The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-09
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Purcell calls for the organization of a
local fire company. No town can afford to
| be without such protection.
Most every farmer is bringing wheat to
Chandler, says the News, this fall and
takes out lumber and material for i'm
provements. Country people are building
as we'll as city folks.
The next Sunday school convention for
| the territory will be held at Yukon, Satur-
day, November 10.
The geological corps that has been sur
veying the territory to the east of Guthrie
for the last two months have pitched their
tent in the government acre. ia Oklahoma
City, probably for the winter.
Oklahoma City now has fine grain
elevator of a capacity to handle with ease
all grain marketed at that point. The
grain traffic of the territory is developing
rapidly.
Oklahoma City is developing into a
manufacturing city of considerable I'M
portance. The Times Journal says:
Factory smokestacks are getting nu-
merous in south Oklahoma. The water
works big chimney mingles its smoke now
with that from the cotton gin, big -four
mill, electric light plant ice factory, feed
mill, elevator, dye works, planning mill
and steam laundry. Another season will
add the canning factory smoke and pos
sibly that Of distillery and foundry.
Okarche ard vicinity are now enjoying
healthy growth, and every train brings
in more people who are seeking homes,
either for themselves or friends The
H.. L.
coming to this beautiful city in the last
two weeks than altogether since the open
ing. Men of wealth and prominence are
securing homes in Canadian county.
The Ardmore Chieftain is of the opin-
ion that the kiowa and Commanche coun-
try will not be opened TO settlement before
April in 1894 certainly, and may be sub
ject to further parley after that. But it
has been treated for, and that is some
thing.
Mr. J. Averitt, in crossing the Canadian
one day last week, lost his wagon in the
sand. He lives about four miles from
Lexington and was going to Purcell will
a load of cotton. The Canadian is
great deceiver.
Over one hundred miners were thrown
out of employment last week on account
of the coal mines at Hartshorn, l. t.,
catching fire. The Choetaw Coal and
Railway company who own the property,
are heavy losers in consequence.
The last week was a rousing one of bust
ness in Norman. The Transcripts says
farmers are bringing grain, cotton and
produce to market and are buying winter
goods quite freely.
The farmers of Beaver county are pros
porous and the vacant land is rapidly be-
ing taken up by people who go there with
the intention of making that their perma-
nent home. Within n very few years, it is
claimed, all the land now vacant in that
county will be settled up and it will not be
but short time until Beaver county will
be one Of the best counties in the territory.
Announcement is made that the Choc
taw Railway company has adjusted its
financial complications and the road will
now be completed between South McAles-
ter. l. IT,, and Oklahoma City, Okla.
Work will commence at once.
Ell Reno is beginning to feel her oats.
The Herald says 1.-The people are confront
ed with two wholesale jobbing houses,
which come to us and knock for admission
to our city to do business. One is whole
sale jobbng establishment in the grocery
line and the other wholesale drug estab-
lishment."
The publishers of the Purcell Topic has
it's daily Issue and will devote
to making the weekly better
paper than ever. They'll have to hustle.