The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-18
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| People in Oklahoma still name their
babies Blaine"
Work in the direction of Guthrie's cotton
! gin has commenced.
The Norman postoffice is to be fitted out
with new mixtures.
Oklahoma City wanted to lease some
| school land for cemetery.
The Board of Trade of Guthrie have Or
dered 900 bushels of cotton seed
It is about time for the politicians to
begin figuring on the next campaign.
If man must get drunk, the safest way
in Oklahoma City, Is to get DRINK at home.
Lexington is to vote today to decide
whether or not the village shall be lncor-
porated.
The Guthrie Capital says Sab urbecon-
cordia" in its local columns. Are there DO
gunshops in Guthrie?
The Guthrie News has stepped forward
and nominated the ''gooseberry blossom"
as the flower for Oklahoma.
Norman will organize a Knights of
Pythias lodge. This will make the num-
Der in Oklahoma requisite for a grand
lodge.
1t is reported that 5000 head of cattle
have been shipped up from Texas and are
now on the reservations in the strip, and
that as many more will be brought up
from Texas by the first Of May.
Arkansas Valley Democrat: The courts
OF Oklahoma have found two sooners
guilty of perjury. If an example was made
OF few Of that sooner element 1t would
have healthy influence when the new re-
serves are opened to settlement.
A good many people would give good
many dollars to know just the exact loca-
ton Of the county seats in the new coun-
ties. There will be a tremendous rush to
these towns as soon as the counties are
opened to settlement.
FL Reno Herald: Mrs Frank Casey,
wife Of one of the men now under trial for
murder in this city, died at her home in
Mustang township last Saturday. Four
little children are thus left, temporarily,
at least, without protection. This case is
a sad one.
Mr.. I. n. Terrill now in the county Jail,
has hit an unique scheme of making
take to raising bees. By crossing them
with fire-hles, the species can work night
and day, by at night attaching their little
lantern.
Norman Transcript: No advice has yet
been received by the many who are anx
iOus TO know when division will proba
bly, be made of the late Commercial banks
funds. The wait is an exceedingly long
and weary one to the depositors, and 1t is
shame that they are kept from the US.
of their money SO long.
Beaver Advocate: Filing on lands is
greatly retarded, owing to the non-arrival |
of plats of the various townships Only a |
very few plats have arrived, and they are
chiefly of townships that are thinly popu- |
lated. A number of applicants appear |
daily, but the office is not fairly down to |
business yet, for the reason above named. |
The plats are expected any day.
At last the work of alloting the lands in |
severalty to the Pottawatomie Indians has /
been completed. 1t has consumed period |
of your years. Alloting Agent Maj.
h. a. Porter arrived at the Sac |
and Fox agency OF Tuesday |
and turned over the tract books, field notes
ETC., containing the result of their four
years labor to Indian Agent Col. Patrick
have been made to !, 400 Pot
tawatomies and 563 absentee Shawnees,
which has taken up absut 243, $40 acres of
the original Pottawatomie reservation,
which from the entire acreage of 576 900
acres, leaves balance of little over half
or about 100000 acres to be thrown open to
white settlement. Boomers are through
the country all the while, it is said, ost en-
slbly just going across the country. but
really examining the land, trying to find
out Tue nave Deeu |
and looking for a probable location for
Minco Minstrel: From what we can
gather the agent at Darlington and his
clerical force have a gay time with the
Rock Island road in the way of freight de-
livery. 1t seems the contract with the
road requires that all freight be delivered
at switch just east of the agency.
There is no depot there. nor any con-
venience, save a short platform. The
road being responsible for the goods
will not leave a car standing ON the
switch a mile or more from anywhere,
out unless some one is there TO receive it
5he road brings the freight on across the
river to Ell Reno. The agent Will not re-
,eive the freight at FL Reno, as that
,auses him to haul it mile or two far
her and cross the river with it besides.
rhe freight agent is notified to place the
goods at the proper point for delivery, and
le does 80 by attaching the car to north
pound train and sending a man with it. 1t
5 dropped off at the Darlington switch in
he morning, and the agency force may
;ome and received it that day or they may
lot, owing to what business they have on
land. If not called for. the man in charge
ut on the platform all day in silence and
waits for the evening train to pick him
nd his car up and return them to FL
Keno, to try the same game next day.
Having had business relations with both,
We consider it an even break when the rail
'oads and the United States government
Undertake to worry each other to death
Ind it is really refreshing to see them
ock horns.