The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-16
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma City Times-JouInal: The
! story that the Potts trade their children
to get more land is denied. Judge Clardy
says: Our women are refined in manner
and have their parlors, pianos and good
| clothes, the same as other ladies, and to
charge them with swapping .'kids" OF
peddling child about so they could per-
petrate fraud that would cost them 81
for each acre, is not only an insult to their
motherhood but their intelligence as
well.
Chicago Post: Oklahoma is redeeming
| the promises its champions made prior to
the date for settlement. Governor Steele,
! who is in the city, is authority for this
statement. 1t may, therefore, be accepted
by those who know of the governor as q
| fact. The people, numbering $1,000, of
whom he IS the chief executive, are pros
pering, and, unless present conditions
change, as is quite improbable, the hard
ships inseparable from the lot of pioneers
are practically at an end.
when left the territory month ago
to accompany the board of managers for
the national soldiers homes on its annual
tour" said the governor today at the
Grand Pacific hotel, the crop prospects
were encouraging beyond our hopes. And
! am just in receipt of information that
the wheat crop is all harvested aud that
the corn crop promises to be very bounti-
full. The amount of wheat yield to the
acre? Were / a boomer | should put it at
we'll, er-thirty bushels to the acre. But
such would be too much like most esti-
mates. The real average yield is, | should
say, between eighteen and twenty bushels.
With this the people are very well salts
fed"
docs Oklahoma invite immigration
mo; all the land is taken up. OF course
if anyone has money to buy land 1t is all
right, but there is none to be ctta,ped
free. There will be soon, however. wheL
the reservations of the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes, on the west of Oklahoma, and
of the Sac and Fox and Iowa tribes, on the
east, are thrown open for settlement. This
will probably be done next month. 1t de-
ponds on whether the allOtments are
made. BY the allotments mean the set
Elements with the Indians. Each Indian
is allowed to select 100 acres of land or to
take 81. p per acre instead. If they take
the land the officers survey and stake it off
for them. When this is done the reserva-
tons will be thrown open for settlement.
1t is to be hoped that this will be done
next month in order that the planting
may be done for next springs crop.
The throwing open OF these lands
means the giving of 1000, 600 acres to who
ever cares to settle on them. This amount
is about twice the size of Oklahoma. There
are already large number of people
awaiting the opening up, but not so many
as can be accommodated. What is greatly
10 be desired is the opening of the Chero-
kee strip. It is about So miles wide by $50
miles long, and contains nearly 1000, 600
acres Of rich, fertile land. The negotIa-
lions of the commissions which offered
100000 for the strip would have been
successful but for the cattlemen. When
they heard of the offer one man named
Snyder, Of Kansas City, relegraphed an
offer of SO, 900, COO Somebody else heard
of this and raised it TO ST., 900. 900. This
offer was raised by somebody elso TO SO,
coo, COO They might have offered $780,
600, coo without having il accepted. and
simply because the Indians can give the
land 70 the government only. But the
big offers had the desired effect in IN
offer OF the government and the cattiernen
hope to be able 70 use the land for grazing.
But this state of things can't remain, be
cause the idea OF letting ZOO. 0o0 acres of
fine land lie idle IS altogether wrong. II
the Indians continue much longer 20 hold
out shall be in favor of forcing them 20
yield They don't use the land and some
body should"
Globe-Dsmocrat: John T. Miller. Of
Fort Reno. Ok. while seated IN group
at the I-aclede hotel, pngIlism being the
topic Of conversation, said When yoE
talk abogt fight to A finish and knock /
out blows, both are witnessed IN the aoor- /
iGinSi degree OF perfection when fight
between two Indian bucks is seen ia ring |
the circumference OF which IS Tot rope, |
but string Of interested human specta- /
tors Il Is a fact that among indians 0l !
the same tribe, though they may number 1
thousands. there are few cases OF quarreiS /,
among them that ever result IN murder. |