The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-04
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

A number of hve dollar Mexican bills
| are circulating over the territory
The business lots IN Lawton sold for
$50 SIS. and the residence lots for sl5i.lS
Texas Is in bad shape as result Of the
drouth and Oklahoma may have 10 send
! aid.
| A hack line has been established be-
tween Lawton and the Wichita noun
ta'ns-
The fraternal lodges at Lawton have
already organized and are IookiEg around
for halls.
The Noble County fair last week was Z
| great success. The racing was eextraor-
dinarily fine.
| The Enid Wave announces that this
year has not been noted FOR aoods IN
! Oklahoma
watonga has some kind of a Iurid town
row last Monday but the Republican
| refuses to print the story.
| J. Y. Callahan has broken through the
crust of oblivion 10 announce himself a
candidate for mayor of .Suadarl).
| The first white child born in Lawton is
named Lawton Livingston. Nature fixed
J it so the name would be ailiterative.
John ". Henderson bought the last
| lot in Lawton. Henderson is from
| Wichita and he paid S2S5 for his lot
The Supreme court recently held that
an American citizens did not lose his citi-
I zenship through adoption by an Indian
tribe.
Since grass and corn became scarce it
! is said that the noble red man is making
presents Of more ponies TO other Indians
/ than ever.
There is meat market man in Perry
named Kukuk. He would have got more
ks in his name if he could have found
/ the room.
Some Of the towns in northern Texas
have lost heavily in population on ac-
count of the Kiowa land opening and the
new towns.
As result Of the sails Of lots less the
cost of surveying the townsite Of Law
| ton, Comanche county now has in its
treasury $4l0, $50
| The towns around the border of Kiowa
Land Go not hesitate to crack Lawton
and Hobart occasionally. just OF let EN-
know they're not the whole bakery.
| Enid Eagle: One of the striking and
| laughable features of a train load OF
boomers bound for Anadarko, was a man
on the top of a car cooking his steak
on q coal oil stove.
According 20 the census enumeration
! just taken there are 1856 people on the
| townsite of Lawton- OF these .SS1 sign
er the petition to the governor asking for
a special city election.
A man near Gushing recently drove his
two daughters, aged fourteen and six
/ teen from home, so he could marry again.
| The papers say that the girls are going
to Blackwell on foot TO live with an
uncle.
Before A. 3. Carroll, the big merchant
at Shawnee failed last week he insti-
| tuted 50 cents on the dollar sale which
caused such rush that people could not
get into the store. But II did not save
| him. 1t is said that the news Of the sale
and the prices he offered were telegraph
ed to the wholesalers. his creditors, and
1 they sent their agents on TO Shawnee 10
/ call halt. The Quill says that his as
sets. $4,000 cover a like amount of la
| bilities
Perry Republican: A peculiar freak
of the wind was noticed last night about
! five o'clock. a dark cloud was coming
up in the north and west and the prevail
| ing wind was blowing almost directly
from the south. OF a sudden a great
cloud of dust arose on West d street, and
il was driven through the city with great
velocity and Travelled of 10 the east ris-
ing higher and higher but confined TO a
few rods in width as far as the eye could
follow it. The track Of this miniture
hurricane was confined 10 the one street
and in width it was about the same as
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