The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-20
Outlines of Oklahoma

! A large herd OF cattle is being fed al
Guthrie with the product of the cotton
gins.
| 1t will turn out that the Indian-burnins
never took place in oklahoma at all, but
in the Indian Territory.
Tom Doyle is the easiest falker in the
| lower house, and he isn't bashful abou;
! swatting things whose complexion doesn't
| suit him.
| Amos Ewing is on the ground in Okla
| homa watching the fellows VINO have a
| desire to see the office of coal oil in
spector embalmed.
The present legislature of Oklahoma is
not much on drinking. and dirty shirts,
but it is business when it comes TO get
ting down to work.
Bill Little. on his farm near Perry. Is
putting out thirty acres Of catalpas. When
they grow big enough Little will cut them
and sell them for posts.
Harper Cunningham. who is great Elk,
has 200 sets Of antlers at Guthrie which
he has been collecting of and on, but
principally off the elk.
It was DR.. Woods of Garfield who said
that Noah was kicked out Of the ark,
And to think that IL was the church vote
which elected Woods, too.
Tom Reid, the speaker, has the Maine
mans name, and with few more pounds
OF flesh distributed around over his bones
would have the Maine mans build.
Senator BelIamy of Canadian. In the
council, is the youngest man there. He
is thirty. He looks like Beverage. the
new United States senator from Indiana.
Mr. Wilson, of the Missouri and Kansas
Telephone company, in Oklahoma, says
that the completion OF the line between
Guthrie and Arkansas City is only wait
ing on the arrival of material
The appetite for delegateship to the
statehood convention at Guthrie next
Wednesday is suffering from indigestion.
In nose places mighty few of the fellows
want to 60 but in order TO keep the other
fellows from going a big attendance viii
result.
The contract for the grading of the new
railroad from Guthrie TO Shawnee has
been let According TO the Guthrie Capt.
tai Guthrie is to put up $4,000 for the
railroad and Shawnee S20.0o9. Guthrie's
idea is TO get a connection with the ChOc-
taw. east Of Oklahoma City.
1t is said that the reason the slate was
smashed in the council was because Pres
ident McCredie in being elected had said
that ne had made no promises of commit
tee chairmanships and that the fellows
who broke the slate, Houston, Candy
and Hutto, discovered that he had made
promises, and stampeded.
The first legislature met in the opera
house building where Frank Greer now
has his printing office. The accommoda-
tions We're poor. The second legislature
met in the building nod occupied by the
Royal hotel. The third legislature met in
the Buxton university, a building now
used for residence. The fourth legisla-
ture met in the Brooks building. The
fifth legislature, the present, meets in the
Coyle wholesale building. The quarters
are the best the legislature ever had in
fact the only comfortable quarters IN
which an Oklahoma legislature ever
met.
Chickasha Gazette: Work on the west
ern extension of the Rock Island railroad
from this place is progressing very rap
idly. Several other contractors and con-
struction gangs arrived this week and
twenty-five miles Of the road will be COM
peted by the first of next month. 1t is
rumored that the contract for one hun
dred and fifty miles more will be let after
February first, and it Is very probable
that the contractors VINO lately arrived
are here to begin this work when the one
hundred and fifty miles is let. Trains
will very likely be running between this
point and Anadarko by the 10th Of next
month.