The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Beaver county reports ii half inch Of ice
| Monday.
! They give dances in Beaver county and
| donate the proceeds TO the cyclone suffer
| ers.
The school bonds were voted in Guthrie
| Monday. They cali for $4,000 10 be eX-
| pended in school buildings.
McMasters says that the editors of the
| Leader and the State Capital are hard ut
F.; work on AN abridged edition of Webster.
The county commissioners OF Cleveland
county have notified the sheriff not 20
| press tax collections from cyclone suffer
erS.
Deputy Marshal Frank Terrell shot and
killed one Wilson last week in county h.
Wilson had been guilty of horse stealing
and train robbery in the panhandle of
| Texas.
The Knight Templars of Guthrie escort
ed the remains of Judge Provolt to Gam
eron, No, where they will be inferred
wit b the rites OF that order.
Farmers of Lincoln county are complain
ing that new disease has appeared among
cattle in the neigaborhood of Horace.
Forty or fifty cows have already died.
Beaver Democrat: The Meade Republi-
can men and ourself are the only two
newspaper men in the west that have gall
enough to run our pictures in our respec-
tive papers.
Ed. Newcomb, Jesse Jackson and Scott
Bruner plead guilty to robbing the Santa
Fe train at Wharton last November and
were sentenced to two years each IN the
peniteutiary at saltwater, Mimi.
Ga and after the first of June next, a
mail line will be put on between Cana
dian and Cheyenne, and it IS said that
several other new routes will be estab-
iished west of the Rock Island road in the
near future.
Gazette: Judge Green was caught be-
tween Saltwater and Orlando IN the
storm last Friday night. and was COM
PEELED 10 seek the shelter of farm house,
where he took the matter under advise
ment until the following day
Gazette: The state of Kansas has only
six cities more populous than Guthrie or
Oklahoma City. The state of Missouri
has only seven and New Mexico and Ari-
iona none Utah has one, Salt Lake City.
This is "A comparison few would have sup
posed true.
Ex-Commissioner Stone has purchased
a claim near Oklahoma City and has made
arrangements to have eighty acres OF it
planted in fruit trees. Mr.. Stone was as
sstant commissioner of the general land
office at Washington under President
Harrison and is also one of IoWa's eX-gov-
errors.
1t is surprising to note the track of the
recent cyclone in Cleveland county says
the Oklahoma City Gazette. The grain is
growing as green and fresh In it rs If the
malign force had never been. 10 ride
over the path of the storm It's presence
would not be guessed, nature has so fully
obGterated its devastation.
Press: Last Friday the people at Ed
mond had raised in cash $500 Tor the cy-
clone sufferers in Cleveland county. That
evening another cyclone swept away ali
the woEldly property of forty OF their
neighbors, and they raised the $500 To $500
and gave it to Oklahoma county sufferers.
The town OF Edmond is small, bat larger
towns in the territory might be benefit ted
if they would follow its example in some
things.
Clifton correspondence of Chandler
News; Some one attempted to assassin
ate Mr.. 10y, who Is running ii store four
miles east of here, the other night by
shooting fifteen or twenty bullets into his
residence. One of the balls missed one OF
Mr. L)ys sons only about SIX inches. The
trouble seems to have originated by Logs
filing a contest on a valuable claim Mr..
10y was away at the time but is scared
over the matter.