Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-22
town in Oklahoma that does not claim il
will be the future capital


will be the future capital.
Booster" is the name of social and
| intellectual socity at Kingfisher which is
| something on the Lime Kiln style.
| Kingflsher is beginning to assume
metropolitan airs. Hacks running about
the city looks like the proper thing.
1t is surprising the number OF teams
| that are travelling between here and Okla
| homa. Not day passes but numbers may
! be seen on Main street headed south, says
the Bluff City Herald.
| Reno City had its first wedding last
| Tuesday. Paul Boynton an Indian print
er, and Jeanette, maiden of the Arapa-
| hoe tribe. being the contracting parties.
Both are full-blood Indians.
Having failed in their electric street rail-
way aspirations the citizens of Guthrie.
according to the News, are now willing TO
accept 1.-The bob-tail car and the squinty-
| eyed mule"-if they can get them.
| Sections is and 80 of each township are
reserved for school purposes and settle
ment thereon is not allowed. Settlers will
not only acquire no claim by improving a
reserved claim but will violate the law.
Reno City Eagle: About four hundred
| contests have been filed at the klnghsher
| land ofice-pretty good evidence that Ok
| lahoma land is in great demand Several
| of the contests are on quarter sections adj
| joining.this city, all of which are well
worth struggling for.
Oklahoma City Journal: The election in
| the Chickasaw nation resulted IN the eiec-
| ton to the house of large majority favor
ing the allotment OF their lands IN sever,
! atty and the discontinuance OF the tribal
relations. 1t is an opportune time for the
visit of the commissioners.
| Farmers should not pass the cotton in
| dustry by. This is cotton and corn
country. Here the products of the north
and south fall into each others arms, as
! it were, and nature blooms in obedience
| to the combined virtues of two moderated
extremes. Standard.
| A set tier may employ hands to perform
work upon his claim. He may rent "A por-
tion of his ground and no injustice be done
! TO his rights in perfecting his title; but
| the settler who rents out his claim, moves
| away and engages in other business al
other places will be considered as havin e
| abandoned his claim.
There is scarcity of good houses to rent
! in the city. There are several vacant
| shanties in town, but not such as people
would want to live in. For this reason
immigration is retarded. Many persons
who would come to the city are waiting
| for the erection of houses suitable for them
would yield big interest.
Oklahoma City Journal: Last evening
about o'clock a dark-lo0kiug stranger
| called at the tent near the north end of the
railroad switch, occupied by A. j, Hall, a
well digger, and after asking some ques-
tions in regard to the lots induced Hall to
accompany him down town. Up to
O'Clock this morning Mr.. Hall had not re-
turned and could not be found \ suspi-
| ciouS circumstance is the fact that shortly
after Hall and the stranger had started
| down town another stranger came TO the
! tent and asked questions similar to those
much alarmed and spent the night search
ing for the old gentleman.
After party has filed homestead entry
! he may commence settlement and i'm
provements on the land claimed within six
months from the date of his filing. Sia
motnhs additional time after entry is not
allowed in soldiers homestead cPses, but
! improvement and occupancy must beglu
with date of entry. A soldier cannot &C
quire title to land while serving in the
army, under homestead laws until his term
| of service expires
Parties who heretofore have made entry
and perfected title to public land under
! what is known rs the accommodation pro-
vision of the homestead law, shall be
| qualified to make homestead entry upon
| lands in Oklahoma.
| Settlement is peIsOnal act and can
! date only from the time the party went
upon the land. Purchase of prior i'm
provements does not transfer vendor date
| of settlement.
Where the facts show good faith in the
settlement and cultivation of the land by
the homesteader, the cutting and selling
/ of timber is laWful