The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-23
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA

| The secretary OF territory these times
averages about seven charters a day.
If the statehood bill passes the big
| fight next fail win be over the Legislature
The single statehood bills are coming
thick and fast in Washington. but none
Of them viii pass.
c. II. Heckler is 70 establish a packing
plant il WaukoTnis and go after the fat
hogs in the vicinity.
an Oklahoma farmer says that in the
Strip fully half the original ground has
now been broken by the plow.
a postofice N the new country has
been named Faxoa. after the Eagle' :
Washington correspondent 2. II. FaNon.
Oklahoma certainly needs her own ter
ritorial charitable institutions and the
sooner they are provided for the better
a returned traveller told the Enid Eagle
the other day that they are finding more
oil in the vicinity OF Lawton than water.
There is a mining town down IN the
new country called Craterville. The
town is live one, though the crater IS .
dead one, of course.
Senator Benarny. Of e Reno, who IS
running for congress. is accused OF hav-
ing moulded an entirely new glucose
smile for use during the campaign
Occasionally some one still drifts into
Oklahoma hunting for a father, a hus-
band or a son who went to FL Reno 10
register and was never heard OF again.
Lawton the other day was treated TO
two dust storms. one from the south and
one from the north. And of course the
town blamed one on Kansas and the
other on Texas.
Ben Cravens. wherever he Is. probably
read with great surprise that he was in
r-s7f .
it was he who led the gang which shot
the sheriff and his deputy was a guess.
Oklahoma is half way across the nation
from Washington, but that city Is fun
Of citizens from the territory II Okla
homa was situated where Virginia Is
and statehood bill was up, the whole
population would go over TO the capital
to help.
The editor Of the Hitchcock Vanguard
notifies the thief who stole his hre-wood
Saturday night last that he now has
loaded some sticks, and if he comes again
the thief will learn something 10 his ad-
vantage in regard TO the action of q
blaze on gunpOwder.
The papers report an unusual case IN
the new country. Madison Sturgeon. an
old soldier. killed himself. Sturgeon
originally had a claim in Woods county.
which he sold. He went to Colorado and
started horse ranch. Then at the Fl
Reno drawing he got a number and when
the time came TO locate his claim he Sc
lected one in the shadow of Mt. Sher-
idan. because it is said he had served
under that general He seemed perfectly
happy, but few DAYS ago designated
to his folks the spot where he wished 10
be buried under the mountain. and later
killed himself
The mysterious markers are still at
work on the sidewalks OF Pond Greek.
ana the towns curiosity grows apace.
The Vidette says: The person or persons
who are placing the notorious signs on
the sidewalks about town became very
energetic Saturday night. with the result
that one could not step in any direc-
ton Sunday without walking over the
mysterious figures and letters. The signs
were placed all over town. along bust
ness streets, on buildings and throughout
the residence portion Of the city. Many
people who felt sure that show company
was using this method of advertising have
now given up that solution Of the af-
fair, and are at sea more than ever re-
sarding the matter. The letters ''P II ]"
have been substituted for IS II c" be-
meath the l and d *. The curiosity Of
some people over the matter is ludicrous.
or would be If one was sure Just what
sort the signs meant