The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-20
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| Judge Dale QODS the Official ermIne To-
day.
Senator Perkins will visit Oklahoma
| soon.
]. w. Maddox has taken charge of the
Territorial Topic.
Cleveland county will build q s., 600 cour,
house at Norman.
/ Hon. Dennis Flynn has gone to New
Mexico for few days outing.
The changes in the land Office officials
are expected to take place this week
The Presbyterians OF Muihall have lei
the contract for building new church.
The Indian Territory Medical assoca
ton will meet at Atoka on the END inst.
The western counties are crying for rail-
road facilities and say they want them
badly.
Justice Morgan sentenced Andy Allen
to forty-five days Imprisonment for
brutally whipping his step-daughter.
The Times Journal says that there are
only twenty contest cases before the local
land Office and they will be disposed of by
July /.
Tcwnsite board No 6 is composed of
three Democrats, whereas the law says
the townsite boards must be composed OF
not more than two of the same political
party.
1t is said that the fullbloods have en-
tered into compact by which they Will
disbar squawmen from any Of the money
lately paid to the Chickasaw and ChOctaw
Indians.
An Oklahoma City man wrote for pass
on a railroad and got it, but across the
face was written Good only on through
freight trains,' as that was the only train
that could transport his immense cheek
and gall.
Capital: Dennis Flynn has just returned
from IL tour through the CnickasaW nation.
He is posting himself OH the actual condi-
ton OF affairs in the five tribes in order to
be able to more intelligently handle the
matters in congress relative to the five
tribes.
Times-J Journal: A. B. Henthorn has
some American bronze wheat that will
surely beat the world He had half
were fully five inches in length one of
which contained IL grains Mr.. Henthorn
has but a small patch of this variety, but
he thinks it will yield at the rate of sixty
bushels to the acre.
Leader: Interest? That is no name for
it. If you don't think the teachers of Lo-
gan county are interested i'll their work,
come down to the normal and watch them
at their labor If you think they are not
to advance themselves ard
get ready for the work OF the coming
winter, talk with some OF them and you
will change your mind
DR.. J. c. Neal of the Oklahoma Expert
mental Station would be glad to get speci
mems of the so.calied loco weed when it is
in flower. Wrap the plants in damp paper
or cloth, then in several thicknesses of dry
paper, tie securely, and address DR.. j. G.
Neal, Director. Saltwater, o. L. If prac-
ticable, send also full particulars separate
ly on postal card or in letter.
Press-Gazette: The contest over the
piece of wheat on the NJ q. Couch claim
south of the city,is assuming complicated
condition. Yesterday, Lee, the colored
man, commenced to cut the wheat, when
he was served with an injunction. This
Lee filed cross complaint, ask
ing that Couch be prevented from cutting
the wheat. 1t Is probable Judge Clark
will be in position shortly TO harvest the
wheat himself
Leader: Judge Foster of the townsite
board, received ii letter from Acting Com
missioner Bowers, stating that the decision
in Oklahoma lot cases, where awards were
not made to either party in contest,
would not be rendered until after the su-
preme court had passed on similar cases
now pending in which the question of
the general land Office had the
right of exercising appellate jurisdiction
is to be determined.
A good vineyard on a farm adds hun
dreds of dollars to the general value. The
location of the vineyard, including the
slope of the ground, plays an important
part Ia the results. We are told by Pro
lessor Waugh, horticulturist OF the ex-
perimental station, that in the part of the
station vineyards sioping to the east the
grape vines started perceptibly earlier
than those on the west slope and that the
frosts did comparatively greater damage
among them. Such points as these should
all be considered in putting ont orchards
and vineyards.
South Haven New Era: Secretary Smith
says that all the new plans devised for
opening the strip ran bump up against the
old homestead law and had TO be abandon
ed. Does not the plan which be still ad-
heres to of making the certificates issued
thirty days before the opening, the sine
qua non TO legitimate entry of this lands
run counter TO the homestead law? In
other words, if man is in every particu-
lar entitled to a quarter section of public
land under the homestead law, will fail
ure on his part to comply with the secre-
taTy's edict regarding the securing Of
disqualify him from entering
upon and holding quarter-section OF land
Il the strip?
kincfisher Free Press: Few people have
any idea OF the immense trade in harvest
ing implements in kiDghsher county.
Judge Benson has taken the pains to make
an investigation of the sales. He thinks
the estimate is too low rather than too
high. yet the following astounding facts
are developed: The estimated number OF
binders sold this season in kineiSher
is 40 The average price Is Sl35 90
In round numbers, 5000. There have
been about seventy headers sold, at an
average price OF Si70oo, or a total
II Si3, 900. in round numbers. The
Irvine trade has consumed eighty
four thousand pounds Of Irvine, allowing
hundred acres Of wheat 10 each binder aud
two pouasls CT twiRe 20 the acre. The
average cost at II cents a pound would
aggregate Sl0.e00 This we deem very
estimate. aud yet the farmers
viii require about $500 this year for
harvesting machinery and Irvine. We