The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-11
Outlines of Oklahoma

The new telegraph wire from Kansas
south has been strung as far as Guthrie
Ned S.sson OF Enid made connections at
last He is to be field-deputy Of the Usage
Nation
The Guthrie bonus for a railroad got into
Governor Barnes pocket-book TO the ex-
tent of 500.
". A. White. groceryman. at Perkins.
closed his store the other day 10 satisfy
his creditors
]. H. Love of Cleveland county has in
ninety acres of cotton, forty of which is
still unpicked.
The Santa Fe is again considering build
ing south from Arkansas City TO Black
well or Kay Center.
FL Reno is not talking much railroad. but
il is having a genuine old boom. This IS
the evidence OF the travelling men
Guthrie Leader: Shoestring Smith has
returned to Pond Creek flushed with the
hope that the federal jailorship will dangle
at his belt.
The Norman Transcript says that the
man who has to hire his cotton picked
will get very Ettle out of his cotton crop
this season.
Guthrie has raised her fifty-thousand dol
lar bonus for that railroad. with the un-
derstanding that 1t is TO be completed
July 3, 1895.
Hubert Walcott, who used TO live in
Guthrie, was elected a state senator from
Cleveland. Ohio, the other day. He is a
Hanna man.
One of the leading merchants OF Okla
homa City had four extra clerks last Sat-
urday, and then couldn't wait on every
body who called.
1t is said that when the Sapulpa extern
sion gets into Oklahoma City or the Red
Rock extension into Guthrie coal will be
only $3.50 a ton in Oklahoma.
Guthrie and Oklahoma City think that
getting another railroad or two will settle
the capital question. Nit. The west side
is going 10 be heard in that yet
Jake Roberts, OF Kingfisher, was over
in Guthrie the other day watching the su-
preme court and wondering how ne would
lock when perched up above the multi
tude.
Frank McMaster calls Governor Barnes
autagonism to his position-that the pri-
vate soldier in this county has never been
duly recognized for his worth" disgrace
full"
The biggest fight in Oklahoma will come
when the final location of the capital
comes up Western Oklahoma will then
pu5 Up the fight for IT'S life. So Will the
Rock Island railroad.
In Kay county II is going to be impos-
s.ble to try the fellows charged with burn
ing the county building. because every
body IN the county knows about il, and
a jury can not be secured.
The man who is travelling about over
Oklahoma selling bicycles at auction had
trouble at Oklahoma CITY. He put up one
bicycle and some one bid s.. No one else
raising this, the owner of the wheel, that
is, the auctioneer, bid SO. There was a
row and the auctioneer quit the town.
Queer death notice in Perry Enterprise:
Miss Ida Sommers. the young lady who
came here a stranger about a month ago,
and was insulted at the depot by brute
who ought TO have been hung 10 one OF
the trees on Cow creek, died few days
ago, and was buried at Shaner's cemetery
near her fathers, H. A. Harmon.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The
Choctaw is again discussing the building
of its line westward from Ell Reno into the
heart of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe coun-
try. II is only a question of time, and
a short time at that, until such extension
becomes reality, for 1t would put the Choc-
taw in control of an immense traffic and
add very materially to the value OF the
Choctaw system.