The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-10
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Adelina Patti in disguise sells ice a
Oklahoma City.
Beaver Tribune: The artesian well still
| fails to ''artese."
The second payment has been made tx
the Sac and Fox.
Oklahoma will not have to fall back OF
a turnip crop this fall.
| A man at Oklahoma City has his garden
on the top of his house.
| If the rain keeps on falling the catfish
will get at the young roasting ears.
This would be good time to float some
of that Oklahoma script. There is sc
much water.
Somebody ought to throw out life-pre
server to the man who says 1t never rains
in Oklahoma.
Governor Steele says the reason the third
party will not live is because there are too
many great men in it.
The people of Oklahoma are getting the
| rain they have been praying for the last
two years, all in a bunch.
The Dalton boys are also charged with
contempt of court. Now, all that is left
to do is TO capture them.
Guthrie's sporting tastes have been shar-
pened by a base ball game and prize
light has been arranged.
There has been binder sold in this city
the past thirty days for every hundred
acres of wheat in the county.
The editor of the Guthrie News won a
libel suit last week and gold watch at a
rattle, Saturday night Speaking of luck.
The Oklahoma City Lance is a good
paper and "Bunky" is said to be fellow
who can get out a good paper ''hand-run-
ming"
The Sac and Fox Indians have an unique
way of gambling. They put two Jumps of
sugar on blanket and then bet on which
one fly will light first.
The prince of Wales ought to visit the
Sac and Fox Indians who are said 10 be
gambling recklessly. There is good deal
loose coin floating around.
There were thirty eight homestead en-
tries made seven leaves of absence grant
ed and seven contests filed in the United
States land Office at Kingfsher during the
month of May.
The Santa Fe is having a hard time of it
at Purcell. The yards are between the
river and the bluff on narrow strip of
valley which is now gradually washing
into the swollen river. A portion sof the
yard has already gone over into the river
and still the river continues it's encroach-
Mrs, Petty, who lives near Choctaw
City. was arrested and brought to Okla
homa for pummeling man with a stove
poker. The man was making defamatory
remarks concerning Mrs. Petty's character
which she overheard or heard of, so she
went at him and gave him good pound
ing. For this the man had her arrested
She was fined, the fine and costs amount
idg TO S12. She then turned around and
sued her traducer for SANDER.
Purcell being in the Chickasaw nation
is consequently temperance town, and
Lexington just over the river in Oklahoma
is not Temperance town. The river is
wide and for half mile beyond the chan
mel of the stream on the Lexington side is
a waste of quicksand There is a great
deal of passing to and fro between the two
towns, and the Lexington people who go
over into Purcell to transact business
always suffer much from thirst, and to re-
lieve the suffering as soon as the law
would permit, some enterprising parties
built fiat boat and moored it on the Lex
ingtOn side of the river. 1t was housed
over, and a saloon established therein.
The proprietors not only relieved suffering
humanity but lined their pockets in the
good work, because this floating beer
garden was nearer Purcell by half a mile
than any tipping shop in Lexington. But
yesterday the floating establishment at
tanned its majority so to speak. and foated
off down into prohibition country, where
1t will not dare anchor or pull TO shore for
fear of the ever-watchfui United States
The craft will have to float on
down into Arkansas before landing can
be effected.
Oklahoma City Journal: The register
and receiver of the Oklahoma land office
decided a contest yesterday which involved
the eligibility of person VINO crossed the
line through ignorance of its exact loca-
ton. George L. White came up TO the
line Of Oklahoma on the east side, opposite
Of township 6, during the forenoon Of
April -. 1889, and inquired Of ranchman
the location of the line. The ranchmAn
replied that there was q dispute rs to
whether il wasthe line which ran within
a few feet OF his house or the line half
mile farther west White then rode on to !
to the second line, half mile farther west. |
and there waited until noon, and then !
rode two and half miles TO the southwest J
Of SOL, arriving on the land at 1910, and I
Immediately laid claim thereto Immedi- /
stely after y o'clock OF the same day En- |
ma Clauch started from the South Cana !
dian, three miles west OF the land IN dis !.
oute and rode directly TO the land, reach |
ing IL az 1890. She also Immediately laid |
claim 70 the tract and a few days later Sc I
cured the entry. White initiated a con- |
test on the ground of prior settlement. The .
land Office allows Emma Clauch's entry 20 I
remain intact, for the reason that White I
took advantage of his presence in the Ter /
ritory TO take piece OF land before Others I
who rode from the line had time 70 reach 4
L. The fact that he did not know the ex-
act location OF the line was no excuse. as /
be should have remained back on tie IN 4
disputed ground
PRESIDENT ELTOT's RELIGION.