The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-23
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

After the Strip was opened.
After they had made the run.
Thousands of people were 'cussing"
Because of the way twas done.
/ Norman Democrat.
Cleveland county exhibited the talies'
corn at the worlds fair. the stalk meas
ured seventeen feet and three inches.
Where 500 bushel of wheat was threshed
in Oklahoma proper this year the Local
papers declare there will be 5000 next fall
1t is now Claimed that the statehood
movement in the Indian Territory Is keep
ing step with the movement in Okla
homa.
Another jailbreak occurred Wednesday
night at the Oklahoma City calaboose and
a half dozen has been added to the popu
lation of the strip. no doubt.
| The United States grand jury at Guthrie
adjourned until the 18th inst, when ii
will commence to overhaul tue criminal
calendar that will be presented 10 it by
the attorney general.
From the howl the Guthrie papers are
making about the water supply there, an
outsider would conclude that that place Is
as dry as it would have the public believe
its northern rival, Perry, to be.
The Democrat says Norman lost but
few Of her citizens by reason of the strip
opening. That is the biggest kind of COM
| pliment to their town and county. 1t
shows that they know good thing when
they see it.
Norman Democrat: Cleveland county
can show finer crops than any other Sec
ton in the southwest and what is better,
the record of three years will show the
same condition of affairs. We are in the
rain belt aud will always have good crops.
want to be sooner and with the soon.
ers stand, claim beneath my shoe soles.
shotgun in my hand; and then I'll make
fortune as year by year goes by and laud
Hoke Smiths queer rulings and praise
him till die.-[From the 'Soiiioquies OF
Strpper."
1t is stated that Buffalo" Jones. once a
member of the Kansas legislature, used
two horses in making the race for the
strip. He changed from one to the other
while at full galiop. and made IA location
on quarter section adjoining II county
seat. The locality of the location. nor the
site of the seat is given.
Wednesday afternoon at l o'clock Mr..
Seymour Price, one of Oklahoma City's
leading business men, was married to
Miss Byrd johnson, daughter of Hon. and
Mrs. J. w. Johnsou. Rev. A. V. Francis,
pastor of the Congregational church. spoke
the words which joined the young couple
together.
Rev. John 81. Hughey of Mulhall ex-
pounded the first word of gospel after the
opening He preached at Perry on Satur-
day night from the text found in Psalm
1O6 Oath verse: ''They despised the pleas
aut land; they believed not His word"
The sermon was as seed thrown into the
wind-it may bring forth fruit sometime,
somewhere.
No one in the new towns has been able
as yet to find any Of the members of the
townsite boards. A tracer should be sent
after them; it is probable that they got
lost in the shuttle. The Oklahoma City
Press suggests that it is possible they do
not know where the strip is and are wait
ing for directions from the interior depart
meut before they leave home.
The Arapahoe Bee insists that no earthly
reason that is worth a straw. can be given
for not having opened the Wichita reser-
walton to settlement long ago. If bill
for it's immediate opening cannot be put
through, one for its opening early next
spring can be, and we are now ready to
join the fight to secure it. This opening
business ought to be closed up, and the
sooner it is done the better for all