The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-02
Outlines of Oklahoma.

No dead cattle as d result of the snow
storms in Beaver county are yet reported
Norman has had less lot and contest
trouble than any other town in the ter
ritory.
1t is planned to name the first town or
ganized IN the Wichita mountains New
Wichita.
Horses are becoming so valuable il Ok
lahoma that men are arrested for steal
ing them.
sam Murphy. as postmaster at oklaho-
ma city, will be thing OF beauty and a
JOY forever.
The latest town TO camp on the Western
Unions trail and demand a down town
Office is Ponca City.
The late T l. ]. Virgins OF Norman
left 10 his widow the heirship to large
properties in England.
Mrs. S. II. Sappington Of Ponca CITY
can weave loo yards of carpet a day. pat
tern, or hit and miss.
The Catholics of Y Gods county viii hold
a meeting today and if enough people at
tend viii make arrangements 10 bulid a
church
Marsh Lambert of Newkirk says that
his eye-sight since he became postmas-
Ter an dbegan TO read postal cards, has
gradually improved.
What is the matter with Oklahoma
Hardly a week passes that someone m the
territory does not go east TO have sur
gical operation performed
A business man of Ponca City received
bill from Iowa the other day for a.
/ cents The fellow who sent il also asked
! interest for thirteen years, 60 cents IN adj
dition.
/ \ new sidewalk has been built up to
the entrance 10 the land Office at Alva
/ and the review says that people may now
( leave their fiat boats AT the other side OF
/ the street.
/ The chain of sand hills running along
+ the Beaver river produce the soap plant
/ which does not grow anywhere else in the
I vicinity. \ big soap plant will last a COW
all day long.
/ On a claim Just east of Ponca City sew
en- thousand sheep were turned into corn
/ field. The sheep ate everything but the
/ stalks and ears The corn-huSkers in that
! neighborhood are thinking of stepping OF
the earth.
The Arapahoe Bee says IT will be salts
/ fed if one of the new railroads reaches
that town by the middle Of next summer.
( In the meantime what the people of that
town want to do is TO pray for another
big whea crop.
The Arapahoe Bee says that some of the
people out there are already kicking be-
cause no trains have arrived over that
tnew railroad from FL Reno. Every com
munity has just such kickers, fellows who
throw tine cold wafer of doubt on every
new and profitable plan proposed
The Kildare Journal announces that al
the single girls who made the race into
Kay county for claims and got them have
now been gobblcd up. together with their
claims They showed their good sense n
most instances by marrying men who alsC
made the run and got claims themselves
Oklahoma City Times-Journal:--A Mr.
| Helm OF Fort Worth is in the city ant
with view TO establishing a board o
! trade on a large scale He is q man. o
wealth and will maintain and operate thu
board so as to give this city the market'
of the world. His scheme is To have th'
citizens, put in a wire from this city q
attach to the wire at Ardmore. where they
| receive the markets Of Liverpool. Chica
| go and New York Connection with rhH
wire Will give this city the same markets
Perry Enterprise: Touched by sympa
thy. Judge Brown. at Guthrie, last Sat
urday cut the regulation Zee for perform
ing the marriage ceremony for an ap
parentlv poverty stricken colored farmer
but when the knot was tied the poor MAJ
unloaded over 5000 from his pocket he
fore he could find the necessary $1.50 II
change. This only affirms the always
held -to-opinion that the ordinary rules o
Judging human nature do not apply
when it comes to guessing which Okla
homa farmers got the button.