The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Pretty nearly every city in the strip is a
princess or queen.
By buyers Oklahoma cotton is said to be
superior to Texas cotton.
There is movement in Guthrie to tear
down the land office fence.
That girl. Tom King, probably has q
brother named Mary King.
w. NJ. Nix of Guthrie has invented a
double-headed safety match.
A mountain lion was seen within three
miles of Perry the other day.
Tom King and the average Oklahoma
Jail do not speak as they pass by.
The tOwrste board of Pond Creek will
net issue deeds before next June.
Material for the water-works of Chan
der is being freighted to that city.
The old army trading store at Fort Reno
was destroyed by fire Friday night.
The territorial Democratic central com.
mittee meets at Ell Reno on the 10Th.
1t is about time for Dennis Flynn to
edge up to Hoke Smith and swipe him.
Rev c. C. Hembree has been appointed
superintendent of instruction of county NJ.
Judge Amos Green of Oklahoma City is
said to be back of the fight on Horace
Speed.
The city council at Enid may be asked
to resign for passing the salary grab ord-
nance.
The Ell Reno Herald pauses in it's mad
career long enough to tell the fossils to
stand aside.
The way the authorities of the territory
identify Tom King is by her fee.. She is
terribly pigeon-toed.
It would be awful if Miss Tom King
should take it into her head to raid that
Old Maid settlement in the strip.
At Newkirk the Indians are in the habit
of stealing the town dogs and using them
as dessert for their Sunday dinners. -
There are 30 horses with which to haul
the fire apparatus of Guthrie and the fire
chief warns the people to be careful.
The new county commissioners of coun-
ty @ have been appointed. They are Z.
A. Henry, T. A. Emmons and T. A. En-
DRY.
Long Tom, Little AK and Blue Coat,
three Shawnee Indians, have been acquit-
ted of murder. They were tried at Okla
homa City.
There is said to be lawyer down on the
strip who does not banker after one of the
two new judgeships, but, then, that sounds
like a fake.
Oklahoma City's hot tamala man got
tired of this vain world the other day and
tried to commit suicide by filling UP with
morphine. He failed.
Hugh G. Brown, acting Indian agent
stationed at Anadarko, is again advertise
one years lease for grazing.
Oklahoma Press Gazette: Three Choc
Jaws have been killed within the past
week. II they keep this business up for
awhile there will be no one to opposestate
hood in that nation.
The Perry waterworks contract calls for
six miles of mains, eighty hydrants and
siandpipe with two pumps. The works
must be completed within six months.
The estimated cost is $50, 600.
The Perry Building and Loan associa-
ton took out a charter with Secretary
Lowe. The incorporators are: John Bro
gan, Jim Gore, j. a. Cruikshank, l.. D.
Freeman, J. Feliner. T. w. Farrar, Edgar
Watkins. w. f. McClung, Z. L. Park and
Russell Briggs.
Enid Eagle: A notice was handed
around among the business men this
morning, signed by the city TX. inform
ing them that unless their occupation tax
was paid inside of forty eight hours the
city marshal and his deputy would be in
structed to arrest them and they would
be fined as per ordinance