The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-02
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Kingfsher is talking water works
strong.
Kingfsher has a cigar factory and is
feeling quite cityied over it.
The Union City Clipper says there is hui
a small acreage in Oklahoma but what
| there is looks fine.
Wagon loads of sweet potatoes are haul
| ed from the Chickasaw country and offer
| ed for sale on the streets of Frisco Monday
Corn planting is steadily progressing in
| the vicinity of Norman. says the Tran
| script. and the farmere are rushing ahead
| with their spring work.
The Kingfisher Journal makes no bones
| OF announcing that the bone industry
| furnishes employment to a great number
| of persons in that place.
The commissioner of pensions has ap
! pointed Dr.. y. Williams, of MuSkogee, l.
! T. and DR.. J. ". Jones, of Frisco, Ok, as
| pension examining surgeons.
Oklahoma towns and cities held theiI
municipal elections yesterday, As far as
known the day passed without an IN
toward accident at any point
The people of Oklahoma are putting UP
their fiy screens, while the people of tbs
ice bound regions of the northern states
are melting snow for rain water.
The Territorial Teachers association
which meets at Edmond on April 18th will
no doubt be a big affair. Arrangements
are being made Tor big turn out.
The joints in all the Oklahoma towns
have been raided and the keepers bound
over TO court except in Frisco, and Frisco,
you know, has no jOints.-Herald-
The streets of Kingfisher present a lively
appearance every day. being crowded with
farmers and farm wagons loaded with all
kinds OF country products, so says the
World.
Guthrie and Saltwater, as border towns,
are enjoying a boom on account OF the
large number OF people who have recently
located there to await the opening OF the
strip.-Transcript
The engineers will commence the survey
of the Guthrie. Reno City & Fort Reno
railway the first of the week. They will
begin at Guthrie and come this way
Reno City Capital.
1t is rumored that the Rock Island com
pany have let the contract for their bridge
across the South Canadian at Union City,
the Clipper says 1t Is supposed that 1t viii
be about one thousand yards long
The people of Lexington and vicinity are
happy over the fact that they are To have Il
postoffice Mr. H. w Stuart, of that vii
lage, has received his commission as post
master and the keys TO the mail locks.
The Chickasaw farmers are all busy
blowing for the spring sowing. New farms
are being opened up, old ones enlarged,
and everything speaks of the prosperous
circumstances of our farmers.-Purcell
Register.
The talk in Oklahoma Just now is ''how
shall we most appropriately celebrate the
first anniversary of the opening of the ter
tory to settlement on the 22nd inst. ?" That
it will be done in proper form there is lit
tie doubt
On the first Monday in April, 1890 there
will be held in Union City the regular an-
nual election of city officers consisting of
mayor, city attorney. recorder, treasurer.
marshal and six couocilmen, 10 be voted
for at large.
The Rock Island forces are putting down
a well nineteen feet in diameter. ut the
mouth of the cut south of CaddO Springs.
4 wind pump and tank will be put in at
that point and the water carried by means
OF pipes to the station west of this city.
A great many of our farmers have
planted corn, but the majority will get
their planting done this week The
ground is in fine condition and a large
acreage viii be planted to corn. Many
settlers have the ground ready and viii
plant large crops of cotton.-Edmond sun.
The disposition on the part of the In
dians of the Five Civilized tribes to con
slider favOrably fair propositions from the
United States government l. growing
daily The Cherokees, ChoctawS and
Chickasaws have lands for sale and they
will be sold TO the government at fair
yrices. Muskogee Phoenix.
There are 8. 22o Cheyenne and 1915 Ar
aparahoe Indians occupying the land lying
west of Oklahoma OF these. ga are men;
] ,0J1 women and 400 children. There are
424 farms and 2.345 acres under cultivation.
If these Indians would take their land in
severaity. there would be Bill, S11 acres to
be thrown open to settlement by executive
World.
The Purcell Register furnishes the fol-
lowing encouraging item concerning the
wheat prospects: 1T is estimated that
over one hundred thousand bushels of
wheat will be raised in the Chickasaw
country alone this year, which i a very
low estimate; placing the average yield per
acre at twenty bushels. We are confident
that the yield will be much greater than
that. Last year the wheat raised in this
nation averaged forty bushels 70 the acre,
and surely it will be rs good this year.
The new roller mill at this place viii get
the greater part Of the crops.