The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25
Outlines Of Oklahoma

Shawnee has received 17.oo0 bales OF cot
ton I'D 20 date.
This is Oklahoma City's week at the sa-
pulpa extension.
Lincoln county was bonded Monday IN
the sum of $4,000.
The New York Herald has long. Illus
trat=d write-up of the gold fields OF Okla
honla.
Senator Ravens. of Enid, has found his
bulI-cslf, eight miles west of Kokomo.
Indiana
N R. Lee, of Tecumseh. arrested for
crime committed tyenty years ago. was be-
trayed by cousin in Texas for so.
]. D. Passenger, who lost heavily in fire
at Shawnee, is suing the insurance COM
pan.es for the amount Of his policies.
Only thirty deaf. dumb or blind people
can be received al the new asylum at
Guthrie. which contains twenty rooms.
Fred Michel, who has been the Rock Is
lands cashier at FL Reno, has been pro-
NOTED TO travelling auditor of that road.
Some of the Strip people charge that old
Oklahoma has statehood on the brain so
hard that II Is forgetting about free homes.
Ned s!sson is carrying a thermometer.
He is going to take his temperature the
first time he meets an outlaw face to
face.
Will Kennedy, of Garfield county, tried
rough on rats on prairie dogs and they
fattened on It. He wants poison now that
is poison.
A wild coyote ran through one OF the
principal streets OF Enid the other day and
Joe Truitt, a citizen, mistook it for dog
and whistled-
z. A King. a farmer OF washita county,
says that his estimate, which IS conserva-
tive, is that Washita county raised 5000
bales of cotton.
Nine. Williams, a New York French
tailor, employed by the government. is at
Darlington teaching the young squaws her
system of dress cutting.
Reverend Burt of Oklahoma City has
brother-in-law in the Ohio state senate, w.
G. Leet. who. according to Reverend Burt,
will vote against Hanna.
Guthrie Leader: E. s. Donnelly on Sat-
uriay last sold his drug store on Okla
homa avenue to VIII Wheeler. and viii,
in the near future, depart from the city.
In the Oklahoma City council resou-
ton was adopted providing that telephone
and electric light poles should be set only
under the supervision of the city engi-
neer.
John Mock of Kremlin, who was recent
ly released from the Norman asylum as
free from insanity. killed himself Sunday
by firing two loads from a shotgun into
his body.
Returning from hunt. Horace Wilson.
Fl. II. Howard, Harry Hickey, Jack Will
Jams and Judge Beatty gave game sup
per to their friends at Oklahoma City the
other evening
An only daughter at Shawnee told her
parents she was going to Oklahoma City
to clerk in g store. The parents physi-
clan afterward found the girl in low
dive at Shawnee, very sick
The Oklahoman says that when the
Frisco officials Were in that city they re-
quested the paper to not say anything
about their presence. as they did not want
to be annoyed by Guthrie people.
Joe MarrifeId, who has a wagon yard
and a well sixty feet deep. fifty miles west
of FL Reno. is making fortune. AL trav-
elerSstop with him and water their teams
and he charges five cents team. One day
recently ITO teams were watered there
Two leagues of land were sold by Greer
county TO William Cameron, OF Waco,
when IL was thought the county was a
part of Texas. Since Greer county. by a
decision of the supreme court. has been
declared part of Oklahoma, Cameron has
been trying to recover the land. The at
torney general at Austin is preparing 10
begin suit against the officials OF Greer
county for recovery under a recent act
of the Texas legislature, passed for this
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