The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Every land and nation.
In fact the whole creation,
Waits for that invitation
Presidential Proclamation.

] RreSlQeQClal EIOCidudlAOu
Nobody is going to have walk away in
the race
Governor Steele and family will arrive
home tonight.
w. d. Cornelius is putting in 80 bale
cotton gin at kingfisher.
The proclamation is to come the middle
| of this week. That's Wednesday.
A Guthrie policeman who claims to
know Blaine says he is for Harrison.
The county, township and school taxes
| for Canadian county will be per cent. Tor
| 1891.
Burnett already has $50 contracts let for
houses. Uncle Billy Griffenstein is
rustler.
Frank Greer claims that 1900 people
have come into Guthrie the past two
months.
Extra braces have been put on the
Beaver fair amphitheatre to hold the big
crowd.
Governor Steele evidently put bug in
| President Harrison s ear on the Cherokee
cattle matter.
1t has been two years since people have
been "focking" much. But they have
begun it again.
Oklahoma wants to have some exhibits
at the biggest fair west of st. Louis. That
| will be at Wichita.
The cattle must go this time. The presi-
dent has PROBABLY issued his last procla-
nation on that matter.
When that proclamation is out Gov
ernor Steele of course will let Secretary
Martin know it, right away.
One way to get your photograph taken
is to get over in the new lands and let the
United States troops catch you
Governor Steele says there are no poll
tics in Oklahoma Jake Admire said the
same thing "a month ago. That must
settle It.
J. w. McNeal for the Guthrie National
| bank, Sunday bought bond No. /, issued
| by Logan county. 1t was for $1,000 and
brought par.
The different guesses on the time to be
| fixed for opening the new lands, proves
conclusively that a great many prophets
in Oklahoma are false.
Every day you can see in Oklahoma
papers where somebody is visiting their
| relatives in Oklahoma That means that
they are seeking location.
| An arrival on the Santa Fe yesterday
said he counted 100 prairie schooners after
! he left Arkansas City, coming to Okla
homa, says the Guthrie Capital.
John A. Mccartney, who has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Burnett, the new
| Pottawatomie county seat, Is black
smith at Moore, Cleveland county.
The Hennsssey Clipper says there is an
immense number of cattle dying In the
strip. Recently 500 out of one herd died in
few days. The bone gatherers will get
| in their work about next spring.
Oklahoma City Gazette: A gentleman
| who came in this morning from the Oar
| lington agency says the Cheyennes and
the Arapahoes are dying of like sheep.
| The Indians, he says, dance all night, and
| gorge themselves all day with watermelon,
no matter whether ripe or not. When a
| death occurs q shallow hole is dug, the
| body dumped in like so much rubbish,
and the orgies proceed as if nothing had
happened.
| Mcbride g. Sterling of Oklahoma City
| have secured the contract for building the
new school house at Segar colony, Chey-
| enne aud Arapahoe nation, and are making
their arrangements to begin work at once
| It is big contract, the amount ihVolVea
| being something over Sl2OOO. The build
| ing is to be Of brick and stone 35xl29 feet
and two stories, and is TO be finished ready
! for occupancy in 120 days. Segar colony
is ffty-fye miles southwest OF I'll Reno
and the material will have to be freighted
from the terminus OF the ROCK 1sianu foan'
IL is believed, however, that good quallty
of building stone can be had near the
work, and an excellent quality OF clay IS
known to exist in the vicinity, from which
the brick will be made.
Beaver Tribune: Surveyor Bennett re-
ports strip of land lying between TINS
county and Texas, which runs TO point
at the southeast corner of the county and
widens to three miles at the southwest
corner He says that the department at
Washington informed him last winter
that this strip of land belongs TO Beaver
county This may compensate us for the
two miles of the west end recently decided
to belong to New Mexico. The loss or
gain of a few hundred thousand acres 20
Beaver county makes no particular differ
ence. but we truly hope our boundary
lines may soon be definitely settled As
the line between this county and Texas -
the Mason and Dixon line, IT seems little
queer that this new discovery has been
made.