The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-19
Outlines of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City has begun bombarding
Straug, the new attorney general.
The weather prophets are all agreed
that Oklahoma is TO have no cyclones this
year.
That is mighty good word for free
homes that Sidney Clarke brings home
from Washington.
John S. Allen of Norman will probably
be the middie-of-the-road Populist nom
inee for congress.
A man in Woods county is offering for
sale an organ which took the first prize
at the Iowa state fair In 1888.
The Barnes removers" should send a
query down 10 Washington and see what
has become of that last removal.
The liquor dealers of Oklahoma City
have subscribed 81, 600 for the Rough Ri
ders' reunion entertainment fund
Coleman. the ballonist, fell from his
buoyant vehicle the other day at e. Reno
and hurt himself, but not seriously.
Sidney Clarke has been appointed a
member of the Democratic national con-
gressional committee or Oklahoma.
James Kirkwood has been appointed as
SCISSOR for the Kaw and Usage Indian
reservations by the county commissioners
az Pawnee
The Santa Fe conductors presented Tom
Greenwood of White Eagle with a new
nat in remembrance of his sixty-fourth
anniversary
This time OF year the San Antonio peo-
pie have a battle OF flowers and sew
erai Oklahoma people are down witness
ing the festival
All the enumerators in Oklahoma will
receive a per diem except those in cities
Of the first class who will be paid so
much per name.
If H. Oyerhosler of Oklahoma City can
get light, water and tram-car franchise
from the city council, he offers TO put
a $500 forfeit up.
Judge Clayton, Indian Territory, has
granted the citizens OF Atoka a tempo
rary restraining order prohibiting the
townsite board from proceeding with the
sale Of town lots.
There are several people in old Okla
| homa who declare that free homes can
not become a law. They ought TO come
off the perch. Old Oklahoma and Greer
county both got free homes.
Frank Mahorney, living near Cleveland.
was working in field not long ago when
some one set fire to his house and cut up
three sets of harness. A few days later
while ne was working some one took a
shot a. him. He says ne doesn't know
Of an enemy in the world. But he sure
has one.
Down near Tonkawa, according 10 a re-
port two contestants living side by side
until the land office could decide who was
entitled to the land, quarreled. One man
had been in the penitentiary and the sec
ond one was supposed 10 be afraid Of
him. The first man began TO encroach on
the first timid settler and one day went
too far The tinid man jumped in with
a pruning hook and cut sirIoins out Of
the bully's head in several places and the
first man ow freely Acknowledges that
he tried to bluff the wrong citizen.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The
surveying corps of the Denver, Oklahoma
and Gulf railway arrived at the west edge
of the city late this afternoon, having
completed the survey of the line from
Kingfsher. The survey strikes Oklahoma
county near its northwest corner. follows
down the west county line to the upper
edge Of the Council Grove reservation, at
which point an almost due southeast
course is taken to the Choctaw track in
the North Canadian valley, cutting across
the southwest corner of Judge OZmun' .
place, and striking the Choctaw on Rev.
Balls farm. From that point the survey
follows the Choctaw into Oklahoma City
The terminal grounds viii probably be
on South luWnthgW1TFIV
on Second street with the depot at the
intersection of Second and Harvey. The
previous survey which was made by the
Hamilton people came down into the val
ley mile west of the city over the DR..
Macs farm This new line is a much bet
ter one and will cost less for the right
Of way. The financial end Of this project
has been put in shape recently, 50 that
now there is really no question about i'm
mediate construction of the line.