The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-06
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Saltwater has a breach of promise suit
Mulhall is to have a forty-barrel -four
mill.
A corner lot in Tecumseh last week sold
for $425.
The Bank of Oklahoma has opened up
at Chandler.
The Oklahoma papers talk more about
| cotton than corn.
The Cherokee council meets at Table
quah on Monday.
The school teacher factory begins at
Edmond Monday.
The negroes of Guthrie are raising funds
! to erect d church.
The Santa Fe company are building
new depot at Wharton.
| Frank fletcher was fatally injured by a
falling tree at Hennessy.
Oklahoma has had surprising number
of suicides in its history.
The Pottawatomie payment was to have
been made this week.
A Catholic church will be built at Still
water, also one at Chandler.
! The Baptists of the territory held a con-
! ference at Muskogee this week.
| The supreme court of the Cherokee
nation is in session at Talequah.
! County Teachers association will con-
vene at Oklahoma City, Nov. z.
Part of Oklahoma is rejoicing this
week. 1t is the Republican part.
The Chandler News wants a telephone
| line between Guthrie and Chandler.
| No effort should be spared until the ter
ritory is cleared of every desperate 1t it.
The census of Tecumseh has been taken
preparatory to the formation of corpora
ton.
Judge Seay says lemon extract is an in
toxicating drink within the meaning of
the law.
A little child of A. J. Thompson, near
Noble, fell in bucket of water and was
drowned
Numerous petitions are being circulated
in the Cherokee nation asking for allct-
mentS of lands.
A white crane measuring eight feet
from tip to tip was shot and brought into
Guthrie, Monday.
1t is getting to be almost suicide for
deputy marshals to go into certain dis
trcts in the territory.
The new country settled down to bust
ness wonderfully quick. 1t shows the
good class of citizens
The first month of the Guthrie public
schools has closed with attendance OF 200
in excess of last year.
United States court for the First judicial
division of Indian Territory meets in
Muskogee, Tuesday, Nov. 8.
A United States soldier who disturbed
salvation army meeting at Oklahoma viii
appear before court martial
Senator Melton, of the Choctaw council,
died last Saturday. He was one of the
leading politicians of the nation.
The Cherokee nation, it is said, is fully
alive to the fact that the government will
dilly daily with them no longer.
The Chickasaw council, by an almost
unanimous vote decided to allow news
paper representatives the privilege OF the
house.
President Harrison seems to be taking
his time in the matter OF appointing a
governor He doesn't want to make any
mistakes.
John Rains, who was convicted of !
assault with intent TO kill in Canadian |
county in October 1890. and sentenced TO |
two years in the penitentiary, has been |
pardoned.
Governor Steele is negotiating with one |
of the best insane asylums in the country |
10 take care of the insane OF Oklahoma |
He expects 10 complete the arrangements /
in a short time if no new difficulties /
come up.
Petitions are being circulated by the |
Pottawatomie Indians and numerously /
signed, when ask congress TO remove the /
restraints thrown around the Indians. Ia /
other words they petition congress TO /
repeal the law which makes a distinction /
between al Indian and q white man
At Edmond the Presbyterian church has
Just been completed, the III. Z church Is
under course Of construction, the St |
Johns church Is having an addition built
70 IL aud the Santa Fe Railroad company
have Just com leted a large cotton plat
form. the Cotton Gin company are build
ing a store house for seed, and one for the
storage Of eotton-
The cotton receipts for q month past in
this city have reached an average OF nearly
100 bales day, says the Oklahoma City
Journal Not more than a fifth Of the
cotton has been picked, and good deal
that has been & stiil held By the farmers
Unless the weather for tue next month
should continue extremely wet the total
cotton receipts AZ tEis place for the season
viii reach 1000 DaieS-
At the meeting Of the supreme court on
saturday county "A was attached 70 the
First judicial district and the times o.
holding court az Chandler SET for the first !
Tuesdays II December and June Of each
rear, The first sitting of court there 20
take place in December, lsse County
BIZ WAS attached 10 the Third judicial
distric. and the times for holdinZ co2rl
fixed for the first Tuesdays Ct DecsrEber
and February. Court VIII couvens a.
TecuuDseh for Ehs Erst tins Ia Feb<0Ary.
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