Wichita eagle., 1889-10-23

together and sent for heating stoves this
week. expecting by sending for number
and also from the factory to get them at
| wholesale prices.
Reno City Eagle: The ordinary cat of
commerce is value in Oklahoma. Three
dollars is the price offered and refused for
a spring kitten which passed through
this city in a settlers wagon Wednesday.
The Chickasaw idea of allotment is to
! give each Indian homestead which shall
| be inalienable for twenty-one years, and
whatever residue there may be they desire
| to have divided among them with the
power TO alien.
One of the disappointments OF Okla
| homa, from an exchange: Uncle Myers
was real angry Tuesday morning and was
| looking for the culprt who stole quarter
! of fresh venison that had been hung up In
| the shed to dry
| Settlers are coming into Oklahoma by
/ thousands The six months allowed them
| in which to make their actual residence
| upon their claims Will soon expire, ana
| but few homesteaders will fail TO get here
! in time to protect their rights, says the
/ Reno City Eagle.
| Purcell Register: Two gentlemen, who
| reside in Oklahoma, are now picking, anu
will soon place on market. the first cotton
| ever grown in the new country. The towns
| along the railroad musl bld up on th's cot
| ton as the one making the highest bid Will
pet the cotton Purcell is in the field and
will be card TO beat. send your bids 10
this Office for two weeks.
Oklahoma Standard: The roads leading
| to saltwater are ali passabls and IA good
condition. and il Is he object OF the city
council TO keep them that way Go0d SUD
stantial bridges span the saltwater 90 the
south and Boomer creek on the east ne
new road on the west 70 Orlando - Defng
put ia shape and bridge across the sun
water. Good roads amount 70 everything
and our merchants are not SLOW 10 had IL
out.
Oklahoma Standard: One has but TO
troll aronud town 70 see how lively and
nrospeTous saltwater Is From O'Clock
in the morning until in the evening the
farmers are coming ane going, anu Main
street is lined with wagons TIE entire Gay.
All tie laud-s-ekers stop here, TOO and
with the Pawnee and Oto5 IpGian trade
our merchants are kept ousy from carry
morning until late az night saltwater i
a rustfin0. lively town. and Is doing more
business than some four towns IN the ter
ritory.
Lexington Transcript: For hundred
wears the Federal government has been
isolatfng the Indian has been gliity q in
consistency Of bansshing him rom clYiii-
Zatt00- vet com II EtlasGE 84ti 80 ~ g 49,
lied The FIVE civilized tribes ETlDZ acAT~
est the aboeies Of white men have taken If
the garb Of civilization and are fully civil
;zsff nv assnclatIug With white men: bu.
they save also became white By iBternAF-
rage with their pa.e faced neigh bors
The Cherokees are az pale Row as their
eastern neignbors. the ATkaDsans, aad
their governor - an Indian ouIy ID name
and By tradition
In the ChIckasaw nation the white
though indian citszens are 50 powerful as
10 be IN fact the dominant party They
have Tor Years been the Drawn and intel
Iect OF the nation. AID i = their Influence
that has brought about q desire 70 occ1py
their lands in severalty and sell the re-
rnaiuder 70 the federsl government.
In short the Indian has become civilized
under the policy Of the fe<lersl government
only when so situated that n b-csuse 2
daily observer Of civilized LIE Or when |
white blood has tseeu 10 iect>d ssto his |
veins This fac; has become 80 apparent !
that evsn the blind ssotimental.sr cznDos |
longer igaore the trutn OF tie statement. |