2) Well I am alone. Blanch is asleep. D is up to Isabel. Pa & Mabel have gone to Carters to sing & Late went over to Clipper, as a delegate for the comeing picnic in august. he had to replant some of his corn north of the house but its up nice. all the corn is very small for this time of year. people was in to big a rush this spring & got it planted to early. harvest will soon be here now. wheat & oats look well. we had our first peas & taters yesterday. & taters today. we have the nicest thriftest looking ones of anyone around & I do believe if the web worms will let me alone I will have some cabbage. I made the men break a patch out east of the house where Lates stable & the old carrell use to be & its just as rich as can be & everything is growing so nice. its on the town site. but I dont care we maybe can use it for a long while before anybody will buy a lot there. & Oh such nice onions we have from the sets that you sent.

Well I suppose you would like to here something besides corn & garden. we have had all kinds of weather but friday was the hottest day of the season. mercury was 98 in the shade. & very still till evening a cloud raised in north west but did not rain here but got cooler. I have made my carpet & cleaned house but the flies has come & will soon dirty it. nearly everyone says aint it pretty so odd I never saw one like it. & I will know how to make my next one & so on & the next week after I cleaned house & Aunt Lyd & too little girls was here. come on Monday & stayed till Sat afternoon. then she went up to Robys & staid that night. then Late took her to the Lodge the next day we had a nice visit. I did not do anything only what had to be done & that kept me busy. She would make my Satteen & it is real pretty. made polains but not like the pattern you sent for there wasn't enough goods. Pa & I went down there last Monday & came back tuesday & when we came away they were packing up as fast as they could & started wed on the stock train.

Nett and Helen's uncle, aunt and cousins of the Brown family left Kansas and took part in the "Run of 1889" to stake their claims in Oklahoma. Harper's Weekly.

You remember I told you that Uncle Jim, Frank & the two girls were going & aunt Lyd went up & staid with Ella thro her sickness. well Uncle Jim & Nell got claims. Nells is one mile & a half from Kingfisher & Uncle Jims is timberd about 15 mile from Nells. he came back in about 3 weeks to attend his & Wheats trial & staid all during court but it was called so as soon as court adjourned they was ready to leave. they seem to think they have struck the promised land & hope they have. Nell wrote that she has been offerd $1000 for her claim & would not take it. while so many thinks they would. she is considerd quite, a Hero there. you see her & Laura was in the race. they were in Franks buggy with old Jinnie Mule & when they signal was given they went about [3?] rod over the line on a claim. Nell jumped out & swung her bonnet. Laura threw the wagon sheet out & they struck it up on a hoe handle. while Uncle Jim was back here they took a lot of cows to milk & run a milk wagon to Kingfisher & said they cleared about $2.00 every day. Well I hope they will do well but we are all afraid they will mortgage everything in a short time just as they did here. oh you dont know how I did hate to give Aunt Lyd up. it just seemed like I was parting with Ma again for the older she got the more she looked like her. the poor soul almost worked herself down while she was with Ella. she was so sick & they couldnt get any girl. Aunt Lyd [had] it all to do & I tell you she showed it too. Well here comes Blanch & how can I write & her pulling & hauling at me. it has set in for a long drizzle I guess & not one bit of wind. have you been afraid of storms this summer I have & cant sleep if it looks very stormy I expect I am foolish but I cant help it.

3) Well this is Monday & I will try & write some more but you will see that my paper is a very choice quality. this is good enough as long as it lasts when I cant get any better. it is quite cool & is between clouds & sunshine. Late has gone to Cairo for flour for Isabel. Pa is in the kitchen reading he is well & weighs something over 200. he is taking things the easiest this summer I ever saw him. he works when he wants to & when he dont he sits & reads. he has a lot of the prettiest little pigs or the sow has rather but she belongs to him. there is not a runt among them & all alike males he takes solid comfort feeding them. his Peach & apple trees also box- elders are all growing so nice this summer. but we dont have any peaches but Lesses will. thier oldest trees are full. Sue was here a while ago. Less has the Oklahoma fever & I really believe if sue was willing he would go. you see his Kans fever is cooling down a little now & the Oklahoma fever is up but I guess Tom roby has caused it for he is high up for it yet he thinks the Stripe is so much nicer that would rather save his right til that is opened up if it ever does. oh I dont see why people wants to be such fools after land for the lord Miner & his Lady Williams was here last sunday night they come to Annies Sat eve & spent Sun at Carters. went to church in the afternoon & here that night. she dont seem like the same woman so smiling & giddy & she cant hardly get 2 inches from him. if they dont marry ( & I dont think they will) it wont be her fault. its Mr Miner. Mr Miner. her whole conversation is about him if anyone will let it take that course.

Settlers in Kingfisher on the evening of the first day, April 22, 1889

Ed Carters father and mother are coming to see them this summer. they are in Iowa now & will go from there to Omaha, Neb. & then here. Ollie talks of going back to Ohio this fall. expect she will go with them. Oh how I would love to see you. I could talk but is seems I cant write anything worth reading.

why do we have to live so far apart. Drurys live in Pratt city. Less got a letter from John & he said his mother & his too little girls is comeing down this month & make a long visit. Ione (?) got a letter from Della & just from the tone of her letter we all pronounced her fast for she said she went to dances & could dance all the different kind. so she is another one on record. Mabel is playing old woman she has put her dress on hind side afore & got a white rag-a-didy. I guess around her for an apron & so she goes it. she has taken a big notion to washing the dishes lately & she washes them clean. I never have to wash one over & she hasent broke any yet but a saucer slipped out of her hand the other night & splashed water on the lamp chimney & broke it all to flinders & scared her in a duck fit about. she looked up & her eyes were as big as onions & said she couldnt help it. Her leg is going together again but I guess its all for the best. Blanch is a big fat lazy thing about walking. but could if she only had confidence enough in herself. she tries to talk & says kidly to everything & she has a regular song of dadle dadle & gets to such a high pitch some time that she almost deafens me & Pa will sit & laugh at her. she is the biggest calf after D & I am glad of it.

Dick is out of the stable now from the fact that old Johnson sold out to Woodard & never asked him about it at all. when he bought the stable he wanted Dick to go in with him in half interest. of course D did not have anything to put in but took the old man at his offer & was to get half & D do the driving. so the deed was made to Johnson & Bailey as Dick never saw it. he did not know till lately that it was made that way. it was not long till the old man said he had lost the deed. & the day we came from Websters he sold out & when we took the team to the stable that evening he was mad & him & Dick has not spoke since but Dick has him by the heels. the old man wrote to the man for a new deed to be made to him & the man wrote back that he could not with-out an affidavit from Bailey. so he cant make Woodard a deed & Woodard is going to hold the stock so the old man will have to come to Baileys terms now or lose his property. he is a regular old rascal & his wife told that he could lay his hand on the deed when he wanted to they dont get along well.