Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-08
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through the fingers and into the vest pock-
| etc OF certain parties.
| st. Joseph's church at Oklahoma City
was dedicated yesterday morning. Tit
Rev. Father Scalan delivered the dedica
tory sermon, which was listened to with
attention by large audience.
| According to the local papers every man
| who comes to Guthrie considers it by far
| the best town in Oklahoma, and every
man who strikes Oklahoma City thinks il
surpasses anything in the town line in
| Oklahoma.
Purcell Topic: There is large acreage
of cotton in this country this season, and
| it will bring large returns to the producers
this fall. Cotton promises to soon become
one of the leading products Of this part OF
the territory.
| Reno City Eagle: A gentleman drove
! from Kingfsher TO this city Monday with
a team that he had traded for, and while
| here an Indian claimed one of the horses,
! proved property, and took the animal
| home. The white man went back to King
| fisher to look for the man who traded him
| the horse.
The settlement of Oklahoma has given
| rise to a new word. "a sooner dog" is a
common expression among street Arabs,
| but the Oalanomaites have applied the
| word sooner" to homesteaders who went
into the territory and located claims prior
to the going into effect of the presidents
proclamation.
At the school meeting in Oklahoma City
Monday. it was moved and seconded and
carried that the charter committee be and
is hereby requested to incorporate in the
| Charter. section providing bond OF
$1,000 to be issued in shares of SIS each,
by the council upon authority having been
fhon, hv vnfn of ha RI RI n
for term of not less than ten years bear
ing interest at per cent for school pur-
poses only"
Purcell Topic: The Seminole Indians
have just been paid their annuity by the
government, amounting to $61. 80 a head,
and great crowds of them are arriving
here daily to purchase supplies for the
winter. One not accustomed to the red
men would be surprised to see so well
dressed, we'll behaved and intelligent peo-
pie. Many are accompanied by their wives
and daughters, and have the air OF a con-
tented prosperous people.
Oklahoma Times scheme: Work on
Choctaw road will commence in three
weeks provided their right of way be
granted by the citizens. Now, as they
seem to possess that right Of way from
congress it should be conceded to them
without hesitation, even if the city would
have to buy off those who are now in good
faith occupying that right of way, the
matter stands thus, the rights of the
Choctaw railroad as well as the rights of
the individual citizens who have acted in
good faith by settling on the right of way,
should be protected. We want the road,
and therefore let the city show its gener-
osity; let them buy every lot that is occu-
pied and then turn over the right of way
to the ChOctaw officials. No settler will
al TO col &c LOT lOty ut 81
price at the present time. The city might
exchange lots with them: at any rate some
plan should be adopted that would give
the Choctaw right of way and make all
damages done TO settlers on lots Oh the
right of way.
The Dallas, Tex, News says that United
States District Attorney Marshall has
ruled that liquor cannot be shipped from
Texas to Oklahoma. He holds that the
act of congress authorizing the purchase
and sale of Oklahoma from the Indians
merely extinguished the Indians title to
the land and did not repeal the intercourse
acts and other penal acts in existence, so
that Oklahoma still remains Indian coun-
try within the meaning of those acts. Ok
lanoma, with reference to those acts, is,
he says, 'in no better attitude than any
fort or arsenal that might be purchased by
the United States from the Indians in that
country" the idea being that the title TO
the land may be eXtinguished and the
criminal jurisdiction remain. If" he
adds, 1.-THE present status of Oklahoma
were changed to territorial or ate gov
eminent, the question would be a different
one" He says there is nc doubt in his
mind about the correctness of his position
but if he had any doubt of it he would
construe it in favor of the peace and good
order of the territory, and await the re-
moYal of the doubt by judicial construc-
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