The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Vegetables are drug on the market at
Norman.
The prairie schooner is heaving into
sight again.
John Dill is taking deserved vacation
at Galveston.
The biggest melon only sells for cents
in Cleveland county.
The county Alliance of Payne county Is
going TO start new paper.
The total value of taxable property in
Cleveland county is 81, 0I9, 776S4.
There will be stockings hung on Christ
mas eve in the Sac and Fax lands.
Bee Guthrey can see something funny in
| almost everything but grand jury.
A Perkins man has had his son-in-law
arrested. Where is the mother-in-law?
The Terrills have made application be-
fore Chief Justice Green TO procure bail.
The Perkins Plaindealer has a cornstalk
in its Office eighteen feet three inches in
height.
The literary normal institute at Guthrie
is inclined to make Edmond 9 little bit
jealous.
Col Croker of Oklahoma City, has
captured scorpion. The insect is said to
be rare in the territory.
The FL Reno Democrat comes out this
week in pale green. The Democratic con-
ventlon affected it in that way.
In summer the Oklahoma man is always
talking about how hot it is in Texas, and
in winter how cold it is in Kansas.
10 Post works for Kingfsher and the
Lord. He gives the Salvation Army a hall
In which to hold their meetings free.
A charter was filed in Secretary Martins
Office to the Oklahoma Homestead and
Town company" Its principal office is at
Denver. Colo. 1t is to do business all over
the Indian territory.
Both Saltwater and Perkins deny that
there will be any such thing as a county
seat war between them This is ouly a
confirmation OF the good sense the inhab-
ltants of both places possess,
The man who goes into the new country
before the legal hour is liable to have his
claim jumped by the legitimate settler.
knows that the law will stand by him.
The Guthrie townsite board has word
from Judge Brown at Washington that
they will soon be instructed to prove up
Capitol Hill The interior department
will also make them trustees TO deed the
lots in Downs and Crescent City
1t is a marvel TO one who sees Frank
Greer after he has read his editorials for
while, 10 wonder where he holds all his
enthusiasm. He says the Lord, the de-
partments, the elements of nature and the
world all cOnspire for Guthrle's advance
ment
A Kickapoo Indian by the name of Mon
ah-ka- bra, from Topeka, Kan, passed
through Edmond Tuesday. He had been
to the kickapoo country to purchase pO-
10 Il ipl- f,aU
never treat for their lands; they wish 10
Continue holding as they do in common.
B. j. West, the founder OF the town of
Columbia, (Thurston) southwest of the
city, arrived from Omaha this week, and
after looking over the field has concluded
to change the location of his TOWNSHIP, and
Will move it one mile west of its present
site, on the Bob Ogle farm All the build
lngs Will be moved the coming week. and
Thurston will be thing of the past
The Indians loaf around the Cheyenne
and ArapahOe a,lotting agents a good
deal One day one of the gang fixed a lot
Of pins i'll coat where an Indian usually
took his seat. Sure enough the Indian sat
down on them, but to the surprise of ev.
erybody didn't show sign of pain. The
fellow who owned the coat pulled the
Indian up, showed him the pins and asked
him IL they didn't hurt him. The Indian
i'us IiSt anu SAUL NJ HuIJ JOtBn 10QIdu,
me sit much on cactus; make me hard"
Oklahoma Times-Jou rnal: J. A. Sechrist,
of the Nine Mile Flat neighborhood
threshed his wheat a few DAYS ago. He
had about eight acres in and il threshed
out l75 bushels. 1t was the Santa Fe
wheat, and this is considered an excellent
Weld. The wheat furnished by the Santa
ke was the bearded variety, and il is
shown by experience that those who
planted this variety did not secure as large
n yield as those who planted home grown
wheat The Santa Fe wheat was a north |
ern variety and was not acclImated to this
country Another year will bring better
results.
The Creek election for chief and second
chief and council members will be held on
the first Tuesday in September The !
Greeks hold their election in "A rather pc |
culiar manner. There is no secrecy about /
their ballots. In fact they have no ballots /
at all There are in the Creek nation forty /
nine towns or precincts and there will be a
voting place at each town. At each place /
there will be a long table behind which 7
there will set the judge and two clerks /
When the stalwart brave wants 10 vote he |
VIII walk UP 10 the table and so declare |
The judge will then ask him who he votes /
for. The voter, in the presence of all, will /
then name his candidates and the clerks /
Will record the same After the close Of /
the election one copy of the returns is .
sealed up and sent to the president of the /
house of kings, another is handed 10 the .
town chief. and so the election is over
GU can't stuff the ballot box in the Greek |
nation.