The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-14
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Arapahoe, county q, from east line,
twelve miles.
Whoppee! but won't there be scatter
ment next Tuesday.
April viii not be out of her teens before
the new country is opened.
1t is estimated that ten papers will be
started in the new country.
Horace Speed has been nominated for
the handsomest man in Oklahoma.
Ardmore's compress has declared div.
idendIof % per cent for the stockholders.
A good many people will be holding
their breath at 1859 a. m. next Tuesday.
c. f., Hunter has sold the Chandler
News aud will start paper in the new
country.
Governor Byrd claims to have lost at
least half of bis range cattle during the
recent blizzard.
The Free Press says 367 citizens of King
fisher have made application for offices in
the new counties.
The Indians all together have taken up
3. 329 allotments, or 432,640 acres, leaving
over 8, 600, 600 for the white man.
Things are getting higher tensioned
every day on the West Side 1t is won
der some of the settlers don't spontaneous
ly bust.
The Oklahoma City land office has iuris-
diction over large part of the new coun-
try and the Choctaw road will rake in the
shekels.
1t will cost s533 to survey each Of the
townsites in the Cheyenne aud ArapahOe
country and the cost will be assesse! on
the lots.
Professor LeRoy's balloon caught fire at
FL Reno Monday, just rs lie was about
ready TO make an ascension, and went up
in smoke.
A Kickapoo Indian has been arrested for
selling oleomargarine. This breaks the
monotony of the introduction of whisky"
and the Indian should be pardoned.
Many of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians are building houses and otherwise
making their lands so they may be more
easily distinguished from land subject TO
entry.
Oklahoma towns are experimenting
with the Sunday closing law. Sunday
closing is an excellent thing to experiment
Win OUT u very dA1ibuA6 bAitb5 ~ SoASA~-'
Oklahoma will discover this.
The report that the Rock Island railroad
company is interested in a new town north
of the river, couple OF miles from III
Reno. is worrying the. property owners OF
that burg very considerably.
In Kingfsher county 195 allotments
have been taken; in Canadian county. 1i2;
in county c. !, 2S3; in county ID, 4J9; IN
county r, 81; in county e., 40; in county
H, $50, and in county Il, none at all.
All along the border horse flesh IS just
now receiving very considerate attention.
Everywhere men can be seen exercising
the animals by whose speed they expect TO
win homes. Races OF one, three and even
FIVE miles are arranged, and the boomers
are having much sport over the matter,
Tecumseh Republican: J. l. Merritt
planted two fine cherry trees on the public
square Arbor Day and named them respec-
lively dennis Flynn aud Shawnee
Riu" Both trees are sturdy. and ike the
men in whose honor they are named VIII
grow, and in time their branches viii
cover the earth.
Oklahoma Times Journal c. T.
Hunter. editor Of the Chandler News. was
in the city yesterday. lie viii 20 20 -.
Louis with our railroad committee, and
will carry with bin a written guarantee
from county A TO furnish 5000 worth OF
ties as an inducemeut 70 extend the road
70 Oklahoma City via Chandler.
The Sac aud Fox Indians believe thai
the hooting of an owl ia daytlms IS an IN
fallible sign OF rain. Not long ago white
man approached an Old Indian and told
him hi. sign had failed. that an owl had
booted ia daylight fully a week before, yet
no rain fell. To this ths Indian replied:
''Mebbe so-owl-young. mebbe s0--iisd-
Farmers ali over the territory are send
ing in their horses 70 be sod at the towns
along the border and everywhere. IA n
Reno. Kingf3sher and the other towns car
be heard the cries OF tee horse auction
ezrS. Fifty, fifty, fifty; who'll make Il
sixty, Come, geaslsEnen- he's a. fast "a =
bad watch. and he'll win yea good
farm Prices do 10: 70 ap seTF aizh.
however. and the boomer FROM the east .
who came in on ths train cossd bsy him
Lii an outfs team. harness Eod wagon,