The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-25
Outlines of Oklahoma.


Everybody at the district court session
in Beaver county went free.
Mr.. Eastman. the new land office off,
cial at Enid, arrived there yesterday.
Nearly all the papers contain notices
from farmers forbidding hunters TO tres
pass on their places
They are talking Of fattening hogs on
peanuts over in Payne county. 1t is said
to be a splendid fattener.
The office Of game warden IN Oklahoma
is vacant. But no one is after It The
fellows are simply tired out.
Beaver county is in an uprosr. The
Tanchmen are weaving the calves, and
they are bawling, thousands of EN-
Out near Beaver county the mattresses
in a Rock Island restaurant dress in red
at breakfast, white at dinner. and blue at
supper.
Everybody who knows him will be glad
to hear that Jake Scheizer, formerly of FL
Reno. has struck a bonanza in the Jop-
lin district.
There is the color of personality to the
Hardesty Herald. so precious in a news
paper. 1t is a welcome publication wher-
ever it goes.
A county officer in Beaver county was
prosecuted for being in debt to the coun-
ty. An Investigation showed that the
county was in debt to him.
T. B. Malloy, the fisherman OF Perkins,
Tas presented with a rocking chair by
his friends the other day, the occasion
being his eightieth birthday.
President Scott continues to put his
best thought and effort on the advance
ment of the college at Saltwater, and he
is getting that reward OF Woodworking
men-results.
Perkins and Saltwater are having rat
ting old war over cotton, and the farmers
have to leave their smiles in the back
yard before they can get through the
kitchen door.
Bill Knipe has quit craftsmanship and
gone into cottoniZing. The other day as
an emissary from Perkins he swooped
down on Saltwater and bought all the
cotton in sight.
Riddle by Editor Quinn Of the Hardesty
Herald: What is the difference between
a snake and a flea? There isn't much.
only a snake crawls on his belly and a
flea is not particular"
The Beaver County Herald says: Cat
tie are going into Liberal from all points
of the compass, but mainly from the
south and west This is the greatest
shipping year in the history of that end
of the Rock Island
Gushing is stirred up over rumor that
Guthrie men are scheming to have the
Oklahoma and Eastern miss Gushing.
The Gushing Herald is lighting a Mis-
souri, life insurance company which is op-
Grating in that region.
Birth notice in the Perkins Journal:
"Mr. and Mrs. Chester Shannon have a
new sovereign at their house. The little
cherub arrived Monday. and on account
of the railroad excitement has promised
to remain for some time.
Mrs Tate at Perkins pitched her tent
on a lot on which was a well. The well
belonged to Mr.. Craig He went after
some water and Mrs. Tate fought him
away from the pump. He got the water,
however, and had an injunction served on
Mrs. Tate not to interfere with his prop
erty. She flashed back with warrant
for his arrest for assault and battery.
How full-grown. like Minerva, some hti-
cations are born.
Hardesty Herald: The Cimarron News
published at Kenton. in the west end OF
this county, speaks thusly Of Beaver
county's mining interests: 1.-THE Carriso
mining camp is live place nowadays
Men of experience and men without ex-
perience are there hunting for rich cop
per leads. For the past twelve years min
ers have hunted, prospected and worked
to find metal in paying quantity. Its dis
lance from railroad has been against its
development. At this time more capital
is interested than has been at any pre-
vious time. More stable men have taken
slold and will spend their money in thor
oughly testing the leads and veins that
are known to exist, and we trust they
will meet with success. Lamar peaple are
already thinking of a trolley line to the
camp via Springfield. a distance of So
miles. If the camp goes 1t will be greatly
to the advantage of Kenton and the val
ley. as well as Baca county and Lamar.
Colorado. The mines are located u or Is
miles north of here"