The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-03
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| Washita county is just now busy rub
bing the rust of the plow shares
In northern Oklahoma the farmers are
| looking for a May harvest Of wheat
| The first engine into Blackwell, on
March I, was greeted with glad acclaim.
The Chickasaw National bank at Pur-
| cell has S224 3SS. % in individual deposits.
The other day a man paid 500 an acre
| for some land adjoining South Oklahoma
| City.
The railroad arrived at Blackwell on
| the evening of February Is, and got its
bonus.
Ex-Attorney GaIbraith, of Oklahoma. il
is said, is getting ready TO HE him TO
Hawaii
Bell Comet, mare five years old. at
| Pcnca City, recently made half-mile in
| 81 seconds.
The Saltwater State doesn't think there
will be war with Spain, and blames the
money oligarchy-
A B. Cornwen marketed last week at
Ponca City 2.210 bushels of cane seed,
which brought him Sl.T00
The Santa Fe will build a spur from the
station Walker, six miles and half 70
the town of Lexington.
The Santa Fe depot at Oklahoma City
! is being sprayed with paint, new pro-
| cess of adjoining a building.
FL Reno Star: The president Of the
Perry Commercial club is not very high
priced article. His name is Tobitz.
| The Methodists OF Kildare will erect a
church which will cost s.. 900. The enter
| prise comes out Of q rousing revival
Grandma Bills, a popular old lady OF
! Washita county, is dead. She was born
! in Tennessee in 1925, and married in 1S41-
Ponca City heard explosions of powder
| in the direction of Blackwell when the
new railroad arrived at the latter place.
Is the Blackwell road an extension of
the Hutchinson Southern, or is it a sepa-
rate road? There seems TO be some doubt
on this point.
Business certainly must be booming
with a roar at Oklahoma City. man
there has actually had to advertise for
a stenographer.
In the center of the Wichita reservation
| there is said TO be fine grove of sugar
naples. There are no other sugar naples
within 250 miles of these.
Freeman Millers new volume of poems
just issued is marred by a poor portrait
of Captain Payne which is used as a
frontispiece. a good cut of Captain Payne
was never made.
y man stole the cud from a cow the
other day and presented it TO the editor
of the Ponca City Courier as a curiosity.
There ought to be a law protecting the
cows from souvenir-fendS.
The first sign of spring in most of the
Oklahoma towns is the soft, gentle voice
of the auctioneer as he steps out into the
street and makes a remark which jars
the SCOT down the stove-pipes.
At an open air meeting last Sunday in
western Oklahoma, while the wind was
blowing a gale, the minister said: The
congregation will now turn its back to the
wind and sing Hymn No. II, page H."
Perry Enterprise: We want to call the
attention of our benevolent people and
societies to a poor old negro woman. 30
years DID, who has a paralyzed daughter
and lives in Perry, in a tumbled down
dug-out. As far as we can learn the old
Auntie is worthy and deserving and is
very needy, subsisting wholly on charity.
Here is a subject who needs the aid of the
good Christian people of Perry much
more than the disciples of Confucius in
China or the HOttentots or cannibals OF
the islands of the sea.