The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-16
Outlines of Oklahoma
Dick Plunkett is to be appointed dep'


Dick Plunkett is to be appointed deputy
marshal
Sherman, Texas, cotton frm has
placed buyer al FL Reno.
Two hundred bales OF cotton were mar
keted in Guthrie Saturday.
Perkins expects to be a station on the
| Red Fork and Guthrie road.
The Perkins cotton exchange now has
100 bales OF cotton stored away.
There are forty-five registered dentists
| n Oklahoma, including two women.
| The Alfred Son case IS being retired
at FL Reno. There are g witnesses.
The two Chandler cotton gins have turn
ed out 1,sO0 bales and are still running day
and night
II Saltwater knows what II Is about
| it will get railroad to Perry in double
quick time.
Don Caesar de Bazan. who was capital
| fellow in mis- way, Is just now entertaining g
| Oklahoma audiences.
| Territorial Treasurer Thompson feA with
a stroke of apoplexy in Guthrie Saturday
| afternoon at six o'clock.
o. F. Ballenger Of Perkins. from one
! hill got six sweet potatoes weighing 10
pounds and eleven ounces
Ned Sisson has within a week got so
| that he can tell a posse comitatus from a
per diem with his eyes blindfolded-
A new bank at Saltwater is the Citizens =.
The incorporators are C. II. Wikon. F. X.
| Wikolf, H NJ. Hand and II. E. Hand
o. A Mitscher and Mr.. Parker OF Ok
lahoma City, are at Sunrise City. Alaska.
They will go on to Dawson City in the
| spring.
| During all Oklahoma's career not far
nner mas ever plowed UP a tomahawk- That
story about Indians bury.ng the hatchet
must be fake.
| Mayor Berkey of Guthrie has also issued
Thanksgiving proclamation. Everybody
| in Oklahoma this year sees the propriety
of returning thanks.
| Chandler News: w. ]. Weaver has
strong claims to the championship as a
| cotton picker. He and his two children
have p. .cked 1900 pounds.
The EDITORS at Hennessey today are en-
| aged IN telling one another of how many
cases of hopelessly delinquent recovered
IN their particular vicinity.
| Eli Youngheim, the clothier OF Winfield,
who had a branch store at Saltwater.
has wiped out the branch and removed
! the stock back TO Kansas.
Samuel Dial, OF Payne county. prosecuted
| W. G Martin for criminal libel. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty against Mar
/ tn who was was fined 500 and sent 10
| Jail.
| Oklahoma City will hereafter entore her
| curfew ordinance, which proviiss that all
| children under sixteen years of age found
on the streets after eight o'cloc6 in the
evening shall be arrested.
| In a small eastern Oklahoma town, ac-
| cording to the Gushing Hecali. which fails
| to name the town, there IS no caiaboo Sc
and when a drunken Indian is run IN, he
| is bound hand and foot ana thrown into
the mule lot.
| Ell Reno Star: The compress company
| now has 12o cars of cotton on hand. These
| $500 bales have all been received within
| the past three days, and are awaiting COM
preston. The FL Reno Compress ami Stor-
| age company made no mistake when II
| established a compress in FL Reno.
| Norman Transcript: Cy. Williams Of this
| city, though Democrat, has barrel Of
| fun daily with farmers who k.ck on the
| low price of cotton. One OF his favorite
jokes is explaining why wheat is high in
/ price and cotton low. Cy. tells them that
! Mckinley is taking care OF his friends,
| that wheat ratsers are Republicans, cotton
raisers Democrats and Popul.sts. OK
| course he occasionally gets into a rather
heated debate over the proposition, but II
| affords tun all around.