The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-30
Outline. Of Oklahoma


In Oklahoma, trading in Q town out
side the county Il called carpet-oagging.
Il Reno Is going to have a Fourth Of
July celebration that viii blow holes In
| the sky.
The frat load OF baied hay for this sea-
son struck the Ponca City market
| wednesday.
One man in Kay county is so tubilant
L that he has an American flag lying over
| his binder.
| John Corbett. newspaper man Of Ro-
chester, New York. is In Oklahoma City.
looking the field over.
Tonkawa is building a vast arbor for
Fourth Of July. The arbor Is intended to
| seat four thousand people.
Frank Lugert of Noble county was 80
| pleased with the wheat crop that he gave
| big picnic to his neighbors.
The mayor Of Kingfsher has notified
the councilmen that they must be more
euquetical during sessions.
The emolnments from the county print
ing IN Oklahoma are said 10 average
aboue $1,000 year in every county.
The Woodmen Of the World at Norman
were addressed the other evening by Sow
| ereign Master Farmer from Omaha.
Kansas City paper has again sprung
| the old fake that the Indians OF the ter
ritory are preparing to depart for Old
Mexico.
1t is said that some of the Oklahoma
counties are loaded up with enough blank
administrator bonds to last them four
hundred years.
The Oklahoma farmers are buying large
quantities Of machinery again. And a
great many Of them are preparing TO
house 1t as they should.
The Farmers Mutual Insurance socie-
ties In Oklahoma are doing finely. II
run economically and honestly, they will
prove great success.
Edward Sullivan brought the first
wheat into Ell Reno this year. It tested
sixty pounds to the bushel, and ran tllir-
ty bushels to the acre.
The Perry Enterprise has fired all the
advertisements on it's local page TO the
right-hand side OF the page and the i'm
provement is marked
man named Sam Lunden tried TO
strike his wife at Perry, when Council
man Chessher interfered and knocked a
large part OF Lunden's complexion off.
Indians always lend color to a celebra-
ton. 1t Is said that more Indians will
attend the celebration on the Fourth at
FL Reno than have been together for
years.
Oklahoma has had three big successive
wheat crops. A whole lot Of sensible peo-
pie believe she will have four more fol-
lowing enc after the other. and then she
will have failure for seven years.
The season this year Is here when the
quiet Oklahoma town horse meets his
first threshing machine engine face 10
face on the street and has eighteen diff
ferent sort of rainbows scared out of
him.
William Gage. who is only six years of
age. was adjudged insane at Perry the
other day and sent to the asylum. He Is
not feeble-minded. being bright looking
and in good health. What could drive a
siX-year-old boy insane?
Six miles northeast Of Beatrice, Neb.,
on a great farm of so acres, lives Daniel
Freeman. who was the first man 10 take
up n claim under the United States
homestead law The law passed congress
and was signed by the president in 1854
II went into effect on January !. 1913. On
New Years eve a bail was given at
Brownville. Neb.. then the headquarters
of the land office. as the public lands OF
the then Territory Of Nebraska were the
first 10 be thrown open to settlement
Daniel Freeman. then member Of Com
pany II, Seventh Illinois volunteers was
present az the ball. He had been de-
tached from his command and sent west
on secret mission. Just after midnight
young Freeman and Mr.. James Bedford
the assistant register Of the land office
went to the office OF the latter where Mr.
Freeman filed his claim on ico acres II
fertile land. The. next day he went back
- his company and served until the war
was over. II 1856 he returned TO Ne
hraska and settled down on his claim,
where he has since resided. Since Mr.
Freeman filed his claim on a homestead
81. -. ~ acres have been taken up under
the homestead lay. There still remain
Of the public domain. not including
Alaska. with its % - $40 acres. a total
of 57aSS.27i acres which Is unreserved
and unappropriatef. This unoccupied
public land lies in twenty-three states ana
four territories.