The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-19
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

1t takes good deal of rain to dampen
the spirit of the Oklahoma farmer.
William Hackney's health has failed
and he will spend the summer in Colorado.
The Sac and Fox country resembles an
egg in one particular. 1t will open up in
the fall.
The city marshall of Norman gets $40 a
month, and it is pretty hard work to find
bad man in Norman, too.
If the reports from cradledom are cor
rect, Cleveland county will have to send
its congratulations to Williams street,
soon.
Oklahoma City will ornamentits Fourth
of July celebration with "A Shawnee ghost
dance and game of foot ball by the In
dams.
There is possibility that the game of
base ball between Guthrie and Oklahoma
City will have to be taken to the supreme
court.
Ex-Governor Harvey, of Kansas, has
been employed by the government to sur
vey No-Man STAND, and will begin work
at once.
George Gardenhire has a forty-fve acre
field Of corn and will probably be able to
meet all the campaign expenses of the
next election.
An old citizen of Oklahoma City is said
to be making a fortune down in old
Mexico as a conductor on the Mexican
Central, knocking down fares.
One Oklahoma City paper upbraids
contemporary for paying so much atten-
ton to the prince of Wales when they
have a divorce suit right at home.
A party of Indians are going into the
townsite business in the Sac and Fox
country. The American Indian is slowly
but surely encompassing his own extinc-
ton.
The Red river. it is said, is eight feet
higher than il was ever known before
The water in many places is out on the
valleys, and thousands OF acres of crops
are destroyed.
The Guthrie News says that Captain
CavaDagh viii return ere soon" 4
stupid world waits expectantly for the
knowledge as to just where On the
calendar ERE soon" can be found
a Guthrie man has written a book
which explains why the world was created,
why Christ lived and answers all ques-
tons This is all very good. but it would
secure wider circulation II IL would tell
about half OF the population Of Oklahoma
how the other half got there before they
did.
The prior settlement case of James II.
Moss VS.. James q. Evans. involving the
southwest half section . SO was decided
in the Oklahoma City land Office in favor
OF the defendant Moss did what hundreds
of others did when they entered the terri
tory on the end he made some slight
upon the place aud lived on
il few days He then left il and has
never lived on the claim since. People
ought TO learn after awhile that prior set
Element means Just wha. the words I'm
ply.
Mai Foreman has rot yet got through
with his troubles respecting the towusite
of FL Reno. The case has been appealed
TO The secretary of the interior and much
additional evidence has been forwarded 10
the effect that she mavor Is a sooner and
not entitled 20 hold Il is said there are
seven additional witnesses 20 that effect.
and even If it IS decision given in his
favor. il viii ROT be rendered for some
time. The Oklahoma City Journal thinks
that Il would have been much batter Il Il
Reno had come IN as government town
site in the arst place.
The Absentee Shawaess are so called /
tro1 the fact that q. the BEGINNING O. tie