The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-16
Outlines OF Oklahoma

IN S4e N1clnltE OF lAcIc 1NO
1000 acres planted in peanuts
Today is when the cities Of Grant coun-
ty go after enc another in warm shape.
The Perkins Journal believes that the
railway mileage IN Oklahoma VIII double
in eighteen months
Judge Irwin viii be christened and
adopted by Oklahoma al the G. A. R.
meeting IL KIngfsher this week
Tom McMullen and bride of Pawnee
county recently started for Colorado in a
prairie schooner on their honeymoon.
Dennis Flynn and Governor Barnes are
both down 10 speak at Kingfsher this
week. They should wear boutieneres of
olive.
The town of Daugherty in the Chicka-
saw nation had one election. All the can
didates tied. Another election has been
called
what has Judge Burford got to say TO
Bob Neff's come back? The judge
shouldn't stir the Strip up with TOO many
decisions.
At Cleveland the old Arkansaw is act
ing crazy. When il rains il goes down.
and when it doesn't rain II rises. Send it
to Norman.
The wheat crop OF Kay county is look
ed upon as assured. The acreage is
much greater than that OF 1897, the year
OF the big crop.
Roses are now an old story in Okla
homa. but for the first year or two a
rose was valued more highly than an
orange or a banana.
The people near okarche are raising
money to build new homes for the Teufel
and Jensen families. whose places were
wiped out by a cyclone.
Under the law the county commission
ers in Payne county cannot meet until
July and they are wanted badly now. as
several bridges have been wiped out.
The Chickasha Gazette says that since
the cyclone the appearance OF a few
clouds at night keeps. people from getting
sleepy. They are not afraid-they simply
are not sleepy.
Bill Walker ought 70 be glad that ne is
out of that Indian agency. It is impos-
sible for an Indian agent to be anything
but stone by the road side for every
Indian official to give a kick.
j. c. Walls of Norman, has sued the
Santa Fe for $500 damages. He charges
that the engineer maliciously blew the
whistle to frighten the pony his son was
riding. The pony threw the boy and
broke his arm.
A lot Of Cherokees who took aEotments
just before the opening of the strip have
The nation and the Dawes commission
is now doing them out allotments again.
Lo the poor Indian, his mind is not as
untutored as the poet thought.
Ernest Roe recently visited Cleveland
fell in with one of fun Indian blood like
himself. named Tom Tallchief. They
painted the town, made bills and skipped
without paying. The other day Roe came
back with a white flag. apologized to the
! authorities and settled all his bills.
Forty-one final proofs were recently
cent back from Washington TO Register
Boles at Perry because he had not taken
fees enough from each settler to the
amount of 81 to the quarter There was
a question about the amount of fees the
law provides and the register gave the
| doubt in favor of the settler.
W. s. Denton, an attorney Of Enid, re-
| Gently fell on a defective sidewalk and
broke his arm, which had been broken
before. He sued the city for 5000 II
| he should win the case that city wouldn't
do thing TO him in the future. In the
west it isn't patriotic to sue a city for
| damages because of defective sidewalks,
| for all western cities have them.
| Norman Transcript: The lightning on
Friday Of last week played several freaks
in Norman, but none resulted seriously.
About 1880 p. m. bolt struck the house
of DR.. ". T. y. Able. in West Norman.
| II hit an ornamental flue about the middle
of the mouse, and after shattering 1t, ran
! down into the front room. Mrs. Able was
on a chair. fixing window curtain. and
was knocked senseleSs by the shock. Two
! other people were in the room and were
! also severely shocked, but all soon re-
I covered. The lightning shattered the
I house in several places, drew the nails
/ out of the screen door. and played sew
| eral similar pranks. Another frolicsome
! bolt came down into w II. SeawelP s
! house. north of the opera house. and
! tore the paper off portion of one Of the
rooms, going down through the floor.
| MIR. Seawell was sitting b ythe stove, but
says he got away in short order how,
| he doesn't know. Ths same bolt Sc
verely shocked Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Mays.
who were standing in the door Of their
residence, knocking Mrs. Mays down.