The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-28
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

All this while the Rock Island railroad
| is pushing its road on down toward Fl
Paso.
Two normals viii be located. There
viii be a row. injunctions and the Ike
and no end OF mud.
The postofffce department has changed
the name OF Lawton, IN the Cherokee
Nation. TO Weldon.
Weatherford viii now stake that South
western Normal down and shoe on the
second locating board
Those returning from Lawton say that
every other tent IN that town at present
Is an eating houses
Reverend ". G. Ovlegee. Of the Pres
byterian church at Ponca City, has re-
signed. he goes 10 Iowa.
A colored man brought hte first bale Of
cotton 10 Stroud this year. He receives
! 500 for it, $50 Of this being premium.
The farmers who have ploughed in the
Strip are now waiting for a good rain to
pave the way for drilling nthe wheat
At Stroud a colored man has been put
under arrest for trying 10 make his wife
give him pin money by pointing a rife at
her.
A story is floating around in eastern
papers that an Oklahoma man tried 10
kill himself because he failed TO draw
a claim.
The new school lands of Kowa land
will have TO be leased at Guthrie. No
sub-stations Will be maintained in the
new country.
The chief clerk OF the Sac and Fox
agency recently chaperoned fourteen lit
tie Foxes and a Sac or two TO the Car
Isle Indian schools.
Only one person in Kansas who got a
farm in the kiowa land owns up that il
is poor. She is an Atchison girl and she
says her claim is no good
Kansas City, Missouri, which is strug-
Cling with a police edict against them,
is said TO be unloading its slot machines
on the new towns III Oklahoma
The editor OF the Shawnee Herald re-
Gently went TO hear a violinist play
Hungarian Echoes, and he announces
sadly that it is no great shakes compared
to the Arlansaw Traveller.
1t is said that the distribution Of pa
tronage in the new country has caused
more woe than anything politically that
has happened in a long time. Too many
politicians had fancied cinches.
In Lincoln county. recently. a widow
and Widower were married in a cotton
field. The minister had time and Trey
couldn't afford 10 let the cotton go 10
waste. So, he drove over to the field
and married them.
are talking more presidential politics than
the Democratic papers Of New York.
David B. Hill down in Oklahoma, is set
up by some editor and knocked down By
some other editor at least once a week.
Two crack gole players from Chicago
tackled the Guthrie links last Sunday.
The links knocked 'em down the first
round and walked on them. One Chicago
man did nine holes in Sc; the other IN 81;
a homegrown Guthrie golfer went with
them and played in 40.
Arapahoe Bee: Nearly all the stores
are short in stock. A customer is COM
PEELED TO get meat at one store, oatmeal
at another, and sugar at still another
The freight has been hard 10 get while
the roads are glutted with passenger bus
mess, but the situation is somewhat
clearing up now, and We hope 10 see the
Arapahoe stores present their old-time
activity
Day County Progress: ]. D. Robinson,
of the east side of the county, was ar
rested on Tuesday. the 18th inst, while
shooting the cattle of c. r. Moor. his
neighbOr. and was brought into Grand
by a posse of eight men. 1t seems that
Robinson had been suspected Of shooting
cattle for some time, and on the morning
of the 18th inst Mr.. Moor, in company
with some Of his neighbors. went close to
the farm of Robinson and hid themselves
for a while 70 await developments. They
had not been waiting long until they
heard the dog of Robinson and then the
gun fired when the party madea dash
into the corn field which was uainclOsed,
and run up on Robinson with gun in
hand, yet hot and smoky from the shot
when they arrested him and brought him
in and turned him over 10 the sheriff.