The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-01
Outlines of Oklahoma

Ringing Brothers are reported 10 have
sold 1890 tickets n Enid.
j. Foucart has received the contract for
building the Alva Normal school
The best agricultural exhibit made al the
Wichita Fair is by oklahoma county.
In Kay county, II is said. 50 per cent
OF the wheat grown IS still unthreshed-
Up to date 20 bales Of cotton have
been giuned n Oklahoma City this sea-
son.
The Santa Fe following the Rock Island
( will also send out a car full OF Oklahoma
products.
All the threshing machines in Oklahoma
expect to work right On through the win
ter.
II IS time that FL Reno's compress was
off and leave il.
In some ne,ghborhoods IN Kay county
for a distance Of five miles not a thresher
has yet been al work
There IS one cotton field on the Ponca
reservation OF five hundred acres. II is
the largest cotton field in Oklahoma.
Some day there is liable 10 be a grand
kick over the way in which Superintead-
ent Hopkins petitions were secured.
Frank Greer invites Powell Clayton 10
move TO Oklahoma. II this Mr.. Greer vii.
be heartily Joined by Governor Barnes.
His friends say that \. c. Scott was the
victim OF a school book company which
didn't want him 10 get the appein tment.
Ponca City is dead set for a cotton gin.
II has lots of cotton surrounding the town
h1tf for lf-lS h.
Of the Int.
The jury in Grant county acquitted Frank
Worcester. However, the Enid wav=,
which on certain days imagines itself
above the jury system, kindly convicts
him.
The number Of people in Oklahoma
towns who go down 10 the depots and
crawl into cars TO get a drink OF ice water
have diminished since yellow fever start
ed up in Texas.
II is said that Territorial Superintendent:
Hopkins VIII go after Professor Muir
eaugh's scalp in time. and if he does.
Murdaush Will probably eject some inter
esting information into the fight
II would require a train of twenty cars
10 haul the oats and wheat OF Mr.. II. Red
ding. farmer Of Oklahoma county. he
has erected an elevator on his own farm
in order TO handle his immense yield.
A Kansas City paper has dispatch dat
ed Mangum of the same date the publ
cation Of the newspaper. There is no way
on earth in which a dispatch from Greer
county can reach Kansas City on the
same day.
Guthrie Leader: D. E. Turner came in
from Fort Worth. Texas, yesterday morn
ing. A case Of yellow fever was reported
in that city the day previous. and he slip
ped away. The stricken man came there
from Beaumont They have cut the rail-
road tracks al one point and threaten VEN
geance 10 all parties coming north from
the infected district.
Guthrie Capital: A spark from an en-
CINE set fire TO the middle wooden span of
the Cimarron railroad bridge early last
evening. a Santa Fe engine and crew
rushed to the bridge, eXtinguished the
blaze and stopped a south-bound freight
The bridge supports We're slightly weaken
ed. and wrecking crew worked all night
repairing the structure. Timely discovery
prevented the total destruction of the
bridge.
Perry Enterprise: Five desperate look
ing fellows rode into town yesterday even
ing and IN a short time one of their gang
was arrested for carrying concealed arms
and landed in jail. The balance of the gang
threatened 10 make 1t a warm town II
their ''pard" was not released and said
they would get him out during the night.
II is not known whether he was assisted
or not. but it is thought ne was. but he
dug hole through the jail and got away
curing the night He eraded the officers
and made good his escape. They are after
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