The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-30
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The sale Of town lots at Lawton viii
be completed next Saturday.
An Indian girl named ry-7or-a-rib was
married at Perry the other day
This year the third crop OF alfalfa in
Oklahoma now being cut wss by Tar
the finest.
It is said that the locetors are now
having q hard time placing nlsrs IN the
Lawton district.
The county commissioners al Lawton
viii put three wells down and expect
them 10 be artesian.
Some day the Rock Island viii run
railroad west from point near Mar
low to Greer county.
Wednesday three persons failed 70
show up at Lawton when their names
were called at the land Office.
The town lot sale al Hobart ended
Wednesday with 1908 lots sold. bringing
SlSs,ooo, an average OF Sol a lot.
Mills G. Voris. clerk OF Kay county,
and Miss Harriet Clapp. daughter OF
Colonel Clapp. were married Wednesday
The county commissioners at Lawton
have decided 10 grant saloon licenses.
and the clerk is now busy making them
out.
All the lots have been sold at Ana
darke. They brought S1sS. AS. which was
$500 more than Governor Richards esti-
mated.
The northern farmer who Is now locat-
ed IN kiowa land, has never met the
Texas tick. But he viii get an introduce
ton all right.
While it is pretty dry in Oklahoma. the
territory's condition is nothing compared
10 Texas, which is going through an
other drOuth.
The Jefferson club will meet az Okla
hOma City next month to decide whether
. the Popuhsts win be allowed or not TO
remain on earth.
Governor Richards says that at the
opening Of the town lot sales he saw in
dividuals who were carrying as high as
5000 cash with them.
The Anu-Saloon league of the territory
claims it has contested 200 applications
eighty per cent Of them.
The St Mary's Institute at Ponca
City has been completed. The building
cost $500. 1t is under the direction OF
the Sisters Of Divine Providence. of san
Antonio.
A man in the Eagle office yesterday
said he was located BY a locator and
that his farm proved to be identical
with the description given him by the
locator before he filed.
The Perry Water company announces
it has shut off the water in all parts ex-
cept in the mains around the public
square, where it may have 70 be used for
fire protection
Quiet again reigns at Sapulpa and the
negro citizens are allowed 10 live. The
moral effect of two deputy United States
marshals in the TOW IS strong, especially
since they are known TO De men who
will shoot straight and often IL they
are called upon.
1t has been discovered at Fl Reno that
some OF the land spectators who had
access to the official map in the land Of
ice have marked of as taken certain
farms with the idea that those fling
would consider them taken and would
pass them by. A special agent has Ia
the map with the filings made.
Zeb Jones. in Oklahoman: i've
read the papers every day a
hOpun u see my name amongst the list
Of Holsters thet's went an drawed a
claim. 1 didn't git no postal card
teIlin' what I'd drawed; an damned ef
l hain't cum tn think tn DRAWN wuz a
fraud I spent my plunks on Fl Reno
grub an ridin' on tn trains. an all I've
got tn take back home is a body fun o.
pains. Ny name is Zebedish Jones. they
call me Zeb fer short. an when they
work me fer a chump sumbody's g0in' tu
smart. Pm goin' on tn Washington. an
mebbe yu thinks / mean, but m goin
TO jug ole Uncle Sam fer runnin a Slot
masheen."