The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Edmond has its hook baited for Normal
school
The Odd Fellows at Norman are figuring
| on hall.
The Styles-Sawyer feud is still on at
Oklahoma City.
A new Methodist church will be dedi-
| Gated at Britton, soon
| Saltwater is working tooth and toenail
on mill proposition.
A common sentence III Oklahoma:
Times are improving"
| The new Catholic church at Ell Reno
| was dedicated last week.
The Guthrie News has already seen fit
hire a war correspondent.
Some of the farmers in Oklahoma expect
to plant their corn in sled.
| Some of these days the governor viii feel
| well enough to visit kingdsher, too.
The war with Italy, imminent must make
Bill Hackney feel twenty years younger.
| Paul Hudson, the bright son of the ed
itor of the Topeka Capital, is doing
| Guthrie.
The Terrill case will probably be called
up some time soon in the district court at
| Guthrie.
Some times the Oklahoma City Gazette
| forgets to treat Governor Steele as an ex-
ecutive deserves.
The sap is rising. the trees budding and
there will be the scent of blossoms in the
air before you know iG.
1t has come to pass in Oklahoma that
the different towns are quarreling about
| which board of tourists commissioners are
the best.
Hamlin Sawyer, the editor of the Okla
limos m IA "
ton on the seed wheat business, has re-
| turned home.
An election is to be held in Oklahoma
county on April eth, on the question of is
suing bonds to aid in the establishment Of
the normal school at Edmond.
A petition, presented March 5, to call an
election for the voting of SIC, 600 for the To-
cation of the university, was considered
and deferred until later in the year.
Hennessev Clipper: Many of those who
were contemplating to farm on claim Of
their own in the strip have rented laud
and will remain in the vicinity of Hennes-
sey.
There is demand for negro labor COM
ing from Georgia, Arkansas and Texas to
Oklahoma. Transportation is offered free
from any town in Oklahoma TO the place
labor is wanted.
The new statutes when finished, which
will be In a few days. will contain !, f. 0
pages and will cost s.. 80 apiece. The gov
eminent takes 1000 copies, 800 of which
are paper bound, TO be distributed by Sec
rotary Martin as provided by law, to
judges of the courts, county attorneys,
justices and other county and township
officers.
Oklahoma City Journal: A farmer
named Gordon, living in the Choctaw
neighborhood, was yesterday severely cut
while stretching barb wire. 1t seems that
while working the stretcher the wire
broke several posts away and his body was
entirely circled with the strand, cutting
about twenty-five or thirty gashes. None
are of fatal nature, but will cause the
gentleman to lay up for several weeks for
repairs
Beaver Advocate: The heaviest snow
storm of the season struck us last Friday
evening, and it continued showing aud
blowing furiouslv all that night and the
next day. Drifts four feet high were
formed in some localities. and at least u
foot of snow must have fallen, as there
were few places where it was less than
eight inches deep The stages were de-
layed, and the mails will probably be ir
regular for SINE days Cattle drifted badly
with the storm, and if the snow should
remain on the ground week, many range
cattle will be lost.
FL Reno Eagle: The surface of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation. in its
leading features, is high, rolling prairie,
rising at some places into almost noun
famous elevations 1t is dotted here and
there by little belts of timber. Its lower
bottom lands produce abundantly. It's
high prairies and canyons, in early spring,
are covered with beds of gorgeous flowers
in great variety, and their luxuriant
nutritious grasses, with plentiful water
supply from the Canadians aud Washita
rivers and their tributaries, create extern
sive ranges for horses and stock of all
kinds. Its soil is naturally rich, and all it
requires to make them productive OF all
farm crops is the necessary rainfall or
irrigation. The climate is mild and
equable, the nights being cool and pleas
ant, and the rainfall is annually increas-
ing