The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-26
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

| The farmers of Oklahoma expect a big
! yield from corn.
The Ell Reno lot jumper is a few laps
ahead of the jumpee.
Corn is four or five inches high in the
Oklahoma country.
Dr. J. c. Mater is appointed medical
pension examiner at Tecumseh.
The negroes were only 16 per cent of
| those who made the race on the west
The First Christian church of Guthrie
has been chartered by Secretary Martin.
Hamlin W. Sawyer has strayed away in
to the new country and is reported lost.
The old story about an organized band
invading the strip is showing signs of life.
Ninety-six contests have been filed at
the Oklahoma City land Office since the
opening.
The Oklahoma City land office has over
two hundred miles east and west in its
jurisdiction.
John Wannamaker has presented the
VI. T. Sunday school of Oklahoma City
with library.
Oklahoma papers should not run down
any other part of the territory. That is
AOl lHO way W Ulliu Il SldUe.
Colonel Wyatt of Kingisher paid $50 for
the use of race horse, gave security to
the amount of $500 for his safe return, and
got a claim. if some of the fifteen or twenty
other fellows on it don't beat him in the
contest.
Oklahoma will one day be the center of
the greatest beet sugar industry on the
western continent. The beet grows
larger and sweeter than anywhere else in
the United States, and can be left all
winter in the ground where it was grown
with scarcely any loss of saccharine
matter.
There have been ninety-six contests filed
in the Oklahoma City land office since the
18th. almost all of them on land In the
new country, though not few have been
on claims in counties a and B. The prin-
clpal allegation in the latter is abandon
ment; in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
country, soonerism and prior settlement.
The Inter Ocean tells of an old soldier in
the Oklahoma rush who didn't rush with
the wild crowd, but drove his team leis-
urely until he found land to suit him He
then took his plow from the wagon, hitch
ed his horses to it and plowed six burrows
and dropped two rows of corn Having
started his fam, he set up his tent, cooked
his dinner, lighted his pipe and began dig
ging his well.
Sailie James, a full blood Choctaw
woman, whose age IS given and &C
cepted as 1l6 years, lives near Bokoshe,
Choctaw Nation. She is the grandmother |
of Silas James, well known Choctaw
Indian. Mrs. James is still hale and /
hearty, and possessed of ali her faculties. /
The old lady came west from the old reser-
walton with the original Peter p Pichiln, !
more than sixty years ago.
Guthrie Capital a train OF twenty cars /
loaded with cattle, passed through this 4
city today on the Santa Fe, enroute 10 the /
strip, from 80 miles south OF San Antonio,
Tex. The parties in charge of the cattle I
report that there IS no grass whatever in
that country, and that they have had no
rain for over three months The cattle
are in very bad condition and twenty-five
or thirty OF them had died enroute.
The Salvation Army was victorious ia
the county seat OF &C" Certain lots were
reserved in each county seat for church /
but no designation was made as
10 what denomination should have them.
When the county seat OF was opened 10
there was number OF preach
srs on the line ready 70 make the run for
he best lots aud a.! were anxious 70 get
the best one, a lot located near the post
Office Five or SIX ran FOR il but Captain
l.. VI Williams OF the Salvation army
iistauced them al and secured the lot
Oklahoma Tlnes-JOurual: II the farm
sEs IN the new counties are wise they will
bot attemps 70 raise corn On the newly
broken land. The. chances are always
three 20 one against raising a crop. AMI
when crop IS raised IL generally proves
disastrous 20 she horses Is j. fed to For
,oue unexpla.nzUle reason TIE worms
voFk more in sod corn than ia crops
-aiset oa oder ground, AID i has
oeeu fuzzy demonstrated thas tbs
Form dust proves fatal 20 bcrses. Plant
broom corn Il w51I ulske q good sol crop /
nd bring case rsturn- Plant al sor-s Of
me crops. for they do xtrsor,i susriiy well
n Id land IN the southern couarse- X
; not too ,ase TO plant cotton. l. sill bring
"A little cast and VIII give empioymel:
: a time when people oct u those Bsw
;cf1nrses VIII find s1tfse Fosk soz wa5rh
hey viii he sb.e "a eef eash
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