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OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA. The appointment of Ed Korns, of Newkirk, as deputy coal oil inspector has been confirmed. The beer supply was exhausted at El Reno at noon Sunday and all the saloons closed, except those that had tin-top. A tin cup, an umbrella, a pair of overalls and a camp stool are equipments most needed by pilgrims to El Reno. The Presbyterians prove their faith by their good works at Pond Creek. They have purchased property there for a big church. The Pawnee Indians are visiting the Wichita Indians near Anadarko and will remain with them a month. This is the Indian visiting season. Wherever the eye turns in Oklahoma it sees a threshing machine throwing a stream of straw out of a long tube that looks like a thirteen-inch gun. It is rumored at Guthrie that Cupid has at last taken a center shot at the heart of Otto Beckemeyer. His brideto-be is a bright and popular widow. Ransom Payne is keeping a lodging tent at El Reno during the registration boom. You can expect to find a man in any kind of business at El Reno at present. George Finch, the statesman of Harper county, has fixed himself for claim No. 1, and is waiting for fortune to do the rest. He is at El Reno nursing a large, juicy hunch. An ex-Confederate colonel at Oklahoma City offers to bet that the best claim in the new country will be drawn by a negro. He is opposed to the drawing plan for that reason. The man who gets next to Judge Museller or Dan Peary, after the drawing is the man who will get a good piece of land. Both of them have been over every foot of the new country. Some one with an imagination not altogether adapted to facts says that when the water supply gave out during the Enid blaze watermelons were thrown into the fire with good results. A certificate has been issued to the First National bank of Anadarko to begin business with a capital stock of $25,000. Thomas F. Woodward is the president and J. N. Descombes is cashier. Eph. Brindley, of Blaine county, rode horseback to El Reno to register and took his newly wedded wife behind him. They cut a queer figure as they rode into El Reno, and were guyed by the crowd. Queer things happen in Oklahoma. The biggest roar heard on a Choctaw railroad train Monday night because the company failed to supply water to the passengers came from Pat Cassidy, of Shawnee. The ice man, the notary public, the lemo-lemo speeler, the hotel man and the small bottle déaler are all prospering at El Reno, but they aren't in It with the man who runs the bus line. He is the real reigning monarch of El Reno. Mayor Tom Hensley, of El Reno, is in every respect showing the right spirit during the boom. He is keeping a level head on his shoulders. It is no easy thing to be mayor of a town whose transient guests outnumber the residents three to one. Syl Dixon, the Kansas wheat king, is at El Reno making out papers for the boys, and is doing a rushing business. He is mighty good to the newspaper men who want to register, and they are making the bread that he casts upon the water return in his direction. Col. J. W. Johnson, of Oklahoma City, says that Bill Cross is the logical candidate of the democracy of Oklahoma for delegate to congress. No Democrat can be considered a logical candidate for that position. A Democrat representing any country needing rapid development is at variance with all logic. The spirit of hold-up Is stronger at Oklahoma City than It is at El Reno. The boomers who pass through Oklahoma City are compelled to pay 10 cents for a sandwich that they can get at El Reno for a nickel. Oklahoma City people are making a serious mistake in their treatment of the boomers who pass through there. Over 600 men and women of all classes laid down on the depot platform at Oklahoma City Monday night and slept there till the morning trains arrived. It was a queer sight. Nothing on earth reduces classes to an equality like the democracy of fatigue. In this blvouac of the tired were merchants, milliners, lawyers, doctors, editors, typewriters, society women, school ma'ams and preachers, all clasped in the embrace of Morpheus. They were returning from El Reno.
