The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-07
Outlines of Oklahoma

Two-thirds OF the whea. about En,d y
still standing and is dead ripe
Mr. Ira Hensley OF Cheyenne goes by the
beautiful nickname OF "Doodlebug-"
o. P. Elliott. a Greer county editor and
once a resident OF Fort Scott. Kansas. has
married Miss Georgia Laird
Six weeks ago rha cotton n washita
county looked bad but now the farmers out
there say It VIII make good crop.
Johnny H,nkie OF Perkins isn't devotins
as much time 70 politics as he used 20. but
re is improving his paper. the Perkins Jour-
nal. every week
". s. Sherman of the E; Reno Light COM
pany has 80 acres in cotton near FL Reno
During the last week he has had forty
hands wedding it.
A number of carpet-bag lawyers went In
to Mangum when the land office opened.
but the citizens wanted sheir home lawyers
and froze them out
Major Crozier. the famous lay reader OF
the Episcopal church at Cushing who con-
verts so many Indians. once served as mis-
sionary in Yuca,an.
In blackberry creek. west Of End. baI-
tisiDa recently took place where the mimic
ter just threw the converts INT the middle
OF the stream and let 'em swim out.
The first number Of James Edwin KEEL
ley's lAlius Piaindealer in Greer county Is
out. 1t devotes the major portion Of its
space, very sensibly. 10 sp!cey local news
There is a traveller just now t., Oklahoma
wko visits an editor in each town oonfi3en-
italy and tells him that this is the BEST
town I have struck yet" He was "a End
Monday.
The editor Of the Tecumseh Leader is in
a bai slate of mind. He recognizes that
Okis hema's crops are without preceden:.
but ne insists that God IS given The credit.
not Mckinley.
In four days and nights John Sans near
Ell Reno single cut 16 acres OF wheat with e
six-foot binder, using twelve horses and
doing all the driving himself. Tbs Is the
record in the territory.
Oklahoma has many q man whose ambi-
ton has been satisfied by laying out q town.
calling IL by his name. publishing paper
with his nne as editor and writing person.
ais about his own family.
In the Cheyenne Sunbeam F. G. Bright
Is out in this explanatory card: 1T having
been reported that I have said that Oscar
Candnl had a pen full Of motherless calves
whilst I was working for him. 1 wish TO
publicly deny having said anything Of the
kind The fight has consequently been
called OF.
A travelling man says that Payne county
is not Dragging any. but that no other coun
ty in the territory can surpass II for crops.
Not a single eastern newspaper In men
tioning and booming Oklahoma's Big crop
has been unkind enough to say that Okla
hona doesn't need free homes. In fac,
in the east they do not know what free
homes means.
Gushing Herald: One Of the greatest to-
biographical and geographical cursosities OF
this region is between the mouths OF Coun-
Gil and Still water creeks. on the rocky
nearly perpendicular bluffs of the Cimar-
ron river seven niles northeast OF Gushing.
Large petri4ed or ironfied trunks OF trees
and other pieces of wood az heavy as Iea1
are on the Thistle farm: several varieties
of petrkfied shells are on the Butcher plan
ration; while different kinds of blue and
other nearly unbreakabl strange varieties
of stones are piled up irregularly all
around. Most of the rocks are as hard as
granite and the grey limestone abounds. A
local geoIog,st who knows enough about
the sciences TO be called "a crank" by some
of his ne.ghbors says: There was ter
rife explosion in the bowels OF mother
earth right here, long ago, and I'll bet
there's lots of precious minerals near the
surface. This rugged, rocky place is Diff
ferent from anything l have seen in the
territory, and some strange weeds grow
here owing TO the different conditions OF
tho ground ~