The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-18
Outlines of Oklahoma

Harry Thompson, a successful farmer OF
Grant county. plows eight feet leep.
A contractor at Medfo-d says he VIII
give s. cay to four more carpenters
Owing TO the damp weather and bad
reads N western Oklahoma cotton is conn
ing in slowly.
AT Shawnee cotton is selling az from
s6.35 TO $50 per hundred pounds in the
bale.
Mrs. Newton Burwen Of kingfsher has
decided 70 get a stock Of the new Won
Gerful African cotton
Thirteen carloads Of merchandise IN two
days exclusively for local merchants is a
recent record by FL Reno.
William Cooley, famous Wichita mount
ain gold miner, has some quartz specimens
on exhibition in e. Reno.
Abe Muikey, the evangelist, has quit
Texas and is working north again. He
is at present at Ardmore.
II rained in the Strip September t. And
every man in the Strip noted II and re-
membered one September Is when il didn't
rain
Guthrie Is to have a road from Sapulpa,
too. ". P. Anderson of Chandler and
F. H. Brown Of Girard, Kansas, are 10
build il.
The e. Reno Star believes that Okla
homa and Indian Territory contain enough
asphaltum 10 pave every section n the
two territories.
The Kingfsher Reformer announces that
John II. Hail of Grant township recently
received on one night one girl baby and
thirteen pigs.
Palmer. of the Medford Patriot. thinks
that much of the destruction of wheat
stacks by fire could be prevented by the
Use OF gasoline engines.
The papers all over the territory are
slashing il TO Guthrie because some of her
business men acted funny with the scales
that weigh cotton. 1t wasn't Guthrie's
fault.
Is. T. Fa!ner called on the president and
the attorney general the other day. but
The door keeper didn't appreciate the hang
OF that Prince Albert coat and wouldn't
.eL cIm in.
The Medford Patriot points out that
farm can be bought in Grant county with
the money i, takes to get to Klondike not
saying anything about tie pie II takes
10 get back.
Reverend James Noble and Miss Simp-
son have been married at FL Reno. The
bride is a daughter OF Major Simpson.
The groom is rector of the Episcopal
church of Little Rock.
The case of D. r. Green of Grant COIN
ty Cannon Ball GREEN has been submit
ted 10 arbitration and will not come TO
trial. Frank Worcester is being tried be-
lore the district court.
Captain Baldwin of the Commanches mas
been summoned to Washington. The de-
partment wants light on some OF the beef
and other things. There may
be another investigation.
Guthrie Capital: A letter was received
Yesterday from Frank Cress, dated at St.
Alaska, 10 the company VINO
sent him to the gold fields. He says there
is TO doubt about there being gold In
but the question is how 10 keep
alive until spring. He and w. w. Painter
and Frank Canton have purchased a boat
loaded It with 5000 pounds of provisions,
and have started for Dawson City. They
have an abundance of provisions and are
getting along nicely.
A message from Grande, Day county,
states that there is great excitement there
over the grand jury investigation OF the
recent burning of the court house. County
Treasurer Downing and County Clerk |
Wolck have been arrested under ind.ct- |
ments connecting them with the burning, |
and put under $500 bonds each. Eight
other indictments have been returned in |
he same matter, several against the most !
prominent men in the county. and sensa- !
.lonal arrests in the unearthing of a 81 |
5ant;c conspiracy Is promised.