The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-24

OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma has seen its first elephant.
Oklahoma City will have tennis club.
The water works mains are being laid at
Ell Reno.
Oklahoma had it's first circus exhibition
yesterday.
Judge Burford will hold court at King
fisher next week.
Parties contemplate erecting an opera
house at Hennessey.
One span of the Perkins bridge has been
carried away by the flood.
Governor Steele's name is being dragged
into the Harvey-Flynn fight.
Abner Whitman, died a few days ago at
Crescent, Ok, aged 119 years.
Dennis Flynn's friends deny that he has
any heelers at Oklahoma City.
E. P. McCabe aspires to represent Okla
homa in the United States senate.
The Repu blicans of Indian Territory
met in convention at McAlester yesterday.
There are 1.427 children in the Okla
homa City schools, 107 of these being
colored.
Saturday, the townsite board made final
proof for the townsite Of Ell Reno at Okla
homa City.
Dennis Flynn is not an old soldier. Dur
ing the war; he was before different kind
of breastworks.
No mail has been received from Chan
dler in ten days. The rains are heavy and
the streams high.
There is an old woman of 100 years at
Oklahoma City who hasn't used glasses in
twenty-five years.
Frank Griffeth late of the Kansas City
Mail, will start new Democratic daily
in Guthrie in "A few days.
The Oklahoma Democrats have declared
for free silver and Grover Cleveland. They
can not have both and they will probably
get neither.
Congressman Harvey's mail is said to be
the largest, with two exceptions, received
by any member OF congress. He keeps a
stenographer and typewriter at work con-
stantly.
Thirteen head of cattle were killed by
lightning near Frank Craig's place at
Timber Hill last week. probably by two
bolts as there were eight head at one place
and five at another.
Deputy United States Marshal Leon De
Bost has the pistol with which Adams
shot Captain Couch az Oklahoma City;
also the one worn by Ell Short when be
was killed in the southwest. Both are
fine weapons.
Oklahoma Times-J Journal: Dennis Flynn
is in the city. but he is not taking part in the
G. A. r exercises, because be was not old
enough to take a part in the war. Il is
said that during the war he was continu-
ally abusing his parents because be WAS
not born ten years ea-lier.
A family OF movers. consisting Of a man /
and his wife and one child, were drowned +.
one dag last weak while attempting 10 !
ford Blue river 10 the Choctaw nation.
They were warned no: TO attempt it, bat 4
be replied that be was going &c Texas in j
spite of hell or high water. and drove in.
The Usage Indians are said to be the 4
richest community in the world. They .
are but I.50g In number, but they have
S 000, eco deposited 10 their credl: n the 4
treasury in Washington. On which they .
draw si00. GO interest every three mouths. i
ard they own I,47o.0o0 acres Of the best +
land in Oklahoma Most OF them wear
blankets, despite tEslE wealth.
4 farmer living hear GeGda Springs re-
ports tha: ten cclored people, two q them j
women, passed through his nssgaborhood 4
o few days aga bound for Klcgasher. O I. I
They had walked from Tennessee and had
aeea two months on the road. They had
DO money. but depended On what pro
visions they eould leg They wsre bare
footed and .ootsoEe- They reported more
ID the way.
A Texas steer played proasiasat par
Ia the wreck Of tbs oAnt8 re AZ Red Rock
. few days ago The steer refused 20 gre
TIE right % xsy 20 the Train, and the train
,oaid neither step nor 70 sroands hszee. =
-o!.isio1. Wkeu al inventory Of a4nasgss
sss taken the steer Was foan. c. oue sszs
q she track aud taS tra5a On tie oEsgr-
J DC steer vse dead sud thr~e cara vsfE
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