The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-13
Outlines Of Oklahoma

Up to October / the cotton gin at Cloud
| Chief had turned out 100 bales
The poles for the Pawnee-Perry teie-
| phone line are up and the wire soon viii
be-
Blackwell Is beginning 10 crowd on the
bench with Oklahoma City as a great rai.-
road builder.
A good many men in Oklahoma will
prove up their claims and not wait any
longer for free homes.
When a man IN Oklahoma who hates
Flynn wants 20 be particularly sarcastic
he calls him Little Denn.s.''
The Santa Fe and Rock Island will both
see the day when they Will regret for not
putting a line into Blackwell
In the warrant cases against Payne
county. the county lost. About $4,000 IN
warrants was involved.
4 dozen wagons full OF castor beans set
cut from Taloga for Kingisher The other
day. Castor beans sell for a dollar
bushel.
Take il all in all, Dennis Flynn has made
about as many calls on President McKin-
icy as any other man west OF the Mis-
s;ssippi.
The Saltwater Gazette says that the TO-
cal band can play "A Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight" backward and never
miss a note.
Next year A c. Scott will make a
speech at the Marquette club in Chicago.
the organization before which J. r. Bur-
ton talked last Saturday night.
Floyd Thompson. the youngest son Of
Frank Thompson, territorial treasurer, has
been appointed postmaster az Hope. Ar
kansas. with a salary of 81 500 year.
Walter E Young Of Woodward will leave
for Cuba next week. 1t is limited that
the Spanish government has hired him 10
force Weyler 10 get out OF the country.
The most prosperous spot on the face
Of the earth today is Okla homa. The
people down there ought 10 squeeze the
juice out of the situation while ii is SO
plentiful.
Last Saturday il was 2 O'clock Sunday
morning before the last wagon OF cotton
could unload at the Saltwater cotton gin.
Oh, no. Things are not booming in Payne
county at ali.
Mr. Morris, IS years OF age, living in
Pawnee, had his leg slightly injured. He
did not attend 10 Il. gangrene set in and
4 u.
the opera ton ne died.
No man is true TO Oklahoma when he
does not mark the prosperity items of his
home paper and send copies to his friends
in the east. This ought TO be part of ev-
cry Oklahoman's religion.
The misunderstanding society Of cotton
p.ckers in Payne county have a new
scheme. They have a long sled. attached
to a horse. On this sled they sit, pick
the cotton and yell Get up" to the nag.
1t is a great improvement.
The contract for the further grading Of
the Hutchinson Southern has been let TO
]. D. Alexander of Wichita. He must fin
ish his work by December Is. He will put
seventy men and teams 10 work at once.
Blackwell will see q locomotive before
Christmas.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal There
has been so much said of late In the dis
patches relative to the effect the protract-
ed drouth is having upon the winter wheat
acreage. that the T,mes-Journal represen-
tatives made a tour OF twenty-five miles
over Oklahoma county yesterday 10 de-
,ermine the condition of wheat here and
to note the acreage. Dry weather has re-
tarded sowing, but it VIII not affect the
acreage that will be put in this fall.
Ninety per cent Of all stubble land has
been plowed. and fifty per cent of all
stubble land is now green with the new
wheat crop. 1t Is looking as we'll as 1t Is
possible for wheat 10 look under perfect
conditions. There is yet a month In which
to do the rest Of the sowing In addition
10 the green wheat fields which represent
fully fifty per cent Of stubble land, a con-
siderable acreage of seeded fields has not
come up yet. The extent of this latter is
difficult to estimate, but our guess is that
it represents fully one-fourth OF the whole |
stubble area. This would leave % per
cent of the wheat area yet 20 be put in |
the ground. were it not for the fact that |
some are getting their corn and kaffir out |
of the way and are putting the ground IN |
wheat. This and the new sod ground will |
equal about five per cent of the area OF I
small grain stubble. The wheat area will |
exceed the wheat and oats area OF the /
past season by five per cent.