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Outlines of Oklahoma
An old hotel at Enid is being taken down and being made over into residences.
The surveying corps of the Choctaw has set out on its work west of El Reno.
Dennis Flynn will soon go to Washington where he will remain several months.
Every habitable house in Oklahoma City is occupied. There is a demand for more dwellings.
President McKinley has again shoved the Oklahoma judicial appointments back in a pigeon hole.
The Cleveland Oil company has established an agency in Oklahoma and will fight the Standard.
The Oklahoman puts the limit for realization on present real estate investments in Oklahoma at ninety days.
Tom Doyle is just as handsome as ever. It would take more than one railroad company to effectually hurt Tom Doyle.
Will Crow, a colored gentleman, has dropped $20 at Oklahoma City as a municipal rebuke for running a crap game.
Miss Anna Robinson has resugned as stenographer in the Enid land office. The place will be filled with a civil service man.
The Arapahoe Bee is pointing out that the rainfall in Chester county was greater last summer than it was in Oklahoma county.
Ex-County Treasurer J. M. Lee of Kingfisher county, who is said to be short in his accounts, is supposed to be in the Indian country east of Shawnee.
Otto Richster of El Reno got back the money he deposited with the Stock Exchange bank the morning of its failure, and the rest of the depositors are kicking.
Charley Mitchell of Wellington, Kan., wanted to visit his father living west of El Reno. He stole a horse and buggy in order to do it. Sometimes filial affection can be too rash, but not often.
Major Crozier has been made vice president of the Bank of Indian Territory at Guthrie as a recognition of his valuable services in converting Indians to Christianity and the religious use of the individual deposit.
Professor Carter, who was murdered near Parker and then his house burned down upon him, will be avenged. With but little evidence the coroner held his companion, Fair, for murder. Now a bloody raor has been found in the ruins.
Two years ago Ampie Sater of Garfield, Kansas, then eight years of age, was kicked in the head by a horse. He apparently recovered. The other day he began to feel badly and in a few hours was dead. The doctor says it was congestion of the brain.
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: While holding the last term of court at Mangum in Greer county, an Irishman came before Judge Keaton on application for the issuance of final notification papers.. In the course of the examination, the judge asked the statutory question: "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of any anarchist society or association?" The applicant hesitated a moment and then answered: "I-I belong to the Populist party." The court crier did not endeavor to restrain the laughter which followed for the judge and all the court officials joined in heartily.
Several days ago a citizen of Oklahoma City, who is in the habit of imbibing too freely and too often, and who is the possessor of a valuable diamond ring, which he is afarid will disappear some time when he is "much the worse," a few days ago put the ring on his toe when he returned to his room so that it would not be stolen from his finger while he slept. In the morning he dressed without thinking of the ring. An hour later he missed it and couldn't remember what had become of it. A day or two later his toe hurt him so that he had to remove his shoe, when he discovered his lost ring. He tried to keep it a secret, but the joke leaked out