The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-20
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

April % is President Harrison's birth
day.
County ''F' is the biggest county in
Oklahoma.
1t is no longer the land of the promise
The settlers have it.
The next thing in order is for the set
tiers to settle down.
There is yet time to put in corn and the
new homeSteader wants to rustic.
1t won't be week till there will have a
dozen local fights on in the new country.
The cow census of Beaver county is now
being increased by perhaps 1000 calves
daily.
Western Oklahoma just now is attend
lug concert given by the hammer and
the saw.
Reports to the contrary Dotwithstand-
years.
o. Beeson, worlds, fair commissioner is
in Chicago attending a meeting of the
National board of commissioners.
just as the clock struck twelve yester-
day, people all over the United States
paused and said; Now the boomers are
OFF,
Oklahoma is the child of Kansas. The
Cheyenne and Arapahoe country is the
child of Oklahoma. This makes Kansas a
grandparent.
The new lands have created so much ex-
element that Oklahoma's original ami
versary is liable TO be overlooked. Day
after tomorrow is the 22nd
The excitement was SO great yesterday
that if you had asked any man all OF a
sudden who was president of the United
States, he could not have told you.
A great many tenderfeet will never for
get how they spent last night. Prairie
ground is pretty hard on the fellow who
has been brought up on feather beds.
''If 'twere done, 'twere best it were done
quickly as our friend Bill Shakespeare
says, or something TO that effect. That is
the way President Harrison opens lands.
Moore Journal: The burial of dead
upon school lands forfets the lease of par
ties holding it. The only thing for the
lessee to do, is to try to keep from having
to be buried.
Lexington Leader: Lexington needs
public hall, and needs it bad. Towns not
half the size of Lexington have public
halls, and why cannot some of our bust
ness men build one.
Il Reno Eagle: The Choctaw brought
in its first train load OK cattle Saturday
night. Twelve car loads of steers were
shipped up from D. Il. Fant's Texas ranch
to be slaughtered for the Indians
"A ,fI l. l.
have been freely demonstrated in the past
week. A liberal Christian education in
the east is the best thing in the world 10
teach an Indian how to appreciate and en-
ioy.the comforts of sayagery.
Waw-Qua- Boss-kirk, a Pattawatomie
Indian, who was imprisoned by the United
States officers for creating dissatisfaction
among the members of his tribe in the al
lotment of lands. is now trying, like white
men are want TO do. TO recover II large sum
from the government for false imprisou-
ment. He wants s11 $50, and On-WalkTo
also wants 81 900 on the same grounds
The noble red man is rapidly catching on
to" the tactics OF the whites.
FL Reno Courier: There will be 10
lack of talent and brains in the new
country. There will be plenty Of both and
energy equal to any that ever struck new
country. Men who have served In official
and business capacities in other states,
who are ex-jGdges, ex-sherifs. ex-poiitic-
iRns, ex-eongrensmen, ex-menbers OF
legislative assemblies, e1-union soldiers,
ex-everything Men who have bad their
eye teeth cut and know just what 10 do
and how TO do it. There may be some
tender feet but for the greater number
they viii be people Of experience"