The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-31
Outlines of Oklahoma.

| There is every indication that Guthrie
| will be strictly in it this week
| 1t is 663 miles from Weatherford to
Memphis over the Choctaw road.
Carl Cockrel. sixteen-year-old boy OF
Carwile husks 50 bushels OF corn a day.
Leavenworth and Topeka parties have
bought into the Noble county bank OF
Perry.
Tom Ferguson hit Bryan a crack when
he said that every cloud on the horizon
to Bryan is a cyclone.
The Okarche Times Is a paper which
is improving by leaps and bounds. Art
c. Roger is running il.
Mayor Hensley of FL Reno believes that
the sewerage system there will work with
flushing only once month.
The Ell Reno school board has decided
that the American nag shall fly from the
| local school building at all times.
| Politics has become entangled with the
management of the fair out at Taloga,
and a fight about 1t is In progress.
The Watonga Republican says. with
great confidence, that that city viii have
railroad before the roses bloom again.
Everybody in Oklahoma was willing to
bet that the wet weather last week would
Doc johnson of Waukomis took four
Illinois men out in a buggy recently and
in one afternoon sold them section OF
land.
The gauge at the Saltwater college
showed that the rainfall there last
"Wednesday was four and three-quarter
inches.
The delinquent tax list in Payne coun-
l1xrat or
is about one-third shorter than it was
last year.
About half the population Of Dewey
county is at Enid this week attending
court. Three changes of venue from
Dewey county.
The Oklahoma papers have almost all
of them quit bouncing on the delinquent
subscriber Has the delinquent subscri-
Der become extinct?
w. ]. Montrief Of FL Reno has son,
J. V. Montrief, who is in charge of the
mail department on the Island of Cebu,
Philippine archipelago.
For the first time this season at Still
water, the first Of last week the street
sprinkler had to let the streets go dusty
because of lack of water.
Talk about the movement Of real es-
tate! Inc register OF QeeuS III StAi4"d-
ter has received in the last quarter $500
in fees for making transfers.
Judge McAtee is so little impressed
with the charges against the probate
Judge of Blaine county that he calls the
written accusation THE Pickwick Pa
pers."
The Carwile Journal understands that
the road which is now building south
from Kiowa to Augusta, behind which IS
the Missouri Pacific, will go to Enid from
Augusta.
The Ell Reno News wants the city
council to encourage the building OF a
new Choctaw depot, and adds: FL Reno
has been sufficiently cursed with shacks
of depots."
Saltwater Gazette: The railroad sur
veying crew moved camp, Tuesday morn
ing, to q point about half way between
here and Pawnee. They are jolly set
of fellows, and are pushing the survey
through as rapidly as possible
Ponca City Courier: With butter at Is
cents a pound and eggs out Of sight, It
strikes US that this branch Of farming
can be very proftably cultivated. Under
present conditions any amiable, well-bred
hen is easily worth 40 cents a month.
and cow with a little inducement would
easily earn SIS or so a month. 1t is only
a question Of time when attention will
have to turn from wheat farming and
now Is a good time to begin.