The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-06

OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

AS between issuing marriage license and
granting divorces the probate judge OF
Oklahoma county is kept busy these days
The register at Oklahoma City is doing
a sure enough land office business. The
Press says 146 instruments were filed in
the office on Friday.
A man near Ardmore. o. T., is father OF
four pairs of twins. His wife has got her
fill at his trying to draw TO a flush. Any
how, such luck as that calls for the pot all
right.
The Free Press says the big Touring
mill at Kingfsher will he completed aud
| ready for business by the first of Septen-
! Der. The farmers can take their wheat TO
mill and get flour in exchange.
| Kingfsher county is valued by the asses
sors at 81 COG. 1917. Jimmy Admire offers
to take the county at the figures named.
And yet some people wonder why he
wants to get out of the newspaper BUSH
ness.
1t seems to be the general belief that
the kickapoo country will not be opened
to settlement with the other lands soon to
come In. Perhaps not; still it is possible
that Secretary Smith may find Il way out
of the dilema as to the Kick lands
Oklahoma now has two boards of regents
for its Agricultural college at saltwater.
The newly appointed board met in Guth-
lie Thursday and organized, though the
old board decline TO recognize the govern
ment's power to remove them aud Will
contest the matter in the courts.
In conversation with Judge Lowe yes
terday the Leader man learned that Mr.
Corbett, the new receiver of the Guthrie
land office, would be there the first of the
week. You will know he is there as soon
as he arrives, Hoff by his -iaff. He's the
out-latfenist man you ever saw.
The second annual meeting of the Retail
Lumber Dealers association of Oklahoma
and Indian territory will be held in Guth-
RE on the 18th OF this month. The associa-
ton is composed of the leading lumber
men of the two territories, and holds meet
ings each year for the discussion OF mat
tiers of interest to the trade.
Oklahoma is liable TO rival Georgia as
watermelon producer. The Times-Jour-
nal says melons are being shipped from
that pace at the rate of nearly two Cur
loads Of 800 melons each every day, be-
sides the immense quantities consumed
there The raisers receive an average of
cents apiece for the melons.
The Muskogee Phpnix seems to be
much exercised over the evident deter
mination of congress TO make one state
out OF the original territory, and not two,
and clamors for donble statehood The
PARCEL Topic says this opposition is ex-
planned in the PhOeaix desire for the capt
tai of the new Indian state to be located
at Muscogee.
Daring the last week in August there
will be held in Oklahoma City and King
fisher. teacher's examinations by the ter
ritoriai board of education Certificates
and diplomas will be assigned to the sue
cessful applicants, which will permit them
TO teach III any county III the territory.
The certificates are gooi for five and ten
years and the diplomas FOR life. Oaly
persons qualified To hold n first class GER
tiiicate Will be able TO stand the examine
ton, rs there viii be twenty-six branches
in which a creditabie standing NUT toe
secured.
A Washington special says: Delegate
Flynn of OAlahomu arrived tonight. and
having been requested by his constituents
to look Into the legislation affecting the
kickapoo country will do 50 al once. I;
was generally understood during the last
session that the agreement had been rati-
fed and the Kickapoo country would De
thrown open TO settlement, bat nothing
has been beard Of it, No alio. ting agents I
were appointed, aud IL appears that The !
bill winch passed in sous way was destroy {
ed by the Office hunters, CT al least iosi +
IN the rash. This matter viii DC locked I
into by Flynn It * hoped that Ia some
way, either divineiy or earthly The mattel I
smith