The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES


Perkins has minstrel and glee club.
Hennessey is talking of canning estab-
ment.
Purcell is preparing to glory in electric
lights.
| The editor of the Saltwater Gazette is
after Bee.
Seward is not very big, but it has three
saw mills.
The Methodist church at Britton will be
dedicated today.
An Oklahoma paper attributes the IN
usual rainfall to Il hole in the sky.
Oklahoma is liable to slip by the twenty
second without firing fire-cracker.
The man who bets on the weather and
| puts up" hay will not be the loser.
| Some of the clearest streams in the terri
| tory are said to be in Beaver county.
| The territorial school board is in session,
| preparing the questions for the April ex-
animation.
| The station between Hennessey and
Caldwell, on the Rock Island, called Enid,
has been discontinued.
Oklahoma will get circuses this year,
sure. The shows know where the big
crops are, and strike them.
People in Oklahoma City will spend
Sunday by walking down in afternoons to
see the water in the canal
McMasters, of Oklahoma City, thinks
almost as little OF the weather bureau as
be does Of Governor Steele.
The Hardesty Herald doesn't think any
body ought to drink whisky. as long as the
water is as good as it is in Oklahoma.
Hennessey Clipper: The Rock Island
sent down a special, Sunday, with three
cars of government horses for Fort Reno.
Oklahoma City Times: A Guthrie young
man says his girl has fresh complexion,
for she always puts it on just before he
calls.
The Guthrie townsite board will go to
Perkins on the Goth inst. After that their
labors will have ended and they will dis
band.
The district court of Kingf1sher adj
journed Friday. Sentence was pronounced
on Jack Pitcher and John Z. Logan. for
cattle stealing. They were sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary.
The postmaster at Seward placed his
stamps and registered letters, amounting
to over 500. in the oven Of the cook-stove
for safe keeping over night In the morn
Ing he built big fire and forgot the
wealth in the oven. 1t was totally con-
sumed.
Perkins Plaindealer: Perkins has six
general merchandise stores, two exclusive
ly grocery, two feed stores, three hotels
and two restaurants, two drug stores, two
hardware stores, three blacksmith's, two
wagon makers and cabinet shops, two
barber shops, one doctor, two lawyers. and
printing Office, three real estate firms, five
contractor and builders firms, one single
machine, one saw mill and no dudes.
Hardesty Beaver county, Herald:-Act-
ing Attorney General Taft is investigating
the arrests recently made in this county
by marshals from the northern district of
Texas. 1t appears that Marshal Grimes
was too positive of their authority or did
not understand the matter and that we
were too hasty in our comments on his.
letter. Governor Steele informed the at
torney of the matter as it was beyond his
and the matter will be sifted.
We do not want to see the guilty go IN
punished, but believe the courts of Okla
homa can do as well as those of Texas. and
our marshals are not so fond of ''budge."
A cynical correspondent of the New
York Times writing of Oklahoma says:
Those who have never attempted to
draw the truth from an Oklahomite can
hardly realize the difficulties that are pre-
sented. The territory was born in false
hood and falsehood has been the principal |
article of diet ever since that fateful 22d of
April, 1889, when the 'sooners' became the |
leading citizens of country opened up to
settlement too late in the year for planting
of crops, and to which the poverty strick |
en- were invited by spectators and inn |
pecunious lawyers, who had been permit !
ted to enter beforehand by pig-headed |
which could see nothing |
good outside the ague-stricken Wabash |
bottoms of Indiana"