The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-22
Outlines of Oklahoma

Oklahoma viii be expected to furnish
only sixty volunteers.
The visible supply of residences in Ok
lahoma City is said to be still very low.
| The lumber companies in Oklahoma
have as much litigation as the railroad
companies.
Ths government will take the propsr
step 10 told the Indians down since The
withdrawal of troops.
There are two county seat fights On in
Oklahoma. but the war has drowned them
out-thank heaven for il
Company F at Shawnee has been drill
ing and is now able to scare a Spaniard
to death by a right wheel
For time the cars to carry the troops
from Ft. Reno did not arrive and the sol
diers were wild with impotence.
A Rent and Purchase society has been
formed at Chandler. This is another name
for a building and loan association.
Saltwater has a restaurant called ths
Narrow Guage." ana It says IL pieases
the taste of the most critical epicur4
They must be a curiosity at Earlboro.
The Plain People there says: Several
travelling men were seen on our streets
Saturday"
Major Woodson expects to come back
and resume his place as Indian agent after
the war is over. 1t is plain TO be seen
that the major doesn't expect TO be shot.
At a ciphering match in Pawnee coun-
ty. the local paper says the guests feast
ed on the fat of the land and tripped
the light fantastic toe"
While Callahan was in Oklahoma he left
L(xNrv TT-HF.
the duties of mis- office. and Roy is said to
have liked the job so well that he has de-
cided that he must have it.
Charles Weik of Saltwater eeesnt,y fel
heir t. $i.on0. COO When az cana 10 gel tire
money he found it was $4,000 But he was
awfully glad to get that. He will con-
tinue to reside in Oklahoma
Ponca City Courier:-Down at Stuart, on
the Choctaw railroad, feed dealer has up
q sign which reads: 'Korn. for. Sail"
This is the same place where the con-
ductor has to get out and kick the hogs
off the track to allow the locomotive TO
proceed
The pasture lands of the Usage nation
are leased from the Indians through the
interior department in fenced tracts OF
sometimes as high as $1,000 or 90, 900 acres
q.
Persons who have leased in that country
say that there has been a great rush for
pasture lands this year. and that they
had no trouble in subleasing what they
did not want themselves.
Guthrie Capital:-Mrs Ida NJ. Dyer, for
mer wife OF D. B. Dyer, the first mayor of
Guthrie, is at the Royal hotel. Mrs. Dyer
was for many years resident of FL Reno
in the wild Indian days, and wrote a book
Of great interest on Indian character and
early day life in the Indian Territory.
Mrs. Dyer was here in 1889 for a week
She is a woman Of rare intelligence. She
will visit FL Reno and other places in the
territory before returning to her home in
Kansas CITY.
Guthrie Leader:-Mrs. j. c. Strang, wife
Of the county attorney. died suddenly at
o'clock yesterday morning at her home
On East Noble street The deceased had
been i'll but ten days and her condition at
no time was regarded as alarming. Mr..
Strang is confined to his room prostrared
with the shock Miss Lulu Strang, who is |
attending school in New York, has been |
Mrs. Strang. during her stay |
n this city. has become a society favor I
tie, and her untimely death at the age Of |
A years is an irreparable loss to her hus- !
)and. her daughter, Miss lone. and her |
many friends. She was united in mar
iage to Judge Strang at Carthage, Mo,
wo years ago last September. and shortly
Ifter came TO this city TO reside, where
he at once took a leading place in So
iety. The funeral will take place from
he Strang residence at O'Clock this at
ernoon.