The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-08
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graphic facilities.
| One reason why this year should be
| such happy one for Oklahoma in con-
! trast TO last year. is that there IS no legls-
| lature to endure now.
1t is proof that there are less fools and
more devils in Oklahoma that there have
been more people killed in the territory on
purpose than by accident.
A Guthrie man has toadstool that
grew in two days which measures four
| teen inches across the top. That was
| about the way Guthrie grew.
The FL Reno convention scored Governor
/ Steele and the legislature Governor
Steele can stand it; but the poor legisla-
ture-it is already ridiculed 70 death.
Oklahoma didn't make much OF a show
| ing at Detroit. The old soldiers OF the
| territory are too busy with foraging the
cornstalks to be gadding about on excur-
sions.
This is the third time the militia have
! tried to clear the Cherokee strip of cattle.
1t will be remembered that IL IS one, two,
three and out. Maybe it will be that way
| this time.
Kingfsher can soon go into the ship
! building industry. The Cheyenne and
AraDahoe Indians are praying for the
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| face off the western border.
The annual conference OF the Southern
| Methodist church for the two territories
will convene in Oklahoma City Nov. 4th.
! 1t will be a big conference. Over 200 min
listers and delegates are expected.
| Guthrie News: The Oklahoma farmer
came to the city last summer with an
empty sack to get aid. This same sack is
now being used TO bring III samples OF corn
and potatoes, telling the editor TO say that
| they are the largest ever raised.
! The less men wear their coats and the
more they go in their shirt sleeves, the
faster Oklahoma becomes civilized. If
| they have a coat on, there IS likely TO be a
/ pistol in their hip pocket. In the other
case it is liable to be seen, and they leave
1t at home.
In the Cherokee nation the law requires
| that all voting shall be vica voce; that is,
by each voter announcing the name OF the
! person for whom he votes. A practice has
| sprung up of late years, however of hav-
! ing ballots printed and taking them to the
| clerk and calling off the names of the can
didates for whom they vote, or having
them called off In case they cannot read.
The dry warm winds of the past three
days have been invaluable to the cotton
crop. The farmers had begun to grow
| uneasy, fearing that the wet weather
would continue long enough to cause
the lower bolls to fall. The
crop is now as near perfect as cotton ever
grows and good many fields will yield
bale aud quarter TO the acre if the
weather continues as favorable as it has
been heretofore.
The FL Reno people think they have it
now fixed so that no other town site can
be laid out within five miles of their town
along the Rock Island Twelve square
miles have been set apart for the military
post nine square miles for the agency one
square mile each for the Caddo and Men
onite schools. Broken Dish and family
and HOuser and family have taken all the
land lying between the reservations and
Oklahoma, so there is no land left for
town site purposes. There is an effort be
ing made, however. to get Broken Dish to
change his allOtments, so that the half
section Of land adjoining FL Reno can be
set aside for town site purposes. FL Reno
will endeavor to have it set aside for the
county seat