The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

OKLAHOMA OUTLINES
There are five saloons in Payne county.
Terrill injured his ease by attempting TO
break jail.
There are 5000 acres Of cotton in King
fisher county.
Oklahoma cheese is the latest delicacy
| on the market.
Ed Nigle wants an artesian well for his
town-Norman.
Saltwater is going to indulge in set OF
horse races next Saturday.
Jim Dyer, a noted horse theft, has been
captured in Cleveland county.
1t is almost as cool in Oklahoma right
now as it was warm last October.
Fifty-two indictments for perjury have
been returned from the Third district.
The Payne Hawk contains the first chair
and the first table made in Saltwater.
Fifteen hundred Democrats are expected
at the FL Reno con vention August the
first
Mr. Harrader, the only minister in the
Oklahoma legislature, has fallen heir TO a
fortune.
One thousand people attended an Ali
ance picnic near Oklahoma City last Sat
urday.
Bee Guthrey maleYoleutly remarks that
Governor Steele is thinking of paying Ok
lahoma visit some time soon.
Logan county has seventy-two organized
school districts All but six had three
and one-half months school last year.
Emporia Republican: The Georgia melon
crop is the largest for years, and the dan
ora n q aVnTnE naE
Oklahoma Is regarded as over.
Senator Sam Paul, who was divorced
from his wife. Jennie Paul at ArdmOre
during the last term of court, was married
to her again at PauFs Valley, Wednesday
night.
The question OF buying off the contest
ants of West Guthrie townsite is being
mooted. 1t is said that s., 900 will settle
the matter, and there Is disposition to
settle it.
The Indian territory as state, with
laws approximate to the various character
of its inhabitants, would have unique
complexion, says the Gutherie News. 1t
Is bound to absorb enough of the Indian
life into 1t to be distinctive as ciYlllza-
ton.
Yukon Courier. Many farmers around
here are planting their second crop of po-
grown here and that the second crop is
better for winter keeping than the first.
They also say that the price of potatoes
will go up this fall and that few hundred
bushels will be worth having, and with a
little labor the farmer will clothe his fam
lily tor the winter out of the proceeds of
his potato patch. For rustling farmers
commend Us to those we see in Canadian
county.
Oklahoma Times-Journal: 1t is becom-
ing an acknowledged fact that nowhere
else in the world is there region as well
adapted as Oklahoma for diversified farm
ing. By actual test it has been demon
strated that wheat, cotton and corn grow
to perfection here. Every species of vine
makes its best crop. Every variety of
fruit that will grow anywhere from
northern Texas to the Great Lakes will
thrive here: peanuts and tobacco make
full crops; milet, fax and castor beans do
as well as in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa;
broom corn excels the Iowa and Illinois
broom corn; and the United States chemist
classes Oklahoma and southern Kansas IN
the Wichita region as the region most
likely to make the production of sorghum
sugar paying industry.
Hennessey Clipper: Company B. Of the
Fifth United States Cavalry, under COM
mand of Capt. Hall, with small com
sey Friday night. They were on their re-
turn trip from clearing() the cattle from
the strip. One of the soldiers informed
Clipper reporter that they had succeeded
in clearing the strip between the two rail
roads, or that they had started the cattle
out. As soon as they would come TO
bunch of cattle the cowboys would hustle
the cattle out as fast as possible, but while
the soldiers drove out one herd two others
would come in at some other point. and
when they got through clearing" the
strip there were more cattle and horses in |
1t than when they commenced.
Atchison Globe: Ellsworth ingalls, says
the Kansas fellows at Guthrie, Ok, are |
doing well. Bill Hackney is building a
fine residence there, and has become n |
citizen of the territory. He is the head OF !
the law firm of Hackney, Speed 81 Asp, |
and the outfit has monopoly on all the |
salaries worth having. They get So, 200 |
year for representing the Santa fe in the /
territory, and also divide what Speed gets |
out of the United States district attorney |
ship. Their outside practice is also large. |
A brother OF Ed Greer, Of Winfield, owns |
the principal daily newspaper, and job |
Office nearly as large as the Haskell plant |
ia AtchisOu. He prints all the territorial !
laws, etc. and is on the road to fortune
L. z. McCabe, the colored man, who was
formerly state auditor OF Kansas, has also |
built a fine residence. lie is running a
real estate Office. and is in charge Of the
Langton boom, eight miles east Of Guth-
RE. where he has COlonized q lot Of south
arn negroes. 1t is q prosperous settlement,
the most Of the negroes having brOuxh,
money with them There is another colony
Of negroes at kingfi=her in the western
part OF the territory, but they are shift
less set from the north. and not doing
we'll. The Santa Fe road runs the Texas
combination race cars through Okla
loma. It's trains run through from New
ION to Galveston, and it is economy to run
he cars all the way, although they are I
only required 10 be used IN Texas. The
,ars are divided by an adjustable partition.
)ue one side appear the words, For the
" hites, and q copy Of the act. and on the
1ther, For the Blacks and also a copy
IF the act. 1t i a penalty for black per
ION TO ride in a white compartment, and
i like penalty for a white person 10 ride in
black" compartment. AS the law
makes no provision for The Nougolian and
indian, it Is presumed that they travel as
reigEt.
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