The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-28

Ardmore Chieftain: Information was
received here today of the murder of Will
| son Fisk, near Ca5do, in The Choctaw ma
ton. He was overtaken while riding
home by some unknown party who fred
two shots at him, both going squarely
| through his body, killing him instantly.
Marshals are hunting down the assassin.
Times-Journal: Roasting ears on June
p! What do you think of that, .ye dwell
ers of the cold aud dreary norths Riley
Cutler. farmer living fifteen miles south
east, brought in seventy-hve dozens and
found ready sale for them. They are pref
ty near the first of the seaso hut in "A
week or two roasting ears WI be a drug
on the market.
Ardmore Chieftain: At the Davis pic
mic, last week, good looking .Idian talk
ing to a group of white me.,, suddenly
stood erect and looking thoughtfully over
the vast crowd of psls faces present made
following remark: "a few years ago a
white man was a curiosity in this country;
but now times have changed until an In-
dian is a curiosity. THIS is now white
mans country and the only thing left for
us to do now is to allot our lands and set
tie down to farming"
Grist Mill Jones gives the following in
teresting figures concerning the probable
wheat yield of Oklahoma county. He has
questioned farmers from every township
in the county and calcula.,s t,ic tc.al
wheat acreage at "A, $50 acres. The yie.a
has been variously estimated at from six
teen to twenty-five bushels per acre. For
a correct estimate NJ. Jones figures on the
lowest number which will be production
Of S91, $50 bushels. The present price of
new wheat is 60 cents per bushel. which
would make the yield in Oklahoma county
this year in round numbers S235, 900.
Purcell Register: Mr.. Will Harness,
who has just east OF Lexington one Of the
finest and best improved claims in Okla
homa. has a magnificent piece of red
clover, several acres in extent, which looks
as fine as we ever saw clover look any
where. Farmers in this country would do
well to try all such things as this. and rs
soon as possible transform this into what
nature intends it should become-a fine
stock country, with the coarse wild grass
replaced by the finest of the tame varie-
ties.
Ardmore Chieftain: Two queer freaks Of
nature were discovered recently near the
Holder farm in the vicinity of this place,
consisting of two white negro children,
boy and girl aged 6 and s years. Their
parents are as black as the ace of spades
and the children are as white as the driven
snow The children have light kinky hair
and all the features and characteristics of
the negro. They cannot be called Albino
although they resemble them in some re-
spects. They are queer freaks at the most
and it is impossible to class them.
w. A. Flower of Guthrie has received
letters from friend in Nebraska, who
was preparing to come here with his fam
lily, but who was nearly scared out by
stories he had read and been told. One
man told him that hot winds had burned
up all the crops, another that mosquitoes
were so bad as to nearly cut people up.
another that all hot winds and cyclones
started here and people suffered terribly.
He had read in the papers that flour was
so4 hundred, bacon 81 pound and other
things in proportion, and that there was
no water anywhere.