The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,

Has Thompson, of the Guthrie News,
| got colt?
The board Of town trustees is at Edmond
| this week.
| The Guthrie Capital values the last rain
at $500, 600.
According to Frank Greer, the wheat is
humping itself.
Ell Reno has organized camp OF the
Sons Of Veterans.
Four inches of rain fell in six days last
week in Oklahoma.
A Knights of Pythias lodge was institu-
ted at Norman yesterday.
Horace Speed is said to be "pizen" on
horsethieves and perjurers.
The corn cultivator has already crossed
the field on its journey in Oklahoma
The Santa Fe railway has contracted for
800 tons of Ardmore coal to be used daily.
The Odd Fellows anticipate great things
at their anniversary at Norman on next
Monday
Oklahoma City is preparing to plume
herself on the occasion of the editorial
convention.
Some fellow has sued Bill Hackney for
S., 000 This is enough war for Hackney,
just at present.
Looking Backward" is not a popular
book in Oklahoma, where everybody is
looking forward.
Ell Reno claims to have just received the
largest shipment of quinine ever made in
to the territory.
There is said to be as many Indians in
America today, rs there was when Column
bus discovered America.
Grimmer, the German from Beaver
county in the legislature, was married at
Arkansas City yesterday.
J. B. Fugate, who used to publish the
Democrat in kingfsher, has gone back in
to the newspaper business at Newton.
The next encampment of the G. A R.
of Oklahoma will be held at Oklahoma
City. Norman gets the reunion in Sep
TENDER.
The meanest things thought in Oklaho-
ma City are about Guthrie. The Journal
says: Guthrie ought not to worry about
cemetery grounds Fence in the whole
town. 1t is nothing but graveyard any
how"
Guthrie is in much the same situation
as Oklahoma City respecting her Cemetery
grounds. The dead there have been buried
on the school section near the town, and
threats of violence are freely made against
anyone who tries to move them. whether
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be used for that purpose or not.
A week ago last Tuesday a little child
was lost on a Santa Fe passenger train in
the Indian territory. The parents of the
the child did not discover their
loss uutil the train had reached Muskogee
There they stopped over day but nothing
being heard from it and the mother being
sick. they proceeded to their destination in
Texas Last week the body of the child
was found in the Arkansas river, two
miles below the railroad. 1t is supposed
THAT the child wandered unnoticed, from
the car, and fell as the train was crossing
the river The father returned to contin-
ue the search for the child, and was almost
crazed with grief upon learning Of the dis
covery of the remains.
The Edmond Sun very sensibly says:
The farmers should all break out strip
of ground along the public highways so
they can plant n row of shade trees The
legislature made provisions for tree cul
ture along the highways of Oklahoma. as
will be seen by the following from section
one of the road law: "All section lines in
this territory shall be and the same is
hereby declared to be public highways.
The said roads or highways shall be sixty
feet wide until otherwise changed or vacat-
ed under this act. and shall be taken
equally from each side of said section line.
Provided, That forest or fruit trees may
be planted and grown to within twenty
i've feet Of the center of such highway.