not be held to pay another fine
An order has been issued to the effect
that no more than siXty-six head of cattle
may be held by any one person in the Cad
do country. This will cause the early sale
of large number Of cattle, but they can
be sold at good figures if marketed soon.
The cattlemen are now busily engaged
gathering their cattle and the annual |
spring roundup is now being participat- |
ed 10 by the cow boys.
FL Reno Eagle. E. F. Mitchell issued or |
sold sixty head Of horses and mules, Sat /
urday, to the Cheyennes and Arspahoes /
and will issue ninety more Monday he |
expects to dispose of about 400 head 10 the |
Indians in all within the next thirty /
days. The Indians mean business and |
will be well equipped with mule power /
when they begin farming their allotted /
lands.
Joseph A. Taylor left his home in King
fisher on March II, 1891. for Fort Worth, /
Tex, and has not been heard from nor Is
his whereabouts known to his family, who
fear that he has met with foul play. He
IS about 81 years of age, light complexion
and weighs about 135 pounds, and is a
painter by trade. ANY information as TO
his whereabouts will be gratefully received
by his family.