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

Purcell has large and refined chicken
ranch.
Ell Reno has a new paper called the
Messenger.
Guthrie expects to secure the free deliv'
cry system.
Mrs. Sidney Clark is seriously i'll at
| Lawrence, Kan.
There are 1878 pages in the new Okla
homa statutes.
The townsite commissioners have closed
their work at Mulhali.
Kingfisher is not Growing, but it has
nine church societies.
Guthrie has begun to agitate a street
railway project again.
Oklahoma City and Guthrie are both
crying for better hotel facilities.
Adams. the man condemned to death,
was formerly a newspaper reporter.
To all appearances. Frank Greer dreams
double-leaded editorials as pastlme.
An Oklahoma City man wants the Pot
towatomie country opened the first of
May.
The land office at Oklahoma City is q
hummer 1t has sat down on professional
witnesses.
Senator Plumb and Senator Plat favor
statehood for Oklahoma and the i've civil
lied tribes.
There are a hundred houses and tents in
West Guthrie. The best of the houses are
not worth $50
The only thing that Henry Stanley
would recognize in Oklahoma, would be
the sand storms.
The Oklahoma City Times has ''de-
larged." 1t has cut down in size, but is
now all home print.
Mrs Noble Prentis is paying Oklahoma
her first visit. She will probably say
some nice things about it in the papers:
The seven tribes in the northeastern por-
ton Of the Cherokee nation will, during
the present year, petition Tor admission to
Oklahoma.
They April fooled the courts at Okla
homa City the first day of the month.
There are only one or two things they dare
not do at Oklahoma City.
An uncomp!eted brick building was
blown over on frame building, during
high gale, Wednesday. at Oklahoma City,
and demolished millinery store.
The Guthrie Capital has discovered that
in Oklahoma, on the 22d day of April, 1889,
the people drove a stake TO make
stake" This is the one case in which an
The well-known Stiles, of Oklahoma
City, will soon retire from the army and
become private citizen. Tue law enti-
ties man TO retirement at the end of
thirty years service. He has served TWEEN
ty-nine.
The Guthrie Capital has come to the aid
of the government. 1t says everybody
ought to buy all the postage stamps they
can now. Help the government and It Will
help you. Ask no questions, but buy your
stamps for the coming year now.
Judge Harvey says that there are no
provisions in the laws throwing open the
new lands for additional land districts. |
When the bill left the house it contained
q land district provision but in the senate |
it WAS stricken out. The entire new terri
tory Will have to he Owed among the four |
existing districts, but even then the dis |
tricts viii not be of unusual size II Is /
probable, however. that the next congress |
will establish at least one new office west |
OF Fl Reno aud kingisher.
Guthrie News: Probate Judge Calhoun |
married couple-Mr. Ed. +. Galpin aud /
Mary Z. Miller. who were in a queer pre- /
dicament- They had been married in the |
Chlckasaw nation. according 10 the In |
dian fashion whatever that Is, and being i
afraid il wouldn't do-wouldn't hold tight !
had the ceremony performed /
by a more artificial code. though perhaps /
no bottGr oDe thar that OF the Indian, |
who says 70 the fair squaw, You are /
mine, and she IS 'his'en-"
The rent likely TO be derived from school /
land Is generally estimated at ~ cents an |
acre. As nearly ali the land IS already |
aud time IS allowed 70 pay the
lease money, II is quite probable that the
lands viii bring that amount. This will /
MAKE an annual school fund o. SO, 600 for /
the entire territory, sufficient to run the
schools OF the territory for four months.
This is a heavy burden lifted from the
shoulders Of the tar payers. In q lew
country Ike thi. the school term does not
usually exceed five months, says the Okla
homa City Journal, and If the territorial
fund viii pay Tor four OF these, there will
~ ijrr ie left fo- .he raY naverS 70 fcor