The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-08
OKLAHOMA IN BRIEF.

OKLAHOMA IN BRIEF.
The Territorial Advocate says the Santa
Fe will extend its Harper and kiowa
branch from Englewood to Beaver City as
| soon as the land Office at the latter place is
opened.
/ Governor Steele appointed Jones, Camp
bell, Nesbitt. Harader, Smeizer, Garden
shire and Daniels to represent the territory
at the commercial congress in Kansas City
on April IL.
The Times says the society young men
! of Oklahoma City are making arrange
Tuesday evening when the Guthrie
Streets OF New York" company visits the
city.
| Dirt begun to fly Thursday on the two
proposed roads from Guthrie to the Iowa
| country and the News thinks dust Will d
| next summer when the merchants are
| freighting goods over them to feed the new
empire to be established there.
The Indian appropriation bill carries
with 1t total appropriation OF $l5, 0OO,OO
or some 50, OO0. 900 more than the usual
amount. This S., 100000 is to carry out
the provisions of the treaties with the five
Indian tribes. and to pay the attorneys OF
the Indians.
JuCSc SudCkIcIOTu Ol tEc OultcQ Ct<1eSo
district court at Ardmore on the 3rd inst,
ordered Senator Sam Paul to Jail for six
months for contemplation invading the
court room while the court was in session
in an intoxicated condition and creating
disturbance. Subsequently Sam apollo
gized and the court modified its order.
Judge Green at Oklahoma City has de-
cded that the office of recorder or register
of deeds has a legal existence. Therupon
the county commissioners directed the
books belonging to that office in the hands
of the county clerk to be turned over to
Miss Diehl. the recently elected registress.
This the clerk refused to do and the mat
ter goes back to the court for further &C
ton.
The Oklahoma City Journal thinks Sec
rotary MOBILES Interpretation of the mean
ing of the sooner law may be wrong, but
says that even admitting that he is wrong
it will not profit any man to attempt to
face about the great departm ent of the
interior. Nor will it pay him to attempt
the violation of the orders OF the depart
ment, backed as it is by the war depart
ment. In this the Journal is evidently
correct.
Guthrie News: Ex-Sheriff Shockey
turned over the keys and Jail property
generally to Sheriff Hixon Wednesday.
Mr.. Shockey has administered the affairs
of the office in every way satisfactory to
the people of Logan county, and, as does
his deputy, Mr. Taylor, retires from Office
with the feelings of kindness existing
toward them from the people of the entire
county.
Oklahoma kicks against the organization
of the proposed melon trust down in
Georgia unless Oklahoma is admitted to
full mem bership. The Beauty" is en-
titled to recognition, on the point of pro-
duction or the commodity. but with the
already superior and still increasing home
demand it is not clear what she wants to
fool with an outside trust for. The noun
tain is coming to Mahomet in this in
stance.
Oklahoma Journal: In 1872 treaty was
made with the Pottawatomies by the pro-
visions of which the Indians were allowed
to buy land in their present reservation at
fifteen and thirty cents acre. Only 132
of them took advantage of this act, but it
may turn out that the others will wish
they had taken theirs also. Under that
allotment there is no restriction on the
disposal of the land. Plans have already
been perfected to use this decided property
for townsites.
One of the county commissioners of
Beaver county drew $50 mileage for every |
session of the commissioners he attended. |
His only means of reaching the county |
SedC was elCner 10 traVel Dy team lo0 miles |
over an unsettled plain, or go by rail |
through New Mexico. Colorado and Kan |
sas to Meade, forty miles from the county |
seat, Beaver, to which place he must go by |
stage. More railroads seem to be one of |
the pressing needs of that section.
The Pottawatomie and Cheyenne treat |
les were ratified by congress and the open
ing is now a matter of executive proclama-
ton. They are to be opened under the |
homestead law at the Communication price
Of Sl.50 per acre Governor Steele was
made custodian of the school lands. with |
power to lease them for three years. He is
also to divide the new territory into coun-
ties of 200 square miles each, and locate
the county seats on a half section in the
center of each county. Fifty thousand
dollars was appropriated for the destitute
fund.
The Ell Reno Eagle of this week contains
over twenty four columns of home adver-
,isements, demonstrating that the town is
alive and its business men thoroughly IN
The Eagle and Herald are doing
splendid work for their town, and their
work is appreciated 1t IS the same way
With the Guthrie, Norman and King
Usher papers. The Oklahoma City papers
ire the worst patronized in the way of
nome advertisements of any in the terri
DRY. That does not comfort with the
Of that city's business men
or enterprise and public spirit