The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-09
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

one man at Lawton. q Texan, had
/ money concealed in his long hair.
The S7,ee0 school bonds at Pond Creek
( carried only by a small majority.
Kansas is said 10 have the best Of il at
| Hobart. getting most OF the good lots
! The land OFFICES at FL Reno and Lawton
/ viii take IN $4,000 IN the next sixty
days.
And row Dennis Flynn viii be request
| 60 10 get those pasture reserves open for
/ homestead.
The land orice at Fl Reno is bulletin
| ing the names OF those who file and their
| selections.
The prairie schooners are again wend-
! ing their way north. They are always
/ wandering about.
At Hobart a man and his wife became
/ separated in the crowd and bid lot
Up on each other.
The Vidette remarks joyously that there
are several ponds OF water in Pond
Creek at present.
The scheme adopted at L.awton Of
selling residence lots first and business
4ots later was a mistake
A lady of Guthrie has written novel
with the title, "Guyndine." Did Guyn-
dine ever live in Oklahoma?
The lots are not bringing big money.
Forty dollars for a corner lot. centrally
located in Hobart, is dirt cheap and cheap
dirt
The FL Reno Democrat doesn't take any
stock in the story that the Republicans
are figuring on settling only Republicans
on school lands.
Jerry Simpson viii not be long in Okla
homa until he is the Democratic candi-
date for congress. Bill Cross should
brace his fences.
When Secretary Hitchcock hears about
Wood 5 action. there is liable TO be
some lively telegraphing OkIahomaward
from Washington.
The man who was 45 in the Lawton dis
trict, and didn't appear to take his farm,
kicked i've thousand dollars, more or
ess, out Of the back door.
A man tried TO pass himself or as
a missing number ct Lawton, the other
day, and the land Office clerk told him
10 quit the shack quick. And he quit
The fellow who was dead sure there
was oil in the Wichita mountains should
get his coal oil can, go out and bring
some IN. The 0IissOurians are waiting
There is an oil boom over IN the
Wichita mountains. Many claims viii be
located. II there is oil there VIII be
gas, and gas is the thing that would
build big town IN a jiffy.
An Ell Reno poet, in an obituary, writes
this
we ought to crave for breadth, not
length of days,
Days rich with earnest thought and
deeds well done;
Life, long or short, is best il there be
praise
At set Of SUM-"
Weatherford Chronicle: MANY men of
many minds is the old adage It IS ex-
emphfed by those who have been look
ing at the new country. One man says
the Lawton district is so much better
than the Fl Reno district that no com
parison can be made. Another thinks
the FL Reno district far excels the lower
district, and nothing could induce him to
change. The fact is. there Is good land in
both, and some mighty poor land.
FL Reno Democrat: Milton Montgom-
cry drew No. q, and selected the north
west quarter. section 6. township g.
range IS This claim is not only one OF
the finest bodies OF land IN the district.
but it has a history. When the allotting
agents were at work a squaw appeared
upon the scene and requested that the
claim be held for her unborn child The
allotting crew passed the matter Up.
awaiting the event; but up TO the time
Of the withdrawal OF the allotting force
by the government, Mr.. or Mrs. Pappoose. 3
whichever it is, was or will be. failed 10
put in appearance, and the claim was
awarded today to Mr.. Montgomery.