The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-10
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Cotton picking has begun in the Chick,
asaw nation.
Every man has his opinion about the
county seat.
Burnett seems to be getting there at an
! April % lick.
| The FL Reno Herald nominates Judge
Seay for congress.
Irwin Geffs is said to be in Ohio working
on an Alliance paper.
Frank Greer arises to remark that these
are buckwheat cake mornings.
Que of the things that Oklahoma had
last year that she hasn't this is hot winds.
Seven hundred allotments have been
made in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
country.
There is a good deal of home made sor-
ghum that is stored away for winter use
in Oklahoma.
Some people think that the government
will make the Cherokees another and a
greater offer for the strip.
The Beaver Advocate got out the pre-
MUM list of the Beaver county fair, and
it is mighty cute little book.
When there is no other news from Okla
homa you are sure to hear something
ers.
Everybody is agreed that man is fool
hardy to go into the new country before
the appointed time if he wants TO get
land.
Secretary Noble is visiting President
Harrison at Cape May. 1t is dollars to
doughnuts that they are talking about
Oklahoma.
Notes from French explorers of nearly
two hundred years ago show that gold
was then reported as existing in the Wlch
ita mountains.
1t is given out authoritatively that
kingfisher is having revival of boom di-
mensions Five brick blocks are now in
course of construction.
The Guthrie Capital calls halt on the
base ball fever. 1t claims that the batter
les of both the Guthrie and Oklahoma
City clubs are imported.
One boomer scheme is to get Indians TO
squat on pieces of land and then tell the
settlers that they are allotments, and thus
hold them until the right man comes up.
There is talk of not surveying the town
sites in the new country IN advance until
the rush is over, and defeat plans pre-
pared, but nobody can vouch that any
such action will be taken.
A farmer near Yukon has patent fod-
der cutter that carries two men and cuts
two rows of corn stalks at one time. 1t
is said that two men and good team can
cut and shock ten acres OF stalks day.
In Oklahoma City the attorneys for
those indicted intend to raise the question
of the empaneling OF jury. Ii is claimed
by them that man cannot act as United
States and territorial juror at the same
time.
It is Uncle Billy Grifenstein's opinion
that the new country will be opened 10
settlement on or about the 1st OF October,
and that a proclamation viii issue In d
few days to that effect. 1t is also his
opinion that if the land is not open 70 set.
tiement this fall or before congress meets,
it VIII be year or more before it is open
ed, for the matter gets out of the hands Of
the interior department into congress, il
will be hard TO tell when II will be reached. |
Payne Hawk; We are in receipt OF "a
poem written by / y. TerTIlL entitled /
- Mistakes OF the Law Makers" Now Of /
course we are not very brilliant and are
not expected to know much about poetry, 1
hence we will not say whether or not this (
efiusion IS bad or good, but we will ven
ture guess and back II bE bet OF Two 10 4
one, that If Terrill himself will strike /
dramatic attitude and rehearse the poem
before the jury that Is TO pass judgment 4
on him their verdict will be insanity"
Messrs Parker and Kelley two Of the 4
Cheyenne and ArapahOs aliottI1g agents
came into Fl Keno the other day with 4
eleven out OF the thirteen Of their crew
down sick with malsFiA. The country
they are working in is usually very healthy,
but the vegetation this summer has been
so rank and the water they get Gus Of the
creeks Is 50 poor that il has produced wide
spread malaria among tie white men
working there The reservation Is large
and little groups OF Indians settle here and
there. ueceSsitatiag the frequent breaking
81 camp and the making OF long moves OF
fifty and sixty miiss ms TACT alone las
made the work o. allotment slow.