The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-12
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The sale OF lots IN Ardrnore. it is
claimed. viii put S3os,ooo N the Chickasaw
treasury.
The people Of saltwater are II last
getting 70 feel natural over going 70
Perry by rail-
A 500 draft was recently received in
/ Guthrie from France, for investment IN
| Oklahoma realty
Retiring city Treasurer ". , Spencer.
OF Guthrie. has been IN ne Office almost
/ from the beginning.
/ il has been a long time since the public
I has heard about the inescal Dean smong
the Indians. Has the custom e out7
The Indians who are educated make the
finest penmen in the world. But they
win not write unless it is absolutely nee
essary.
oklahoms's wheat condition right now
/ is a few per cent behi1d that Of Kansas.
And the wheat crop is on the home
stretch.
Most Of the Oklahoma papers. without
warrant claim that the wind factory in
| this part of the country is located in
Kansas.
The Guthrie Leader is agitating on the
manner assessments are made In Logan
/ county.
Mayor Hutchinson. Of Fonca City. has
nominated George H Brett for city en-
! gineer and c. .. Brown for assistant
marshal
Captain Batchelders famous pointer.
| Weston, is dead at Ponca City. The dog
was the sire Of a great family, and died
Of old age
Personal In the Ponca City Courier:
| y. A Fowler is trying 10 get on the
sick list, and II he doesn't watch out.
/ he viii succeed
! The cattleman in western Oklahoma Is
up against II. The gentle-eyed agricul-
turist is out there picking out land. he
can't be kept back
BY the time all the boys get down 20
| Washington. President Mckinley viii see
\ that the population OF Oklahoma is all
| il is cracked up to he.
Two weeks after the opening OF Kiowa
land the air viii be fun 81 quartz speci-
mems. The mineral Indications are IN
the Wichita mountains all right.
! Bill Cross has already broken into the
/ field 70 inform the Populists that the
next fusion nominee must be a Demo
! crat. as turn about Is fair play.
/ About i've thousand farmers. a. they
/ plodded around in the mud yesterday.
/ said TO themselves simultaneously: Il
wish Few drops of this would hold over
until July"
/ The Billings News thinks that Funston
4 Will be able to Withstand the public
| fettery, which viii meet IN when he re-
/ turns 20 America. but then II thinks Of
/ Dewey and Hobson, and is not so cock
sure about it.
Henry Updike. Of the Usage country.
who is fifteen years old, didn't return
from feeding the stock the olaer evening.
and his brother. searching FOR him. found
/ his unconscious on the ground among
the horses, and badly Iacerated across
the bowels. It is thought he was knock
&c down by the horses and a big pitch
fork raked across his body
Billings News: he saying that there
are exceptions to all rules. was exempli-
| fed recently by the discovery OF one man
amongst the large Number OF Oklahoma
visitors who was not satisfied with the
! country. This was the case of ". D.
! -4ourman, of Union City Indiana. Mr.
Mourman seems to be one Of the not
bed variety Of tenderfeet, and viii hardly
venture away SO far from hone againz
He reached oklahoma about three weeks
ago, and was at fret in love With 4sery-
thing in sight. He rode about admiring
the beautiful farming country for some
| time, and finally contracted for Baxter
---iamson's quarter, one o. the finest
farms in Red Rock valley,at 1850. He
put up 600 TO secure the purchase. and
sat down to write home FOLK. About this
Z
away on a prospecting tour for a few
days returned. Everyone had bowed
up the soil Of the fine farm he had pur-
chased, and now the Wind began 10 blow
II up. too. The breeze provFd 70 be OF
the three days steady bScG variety. and
much stronger than usual spring winds.
Our friend stood It a while. then. MUNICH
ing the grit in his teeth ana gouging the
sand from his eyes. asked IL this was
not a pretty severe cyclone Upon being
assured by Baxter. in his suave, yet
serious manner. which carried conviction
Of its truth IN every syllable. that this
was nothing TO what we might expect
from the first Of April up to the last Of
august, he began 10 sigh for home and
from that moment became home-sica
man. The disease proved to be Of the
most virUlent type, and. although Baxter
told him he had been joking and there
would be very little OF that particular
aggravating variety Of weather. ne would
not be comforted and on the second day
afterward took the train Tor home. sacri-
ficlng his two-hundred-dOllar forfeit