The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Republican ticket was successful al
the city election in Perkins.
County G wants 20 issue bonds to re-
fund its $4,000 indebtedness.
Sidney Clarke is reported as being seri'
ous!y i'll at his hotel in Washington.
Reports from all points in the Indian
Territory say that plenty of rain has
fallen.
Judge J. r. Clark of Saltwater has gone
to Washington to advise Grover whom to
appoint governor.
mated full car load of goods to the cy-
clone sufferers in Oklahoma.
Waiting for appointments and lodging
cyclones begins to tell on the constitutions
OF grea: men, says the Gazette.
The Gazette says that Guthrie has for
gotten the recent fearful cyclone and is
holding Sunday picnics.
A convention of Oklahoma Sunday
schools has been called to assemble at Ok
lahoma City on June 6 to IA inclusive.
Last fall, says the Arapahoe Bee, we
knew almost every man i'll the county, but
today nine men out of every ten we meet
are unknown to US.
Chandeliers offer of block OF land on
which to build Touring mill has brought
several syUdcates ia that direction to in
vestigate the matter.
1t is said that Councillor Wrghtsman
lost his pass and pocketbook the other
night in Washington. The boys are max
ing UP purse 10 get him home on.
The Oklahoma Press says that Sid Clark
has given up all hopes of being appointed
governor and is now working for the ap-
pointment of Judge Lowe of Guthrie
The Kansas City Times says that the
grand and self-rellaut spine of the people
of Oklahoma shows that they propose to
take care of their own tornado sufferers.
The board of regents of the norma
school az Edmond met at that place on
Wednesday night and selected Mrs. Doug
las, Professor Thatcher and Superintend
ent Umholtz as teachers for the ensuing
year.
The attorney general Of the United
States has written that five days each
month will be deducted from the time of
Imprisonment of the Oklahoma United
States prisoners in custody at Saltwater,
MINI.
w. F. Bruce, who lives on a claim in
the Iowa country, was in Perkins the
other day showing a specimen of gold
quartz which he declared had been found
less than twenty miles south of the town.
The Journal says that Mr.. Bruce claims
that the ore is plentiful and that samples
n a of
Louis.
A telegram received from Captain Stiles
brought the good news to Mayor Mitscher
of Oklahoma City that his requisi-
ton for fifty tents for the cyclone
sufferers had been honored by the war
department and that they would be for
warded Immediately. The Santa Fe
brings them from ST. Louis free of charge
for transportation. They will be distrib-
uted from Moore aud Norman.
Purcell Topic: We publish the follow
ing for the benefit of our local fisherman,
that they may know when to fish, when
the sign is right in the moon" According
to veteran continental angler, who has
recently given the world the result of his
observations, fishes bite most freely dur
ing the four or five days after the moons
first quarter, while from the third day
after the last quarter to the second day. be-
fore the new moon the sport is at its
worst.
Leader: w. F. Garthwaite, who has
been in town some weeks incorporating
as an insurance agent and collecting pre-
miums before delivering the policies. was
arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff
Iansey. and turned over TO Sheriff Wiki
erson of Shawnee county, Kau. He is
in the Sunhower state for some
acts of embezzlement committed before
trying to work Oklahoma suckers. He
was taken north on extradition papers
issued by the governor of Kansas and hon
ored by Secretary Martin.
Capital Among the greatest curiosities
Of the storm is the tree into which spade
IS driven. This was on the farm of Mr..
Muiiinix. A new spade is stuck sew en-
inches into a black oak tree, two feet in
without breaking the handle or
bending the iron. George Tayi.r brought
The oak tree to town and this afternoon
placed it on the government acre in tent,
TO be exhibited. The admission fee is 10
cents The money IS to go for the benefit
Of the Mullinix family The firm that
the spade stuck in the tree
has offered 500 for the tree. They want
it as an exhibit of their wares. The body
Of the tree is about ten feet long.
The papers of Washita county are pub
fishing glorious accounts OF the rapid
development in that portion of the terri
tory. The Cloud Chief of that county
says: 1--WE wish that some of the people
who are living on rented land in the old
states, eking out An existence, could see
the splendid shape the homesteaders are
getting in, in this country. lu five years
hence many of these same renters Will be
here, renting land that they might own
had they they the grit 10 come now and
yet it. They can live here better right
from the start than many do on rented
land all the time. We have 10 hardshipS
10 undergo. as ali provisions can be had
here as cheap as anywhere. Work Is
plenty at good pay for those who wish TO
labor. Not telling what another year will
bring forth. come ere it is too late aud get
you claim