The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-11
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The saw-mills in Oklahoma have never
stopped.
The county candidates have already
begun to appear
The Kansas City Times is in favor OF
Guthrie for the capital.
The TOWNSHIP commissioners will give
deeds TO lots in Edmond
Oklahoma City has a woman's club
called the Silver Greys."
The new Odd Fellows lodge at Purcell
starts of with fifty members.
The editor of the Mulhall Monitor has
returned from his junketing tour.
The pension business helps the money
matters out in Oklahoma not little.
An Oklahoma City crowd are hunting in
the Arbnckle mountains-nes gold, but
game.
Oklahoma City does not think any more
of Delegate Harvey than Oklahoma terri
tory does.
The "Kingfiher Democrat is an i'm
proved edition of the Courier" with Z. h.
Ellis as editor.
A colored boy surprised an Oklahoma
City book store the other day by buying
Latin grammar.
There are more people who Ike to write
obituaries i'll Guthrie than in any other
town OF the territory.
The school bill and its difficulties will
be heard from later. Most voters have
children-children out of school.
Newton Republican:-In the Kansas
house they try to catch the eye of the
speaker; in Oklahoma they take the ear of
the member.
In the black Jacks north of the Cimsrron
acorns are selling at 80 cents per bushel
for hog feed. The negroes are reaping
harvest of acorns.
The worst stab Oklahoma City has given
Guthrie for some time is the proposal 10
get up a load of provisions to send up to
the needy Of Logan county.
The wife of Ed. Ingle, editor of the
Norman Transcript, has been an invalid
for two or three years, but she is now al
most permanently recovered
If Governor Steele should happen TO
sign the Kinfsher capital bill, it would be
mighty hard to find a Guthrie man will
InSto compare him to Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Kansas papers do not speak in COM
pllmentary terms at all OF j. III. Lawhead,
the new superintendent of schools in Ok
lahOma. The Abilene Reflector calls him
a 'superannuated fossil"
The Oklahoma City land Office is a Bon
aparte. 1t decides that man cannot hold
a piece of land on which he placed or sent
an agent before noon April -. 1888, even
if he remained out of the territory him
self.
Oklahoma Journal: The Choctaw has
twelve miles of track laid west of OklahO !
ma City-one mile west of FL Reno and !
eleven miles east, The road will be built /
west to the fort, and depot will be built !
at the foot of the hill north of the bar |
racks, There Is now in the yards at FL
Reno material sufficient to build fifty !
miles of track, and more still arriving. AT |
present work is stopped by an injunction, |
but will be resumed again as soon as the !
attorneys can get around and put up the |
bond. All freight for Fort Reno will be
run over the Choctaw track up to the fort |
and thus do away with the big freighting !
contracts.
Attorney General Miller has instructed |
United States Attorney Speed to defend |
Capt. Stiles in the damage SUIT instituted !
by III. w. Sawyer. His answer to the pc
-itiOn was filed yesterday. 1t denies every /
allegation made in the petition, and alleges |
hat Capt. Stiles was acting under orders
Of the president to suppress the election 4
which was at that time attempted. It sets /
'orth that the attempt to hold the election
vas in utter disregard of the city govern
nent which had been established by the
people, and that the calling of the election
was recognized as dangerous TO the peace
md welfare of the inhabitants of the city
The most remarkable part of the answer
S, however, the assertion that this terri
DRY was at the time wholly without pro-
ection of any court, and that the peace
# the community and the protection
# the inhabitants depended wholly
Ipon the president of the United States
Icting through the military This is
IN attack upon the authority of the Mus
logee carts jurisdiction of Oklahoma
erritory at that time. The United States
ttorney takes the ground that this terri
DRY was then in precisely the condition
hat No Mans Land was in year before.