The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-24
Outlines of Oklahoma

Blaine county viii ship five times as much
cotton this year as she did last.
j. Y Callahan is building a granary
which viii hold three thousand bushels.
AS an index OF increased business the Bank
OF Enid has had TO employ another clerk
Out at Alva A C. Towne and George
V:ckers have formed a law partnership.
a baIoonatic announces that he viii
ascend today from Kinghsher rain or shine
Watson, the new postmaster at FL Reno,
{, one of the finest gentleman in the terri
try.
Sooner or later FL Reno and Oklahoma
City are going TO have fight for CONNER
cial supremacy.
George V. Mental, the dry goods man al
End, has gone into the base ball club bust
ness on the side.
Lawyers say that the law OF the land does
rot permit a board Of equalization 70 raise
the total assessment
Jerry Howe of the Santa Fe at Oklahoma
City has been put IN charge OF the Newkirk
station for thirty days.
The total receipts of the Chandler relief
fund reached $5.02s.66 The relief commit
tee stin has on hand 1851
c. l. Botsford OF Norman. splendid man,
is running for one of the judgeships. He
would be an honor 10 the bench.
II is possible that Alfred Son, convicted
of killing Hoffman. and now IN the penni-
tertiary. VII be granted new trial.
The country is talking about Oklahoma S
wheat crop but the country viii forget II
when It hears from Oklahoma's cotton.
Benjamin Franklin Carter a rain maker al
Oklahoma City claims ne made the down.
pour which struck Oklahoma last Monday
night.
The Kingfsher Reformer says there has
been more lumber taken out OF that city in
the last two weeks than there had been in
the las; two ears.
The drouth in eaver county st!ll comb
tinues, but the people out there say that
they don't need rain. They have learned
how to get along without it.
Whooping cough is having a run among
the adults OF Beaver county. An oud man
with whoop-ng cough shakes the earth
every time he has an attack.
The PopuIst papers are charging that
before taking Logan county as a basis the
territorial board OF equalization raised the
assessment OF Logan county 81 per cent.
The Enid Wave has figured out that the
average age of bride in Oklahoma Is 10
and the average age of the groom 40 This
shows that the bride likes to get up close
10 the expiration OF a life insurance policy.
The fellows a Oklahoma City are all
talking about going 10 K.ondyke. The
Wichita mountains are nearer and good
grass feed abounds in the Wichita noun
ta,ns. All they would have to 1--we on in
Alaska would be fricaseed ice.
Guthrie Leader: A military board of sur
yey composed of Captain ARIEL. Captain
Wheeler and Lieutenant Laux is in inter-
mittent session at the rate of 50 per day.
The board was ushered into existence by q
misunderstanding between Adjutant Cen
eral ROsenbaum and Colonel Stiles, of the
First regiment. During the recent encamp-
ment in this city General Rosenbaum. then
Quartermaster, issued box OF blankets to
the Oklahoma City company. The goods
were received by Colonel Stiles, and upon
examination il was found the box was
short a dozen or SO blankets. Rosenbaum
contended the correct issue OF blankets was
slipped, and Stiles maintained the issue
was short. The board must row virtually
settle the dispute between the two off,
GERS. Yesterday the board took volumin-
Gus testimony and then took the case 'un-
der Amusement to await frosh testimony.