The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-20
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Oklahoma City is to have foundry.

Oklahoma City Is TO nave foundry.
Hennessey boasts OF four churches but
has no school house.
Eight and half cents is the top price
for cotton on the Ardmore market. The
f1eecy staple is a flying.
Farmers from Canadian county report
more than double the acreage of wheat
sown this fall than last year.
Senator Perkins goes to Oklahoma this
week as a member of the senatorial com
mittee to investigate the rights of the in
vaders of the Cherokee strip.
Miss Grace De Ford, daughter of Cap
tain and Mrs G. H. De Ford, of Guthrie,
was married to Mr.. L. B. Scott, OF South
McAlester, on Wednesday ut noon.
Captain L. NJ Hubbard aud Miss Ida
Phillips were joined In bonds Of holy we'd
lock Wednesday evening at the home of
Dr. Sheldon, in Edmond, Rev. Thomas
Horner officiating.
The first train crossed the Rock Islands
new bridge across the river Saturday and
the line is rapidly being constructed to
Bowie, Tex. Its temporary terminus will
be Fort Worth. it is thought.
The revolver of Major Elliott was picked
up on the Custer battlefield near Chey
where Major Elliott lost his life in the
desperate battle twenty-four years ago.
The Guthrie Capital says the legislature
will be twelve to fourteen in favor of the
''fusors" and ''fusees." The council is Re-
publican by one majority. on official count.
The legislature will be u lively whipsaw.
Oklahoma now has more than sixty con-
vcts in the Kansas penitentiary, which
he Times-Jourual thinks IS sufficient
warrant for the next legislature to pro-
vide for the building Of a pen Of its own. :
Mr.. Foss. the Kingfsher wholesale
groceryman who was reported shot dead
at Guthrie on Monday. WAS taken to his
home Mt tbs former place. Although
seriously beaten over the head with a
Winchester, he has rallied from the shock
and will recover.
Last Thursday evening at o'clock at
the residence of Jesse Shaw, in West
Guthrie, Mr.. Richard Oxford was married
to Mrs. Hattie Z. Duvall. The marriage
ceremony WAS performed by Rev. Buck Of
the Methodist Episcopal church. The
Capital speaks of it rs most felicitoxs
event.
Invitations are out announcing the wed
ding of Miss Fannie Salmons of Gaines
vile and T. B. Williams of the Wolverton
Hardware company Of Ardmore. Also
Miss Fannie Salmons OF Gainesville and
j. w. Dawnard. a prominent young busi-
ness man of Purcell. The double wedding
will take place at the Christian church at
Gainesville next Wednesday evening.
Guthrie has in the person of Mr.. Ira
Winch. the oldest member Of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen in the territory,
if not in the west. Mr.. Winch being a
charter member of Keystone Lodge, No. l,
of Pennsylvania, the first lodge organized
in the United States. His connection with
the order dates from Oct. 2S, 1868, and he
has seen the order grow from seven MEM
bers at Meadville. Pa, to over 300, 90 in
the United States in 1892. He saw aud
contributed to the first death benefit and
has since seen the order distribute over
A2, 600, 900 to the widows aud families OF
its members. Mr. Winch can truthfully
be set down as one of the patriarchs OF the
A. o. U. W., and yet he has come west
TO grow up with the country" and will
participate in the ceremony of instituting
at Guthrie the first lodge in tie youngest