The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-29
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.


The Pond Creek vidette had a graphic
write-up Of the lynching.
The government buildings at Camp Sup
ply are said 10 be getting into dilapidated
shape.
Far western Oklahoma Is settling I'D.
The lesson OF far western Kansas didn't
take"
A good many Of the newspaper boys are
throwing bolos in the direction Of Amos
Ewing.
It is charged that an Enid man has
gone TO Missouri 10 marry a girl named
Rachel SchwarzenhoGenhau
There is room enough in western Okla
bona for the cattle men and the farmers.
but the trouble is they won't discover IL.
Some day something ike a volcano viii
burst down IN Custer county II viii be
the cowman and the plcwman coming TO-
gether.
The cowmen Of far western Oklahoma
are in for 1t. They viii have 10 grin and
bear it while the new settler is discover
ing things.
There is a bare possibility that the time
is coming in this land when, If a man
gets I6J acres free. he viii take II, no
matter where it is located.
Still the settlers IN far western Okla
bona would surprise the old-timers II
Of good crop years and stick
A whole lot Of things that happen in
Oklahoma wouldn't happen II matches
were kept out OF the reach OF children
and guns out OF the reach Of men.
That man Erastus Robins escaped from
the Pond Greek jail during the excitement
Saturday night. That sheriff at Pond
Greek does have heap OF bad luck.
There is serious trouble between the
nesters and the ranchers out IA Grand
county. The story of lynching was a
mistake. but a combat is expected almost
any day.
The school board Of Oklahoma City ap-
pointed ]. ". Sharp superintendent OF
the colored school. but a citizen has got
out restraining order 10 prevent
Sharp's taking the place.
When all the Iaterals have been added
which viii be at the end of the present
year, the total cost OF the sewer system
of Oklahoma City, it Is estimated. viii
reach IN the neighborhood OF $4,000.
An advertiser at Chickasha works this
thing off on the readers Of a proud paper:
I'VE take the lead, and know, of course,
a bell upon a leading horse IS music TO
a donkey's ear that always follows in
the rear"
The Rock Island railroad from Liberal
has reached Texas, and the Hardesty
Herald says there is a decentralization
in Sherman county over townsites. and
the whole business is mixed Up with
county seat fight.
The reporters at Oklahoma City heard
the other day that a man had killed his
wife and then killed himself. When they
ran the story down they discovered that
man and his wife had a rOw-that she
got in the last word, which made him SO
mad that he fell in 1T.
Hardesty Herald Woodward people are
considerably interested and worked up
over the copper mines of Beaver county,
near Kenton. A party Of Woodward men
driving a gray team Of mules camped
near town Monday night en- route to Ken
ton. over forty citizens Of woodward
have placed homestead filings on quarter
sections in the rich mining district OF
Beaver county. This paper has no desire
to discourage enterprise, but those now
making the homestead filings can not in
validate mining claims by others On the
same land. It Will be q difficult matter
TO make a homestead proof stick in the
face of q protest IN which the land is
alleged TO be more valuable for mineral
than for agricultural purposes. The fact
that the non-mineral affidavit has been
eliminated from the process Of fling on
a homestead in Beaver county, will not
defeat or invalidate q mining claim on
ersl actually exists.
Enid Wave: Carl Con IS IN real bad
shape. It seems that some time ago his
skull was fractured in an accident, at his
Missouri home. requiring an operation, in
which a piece of his skull was removed
and not replaced. He apparently grew
well, and came to Enid short time ago
to accept a position here. Last Monday
night his mind became beclouded and all
night he wandered around the street
coming to consciousness Tuesday morn
ing, and informing his friends Of his ex-
perience shortly relapsing into a coma
tose state again. He was taken TO the
City hotel. where ne now is. DR.. Nc
Kenzie was summoned. Gon is in a much
improved condition today, and able TO be
about. His father, who IS well known
by Ends early citizens, but who lives IN
Missouri now, was notified. and he IS
expected soon 20 arrive in the city 10
take care Of his soon. II IS thought that
it is necessary that a silver plate be put
in COTS head. and he ust be taken 10
st. Louis to have it done.