The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-27
Outlines Of Oklahoma

| Cotton is g.nned for s. bale OF $40 pounds
and is compressed for 90 cents bale.
| Frank Dale has given 1900 towards Ok
| iahoma C.ty's fifty thousand dollar bonus
| The county commissioners have been ask
| ed TO add 1s9 acres to the TOWNSHIP Of Null
! hall
1t is reported that the last has been
| heard of the DeFord charges. The bat
| tie IS over.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal warns
| farmers not to declare that they will get
a dollar or nothing for their wheat
II Governor Barnes wants some more
cyclones ne should name the superintsnd-
ent of public instruction from Guthrie.
Oklahoma's wheat farms viii now go be-
hind the scenes and Oklahoma's planta-
tons will take the middle OF the stage
On ". s. Sherman's plantation. near FL
Reno cotton picking Will begin September
I. He Will pay 30 cents a hundred pounds
The fellows at Guthrie are playing the
wheat market hard A good many OF them
should expect TO hit the ceiling and dent
il.
Oklahoma City isn't caring half as much
for territorial appointments as 1t is for
railroads. Oklahoma City is mighty wise
town.
The freight receipts in Guthrie for July
and August have been 8 per cent higher
than those of a year ago for the same
period.
The way for the Oklahoma farmer to de-
tect sharpers and takers is 10 patronize men
who advertise That is the only absolutely
safe way.
When a town gets citizen like Grist Mil
Jones, that town has fortune. Can any
man compute what he has done for Okla
homa City?
Answer TO correspondent: The Oklahoma
Outlines in this paper first appeared in
April, 1889 They have run continuously
ever since.
If Oklahoma has forty million dollars
worth of products TO sell this year. the
whole territory ought TO be wearing dia-
monds next winter.
The northern negro is not an expert at
picking cotton, but the demand for labor 10
so great in Oklahoma that northern COL
ored men can secure Jobs easily.
Every Oklahoma man should send mark
ed copies OF his home paper TO eastern
friends If he hasn't the industry and pub
lie interest to do that he should move 10
Old Mexico.
Raising a bonus makes a man love his
town the more. Get a man 10 put as much
as SIS in the fortunes of a town and he
" Ill talk himself blind over the advantages
of that town.
The equalization case will in all likeli-
hood be decided by the supreme court Sep
TENDER g. The territorial board Will be
knocked out in its action raising the total
assessment. This is almost certain.
Every time an Oklahoma man sees some
thing favorable TO Oklahoma In his home
paper. let him buy ten and send them TO
friends in the east Every Oklahoman
should do this He is adding dollars to the
price OF his Oklahoma holdings every time
ne does it.
Auditor Nichols says that no effort will
be made TO comply with the separate school
law, which was passed by the last legisla-
ture The law has been declared void by
Judge Keaton, sitting as district judge.
He holds that il is too ambiguous TO be I'M
derstood and his decision shall remain in
force until it shall be reversed by higher
court.
The citizens OF West Guthrie are clamor-
ing for bridge across Noble avenue and
for sidewalks on al least the principal |
streets. They say that another bridge Is |
a bsolutely necessary, as at certain times the |
Fifth avenue bridge is overtaxed with /
travel and not enough TO handle all that !
comes across. They think West Guthrie |
pays enough taxes 10 deserve another |
bridge