The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-04

his paper TO Oklahoma City. IL ia not
thought that Oklahoma City could sup
port more than ten more daily payers
even If 1t should get the capital.
The Oklahoma Medical society held its
regular meeting Monday evening at Okla
h0ma City in view OF the pressing needs
for the regulating the practice in this ter
ritory. Three delegates were elected TO
meet with other physicians at Guthrie
Wednesday TO confer with our legislators
upon the expediencd of passing an efficient
bill 10 that effect. Owing TO pressure OF
| business no paper was read and the meet
ing adjourned 10 meet the first Monday in
October.
Norman Advance: Sam Paul the Pro-
gressive candidate for governor Of the
Chickasaw nation at the last election was
in Norman Monday shaking hands with
his many friends. In conversation with a
representative of the Advance he said that
the returns from Tishomingo were not all
In yet but that il made no difference az
the Byrd party would claim the election
any way. When asked il the Progressive
would take the matter into the courts
he said he thought not; that the process
would he too slow. They would in all
probability apply TO the government To DO
allowed 70 take their allotment. This
would also allow them 20 begin suit
against the Chickasaws in the United
ton for twenty years held out inducements
10 white men 10 come among them, and all
the prosperity Of the nation Is due to the
white blood, and, In his Judgment, the
Chickasaws were fastening that which
they had fought against for fifty years, the
breaking up OF their tribal relations
They now wanted 10 deprive the white
men Of the rights given them by the con
stitutiOn and had IL not been for the white
men they would be like the blanket In
dams west of us. In my Judgment, said
Mr. Paul, two years, without taking TO the
courts for redress. will open up the Chick
asaw country. The whole nation is being
used 10 benefit few men who would event
ually ruin it.
a correspondent Of the Dallas News.
writing from Edenviile, Tex, SAYS: See
ing an article in the News OF recent date.
concerning gold and silver in the Indian
territory, it might not be amiss 20 add n
few lines on the subject The locality
mentioned in the article referred 20 WAS
Enthusiastically the Wichita mountains in
the KiOwa and Comanche reservation In
the northern part of the Wichita noun
tain range, in Greer county, silver mining
has been quietly carried on for three years
or more ! have seen tbs ASSAY of the ore
Of Greer county ~ furnished from samples
sent To Denver. Col, giving eel per ton Of
silver and a small amount OF gold, but a.
by wagon and then shipped by rail there il
no money in II. When parties undertake
IL who will treat the ore on the ground
and ship the precious metal 90 New Or
leans then look out for bOnanzas Another
and principal cause for not hearing more
OF these mines les that there is no title oh
tainable at present. and knowing ones ara
keeping still and winking hoping 10 get
the first grab when the land comes onto
the market. The cattlemen have official
notice 10 yaCate the Fort sill country By
October next The gold and silver mines
of the Indian territory are in the Wichita
mountains, between Fort sill and Man
gum. near the Texas border From tho
Wichita mountains 20 Red River. extend
ing from Fort Sill % Greer county Il the
country so highly praised by General
George r. Mcclellan when he made tho
survey OF Red River. II lies mostly in the
celebrated Ptuis valley. and is virtually
the same country. The Texas Oklahoma
colony Uhe Oklahoma uniOn) having locAi-
ed Navahoe Oklahoma and Union City,
have driven their stakes near Fort sill,
christened it TexiomA. and will commence
the settlement Of that beautiful country ina
the near future