The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-02
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

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Spencer viii be Incorporated as a city
early in the spring.
a rich lead md is reported from the
vicinity OF Pomona
a telephone line between Altus and
Vernon has been completed.
4 bank with a capital OF SO 600 has
been started at Asher, Pottawatomie
county
Seven hundred and twenty bales Of cot
ton were glnned II Stroud during Sep
tember.
Deer stm roam about the Hog creek
country. p short distance south OF Choc-
taw City.
Charles Kelly. a colored man. was ac-
cidentally killed by shotgun near Rip
ley. Monday.
Shoestring Smith IS spoken OF as very
suitable timber for president OF the re-
union OF the Smith family al Guthrie
Hobart Is reputed TO have built over 81
houses since the opening. two months
ago This is quite remarkable record
Oklahoma City shows signs OF becoming
a metropolitan town. Public men are
charged with bOodling II paving con
tracts.
Dick T. Morgan has become a prominent
resident OF Fl Reno and started in in the
right spirit by buying $500 worth OF
property.
Mrs Claude Tyler was kicked twice on
the head and once IN the stomach near
Edmond last week and. strange to say,
has recovered.
Judge BurwelI. of Oklahoma. has been
invited by Judge Pollock, az Kansas. n
participate in a hunting trip with nearly
a dozen Kansas statesmen.
Leslie Niblack is posing as an authority
or Na.aaaN IL
and indebted" is preached from the pulpit
OF the Dunkard church at Guthrie
A negro II the Oklahoma county Jail
charged with murder recently wrote To
his sister beginning with the sentence:
Dear Sister, l an well and happy"
Cy Leland, OF Kansas, is about 70 re-
sumo diplomatic relations with Okla
hoTna. He VIII spend two weeks hunt
ing in the territory beginning October -.
Marvin Maddox. while toying with a
shotgun at Lawton. accidentally dis
charged It and the entire load or buck
shot went into the legs of a Texan named
Moser.
Short order item from Guthrie: "Secre-
tary Grimes issued a charter today 10 the
Quick Lunch company Of Anadarko. Bill
and Ed Quick are the principal stoch-
holders.
Delegate Flynn has selected an Okla
homan to succeed Postohice Inspector
Weik. who WIN soon be retired Mr.
Flynn declines 10 announce the name OF
the new man.
Rev. W " Slaughter, OF Francis. was
found with his neck broken on the road
between Mangum and his home last
Thursday. Ii is thought that he Was
joited OF the wagon he was riding in.
Granite has oil. The we'll is 100 feet
down and ne real thing 10 cor,,Fr,e- rrr@
Of it. Granite has gas. too. There is no
fake about either. The future possibill-
ties of Granite are great. Look out
for it.
Colonel Cody, well-known character
about town in Tecumseh, was tried few
days ago for drunkenness, and his de
Tense was that the officer who arrested
him was drunken than he was. he was
acquitted.
Freeman Miller says there is a large
part Of the Indian territory not yet
ready for statehood and Oklahoma must
wait for it. Mr.. Miller will wake up
some fine morning to find that Oklahoma
isn't waiting for anybody.
The Oklahoma papers are Of q forgiv-
ing disposition. They are ali compliment
ing Lone Wolf on his unique eulogy on
Mckinley published some days ago in
the Eagle. Il is remarkably easy for
fAitAci 20 SCI ll6At WIN the people
If the Messenger man isn't pipe-dream-
ing. Stroud has a peculiar family in which
there are nine black children and three
Albinos. The AlbinOs have pink eve
brows and a language Of their own
which their other brothers and sisters 90
not understand.
Assistant United States Attorney Scot
horn has filed complaints against A. G.
Drake and William Courtney. OF Black
burn, for cutting walnut timber on the
Usage reservation. Both gentlemen. upon
being formally accused. exhibited q bin
Of sale for the timber from Agent Mitch
ner.
While peacefully pursuing the noble
culinary art in the kitchen OF the Grand
Avenue hotel at Oklahoma City Monday.
Nike Goodman was struck over the head
with an iron bar supposed TO be in
the hands of one Sam Beatty. II is
feared that the wound inflicted viii cause
death.
Sheriff Otes. Of Woods county, shot
and killed Fred Reynolds near Red Rock.
last Friday. Mr.. Otes was looking for a
horse thief and seeing Reynolds riding
away from the Spurlock farm with so2ae
horses( pursued him. Reynolds took two
shot at the sheriff and the latter killed
him. Reynolds was not the man that
Otes wanted Reynolds brother was
killed in a saloon brawi at Pouca city
some months ago.