The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-25
OUTLINES OF oKLAHoMA.

The real hot times are going 10 come
| over ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
Governor Barnes stood in line an hour
the other day getting registered.
| Fred Wenner. the governors private
/ secretary. has registered No one IS es-
| Gaping.
Enough people have registered at Law
| ton 10 take every claim IN the reservation
| twice over.
In a measure FL Reno now feels com
| pensated for the loss OF thar penitentiary
last winter
II is said that most OF the women who
hate registered have given their ages as
mighty near z.
There is going TO be ample opportunity
to see who stands closest 10 duck, the
Texan or the Kanssn.
Perhaps that Turk registered. thinking
he could import q harem just because the
Kiowa Indians have en-
Twenty-Five banks VIII be opened I'm
mediately in the new country. And some
of them win have 10 quit
Soma one at FL Reno offers TO bet that
the first rs lucky ones in The LawtOn
district VIII not all appear 10 file.
There is no sense al all in the way peo-
pie scratch and scramble and stampede IN
getting on outgoing claims ar e Reno.
There is said 70 be q surplus OF BARRIERS
al FL Reno-200 at least who rushed down
TO register and get jobs who are waiting.
No one viii attempt 10 sell his drawing
as Secretary Hitchcock seems 10 think.
The Identification card paralyzes that
scheme.
If Kansas sends Oklahoma's convicts
back home, Oklahoma will have 10 take
care OF them That Will mean peni-
Tertiary soon.
1t is noticeable that the prominent
men who let the farm opportunity go by
in the case Of original Oklahoma and the
Strip are now registering.
The fellow who registered first naturally
thinks that it would have been good plan
if the government had limited the time OF
registration to seven days.
It is said that Governor Jenkins has or
dered the new county officers 10 sink wells
~ once at the county seats. There isn't
a well-digser among them.
There viii not be any new townsites IN
til the government tries to sell its lots a.
Lawton and Hobart and Anadarko. The
auction viii not be a bowling success.
All those plans by which PopuEsts are
to organize cooperative towns ard ". c.
T. Us. TO build prohibition towns VIII fz-
zle out. They are dreams a Ia pine
The time for suggesting changes in the
way me 4dAiUS SLd-4 Dc dllQLGQ mas gone Ny
but a great many people continue 70 pes
ter Secretary Hitchcock with PROPOSE
tons.
If a special session OF the Legislature
should be called 70 handle the peniten-
tiaTy question. all the territorial institu-
tons would have to be distributed and the
first thing you would see would be Law
ton handing out her plate.
The Wellington Mail says: The fastest
run ever made over the Santa Fe line
from Amarillo to Woodward was made
Saturday by a special in charge Of En-
gineer J. II. LaLonde and Fireman II. J.
Dice. A syndicate had bought a $1,000
ranch snd stocked It. Afterwards they
learned that all the water on the ranch
was on two quarters that were govern
ment land and that two land men had
started 10 file on them. Two members OF
the syndicate caught the same train out
of Roswell that the land men were on
At Amarillo the ranchmen paid $50 for
special and took the only train crew IN
the place. The land men offered 1900
for special but could not get one. The
run from Amarillo 10 woodward, IA
miles was made in four hours and TWEEN
tY-five minutes.