The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-18
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
A census Of Oklahoma City shows 1t
have 1913.

| a census of Oklahoma City shows IL to
have lob
Payne county has new postofice
called Plumb"
How would it do TO name them Gee and
H-aw counties;
4 young woman committed suicide at
Minco. Thursday.
| Kingfisher expects the census to show
population of ]. 800.
Okarche is building at the rate Of ten
new houses each day.
Two Purcell men have s., ut 800 in
having over Sl+ COW.
Perkins is clamoring for m attorney
with brains, youth and energy,
The women and children are following
the men into western Oklahoma.
Cattlemen will try to lease lands from
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe indians.
Okarche has ten sign painters and they
are two weeks behind with their orders.
The county commissioners of "B" have
purchased pile driver outfit to build
bridges.
There has not been a street quarrel in
Arapahoe since it was born. 1t is nearly Il
month old.
Malaria, with yellow c9untenance and
bandaged head, is stalking abroad in
western Oklahoma.
Teeumseh Republican: Get your duds
on and be ready to "go down to the de-
pot" The railroad is coming.
The first thing one of the new settlers in
western Oklahoma did was to land ten
pound catfish from the Washita.
Oklahoma is making more noise about
her exhibition at the worlds fair than any
other state or territory in the west.
The Daily kingfisher Free Press turns
up its toes. Jim Admire says il cost him
$50 TO run it over and above receipts
Frank Prouty, who was appointed post
master at White Cloud, couldn't stand the
racket and has returned 10 kingfisher TO
live.
The following is the sign of Lexington
saloon: Drink and drown your SORROW
pay me today and I'll trust you tomor-
row."
Fish is very plentiful in the new ooun-
try. But the streams will some day be
fished to death. a prosperous country
makes poor fishing.
The man who was fined / cent by the
jury in Payne county i'll the breach of
promise case, paid the cent and demanded
receipt. He got it.
The doors of the kingfisher land office
have been thrown open to everybody. The
mum bers having run out any one can file
now who wishes to.
The editor of the Arapahoe Arrow, coun-
ty g, hadn't hardly set stickful of type
before a subscriber came in and presented
him with a wild turkey.
Notwithstanding the fact that it is con-
trary to the Creek law, pastures larger
than one mile square are being fenced in
the Greek nation for grazing purposes.
The News, formerly Republican paper
published at Chandler, has suspended aud
will be published hereafter at some point
in the Cheyenne and Arspahoe country.
Kingfisher Free Press: The tent in
which the petrifed man is on exhibition
was blown over during the storm last
night and that rocky individual was left
at the mercy of the winds and rain for
several hours.
Arapahoe Arrow: Oklahoma City peo-
pie, as well as some other Oklahomans,
seem terribly cut up over an article in |
Harper's Weekly, written by one Richard |
Harding Davis. Let it pass. II be was |
of the true American there Fever /
would have been an Oklahoma, nor any |
for one.
Mrs. Huyck of Saltwater, who sued for
a breach of promise, was requested at the |
trial to tell how the defendant, Mckinley, |
proposed. She said: "Well, Mac took me |
by the hand and he asked me il would be |
his. says, DO you want meP and be /
says L do / studied minute and then /
says yes and he ever afterwards called |
me his Molly" Same old story.