The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14
Outlines Of Oklahoma.

The cattle men vent to Fl Reno in
droves of Pullman cars.
After the feeding season is over a gar
den will be planted in the Oklahoma City
stock yards.
It is estimated that the acreage of cot
ton in 1900 will be 10 per cent greater
than in 1899.
The six-month payment of sSoooO due
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians be-
gan yesterday at Darlington.
Rev. CulpepDer, who is noted for the
activity he has started in Georgia's val-
leys Of dry bones, viii conduct revival
in Perry.
Town meetings to secure railroad and
industrial enterprises occur oftener than
church service nowadays. and Oklahoma
is not behind the rest OF The earth in
church work.
Burglars robbed the Welcome grocery.
at Guthrie. This is the third time within
ninety days that the Welcome has been
barglarized, and the proprietor viii now
change the name.
Ponca City people viii make a kick to
have the passenger and mail train put
back on the Hutchinson and Southern.
This train was recently discontinued on
account OF interfering with business on
the main line.
Adjutant General Orner has ordered the
Military band 10 go to work and practice
up. The penalty for absence from re-
hearsals hereafter will be discharge from
the military service Of the territory.
Mayor Hensley of FL Reno handed the
police judge s. for the privilege Of verbally
dressing down an itinerant auctioneer,
and has made no complaint that he didn't
get his moneys worth.
Left feint from Major NibIack: An
Oklahoma City woman tried TO hang her
self the other day, but owing to the fact
Of there being so much rubber in her
neck she could not get her feet OF The
floor. and so lived in spite of herself.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The
Powell grading outfit went east over the
Frisco this morning TO Sapulpa, where
Mr.. Powell has dve-mile contract on
the Frisco eXtesiOnn south from Sapulpa.
1t took five cars TO carry the outfit. As
soon as Mr. Powell has completed his
work out of Sapulpa ne will return here
and work on the road southwest from
this city.
Hardesty Herald: It is a shame such
mobs Of civilized citizens will congregate
as those that have assembled at Frank
fort, kentucky, in the last few days.
Such a mob agthering at Hardesty would
get its other eye shot out" in short or
der. The police force would lombard the
reptiles from General SulIivans store and
I'd turn the Modern Woodmen goat loose
and open up with Dicks gun, which
throws rocks for an hour after you set
through shooting it. And if it became
necessary for reinfOrcements Colonel Sal
ter and the Smith, assisted by the Star
mail-drivers, would turn lose and there
would be nothing in HI for some time
to come. but mobs!
The Indian territory does not share
the blessings of reduced fire in
surance rates with Kansas ard Ok
lahOma. While the rates in Kansas and
Oklahoma have decreased on an average
of over p per cent during the past year,
the rates in the Indian territory have in
creased that much. And the strange part
Of 1t is that the insurance companies
have made money on the business in Kan
sas and Oklahoma with the reduced rates
in, effect, and lost heavily in the Indian
territory, where the rates have increased.
Scarcely a big town in the Indian terri
tory has escaped a confiagratiOn during
the past two years. Insurance companies
have lost on an average of 50 cents on
every 800 worth of insurance written in
that territory. The cause Of the fire cpl
demic there can not be accounted for by
insurance agents. 1t seems that the terri
tory is i'll -fated. they say. In order to
put insurance there OIL a basis where the
companies will not lose money a new rate
book is being prepared. In it rates will
advance again. There will be no further
reduction in the rates for Kansas and Ok
lahoma for the present. While money has
been made during the past year the COM
panies claim that if usual conditions ex-
listed the margin of profit would be ex-
ceedingly small Kansas and Oklahoma
have escaped any big fires during the
year and the companies are, therefore,
much ahead. 1t is estimated that their
fire losses during the past year were not
over s. per cent of the average yearly
losses.