The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-25
Outlines of Oklahoma

The retirement of Reed is good thing
for free homes.
There has not been hail storm in Okla
homa this year They are about due.
Custer county now has only one vacant
| quarter section of land Oklahoma IS in
creasing in population daily.
! AT the Newkirk cake walk. Marion
Fowler a colored Adonis OF Ponca City.
scooped in the bakery.
]. c. Walls, the legislator who has been
i having so much trouble. is building two
brick buildings az Norman
There is a criminal docket of 800 cases
| at Ardmore. The Indian Territory is not
a healty place for criminals now.
Harry Thompson of Garfield county.
! has two granddaughter of the Illinois
boar which sold for $3.50 last week.
| The Kansas town next Oklahoma are
also gaining in population. Caldwell now
| has sos inhabitants, a gain Of l67 in a
year.
| Out in Pawnee county a divorce suit is
| on and just in corn planting time and as
everybody is subpoened, there is blood on
| the moon
| A petition had to be fled TO get the
Democratic candidates on the town ticket
at Newkirk.
R. L. Plunkett, marshal OF Cofeyville
Kansas. recently visited his cousin, Dick
| Plunkett, of Oklahoma. They had not
met for years.
Some children at Ponca City planted a
tree and named it Helen Gould. Miss
| Gould heard of il and wrote them letter
| thanking them.
| If Sherman Of New York becomes
| speaker, Dennis Flynn Will be a very i'm
! portant man in the house. He and Shear
man are intimate friends.
The papers are making 1t so lively for
| the judges and bar and juries which swap
! complimentary resolutions that the Gus
! tom will probably be dropped.
The citizens of Pawnee have nominated
| NJ. II. Bretz for clerk, Frank Hudson for
| treasurer, c. H. Wilkinson for marshal
| and p. J. Meurer for police judge.
! Charles Pumroy of Pawnee, purchased
/ 1000 horses in New Mexico He will drive
| them to Pawnee, distance Of 700 miles.
| 1t Will take forty days 10 make the trip.
| The ury in the libel suit against the
| Arapahoe Bee brought in a verdict
| against the editor and the paper. The
! judge set aside the verdict against the
| editor.
Republican chairman. Charles Quimby,
| of Ponca City, tried his hand at harmony
| the other day and has withdrawn. He
was bitten.
! Willie Pain Of Hennessey, was playing
with broken bottle. He fell upon it and
cut an artery in his wrist and but for the
| prompt action of his mother would have
| bled to death.
| At Norman the citizens have nominated
| Frank Smith for marshal; Ziba Beldon for
police judge; Drug Minor for city clerk;
| Harry Lindsey for city treasurer; II. r.
| Mays for constable.
| The Democrats of Norman have nomi-
mated A. J. Mitchell for city marshal; S.
J. Wilkins for police Judge; j. W. Bar
| bour for city clerk; Tom Clements for
| city treasurer; Rough Rider Bailey for
! constable.
| George W. Michigan, a prominent citi-
zen of Shawnee, is said to have written
endearing letters to Mrs. Dr. Dean. At
all events, DR.. Dean has authorized their
! publication in the Shawnee Democrat.
| They are very warm. No detailed ac-
! count of the trouble appears locally, but
! the Democrat has a double-leaded roast
| on libertines.
| Enid Wave: This day ten years ago
! old Oklahoma was opened TO settlement.
Saturday previous TO the opening was the
goth that year, 1889. and on the evening of
| that memorable Saturday there were. % =
| 600 boomers camped al Buffalo Springs,
in the southern part of this county. Dur
| ing the following Sunday there was
preaching in said camp, also prize fight
| ing, foot racing and base ball games.
Barber shops, saloons and restaurants
were opened, but the soldiers soon closed
the saloons and destroyed the liquor. The
writer was in the camp and some time
will write a full history of it. We remem-
Der that just such a cold. drizzing rain
fell on the 2sth of April OF that year as
| has visited the territory today and yes
/ terdaY