The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-05

sanctum table two home grown Oklahoma
! peaches either of which would fill large
sized tea cup. They looked so luscious
that bat for the fact that we knew them
TO be unripe we would have eaten them.
Oklahoma Gazette: Contrary 20 its
usual custom the Gazette will not be
issued on the Fourth of July and it is
equally certain the issue on the 9Th will be
a slim one, as the number of hide out pic
MICS leave no promise of a printer falling
to hide out the day they are over.
The PARCEL Topic says that there seems
TO be no doubt that the purchase money
for the Choctaw aud Cbickasaw lands will
be paid at the close of tie fiscal year. The
amount due the Indians is 81. 99l, 49, The
5, 600, 90 acres of land were thrown open
and occupied by settlers on the 18th OF
April last by proclamation of the presi-
dent. Secretary Foster proposes to pay
the money out of the unexpended sums
appropriated by the last congress and re-
converted into the treasury, amounting
to something over 10000 coo.
State Capital: A crazy colored man has
been proving along the banks of the
Cimarron for week past, creating con-
siderable fear among the neighbors. His
freak seemed to be 10 pull up fences and
trees. He never came 10 any farm house
and never asked for any food, but every
now and then some one would see him
prowling in the bushes. He WAS brought
to the city and turned over to Sheriff
Hixon and placed in jail. He proves to be
Oscar Wells, well known in this city as
janitor and all around helper. He has
been a resident of Guthrie about two
years. His trial Tor insanity comes up
tomorrow.
Another shooting affray occurred in
county B last Saturday, the result of
which is that L. ". Boursaw is lying at
the point of death, and Dora Frapp, his
step-son is in jill. Frapp aud his step
father went to Tecumseh and filling up on
whiskey came back TO claim, seven miles
west of that place. On reaching home
young Frapp opened fire on the old man
with his gun. The first shot struck Bour-
saw below the shoulder and penetrated
the right lung. He ran and got away from
his would-be-murderer, and laid out IN
the brush all night. The wound and the
exposure together nave placed him in a
precarious condition. Frapp went to Te-
cumseh and gave himself up and is now in
jail awaiting the result OF his stepfather's
injuries.
j. c. Neal, director of the agricultural
college at Saltwater, makes the following
statement as TO the future of that institu.
ton: The grounds are in excellent condi
ton and the experimental crops are be-
yon1 all expectation. The board of regents
have expended already $50, coo for books,
pamphlets, ETC., and during the next fiscal
year beginning in n short time. $32, 600 will
be expended. The above amounts are the
respective appropriations made by the
government. He also says he has never
witnessed such thrift and quantity in
crops as was being raised this year in
Payne and Logan county. Lots of wheat
will average forty bushels TO the acre.
while corn and oats are equally as fine.
The fields, as rule, are large and almost
every foot of available ground has been
put into either one or the other of the
above crops. Potatoes and all kinds of
garden truck abound profusely aud the
farmers are all jubilant.