The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-29
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Normal condition in Oklahoma is
decidedly abnormal.
Since il quoted down. Fl Reno is hav-
| ing a plague OF worthless lOafers-
The first passenger train on the Rock
Island ran into Fort snl last Monday
VIII Little is at the head OF a copper
mining company over N the Wichita
! mountains.
| Hobart is at work raising a bonus Of
/ $500 for the location of the Southwest
ern Normal.
J. G. Campbell. the Wellington editor.
! got a claim adjoining the Segar Indian
school reservation.
The settlers are now realizing that
| the fling is a whole lot more Ike lot
terry than the drawing.
| Now that Lawton has had a fire. it
should call on the government for spol-
dulix for FIRE department
Perhaps the legislature next time VIII
clear up the sky by providing for two
/ southwestern normal schools
There are some cases OF typhoid at
Lawton. The new towns should hustle
| their boards Of health into actiOn.
7 have been out TO examine my claim, %
said a man at Lawton the other day.
and II runs forty bushels Of scenery TO
the acre
The breach between Governor jenkins
and Joe McNeal is widening There
seems TO be need OF an application Of
harmony.
Bids on the school lands win be re
ceived by November . next. The clerks
are now busy with the values fixed by
the appraisers.
At Jefferson a man sneaked in house
during a wedding and stole the wedding
cake. The groom pursued the villain and
took il away from him.
A Republican club of seventy members
has been organized at AnadarkO. J. w.
Hammond has been elected president
The club viii poll the town.
The government fell down on the num-
Der of maps it turned out and their dis
tribution. The maps did not give the
streams. and were a poor lot
The allotment made to old man Hill
next TO Hobart, is being plated and
some one has started the story that the
Southwestern Normal will be located
on il.
The livery stable. the first thing to
burn at Lawton, belonged TO II. Z. Hop
kins, formerly Of Oklahoma City. Three
horses were burned. There was no in
surance
Peter Henderson was the first man to
file REIMBURSEMENT at Lawton. Hen
derson is from Yates Center. Kansas. He
tDlO the 4diu ONCE DniEldlS ludL the
land did not suit him
4 man appeared at Lawton the other
day in answer TO a name, called for a
farm fling. who did not answer the de-
scription on the application, and the
clerk gave him the merry Ia, Ia.
For sOre reason that large per cent
of people who would not appear TO file
doesn't pan out. The people are coming
and taking their farms. The clerks, mer-
chants and workmen are not letting any
farms get away from them.
Pond Creek vidette: Mrs May Irwin
has received a letter from her sister.
Mrs. Foster, living near May. Woodward
county, informing her of the death Of
her niece. The little girl. less than three
years old, wandered away from home
and became lost. Hunting parties were
formed, and after a diligent search OF
five days duration the little girl was
found five miles from where she had
started. She was lying on top of hin
and had several days before died of star
walton and exposure. The condition Of
the remains were such that interment
took place on the spot where she was
found.