The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-24
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

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Oklahoma IS now broader than it is long.
A pistol shot gave the signal at Choctaw
City.
There is supposed to be 10000 people at
| each county seat.
The Greek country row borders Okla
/ homa on the east.
| Some places are having the only booms
they will ever have.
-Four ministers went from Oklahoma
City TO the new country.
| 1t is too bad WON IN had to be shot the
first pop out OF the box.
Every day is Sunday in Oklahoma City
| and Guthrie just at present.
Why was the statehood convention at
Oklahoma City postponed?
There should be no mercy for sooners.
Soonerism will pay for its tun.
A Cleveland county farmer has cotton
that will make IA bale to the acre.
The new country will be fruitful of
new supply of Judges" and ''colonels."
Jackson Fletcher, a full-blooded Choc-
taw, has been sentenced to be shot Sept 80.
There is no line now where one was last
Monday. 1t is all merged into Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is nearer Arkansas than it
ever was before, but Oklahoma can stand
it.
The Dalton boys ought to be opened and
it is not material what kind of weapon
does it.
The western country won't be so hard
10 open because the towns are nearer the
border
Everybody will be glad when next Sun
day comes. 1t will be day of rest sure
enough.
The probability is that there has been
many good man who has left his crops
to run over in the new lands. But it is a
mistake just the same.
The man who set his watch ahead and
ran into the country before 12 o'clock may
think he is cute, but he won't after the
government has got hold of him.
The boomers have found that Governor
Steele means what he says. All round,
there is not more determined, fearless
man In the whole territory than its pres
ent governor
Oklahoma Times-Journal: Colonel
Tackett, chief of the Cheyenne and Arapa
hoe allotting agents. is in the city. Since
July 10. the date allOtting began. he says
that ], ,325 allOJments have been made The
Indians are not displaying good judgment
In selecting agricultural lands, but know
enough to get up close TO the towns
Oklahoma City Gazette: Sunrise on the
line was a veritable pandemonium-not
from intentional disorder but from the
chaotic condition of the incongruous
crowd. Mules brayed and chickens
cackled men called fer strayed companions
and women nursed squailinr fretful
children. In all it was Il good natured
but anxious crowd. The funniest thing
was the difference in time. Nearly every
man had time piece of some sort and no
two of them licked the same minutes, and
frequently they were hours apart. In this
race Time is purely the essence of the CON
tract. An error of a minute makes a man
as thoroughly sooner as the intentional
evasion of days. Every man swore by his
own watch and yet was afraid TO trust it,
a grandfather's clock would have won
reverence certainly.
Arkansas City Traveller: There is
large number of men kicking themselves
Just at present because they did not go
down and get claim in the new country |
They have claimed and are still claiming |
that the land is not open to settlement be- /
cause Ben HarTison's name WAS not sign /
ed to the synopsis of the proclamation /
published in the newspapers. Some were 4
betting yesterday that the land is not open 4
even after letter was exhibited from Sec |
retary Noble, stating that the proclama-
tion had been issued on the 18th. In order /
to get those fellows to believe that the |
land is open we suppose the presi-
dent will have TO come here and es-
cort them to n claim. They don't seem to
realize that it would have been easier for
the press reporter to have signed Ben Har-
rison's name to his report of the procla-
nation than it was TO make his synopsis.
Anyway it is better that large number
OF people did believe the proclamation was
issued because there is not enough laud
there for the crowd that did 20 A great
many would have got left and would have
been disappointed besides spending their
money.