The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-06
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

As late as 1891 two wild deer were
chased across the towlsite Of Cleveland.
Oklahoma.
| The Lawton News Is for a water-works
system and against the water-barreI and
the shallow well
| II it is just the same TO Mr.. Roose-
Welt, Oklahoma would ike those judi
cial appointments made.
One candidate for county office in the
/ new country publishes as proof of his Mt
ness q letter from business college back
east.
Bill Cross may hate Kansas. but he viii
! have TO have several Jayhawker votes
il he comes within nile OF the cleo
ton
The people here" remarks the Law
ton News. have TO sit and take il when
it comes. as there are very few storm
caves
After hail-storm last week one Okla
homa paper said: we win accept all
moisture. even when it comes in the shape
OF ice."
The question of giving free homes on
the Rosebud reservation is doomed. Con
gress has probably given its last free
homes.
The townsite commissioners in the In
dian territory count ground recently
planted with shade trees as improved
property.
United States Senator Elkins, Of West
Virginia. wrote an Oklahoma man the
other day that Frank Gillette would be
appointed Judge.
If Frank Gilett is finally appointed
judge. several Oklahoma papers viii he
able 10 claim a scoop, for they had him
appointed two weeks a %
had his license Knocked out. threatens TO
sue the people who signed the renon-
STRANGE for $4,000 damages.
The Oklahoma City street railway VIII
be the first in the territory. although for
feits for the construction of at least two
in Oklahoma towns were put up as long
ago as 1889.
]. L. Burke. a candidate for coroner
down in the new country, is promised the
whole vote of Mountain Park because he
is the only candidate for office who has
visited the town.
The opponents of Oklahoma statehood
intend, when the bill comes up in the
house. to try TO kill the whole business
by including Indian territory within the
lines of the state at once.
After the recent big wind-storn near
Mountain Park, country correspondent
sat DOWN ana wrote ms 1tDllt WHO
are not on their claims viii be very much
surprised when they return and find their
houses turned upside down"
The Indian squaw isn't the docile crea-
ture she used to be. One at Pawhuska,
when her husband came home raring
drunk and smashed her. never said
word, but waited until he went 10 sleep.
Then she tied him. hand and foot, and
beat him up with a club.
Lawton News: Only the want of
judge delays the condemnation OF the
Frisco right Of way across the Woods
claim. The talk about changing the route
so as to come into town along the north
boundary is nothing but talk. Proceed
ings are now pending in the court looking
to the condemnation for a right OF way,
and will be taken up as soon as a judge
puts in an appearance The Frisco peo-
pie are pushing matters. and expect 70
get into Lawton on schedule time. An
effort was made to secure the right Of
way by agreement, but the difference Of
opinion between the owners of the land
and the company was such that a COM
promise was impossible. 1t IS under
stood that the Frisco viii make Lawton
a division point and that a round house
and machine shops will be located here.
Within a year Lawton's railroad facilities
will be second to none in the territory.